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Webinar | Newman Centre Annual Lecture 2023/24: Causing the Cosmos | Professor Dean Zimmerman
7 March 2024. 4.30 | via D520 Newman Building
Details
Feefree
OrganisersUCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions UCD School of Philosophy
The Dublin Kant Fest, on the theme: ‘Kant at 300 on Reason, Nature, and Freedom’.
Venue: The Newman House (at St. Stephen’s Green), Dublin City Centre.
Date: A 2-day conference on Mon-Tue, 20th-21st May, 2024.
Conference: 4 keynote speakers plus 14 speakers in 7 parallel sessions.
Keynote Speakers:
- Baroness Onora O’Neill, Emeritus, Cambridge University.
- Ido Geiger, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
- Lucy Allais, Johns Hopkins University and University of the Witwatersrand.
- Tobias Rosefeldt, Humboldt University.
Jointly hosted and organised by the Dept. of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin (Lilian Alweiss, TCD) and the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin (James O’Shea, UCD), in association with the Dept. of Philosophy at King’s College London (John Callanan, King’s).
The Call for Paper Abstracts (600–900 words), has closed.
The parallel sessions will be 45 minutes: 25-30 for presentation, 15-20 for discussion. Abstracts should be between 600 and 900 words. The abstract should introduce and motivate your topic, and provide a sketch of the main argument and conclusion. This should be suitable for a 25-30 minute presentation once worked up into a full paper.
The conference theme is broad, but the organising committee seeks a spread of talks on central systematic themes across Kant’s main critical period works, including both his theoretical and practical philosophy. Particularly welcome are talks that engage with Kant’s critical conception of reason, whether in relation to nature, freedom, or reflecting judgment, or to other philosophers. But proposed talks on fundamental themes across Kant’s critical philosophy are also welcome.
Please email a pdf of your abstract suitable for anonymous refereeing to:(opens in a new window)dublinkantfest@gmail.com. Please ensure that the document filename is of the format: KantFest_papertitle. In your email please include your Name, Institutional Affiliation (if applicable), email address, and paper title.
There is no conference fee, but at present we do not have funding for flight, accommodation, and meals for parallel session participants. It is not necessary to belong to the UKKS to participate in the conference, but you are welcome to join. To read more about how to join and the benefits of being a member see(opens in a new window)https://www.ukks.co.uk/
Queries may be sent to either Jim O’Shea, UCD ((opens in a new window)jim.oshea@ucd.ie) or Lilian Alweiss, TCD ((opens in a new window)alweissl@tcd.ie).
Conference Details
Date20th-21st May, 2024
Time2 day event
Feefree
LocationNewman House
OrganisersJim O’Shea, UCD (jim.oshea@ucd.ie) or Lilian Alweiss, TCD (alweissl@tcd.ie).
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Trust in experts and expertise
PERITIA, a Europe-wide project led by UCD, sought to understand the pressing issue of trust in scientific expertise. The team communicated their findings widely, including via publications, parliamentary presentations, podcasts and an online Trust Toolkit.
Professor Maria Baghramian
Ghost in the Shell (1995): (opens in a new window)https://en.
(opens in a new window)UCD O’Kane Centre for Film Studies (aka The Observatory), 5.30pm.
Followed by conversation on the philosophy and spirituality of ‘animation’ with Dr Daniel Esmonde Deasy, Head of UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions.
To register, go to: (opens in a new window)https://www.eventbrite.ie/
Register: UCD Undergraduate Open Day 2023
University College Dublin invites secondary school students, mature students, their families and guidance counsellors to the UCD Open Day taking place on Saturday, November 2023. Come along to the Philosopher's Cafe on the Newman concourse and meet our lecturers and postgraduate studentsf for more information on doing Philosophy at Ireland's largest centre for Philosophy.
One of the best ways to experience UCD is to come to our Open Day. You will gain a real insight into the student experience and life at UCD.
Registration is NOW OPEN.
