UCC Philosophy Department

Call for Postgraduate Applications: DEADLINE EXTENDED

uccphilosophy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:27:27 +0000

The MA IN PHILOSOPHY at University College Cork offers a unique learning environment in which students engage with world-class research in both Eastern and Western Philosophy. Taught elements include traditional seminars as well as experimental workshops and an optional Summer School with international guests. In addition, students will work on individual projects under the supervision of experts in their chosen fields and submit a thesis at the end of the programme. This one-year MA enables students to develop a wide range of conceptual and analytical skills furthering both academic and non-academic careers in an exciting cosmopolitan context. For staff profiles go to www.ucc.ie/en/philosophy For further information on applications go to http://www.ucc.ie/en/CKE53/ . Contact: Dr. Julia Jansen j.jansen@ucc.ie Deadline for applications: August 14th, 2009. Start of Programme: September 21, 2009 .

The interdisciplinary MA IN AESTHETICS AND HISTORY OF ART at University College Cork offers an innovative combination of the creative thinking and critical precision of Philosophy with the kinds of object-based study proper to History of Art. Sustained attention is devoted to key developments in the history of modern and contemporary art and to diverse philosophical approaches, exploring how these practices intersect productively. The aim of this one-year programme is to offer at UCC the only course in Ireland that provides students with the opportunity to develop and evaluate theories of art in their historical as much as philosophical contexts. For further information on applications go to http://www.ucc.ie/en/CKE71/ Contact: Dr. Julia Jansen j.jansen@ucc.ie or Dr. Ed Krčma e.krcma@ucc.ie Deadline for applications: August 14th, 2009. Start of Programme: September 21, 2009.

Applications for MPhil (Masters by Research) and PhD Programmes can be submitted any time of the year. For staff profiles go to www.ucc.ie/en/philosophy/

The HDip Philosophy at University College Cork gives students from all disciplines an opportunity for intensive studies in both Eastern and Western philosophy. During the one-year full-time or two-year part-time programme students select twelve modules (60 credits) from second and third year undergraduate options. A primary degree in any subject allows for entry into the programme. Students who hold a primary degree in philosophy but do not meet the entry requirements for the MA programme are also eligable. The programme is aimed at graduates who may wish to be considered for a Masters programme subsequently, who may wish to add the Higher Diploma in Philosophy to their qualifications, or who are simply excited to explore philosophical ideas and to acquire philosophical skills. For further information on applications go to http://www.ucc.ie/en/CKE 21 / . Contact: Dr. Julia Jansen j.jansen@ucc.ie Deadline for applications: August 14th, 2009. Start of Programme: September 21, 2009.

Visiting Speaker Talk: Claus Langbehn, 10-3-2009

uccphilosophy — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:38:31 +0000

As part of our Visiting Speakers Series, the Department of Philosophy is proud to present:

Dr. Claus Langbehn

University of Kiel, Germany

A Dark Side of The Critique of Pure Reason? Kant on Perception

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 5pm
Brookfield Health Sciences Complex 301
All welcome!

Visiting Speaker Talk: Garrett Barden (Professor Emeritus, UCC), 24/2/2009

uccphilosophy — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:06:34 +0000

As part of our Visiting Speaker Series, the Philosophy Department is proud to present:

Garrett Barden

Professor Emeritus, University College Cork

Hobbes and the Foundation of Civil Society

This talk will refer to chapters 15 and 26 of the Leviathan.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 5pm
Brookfield Health Sciences Complex 301
All welcome!

Visiting Speaker Series: Dr. Dylan Evans, UCC, 10/2/2009

uccphilosophy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:35:17 +0000

Dr Dylan Evans

Lecturer in Behavioural Science

School of Medicine

University College Cork

www.dylan.org.uk

Putting Numbers on Everything

“Not everything that counts can be counted”, said Einstein, but was he right? Some people think that you can measure anything, while others think that some things are inherently unquantifiable. In this talk I’ll look at this debate and argue that putting numbers on things, when done carefully, can help clarify every imaginable disagreement. From Bayesian probabilities to preferences, numbers are always potentially helpful, provided one is clear about the scales involved (is it an ordinal or ratio scale for example) and the degree of uncertainty (how confident are we in our estimates, and how many significant figures do they contain?). I’ll also ask why it is that so many people seem to find this view of the world so distasteful.

