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1 | PRISM Talk Series (Ep. 07) "The Courage to Be Anxious: Heidegger’s 'Weg/Da' Game" Online Talk by Prof. Frank Ruda (University of Dundee) | 12 December 2025 | 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CET 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EST | PRISM Talk Series Munich School of Philosophy | Register free of charge vie Pretix: https://pretix.eu/prismtalkseries/prism-talk-7/c/5s3eR16Ki/ | Frank Ruda is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee. His work combines Hegelianism with historical and contemporary continental philosophy and engages with questions of freedom, subjectivity, justice, and social change. Among his key publications are Hegel’s Rabble (2011) and Indifference and Repetition (2023). The talk explores Martin Heidegger’s largely neglected philosophy of courage. In his 1927 Being and Time, Heidegger claims at one point that the fallenness to which any Dasein is prone is accompanied by a lack of a proper world. This manifests itself as the reign of the anonymous "They" [Man] and in the absence of what Heidegger calls "the courage to be anxious" [Mut zur Angst]. The lecture shows how having a world is ultimately thinkable only under the condition of a peculiar readiness to lose it – something Heidegger describes as Weg-sein, a being-not-there. Losing the world (in the right way) thus becomes the very condition for having one at all. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | In Potency and in Actuality: A Discussion of Dialectical and Psychological Aspects of Plotinus’ Philosophy of Mind | 14 November 2025 | 12:00–1:00 PM (EST) | Institute of Philosophy and Technology | https://ipt.gr/talk-series/gabriel-martino/ | Plotinus is arguably the most influential philosopher of Late Antiquity, and one of his greatest contributions lies in the field of the philosophy of mind. This dimension of his thought is both innovative and deeply rooted in the achievements and aporiai of his predecessors. In this talk, we examine the human intellective faculty in Plotinus’ philosophy, focusing on how he develops the concept of the undescended soul as a response to problems previously posed within the Platonic tradition. In particular, we contrast his views with those found in the Didaskalikos of Alcinous, an early attempt to systematize Plato’s thought with a distinctly Aristotelian imprint. Alcinous’ Didaskalikos presents two conflicting Platonic models regarding the soul’s relationship with the intelligible: one presupposes direct contemplation of the Ideas prior to embodiment, while the other appears to permit an ascent to the Good even while the soul is embodied. Plotinus, in turn, proposes a reconciliatory and innovative solution through his doctrine of the undescended soul, which involves an inward turn, not toward individual subjectivity, but toward a shared and stable truth. Through this inward movement, the human soul gains access to the universal Intelligence (nous), which is identical in all and common to everyone. Plotinus’ approach seeks to resolve a major interpretative tension within (Middle) Platonism, while also rejecting the exclusivist soteriology of contemporary religious movements. Although it establishes an epistemological framework fully consistent with his metaphysical and psychological doctrines, it challenges earlier understandings of Plato and would later be questioned by his successors. | Faidra Alevizou | |||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | PRISM Talk Series (Ep. 06) "The Time of Monsters: Crisis, Subjectivity, and Struggle Today” Online Talk by Prof. Alenka Zupančič (ZRC SAZU) | 01 Oct 2025 | 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CEST 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT | PRISM Talk Series Munich School of Philosophy | Register free of charge via pretix: https://pretix.eu/prismtalkseries/prism-talk-6/c/4evvUtEtS/ | Prof. Dr. Alenka Zupančič is a Research Advisor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) and a leading voice of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis. Her work brings Lacanian theory into dialogue with thinkers such as Nietzsche, Kant, and Hegel to rethink questions of ethics, sexuality, and ontology. Her key books include The Shortest Shadow (2003), The Odd One In (2008), and What IS Sex? (2017). Her latest monograph, Disavowal (2024), examines the dynamics of denial and contradiction in contemporary political crises. Her talk takes Antonio Gramsci’s line, "the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters," as its point of departure to address today’s serial crises: pandemics, wars, and economic turmoil - all under the shadow of global warming. Zupančič examines these "monsters" through philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis, extending arguments from her book Disavowal. She asks whether this "time of monsters" is not just a transitional phase but rather the new world itself, and she reflects on the forms of subjectivity and struggle that the present historical moment implies, enables, or forecloses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Toward a Metaphysical Anthropology by Prof. Predrag Cicovacki | 19 Sep 2025 | 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm IST | https://www.unigoa.ac.in/dept/school-of-sanskrit-philosophy-and-indic-studies.html | https://philevents.org/event/show/139538 | After years of struggling with how to provide a needed structure for a philosophical examination of what it means to be and live like a human being, I have come to believe that we should organize it around four pillars of human existence: personality, values, interactions, and transcendence. In a nutshell, these pillars deal with the following issues: 1. Personality, which centers on the problem of identity: how can we integrate our general humanity with our irreplaceable uniqueness? 2. Values, which are concerned with the problem of orientation: how to find our way in the complex flow of reality? What is right and what is wrong, and how can we tell them apart? 3. Interactions, which deal with the problem of community, with living together, through exchanges and common rituals: how can we form societies that are not mere aggregates of people? 4. Transcendence, which boils down to our commitments: What are our ultimate bonds? What do we hold as most sacred? I call this novel and ambitious project “metaphysical anthropology.” It is not an attempt to establish a new philosophical discipline (like “philosophical anthropology”) but to outline a new paradigm of a reflective and responsible, interactive and creative life. In my lecture, I want to explain these four pillars and outline how metaphysical anthropology aims to find out not the truth about human beings but the truth of being human. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Unravelling the Colonial Lifeworld in Canada’s Prison Capital by Dr. Lisa Guenther | 22 Aug 2025 | 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm IST | https://www.unigoa.ac.in/dept/school-of-sanskrit-philosophy-and-indic-studies.html | https://philevents.org/event/show/139062 | The relation between colonialism and incarceration runs deep. It is not just a matter of certain laws, policies, or practices that could be changed without altering the basic structure of our lifeworld. Rather, the challenge is to transform the common-sense understandings of safety, harm, and responsibility built into the colonial world through the reduction of land to property, the defense of property with state violence, and the equation of justice with punishment. Anishinaabe legal scholar Aaron Mills disrupts colonial common sense with a simple but profound question: “As beneficiaries of settler supremacy, is citizenship premised on domination good enough for you?” Mills offers a decolonial interpretation of treaties as agreements for mutual aid, illuminating a pathway beyond the colonial lifeworld. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | PRISM Talk Series (Ep. 05) "Genius After Psychoanalysis: From Talent Myths to Productive Failure” Online Talk by Prof. K. Daniel Cho (Otterbein University) | 05 Aug 2025 | 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CEST 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT | PRISM Talk Series Munich School of Philosophy | Register free of charge via pretix: https://pretix.eu/prismtalkseries/prism-talk-05/c/GlqhLDNEj/ | 2. Values, which are concerned with the problem of orientation: how to find our way in the complex flow of reality? What is right and what is wrong, and how can we tell them apart? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Visualizing AI Alignment – CFP for AGI-2025 Workshop (Aug 10, Live + Virtual) | 10 Aug 2025 | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm | https://philevents.org/event/show/138058 | More info here: https://agi-conf.org/2025/workshops/ | 3. Interactions, which deal with the problem of community, with living together, through exchanges and common rituals: how can we form societies that are not mere aggregates of people? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | The Emancipatory Intent of Critical Theory: Jürgen Habermas and the Concept of Knowledge by Dr. Pius V Thomas | 25 July 2025 | 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm | https://www.unigoa.ac.in/dept/school-of-sanskrit-philosophy-and-indic-studies.html | https://philevents.org/event/show/138046 | 4. Transcendence, which boils down to our commitments: What are our ultimate bonds? What do we hold as most sacred? I call this novel and ambitious project “metaphysical anthropology.” It is not an attempt to establish a new philosophical discipline (like “philosophical anthropology”) but to outline a new paradigm of a reflective and responsible, interactive and creative life. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Machine Ethics and Reasoning (MERe) Workshop | 18 July 2025 | 11 AM to 5:30 PM EDT | Machine Ethics and Reasoning (MERe) Workshop - PhilEvents | More info and registration here: https://forms.gle/RtBHFsCGEpzTR6tN7 | In my lecture, I want to explain these four pillars and outline how metaphysical anthropology aims to find out not the truth about human beings but the truth of being human. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | From Ascriptive Ethics to Human Dignity: A Reappraisal of Indian Moral Thought by Prof. P. Kesava Kumar Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi | 27 June 2025 | 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm IST | https://www.unigoa.ac.in/dept/school-of-sanskrit-philosophy-and-indic-studies.html | https://philevents.org/event/show/137169 | India possesses a remarkably rich and diverse heritage of ethical thought. However, the dominant discourse on Indian ethics has often been narrowly framed through the lens of the Vedic tradition, particularly the framework of Purusharthas and Varnashrama Dharma. This model, historically central to Hindu philosophy, has served to legitimize social hierarchies, including untouchability, slavery, and other forms of structural inequality. Rather than promoting a moral society grounded in human dignity and self-respect, this system has institutionalized segregation, marginalization, and dehumanization. Alternative philosophical traditions, notably the Śramanas, emerged in opposition to this casteand birth-based ethical system. These traditions questioned the moral legitimacy of social stratification and offered more egalitarian visions of human flourishing. Despite this, manymodern scholars have continued to uphold the Purushartha–Varnashrama model without a sufficient critical examination of its ethical content and social implications. In comparison with Western ethical theories, scholars like McKenzie argued that while the West developed systematic ethical philosophies, Hindu thought emphasized dharma rather than ethics. In response, prominent Indian philosophers such as S. Radhakrishnan, M. Hiriyanna, and T.M.P. Mahadevan sought to defend dharma-based ethics by grounding them in metaphysical and spiritual ideals. For these thinkers, ethics in the Indian tradition is not concerned primarily with worldly happiness or moral virtue, but with guiding the individual toward a transcendent experience that is supramoral and supramental. As Radhakrishnan succinctly stated, “the perfect ideal of our life is found only in the eternal Reality.” This tension—between ascribed moral ideals rooted in metaphysical absolutism and the lived experiences of social exclusion—defines the core of the debate on Indian ethics. In contrast to the dominant model, an alternative philosophical and ethical discourse has developed, one that centers human dignity, self-respect, and the moral autonomy of individuals. This shift marks a movement in Indian ethical thinking: from varna to virtue, from subjugation to the celebration of personhood. Modern Indian thinkers such as Jotirao Phule, E.V. Ramasamy Periyar, and B.R. Ambedkar contributed significantly to this tradition. By interrogating and challenging the dominant ethical paradigms, they laid the foundation for a more inclusive and humanistic vision of Indian ethics. | Diksha Rai | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | (Re)thinking propositions : themes from Robert Stalnaker International conference | 19, 20, 21 June 2025 | 13h30 - 18h20, 13h - 17h30 and 13h - 17h55 (Paris time UTC+1) | Faculté des Lettres of Sorbonne Université, UMR 8011 "Sciences, Normes et Démocratie" and the ENS-PSL, UMR 8241 République des Savoirs, ED 540 | https://republique-des-savoirs.fr/events/event/colloque-rethinking-propositions-themes-from-robert-stalnaker/ | We are pleased to announce that an international conference titled “(Re)thinking propositions : themes from Robert Stalnaker” will be held in english on the afternoons of the 19th and 20th of June 2025 at Sorbonne Université and on the 21st of June 2025 at the École Normale Supérieure. We’ll have the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Stalnaker, who will give a lecture on the first day. You can find the program here: https://republique-des-savoirs.fr/events/event/colloque-rethinking-propositions-themes-from-robert-stalnaker/ It will also be possible to attend parts, or all, of the conference via the videoconference platform Zoom. If you wish to participate online, you can send an email to the organisers : Pierre Prodromidès : pierre.prodromides@sorbonne-universite.fr Lucas Escobar : lucas.escobar@ens.psl.eu Rayan Geha : rayan.geha@sorbonne-universite.fr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | PRISM Talk Series (Ep. 04) "Affirming an Alienated Public: Rethinking Identity, Solidarity, and Emancipation” Online Talk by Prof. Todd McGowan (University of Vermont) | 18 June 2025 | 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CEST 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT | PRISM Talk Series Munich School of Philosophy | Register free of charge via pretix: https://pretix.eu/prismtalkseries/prism-talk-04/c/0s7OsuNee/ | Todd McGowan is Professor of English and Director of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont. His work sits at the crossroads of Hegelian philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and film studies. He is the author of Pure Excess (2024), Embracing Alienation (2024), and the widely discussed Emancipation After Hegel (2019). Building on Embracing Alienation, the lecture offers a fresh look at alienation and its political stakes. Whereas alienation is usually treated as a social ill, McGowan argues that it can be emancipatory. Attempts to eliminate it, he contends, weaken the public sphere by erasing the inner distance that separates us from assigned social identities. Recognizing that distance—through insights from psychoanalytic theory and dialectical thought—reveals a universal bond and opens pathways to solidarity across cultural and social divides. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Panel Discussion: Midwifery, Liberation, and the Captive Maternal - An open event during the Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop | 5 June 2025 | 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. EST | Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop | Register for the Zoom Link Here: https://forms.gle/QcWe1rNhTFgBtXBJ8 | This panel brings Joy James' theoretical work into dialogue with student midwives, doulas, and birth workers focused on liberation. The birth justice movement within midwifery-launched primarily by Black midwives' resistance to oppressive systems and racism in predominantly white organizations--continues the legacy of traditional Black and Indigenous midwifery as a form of resistance to obstetric racism and state violence. Panelists include: Najala Espinosa, Melady Elifritz, Nakia Woods, Jasmine Krapf, Kristina Marie, Jazmine Britton, and Amariee. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | AUTONOMY OF LANGUAGE AND THE QUEST FOR TRUTH: A HERMENEUTIC ENQUIRY - An online talk by Prof. Sreekumar Nellickappilly Professor of Philosophy Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras | 25 April 2025 | 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm IST | https://www.unigoa.ac.in/dept/school-of-sanskrit-philosophy-and-indic-studies.html | https://philevents.org/event/show/135361 | The distinction between mythos and logos has significantly shaped how the European philosophical tradition conceives truth and knowledge. Since the Enlightenment, truth and knowledge have become increasingly associated—almost exclusively—with methodical, rational thought, while other forms of language were pushed to the margins, deemed incapable of making legitimate claims about them. Both Hans-Georg Gadamer and, before him, Martin Heidegger were trying to demonstrate that these alternative modes of speaking could not only convey meaning and truth, but that analysing them could offer profound insights into the very nature of truth and meaning. This points to the possibility of conceiving language as an autonomous sphere, where the relationship between language and being is not representational or referential. Gadamer’s hermeneutical description of the relationship between poetical and religious texts demonstrates how language works in such texts to establish their autonomous status. They are “….texts which interpret themselves insofar as one needs no additional information about the occasion and the historical circumstances of their composition.” The philosophical analysis of language’s potential to be ‘autonomous’ and consequently of its ability in uncovering reality reveal that the world that we experience is given to us as organized by linguisticaly articulated social pattern. The concept of language as autonomous not only questions core assumptions about how language relates to reality, but also reshapes our understanding of human nature and our relationship with reality. | Diksha Rai | |||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Care in the plexus of the contradictions between production and social reproduction: Reflections from Argentina Paula Varela (Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires) | 25 March 2025 | 11:00am to 12:30pm EST | https://www.cpcsymposium.com/event-details/care-in-the-plexus-of-the-contradictions-between-production-and-social-reproduction-reflections-from-argentina | https://philevents.org/event/show/131566 | In this talk, I will draw on the Marxist approach to Social Reproduction Theory to point out three fundamental concerns for the discussion of care today. First, it is not possible to think of either care or social reproduction struggles separately from what happens in the sphere of production of goods and services. Second, the current crisis of social reproduction forces us to look at the terrains in which this differentiated unity manifests its contradictions and configures potential nodes of struggles for the reproduction of the working class. In this sense, I differentiate three types of struggles for social reproduction: a) struggles of institutionalized social reproduction, b) struggles involving women workers in unpaid social reproduction work, particularly women’s work in the household and communities, which have been highlighted, in particular, by the International Women’s Strike that has been taking place since 2017, worldwide; c) struggles whose demands are directly related to the possibility of the reproduction of life. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Giorgi and the Qualitative Methods in Phenomenology - An online talk by Dr. Susi Ferrarello Associate Professor, Philosophy California State University, East Bay | 28 March 2025 | 7:30pm to 9:30 pm IST | https://www.unigoa.ac.in/dept/school-of-sanskrit-philosophy-and-indic-studies.html | https://philevents.org/event/show/133998 | The talk explores the diverse phenomenological methods employed in qualitative research, emphasizing their adaptability and depth in examining lived experiences. I will focus in particular on Giorgi’s method. Phenomenology, characterized by its dynamic and evolving nature, provides flexible tools that transcend static frameworks, enabling researchers to engage with the complexities of human existence within its contextual life-world. Key approaches, including life-world oriented, post-intentional, hermeneutic, and transcendental phenomenology, are discussed, each offering unique insights into phenomena such as identity, grief, and embodiment. By comparing these methods, the talk highlights their strengths and limitations, emphasizing the importance of ethical reflexivity and openness in phenomenological inquiry. Ultimately, this exploration emphasizes phenomenology's role in bridging science and humanity, fostering a richer understanding of human experiences. | Diksha Rai | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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18 | Plotinus: The First Philosopher of the Unconscious | 17 February 2025 | 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET | Institute of Philosophy and Technology | https://ipt.gr/talk-series/john-hendrix/ | Faidra Alevizou | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | "On the Foundations of the Tractatus Logical Atomism" — Hybrid talk, by Pasquale Frascolla (University of Naples Federico II) | December 3, 2024 | 10:15am - 12:15pm (CET) | DISPOC, University of Siena | https://unisi.webex.com/meet/salvatore.pistoiareda | Antonio Negro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | "Well-formedness is meaningfulness: Exploring an old idea" — Hybrid talk, by Tue Trinh (ZAS, Berlin) | November 27, 2024 | 10:15am - 12:15pm (CET) | DISPOC, University of Siena | https://unisi.webex.com/meet/salvatore.pistoiareda | https://philevents.org/event/show/128790 | Antonio Negro | |||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | The Metaphysics of Memes | 21 November 2024 | 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Time (ET) | Institute of Philosophy and Technology | https://ipt.gr/talk-series/prashantkumar/ | This talk explores the metaphysical dimensions of memes, deciphering their ontological status, modes of existence, and their capacity for shaping human consciousness in a new digital era. The discussion runs around the concept of memes as abstract informational entities, constructing its teleo-ontological reality between mental and virtual. By evaluating their role(s) in shaping human consciousness, collective identity and their collective consciousness, and in turn framing ground for a new “reality”, the study interrogates whether memes possess intrinsic meaning or whether their construction is entirely context-dependent. Conclusively, the metaphysical investigation of memes offers a novel framework for considering how digital information reshapes ontological categories and challenges classical metaphysical distinctions. | Faidra Alevizou | |||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Knowledge-How and Understanding international conference | October 23 & 24, 2024 | 9h45 - 18h and 13h30 - 18h (Paris time UTC +1) | Faculté des Lettres of Sorbonne Université and the UMR 8011 "Sciences, Normes, Démocratie" | https://philevents.org/event/show/127678 | Conference Knowledge-How and Understanding We inform you that an international conference titled “Knowledge-How and Understanding” will be held in English on the 23rd and the 24th of October 2024 at Sorbonne Université (site Sorbonne and site Maison de la Recherche). You can find the program here : https://snd.sorbonne-universite.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ProgrammeKnowledgeUnderstanding-151024.pdf To request the zoom link, you can email one of the organizers . Contacts : rayan.geha@sorbonne-universite.fr jean-baptiste.rauzy@sorbonne-universite.fr This conference is organized with the support of the Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne Université and the UMR 8011 “Sciences, Normes, Démocratie”. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Classical Transhumanism versus Euro-Transhumanism by Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (John Cabot University) | 17 October 2024 (Thursday) | 1.00 - 2.00 PM (ET) | Institute of Philosophy and Technology (IPT) | registration form here - https://ipt.gr/talk-series/sorgner/ | Many critics of transhumanism conceptualize transhumanists as blood-sucking Silicon Valley vampires who want to become immortal by downloading their personalities onto hard drives. I wish to highlight that this widely shared prejudice concerning transhumanism does not consider the enormous variety of transhumanist approaches. A significant distinction exists between classical transhumanism and Euro-Transhumanism, which I will present in my talk. In doing so, I will highlight twelve fundamental tensions between these two approaches. