OZSW Winter School for ReMa Students: Now Open for Registration

This year’s Winter School (8-9 January 2018) focuses on methodological and practical skills in philosophy, including how to write a successful methodology section in a grant proposal, how to present your work to (non-)philosophers, and how to contribute to philosophy in the public sphere. Special attention will be paid to the growing inspiration of philosophy … Continue reading OZSW Winter School for ReMa Students: Now Open for Registration

Course ‘Moral Psychology’ Open for Registration

The OZSW cordially invites PhD students and ReMa students to register for a course on Moral Psychology, to take place from 5-9 November 2017. Moral psychology is a growing field of interdisciplinary research that draws on both normative reflection and theorizing in philosophy and empirical research and modelling in psychology and other social sciences. Students … Continue reading Course ‘Moral Psychology’ Open for Registration

Contemporary Political Philosophy Course Open for Registration

We are happy to announce a 5-day course on contemporary political philosophy, which will take place on January 12, 19, February 2, 16, and March 2, 2018 at varying locations (Utrecht, Leiden, Nijmegen). The general idea of the course is to have a discussion in seminar style. All invited speakers deliver two texts. Speaker and students together … Continue reading Contemporary Political Philosophy Course Open for Registration

OZSW Theoretical Philosophy Networking & Speed Dating Event

The Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) and the University of Twente are pleased to announce the Theoretical Philosophy Networking & Speed Dating Event, to take place on 22 September 2017. Members are cordially invited to register for this event. More information can be found on the event page.

OZSW Masterclass on Feminist Theory

Dear all, We are happy to announce a masterclass on feminist theory, which will take place June 13-14 at Leiden and Utrecht Universities. The masterclass is a high-level course aimed at advanced Research MA and PhD students whose research relates to themes such as ethics in the Anthropocene, (feminist) posthumanisms, Foucauldian feminisms, feminist (new) materialism, … Continue reading OZSW Masterclass on Feminist Theory

Programme of “Mind the Gap: (In)famous Oppositions in the History of Philosophy”

Dear OZSW members, What is lost when we sever philosophy and its history into opposing camps? Or does it actually help our understanding to classify authors as analytical versus continental, rationalist rather than empiricist, realists and nominalists, Aristotelians and Platonists? What conception of philosophy lies behind such oppositions? The program of the two-day course “Mind … Continue reading Programme of “Mind the Gap: (In)famous Oppositions in the History of Philosophy”