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International Workshop on Offence (In collaboration with University of Galway)

Offence is an increasingly prevalent social phenomenon that has received little philosophical analysis. To be offended or to take offence can have significant social power and incur severe professional and personal consequences. While a wide array of utterances, actions, creative outputs and personal beliefs are spoken of as sources of offence, spaces to meaningfully dialogue what offence may mean, discuss, respond to and handle potentially offensive content and how to identify spaces where offence ought Read more…

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Conference CFA: Moral development and moral failure

  “Moral Development and Moral Failure” Conference Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland 20 – 21 October 2023   *** Call for abstracts ***   Conference Theme The twin issues of Moral Development and Moral Failure have been at the core of philosophical reflection on ethics at least since Socrates. Following the Athenian philosopher, the Stoics, St. Augustine, Kant, and many others to our own day, have asked why human beings do wrongs knowingly and how Read more…

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IPS Annual Conference 2022

“Philosophy in the Public Space” Conference Trinity College Dublin, 21-22nd October 2022 Conference programme available here Abstracts We live in a time of multiple crises when philosophy’s public role is once again a matter of significant concern. Much public discourse, whether in parliaments and public squares, on traditional or social media, seems far removed from ideals of reasoned discussion, which philosophers have championed and continue to uphold. What role philosophy has or can have in Read more…

By Fletcher, ago

Call for Abstracts: Gender Futures

Gender Futures The IPS and SWIP Ireland are co-hosting an online seminar series in Semester 1, 2022-23, on the theme of ‘Gender Futures’. We aim to build on the success of our Spring PG online seminar series, which helped to create a platform for PG philosophy students across the island of Ireland to communicate and share their research. In this series, we are inviting PG students to submit a title and 300 word abstract on the theme Read more…

By Fletcher, ago

Call for abstracts 2022

Call for abstracts “Philosophy in the Public Space” Conference Trinity College Dublin, 21-22nd October 2022   Extended abstract deadline: Monday 9th May (midnight Irish time)   .pdf version of this call for abstracts We live in a time of multiple crises when philosophy’s public role is once again a matter of significant concern. Much public discourse, whether in parliaments and public squares, on traditional or social media, seems far removed from ideals of reasoned discussion Read more…

By Fletcher, ago

Postgraduate seminar series, Spring 2022

We aim to create a platform for postgraduate philosophy students at Irish Higher Education Institutions, enabling them to bond and share their research across the community. Our schedule for Spring 2022 is as follows: Time zone: Dublin/London          Location: online (via Zoom) The speakers (following the sequence of the timetable)   Marten Kaas, University College Cork Marten Kaas is a PhD candidate completing his studies at University College Cork on the philosophy Read more…

By Fletcher, ago

SEMINAR: Plato’s theory on Eros and the political implications

Wednesday January 12, 4:00PM GMT Zoom link will be sent to all IPS members in due course. If you are not a member and wish to PARTICIPATE, please contact felix.omurchadha [at] nuigalway.ie Plato’s theory on Eros and the political implications by Panos Eliopoulos University of Ioannina, Greece; Open University of Cyprus; Erasmus Visiting Scholar, University College Cork, Ireland (2022). ABSTRACT: In most of the platonic dialogues, it is emphasized that proper pleasures and likings comprise prerequisites Read more…

By Fletcher, ago

Colloquium Schedule, February-April 2021

Joint TCD/UCC Philosophy Colloquium Sponsored by The Irish Philosophical Society Friday afternoons, 3pm on Zoom (check individual events for times) February 5 (3pm) – Jenann Ismael (Columbia) – Time and the Visual Imagination:  from physics to philosophy February 12 (3pm) – Cara Nine (UCC) –  Secession: Crafting Borders and Environmental Responsibility February 19 (3pm) – Alba Montes Sánchez (UCC) – Three Forms of Pride March 5 (3pm) – Maria Baghramian (UCD) – Trust as a norm of science Read more…

By Fletcher, ago

Call for papers – ‘The Future as a Present Concern’

THE FUTURE AS A PRESENT CONCERN | NUIG – IPS – BSP | ONLINE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | 1-3 SEPTEMBER 2021 Online international conference between the National University of Ireland Galway / Ollscoil Na Héireann Gaillimh, The Irish Philosophical Society / Cumann Fealsúnachta Na Héireann, and the British Society for Phenomenology. * * * Call for Papers * * * The organisers invite abstracts for the international conference The Future as a Present Concern. Due to Read more…

By Fletcher, ago

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