Ching-Hung Woo says freedom is compatible with choices being determined. We commonly think it obvious that a person facing multiple alternatives can choose any of them, and that the outcome is decided by free will at the moment of decision, rather than being already determined by earlier causes. All the events in the world, however, obey …
Are we free or are our actions determined by the laws of physics? And how much free will do we actually want? These questions have troubled philosophers for millennia – and there are still no perfect answers. But it turns out that a character from a children’s TV series can provide a clue. Thomas the Tank Engine, despite …
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Stuart Hannabuss journeys into the human condition with Søren Kierkegaard. We tend to think of faith as a matter of personal choice. It is very much up to you, we say, wishing to give other people the space to live their lives their way. We might think of ourselves all on a journey through life, growing …
Conference Venue:Bilkent Philosophical Society, Department of Philosophy, University of BilkentAnkara, Turkey Topic areasGeneralDetailsCall for Abstracts: We invite undergraduate students from all departments and universities to take part in the 6th Bilkent International Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on Saturday, November 19, 2022, which will be held online via Zoom. The purpose of this conference is to provide …
Conference Venue: Istanbul Bilgi University İstanbul, Turkey Topic areas General Details CALL FOR PAPER 5th. International Congress of Women in Philosophy in Turkey (SWIP-TR) : ART AND SCIENCE Conference dates: December 9-10, 2022, Online-Zoom Deadline: October 20, 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Mary Beth Mader (The University of Memphis), Observations on Observation: Perspective in Deleuze Zekiye Kutlusoy …
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity. Many of these criticisms rely on psychological diagnoses that expose …
At different times in Chinese history, Confucius (trad. 551–479 BCE) has been portrayed as a teacher, advisor, editor, philosopher, reformer, and prophet. The name Confucius, a Latinized combination of the surname Kong 孔 with an honorific suffix “Master” (fuzi 夫子), has also come to be used as a global metonym for different aspects of traditional …
Conference Venue: New College, University of OxfordOxford, United Kingdom Details This conference interrogates the diverse echoes of Christendom in contemporary political exceptionalism, nationalism and populism. Whether in the shape of the Russian World ideology, Christian civilisationalism, or religious conservatism in and beyond Europe, these echoes of Christendom may translate in new forms of intolerance, …
Go to the conference’s page Conference Venue: Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, United States Details The WMU Graduate Student Association of Philosophers is pleased to announce its 16th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference. The conference will take place January 27- 28, 2023. Currently, the conference is scheduled to be held in person. However, …
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The philosopher Socrates remains, as he was in his lifetime (469–399 B.C.E.),[1] an enigma, an inscrutable individual who, despite having written nothing, is considered one of the handful of philosophers who forever changed how philosophy itself was to be conceived. All our information about him is second-hand and most of it vigorously disputed, but his …