"Elmar Unnsteinsson with one of our invited speakers, Nat Hansen. Photo credit: Tony Cheng"
Visiting Speaker 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:
Visiting Speaker Seminars, Spring 2024
| 1 February | Matti Eklund (Uppsala) |
”Alien Languages and Alien Metaphysics” |
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| 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 |
Newman Centre Annual Lecture - Dean Zimmerman |
"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 |
Visiting Speaker Seminars, Autumn 2023
| 20 September |
Lea Ypi (LSE) Public Lecture [note: Wednesday] |
For a Critical Philosophy of History (opens in a new window)Interview with Professor Maeve Cooke |
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| 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 |
Dr Gaven Kerr (St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth) |
“Causal Series and the Existence of God”
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Past visiting speaker series 2022/23
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 2 Feb: |
Anca Meirosu (University of Bucharest) | Voluntas and Potentia in Secretum (Petrarch) |
| 9 Feb: |
Finnur Dellsen (University of Iceland) | Abduction: The Glory and Scandal of Philosophy? |
| 16 Feb: |
Jarrett Zigon (University of Virginia). | Ethics Beyond the Human |
| 9 March: |
Michael Gill (University of Edinburgh) | The Original Internal Ought of W.D. Falk |
| 13 April: |
Christoph Menke (Goethe University Frankfurt) | A Theory of Liberation |
| 20 April: |
Sarah Fine (University of Cambridge) | ‘Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be: Responding to change and loss'. |
| 4 May: |
Newman Centre Annual Lecture Professor Joel Robbins (University of Cambridge) | The Present and the Future in the Present: Religion, Values, and Climate Change |
Visiting Speaker Seminars, Autumn 2022
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| October 20 NOTE EARLY STARTING TIME (10am) |
Simon Kirchin University of Kent | ‘Is Drag morally objectionable?’. |
| November 3 |
M Folescu, University of Missouri/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (with co-author Tieying Zhou by Zoom) - zoom link for lecture
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‘Reid and Shepherd on Beauty and the Subjectivity of Taste’ |
| November 10 |
Carl Sachs, Marymount University, | ‘Using a Myth to Kill a Myth: Cognitive Science and the Myth of the Given’ |
Past visiting speaker series 2021-22
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| Sept 16 |
Professor John Divers, Trinity College Dublin | ‘Counterfactuals - towards Quinean division and conquest’. |
| Oct 1 |
Dr Kian Mintz-Woo, University College Cork |
'Policies for long-term problems' |
| 14 Oct |
Professor Michael Brady, University of Glasgow | "Suffering and Meaning in Life" |
| Nov 18 |
Dr Zachary Hoskins, University of Nottingham | ‘'Public Reason and the Justification of Punishment'’ |
| Nov 25 |
Hagit Benbaji, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Israel | 'To feel or not to feel: a puzzle about negative emotions' |
| 17 Feb |
Professor Adrian Moore, Oxford University | "Descartes on modality" |
| 24 Mar |
Dr Andrew Stephenson, University of Southampton | Kant and Kripke on Knowledge of Necessity: Rethinking the A Priori in German Idealism |
| 31 Mar | Dr Katherine Jenkins, University of Glasgow | Against the Ontology-First Approach to Gender Recognition |
| 14 Apr | Dr Luna Dolezal, University of Exeter | The Horizons of Chronic Shame |
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| Jan 21 |
Professor María Pía Lara, Universidad Autonóma Metropolitana, Mexico City | ‘The Feminist Imaginary through the Cinematic Imagination’. |
| Feb 04 |
Prof Beate Rössler, University of Amsterdam. | 'What does it mean to be human in the digital world?' |
| Feb 18 |
Professor Philipp Rosemann, Maynooth University, Ireland | ‘The Creative Word: Reflections on the Augustinian Episteme’ |
| March 04 |
Professor Cressida Heyes, University of Alberta, Canada | 'Fast Death, Slow Death: the Biopolitics of Pandemic Temporality' |
| March 25 |
Professor Martin Seel, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany | ‘Nature, Art and the Landscapes of Human Flourishing’ |
| April 08 | Professor Richard Kearney, Boston College, USA | 'The Philosophy of Touch: Recovering our Senses' |
| April 22 | Professor Lois McNay, Oxford University, UK | 'The incompatibility of Formalism and Negativism: On Rahel Jaeggi’s Critique of the Forms of Life’ |
Autumn 2020
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| Sept 24 | Professor William Scheuerman (Indiana University) | ‘Good-Bye to Non-Violence?’ |
| Oct 8 | Professor Barbara Vetter (Free University, Berlin) | ‘Agency and Modal Knowledge’ |
| Oct 22 | Professor Andrea Westlund (Florida State University) | 'Telling our Stories' |
| Nov 12 | Professor Karin Nisenbaum (Boston College) | ’Fichte's Perfectionist Solution to the 'Paradox' of Kantian Autonomy and the 'Dilemma' of Post-Kantian Autonomy’ Please note the different start time of 4.30pm. |
| Nov 26 | Professor Olivier Massin (University of Neuchâtel) | ‘The Nature of Efforts’ |
Autumn 2019
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| 12 Sept 2019 |
Richard Bourke |
"History and Normativity in Political Theory’ |
| 26 Sept 2019 |
Paul Lodge |
TBA |
| 10 Oct 2019 |
Carola Freiin von Villiez |
TBA |
| 24 Oct 2019 |
Ursula Renz |
“Three Accounts of Laws and Time: or Does Science Need Metaphysics?” |
| 7 Nov 2019 |
Peter Verovšek |
"Public Intellectuals in the Democratic Public Sphere" |
| 21 Nov 2019 |
Julia Borcherding |
TBA |
Autumn 2018
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 13 September | Philip Kitcher, Columbia University |
(opens in a new window)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) (opens in a new window)Website, (opens in a new window)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 |
Spring 2018
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
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. Kant’s ‘republican’ conception of freedom of the will. CANCELLED
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
Autumn 2017
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. (opens in a new window)'John Dewey and Critical Philosophies for Critical Political Times'. Venue: UCD Humanities Institute. (opens in a new window)Registration is essential.
26 October. Book Symposium with Prof Édouard Machery (Pittsburgh)
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
9 November. Distinguished Lecture in Consciousness & Embodiment. Prof Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen. Topic: Collective intentionality and plural pre-reflective self-awareness
16 November. WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY
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