Conference Details
Date11th November 2023
Time10.00 am to 4.00 pm
FeeFree
LocationUCD O'Reilly Hall
Register: UCD Undergraduate Open Day 2023Available 28th November - Pre-Order here: (opens in a new window)Testimonial Injustice and Trust
Editors: Maria Baghramian and Melanie Altanian
Description
This book presents novel approaches and perspectives to scholarship on epistemic injustice and particularly, testimonial injustice and their connections with public trust.
Drawing from different philosophical schools of thought and approaches, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the conditions, mechanisms and normative implications of testimonial injustice, a term most prominently introduced by Fricker (2007), and the role that trust can play in fostering testimonial justice. Through the application of theories of epistemic injustice, and testimonial injustice, to new contexts and cases, including gendered violence, disability, indigenous knowledge, genocide, vaccine hesitancy and the COVID-19 pandemic, the book sheds light on the real-world significance of these philosophical concepts.
Testimonial Injustice and Trustintroduces new directions for further research and will appeal to scholars and students in (critical) social and political epistemology, normative ethics as well as social and political philosophy more generally. The chapters in this book were originally published in theInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies, Social EpistemologyandEducational Philosophy and Theory.
17-18 November 2023 |SWIP-Ireland’s Eighth Annual Conference | Maynooth University
The hope of the conference is to open up a broad conversation about philosophy itself, its aims, its scope, its limits, as well as its relationships with other fields of scholarship and practice. It is an opportunity to unite philosophers with researchers and practitioners in other fields in an attempt to address these urgent questions about how philosophy enables thinking differently.
Maynooth University, 17-18 November 2023
Click (opens in a new window)here the full conference programme and details on how to register
Conference Details
Date17-18 November 2023
TimeAll Day
LocationMaynooth University
OrganisersKatherine O'Donnell Caitríona Ní Dhomhnaill Professor, History of Ideas Ollamh le Stair na Smaointe UCD School of Philosophy Scoil na Fealsúnachta University College Dublin An Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath
SWIP-Ireland’s Eighth Annual ConferenceWe are so proud of the contribution of our colleague Dr Lisa Foran and really pleased to see The Belonging Project on display in the UCD Student Village. This exhibition of UCD students and staff's written and creative expressions of belonging will be in place for the remainder of 2023. (opens in a new window)#DontMissIt (opens in a new window)http://belonging.ie
Professor Dan Deasy of UCD School of Philosophy has been taking philosophy and in particular critical thinking to the national stage with a piece in the Irish Times and interviews with RTE and Newstalk.
(opens in a new window)https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22309575/
Why consultants are the ‘philosophers of the tech world’
Accenture’s Geoff Allen discusses his career pivot from philosophy to tech consulting, and the skills that unite the two areas.Before embarking on a career in tech, Geoff Allen’s main pursuit was philosophy. This interest began in his teenage years, where he was constantly drawn to big philosophical questions about topics such as time and consciousness.
Allen built on this interest by pursuing it academically. He completed his bachelor’s degree in law with philosophy at University College Dublin and proceeded to obtain a master’s in history and philosophy of science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Allen also started his own philosophy podcast, Extrapolator, and is currently writing a pop philosophy book, which aims to explain complex philosophical ideas for a general audience.
UCD School of Philosophy/Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture | 20 September 2023 | 5.00pm | Professor Lea Ypi | UCD, Belfield Campus, Dublin 4| Newman Building Theatre N
The 2023 UCD School of Philosophy/Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture will take place on the 20th of September. Professor Lea Ypi will present a paper ‘For a Critical Philosophy of History’. The lecture will take place in person and online at 5pm. Register in advance for this webinar. Here is a (opens in a new window)link to the interview, Professor Maeve Cooke UCD School of Philosophy and Professor Lea Ypi London School of Economics, prior to the lecture.
