John Stuart Mill walks into a bar and meets reality[1]
It is quite rare for philosophical theories to be comprehensively disproved by reality. This is especially true for modern thinkers like John Stuart Mill, the first self-described liberal, whose ideas still exert enormous influence on our society.
Conference Funded by MCSA Project MIGHT ('Moral Impossibility: Rethinking Choice and Conflict")
Hosted by the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice (Thursday and Friday, 1-2 June 2023)
Abstracts due: 31 January 2023 (please submit 250-300 word abstracts to Silvia.CaprioglioPanizza@upce.cz)
This autumn, the Centre Blog has been humming away, with 3 new entries by our researchers (and one co-author guest from Åbo Akademi) since the start of the semester. Have a gander!
Sixty-Five Years of an Idea
Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science and Understanding from the Inside
Click HERE to listen to the Philosophy Voiced podcats episode on Spotify
Olli, your project is called Philosophy as Cultural Self-Knowledge: R. G. Collingwood, Peter Winch and the Human Sciences. Who were R.G. Collingwood and Peter Winch and why you are writing about them?
We're very pleased to announce that Centre researcher Antony Fredriksson's monograph, A Phenomenology of Attention and the Unfamiliar: Encounters with the Unknown (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) is now out and available!
In a new episode of Philosophy Voiced podcast, Olli Lagerspetz, Giuseppina D’Oro, Leonidas Tsilipakos, and Jonas Ahlskog discuss their workshop 'Idealism and Realism in the Human Sciences: Collingwood, Winch, and Beyond' which took place in Pardubice, Czech Republic September 22 and 23, 2022.
You can listen to it HERE.
Thinking About Death from Inside Life
Are some mothers compulsively good?