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 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 →

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 →

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” →

GSG Public lecture by Paulin Hountondji: Moralising God? Religions and Politics in Africa today When: Monday 2 December 2019, 17:00-18:30 Where: Faculty of Philosophy, Oude Boteringestraat 52 Attendance: Free, no registration required Also a lecture at Africa Studies Centre Leiden. Dec. 5, 15 - 16.30 hrs Paulin Hountondji is one of the most prominent African … Continue reading Paulin Hountondji. Prominent African Philosopher. Groningen Dec.2 at 17hrs →

The Center for Political Philosophy in Leiden is pleased to announce a talk by   Olatunji A. Oyeshile (University of Ibadan)   ‘Democracy, Multi-Ethnic Identities and Poverty in Africa’   Date:                  Thursday, 5 December 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:  Given the fact that democracy has … Continue reading CPP Talk: Democracy, Multi-Ethnic Identities and Poverty in Africa →

The recent changes surrounding the Michel Foucault Archives have led to a flurry of new posthumous publications. The most important among these is undoubtedly Les aveux de la chair (The Confessions of the Flesh), the fourth volume of the History of Sexuality; but various other texts of interests have also been published, or will be … Continue reading Symposium Revisiting/Revising Foucault: The Latest Publications →

Colloquium Geschiedenis van de Filosofie, Universiteit Utrecht   "Herder's Reading of Sophocles: On Pain, Language and Sympathy"   Ilit Ferber Tel-Aviv University   Iedereen is welkom!   Date: Thursday December 12th, 15:00-17:00 Venue: van Ravesteynzaal, Kromme Nieuwe Gracht 80 (1e verdieping), Utrecht   Abstract: In his "Treatise on the Origin of Language" (1772) Herder presents the origin of language in what he calls … Continue reading Colloquium “Herder’s Reading of Sophocles: On Pain, Language and Sympathy” →