Aberdeen Philosophy
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News and events from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.
📣 The University of Aberdeen is offering 3 AHRC Doctoral Landscape funding awards for doctoral studentships across the arts and humanities.
Prospective Philosophy applicants can contact eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk. Further info:
Prospective Philosophy applicants can contact eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk. Further info:
AHRC - Research Council Awards | Scholarships | The University of Aberdeen
Explore scholarships, bursaries and funding options at Aberdeen for undergraduate, postgraduate and international students to support your studies.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📣 The University of Aberdeen is offering 3 AHRC Doctoral Landscape funding awards for doctoral studentships across the arts and humanities.
Prospective Philosophy applicants can contact eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk. Further info:
Prospective Philosophy applicants can contact eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk. Further info:
💬 Our PhD candidate Frank Burr is giving a talk at the University of Potsdam's graduate conference on Wittgenstein's 1929 Lecture on Ethics this weekend. He'll explore Wittgenstein's use of "the supernatural" in his lecture, as read through a Tolstoyan lens.
The LOE Centenary Project
The LOE Centenary Project seeks to re-evaluate Wittgenstein’s 1929 Lecture on Ethics, and to reconsider its place in his thought about ethics, language, and education, its significance for…
loecentenary.blogspot.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
💬 Our PhD candidate Frank Burr is giving a talk at the University of Potsdam's graduate conference on Wittgenstein's 1929 Lecture on Ethics this weekend. He'll explore Wittgenstein's use of "the supernatural" in his lecture, as read through a Tolstoyan lens.
🗞️ Our Jesper Kallestrup has been on a publishing streak! Here's a roundup of some of his latest papers.
October 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🗞️ Our Jesper Kallestrup has been on a publishing streak! Here's a roundup of some of his latest papers.
🗞️ Check out these two new papers from our Mike Beaney on his translation of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", in dialogue with Jaap van der Does and Martin Stokhof.
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
View of Responding to the ‘Satz’-challenge: A reply to Martin Stokhof and Jaap van der Does
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🗞️ Check out these two new papers from our Mike Beaney on his translation of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", in dialogue with Jaap van der Does and Martin Stokhof.
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
🗞️ How should states respect and protect the family life of refugees? Our Eilidh Beaton and co-author Matt Lister survey several questions and issues worthy of further discussion in their chapter in the newly published Handbook of Migration Ethics.
Refugees and Family Unification
The topics of refugee protection and family migration have both received significant attention in the philosophical literature. However, until recently, issues at the intersection of these two…
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October 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🗞️ How should states respect and protect the family life of refugees? Our Eilidh Beaton and co-author Matt Lister survey several questions and issues worthy of further discussion in their chapter in the newly published Handbook of Migration Ethics.
💬 This time last week, our Mike Beaney gave a talk on "Integrational Creativity and Resonant Witchcraft" at a workshop on "Creative Imagination from Art to Science" at the University of Geneva.
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
💬 This time last week, our Mike Beaney gave a talk on "Integrational Creativity and Resonant Witchcraft" at a workshop on "Creative Imagination from Art to Science" at the University of Geneva.
🗓️ Save the date! This upcoming Wednesday, LMU Munich's Michele Giavazzi will deliver the next talk in our colloquium series. He'll argue that existing accounts of voter incompetence betray an unduly apologetic attitude toward democratic citizens.
October 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🗓️ Save the date! This upcoming Wednesday, LMU Munich's Michele Giavazzi will deliver the next talk in our colloquium series. He'll argue that existing accounts of voter incompetence betray an unduly apologetic attitude toward democratic citizens.
💬 Today, our Fed Luzzi is giving a talk entitled 'Against Excellence as the Norm of Ambition' at CEPPA, University of St Andrews. He'll argue that we should abandon the norm of excellence in favour of the norm of sufficiency.
Further details:
Further details:
Events for September 2025 – CEPPA
Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
💬 Today, our Fed Luzzi is giving a talk entitled 'Against Excellence as the Norm of Ambition' at CEPPA, University of St Andrews. He'll argue that we should abandon the norm of excellence in favour of the norm of sufficiency.
Further details:
Further details:
💬 Today, our Sandro Guli is delivering a talk entitled "Social Roles, Recognition, and Social Nature" at Wuhan University.
Earlier this summer Sandro also presented "Internalism and Externalism in Social Normativity: The Hegelian Model" at the International Social Ontology Conference in Dublin.
Earlier this summer Sandro also presented "Internalism and Externalism in Social Normativity: The Hegelian Model" at the International Social Ontology Conference in Dublin.
September 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
💬 Today, our Sandro Guli is delivering a talk entitled "Social Roles, Recognition, and Social Nature" at Wuhan University.
Earlier this summer Sandro also presented "Internalism and Externalism in Social Normativity: The Hegelian Model" at the International Social Ontology Conference in Dublin.
Earlier this summer Sandro also presented "Internalism and Externalism in Social Normativity: The Hegelian Model" at the International Social Ontology Conference in Dublin.
