Gentrification and the Geography of Racial Inequality The standard view in left academic and activist circles is that gentrification is unethical and unjust. It is a mark of social inequality and is the result of a process of urban transformation made possible by that inequality, and it worsens it by displacing and excluding the working-classes … Continue reading Lecture: Gentrification and the Geography of Racial Inequality →

Abstract: In this paper I offer an analysis of the normativity of command and use it to derive a conclusion about the normative significance of institutional structure. I argue that to command another is to take her as falling under one's power. However, to take someone to fall under one's power is to treat her … Continue reading CPP Colloquium: Micha Gläser →

You are cordially invited to attend an honorary lecture by Professor Daniel Garber, entitled "Something Old, Something New: The Idea of a Philosophia Novantiqua in Early Modern Europe," on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science (Radboud University). Professor Garber (Princeton University) works on the history of philosophy, … Continue reading lecture professor Dan Garber →

Leiden University’s Institute for Philosophy is proud to host a book symposium on Annelien de Dijn’s draft manuscript Freedom: An Unruly History, as part of the OZSW study group in political philosophy. The workshop is open to all, but please register at e.r.boot@phil.leidenuniv.nl

The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) hosts a number of theories that explain religious belief and religious behavior. The discipline distinguishes itself from other approaches by focusing on the human mind. From its onset in the early 1990’s CSR has grown to be a major player in religious studies. In this workshop, the key theories … Continue reading Workshop Cognitive Science of Religion and Philosophy →

The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) hosts a number of theories that explain religious belief and religious behavior. The discipline distinguishes itself from other approaches by focusing on the human mind. From its onset in the early 1990’s CSR has grown to be a major player in religious studies. In this workshop, the key theories … Continue reading Workshop: Cognitive Science of Religion and Philosophy →

You are warmly invited to attend the workshop 'Human Rights History after the Inequality Debate' with Samuel Moyn (Yale University) and Naomi Woltring (commentator Utrecht University) on June 14th at Utrecht University.     Samuel Moyn has written several books on European intellectual history and human rights history, including The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard … Continue reading Workshop Samuel Moyn: Human Rights History after the Inequality Debate →

A very general statement about the role of the humanities in present-day societies might run as follows: The humanities that have a special role to play in the critical and constructive analysis of the normative core of modern societies in an increasingly globalizing world. Such a program directly raises a number of questions that will … Continue reading Workshop: The Humanities of the Future →

Dear colleagues, This short message to invite you to our next Public Ethics Talks event at Leiden University (Hague Campus).   Peter Singer (Princeton/Melbourne) is going to give a presentation titled "Global Ethics: A Utilitarian Approach" The presentation, followed by Q&A, is going to take place on Tuesday, June 19, from 16:00 to 17:30,  at Leiden University, Wijnhaven Building, Turfmarkt 99 2511DP, … Continue reading Peter Singer on Global Ethics →

The talk argues that G.W.F. Hegel and Heinrich von Kleist intervene in the new binary organization of “the sexes” that emerges at the end of the eighteenth century, reaching its philosophical culmination in Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s “Outline of Family Right” in Foundations of Natural Right (1797), and that their intervention can, from today’s perspective, be described as … Continue reading GF colloquium: Katrin Pahl (Johns Hopkins) on Hegel and Kleist →

Book symposium on Ulrike Heuer’s new book manuscript “Intentions Unbound. The Rationality and Morality of Intentions”  Friday  June 22 Utrecht Ulrike Heuer is Reader at the Philosophy Department of University College London. Her work is primarily on theories of practical reasons, in action theory, and in normative ethics. The focus of her current research is … Continue reading Book symposium “Intentions Unbound” (Ulrike Heuer) →

Op 7 april 2018 ontving Kees Vuyk voor zijn boek Oude en nieuwe ongelijkheid de Socrates Wisselbeker, de prijs voor ‘het meest urgente, oorspronkelijke en prikkelende Nederlandstalige filosofieboek van 2017’. In dit boek onderzoekt hij het failliet van het traditionele verheffingsideaal: de kloof tussen arm en rijk is nu opgevolgd door de kloof tussen laag- en hoogopgeleid. … Continue reading Debat: hoe elitair zijn de kunsten? →

Workshop Science and Intentional Action & Colloquium by Alfred Mele, 26th of June, VU Amsterdam   Workshop Science and Intentional Action In recent decades, intentional action has become an important object of study in neuroscience and psychology. Even though experiments such as those conducted by Benjamin Libet do not show that we lack free will or … Continue reading Workshop Science and Intentional Action & Colloquium by Alfred Mele, 26th of June →