Programme 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 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 →

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 →