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(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 →
(Conference) Hegel’s Relevance Conference 2017
Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The NetherlandsConcepts of Normativity, Kant or Hegel? How to understand and esteem Kant’s concept of cosmological freedom in a historical and systematic perspective? By elaborating on this question, the Humboldt Kolleg takes up the contemporary interest in Kant and freedom as well as that for Kant’s philosophical predecessors and attempts at a reactualization of German idealists. … Continue reading (Conference) Hegel’s Relevance Conference 2017 →
(Seminar) What the Humanities teach us
Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The NetherlandsThe theme of the seminar is the epistemic status and relevance of the humanities within the university. It is widely felt that the humanities have something valuable to offer to its students, to academia, and to the life of the mind in general: wisdom, certain sorts of insights, a sense of value and meaning. Still, … Continue reading (Seminar) What the Humanities teach us →
OZSW Comparative and Global Philosophy Study Group
Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The NetherlandsDate: May 3, 2016: 17:30—19:30 (approximately) Location: Vrije Universiteit (VU): Faculty of Theology 2E 31/33. (Main Building: floor 2E)----Please go to the Faculty of Theology (2E-05) and use touch screen to call André van der Braak for entrance). Agenda: (Re)Introductions. Updates on our current projects. Announcements relevant to the group as a whole (conferences, talks … Continue reading OZSW Comparative and Global Philosophy Study Group →
CONFERENCE “PSYCHIATRY BEYOND SCIENTISM: EXPLORATORY MODELS, PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES, AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXTS”
Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The NetherlandsPSYCHIATRY BEYOND SCIENTISM: EXPLORATORY MODELS, PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES, AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXTS January 22-24, 2015 VU University Amsterdam Confirmed speakers: Denny Borsboom (University of Amsterdam) John Campbell (UC Berkeley) Bill Fulford (University of Warwick) Mona Gupta (Université de Montréal) Gerben Meynen (Tilburg University) Erik Rietveld (University of Amsterdam) John Sadler (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) This international three-day conference investigates the role and … Continue reading CONFERENCE “PSYCHIATRY BEYOND SCIENTISM: EXPLORATORY MODELS, PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES, AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXTS” →
Masterclass on ‘Scientism and Its Critics’
Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The NetherlandsJanuary 23: Masterclass on ‘Scientism and Its Critics’ VU University Amsterdam 14.00h-19.00h (including dinner) This master class is an opportunity for a small group of research MA students, PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers to explore the nature and tenability of scientism as an epistemological position under the guidance of and in discussion with some of … Continue reading Masterclass on ‘Scientism and Its Critics’ →
International conference: All you need is science? Scientism and our multifaceted knowledge of reality
Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The NetherlandsInternational conference: All you need is science? Scientism and our multifaceted knowledge of reality Dates: January 23–25, 2014 Hosting institution: VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Keynote Speakers Susan Haack (University of Miami) James Ladyman (University of Bristol) Alexander Rosenberg (Duke University) Michael Stenmark (Uppsale University) Conference Theme This conference is meant to explore the nature … Continue reading International conference: All you need is science? Scientism and our multifaceted knowledge of reality →
Conference on “Analysis and Synthesis – Philosophical Method and Scientific Methodology in Ancient and Medieval Thought”
Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The NetherlandsAnalysis and Synthesis – Philosophical Method and Scientific Methodology in Ancient and Medieval Thought On December 18-21 2013 the Faculty of Philosophy of VU University Amsterdam will host a conference on analysis and synthesis, organised by Wouter Goris and Marije Martijn in collaboration with Theo Kobusch (Bonn). You can find the programme and all other … Continue reading Conference on “Analysis and Synthesis – Philosophical Method and Scientific Methodology in Ancient and Medieval Thought” →
Workshop ‘Reciprocity and Exception’
Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The NetherlandsOp vrijdag 30 augustus is er een workshop met en rond het werk van David Dyzenhaus, hoogleraar Rechtsfilosofie aan de Universiteit van Toronto. Tijdens de workshop worden twee artikelen van Dyzenhaus besproken: een artikel over de betekenis van legaliteit onder uitzonderlijke omstandigheden en een ander artikel over het gezag van de wet in het denken … Continue reading Workshop ‘Reciprocity and Exception’ →
Summer Seminar in Science and the Big Questions
Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, North Holland, The NetherlandsSummer Seminar in Science and the Big Questions August 19-23, VU University Amsterdam The Abraham Kuyper Center for Science and Religion at VU University Amsterdam hosts a Summer Seminar on Science and the Big Questions. Well known experts will give lectures and debate each other in the following areas: * cognitive science of religion * … Continue reading Summer Seminar in Science and the Big Questions →
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.