Academic Philosophy Events in the Netherlands
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Workshop on “Exploring Values in Technology Across Methods and Disciplines”
Workshop on “Exploring Values in Technology Across Methods and Disciplines”
We are pleased to invite you to participate in an upcoming workshop exploring the empirical pursuits of studying values on October 31 - November 1, 2019 at TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands. Technological advancement, along with the many benefits, simultaneously changes the societal canvas, at individual, institutional and legal levels. Digital technologies defy barriers of … Continue reading Workshop on “Exploring Values in Technology Across Methods and Disciplines” →
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Workshop: the Philosophy of Money
Workshop: the Philosophy of Money
The Philosophy of Money Workshop at the University of Groningen 1 | THEME New forms of money raise a number of puzzles: How can money have a virtual existence? Can the institution of money function without state support and if so how? Is it possible to develop a unified theory of commodity, fiat and electronic … Continue reading Workshop: the Philosophy of Money →
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2nd Groningen Metaethics Workshop
2nd Groningen Metaethics Workshop
Registration is now open for the second Groningen Metaethics Workshop, which will take place at the University of Groningen on 6 November 2019. Programme: 09:00–10:00 Farbod Akhlaghi-Ghaffarokh (Oxford): "An Argument for the Metaphysical Necessity of Moral Principles”. First commenter: Luke Elson (Reading). 10:15–11:15 Philip Stratton-Lake (Reading): "Self-Evidence and Basic Justifiers: A Revised Intuitionist Epistemology”. First … Continue reading 2nd Groningen Metaethics Workshop →
Symposium – Ancient Buddhist Meditation: Historical, Philosophical and Comparative Perspectives
Symposium – Ancient Buddhist Meditation: Historical, Philosophical and Comparative Perspectives
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Rupert Gethin (Bristol) Description -- Meditation practices are a core component of Ancient Indian Buddhism and an essential factor in the development of Buddhist philosophy as a whole. Ancient Buddhist meditation is naturally intertwined with key philosophical topics such as the nature of consciousness and qualia, the phenomenology of subjective experience, the … Continue reading Symposium – Ancient Buddhist Meditation: Historical, Philosophical and Comparative Perspectives →
Symposium Ancient Buddhist Meditation
Symposium Ancient Buddhist Meditation
Symposium Ancient Buddhist Meditation: Historical, Philosophical and Comparative Perspectives 6 November 2019 Faculty of Philosophy, room ALPHA Oude Boteringestraat 52, 9717 GL Groningen Programme 9:30-10:15 - Marieke van Vugt (Groningen): Bridging philosophy and meditation: analytical meditation in Tibetan monasteries 10:15-11:00 - Tatjana Kochetkova (O.P. Jindal Global University, India): Vipassana and Neurofeedback EEG alertness … Continue reading Symposium Ancient Buddhist Meditation →
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4TU.Ethics Bi-annual Conference
4TU.Ethics Bi-annual Conference
Throughout history, technology has been a driver of social change. The technologies of the industrial revolution played a crucial role in shaping modern society, and society has since then continued to be shaped by technological innovations. The conference focuses on technologies that will not just change specific domains or practices for which they were designed, … Continue reading 4TU.Ethics Bi-annual Conference →
The Ontological Significance of Levels of Organization
The Ontological Significance of Levels of Organization
Daniel Brooks (University of Cincinnati) Abstract: ‘Levels of organization’ is a major organizing principle in the special sciences that purports to provide a broad overarching thesis about the basic structure of the natural world. However, ontological accounts of levels have not met with wide acceptance, leaving open the question of what levels are. Building on … Continue reading The Ontological Significance of Levels of Organization →
Colloquium Geschiedenis van de Filosofie
Colloquium Geschiedenis van de Filosofie
"The principle of ‘doing-one’s-own’ in the Platonic-Stoic tradition" Dr. Tomohiko Kondo University of Hokkaido/Utrecht University All are welcome! Date: Thursday 7 November, 15:00-17:00 uur Plaats: Drift 6, room 0.07, Utrecht Abstract: In Book IV of Plato’s Republic, the concept of justice is explicated through the principle of ‘doing one’s own’ (ta hautou prattein), whose historical background and … Continue reading Colloquium Geschiedenis van de Filosofie →
