Philosophy Week spring 2012

Philosophy Week spring 2012
Timetable

Monday 13-02-12

10.30 – 11.30, Elderwood 2

Careers Services Workshop for 3rd Years 

11.45-12.45, Elderwood 2

Information Session on Postgraduate Opportunities for 3rd Years
Coffee and Tea

14.00-16.00, Elderwood 3

Movie

Kasparov and the Machine

Tuesday, 14-02-12

11.30–4.30, Elderwood 2

MA Research Day

See below for detailed schedule.

5.30–7, Elderwood 2

The Radical Luhman

Discussion by Dr. Hans-Georg Moeller of his recently published book.

Wednesday, 15-02-12

2-5, Elderwood 2

Undergraduate Research Conference

A detailed schedule will be posted on the department’s website.

Thursday, 16-02-12

4.30pm, CACSSS Meeting Room, Ground Floor, O’Rahilly Building

Social Injustice: Essays in Political Philosophy, Dr. Vittorio Bufacchi

MA day spring 2012

MA Day

Tuesday, 14-02-12, Elderwood 2

13.00-13.20 Ruud Thomas Burke “Contemporary Theories of Will to Power – A Comparative Analysis" (supervised by Jason Dockstader)

13.20-13.40 Padraig McGrath “The Humanization of the Divine in Hegel’s Philosophy of History” (supervised by Jason Dockstader)

13.40-14.00 Robert Parker “Science and Reality: Analytic and Phenomenological Approaches" (supervised by Joel Walmsley)

14.00-14.10: Break

14.10-14.30 Karen Sheehy “The Dialectic of Sleep and Wake” (supervised by Julia Jansen)

14.30-14.50 Moira Hasenfuss “A Discussion of Abstraction in Relation to Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenological Interpretation of Gestalt Theory” (supervised by Julia Jansen)

14.50-15.10 Kieran O’Connor “A Phenomenological Exploration of the Glance” (supervised by Julia Jansen)

15.10-15.20 Break

15.20-15.40 Declan Synnott “The Overcoming of Nihilism Through Experimentalism” (supervised by Paul Hegarty)

15.40-16.00 Kate O’Brien “Julia Kristeva’s Idea of Abjection” (supervised by Ed Krcma)