Here is a link to her prize winning book, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
(opens in a new window)Free Coming of Age at the End of History
and (opens in a new window)In conversation with Professor Maeve Cooke UCD
BIO: Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is the author of Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, The Meaning of Partisanship (with Jonathan White), and The Architectonic of Reason, all published by Oxford University Press. Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitled Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, published by Penguin Press in the UK and W.W. Norton & Company in North America, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize and is being translated into more than twenty languages. Her academic work has been recognised with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and the Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She coedits The Journal of Political Philosophy and occasionally writes for The Guardian.
Conference Details
Date20 September 2023
Time5.00pm
Feenone
LocationBelfield Campus | Newman Building Theatre N
OrganisersUCD School of Philosophy Royal Institute of Philosophy
Intended Audience public
The overall winner of this year's Irish and International Young Philosopher Awards 2023 is Seán Radcliffe with a project entitled: ‘Has Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Been Warning Us of Social Media for 2500 Years?’. Seán is from Gonzaga College SJ, 5th Year.
Conference: Givenness and Revelation: On Jean-Luc Marion
Delving into all aspects and orientations at work in the writings of Jean-Luc Marion, this international conference proposes to question the intricate and complex relations between theeventsof “givenness” and “revelation” in the history of philosophy and theology. Our task, indeed, is to deploy and develop an access to the meaning of thegivenness of revelationand therevelation of givennessfor philosophical and theological discourses as well as uncover the hermeneutic possibilities inherent within this meaning for our human existence. In this sense, we shall examine the historical developments of these two tropes, “givenness” and “revelation”, and, furthermore, ascertain from whichplacethey confront, awaken and orient human thinking and action. Whatisthe gift? Whatisrevelation? Are gift and revelation reducible to the meaning of being? And furthermore, whichothersignification(s) remain at work within “givenness”and“revelation”? To whichotherorientation(s) could “givenness”and“revelation” head human existence?
Conference Details
Date27th to 29th March 2023
Location27th March 2023, 10 am - 7 pm: Humanities Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin; 28th March 2023, 10 am - 6.30 pm: Boston College Dublin, 43 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin; 29th March 2023, 10 am - 8 pm: Royal Irish Academy, Dawson St., Dublin
OrganisersHumanities Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin Boston College Dublin, 43 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin The Royal Irish Academy, Dawson St., Dublin
Intended Audience The conference is open to all. Please email joseph.cohen@ucd.ie for the full programme and any enquiries about the event.
Jean-Luc Marion (born 3 July 1946) is a French philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian. Marion is a former student of Derrida whose work is informed by patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology and modern philosophy. Much of his academic work has dealt with Descartes and phenomenologists like Heidegger and Husserl, but also religion. God Without Being, for example, is concerned predominantly with an analysis of idolatry, a theme strongly linked in Marion's work with love and the gift, which is a concept also explored at length by Derrida.
https://www.ucd.ie/newman/newsevents/news/text,674829,en.html
Congratulations to Dr Elmar Unnsteinsson
The School is delighted to announce the publication yet another major philosophical monograph. Congratulations to Dr Elmar Unnsteinsson on his Oxford University Press book, Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference - (Click Headline for further details).Professor Richard Bourke Receives Honorary Doctorate (Click for Video)
Richard Bourke (UCD BA Philosophy and English, 1986), Professor of the History of Political Thought, and Fellow in History and Politics at King’s College, Cambridge was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate on 9th December, 2022 by University College. The citation was presented by Professor Brian O'Connor, UCD School of Philosophy.PHIL30790 Animated Philosophy is a module offered by UCD School of Philosophy and generously supported by UCD College of Social Sciences and Law. The Module Co-Ordinator is Teaching and Learning Award winner Dr Dan E. Deasy.
The aim of Animated Philosophy is to provide students with an opportunity to take a different approach to learning philosophy; in particular, to use audio/visual creativity, digital competence, humour, and storytelling skills to present philosophical puzzles and theories in non-standard formats such as podcasts; plays; comic books; posters; and animated online 'explainer' videos.Students who take the course gain invaluable research, design, and team-working skills that they can take into their future careers, as well as evidence of their learning in the form of their own audio/visual project outputs. See UCD https://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/study/undergraduate/