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | "The New Romantic Right: Jorge Portilla on the Spiritual Roots of Fascism" Online talk by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Francisco Gallegos (Wake Forest University) | 15 October (Tuesday) | 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (ET) | Munich School of Philosophy, Germany | please register in advance here: https://hfph-de.zoom-x.de/j/65962028243?pwd=akCPOStqWJSBYQr7SCo8CY8N6ypgET.1 | Dr. Francisco Gallegos is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, specializing in phenomenology, the philosophy of emotions, and Latin American philosophy. His research explores the personal, social, and political dimensions of emotions, integrating Latinx perspectives to offer innovative insights. In light of the forthcoming 2024 United States presidential election, Dr. Gallegos will discuss how the contemporary far right can be seen as a continuation of a Romantic intellectual tradition and will address the implications this has for democratic discourse and its institutions. To this end, he will analyze Mexican phenomenologist Jorge Portilla's (1919–1963) account of German National Socialism and its connections to German Romanticism, particularly the dangers of irrationalism that Portilla identified in his essay "Thomas Mann and German Irrationalism" (1958). | Seraphin Frimmer | |||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | "Doing Philosophy in Contemporary India" Online talk by Prof. A. Raghuramaraju, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Tirupati | 27 September (Friday) | 3:30PM-5:30PM(IST) | https://www.unigoa.ac.in/dept/school-of-sanskrit-philosophy-and-indic-studies.html | https://philevents.org/event/show/126602 | Doing philosophy in contemporary India, is necessary to distinguish between doing readily available philosophy and making philosophy ready. Extending the latter by following Nargarjunacharya, Dharmakeerti, and Adi Shankaracharya from India, St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine from the West, it is helpful to identify great ideas in the writings of modern Indian writers and build a philosophical system. In addition, like the Purva paksha in Western and Indian philosophy, identify the immediate Purva Paksha in contemporary Indian philosophy. Critically rallying around the works of Indian social scientists and modern Indian philosophers will provide a broader understanding of the theories in India. It is also helpful to calibrate Indian philosophers with Western philosophers without committing a temporary imbalance. Excavating the neglected yet creative philosophical texts from modern India can enrich the philosophy domain and create philosophical platforms to bring debates on modern Indian thinkers into the discussion, which can bring dynamism to the discipline. | Siya Sangodkar | |||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | "Collectives with Intentions of their Own" Online talk by Associate Professor, Bhaskarjit Neog, Centre for Philosophy,JNU | 31 August (Saturday) | 3:30PM-5:30PM(IST) | https://www.unigoa.ac.in/dept/school-of-sanskrit-philosophy-and-indic-studies.html | https://philevents.org/event/show/125958 | The thought that collectives can be the bearers of intentional states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions is a controversial one. How is it that an entity that does not have any mind or brain of its own can have intentional states in the strict sense of the term? In this talk, I make an effort to understand collective entities as the proper bearer of intentions with the help of some of the latest literature in social ontology and philosophy of action and mind. My primary task is to articulate collective intentions as the intentions of collectives by appealing to a strong conceptual interconnection between intentions on the one hand and the collective on the other. Emphasizing on the explanatory role of the phenomenon of collectivity in the constitution of collective intentions, I show how we can legitimately attribute intentions to collectives for doing or failing to do a morally relevant action. Throughout the analysis, I firmly maintain my commitment towards a non-individualist approach. | Siya Sangodkar | |||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | "Species-Life and Ethical Life: Hegel on Individual and Social Reproduction” Online talk by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Karen Ng (Vanderbilt University) | 12 August 2024 (Monday) | 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (ET) | Munich School of Philosophy, Germany | please register in advance here: https://hfph-de.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u5wtde2qpj0pHNaY4mTsPAuVNgvpbWbcVqd2 | Despite often being set up as both philosophical and political opponents, Hegel and Marx both argued that our historical forms of life could only be understood in connection with our existence as both living and social beings. Contrary to the common contrast between “idealism” and “materialism,” both thinkers understood history as an outgrowth of the processes of life, an idea that takes on new and urgent salience today given our present ecological crisis. In 2020, Dr. Karen Ng published "Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic" with Oxford University Press. The book won the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize in 2021. Continuing to build on themes from her book, Dr. Ng will discuss the importance of Hegel’s account of species-life for understanding, evaluating, and transforming ethical life towards greater forms of individual and social freedom. In the twenty-first century, questions of social change and social reproduction cannot ignore the fact that human beings are a living species among living species, one that at present, is undermining the conditions of life as such. | Seraphin Frimmer | |||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | "Vikramśilā University: A Glorious Past of Ancient India" Online guest lecture by Dr. Gyan Prakash(Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad) | 25 July 2024 (Thursday) | 3:00 -5:00 PM IST | Goa University: School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies | https://philevents.org/event/show/125134 | Modern science and technology took centuries to evolve, and myriads of scholars (even anonymous scholars) have contributed to that evolution.Science is, in conformity with its historical evolvement, an organized knowledge, which is why the history of science is an indispensable part of science education. Indian society has a rich cultural heritage of science and technology that can be easily traced back to ancient India’s educational institutions, for instance, the contribution of The Buddhist alchemical tantra in the area of chemistry. In this presentation, I will attempt to comprehend the nature of scientific studies in Vikramśilā of ancient India, which was a premier institution of learning. This university has contributed in many areas of science and philosophy. | Siya Sangodkar | |||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | "Navigating Moral Dilemmas in Digital Motherhood" Online guest lecture by Dr. Suyasha Singh Isser (Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Social Sciences, Amity University, Noida, India) | 28 June 2024 (Friday) | 3:00 – 5:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/124266 | This paper explores the impact of the digital age on motherhood, focusing on moral dilemmas related to self-comparison on social media, second-guessing parenting practices, and balancing intuition with technological reliance. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into parenting practices offers significant benefits, such as enhanced access to information and personalized support, but also poses challenges, including privacy risks and potential over-reliance on technology. Care ethics, as articulated by Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings, provides a framework for addressing these challenges. Key principles such as relational interdependence, empathy, and moral responsibility are emphasized to ensure AI technologies support rather than undermine mothers' well-being. Ethical AI development should prioritize transparency, inclusivity, data minimization, and empowerment through education. By applying care ethics, AI can be a tool for empowerment, promoting digital literacy, and fostering a more inclusive and equitable digital landscape for mothers. Understanding these dilemmas is crucial for supporting mothers during their transition to parenthood, helping them develop confidence in their parenting abilities and maintain their mental health. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | "Selection of a Journal for Research Publication" Online guest lecture by Dr. Murari P. Tapaswi (Chief Scientist (Retired), CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India) | 30 April 2024 (Tuesday) | 3:00 – 6:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/121826 | Since mid-2019, white lists of journals under the banner 'UGC-CARE List' have been in place to guide the researchers in which journals they should publish their research results. However, one needs to understand well, especially while consulting group II lists, since not all items within the list are recognized by UGC-CARE. These lists are dynamic. Journals get added and removed. It is therefore important to know which journal is likely to last long on the lists. There are some additional parameters to make a decision on which of the lists suit best for your area of expertise and how would you short-list the best journal for your publication. The 'Open Access journals' was introduced sometime in the last decade of the 20th century. That has given birth to the predatory and hijacked/cloned journals. A researcher needs to understand how to identify these and distance from them. The talk ends with some AI tools that help in identifying the right journal for your research. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | "Philosophy of Space(s)" Online guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Stephan Günzel (Professor of Media Theory and Cultural Theory, University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE), Berlin) | 19 March 2024 (Tuesday) | 4:00 – 6:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/120938 | Based on the modern understanding of space in Western philosophy (since Immanuel Kant), this lecture examines the relationship between the representation of space and spatial experience. It takes a position that questions the idea of a single concept of space (e.g. in the physical sense) and instead posits a dialectical relationship between the representation and the perception of space. Beyond Kant, this is done through the writings of the French philosopher Henri Lefebvre on "The Production of Space" (originally published in 1974). Following Nelson Goodman's semiotics, a further distinction is made between two forms of representation, namely denotation and exemplification. This distinction will be illustrated by taking the experience of space in computer games as a possible form of exemplification of different conceptions of space. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Tensions between Indigenous and Western Philosophies: Latin America Encountering Europe and Christianity | 22 March 2024 | 3-4:30 p.m. (MDT) | St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta, and the Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta | To register by Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsd-CtpjooHtavntuUBxaz7jnAapfFhffi | Hybrid event: in person at St. Joseph's College Boardroom, University of Alberta. To attend by Zoom, please register. With Professor Pablo Irizar (Philosophy, Newman Theological College), Professor Jorge Sanchez Perez (Philosophy, University of Alberta); moderated by Professor Nathan Kowalsky (St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta) | Amy Schmitter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Ethical Limits and the Strict View of Academic Freedom | 08 April 2024 | 1-2pm ET | Ethical Limits of Academic Inquiry (A PPE Society Working Group) | https://ppesociety.org/ethical-limits-of-academic-inquiry-elai/#events | Over the past few years, the humanities and social sciences have been marked by repeated and polarizing controversies over what kinds of views should and shouldn’t be debated by scholars. Recent examples include Peter Singer’s views on disability and Kathleen Stock’s views on gender. Many scholars hold that some positions should not be defended or engaged with in print or at conferences. Others believe that, in academic inquiry, anything should be up for debate, such that we need to leave room for the offensive and the outrageous. The Ethical Limits of Academic Inquiry (ELAI) Working Group provides a space for the systematic, scholarly investigation of this meta-debate. While much recent scholarship has concerned itself with related topics, such as “cancel culture,” “free speech on campus,” and “no-platforming,” the difficult question of which views scholars should debate amongst themselves has received comparatively little attention in professional venues. | Lucy Schwarz | |||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | 2024 AAPAE Tertiary Ethics Olympiad | 10th October 2024 (9th Oct in the US) | 11am Aust EST | Ethics Olympiad | https://ethicsolympiad.org/?page_id=1458 | This event started as a university-based US initiative in 1993. The “Ethics Bowl” continues to be a popular competition today, culminating in the annual Intercollegiate US Ethics Bowl. The Ethics Olympiad was created in 2013 for gifted High School students to promote the study of Philosophy in Australasia. It has a proven track record of providing educators with a creative vehicle for developing skills in communication, critical thinking and respectful discourse while dealing with important ethical issues. We ran the first Tertiary Ethics Olympiad in 2022. This involved 10 tertiary teams and the top teams went on to participate in an online International final. In 2023 we entered into an arrangement with the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) which effectively renamed the event and provided institutional support for the event into the future. The AAPAE Ethics Olympiad will be held via Zoom on the 10th of October 2024. Undergraduate students are invited to represent their tertiary institution. Any tertiary institution can participate, but there is a maximum of two teams from each institution allowed to enter. During the day, all will be involved in a series of three heats where they will be scored according to set criteria that reward, clear, concise, respectful discourse around interesting ethical cases. Gold, Silver and Bronze medals will be awarded to the top three teams. Spectators are welcome. | Matthew Wills | |||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | International Middle School Ethics Olympiad | 21st February 2024 (20th February in the US) | 11.30am AustEST | Ethics Olympiad | https://ethicsolympiad.org/?page_id=65 | The Ethics Olympiad provides schools and universities with a platform to develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration and communication. It is designed to get students thinking and ultimately working together on some of the tough moral issues of our time. Our objective is to do more than just help them think through ethical issues: It provides a positive and constructive space to think through ethical issues together, as fellow citizens in a complex moral and political community. Qualifying teams from each regional Ethics Olympiad have been invited to represent their school, region, and country. Please note this event will be run online, and we are using the same cases as in regional events, but the questions asked of students will be different. Spectators are welcome but you will need to register on the Event Link. | Matthew Wills | |||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | The future of transformative journals in philosophy Online Seminar | January 17 | 18.00 CET | The Open Access working group (Sophia Crüwell, Chiara Lisciandra, David Teira), supported by BJPS, PSA, EPSA | https://blogs.uned.es/metis/12391-2/the-future-of-philosophy-journals/ | What is the future of philosophy journals? Many publishers (like Springer or Elsevier) have declared their journals “transformative”, hoping to transition to a Gold Open Access regime, in which all papers will be freely accessible, since their authors will have covered the costs with an Author Processing Charge. But while opening access to scientific publications enables a wider circulation of scientific work, this might come at the cost of hindering access to scientific contributions from authors, institutions, or countries with limited funding opportunities. European funding bodies, like the Coalition S, are now surveying the scientific community to grasp its views on this process. The Open Access working group (Sophia Crüwell, Chiara Lisciandra, David Teira), supported by the main scholarly societies in philosophy of science, has been studying this transition in consultation with publishers and journal editors. It presented its first report in a public discussion held at the EPSA 23 conference in Belgrade in September 2023. On January 17th, we will hold an online meeting focusing on the future of philosophy journals in the coming era of commercial open access. The 90 minute session will have a quick introductory overview of the situation, delivered by an expert librarian, followed by a panel discussion with four journal editors and an open debate with the participants. Throughout the discussion, we will reflect on the steps to take in response to current challenges, our options as editors, and prospects for developing alternative publishing models. Overall, the session will provide a critical examination of the evolving landscape of academic publishing in philosophy. | Chiara Lisciandra | |||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Recurring public philosophy event: "Philosophy for Lunch" - a close-read of select passages of consequential philosophy, on an eclectic set of topics (in-person but also livestreamed over Zoom) | 26 October (Almost every Thursday during fall and spring terms) | 11:30am-12:30pm Eastern Time | Philosophy Department, Montclair State University | https://www.montclair.edu/philosophy/philosophy-for-lunch/ | Sesions are in-person always, and mostly also livestreamed through Zoom (https://montclair.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrd-CoqzorG9XFAYHeMR09sZctM42eKiN-) Get on the email notification list through philosophy@montclair.edu; add sessions to your calendar with one of the following links: Google Cal subscribe link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0? cid=YTViYWJhMDc0OTY0YWU2MDgxYWM2ZWFhZjI0NGY2Nzc3NTFhYTM1MmMyN2QwNDIwOTIwZjBkODdkOTcxZDRjZUBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t Public URL to the calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=a5baba074964ae6081ac6eaaf244f677751aa352c27d0420920f0d87d971d4ce%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York iCal link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/a5baba074964ae6081ac6eaaf244f677751aa352c27d0420920f0d87d971d4ce%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics | Kirk McDermid, Chair | |||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | "Does Smartphone act like a Rosary?" Byung-Chul Han, Szymon Wróbel and Maggi Savin-Baden Online guest lecture by Prof. Prasenjit Biswas (Professor of Philosophy at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India) | 20 October 2023 (Friday) | 3:00 – 5:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/115750 | Big data, especially all personal data, is accumulated by surveillance platforms and acts as an all-time and all-out panopticon, argues Byung-Chul Han. He had allegorically put it as “smartphone as Rosary” where we confess before an invisible panopticon and also submit ourselves to such control and surveillance on our own free will. Buyng-Chul Han argued that we use our freedom to lose it in the name of being free to do so. The torture chambers are replaced by acceptance of surveillance where one simultaneously confesses and agrees to be watched over and regulated, which Byung-Chul Han termed as psychopolitical programming that uses new gadgets like smartphones to turn human subjects into willing manouverers and manipulators to enjoy the freedom of being surveilled. “Lateral surveillance“ keeps track of each others’ lives by way of mutually engaged spying for our own willing good of telepresence and in our postdigital life, as characterised by Maggi Savin-Baden and Szymon Wróbel. The presentation decodes this idea of willing acceptance of postdigital continuity and acceptance of surveillance as a way of life. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | "How I See Myself—Self-Portraits and Aesthetic and Epistemic Purism" Online guest lecture by Prof. Madhucchanda Sen (Professor of Philosophy at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India) | 6 October 2023 (Friday) | 3:00 – 5:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/115090 | In this paper, I intend to counter two kinds of Purism – Purism in Aesthetics and a kind of Epistemic Purism that seems to be prevalent in philosophical literature regarding Self-Knowledge and Self-Awareness. I take self-portraits as a case study that shows how these two kinds of Purism have to be doubtful. The Purism in Aesthetics that I am addressing here is a view that was held by Kant. He believed that aesthetic perception must be pure, that is, “free of all interest.” This view is unable to address self-portraits as a truly distinctive art form where the artist cannot be anonymous but is present with all his/her stories. Self-portraits may be seen as essentially a species of fiction and their aesthetic appreciation is an appreciation of these fictions that they embody. Do we indeed have a privileged and incorrigible access to ourselves? Are we indeed aware of a mere subjective presence? Epistemic Purism regarding self-awareness seems to suggest that we do indeed have a privileged and incorrigible access to ourselves and the things that are presented in such an awareness have to be a mere subjective presence. But if self-portraits are depictions of how one sees oneself, then the answer to these questions will be in the negative. I intend to make a brief study of self-portraits to show how Aesthetic Purism and Epistemic Purism regarding self-awareness cannot be correct. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Agency and Intentions in Language 4: Interdisciplinary (Virtual) Workshop | January 10–12, 2024; Deadline for Submission: Nov. 20. 2023 | 9h – 13h New York time or 15h – 19h Berlin time | Harvey Mudd College (virtual) Organizing Committee: Kyle Thompson (Harvey Mudd College) Joshua Knobe (Yale University) Julie Goncharov (University of Göttingen) | https://ail-workshop.github.io/AIL4-Workshop/ | Agency and Intentions in Language 4, Interdisciplinary (Virtual) Workshop. Harvey Mudd College (online). Workshop: January 10 – 12, 2024. Submission Deadline: Nov. 20, 2023. https://ail-workshop.github.io/AIL4-Workshop/ | Kyle Thompson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | "Three Distinct Phases of Buddhist Thought and Its Basic Thematic Unity" Online guest lecture by Prof. C.D. Sebastian (Professor in Indian Philosophy Philosophy Group, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Bombay, India) | 25 August 2023 (Friday) | 3:00 – 5:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/113798 | There are three distinct phases of Buddhist thought: the realistic phase, the critical phase and the idealistic phase which are represented by the Ābhidharmika, the Mādhyamika, and the Yogācāra –Vijñānavāda traditions respectively. The boundaries between the several phases are not sharply defined, and are, as is to be expected in any continuous tradition, overlapping. It is difficult to say where one phase ends and another emerges. However, these phases in the development of Buddhist thought are so evident, and "no one single school of Buddhism can claim to represent the essential unalloyed tradition." In spite of the diversity of doctrinal exegesis, disputes among minor sects, rivalry between the Theravāda and Mahāyāna, and varied phases of thought development, there is a basic thematic unity throughout the career of Buddhist thought. The basic unity which we speak of is translated into certain very central doctrines, which provide the leitmotiv, as it were, of the entire range of Buddhist thought. Three such key concepts could be singled out: Śūnyatā, Pratītya-samutpāda and Madhyamā Pratipa which could be translated as ‘emptiness,’ ‘dependent origination’ and ‘the middle path/way.’ The proposed talk is aimed at unraveling the philosophical trajectory of Buddhism, and not so much of its religious progression and offshoots. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | "Philosophy and Film" Online guest lecture by Dr. Amita Valmiki (Associate Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy, Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College of Arts, Science and Commerce (Autonomous), Mumbai, India Visiting Faculty at Department of Philosophy, University of Mumbai) | 28 July 2023 (Friday) | 3:00 – 5:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/113046 | The theories of film that philosophize films and place films at par with other forms of art require us to philosophize films not in a ‘so-called’ normal philosophical methodology, but employ the other faculty (of our mind) to theorize it. Films can, in fact, display philosophical concepts more clearly. In fact, if the ‘real’ comes clearly through documentaries, the ‘Real’ comes more precisely through feature films. Films are backed by film theories; to be more precise, film theories are in a better position to analyze films and can offer a reflective avenue to young minds. What does it mean to theorize films? Film theory is completely an academic field where films are generally categorized. The theories try to bring out the essence of film, exploring and investigating the various facets of cinema, to interpret cinema, and to bring out its relevant connection to reality. It also tries to bring forth the Socratic ‘concept’, Platonic ‘idea’ and Aristotelian ‘form’ of cinema. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | "The Unsettled Ground of Phenomenological Inquiry" Online guest lecture by Dr. Michael van Manen (Director, John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta) | 23 June 2023 (Friday) | 7:30 – 9:30 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/112270 | For the reader of qualitative research, phenomenological research at times may appear amorphous, varied, or even ambiguous. This is, without a doubt, in part, a consequence of the perfunctory popularization and cursory adaption of the phenomenological notion lived experience by writers who variably identify themselves as pursuing phenomenological research. For some, this term expresses little more than attending to an experience that an individual has lived through—contributing to confusion. And yet, the preoccupation of phenomenological inquiry is fundamentally deeper, exploring human experience in itself in its meaningfulness. The focus of this presentation will be to explore the ground of phenomenological inquiry and also its possibility for generating insights. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | "Exploring the hidden side of lived experience through Micro-phenomenology" Online guest lecture by Dr. Claire Petitmengin (Professor Emerita at Mines-Télécom Institute Business School (IMT-BS) Member of the Archives Husserl, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) | 21 April 2023 (Friday) | 7:30 – 9:30 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/109989 | What's happening when an idea comes to us? When we listen to a course, read or write an article? When we discover an artwork, listen to a piece of music, breathe a perfume, or enter a forest? As cognitive science has shown very convincingly, a large part of these phenomena, which constitute the very texture of our existence, escape awareness and verbal description, and have thus far been excluded from scientific investigation. However, these difficulties do not mean that our experience is out of reach. They mean that accessing it requires a particular expertise, which consists in carrying out specific acts. Micro-phenomenology is a new scientific discipline aiming at triggering such acts. It enables us to discover ordinary inaccessible dimensions of our lived experience and describe them very accurately and reliably. The development of this "psychological microscope" opens vast fields of investigation in the educational, technological, clinical and therapeutic, artistic, as well as ecological and contemplative domains. Notably, it enables us to explore a deeply-reflective, transmodal and gestural dimension of our experience that seems to play an essential role in the process of emergence of any meaning and understanding. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | "What is the History of Philosophy?": a Roundtable Discussion, with Professors Robert Burch, Matthew Kostelecky, Amy Schmitter, Jack Zupko; moderated by Professor Marie-Eve Morin | 24 March 2023 | 3:00-4:30 (MDT; UCT -6:00) | St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta, and the Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta | https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsc-itrjoiHd21PdooKs_pKQsRgJwV5O9o (Registration required) | The Question: It is difficult to articulate just what ‘the history of philosophy’ is. Is it an account of aggregate thinkers from the past? Who gets included or excluded from the ‘history of philosophy’? Why? Is it an integral part of what makes ‘philosophy’ philosophy? If so, in what sense? Did past philosophers who engaged with previous philosophy, like Aristotle, Confucius, Ibn Sina, Hegel, Heidegger, and de Beauvoir, themselves engage in project of ‘the history of philosophy’ as we understand it? Essentially, what is ‘the history of philosophy’? https://www.ualberta.ca/st-josephs/newsandevents/2023/what-is-the-history-of-philosophy.html | Amy Schmitter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | "A Ricoeurian Approach to Hermeneutics of Architecture" Online guest lecture by Dr. Luís António Umbelino (Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal Honorary Professor, International Institute for Hermeneutics) | 24 February 2023 (Friday) | 3:00 – 5:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/108013 | In the contemporary configuration of the stimulating field of Hermeneutics of Space, Paul Ricoeur’s approach to architecture and the historical, social, and narrative condition of human existence is of indisputable importance. Architecture (that is to say, the narrative prefiguration, configuration, and refiguration of built, humanized spaces) is a fundamental chapter of a hermeneutics of space as the latter can be pursued, with particularly convincing results, along Ricoeur’s phenomenological hermeneutic path. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | The Sublimity of Unrequited Love w/ Alexandra Gustafson | February 14th | 12:00 PM ET | The Stoa | https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMufu-rpz4qEtZpHn90iCtC7VghWawFsuLz | Those who have loved unrequitedly know: unrequited love hurts! What’s more, it tends to hang around. This being the case, what ought the unrequited lover do? In this talk, I’ll argue that the unrequited lover has good reason to embrace their love, adopting an “attitude of affirmation” toward it. This is because all love is sublime, in the Kantian sense. | Peter Limberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Urban Injustices: normative ideas and practices - Hybrid Workshop | 13-15 February 2023 | 9:00 am (UTC-3) | Center for Metropolitan Studies (Cepid/Fapesp), University of São Paulo (USP) and Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning | www.urbaninjustices.com | This interdisciplinary workshop seeks to establish a forum for novel academic debates by associating concepts and theories in contemporary political philosophy with empirical claims raised by groups that suffer urban injustices and with normative justifications that support fairer and more egalitarian cities. The workshop will address ongoing discussions on urban injustices in Brazil and in other countries and pursue methodological gains for theoretical research on urban studies and public policymaking. This event is hosted by the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), a Center for Research, Innovation and Dissemination of the Research Support Foundation of the State of São Paulo (Cepid/Fapesp), headquartered at the University of São Paulo (USP) and at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). | Pedro Lippmann | |||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | "What is an egalitarian city?": roundtable discussion featuring Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford) and Avner de-Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Hybrid Event | 8 February 2023 (Wednesday) | 2:00 PM (UTC-3) | Law School, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) | https://philevents.org/event/show/107125 | In this roundtable, professors Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford) and Avner de-Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) will discuss their work in progress, focused on the topic of urban injustices. Employing a methodological approach merging normative expertise with applied reflections, supported by data from interviews with over 180 people worldwide, Wolff and de-Shalit set out to conceptualize a city in which individuals relate to each other as equals. Participants shall address issues connected to complex phenomena affecting present-day cities, such as spatial and social segregation, gentrification and precariousness, as well as core issues of citizenship and urban policymaking. | Pedro Lippmann | |||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | "Aleksei Losev’s Philosophy of Language" Online guest lecture by Dr. Olga Lyanda-Geller (Assistant Professor of Russian, Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature, and Philosophy at Purdue University) | 27 January 2023 (Friday) | 5:00 – 7:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/106853 | A “philosopher of name, number, and myth,” in his own words, Aleksei Fedorovich Losev (1893 – 1988) is an outstanding Russian thinker, philologist, classicist, translator, commentator, and writer. The scope of his interests includes philosophy, philology, aesthetics, religion, myth, mathematics, and music. A Renaissance figure in modern Russian culture, Losev inherited, developed, and enriched the classical traditions of Russian thought and preserved them for future generations. This talk focuses on Losev’s philosophy of language, in particular, on his understanding of the concepts of name, symbol, and myth. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | ToT Day conference | 16 December 2022 (Friday) | 2:30 PM - 6 PM (Paris time UTC +1) | UMR 8011 "Sciences, Normes et Démocratie" of Sorbonne Université | https://philevents.org/event/show/105770 | Invited by the research team Sciences, Normes, Démocratie (SND) of Sorbonne Université Franz Berto will present his book Topics of Thought. The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Imagination (OUP 2022) Steve Yablo (MIT) will respond via ZOOM at 3:30 pm. And will be followed by two other respondents: Pierre Saint-Germier (CNRS-IRCAM-Sorbonne Université) : Are two components too many ? Jean-Baptiste Rauzy (SND-Sorbonne Université) : Factivity, Metafactivity and the TSIMs. Venue: Campus Pierre & Marie Curie,Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Université (CICSU) Building 44-54, 1st floor, room 116 (access by the staircase of tower 44). 4, place Jussieu 75005 Paris To request the zoom link, email one of the organizers. Contacts : Jean-Baptiste Rauzy : jean-baptiste.rauzy@sorbonne-universite.fr Rayan Geha : rayan.geha@etu.sorbonne-universite.fr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium (GPPC) Undergraduate Conference There will be a plenary address from Henry Rutgers Professor of Philosophy Derrick Darby on Saturday afternoon. More precise information about the schedule and location will follow. | March 31-April 1, 2023 Friday-Saturday | Fri, 3/31 2:00-7:00pm, Sat, 4/1 9:00am-5:00pm | The GPPC and the Philosophy Department, Swarthmore College | https://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy/gppc-undergraduate-conference | Undergraduates are invited to submit short papers (under 2,000 words) on any topic of philosophical interest.The deadline for submitting papers is January 30, 2023. Acceptances will be notified by February 27, 2023.Please send your paper as a Word attachment to philosophy@swarthmore.edu. Please prepare your submission for anonymous review as follows:1. 1. Include a cover page with your name, affiliation, and paper title. 2. In the body of the paper, please put a shortened paper title in the eading. No other identifying information should appear in the body of the paper. A prize will be awarded to the best paper. Some financial assistance is available for travel and accommodations. Please direct all questions to philosophy@swarthmore.edu. | Donna Mucha | |||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Agency and Responsibility: the (Dual) Significance of Alternative Possibilities - a presentation by Prof. Maria Alvarez (King's College London). This is the 3rd installment of the invited speaker series: Reasons, Causes, and Moral Agents (Universität Würzburg and the Emmy Noether Research Group: Practical Reasons Before Kant (1720-1780)) | December 8th, 2022 (Thursday) | 8:00pm - 10:00pm (CET) | Institut für Philosophie, J-M-Universität Würzburg; Emmy Noether Research Group: Practical Reasons Before Kant (1720-1780) | Zoom Link: https://uni-wuerzburg.zoom.us/j/63055534282?pwd=bXVjT2h5RXE3dnRMYUZ2eEdCK2plQT09 [Meeting ID: 630 5553 4282; Password: 598464] | We hope you can join us for Prof. Alvarez's presentation. If you have any questions, please contact: gareth.paterson@uni-wuerzburg.de, or alicia.aktas@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de | Gareth Paterson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | "The concept of Sakshin in the light of Advaita Vedanta" Online guest lecture by Swami Narasimhananda (Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kozhikode, Kerala) | 30 November 2022 (Wednesday) | 3:00 – 5:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://philevents.org/event/show/104570 | In this talk, the speaker would attempt to explain the Advaita Vedanta concept of Sakshin as envisaged by Acharya Shankara, particularly in his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita. According to this view, the conscious Sakshin is the only entity or principle that exists and all that is perceived by the senses and the mind are superimpositions on this principle. These superimpositions arise due to ignorance of this principle, the Sakshin. The Sakshin is the true subject with no real object. All objects are unreal and perishable. The entire universe is a result of this objectification that is caused due to ignorance superimposed on Sakshin. The goal of spiritual life is to transcend this ignorance and realize one's identity with Sakshin. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | "Philosophy, Primal Wonder, and the Future of Education" Online guest lecture by Dr. Thomas E. Jackson (Specialist, Department of Philosophy Director, UHM Uehiro Academy for Philosophy & Ethics in Education, College of Arts & Humanities, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) | 28 October 2022 (Friday) | 8:30 – 10:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | philevents.org/event/show/104394 | Of the three topics in this presentation, two are familiar (Philosophy and Education) and one (Primal Wonder) is not. One objective of this presentation will be to connect the unfamiliar with the familiar. A widespread understanding views philosophy as “the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.” A philosopher is “a person engaged or learned in philosophy, typically a credentialed (Ph.D.) member of a Department of Philosophy in a university setting. “Philosophy” in this sense is definitely for adults: “P4A.” And so, when people see "P4C (Philosophy for Children)," at first they are indeed puzzled and curious! They wonder: “How can this be?” This presentation aims to show more than “How can this be?” but “How this connection already IS!” Clarifying the meaning of “Primal Wonder” by identifying it as a critical component in the origin and nature of philosophy will then allow demonstrating how vital this connection is to our third topic: Education. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | “How Kantian is Wittgenstein?” — A masterclass with Dr. Ian Proops (Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin) | October 20, 2022 (Thursday) | 9:00pm-11:00pm | Philosophy Toronto | https://www.meetup.com/the-toronto-philosophy-meetup/events/289128258/ | Q: How Kantian is Wittgenstein? "I examine this question with special reference to the question of philosophical method. It is often supposed that Wittgenstein is a profoundly Kantian thinker. I argue that, while there are many superficial similarities between the writings of these two thinkers, Kant and Wittgenstein nevertheless have profoundly different visions of what philosophy is and ought to be. In little-known writings, Kant in fact turns out to have considered and rejected the later Wittgenstein’s approach to the problems of metaphysics." | Darren | |||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Putting accountability to work: How accountability contributes to human flourishing Public lecture delivered by Professor C. Stephen Evans | Thursday 3 November 2022 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) | 6:00pm-7:30pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) | Institute for Ethics & Society, The University of Notre Dame Australia | https://www.notredame.