Academic Philosophy Events in the Netherlands
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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’
Radboud University EOS 01.140 Heyendaalseweg 141, Nijmegen, NetherlandsDuring 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’
OZSW Conference 2019
One-Day Symposium ‘The Morality of War’
Grotius Building, Montessorilaan 9 Nijmegen, Radboud University Montessorilaan 9, Nijmegen, Zuid-Holland, NetherlandsDate: 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’
Mini-workshop on the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Roeterseiland Campus Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, AmsterdamProgramme 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
‘WOMEN IN PARENTHESIS’ AT THE VU AMSTERDAM
VU Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, Free University Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands De Boelelaan 1105, Free University Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands‘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
Lunch Seminar: Conscious Reflection versus Embodied Habits: Human Cognition From a Nonhuman Perspective
Radboud University EOS 01.140 Heyendaalseweg 141, Nijmegen, NetherlandsConscious 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
Tilburg University TilburgFIRST 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
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.