💬 Today, our @paulasweeney.bsky.social is presenting at the Digital Duplicates workshop in the Centre for Bioethics at the National University of Singapore. The title of her talk is "Avatars and Dementia".
Events - Centre for Biomedical Ethics – School of Medicine, National University of Singapore - CBmE
Digital duplicates are AI built representations of people, trained on personal texts, images, and choices so they can speak, decide, and create in ways that resemble real persons. The Digital Duplicates...
medicine.nus.edu.sg
September 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
💬 Today, our @paulasweeney.bsky.social is presenting at the Digital Duplicates workshop in the Centre for Bioethics at the National University of Singapore. The title of her talk is "Avatars and Dementia".
📣 Our @paulasweeney.bsky.social has been appointed Associate Editor of the new open-access journal, JME Practical Bioethics!
The journal welcomes both traditional philosophy papers with clear practical implications & work in translational, applied, and empirically-focused bioethics.
The journal welcomes both traditional philosophy papers with clear practical implications & work in translational, applied, and empirically-focused bioethics.
Homepage | JME Practical Bioethics
An international open access, peer-reviewed journal, co-owned by the Institute of Medical Ethics and BMJ Group, dedicated to publishing bioethics research and covering urgent global issues such as…
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August 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📣 Our @paulasweeney.bsky.social has been appointed Associate Editor of the new open-access journal, JME Practical Bioethics!
The journal welcomes both traditional philosophy papers with clear practical implications & work in translational, applied, and empirically-focused bioethics.
The journal welcomes both traditional philosophy papers with clear practical implications & work in translational, applied, and empirically-focused bioethics.
💬 Our Ulrich Stegmann is presenting at the European Society for the Philosophy of Science in Groningen today. He'll explore how responses to pre-evolutionary homologies might reveal insights about relationship between lay and scientific cognition.
European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - EPSA25 - Programme
EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
philsci.eu
August 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
💬 Our Ulrich Stegmann is presenting at the European Society for the Philosophy of Science in Groningen today. He'll explore how responses to pre-evolutionary homologies might reveal insights about relationship between lay and scientific cognition.
📚☀️🇨🇳 Aberdeen Philosophy students Anna, Esmé, Itzel, and Tom had a great time participating in the Political Philosophy Summer School at Wuhan University this month! Our Eilidh Beaton also attended and delivered three lectures in the programme. (1/2)
philo.whu.edu.cn/info/1011/74...
philo.whu.edu.cn/info/1011/74...
August 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
📚☀️🇨🇳 Aberdeen Philosophy students Anna, Esmé, Itzel, and Tom had a great time participating in the Political Philosophy Summer School at Wuhan University this month! Our Eilidh Beaton also attended and delivered three lectures in the programme. (1/2)
philo.whu.edu.cn/info/1011/74...
philo.whu.edu.cn/info/1011/74...
💬 Today, our Eilidh Beaton is presenting her forthcoming paper on Methodological Nationalism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
Her paper critically interrogates the call for political theorists to reject (nation-)state-centric ways of seeing the political world.
Her paper critically interrogates the call for political theorists to reject (nation-)state-centric ways of seeing the political world.
July 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
💬 Today, our Eilidh Beaton is presenting her forthcoming paper on Methodological Nationalism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
Her paper critically interrogates the call for political theorists to reject (nation-)state-centric ways of seeing the political world.
Her paper critically interrogates the call for political theorists to reject (nation-)state-centric ways of seeing the political world.
📢 Calling all UoA Philosophy alumni! You're invited to a special online event to discover how postgraduate study could support your goals—and how we can help make it more affordable.
📅 Thursday 26 June
⏰ 1300-1400 UK time
🔗Register today: abdn.io/1ug
📅 Thursday 26 June
⏰ 1300-1400 UK time
🔗Register today: abdn.io/1ug
Webinar: Postgraduate Funding Opportunities for Aberdeen Alumni
Thinking about taking the next step in your career or returning to study?
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June 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
📢 Calling all UoA Philosophy alumni! You're invited to a special online event to discover how postgraduate study could support your goals—and how we can help make it more affordable.
📅 Thursday 26 June
⏰ 1300-1400 UK time
🔗Register today: abdn.io/1ug
📅 Thursday 26 June
⏰ 1300-1400 UK time
🔗Register today: abdn.io/1ug
🗞️ Is trust necessarily risky, or "merely" vulnerable? Our @mattjope.bsky.social explores in his latest paper, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA
philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA
June 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🗞️ Is trust necessarily risky, or "merely" vulnerable? Our @mattjope.bsky.social explores in his latest paper, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA
philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA
💬 This weekend, our @paulasweeney.bsky.social will speak at the public opening of Jordan Wolfson's "Little Room" exhibit at the Beyeler Foundation. The exhibit "expands the possibilities" of VR technology & and explores how it "shapes our thinking and perception of the body".
Calendar
Here you will find the latest events, parties and cultural happenings at the Fondation Beyeler.
