You are warmly invited to the 2024/25 Invited Speaker Seminar Series hosted by UCD School of Philosophy. The seminars take place in the D520 Seminar Room on the fifth floor of the Newman Arts Building, UCD Belfield on Thursdays, 4:30 to 6:00pm (dates and times may occasionally vary, so please check in advance).
The seminar is open to all UCD staff and students, and is followed by an informal drinks reception. If you would like to join the speaker for dinner after the talk, please email (opens in a new window)Natalie Turner at least one day in advance.
Speakers for the current academic year are listed below.
23 January
Francesca Raimondi (FU Berlin)
Marx revisited: Labour as a Modern Form of Habit and its Practical Critique
6 February
Daniel Vázquez (MIC Limerick)
Arguing Both Sides of a Question in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
20 February
Oisin Keohane (Dundee)
Escaping the Tower of Anglossolalia: Derrida on Forgiveness and the South African TRC
6 March (Cancelled)
Ingvild Torsen (Oslo)
Is there a measure on earth? Heidegger on the normativity of art
27 March
Gerald Lang (Leeds)
Reasons, Production, Action: The Flight from Consequentialism
10 April
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Copenhagen)
Can Women Philosophers be Ingenious? On the Debate about the Ingenium Philosophicum during the Early Modern Period
24 April
Gunnar Hindrichs (Basel)
Possibilities and Potentialities: Between Metaphysics and Praxis
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