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Nonabsolutism and Social Change
Echoing the Cicadas: Neo-Sophism, Gamification of Knowledge & Expertise-Illusion in the Contemporary Infosphere
Early modern authors started theorizing about racism at around the same time when they started theorizing about race. Their theories are often surprisingly insightful and can help us gain a deeper understanding of racism's origins.
What does cutting-edge research in philosophy look like? What are pressing and enduring questions it uncovers, and ways of addressing them? This event offers a taste. From enduring questions about the nature of morality and human experience, to urgent questions about how to overcome oppression, research conducted in Concordia’s Department of Philosophy reflects this diversity.
Eric S. Nelson is Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science and Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He works on Chinese, German, and Jewish philosophy. He is the author of "Daoism and Environmental Philosophy" (2020), "Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other" (2020), and "Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought" (2017). He has published over seventy-five articles and book chapters and is the editor of "Interpreting Dilthey: Critical Essays" (2019).
Join the Graduate Program Director and Graduate Program Assistant for a discussion about the Philosophy MA program, the Research Thesis and Monograph Thesis options, and how to apply.
Drawing on the work of Charles Mills on race and of Susan Babbitt on gender, as well as the speaker's own on eugenics and disability, this talk raises questions about philosophy's boundaries, history, sociology, and community engagement. The hope is for the talk to spark some constructive thinking about how the future need not be like the past.
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Affiliated Lecture Series
Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) (Profs. Matthew Barker, Pablo Gilabert)
Groupe de recherche en éthique environmentale et animale (GRÉEA) (Prof. Matthew Barker)
Inter-University Research Group in Political Philosophy (GRIPP) (Profs. Matthias Fritsch, Pablo Gilabert)
Inter-University Research Group in Normativity (GRIN) (Profs. Murray Clarke, Ulf Hlobil, Katharina Nieswandt)
Loyola Sustainability Research Centre (LSRC) (Profs. Matthew Barker, Matthias Fritsch)
Montreal Inter-University Workshop in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics (Prof. Greg Lavers)
Montreal Philosophy of Science Network (Prof. Matthew Barker)