Visiting Speakers 2023/24
You are warmly invited to the 2023-24 Visiting Speaker Seminars hosted by UCD School of Philosophy. The seminars will take place in D520 Seminar Room, D5 Newman Building, UCD, Belfield on Thursdays from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., starting on 20th September 2023 (times may be revised from time to time so please check carefully). Papers will be circulated in advance. To register, please contact (opens in a new window)helena.mccann@ucd.ie at least one day in advance of the seminar. The schedule for Spring 2024 is as follows.
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 February | Matti Eklund (Uppsala) | ‘Alien Languages and Alien Metaphysics’ |
| 15 February | Léa Salje (Leeds) | ‘How Can I Know What I Think Until I See What I Paint?’ |
| 29 February | Andrew Huddleston (Warwick) | ‘Nietzsche on Amor Fati’ |
| 7 March | Dean Zimmerman – Newman Centre Annual Lecture | ‘Causing the Cosmos’ |
| 28 March | Mary Edwards (Cardiff) | ‘The Body and “Corpological” Consciousness in Sartre’s Theory of the Self’ |
| 11 April | Nat Hansen (Reading) | ‘Measuring Conceptual Inflation: The Case of “Racist”’ |
| 25 April | Sofia Miguens (Porto) | TBC |
Autumn 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 20 September | Lea Ypi (LSE) Public Lecture | ‘For a Critical Philosophy of History’, (opens in a new window)Interview with Professor Maeve Cooke |
| 28 September | Fabricio Pontin (La Salle Canoas) | ‘Beyond Homelanguage: The Intersection of Expression and the Freedom of Expression in Phenomenology’ |
| 5 October | Michael Rosen | ‘The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel and the Passage from Heaven to History’ |
| 19 October | Niall Connolly (Sheffield) | ‘The Structure of Non-Existence’ |
| 2 November | Anne Sophie Meincke (Vienna) | ‘Free Will as a Biological Function’ |
| 16 November | Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford) | ‘The Second Sex: An Axiological Reading’ |
| 30 November | Gaven Kerr (St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth) | ‘Causal Series and the Existence of God’ |
Elmar Unnsteinsson with one of our invited speakers, Nat Hansen
Photo: Tony Cheng
UCD School of Philosophy
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