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May 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
💬 This weekend, our @paulasweeney.bsky.social will speak at the public opening of Jordan Wolfson's "Little Room" exhibit at the Beyeler Foundation. The exhibit "expands the possibilities" of VR technology & and explores how it "shapes our thinking and perception of the body".
📣 Our Beth Lord will serve as Deputy Chair of the Philosophy Sub-Panel for REF 2029.
Appointments made to lead REF 2029’s 34 Sub-Panels – REF 2029
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May 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📣 Our Beth Lord will serve as Deputy Chair of the Philosophy Sub-Panel for REF 2029.
🗓️ Join us on Tuesday 27th May for the latest conference in the Digital Knowledge Project, "Experts and Laypeople in the Digital World".
More info about the Digital Knowledge Project can be found here: www.digital-knowledge.org
More info about the Digital Knowledge Project can be found here: www.digital-knowledge.org
May 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🗓️ Join us on Tuesday 27th May for the latest conference in the Digital Knowledge Project, "Experts and Laypeople in the Digital World".
More info about the Digital Knowledge Project can be found here: www.digital-knowledge.org
More info about the Digital Knowledge Project can be found here: www.digital-knowledge.org
🗓️ Upcoming conference on Spinoza and Simone Weil, organised by our PhD graduate Christopher Thomas and featuring a presentation from our current PhD student Johanna Alt.
Further info & registration here:
Further info & registration here:
Spinoza and Simone Weil: Influences and Interconnections
May 22nd-23rd Spinoza is widely recognised as one of Simone Weil’s most profound influences. Despite this, his influence on her ideas has been the subject of limited consideration in the relevant…
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May 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🗓️ Upcoming conference on Spinoza and Simone Weil, organised by our PhD graduate Christopher Thomas and featuring a presentation from our current PhD student Johanna Alt.
Further info & registration here:
Further info & registration here:
💬 Our PhD student Joyce Fungo is presenting "Writing as Protest" at the 3rd Leuven Critical Emancipations Conference today! She'll argue that writing can be an act of protest & will outline the epistemic obligations of writing as protest under oppressive conditions.
3rd Leuven Critical Emancipations Conference: Contestation and Transformation
09-05-2025 tot 10-05-2025 (Europe/Brussels / UTC200)
hiw.kuleuven.be
May 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
💬 Our PhD student Joyce Fungo is presenting "Writing as Protest" at the 3rd Leuven Critical Emancipations Conference today! She'll argue that writing can be an act of protest & will outline the epistemic obligations of writing as protest under oppressive conditions.
🗞️ Much has been written on the ethics of ‘ghostbots’, but some grief contexts do not involve death. In her latest paper, our @paulasweeney.bsky.social explores the use of personal avatar technology when a loved one's illness brings substantial cognitive change.
Creating Durable Biographies in Palliative Care: The Role of Continuing Bond Avatars - Philosophy & Technology
In this paper I explore the potential benefits and harms of avatar or chatbot representations of persons who are in palliative care. Much has been written recently about the benefits and harms of…
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May 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🗞️ Much has been written on the ethics of ‘ghostbots’, but some grief contexts do not involve death. In her latest paper, our @paulasweeney.bsky.social explores the use of personal avatar technology when a loved one's illness brings substantial cognitive change.
🗓️ Our Sandro Guli’ and Luca Moretti (University of Eastern Piedmont) are co-organising a one-day workshop on Social Ontology. They will bring together scholars from across Europe to explore questions about social structures, power, and collective agency.
April 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🗓️ Our Sandro Guli’ and Luca Moretti (University of Eastern Piedmont) are co-organising a one-day workshop on Social Ontology. They will bring together scholars from across Europe to explore questions about social structures, power, and collective agency.
🗞️ In a new paper, forthcoming in the Journal of Social Ontology, our Sandro Guli – with co-author Luca Moretti – argues that telic power cannot be entirely separated from deontic power, and that it helps explain oppression.
Sandro Guli' & Luca Moretti, Critique of telic power - PhilPapers
Åsa Burman has recently introduced the important notion of telic power and differentiated it from deontic power in an attempt to build a bridge between ideal and non-ideal social ontology. We ...
philpapers.org
April 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🗞️ In a new paper, forthcoming in the Journal of Social Ontology, our Sandro Guli – with co-author Luca Moretti – argues that telic power cannot be entirely separated from deontic power, and that it helps explain oppression.
🗓️ This Wednesday, Fenrong Liu, Changjiang Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, will share her work on the "fan-gu" pattern of argumentation in Xunzi's writings in our Colloquium series.
The talk will be held on MS Teams. Contact eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk for the link. All are welcome.
The talk will be held on MS Teams. Contact eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk for the link. All are welcome.
April 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🗓️ This Wednesday, Fenrong Liu, Changjiang Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, will share her work on the "fan-gu" pattern of argumentation in Xunzi's writings in our Colloquium series.
The talk will be held on MS Teams. Contact eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk for the link. All are welcome.
The talk will be held on MS Teams. Contact eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk for the link. All are welcome.