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Kristin Gjesdal is professor of philosophy at Temple University. Her scholarship covers philosophy of interpretation (hermeneutics), philosophy of art, and modern European philosophy. She is the co-editor of the recently published Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (both with Oxford UP). She is the author of three monographs (with Cambridge and Oxford University Presses) and the editor and co-editor of eight volumes in her areas of research. Her present work includes an introduction to the philosophy of Germaine de Staël (under contract with Cambridge UP) and the monograph “How to be a Self? Four Lessons from Germaine de Staël” (under contract with Oxford UP). For more information, see her faculty website or this 3:16 interview.
Rafael de Almeida Semêdo (University of São Paulo & University of Amsterdam)
James Williams visits GoodAttention and SalientSolutions
"From Despotism to Democracy:
How a World Government Can Save Humanity"
A conversation with James Williams.
This event marks the publication of a special issue of the journal Res Publica, vol. 30, issue 1, with Jakob Elster and Cathrine Holst as guest editors.
Talk by Hugo Ribeiro Mota, Political deep disagreements, structural oppression, and argumentation
“‘Like Loving a Lovely Sight’: Weakness of Will in Confucian Philosophy”
Michael Walschots (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) will speak on Ethics in German 18th Century Philosophy
The workshop (in-person only) will take place on Wednesday, 13 March 2024, at King's College London, Strand/Waterloo campus.
Bradley Jordan (IAKH)
Jørn Kløvfjell Mjelva (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "States and properties in a relativistic quantum theory".
"Naturalistic Eudaimonism: Scientific Reconstruction of the Aristotelian Conception of Well-being"
A PhD course on methods for reasoning focused on argumentative and logical analysis
Sara Pernille Jensen (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "Understanding machine learning models - traditional problems call for traditional solutions".
Talk by Derek van Zoonen, Hedonic Cognitivism and Fallibilism in Plato’s Philebus
"What should workplace democracy be?"
Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan (The New School, Parsons School of Design) will give a lecture on the occasion of his new book "Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains" (Columbia, 2023). Drawing on his award winning research, Çalışkan will present a radical insider view of how cryptocurrencies are created and traded on the ground, analyzing the emergence of the third fiat money in world history: Data Money.
Carrie Friese’s research is in medical sociology and science and technology studies, with a focus on reproduction across humans and animals. Her initial research focused on the use of assisted reproductive technologies for human reproduction in the context of infertility. She then explored the development of interspecies nuclear transfer (aka cloning) for endangered species preservation in zoos.
Building on her research, she am currently completing a book entitled “More-than-human Humanitarianism: Care, Science and Inequity.” This book asks what laboratory animals look like through the lens of humanitarianism, and what humanitarianism looks like through the lens of laboratory animals in order to analyse the benefits and limitations of the logics and practices of relating that are not necessarily visible through rights-based discourses.
Join Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago) in looking at games through the lense of the Fluxus experimental art movement, and hear how this approach might help us better understand the constraints we enact upon ourselves.
A workshop investigating the functions and malfunctions of attention in various aspects of cognition.
Talk by Austin Baker, Outgroup Disfluency
Tor Ivar Østmoe (IFIKK)
Gard Paulsen (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "New use for old weather: Histories of collective empiricism and the maritime modernities".