Name: Richard Swinburne: The Social Theory of the Trinity @edinburghphilosophy
Uploaded: 2017-03-30T08:17:00
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Description: Professor Richard Swinburne (University of Oxford) delivers the Gunning Lecture, 9th March 2016.

Richard Swinburne: The Social Theory of the Trinity

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2017-03-30 | Professor Richard Swinburne (University of Oxford) delivers the Gunning Lecture, 9th March 2016.

PPLS Perspectives Podcast - Episode 4 - The Brain Abstracted

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2024-07-18 | In our fourth episode Dr. Mazviita Chirimuuta discusses her work and new book The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience with early career research fellow Kate Nave.

PPLS Perspectives Podcast - Episode 1 - The Philosophy of Grief

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2024-07-18 | In our first episode, Ellie Palmer chats with Professor Michael Cholbi about his work on the philosophy of grief.

Graduate Schools in Philosophy and Academic Life

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2024-06-11 | In this video, Michael Cholbi and Takeshi Morisato discuss with students, Athan Yanos and William Hamilton, what we should know if we are interested in applying to a graduate program in philosophy and further in pursuing a career in academia. We consider many different questions including: how to apply to Graduate Schools; Insider tips on how to succeed in PhD programs; Whether or not pursuing a career in academia is actually worth it; and Insider knowledge about what the actual experience of being a professor is. With graduating philosophy majors, we delve into how to use a philosophy degree and where the field of philosophy is at today.

Links:

Clips Channel: @AthanYClips
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3esjsZ9...
Website: theathanyanosshow.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theathanyan...
Twitter: https://x.com/AthanYanos

#academiccareer #academiclife #highereducationsystem #phdlife #academicjourney

The Brain Abstracted (New Books at Edinburgh Philosophy)

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2024-06-11 | Speakers

- Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh)
- Tina Röck (University of Dundee)
- Nick Shea (University of Oxford)

This is a philosophical event to celebrate the launch of Dr. Chirimuuta's book, The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience (MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548045/the-brain-abstracted/). Join our intellectual community in Edinburgh to recognise and critically engage with the works of philosophers.

Mazviita will introduce the central ideas of the book. This will be followed by critical responses from Tina Röck (Dundee) and Nick Shea (Oxford), who offer perspectives from both continental philosophy of biology and analytic philosophy of cognitive science.

Here is the link to the open access version of the book: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History

Absolute Critique in Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy as Metanoetics:

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2024-04-16 | Japanese Philosophy Workshop @edinburghphilosophy
Speaker: Gregory Moss (@CUHKchannel)

In “Absolute Critique in #Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy as #Metanoetics” Gregory Moss (Chinese University of Hong Kong) will explain the concept of absolute critique in the second chapter of Tanabe’s Philosophy as Metanoetics, “Absolute Critique: The Logic of Metanoetics.” On the one hand, he shows how Tanabe’s concept of absolute critique works as a systematic and rational development of #Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. On the other hand, he shows how Tanabe attempts to transcend Kant’s critique by simultaneously affirming a trans-rational faith in Other-Power as the principle by which the limit of rational inquiry is established.

Ecological Thinking with Zen Master Dōgen and Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2024-04-16 | Japanese Philosophy Workshop @edinburghphilosophy
Speaker: Professor Graham Parkes (@univienna)

A major factor behind the current #ecological crisis is our dysfunctional relationship with the things we deal with in our everyday lives. This pathology derives mainly from our our utilitarian perspective, through which we see things as mere means to our ends, and more broadly from a sense that things configurations of ‘inanimate’ matter. But this worldview is remarkably recent and quite parochial, as we realise when we consider the East-Asian philosophical tradition with its idea of the world as a field of qi energies. Over the course of fifteen centuries, #Confucian, #Daoist, #Buddhist and Neo-Confucian thinkers developed a sophisticated account of the ways in which humans and things share a common nature, culminating in the ideas and practice of #zen Master #Dōgen. A comparison with corresponding ideas in Nietzsche (representing a significant side-current in Western thinking) suggests a more general validity. The adoption of different ways of thinking about and interacting with things can enrich our experience—and reduce damage to the natural world on which we depend for our existence.

Book: "How to Think about the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living"
bloomsbury.com/uk/how-to-think-about-the-climate-crisis-9781350158863

Animal Intelligence: How an Islamic Thinker Questioned Human Exceptionalism

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2024-03-02 | Speaker: Professor Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany)

Abstract: There was broad consensus in pre-modern philosophy that humans are distinguished from other animals by their rationality. In antiquity, occasional objections were put forward - notably by Platonists who suggested that animals may be capable of rational thought - but the consensus view was generally adopted in the medieval philosophical cultures. This paper discusses a striking exception: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.1210), a philosopher-theologian who explored the idea of rationality in non-human animals as part of his systematic attack on the Aristotelian thought of #Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d.1037). Al-Rāzī offered several arguments in favor of the proposal that non-human animals do have intelligence or reason (ʿaql), arguments suggesting that rationality is possessed to greater and lesser degrees by different creatures.

#WorldPhilosophies Lecture Series, #edinburgh #philosophy #islamic #animals #islamicphilosophy #alRāzī #lmu #LudwigMaximiliansUniversität

Fanon and Black Male Studies

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2024-02-17 | Edinburgh Speaker Series

Speaker: Norman Ajari (University of Edinburgh)

Abstract: This talk endeavours to provide an account of Caribbean psychiatrist and political theorist Frantz Fanon’s theorising of colonised males facing white desire. Doing so, it aims at showing both how his writings paved the way to the emerging field of contemporary Black male studies, and how psychoanalytical, philosophical, and political insights he offers are still apt to enrich our understanding of racialised men and boys today.

Further Reading:

- Darkening Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought: politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=darkening-blackness-race-gender-class-and-pessimism-in-21st-century-black-thought--9781509554997

-Dignity or Death: Ethics and Politics of Race: politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=dignity-or-death-ethics-and-politics-of-race--9781509548651

#fanon #blackthought #AfricanaPhilosophy #philosophy #intellectualgenealogy #BlackMaleStudies

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2023-11-22 | Thinking about studying towards an MSc in philosophy? Hear from staff and students at the University of Edinburgh and find out more about our vibrant community.

Website: ed.ac.uk/c/philosophy-pg-online-info

George Neish

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2019-07-17 | Andy Clark Conference June 2019

Barbara Webb

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2019-07-17 | Andy Clark conference 2019

Adam Toon

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2019-07-17 | Andy Clark conference 2019

Andy Clark

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2019-07-17 | Andy Clark Conference June 2019

Kate Nave

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2019-07-17 | Andy Clark conference 2019

George Neish

Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 2019-07-17 | Andy Clark conference 2019

Friedrich Steinle - Concept dynamics and the realism question