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Presented by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society & the Rule of Law (CISRUL)  Mon, 8 May Tues, 9 May Wed, 10 May Thur, 11 May 1-3pm 1-3pm 6-8pm 1-3 pm New Kings 14   New Kings 14 New Kings 10  Taylor C11 Sophocles, Spirituality and the Planetary Seminar: Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming PUBLIC LECTURE: Postcolonial Ecologies, Extinction Events, and Entangled...

Professor David Novak University of Toronto 2017 Gifford Lecturer A discussion of two essays ‘Karl Barth on Divine Command: a Jewish Response’ &  ‘Are Philosophical Proofs of the Existence of God Theologically Meaningful?’  from his volume Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian (London: SCM Press, 2006). Texts to be circulated and prepared in advance.

Dr Phillip Meadows (United Arab Emirate University) Title: Absences, Many Absences, and Causation. Abstract: In this paper I offer a partial defence of absence causation in response to two related issues: (i) the problem of many absences, and (ii) Beebee’s claim that there is no metaphysically respectable, principled...

Tuesday, May 2nd Session 113:30--‐15:00 “Sovereignty and Submission: The Violence of Christian Metaphysics”Prof Marius Mjaaland (University of Oslo)Session 215:30--‐17:00 “The End of the Two Realms? Christian--‐Muslim Dialogue from a Lutheran Perspective”Dr. Eva Harasta (Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin)Wednesday, May 3rdSession 39:30--‐11:00 “Mystical Foundations of Politics? Luther on God’s Presence and the Place...

26 April, 7th Floor of the Sir Duncan Rice Library - Thomas Reid's 307th Birthday Party! Schedule for the day: 10:30 - 11:30 "Reid on Identity: Nazis, Memory, and Personhood" by Tom Flint and James McHardy, The Wise Club (Aberdeen) 11:30 - 11:45 Tea and Coffee break 11:45 - 12:45...

Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature.

J. Richard Middleton is currently visiting the UK and has kindly agreed to visit Aberdeen to give a paper next Monday (24th April). The seminar will take place at 11am in the Humanities Manse, and the title of his paper is:"Voices from the Ragged Edge: The Gritty Spirituality of the...

Dr Neiladri SINHABABU (National University Singapore) Title: Epistemic Akrasia for the Rational Pragmatist Abstract: It's possible to rationally believe that p while also judging that it's irrational to believe that p. Such cases of rational epistemic akrasia are elusive among those who accept evidentialist norms for belief. But it's possible if...

Marcin Milkowski (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences) Title: Multiple Realization Is Dead    

Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)Title: Modal Empiricism: What Is the Problem?Abstract: In his introduction to the Critique, Kant contends that necessity is a criterion of the a priori—that is, that all knowledge of necessary propositions is a priori. This contention, together with two others that Kant took to be evident—we...