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/320883/ND5663_2022-Ethics-Education-and-Moral-Philosophy-Annual-Lecture_FA.pdf | There is a great deal of talk about accountability in the contemporary world, but usually in the sense of holding someone accountable for bad behaviour through punishment or sanctions. However, those who embrace and welcome being accountable exhibit a virtue, an excellent and admirable quality that enhances human life in many ways. Though there has been little discussion of this, the evidence lies in plain sight in many areas: the business world, healthy churches with small group programs, 12-step groups, and even the criminal justice system. This public lecture will explore some of the ways accountability as a virtue contributes to human flourishing. | Tim Smartt | |||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | New and Enduring Themes in the History and Philosophy of Quantum, Statistical, and Thermal Physics: Celebrating Jos Uffink’s Research at Minnesota Conference organized by Prof. Samuel C. Fletcher (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) | 7-8 November, 2022 | 9:15 AM-6:00 PM CST (Nov. 7); 9:00 AM-1:00 PM CST (Nov. 8) | Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science | https://samuelcfletcher.com/2022/08/11/new-and-enduring-themes-in-the-history-and-philosophy-of-quantum-statistical-and-thermal-physics-celebrating-jos-uffinks-research-at-minnesota/ | Jos Uffink will retire from the University of Minnesota at the end of 2022, having spent a decade with us as Professor of Philosophy and a faculty affiliate of the Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. While Jos’s essays are widely taken “to master and explicate [their] subject so thoroughly as to bluff everyone else into thinking there is nothing left to say,” this conference celebrates the enduring vitality of the themes in Jos’s research in the history and philosophy of quantum, statistical, and thermal physics. | Samuel C. Fletcher | |||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | "Reasons, Causes, and Moral Agents" (invited speaker series), organised by Gareth Paterson (PhD canditate, J-M-Universität Würzburg): Prof. Gregory Sadler (MIAD) online talk: How We Shape Our Character: Epictetus On Reason, Reasons, and Prohairesis | Wed. 02/11/22 | 18:00-20:00 CET; 17:00-19:00 UCT | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Institut für Philosophie; The Emmy Noether Research Group: Practical Reason Before Kant (1720-1780) | https://philevents.org/event/show/103910 | “Reasons, causes, and moral agents” is an invited speaker series to be held at various dates in 2022 and 2023. The guiding purpose of the series is, in short, to consider different approaches to the titular themes over a broad timeframe. This theme can be restated as: kinds of reasons and causes that are involved in making possible or bringing about our choices and activities, most specifically in the area of morality, though not exclusively. In our second event in the series, Prof. Gregory Sadler of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) will give a presentation, entitled: How We Shape Our Character: Epictetus On Reason, Reasons, and Prohairesis We hope you can join us for what promises to be a fascinating talk. If you would like to attend online, please email: gareth.paterson@uni-wuerzburg.de or alicia.aktas@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de | Gareth Paterson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Florida State University Werkmeister Online Conference on Varieties of Skepticism | 28-29 Oct 2022 | 12:50-3:50PM ET (28 Oct); 9:30AM-4:00PM ET (29 Oct) | https://philosophy.fsu.edu/werkmeister-conference | https://philosophy.fsu.edu/werkmeister-conference | Department of Philosophy at Florida State University is running a two-day online conference on Varieties of Skepticism. No pre/registration is necessary, simply join via a Zoom link that you can find on the conference flyer or the conference program (the zoom link is the same for both days). Speakers include Christopher Cowie, Eric Schwitzgebel, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Katja Maria Vogt, Annalisa Coliva, Gregg Caruso. For any questions, please email mherdova@fsu.edu | Marcela Herdova | |||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Creative Resistance & Feminist Ecologies: Rethinking Ecofeminist Futures | 19 October 2022 | 10:45 - 18:30 (UK time) | Diversity Reading List | https://diversityreadinglist.org/events/ | The Diversity Reading List Team is excited to invite you to a one-day research seminar on Creative Resistance & Feminist Ecologies: Rethinking Ecofeminist Futures. The event will take place online on 19th October 2022, under the patronage of the British Philosophical Association, the University of Manchester and the British and Irish Postgraduate Philosophy Association, MAP UK. You can find more details, sign up, and join the events via our website. Below, we attach a short description and schedule. Researchers from India, Germany, America, belonging to diverse academic traditions and differently situated lifeworlds will engage with questions related to ecofeminist futures. Ecofeminist theory and praxis, its interconnections with other critical approaches, its relevance and potential for informing creative resistance and the pursuit of environmental and intersectional justice will be the focus of the seminar. List of speakers, title of talks, time schedule and registration link for the event are given below. The seminar is part of DRL’s aims to promote conversations concerning the limits of the Western/Euro-American canon. Your solidarity is invaluable. Hope to see you at the seminar. Event Schedule (all in UK time) 10:45 - 11:00 - Welcome and Zoom logging in 11:10 - 12:15 - Manisha Rao, University of Mumbai – Reimagining Resistance: Understanding Ecofeminism in Uttara Kannada District, Karnataka, India 12:30 - 13:30 - Christa Wichterich, University of Kassel – In Defense of Life and Livelihoods. Ecofeminist perspectives of analysis of and resistance against violence against bodies, territories and nature 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break 14:45 - 15:45 Lori Gruen, Wesleyan – Ecofeminism and Critical Animal Theory 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break 16:15-17:15 Nicole Seymour, California State University – Cis and Trans Ecologies: Genders for the Anthropocene 17:30 -18:30 Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School (Ohio) - Rethinking Ecofeminism and Religion: A Decological Perspective You can find all abstracts and author information, as well as sign up for the event via our website. We are looking forward to seeing you on October 19th! Best Wishes, Julia Costet and SuddhaSatwa GuhaRoy On behalf of the DRL Team | Diversity Reading List | |||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | What is Philosophy? Example: Racism (Necro-being as morally worst form) Online guest lecture by Dr. Leonard Harris (Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Purdue University, Indiana) | 30 September 2022 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | meet.google.com/nyz-kfpc-ept | In “Necro-Being,” Dr. Harris describes racism [and ethnocentricism] as an instantiation of necro-being (i.e., that which makes living a kind of death), a seminal form of oppression, its corporal being. Racialized populations are subjected to conditions of life that confer upon them the status of living dead; necro-tragedy (utter suffering and irredeemable loss in this non-moral universe) and undue death. Despite races being anabsolute (unstable groups often treated as objectively stable entities), populations can be seen to suffer unduly. This view is contrary to volitionist and existentialist approaches (the view that individual choice to be prejudicial) and thereby the moral wrongness of racism is a matter of a particular type of consciousness. This approach is intended to be compatible with a view of “philosophy” that places emphasis on the importance of corporal existence rather than metaphysical questions or questions about the nature of the self or the pursuit of wisdom. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Propositions in the Twelfth Century Workshop organised by Boaz Faraday Schuman and Heine Hansen (Postdoc & Professor, respectively, at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen) | 26-27 September, 2022 | 2:00-5:00pm CEST (Sep. 26); 10:00am-5:30pm CEST (Sep. 27) | University of Copenhagen | https://philevents.org/event/show/103286 | Propositions do maany things: they are the primary bearers of truth and falsity, a central locus of meaning, and the objects of belief. But what are they? In this workshop, we will examine competing theories of the proposition put forward in the twelfth century, focusing in particular on Peter Abelard, and his main rival, Alberic of Paris. If you would like to participate online, please email Boaz at boaz.schuman@hum.ku.dk. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Revisiting the Concept of Consciousness in Indian Philosophies Online guest lecture by Dr. Madhusudan Penna (Vice-Chancellor and Professor & Dean of Faculty of Indian Religion, Philosophy and Culture, Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit University, Ramtek, Maharashtra, India) | 26 August 2022 | 3:00 – 5:00 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | meet.google.com/kqx-abyw-ksu | Most Indian philosophical systems find their roots in the four principal texts called the Vedas, viz. Ṛgveda, Yajurveda, Sāmaveda, and Atharvaveda. Even the primary classification of Indian philosophical systems is based on whether they accept the authority of the Vedas. The systems that take on the Vedic principles as the final authority are called the Āstika systems, and the systems that deny this authority are called the Nāstika systems. Despite their differences over the Vedic authority, all these systems have given remarkable theories on the nature of reality, how it gets perceived, the ultimate goal of human life, and the ways to achieve it. Central to these theories is a theory of Consciousness. All of these schools have developed their own distinct concepts of Consciousness. This lecture gives a comprehensive overview of the concept of Consciousness in each of these schools of Indian Philosophy, including the subsystems of each school, and discusses the development of the concept, references, and interconnections among the systems. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Embodied Care: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Care Ethics Online guest lecture by Dr. Maurice Hamington (Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Portland State University) | 27 July 2022 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | Zoom link: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/88646063027 | Traditional approaches to morality appear inadequate to confront contemporary social and political challenges. This presentation explores how care theory, framed as an embodied, ethical way of being, offers new methods for thinking about morality. Such an approach has ontological, epistemological, and aesthetic significance in addition to its ethical importance. Specifically, this presentation introduces the work of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty and his work on the body. Merleau-Ponty’s corporeal insights are integrated into the burgeoning field of feminist care ethics to develop the notion of embodied care. Feminist care ethics’ relational character is rooted in unique contextual experiences or standpoints, and Merleau-Ponty’s emphasis on the body adds a specific spatial understanding to that standpoint. Embodied care is experienced and needed by all, no matter their cultural, political, or religious identity. Recognizing, valuing, and committing to care represents hope for a troubled world. