Minicourses
News and events
Our news and events section contains the latest information about our research,
publications and conferences, as well as the activities of our staff and students.
Every year we invite distinguished philosophers from around the world to give minicourses to our students. These minicourses combine lectures and research seminars dedicated to specific
philosophers and philosophical topics, and are open to all students within our School.
Forthcoming minicourses
Themes from Løgstrup's The Ethical Demand
2–4 October 2013, Robert Stern, University of Sheffield
Professor Robert Stern from the University of Sheffield will give a three day minicourse on Knud Ejler Løgstrup's text The Ethical Demand (1956).
Increasingly recognised as a classic work, this course will attempt to bring out the central philosophical and theological themes of Knud Ejler Løgstrup's text
The Ethical Demand (1956), particularly regarding the 'radical demand' that Løgstrup thinks is central to ethics: what is this demand, what basis does it have, what is it to
heed it?
This course will work through the text, trying to shed light on these central questions. It will also draw on the work of Kant, Kierkegaard and Darwall, to provide a
context for Løgstrup's position.
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Programme
Wednesday 2 October 2013
- Lecture, 5.00-7.00pm in 1N1.4.1
Thursday 3 October 2013
- Lecture, 3.00-5.00pm in 1N1.4.1
Friday 4 October 2013
- Lecture, 11.00-1.00pm in LTB1
- Seminar, 3.00-5.00pm in 1N1.4.1 (Philosophy and Art History students and staff only)
- Drinks reception, 5.00-6.30pm in 1N1.3.3
Additional suggested reading
- Svend Andersen and Kees Van Kooten Niekerk (eds), Concern for the Other: Perspectives on the Ethics of K.E. Logstrup, University of Notre Dame Press, 2008;
- Knud Ejler Løgstrup, Beyond the Ethical Demand, introduced by Kees Van Kooten Niekerk, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
Previous minicourses
Find out about the speakers and themes of previous minicourses:
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Minicourses 1993 to 2012–13
2010–13
- Raymond Geuss, University of Cambridge, Philosophy: What? Why? How?, May 2013
- Alain Badiou, Emeritus Professor, Philosophy Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), Infinity as the duty of the poem, June 2012
- Robert Pippin, University of Chicago, Philosophy by Other Means, May 2012
- Axel Honneth, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Philosophie, Freedom's Right: An Outline of Democratic Ethical Life, June 2011
- Alain Badiou, Emeritus Professor, Philosophy Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), Philosophy between Art and Science, May 2011
- Etienne Balibar, Paris X Nanterre and Irvine California, Citizen, Subject and the Anthropological Differences, May 2010
2000–09
- Robert Stern, Univiersity of Sheffield, Extended departmental seminar: Kant’s Ethics: Realist or Constructivist?, March 2009
- Hubert Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley, Distinguished Lecture: Virtual Embodiment: Myths of Meaning in Second Life, June 2008
- Hans Sluga, University of California, Berkeley, The Concept of the Political in an Age of Uncertainty, May 2008
- Simon Critchley, New School and Essex University, Originary Inauthenticity, June 2006
- Robert Bernasconi, Memphis University, War and the Meaning of History, May 2005
- Simon Critchley, New School and Essex University, Things Merely Are: Poetry as Philosophy in the Work of Wallace Stevens, June 2004
- Francois Dastur, Vanderbilt University, Research seminar: Merleau-Ponty's Interpretation of Husserl, February-March 2004
- Hubert Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall, University of California and Brigham Young University, Heidegger's Ontology of Art, November 2003
- Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame, Impoverished Moral Discourse, Insoluble Philosophical Problems, May 2003
- James Conant, University of Chicago, Varieties of Skepticism, March 2002
- Henry E. Allison, Boston University, Lecture: 'The Critique of Judgement' as a 'True Apology for Leibniz'; Research Seminar: Kant's treatment of the Sublime, March 2001
- Jay Bernstein, Vanderbilt University, Research Seminar: Re-Enchanting Nature: Reflections on McDowell and Adorno, May 2000
- John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh, Distinguished Lecture: Naturalism and the Philosophy of Mind; Research Seminar: Michael Friedman's 'Exorcising the Philosophical Tradition', March 2000
1993–99
- Henry Staten, Ethics after Nietzsche (Second session given as a public lecture), February 1999
- Hubert Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley, Heideggerian themes in Foucault: The self, history and ontology, February 1998
- Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley, The psychic life of power: Theories in subjection, May 1997
- Garbis Kortian, University of Applied Art, Vienna, Hegel's concept of experience and its discontents, February 1997
- Christoph Menke, FU Berlin, Aesthetic subjectivity, May 1996
- Francoise Dastur, Universite de Paris XII, Philosophy and difference, February 1996
- Robert Pippin, University of Chicago, Nietzsche on/against/within the philosophical tradition, February 1995
- Rudi Visker, KU Louvain, In search of the other: Levinas and Merleau-Ponty on meaning and sense, November 1994
- Stanly Cavell, Harvard, What did Derrida want of Austin?, February 1994
- Rudi Visker, KU Louvain, How to split Rorty between irony and finitude, May 1993
- Axel Honneth, FU Berlin, A formal theory of the good life: Three forms of recognition, February 1993