Visiting Speakers Spring 2020
UCD School of Philosophy Invited Speaker Seminars, 2019-2020, Spring Trimester
All events take place at 4pm in the Agnes Cuming Seminar (D520), Newman Building, UCD, unless otherwise noted.
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic/Title |
Respondent |
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23 Jan 2020 |
Ainsley Le Sure |
Occidental University, USA |
Democracy and the Project of Racial Equality |
Antoine Athanassiodis |
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13 Feb 2020 * |
Rico Gutschmidt |
Universität Konstanz |
Transformative Experience in Skepticism |
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20 Feb 2020 |
Tereza Matejckova |
Charles University |
Hegel’s Concept of Personal Difference |
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5 March 2020 |
Jens Timmerman |
St Andrew’s |
Kant’s Conception of Happiness |
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26 March 2020 |
Philipp Rosemann |
Maynooth University |
The Creative Word:
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Matthew Vanderkwaak |
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9 April 2020 |
Beate Rössler |
University of Amsterdam |
On Being Human in a Digital World |
Marinus Ferreira |
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23 April 2020 |
Lois McNay |
Oxford University |
The Incompatibility of Formalism and Negativism: On Rahel Jaeggi’s Critique of the Forms of Life |
Clémence Saintemarie |
* Please note change of date and speaker!
Visiting Speakers Autumn 2019
UCD School of Philosophy Invited Speaker Seminars, 2019-2020, Autumn Trimester
All events take place at 4pm (D101), Newman Building, UCD, unless otherwise noted.
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
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12 Sept 2019 |
Richard Bourke |
"History and Normativity in Political Theory’
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26 Sept 2019 |
Paul Lodge |
TBA |
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10 Oct 2019 |
Carola Freiin von Villiez |
TBA |
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24 Oct 2019 |
Ursula Renz |
“Three Accounts of Laws and Time: or Does Science Need Metaphysics?” |
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7 Nov 2019 |
Peter Verovšek
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"Public Intellectuals in the Democratic Public Sphere" |
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21 Nov 2019 |
Julia Borcherding |
TBA
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Previous Visiting Speakers
Invited Speakers Autumn 2018 – Venue D522 unless otherwise stated
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 13 September | Philip Kitcher, Columbia University |
Truth to be Told: Understanding Truth in the Age of Post-Truth Politics Venue & Time: UCD Humanities Institute, Room H204, 5:30 pm |
| 20 September | Tsarina Doyle, NUI Galway |
Nietzsche's Philosophical Naturalism |
| 27–28 September | Keynote Speaker: Jacqueline Broad, Monash University |
Agency in Early Modern Philosophy Workshop Venues: NUI Merrion Square (Thursday 27th) and D522 (Friday 28th) Website, Registration |
| 1 October | Keynote Speaker: Steven Savitt, University of British Columbia |
Time and Time Again: A Workshop on Time Venue: NUI Merrion Square |
| 4 October | Jonathan Tallant, Nottingham University |
There is No Such Thing as Presentism |
| 5 October | Jonathan Tallant and Daniel Deasy | Masterclass on Timelessness 11am–1pm |
| 11 October | Tuomas Tahko, University of Bristol |
Special Science Laws and Higher-Level Kinds |
| 25 October | Andreas Mogensen, University of Oxford |
Meaning, Medicine, and Merit |
| 9–10 November | Invited speakers include: Sandra Laugier, University of Paris 1; Davis Archard, QUB; Cara Nine, UCC; Heike Felzmann, NUI Galway |
Irish Philosophical Society 2018 Annual Conference in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life Venue and other details: tba |
| 15 November | Pauline Kleingeld, University of Groningen |
Kant's 'Republican' Conception of Freedom of the Will |
| 16 November | Workshop with Ian Kidd, Nottingham University |
Empathy, Illness and Vulnerability Workshop, 10am–4:30pm |
| 22 November | Sam Ben-Meir, Mercy College, New York |
Ethical Interanimality |
| 7–8 December | Invited Speakers include: Gail Weiss, Thiemo Breyer, Tim Mooney, Italo Testa, Ed Casey, Felix Ó Murchadha, Tanya Staehler |
Habit and Social Experience Conference |
Invited Speakers Spring 2018 – Venue D522 unless otherwise stated
1 Feb Lorna Finlayson, University of Essex
"I'm not with stupid": false consciousness stories for a post-Brexit age
8 February Emily Thomas, Durham University Travel Writing as Thought Experiments: Science, Francis Bacon, and Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World
15 February Tom Rockmore, Peking University
Aspects of Marx's Dream
22–23 February Agnes Cuming Lecturer: David Charles,
Yale
How to avoid the mind body problem: Aristotle's way
Venue: NT2
1 March Andreas Mogensen, Oxford University
Should you let one drown to save a greater number through donations?
7–9 March A Conference on Animal Ethics
The Value of Sentience: Empathy, Vulnerability and Recognition Venue: Ardmore House, UCD
8–9 March International Conference - Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland
29 March Claudine Tiercelin, College de France
Why pragmatism entails realism
5 April Anik Waldow, University of Sydney
Locke on Persons as Agents
12 April Pauline Kleingeld, University of Groningen CANCELLED
Kant’s ‘republican’ conception of freedom of the will
19 April Antonio Nunziante, University of Padova Sellars and the Phenomenological Root of the “Given”: Farber, Husserl and the naturalization of phenomenology
4–5 May Dublin Graduate Conference
Dialogues in Philosophy Details: TBA
Autumn 2017 Visiting Speakers Series
21 September
Prof Stelios Virvidakis, University of Athens
Topic: Living well and Having a Good Life: Interpreting the Distinction
28 September
Dr Irene McMullin, University of Essex
Topic: The Intersubjective Conditions of Normative Agency
12 October
Dr Kenneth Pearce, Trinity College Dublin
Topic: Ideas and Explanation in Early Modern Philosophy
19/20 October
'John Dewey and Critical Philosophies for Critical Political Times'
Venue: UCD Humanities Institute
Registration is essential.
26 October
Book Symposium with Prof Édouard Machery (Pittsburgh)
Time: 15.00
Venue: Agnes Cuming Seminar Room, D522, Newman Bldg
***Please note the new date and venue.***
26 October
Prof Ruth Sonderegger, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Topic: Who is the subject of aesthetic education? Some remarks on Kant and Schiller
27 October
Workshop with Prof Édouard Machery (Pittsburgh)
'Evaluating Methods of Inquiry'
Programme Machery Workshop
Poster Machery Workshop
Time: 9.30-18.00
Venue: UCD Humanities Insitute
9 November
Distinguished Lecture in Consciousness & Embodiment
Prof Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen
Topic: Collective intentionality and plural pre-reflective self-awareness
Venue: A109, Newman Bldg
16 November
WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY
Irish Young Philosopher Awards
23 November
Conference: 'The Ethics of Vulnerability'
Launch of UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life
Venue: Ardmore House, UCD
14 December
Workshop: 'Frontiers of Phenomenology'
Abstracts
The workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
To register, please email: anya.daly@ucd.ie
PLEASE NOTE PROGRAMME IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
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