Event Archive

2016

November

• Post-graduate Colloquium

  16 November 2016, 15:00 - 16:00

  Emilio Di Somma "The Buffered Self in Taylor; a Historicist Criticism"

April

• Wise Club Philosophy Colloquium

  27 April 2016, 15:00 - 17:00

  Talk by Benjamin Neeser (PhD student - University of Neuchâtel) Title: "Through Worlds and Times Alike: A Counterpart-Theoretic Account of Persistence" This talk is sponsored and organized by the Wise Club at the University of Aberdeen

March

• Philosophy Colloquium

  30 March 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  Talk by Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh) Title: Why It Matters What We Think Abstract: In this presentation, I tease out some implications of Leibniz's claims (i) that there is a structurally isomorphic relationship between the mind or soul and its organic body and (ii) that the mind or soul perceives the external world indirectly...

• Philosophy Colloquium

  23 March 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  Talk by Adam Carter (Edinburgh) Title: "Knowledge-How and Anti-Intellectualism” Abstract: Reductive intellectualists (e.g., Stanley & Williamson 2001; Stanley 2011a; 2011b) hold that knowledge-how is a kind of knowledge-that. Anti-intellectualists (e.g., Ryle 1949; 1945) reject this reduction and identify knowledge-how with ability possession. In this talk, I want to challenge reductive intellectualism on two...

• Philosophy Postgraduate Talk

  16 March 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  Christopher Thomas,"From Complex Bodies to a Theory of Art: Melancholy, Bodies, and Art in the Philosophy of Spinoza"

• Philosophy Post-graduate Talk

  02 March 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  Davide Monaco,"Parallelism and Identity in Spinoza's Ethics. IIP7 and IIP7S"

2015

December

• Philosophy: Work-in-Progress Meeting

  09 December 2015, 15:00 - 16:00

  Federico Luzzi: 'Gender-Restricted Sports Competitions'

November

• Philosophy Postgraduate Talk

  25 November 2015, 15:00 - 16:30

  Peter Hartl "Philosophical Theism and Scepticism: Cleanthes and Philo on the Cosmological Argument in Hume`s Dialogues"

October

• Postgraduate Research Induction

  07 October 2015, 10:00 - 11:30

  All new Postgraduate Research students within DHP are invited to this informative induction event. There will be a tea and coffee reception in the Divinity Library following the main session.

September

• Postgraduate Taught Induction

  16 September 2015, 10:00 - 11:15

  All new Postgraduate Research students within DHP are invited to this informative induction event.