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Leaving the Ivory Tower Online guest lecture by Dr. Rajshri Jobanputra (Head – FocusU Academy | FocusU Engage) | 29 June 2022 | 3:00 – 5:00 pm IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84268918037?pwd=Ue_fhhgJcL5aQxizlOAMhr2JC1k2JP.1 | After a brief walkthrough of the speaker's professional journey, from being a student of philosophy and living the life of an academician to becoming a practitioner of philosophy and entering the corporate world, the speaker will address the following three key questions based on her life experiences: 1. Are any of the philosopher’s skills/ attitudes relevant in the corporate set-up? 2. While pursuing a degree in Philosophy, how should one prepare for corporate life? 3. How can one successfully navigate through the corporate milieu? | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | What does it mean to feel alone? Six Session Conversation Series (July-November 2022) | 17 July 2022 | 4:30 (PST) | Premise | https://www.premiseinstitute.com/courses/p/what-does-it-mean-to-feel-alone-6-class-series | We are always on the lookout for instructors and advisory board members. Contact Mary Finn at mary@premiseinstitute.com and learn more about the instructor role here and the advisory board here. Premise was featured in a recent article in EdSurge about virtual humanities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Where does happiness come from? Epictetus, Ross Gay, & Nikki Giovanni: One session conversation-style course (June 5, 2022) | 05 June 2022 | 4:30 (PST) | Premise | https://www.premiseinstitute.com/courses/p/where-does-happiness-come-from-epictetus-ross-gay-and-nikki-giovanni | We are always on the lookout for instructors and advisory board members. Contact Mary Finn at mary@premiseinstitute.com and learn more about the instructor role here and the advisory board here. Premise was featured in a recent article in EdSurge about virtual humanities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Talk by Peter Simons: "Metaphysicians from A to W And How to Improve on Them" at USI | 25 May 2022 | 18:30 (CET) | Master in Philosophy at USI Ratio – Philosophical Association Istituto di Studi Filosofici, Lugano | https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/17840 | To participate please write an email to amm.map@usi.ch or send a message to our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/usimap). | Charlotte Erika Zito | |||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Book Launch: John Venn: A Life in Logic (University of Chicago Press, 2022) Online mini-workshop with talks by Dirk Schlimm & David Waszek, Amirouche Moktefi, Claudia Cristalli and Lukas M. Verburgt, chaired by David Dunning | 18 May 2022 | 4:00-5:30PM CEST (Amsterdam/Brussels-time) | Lukas Verburgt & Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) | johnvenn2020@gmail.com for link and voucher code | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Philosophical and Religious Approaches to the Problem of Human Dignity Online guest lecture by Dr. Anthony Haynes Visiting Lecturer, Ecclesiastical Department of Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas (Manila, Philippines) | 6 May 2022 | 3:00 – 5:00 pm IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | Video call link: https://meet.google.com/aqr-wesi-exn Or dial: (US) +1 405-353-0756 PIN: 985 992 919# | In this lecture, the speaker will compare and critique four approaches to defining and grounding human dignity. The first is that of Immanuel Kant, who is usually taken to be the thinker responsible for its contemporary meaning as the inherent and immeasurable value which human beings possess in virtue of their rationality and moral agency. The second is that of Abrahamic religions, which share this emphasis on the 'internal' and alienable nature of dignity, but derive the unique human qualities of rationality and moral agency on which dignity rests from the nature of God. The third and fourth approaches to defining and grounding human dignity are Confucian and Buddhist, which both take dignity to be something performative: a status conferred by the realisation or potential realisation of moral virtues and spiritual aspirations. The speaker will argue that all four approaches to human dignity lack the permanence, universality, and moral authority they seek, and suggest a radical alternative: that a surer foundation for understanding and defending human dignity lies in the unique human capacities to appreciate and create art. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | De-colonizing Solidarity and Reciprocity: A Feminist Philosophical Perspective on Ethics across Difference Online guest lecture by Dr. Amrita Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India) | 27 April 2022 | 3:00 – 5:00 pm IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | Video call link: meet.google.com/gmk-sqvc-pdb Or dial: (US) +1 657-529-2594 PIN: 257 751 293# | This talk develops a philosophical conceptualization of solidarity and reciprocity, which can contribute towards de-colonizing feminist theory and praxis across difference. The framework serves as a counter-point to some of the traditional understandings of feminist solidarity that are vitiated by a colonizing impulse. The philosophical definitions proposed pave the way for a robust ethics of recognition along with an ethics of humility. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Abstraction and grounding Øystein Linnebo (University of Oslo) | 28 April 2022 | 18:00 (CET) | Master in Philosophy at USI Ratio – Philosophical Association Istituto di Studi Filosofici, Lugano | Wednesday, April 27 · 3:00 – 5:00pm | To participate please write an email to amm.map@usi.ch or send a message to our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/usimap). | Danni Zhu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | A Philosophical View of Intersectionality A Series of Lectures by Naomi Zack (Lehman College, City University of New York), Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professorship (the lectures were postponed by the pandemic) | 23 March 2022 | noon - 5:00 pm (EDT) | Department of Philosophy at Lehman College, City University of New York | Google Meet joining info | This event is being run hy-flex and is open to the public. Those who wish to attend in person and are not connected to CUNY should email julie.maybee@lehman.cuny.edu to be cleared for access to the campus. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Zoetology: A New Name for an Old Way of Thinking Roger Ames (University of Hawaiʻi) | 17 March 2022 | 20:00 (GMT) | The Royal Institute of Philosophy | Video call link: https://meet.google.com/gmk-sqvc-pdb | The classical Greeks give us a concept of substance that guarantees a permanent and unchanging subject as the substratum for the human experience. This “sub-stance” necessarily persists through change. This substratum or essence includes its purpose for being, and is defining of the “what-it-means-to-be-a-thing-of-this-kind” of any particular thing in setting a closed, exclusive boundary and the strict identity necessary for it to be this, and not that. In the Yijing or Book of Changes we find a vocabulary that makes explicit cosmological assumptions that are a stark alternative to this substance ontology, and provides the interpretive context for the Confucian canons by locating them within a holistic, organic, and ecological worldview. To provide a meaningful contrast with this fundamental assumption of on or “being” we might borrow the Greek notion of zoe or “life” and create the neologism “zoe-tology” as “the art of living.” This cosmology begins from “living” (sheng 生) itself as the motive force behind change, and gives us a world of boundless “becomings:” not “things” that are, but “events” that are happening, a contrast between an ontological conception of human “beings” and a process conception of what I will call human “becomings.” | Kate Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Two Routes to (and from) Metaphysical Skepticism Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) | 15 March 2022 | 18:00 (CET) | Master in Philosophy at USI Ratio – Philosophical Association Istituto di Studi Filosofici, Lugano | Or dial: (US) +1 657-529-2594 PIN: 257 751 293# | To participate please write an email to amm.map@usi.ch or send a message to our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/usimap). | Danni Zhu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Decolonising Philosophy Lewis Gordon (University of Connecticut) | 10 March 22 | 20:00 (GMT) | The Royal Institute of Philosophy | More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/gmk-sqvc-pdb?pin=8154082760741 | This talk will examine what it means for philosophy to be ‘colonised’ and the challenges involved in ‘decolonising’ it in philosophical and political terms. Audience members will be able to ask questions through the You Tube chat function, which will then be answered live. | Kate Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Carrying Over Kālidāsa: Translating the Sanskrit Mahākavi into English Online Guest Lecture by Dr. Srinivas Reddy | 25 February 2022 | 5:00 – 7:00 pm IST | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | Google Meet joining info: Video call link: https://meet.google.com/gaa-swos-yya Or dial: (US) +1 813-616-1129 PIN: 373 731 342# | This presentation will explore certain intersecting topics related to the history, theory, practice and art of translation from classical Sanskrit into English. With specific reference to the poetic works of Kālidāsa, the presentation will highlight various verses along with multiple translations in order to analyze their literary attributes as well their pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial underpinnings. In doing so, the presentation hopes to raise questions about the central importance of translation in conferring legitimacy, prestige and power to both the source and target languages. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | What Counts as a Collective Gift? Culture and Value in Du Bois’ The Gift of Black Folk Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie University) | 24 February 2022 | 8pm GMT | The Royal Institute of Philosophy | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-5fGc_UDjY | In his famous 1897 essay, "The Conservation of Races," Du Bois advocates that African Americans hold on to their distinctiveness as members of the black race because this enables them to participate in a cosmopolitan process of cultural exchange in which different races collectively advance human civilization by means of different contributions. Philosophers like Kwame Anthony Appiah and Tommie Shelby have criticized the position that Du Bois expresses in that essay as a problematic form of racial essentialism. I will investigate in this lecture how Du Bois' 1924 book The Gift of Black Folk escapes or fails to escape that criticism. It is easy to worry that the diversity characterizing what Du Bois is willing to treat as a black contribution to the development of America in this book pushes us from the problem of essentialism to the other extreme: a lack of any conceptual constraints whatsoever on what can count as a black gift. I will argue that recognizing the cultivation of historical memory as a form of cultural activity is key to understanding the concept's unity. | Kate Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Philosophy and Money | 20-22 June, 2022 | 9am CST | University of South Dakota (National Endowment of the Humanties, Toolbox Dialogue Initiative) | https://www.philosophyandmoney.org/conference | https://philevents.org/event/show/96942 | Joe Tinguely | |||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Philosophy Cabin Pub Philosophy session in London's East End 1st of a weekly recurring event providing a forum for freewheeling philosophical conversation. | 20 February 2022 | 7pm GMT | Bryn Williams PhD unaffiliated | https://pubphilosophy.uk | Book through website or on designmynight £2.50 entry, limited availability, all profits to FirstLove Foundation | Bryn Williams | |||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Community Practices & Getting Good at Bad Emotion - Amy Olberding (University of Oklahoma) | 17 February 2022 | 8pm GMT | The Royal Institute of Philosophy | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT7_tIvup0c | Early Confucian philosophy is remarkable in its attention to everyday social interactions and their power to steer our emotional lives. The Confucians argued that engineering our social practices to favour expressions of important values can help instil important moral emotions: Teaching a child to say “thank you” can school her in feeling gratitude, for example. Their work on the social dimensions of our moral-emotional lives is enormously promising for thinking through our own context and struggles. I am particularly interested in how our public rhetoric and practices may steer us away from some emotions it can be important to have, especially negative emotions. Some of our emotions are bad – unpleasant to experience, reflective of dissatisfactions or even heartbreak – but nonetheless quite important to express and, more basically, to feel. Grief is like this, for example. So, too, is disappointment. In this talk, I want most of all to explore how our current social practices may fail to support expressions of disappointment and thus suppress our ability to feel it well. There are, I argue, losses to our moral lives where we are socially encouraged to emotions such as anger, outrage, or cynical resignation but must struggle to find a place for disappointment. | Kate Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Mutual Guardianship and Hospitality: A Moral Obligation Tamara Albertini (University of Hawai'i) | 10 February 2022 | 8pm GMT | The Royal Institute of Philosophy | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97ZpPfZDI-E&list=PLqK-cZS_wviDiPOFmdGLfpwyoT40yQMKY&index=6 | While Heidegger and Derrida both contributed groundbreaking reflections on hospitality (and “hostipitality”), they failed to recognize that the host-guest relationship can only succeed if it is correlated with the notion of mutual guardianship. The lecture will describe historic guardian civilizations and then turn to Ricoeur’s linguistic hospitality as a possible blueprint for future cultural hospitality. However, the latter scenario will have no need for a third party, i.e., a “translator” who mediates between host and guest. The challenge consists of designing a host-guest relationship in which both parties become each other’s translators - and guardians. | Kate Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Online talk by Kris McDaniel at USI, Lugano ‘Kantian Ontological Pluralism without Transcendental Idealism’ | 9 February 2022 | 18:00 (CET) | Master