Philosophy in the city

FEBRUARY 2012

Bijoy Boruah

The Metaphysics and Ethics of Agency

Friday, February 17, 2:30 pm

Library, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi

Richard Sorabji

Moral Conscience and Constitutional Freedom of Conscience

Monday, February 6, 2:30 pm

Library, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi

JANUARY 2012

Richard Sorabji
Moral Conscience: Its Origin and Meaning
Friday, January 27, 3:30 pm
Conference Room, