The Institute of Philosophy, Leiden University, announces a symposium in honour of Göran Sundholm on the day of his valedictory lecture, September 6, 2019. The valedictory lecture will take place at 16.00 hours in the Groot Auditorium of the Academy Building. Please register for this event on this page. All are welcome! 09.45 coffee 10.00 … Continue reading Symposium in honour of Göran Sundholm →

MANCEPT Workshop, Sept 9-11, 2019 Convenors: Andrei Poama (Leiden), Milena Tripkovic (Birmingham) Contemporary theories of punishment are standardly concerned with answering the question of what makes punishment just? This is to say that penal philosophers almost invariably focus on (and often disagree about) whether retribution, prevention, rehabilitation or, more radically, the abolition of penal practices match … Continue reading The Limits of Punishment: Recent Work on Penal Legitimacy →

Wednesday 11th September 3.15pm - 5pm in room Omega, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen. Rae Langton famously argues that pornographic speech illocutionarily subordinates and silences women. Making good this view hinges on identifying the context relevant for fixing such force. To do so, a parallel is typically drawn between pornographic recordings and multipurpose signs … Continue reading Ethics Social and Political Philosophy Colloquium, University of Groningen →

Date:                  Thursday, 12 September 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:  The stark contrast between the conditions and prospects of the comfortably off citizens in affluent societies and the extreme poverty faced by much of the global population has led moral philosophers to consider what obligations … Continue reading Center for Political Philosophy (CPP) Colloquium: ‘Global Poverty, Injustice and Collectivization: a political approach to the duties of individuals’ →

Date: September 18, 2019 Location: Room HG-12A-33 Time: 15.30-17.00 Speaker: Prof. Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht University) Abstract: This paper starts from the premise that we all have individual climate duties, that is, duties not to  emit more than our fair share of net emissions, and then analyses the question what the implications are for our freedoms … Continue reading Colloquium: Climate duties, freedom and well-being →

October 16th Annabelle Dufourcq on her ERC proposal on animal subjectivity From 12.30 to 13.30 in EOS 01.140. "The main objective of this project is to foster the systematic recognition of animal subjectivity by enabling a methodical cross-fertilizing dialogue between phenomenology and animal sciences, thus making a vital contribution to the understanding and the furtherance … Continue reading Animal subjects. Phenomenology and animal sciences →

Op vrijdag 25 en zaterdag 26 oktober 2019 vindt het jaarlijkse symposium van het NGE (Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica) plaats in Eindhoven. De organisatie van het symposium (NGE i.s.m. vakgroep Architecture, Urban Design and Engineering, TUe) vindt voor een deel plaats binnen de context van de Dutch Design Week (www.ddw.nl). De kwaliteit van onze bebouwde … Continue reading Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica Symposium: Het probleem van het gebouw →

**Tilburg-Groningen Workshop on Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy**  The history of philosophy is generally presented as a history of male thinkers, and the history of analytic philosophy is no exception. From the birth of analytic philosophy to its maturing well into the twentieth century, female contributors formed a small minority and their work … Continue reading Workshop on Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy →