Dr Paul Shore (Brandon, Manitoba / Canada) will speak on

Islam through the Lens of Baroque Habsburg Catholicism

Oct 25 Lecture Event

Tuesday 29 Nov., 2011, from 17.00 – 19.00;

Dr Iain Atack (International Peace Studies, ISE / TCD) will speak on

Ethics and Power in Nonviolent Political Action

Nov 29 Lecture Event

Tuesday 31 January 2012

Prof. Martin Leiner (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena / Germany) will speak on

Religions, Reconciliation and the EuroRare Project

Jan 31 Lecture Event

See for the complete schedule

LRH_Lecture_Series_2011-12

 The conference will take place from the 15th until the 16 th of September, 2011 in Heidelberg and will be part of the celebrations of the 625th anniversary of the Heidelberg University.

Please find detailled information under the following link: www.jaspers-congress-2011.unitt.de

IPS Spring Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, from April 15-16

The Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick will be hosting the Spring Conference of the Irish Philosophical Society, Friday April 15 to Saturday April 16, 2011.Programme

Friday April 15

Registration: 4.30 – 6.00pm, Tara Lecture Theatre (T-1-16)

6.00-7.30pm: Keynote Address: Prof. Jonathan Rée (London),
“Thinking and time: anachronism and interpretation in the history of philosophy”

Saturday April 16

Registration: 8.30-9.00am, Tara Lecture Theatre (T-1-16)

9.30: Ian Dillon (MIC, Limerick), “Philosophizing the end of history: The political dangers of post-ideological closure”

10.15: Steve Leddin (MIC, Limerick), “Vagaries of Origin: Walter Benjamin’s critique of historicism and its hermeneutic import”

11.00-11.20 Coffee break

11.20: Kristof Vanhoutte (Rome), “Philosophy as the in-between”

12.05: Zsuzsanna Kondor (Budapest), “Past and present constraints”

12.50-2.00 Lunch

2.00: Aislinn O’Donnell (MIC, Limerick), “Arendt and conservative education”

2.45: Natalie Nenadic (Kentucky), “Heidegger, history, and the task of philosophy”

3.30-3.50: Coffee break

3.50: Tom Angier (Kent), “Alasdair MacIntyre’s analysis of tradition”

4.35: Lloyd Strickland (Wales), “Philosophy and the search for truth”

5.15: Philip Reynor (TCD), “The flesh of perceived things”

6.00: Conference ends.

7.00: Conference Dinner
Spice of India, O’Connell Street, Limerick.

Queen’s University, Belfast

This year our autumn conference will take place on November 27th at Queen’s University Belfast in conjunction with the School of Politics, International Studies and Politics . The theme of the conference is ‘Convergences and Divergences: Philosophy in the Scholastic, Analytic, and Continental Traditions’ and the keynote speaker will be Prof William Desmond, KU Leuven.
A 300 word abstract of the proposed paper should be sent to both Gaven Kerr gkerr07@qub.ac.uk and Michael Dunne michael.w.dunne@nuim by October 22nd.

IPS Spring Conference: “The Future of Phenomenology”

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Rudi Visker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

