Academic Philosophy Events in the Netherlands
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Ethics & practical philosophy
Advanced European Bioethics Course ‘Suffering, Death and Palliative Care’
Huize Heyendael Geert Grooteplein 9, Nijmegen, NetherlandsObjective of this course is to educate the participants on two main aspects: ethical questions of palliative care and medically assisted death, and philosophical, theological and medical reflections on the concepts of death and suffering. Attitudes towards death and dying, and the ethical aspects of continuing or foregoing medical treatment, and of medically assisted death … Continue reading Advanced European Bioethics Course ‘Suffering, Death and Palliative Care’
Meeting 22 – Peer Review Circle Practical Philosophy
Zaal 0.13, Drift 23, Utrecht University, 3512 BR Utrecht, The Netherlands Drift 23, Utrecht University, 3512 BR Utrecht, The Netherlands, Utrecht, Utrecht, The NetherlandsWe will meet to discuss a piece by Petra van Kooij (UU), on feasibility constraints and ecological limits. Abstract: We need to urgently change society’s structures in order to live sustainably. The disagreement, however, does not lie in the former statement but rather in what change is feasible and desirable. Over the last decades a debate … Continue reading Meeting 22 – Peer Review Circle Practical Philosophy
(Workshop) Nudging and Moral Responsibility: Lessons from manipulation, implicit bias and situationism
Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The NetherlandsNudges are an increasingly popular tool that policy makers and businesses are using to steer our choices and behaviour. For example, someone might be nudged by open workspaces to increase their productivity at work, and stores might nudge people toward consuming items whose high profit margin is linked to unethical production. So-called choice architects target … Continue reading (Workshop) Nudging and Moral Responsibility: Lessons from manipulation, implicit bias and situationism
OZSW Spring School 2018 – Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
This is a high-level course primarily aimed at PhD-students who already have some background in ethics. The aim of the course is two-fold. First, the course provides insight into recent work on the main normative theories (consequentialism, Kantian ethics, and virtue ethics), different methods of moral justification, and the use of theories and methods of … Continue reading OZSW Spring School 2018 – Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
5th EISA European Workshops in International Studies
University of Groningen ,The Return of Politics to International Relations Programme Co-Chairs: Dr Benjamin Herborth, Groningen and Dr Benjamin Tallis, IIR (for EISA). The European International Studies Association (EISA) invites papers to be submitted to the workshops that comprise EWIS 2018, which will take place at University of Groningen in the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 06-09 June … Continue reading 5th EISA European Workshops in International Studies
Book symposium “Intentions Unbound” with the author Ulrike Heuer
Organised by three OZSW study groups Mind in Action, Moral Psychology and Metaethics. Registration and information via Katrien.Schaubroeck@uantwerpen.be Location: Utrecht, Sweelinckzaal Drift 21
Meeting 23 – Peer Review Circle Practical Philosophy
University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Utrecht, The Netherlands, Utrecht, Utrecht, The NetherlandsWe will meet to discuss Akshat Jitendranath's draft paper entitled 'Does The Small Improvement Argument Threaten Comparativism?" (abstract below). Please contact Jojanneke Vanderveen (j.s.vanderveen@vu.nl) or Huub Brouwer (h.m.brouwer@uvt.nl) to receive the paper and location details. If you cannot attend but would like to be put on the mailing list of the circle, please contact Jojanneke. … Continue reading Meeting 23 – Peer Review Circle Practical Philosophy
Summer School “Virtues in the University”
VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The NetherlandsThe theme of the seminar is Virtues in the University. One task traditionally ascribed to universities is that they are supposed to inculcate certain moral and intellectual virtues in their students, such as intellectual honesty, open-mindedness, inquisitiveness, thoroughness, decency. Should universities still aspire to these things, and if so why? And if we assume they should, … Continue reading Summer School “Virtues in the University”
OZSW Summer School on Ethics and Economics
Hotel De Rooi Pannen, Tilburg, the NetherlandsShould everyone get an unconditional basic income? Can wages be just? Is inheritance morally permissible? How should externalities such as environmental pollution be regulated? Questions of ethics and economics are systematically at the forefront of contemporary academic and public debates. Although many of these questions are not new, they are of renewed and pressing interest … Continue reading OZSW Summer School on Ethics and Economics
NOISE Summer School 2018
Utrecht , NetherlandsSocial and Political Suffocations Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies As feminist scholars have pointed out for decades, the unequal distribution of wealth, privilege, and social and political agency and recognition take place along intersectional power dynamics structured by, for example, gender, race, class, mental and physical dis/ability, sexuality. While the last year’s NOISE summer … Continue reading NOISE Summer School 2018
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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.