Academic Philosophy Events in the Netherlands
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Radboud University Nijmegen (RUN)
Advanced European bioethics course “Suffering, Death and Palliative Care”
Radboud university medical centre NijmegenAdvanced European bioethics course “Suffering, Death and Palliative Care”, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 14 - 17 February, 2017 The section of Healthcare Ethics, department IQ healthcare, (Radboudumc university medical centre) organizes the 19th edition of the advanced European bioethics course ‘Suffering, Death and Palliative Care’ from February 14 - 17, 2017. The key-note lecture will be … Continue reading Advanced European bioethics course “Suffering, Death and Palliative Care”
Nijmegen lecture series “Thinking community today: Human co-existence after Heidegger”
Nijmegen lecture series “Thinking community today: Human co-existence after Heidegger” The Center for Contemporary European Philosophy cordially invites you for a talk by Ian James (Cambridge), “On open community” . Abstract: Published originally in 1986 Jean-Luc Nancy’s La Communauté désœuvrée (The Inoperative community) has proved to be one of his most influential and controversial texts and has enjoyed a rich afterlife, … Continue reading Nijmegen lecture series “Thinking community today: Human co-existence after Heidegger”
(Lecture) Thinking community today: Human co-existence after Heidegger
Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, Gelderland, The NetherlandsThe Center for Contemporary European Philosophy cordially invites you for a talk by Tina Chanter (Kingston): "Who is the peasant woman? Gender and old shoes: Heidegger, Van Gogh and Rancière" Heidegger’s critiques the essentially Aristotelian distinction between form and matter, recasting it in terms of the strife of world and earth. I elaborate Heidegger’s effort … Continue reading (Lecture) Thinking community today: Human co-existence after Heidegger
(Lecture) Nijmegen lecture series: Dialectics, Alterity, Race
Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, Gelderland, The NetherlandsThe Center for Contemporary European Philosophy cordially invites you for a talk by John Drabinski (Amherst): Dialectics, Alterity, Race The talk will engage a strange trio: Emmanuel Levinas, Frantz Fanon, and James Baldwin. With this trio, the talk will explore how the experience of radical otherness - the Jew in France, the colonized in colonial … Continue reading (Lecture) Nijmegen lecture series: Dialectics, Alterity, Race
Workshop free and accountable agency
Thomas van Aquinostraat 6 Thomas van Aquinostraat 6, NijmegenThe free will-debate from an action-oriented perspective Andreas Schönau (University of Freiburg) In recent years, neurophysiological findings have had an increased influence on the philosophical understanding of the self, concepts of agency, and normative evaluations. Focussing on the free will debate, I will show that every philosophical position (compatibilist, incompatibilist, libertarian) is able to arguably … Continue reading Workshop free and accountable agency
(Lecture) The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors and Models of Moral Cognition
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen ,Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models … Continue reading (Lecture) The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors and Models of Moral Cognition
(Workhop) Who cares? Self-management in psychiatry and psychosomatic illness
Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, Gelderland, The NetherlandsPresently, there is an increasing call for self-management strategies in healthcare. Self-management involves regarding patients as ‘expert-clients’, actively involved in the management of their own care. This approach is argued to have great advantages: it holds the prospect of more efficient and (cost)effective healthcare, and converges with theoretical developments underlining the importance of patients’ self-experience. … Continue reading (Workhop) Who cares? Self-management in psychiatry and psychosomatic illness
(Conference) Contemporary European Thought and the Idea of Care
Thomas van Aquinostraat 6 Thomas van Aquinostraat 6, NijmegenOn 7 and 8 June, 2017, CHPS will organise a conference on "Contemporary European Thought and the Idea of Care: Contemporary Versions of an Ancient Idea". The conference aims to analyze the differences, convergences, and overlaps between these three paradigms with a view to uncovering whether and how they can help us understand the multiple … Continue reading (Conference) Contemporary European Thought and the Idea of Care
14th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic
LUX movie theatre Mariënburg 38-39, NijmegenThe 14th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) will be hosted by Radboud University between Monday 3 and Friday 7 July, 2017 (provisional). QPL is a conference that brings together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, and related areas, with a focus on structural perspectives and the use of … Continue reading 14th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic
PhD Defense J.D. Biemen: “Het cultuurbegrip van Emmanuel Levinas”
Academiezaal Aula RUN Comeniuslaan 2, Nijmegen, NetherlandsBy J.D. Biemen
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