Events

Publieke verdediging doctoraat Boris Demarest+ aansluitend receptie 16:00u Vrije toegang Graag laten weten via boris.demarest@hotmail.be

! Due to problems at the airport as a result of the recent events in Brussels, this event is cancelled.   Lecture prof. Rachel Zuchert (Northwestern University) "Kant's Critique of Sublimity"   Kant’s account of the sublime in the Critique of Judgment has been extremely influential in discussions of the sublime, but seems marginal to his critical project: Kant himself notes that it is a mere “appendix” to the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, and it is unclear [...]

De naam van Immanuel Kant is terecht verbonden met de Verlichting. Wat minder bekend is dat hij, nadenkend over de oorsprong van de maatschappelijke orde en de Franse Revolutie, tot de conclusie kwam dat onvoorwaardelijke gehoorzaamheid aan de bestaande wetten en normen van de samenleving vereist is. We moeten echter vooral inzien dat dit autoritarisme niet zomaar een 'terugval' van Kant was, maar een tendens blootlegt die eigen is aan het moderne politieke denken.   Lezing gebaseerd [...]

Master Class by Prof. dr. Bernard Stiegler Director of the Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation du Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris)   "The Duty of Philosophy in the Neganthropocene"   With an introduction by Dr. Henk Vandaele (UC Vives) & Dr. Jens De Vleminck (Ghent University)   Launch of De Uil van Minerva's Special Issue on Bernard Stiegler (Volume 28 (4), December 2015) see: http://deuilvanminerva.be/   10:00 - [...]

Le précepte delphique 'connais-toi toi-même' est un idéal qui se heurte à la fermeture de nombreuses versions profanes et savantes de 'connaissance de soi'. Celles-ci forment autant de 'façons de parler de soi' pour dire la santé mentale et les composantes attendues d'une personnalité dans une société. Ainsi, développer une anthropologie philosophique attentive à ce paradoxe, c'est étudier les conceptions contemporaines concurrentes de la catégorie de personne qui tente de [...]

The Centre for Ethics and Humanism (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and the Centre for Critical Philosophy (Ghent University) are very pleased to announce the third edition of the workshop Rethinking Europe. This year the workshop will focus on the tensions between cosmopolitan/universalist discourses and the experience of otherness. Keynote speaker is Prof. Dr. Lukas Sosoe of the University of Luxembourg. Date: December 19th. Venue: Faculty of Arts & Philosophy, room C/5.402 [...]

by Prof. Dr. P. Cobben (Universiteit Tilburg)   The need of critical revisiting the legacy of 18th and 19th German Philosophy, one of the most fruitful periods in German Philosophy, lies not only in the fact that the central problems of contemporary political philosophy are implicitly or explicitly related to the legacy of the philosophices of Kant, Fichte and Hegel, but first and foremost in the reductionist and one-sided dominant interpretations of this philosophies, according to [...]

by prof. P. Kleingeld (Universiteit Groningen)   Prof. dr. Pauline Kleingeld is professor in Ethics and History at the University of Groningen. In the past, she studied at the Universities of Leiden and Frankfurt am Main, and was Assistant and Associate Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis and Professor  practical philosophy in Leiden. Her academic interests are Kant’s and Kantian philosophy, as well as moral theory, political philosophy, and feminist theory. [...]

by Prof. M. Maesschalck (Université Catholique de Louvain)   The need of critical revisiting the legacy of 18th and 19th German Philosophy, one of the most fruitful periods in German Philosophy, lies not only in the fact that the central problems of contemporary political philosophy are implicitly or explicitly related to the legacy of the philosophices of Kant, Fichte and Hegel, but first and foremost in the reductionist and one-sided dominant interpretations of this philosophies, [...]

by Prof. David James (University of Warwick)   The need of critical revisiting the legacy of 18th and 19th German Philosophy, one of the most fruitful periods in German Philosophy, lies not only in the fact that the central problems of contemporary political philosophy are implicitly or explicitly related to the legacy of the philosophices of Kant, Fichte and Hegel, but first and foremost in the reductionist and one-sided dominant interpretations of this philosophies, according to [...]

by Prof. J.-C. Merle   The need of critical revisiting the legacy of 18th and 19th German Philosophy, one of the most fruitful periods in German Philosophy, lies not only in the fact that the central problems of contemporary political philosophy are implicitly or explicitly related to the legacy of the philosophices of Kant, Fichte and Hegel, but first and foremost in the reductionist and one-sided dominant interpretations of this philosophies, according to which the political [...]

Lecture Series & Doctoral School at Ghent University (website)   The need of critical revisiting the legacy of 18th and 19th German Philosophy, one of the most fruitful periods in German Philosophy, lies not only in the fact that the central problems of contemporary political philosophy are implicitly or explicitly related to the legacy of the philosophices of Kant, Fichte and Hegel, but first and foremost in the reductionist and one-sided dominant interpretations of this [...]

Doctoral school course at Ghent University (website) Grote vergaderzaal (3rd floor), Blandijnberg 2, Ghent Prof Dr Mario Caimi (Argentina, 1947) is since 1985 professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has obtained a PhD degree at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany) with a book on Kant's concept of sensation. He has been invited professor at many European and Latin American universities, among them at Paris I (Sorbonne), at [...]

Woensdag 22 mei 2013 9u-17u Meer info: zie folder bij 'downloads'  

19u30-21u30.   From mirror neurons to Embodied Simulation   Lecture by Prof Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma)   Response by Prof Ariane Bazan (ULB)   This is the public part of the specialist course of the doctoral school of UGent, more info on the specialist course (for registered PhD-students only) can be found here.

The neurosciences have spawned in only a few decades both a hegemonious neuro-culture and a neural subjectivity (i.e. Fernando Vidal’s “cerebral subject”, Nikolas Rose “neurochemical self”). How we experience ourselves and the world increasingly hinges on neurological rather than psychological and internalistic notions. Within the field of the sciences themselves the prefix “neuro” becomes ubiquitous. Approaches, such as neuroeducation, neuropolitics or neuro-aesthetics, are [...]

La Chose, "Das Ding", c'est ce à quoi l'être parlant est confronté dès son premier cri, un cri qui se répète dans chacune de ses paroles. Même s'il s'enferme dans son mutisme, la Chose - Res en latin qui donne réel - mobilise chez lui un jugement d'existence : "Il y a quelque chose". Quelque chose qui le dépasse et l'inquiète, d'emblée et pour toujours. Mieux encore depuis toujours ! Comme si cette présence hallucinée était la carte forcée de la parole. Le terme d'hallucination [...]

The workshop aims to serve as a place for reflection, discussion and innovation towards theories of Government, the limits and the potential of Democracy, Public Sphere, the tensions between Civil and Civic and between Society and State.