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 5pm

Brookfield Health Sciences Complex 301

Visiting Speaker Series: Dr. Hans-Georg Moeller, UCC, 3/2/2009

uccphilosophy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:31:22 +0000

As part of our Visiting Speaker Series, the Philosophy Department is proud to present:

Dr. Hans-Georg Moeller

Department of Philosophy

University College Cork

Masters of War: A Refutation of Just War Theory

This will include remarks on recent events in Palestine.

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 5pm

Brookfield Health Sciences Complex 301

All Welcome!

Visiting Speaker Series: Dr. Christopher Cowley, UCD, (22-1-2009)

uccphilosophy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:40:31 +0000

As part of our Visiting Speaker Series, the Philosophy Department is proud to present:

Dr. Christopher Cowley

Department of Philosophy

University College Dublin

Learning to Love

Abstract: I want to look at some particular applications of the intriguing Latin expression ‘amor fati’ (‘love of fate’), but without any reference to Ancient Roman philosophy or to Nietzsche’s use of it. I will start with examples of a man falsely sentenced to life imprisonment, and of a woman entering an arranged marriage with a stranger whom she comes to dislike strongly. How are either of them to learn to ‘love their fate’, that is, not just to ‘put up’ with their fate or even ‘make the best’ of it, but explicitly to love it? Surely love cannot be learned or commanded. (The same problem is involved in the promise to love someone ‘forever’.) Even if love could be learned, is there not something self-deceitful about this? Indeed, might it not represent a lack of self-respect and consent to evil? The answer, I want to suggest, is in coming to understand the difference between a first-personal perspective of life (of what it means for ME to live MY life) and the third-personal perspective with which most philosophers have been interested.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 5pm

Brookfield Health Sciences Complex 224

All Welcome!

Visiting Speaker Series: Dr. Jennifer Saul (13-1-2009)

uccphilosophy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:21:44 +0000

As part of our Visiting Speaker Series, the Philosophy Department is proud to present:

Dr. Jennifer Saul

Department of Philosophy

University of Sheffield

“‘Woman’: A Contextualist Analysis”

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at 5pm

Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, 301

All Welcome!

Visiting Speaker Series: Dr. Rowland Stout (2-12-2008)

uccphilosophy — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:33:25 +0000

As part of our Visiting Speaker Series, The Philosophy Department is proud to present:

Rowland Stout

Department of Philosophy

University College Dublin

“What You Cause When You Do Something”

Tuesday, December 2^nd, 2008 at 5pm

Brookfield Health Sciences Complex 263

All Welcome!

Visiting Speaker Series: Prof. Helen Beebee (18-11-2008)

uccphilosophy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:59:11 +0000

As part of our Visiting Speaker Series, The Philosophy Department is proud to present:

Professor Helen Beebee

Department of Philosophy

University of Birmingham

HUME’S TWO DEFINITIONS OF CAUSATION

Much ink has been spilled over Hume’s two definitions of causation. Why did he provide two, and why are they so clearly not equivalent? Does the first definition provide any support for the standard regularity-theory interpretation of Hume’s view of causation? Or are the two definitions merely intended to delineate our idea of causation (however defective), or to provide a description of the conditions under which causal beliefs arise?

I argue that no existing account of the two definitions does justice to Hume’s claim, in the Treatise, that the definitions are definitions of causation considered, separately, as a philosophical and a natural relation; and I provide an alternative account — the Procedural Interpretation — that satisfies that constraint. The basic idea is that Hume’s distinction between natural and philosophical relations is a distinction between two different kinds of mental procedure, and, correspondingly, the two definitions provide accounts of two different procedures that result in causal judgment.

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 5pm

Brookfield Health Sciences Complex 263

All Welcome!