in Philosophy at USI Ratio – Philosophical Association Istituto di Studi Filosofici, Lugano | https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/17840 | To participate please write an email to amm.map@usi.ch or send a message to our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/usimap). | Danni Zhu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Grammars of Listening: or on the Difficulty of Rendering Trauma Audible María del Rosario Acosta López (University of California, Riverside) | 3 February 2022 | 20:00 (GMT) | The Royal Institute of Philosophy | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwxg43tZVVM | What would it mean to do justice to testimonies of traumatic experience? That is, how can experiences which do not fit the customary scripts of sense-making be heard? Whereas processes of official memorialization or legal redress often demand that victims and survivors convey their experiences through familiar modes of narration, in my project on “grammars of listening” I want to ask how it might be possible to hear these experiences on their own terms and what are the challenges that we encounter when trying to do so. What I ultimately want to argue is that doing justice to trauma requires a profound philosophical questioning of the conditions that allow us to listen to testimony, and a true reckoning of the responsibility that we bear as listeners. | Kate Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | The Ethics of Anger and Shame and Lessons from Other Cultures Owen Flanagan (Duke University) | 27 January 2022 | 3pm (8pm GMT) | The Royal Institute of Philosophy | youtube.com/royintphilosophy | We live in an age of anger and shameless disregard for what is true and good. What can we learn from other cultures about better ways to do anger and shame? How can we develop better norms for being angry at the right things, in the right way, at the right times? How can we inculcate norms for proper shame at callous disregard for what is true and good? Attention to how other cultures do anger and shame provides tools for moral imagination. | Kate Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Philosophy as lived practice: Mindfulness industry, wellness and philosophy Online Guest Lecture | 28 January 2022 | 5:00 – 7:00 pm Indian Standard Time | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies at Goa University, India | meet.google.com/whm-pjss-fuy | We cordially invite you to an online lecture by Dr. Keya Maitra (Thomas Howerton Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina Asheville, USA). In her lecture, Dr. Maitra will argue that philosophy can offer us a way out of the current impasse between the mindfulness industry and its many academic critics. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Special Session of the Phil Stat (remote) Forum: "Statistical Text Anxiety" Presenters: D. Mayo (Virginia Tech), Y. Benjamini (Tel Aviv Univerity); Moderator: D. Hand (Imperial College London) | January 11, 2022 | 10am -12pm EST (15:00-17:00 London, GMT) | Deborah Mayo (Dept. of Philosophy, VIrginia Tech) | https://phil-stat-wars.com/ | For information on how to join (see section II): https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/info-phil-stat-forum-feb-2021.pdf | Jean Miller | |||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | How To Teach Intellectual Charity | 13 December 2021; 10 January 2022 | 10-11:30am Eastern Time | Harvard Department of Philosophy and ThinkerAnalytix | https://thinkeranalytix.org/harvard-argument-mapping-intellectual-charity/ | Want to help your students “steel-man” rather than “straw-man” arguments with which they disagree? In this 90-minute interactive workshop, Harvard Philosophy Department Chair Ned Hall will show you how to use a research-backed method called argument mapping to help students practice the skills of intellectual charity: read carefully, interpret ambiguous claims in the most plausible way, and ascribe to an author the most defensible version of their view. Argument mapping provides a simple and effective framework within which to explicitly practice these skills, and for instructors to provide students with targeted and effective feedback. | Nate Otey | |||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | From Speech to Text: The Ethics of Ricoeur’s Long Hermeneutic Route: Online Guest Lecture | 26 November 2021 | 3:00 – 5:00 pm Indian Standard Time | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies at Goa University, India | https://meet.google.com/fui-budi-jys | We cordially invite you to an online lecture by Dr. Kanchana Mahadevan (Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Mumbai, India). In her lecture, Dr. Mahadevan argues that Ricoeur’s mediation of the Gadamer-Habermas debate via the "long route" also marks an underexplored aspect of a shift in ethical values precisely by highlighting the text. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Agency and Intentions in Language 2: Interdisciplinary (Virtual) Workshop | Workshop: January 12 - 14, 2022 Deadline to submit: December 10, 2021 | 9h – 13h New York time; 15h – 19h Berlin time | Harvey Mudd College (virtual) Organizing Committee: Kyle Thompson (Harvey Mudd College) Joshua Knobe (Yale University) Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Göttingen) Julie Goncharov (University of Göttingen) | https://ail-workshop.github.io/AIL2-Workshop/ | Invited speakers Magdalena Kaufmann (University of Connecticut) David Pizarro (Cornell University) Hannah Tierney (UC Davis) & Andrew James Latham (University of Sydney); Joint Talk Thomas Grano (Indiana University Bloomington) Important dates December 10, 2021 – deadline for abstract submission. End of December 2021 – notification of acceptance. | Kyle Thompson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Themes from the Philosophy of Stephen Yablo International conference | December 8 & 9, 2021 | 9h30 - 18h30 and 10h15 - 19h30 (Paris time UTC+1) | Collège de France and Faculté des Lettres of Sorbonne Université and UMR 8011 "Sciences, Normes et Démocratie" | https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/francois-recanati/p715006389536162_content.htm | We inform you of an international conference titled “Themes from the Philosophy of Stephen Yablo” will be held in english on the 8th and 9th of December 2021 at the Collège de France (site Marcelin Berthelot): the event is open to all and free of charge, within the limit of available seats. You can find the program and booklet here: https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/francois-recanati/p715006389536162_content.htm It will also be possible to attend parts, or all, of the conference via the videoconference platform Zoom. If you wish to participate online, you can sign up with this form: https://scripta.college-de-france.fr/apps/forms/eyGK7X7HRNpF6bE6 The zoom links will be sent in due time to the email address indicated in the registration form. This conference is co-organized by François Récanati (chair of Philosophy of language and mind at the Collège de France) and Jean-Baptiste Rauzy (Faculté des Lettres of Sorbonne Université and UMR 8011 “Sciences, Normes, Démocratie”). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | The Phenomenology of Affect International e-conference | December 6 & 7, 2021 | School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University (ACU) | www.acu.edu.au/phenomenology2021 | The close study of human affectivity has its roots in the very early years of the phenomenological movement in the work of the Brentano School and the Munich Phenomenological Circle, especially in the writings of figures such as Husserl, Scheler, Stein and Voigtlander. This interest was continued in the subsequent work of figures such as Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. If this broad research project dropped away noticeably in the post-war years, it has returned to the centre of interest over the last few decades in the so-called “affective turn” in phenomenology. Keynote speakers: Dermot Moran (Boston College), Claude Romano (University of Paris-Sorbonne and Australian Catholic University), Andrew Benjamin (University of Technology, Sydney and Monash University), Robyn Horner (Australian Catholic University). With presentations by scholars from across Europe, the United States of America and Australia. More information and registration via the website: www.acu.edu.au/phenomenology2021. Registration is essential. | Jessica Vidigal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Has Science KIlled Philosophy? Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Debate | November 17, 2021 | 7.30pm UCT | The Royal Institute of Philosophy; Being Human Festival | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w-uaZvcCuo | Kate Walters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Values and Perspectives in Physics | November 12, 2021 | 7:30PM—9:30PM (China, UTC+8)(view a different time zone) | Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIP) | https://philevents.org/event/show/94317 | We are happy to announce that Dennis Dieks will give an online lecture on 12th November at CASIP. The topic is: Values and Perspectives in Physics. Everyone is welcome to attend. More information can be found at the event link. | Tung-Ying Wu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Understanding Scientific Understanding | November 5, 2021 | 7:30PM—9:30PM (China, UTC+8)(view a different time zone) | Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIP) | https://philevents.org/event/show/93909 | We are happy to announce that Henk W. de Regt will give an online lecture on November 5th at CASIP. The topic is: Understanding Scientific Understanding. Everyone is welcome to attend. More information can be found at the event link. | Tung-Ying Wu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Philosophy for Communities in Transition: Teaching Philosophy for Self-Transformation | October 22, 2021 | 3:30—5:30 PM (IST, UTC +5:30 hours); 06:00—08:00 AM (ET) | School of Sanskrit, Philosophy and Indic Studies, Goa University, India | https://meet.google.com/eid-vkah-hmm | We cordially invite you to an online presentation by Dr. Sophia Stone, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, and President and Founder of Wisdom’s Edge Foundation, Inc., a charity organization that brings philosophy to the edges of society, communities that do not have access to the university: the homeless, the recently incarcerated, and intergenerational communities. In her presentation, Dr. Stone will present the mission of Wisdom’s Edge, discuss the communities it reaches, and how Wisdom’s Edge uses philosophy to transform the lives of individuals. She will explain the curriculum and the texts used for the curriculum. Finally, she will demonstrate her teaching of ancient texts by inviting participants to self-reflect on their own lives within the principles espoused in the ancient texts of the East and West. | Vidya Mary George | |||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Philosophical Analysis | October 25, 2021 | 7:30PM—9:30PM (China, UTC+8)(view a different time zone) | Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIP) | https://philevents.org/event/show/93621 | We are happy to announce that Michael Weisberg will give two online (ZOOM) lectures on 25th and 18th October, organized by CASIP and Fudan PSI. Weisberg will give an introduction to his rethinking of the concepts of data, phenomenon and observation. Scientific knowledge is grounded in observations. But what exactly counts as an observation? And to what extent do we rely on observations to make inferences about the world? Weisberg will give us his new answers to these questions. The lectures are jointly organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIP), and the Philosophy and Science of Intelligence Center (PSI), Fudan University. Everyone is welcome to attend. More information can be found at the event link. | Tung-Ying Wu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Data, Phenomena, and Observations Reconsidered | October 18, 2021 | The Philosophy and Science of Intelligence Center (PSI), Fudan University | https://philevents.org/event/show/93333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Time, Time direction, Memory and Agency | September 30, 2021 | 7:30PM—9:30PM (China, UTC+8)(view a different time zone) | The Philosophy and Science of Intelligence Center (PSI), Fudan University | https://philevents.org/event/show/92502 | We are happy to announce that Carlo Rovelli will give two online (ZOOM) lectures on 13th October and 30th September, organized by CASIP and Fudan PSI. Rovelli, one of the founders of loop quantum gravity, will talk about his theory, focusing on the latest accounts of the nature of time and space, as well as the direction of time. The concepts of time and space are essential to our understanding of the world. Throughout history, philosophers and physicists, such as Aristotle, Newton and Einstein, have devoted themselves to the understanding of time and space. So what is the nature of time and space? Does time really exist or is it an illusion? Does time have a direction? Rovelli's lectures will provide us with the latest insights into these puzzling questions from the perspective of loop quantum gravity. The lectures are jointly organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIP), and the Philosophy and Science of Intelligence Center (PSI), Fudan University. Everyone is welcome to attend. More information can be found at the event link. | Tung-Ying Wu |