Spring Conference of the
Irish Philosophical Society
The Futures of Phenomenology
March 5th- 7th
Hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the School of Humanities,
National University of Ireland, Galway.
Friday 5th March
17:00 Registration
Seminar Room, Philosophy Department, Morrisroe House
17:45 Welcome Address
D’Arcy Thompson Theatre, Arts/Commerce Building
18:00-19:30 Prof. Paul Crowther (NUIG)
“Phenomenology and the Problem of Analysis”
D’Arcy Thompson Theatre, Arts/Commerce Building
Saturday 6th
09:00 Registration
Moore Institute, Seminar Room AC 203
09:45
Dr. James McGuirk
(Bodø, Norway), “Indexicality & Phenomenological Subjectivity”
Dr. Niall Keane (MIC, Limerick)
“Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Homelessness & Translation”
10:15
Dr. Cyril McDonnell (NUIM)
“The Significance of Seeing and Talking about Death: Heidegger’s Critique & Limited Advancement of Husserlian Phenomenology”
Dr. Noel Kavanagh (Carlow College)
“In Which Sense can we have a Phenomenology of Love? An Investigation of Marion’s Erotic Phenomenon”
10.45
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11.15
Dr. Harald Wiltsche
(Graz Universität)
“A Phenomenological Analysis of the Laboratory of the Mind”
Ms. Sheena Hyland (UCD)
“The Futures of Phenomenology”
11.45
Dr. Donnchadh O’Conaill
(University of Durham)
“McDowell & Transcendental Phenomenology”
Dr. Andrea Altobrando
(Turin/Wuppertal)
“The Futures of Phenomenology:
The Phenomenological Genius”
12:15-14:00 Lunch
Moore Institute, Seminar Room
14:00-15:00 Dr. Tim Mooney (UCD),
“On the Flexibility in Concrete Movement: Merleau-Ponty’s Proper Conclusion”
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:30 Dr. Felix O’Murchadha (NUIG),
“Scepticism & Phenomenology”
16:30-17:30 Dr. Joseph Cohen (UCD),
“Emmanuel Lévinas & the Problem of Phenomenology”
17:30-18:00 Coffee
18:00-19:30 Keynote Address: Prof. Rudi Visker (K.U. Leuven, Belgium),
“The Inhuman Core of Human Dignity. Lévinas & Beyond”
Followed by the launch of the IPS Yearbook by the President of the IPS Dr. Michael Dunne
20:00 Conference dinner
Vina Mara Restaurant, Middle Street, Galway
Sunday 7th
Moore Institute, Seminar Room
10:00-11:00 Prof. Brian O’Connor (UCD),
“Phronesis, Reason & the Phenomenology of Everyday Expertise”
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Prof. Graham Parkes (NUIC),
“Nietzsche & Eco-Phenomenology”
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Prof. Dermot Moran (UCD),
“The Phenomenology of Personhood”
Followed by the AGM of the IPS

IPS Autumn Conference
St. Malachy’s College, Belfast
Saturday October 24th, 2009

9.30–9.55am Registration
9.55–10.00am: Michael Dunne Introduction
Session 1
10.00–10.40am Yinya Liu (NUIM) ‘Truth’ and ‘Religion’ in Bonhoeffer and Levinas
10.40 –11.00am COFFEE/ TEA BREAK

Session 2
11.00–11.40am Cyril McDonnell (NUIM) The Philosophical Task of Thinking the Finite and the Infinite after Kant, in Husserl, Heidegger, and Schleiermacher
11.40am–12.20pm Graham Veale (City of Armagh High School), Elliot Sober and the Likelihood of Design
12.20–1pm David Glass (UU), Probability and the Presumption of Atheism
1.00– 2.15pm LUNCH

Session 3
2.15–2.55pm Suzi Gottloeber (NUIM), The conflict with the Other. Ontological relationality as an epistemic justification for a concept of tolerance
2.55–3.35pm Bernard Cullen (QUB), Rationality, Irrationality, and the Role of Trauma in Unconscious Malignant Processes in Groups
3.35–3.50pm COFFEE/ TEA BREAK

Session 4
3.50 –4.30pm Gaven Kerr (QUB), Aquinas on Abstraction
6.45 pm. CONFERENCE DINNER

The Irish Philosophical Society Annual Spring Conference
Venue: Arts Building—Lecture Theatre 1
On: Saturday 04th April 2009

Under the Auspices of The Irish Philosophical Society and NUI Maynooth, Department of Philosophy

Accommodation: http://www.maynoothcampus.com/
Registration Fee: €30 (full), €20 (reduced)

PROGRAMME

To download the programme and booking form please click here.

09.00–09.20: Registration & Coffee/ Tea
09.20–9.30: Introduction: Michael Dunne

SESSION 1

09.30–10.10 Catherine Kavanagh: ‘Heidegger’s Unacknowledged Debt to Augustine:
(MIC, UL) Some Ontological Considerations’

10.10–10.50 Gaven Kerr: ‘Kant’s Hypothesis of Transcendental Idealism’
(QUB)

10.50 a.m –11.00 a.m COFFEE/ TEA BREAK

11.00–11.40 Mette Lebech: ‘Beginning to read Stein’s Finite and Eternal (NUIM) Being’

11.40–12.20 Cyril McDonnell: ‘Why Punish the Guilty? Towards a Philosophical
(NUIM) Analysis of the State’s Justification of Punishment’

12.20–01.00 Harry Bunting: ‘Forgiveness: Moral and Political’
(U.Ulster)

01.00 pm – 02.15pm LUNCH

SESSION 2:

02.15–02.45 Susan Byrne: ‘Wittgenstein: Behaviourism, Language and Logic’
(NUIM)

02.45–03.15 Adam Gonya: ‘Two Pictures of the Voice’
(KU, Leuven)

03.15–03.45 Aine Kelly: ‘Stanley Cavell, Richard Rorty and the Inheritance
(U.Nott., UK) of American Philosophy’

03.45 pm –04.00 pm COFFEE/ TEA BREAK

04.00–04.30 Thomas Finegan: ‘Faith and Reason in the Thought of
(T.C.D) Jean-Luc Marion’

04.30–05.00 Denise Ryan: ‘Jean de La Rochelle’s Formulation of the
(NUIM) Distinction between Being and Essence’

05.00–6.00 Irish Philosophical Society: Annual General Meeting

06.45 pm. CONFERENCE DINNER

IPS Autumn Conference, The Philosophy of Education, Mary Immaculate College Limerick, Saturday 25 October, 2008

Recent discussion on the development of Irish society has returned again and again to the importance of education as a key element in this process. Alongside the self-congratulatory attribution of the “Celtic Tiger” to the quality of our educational system are those voices which raise doubts as to certain ethical aspects of this development, in which economic development seems to have been prioritised at the expense of all else, and the instrumentalisation of education in the service of this project. It is hoped that this conference will raise the question of the nature and ethics of education, the responsibilities of educators in relation to the society to which they contribute, the role of each level of education in this process, including the role played by research at University level, and the fundamental reasons for engaging in it. Is it simply a matter of creating a “knowledge economy”? It is hoped that some of the issues raised in What price the university ? : perspectives on the meaning and value of higher education from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth edited by Thomas A. F. Kelly [2006] will be revisited in a broader context.

Venue: Mary Immaculate College Limerick
Under the auspices of The Irish Philosophical Society
and Mary Immaculate College: Department of Philosophy and Philosophy of Education

SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER

Venue: Room 206 Mary Immaculate College

SESSION 1 : INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUES

09.00-09.20 Brendan Walsh Introduction
09.20-09.50 Angelo Bottone “The Influence of Cicero on Newman’s Idea of a Liberal Education.”

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

10.00-11.00 Richard Pring “The Management of Education: Did Orwell Get It Right?”

11.00-11.15 COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 3: PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES

11.15-11.45 Fiachra Long “The Role of Theory in Education”
11.45-12.15 Frank Flanagan “Say ‘Thank you’ to Granny: Politeness as the Key to Moral Growth”
12.15-12.45 Cyril McDonnell “The Causal Link between Teaching and Learning: Some Metaphysical and Ethical Considerations”.

12.45-2.00 LUNCH

SESSION 4: PROFESSIONAL (ETHICAL) FORMATION

2.00-2.30 Padraig Murphy “The Strategies and Tactics of Second Level School Engagement with Genetic Engineering: a ‘Practice Theory’ Approach”
2.30-3.00 Martin Dyer “Medical Ethics and Medical Training: The Supplementary Role of the Literary Text in the Teaching of Core Concepts.”
3.00-3.30 Kevin Williams “A Defence of Education for Work”

3.30-3.45 COFFEE

SESSION 5: THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS

3.45-4.15 Paddy Quinn “Paulo Freire and Educational Transformation”
4.15-4.45 Kaye Cederman “Education in 21st Century Ireland: a Renewable Course?”
4.45-5.15 Jones Irwin “Re-Politicising Education – Interpreting Jean Francois Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition in a Contemporary Irish Context”

The Irish Contribution to European Scholastic Thought

Thursday 26 — Saturday 28 June 2008

The Queen’s University of Belfast

School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy
Academic Conference in connection with the Centenary of Queen’s (1908-2008)
and of Scholastic Philosophy within it

The Irish Contribution to European Scholastic Thought

Photograph (l-r): Mette Lebech and Liam Chambers

Photograph (l-r): Prof. Shane O’Neill, Cardinal Daly and Rev. Prof. Jim McEvoy

Opening by H.E Cardinal Daly

Venue: Elms Village Conference Room QUB.

Dates: Thursday 26 — Saturday 28 June 2008

Sponsored by QUB Centenary Fund,
The School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy,
The Diocese of Down and Connor,
The Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy, NUIM,
The Institute of Philosophy, KUL Leuven (Belgium)
The conference will be held under the academic auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, QUB and the Irish Philosophical Society

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