CPP Colloquium: Effective Altruism, Over-demandingness, and a Defense of a Progressive Giving Principle
CPP Colloquium: Effective Altruism, Over-demandingness, and a Defense of a Progressive Giving Principle
The Center for Political Philosophy in Leiden is pleased to announce a talk by Eamon Aloyo (Leiden University) ‘Effective Altruism, Over-demandingness, and a Defense of a Progressive Giving Principle’ Date: Thursday, 7 November 2019 Time: 15:15-17:00, followed by drinks Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Lecture Room 0.07, P.J.Veth Building, Nonnensteeg 1-3, Leiden Abstract: How much should … Continue reading CPP Colloquium: Effective Altruism, Over-demandingness, and a Defense of a Progressive Giving Principle →
Explaining the evidence: Causal models in legal reasoning
Explaining the evidence: Causal models in legal reasoning
Date: Thursday, 7 November 2019 Time: 16:00-17:00, followed by drinks Venue: Marie Lokezaal, Harmony Building, Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, Groningen, the Netherlands How do people reason in the face of complex and contradictory information? Legal cases are particularly challenging: people must decide between competing stories, integrating a wide range of evidence from sources with … Continue reading Explaining the evidence: Causal models in legal reasoning →
Explaining the evidence: Causal models in legal reasoning
Explaining the evidence: Causal models in legal reasoning
Explaining the evidence: Causal models in legal reasoning David Lagnado (University College London) Date: Thursday, 7 November 2019 Time: 16:00-17:00, followed by drinks Venue: Marie Lokezaal, Harmony Building Abstract How do people reason in the face of complex and contradictory information? Legal cases are particularly challenging: people must decide between competing stories, integrating a wide … Continue reading Explaining the evidence: Causal models in legal reasoning →
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VvEN toekomstverkenning over Ethiek en Journalistiek
VvEN toekomstverkenning over Ethiek en Journalistiek
ETHIEK EN JOURNALISTIEK VvEN toekomstverkenning over ethiek in de journalistiek De Vereniging van Ethici in Nederland (VvEN) nodigt geïnteresseerden uit voor haar zevende ethische toekomstverkenning op vrijdag 8 november 2019 van 13.00-18.00 in het Academiegebouw van de Universiteit Utrecht. De toekomstverkenning is bedoeld voor wetenschappers en ethici, journalisten en iedereen die met media te maken … Continue reading VvEN toekomstverkenning over Ethiek en Journalistiek →
Representation: useful, useless or harmful?
Representation: useful, useless or harmful?
Radboud University Donders Institute & Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Foundations of Cognition Series (FCS) When: Friday, November 8, 16:00-17:30 Where: Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Oval Office Who: Giacomo Aldegheri and Sushrut Thorat (Donders) Representation: useful, useless or harmful? The concept of a “representation” is among the most (mis)used in cognitive science: … Continue reading Representation: useful, useless or harmful? →
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PhD Defence Ching Hung — Design for Green: Ethics and Politics for Behavior-Steering Technology
PhD Defence Ching Hung — Design for Green: Ethics and Politics for Behavior-Steering Technology
On Wednesday 13th November 2019 at 10:30 in De Waaier, University of Twente, Ching will present and defend his dissertation ‘Design for Green: Ethics and Politics for Behavior-Steering Technology.’ His promoters are P.-P. Verbeek and M. Nagenborg and committee members are: P.A.E. Brey (UT), G.D.S. Ludden (UT), I.R. van de Poel (TU Delft), W.A. IJsselsteijn … Continue reading PhD Defence Ching Hung — Design for Green: Ethics and Politics for Behavior-Steering Technology →
Lunch Seminar: ‘First saying, then believing:the pragmatic roots of folk psychology’
Lunch Seminar: ‘First saying, then believing:the pragmatic roots of folk psychology’
During our lunch seminar next Wednesday (November 13th), Bart Geurts will give a talk titled ‘First saying, then believing: the pragmatic roots of folk psychology.’ You can find the abstract for his talk below. The meeting will take place at the familiar time in the familiar room: from 12.30 to 13.30 in EOS 01.140. … Continue reading Lunch Seminar: ‘First saying, then believing:the pragmatic roots of folk psychology’ →
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OZSW Conference 2019
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One-Day Symposium ‘The Morality of War’
One-Day Symposium ‘The Morality of War’
