"Elmar Unnsteinsson with one of our invited speakers, Nat Hansen. Photo credit: Tony Cheng"
Visiting Speakers 2023/24
You are warmly invited to the 2023-24 Visiting Speaker Seminars hosted by UCD School of Philosophy. The seminars will take place in D520 Seminar Room, D5 Newman Building, UCD, Belfield on Thursdays from 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m., starting on 20th September 2023 (times may be revised from time to time so please check carefully). Papers will be circulated in advance. To register, please contact (opens in a new window)helena.mccann@ucd.ie at least one day in advance of the seminar. The schedule for Spring 2024 is as follows:
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 February | Matti Eklund (Uppsala) | ”Alien Languages and Alien Metaphysics” |
| 15 February | Léa Salje (Leeds) | "How can I know what I think until I see what I paint?" |
| 29 February | Andrew Huddleston (Warwick) | "Nietzsche on Amor Fati" |
| 7 March | Newman Centre Annual Lecture - Dean Zimmerman | "Causing the Cosmos" |
| 28 March | Mary Edwards (Cardiff) | The Body and ‘Corpological’ Consciousness in Sartre’s Theory of the Self |
| 11 April | Nat Hansen (Reading) | Measuring Conceptual Inflation: The Case of 'Racist' |
| 25 April | Sofia Miguens (Porto) | TBC |
Autumn 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 20 September | Lea Ypi (LSE) Public Lecture [note: Wednesday] | For a Critical Philosophy of History (opens in a new window)Interview with Professor Maeve Cooke |
| 28 September | Fabricio Pontin (La Salle Canoas) | 'Beyond Homelanguage: The Intersection of Expression and the Freedom of Expression in Phenomenology |
| 5 October | Michael Rosen | The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel and the Passage from Heaven to History |
| 19 October | Niall Connolly (Sheffield) | “The Structure of Non-Existence” |
| 2 November | Anne Sophie Meincke (Vienna) | Free Will as a Biological Function |
| 16 November | Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford) | 'The Second Sex: An Axiological Reading' |
| 30 November | Dr Gaven Kerr (St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth) | “Causal Series and the Existence of God” |
UCD School of Philosophy
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