Date: Monday November 18, 2019 Venue: GR1.136, Faculty of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen Address: Grotius Building, Montessorilaan 10, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Website: https://www.ru.nl/rechten/actueel/agenda/@1239169/one-day-symposium-the-morality-war/ This symposium brings together international scholars working in the field of moral and legal just war theory. The format resembles an expert workshop with presentations (20/30 min) and ample time for … Continue reading One-Day Symposium ‘The Morality of War’ →
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Mini-workshop on the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Mini-workshop on the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Programme Wednesday 20 November 2019 13:00-14:15 Johan Olsthoorn (Amsterdam) – ‘Hobbes on the Rights of War’ 14:20-15:35 Alexandra Chadwick (Groningen) – ‘Hobbes on the Nature of Man and the Nature of Politics’ 15:40-16:55 Alan Nelson (UNC, Chapel Hill) – ‘Leviathan as Science and Why That Matters’ Organized by: Challenges to Democratic Representation (UvA); Amsterdam Centre … Continue reading Mini-workshop on the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes →
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‘WOMEN IN PARENTHESIS’ AT THE VU AMSTERDAM
‘WOMEN IN PARENTHESIS’ AT THE VU AMSTERDAM
‘Women in parenthesis’ at the VU Amsterdam On November 21st 2019, Rachael Wiseman and Clare Mac Cumhail, the initiators of the ‘Women in parenthesis’ project, will deliver a public lecture at the VU Amsterdam, which is open to the general public. This project focuses on four women philosophers who met and became friends at Oxford … Continue reading ‘WOMEN IN PARENTHESIS’ AT THE VU AMSTERDAM →
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OZSW study group Peer Review Circle Practical Philosophy meeting
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Lunch Seminar: Conscious Reflection versus Embodied Habits: Human Cognition From a Nonhuman Perspective
Lunch Seminar: Conscious Reflection versus Embodied Habits: Human Cognition From a Nonhuman Perspective
Conscious Reflection versus Embodied Habits: Human Cognition From a Nonhuman Perspective Most of our cognitive abilities—remembering, deciding, thinking—are enabled by ‘subpersonal’ factors: small-scale interactive processes between our brains, bodies and environments of which we cannot become conscious. Nonetheless, our understanding of cognitive abilities is largely based on the familiar conscious part of our minds. This … Continue reading Lunch Seminar: Conscious Reflection versus Embodied Habits: Human Cognition From a Nonhuman Perspective →
First Biennual Hannah Arendt Lecture
First Biennual Hannah Arendt Lecture
FIRST BIENNUAL HANNAH ARENDT LECTURE WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2019, Tilburg University, Department of Philosophy PROFESSOR PEG BIRMINGHAM (De Paul University Chicago, USA) ‘Life and World in Hannah Arendt's Life of the Mind and The Human Condition’ In 2017 we started the new research group Philosophy of Humanity, Culture and Ethics at Tilburg University, with the aim … Continue reading First Biennual Hannah Arendt Lecture →
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Erasmus Philosophy Lecture: After the Organic
Erasmus Philosophy Lecture: After the Organic
Erasmus School of Philosophy invites you to the annual Erasmus Philosophy Lecture on Friday, 29 November 2019 10:00 – 12:30 hrs. This year we invited Yuk Hui. Abstract In this talk Yuk Hui proposes that in his Critique of Judgement, Kant has imposed an organic condition of philosophizing which came out of a particular historical … Continue reading Erasmus Philosophy Lecture: After the Organic →
C.J. de Vogel Symposium “21st century Plato”
C.J. de Vogel Symposium “21st century Plato”
On the 29th of November, VU University will host the C.J. de Vogel Symposium “21st century Plato”. During this symposium Cinzia Arruzza (New School for Social Research) and Franco Trivigno (University of Oslo) will give presentations on Plato’s political dialogues. They will focus on some elements of Plato’s work that are particularly relevant for issues … Continue reading C.J. de Vogel Symposium “21st century Plato” →
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Philosophy of Risk 2019
Philosophy of Risk 2019
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About the OZSW event calendar
The OZSW event calendar lists academic philosophy events organized by/at Dutch universities, and is offered by the OZSW as a service to the research community. Please check the event in question – through their website or organizer – to find out if you could participate and whether registration is required. Obviously we carry no responsibility for non-OZSW events.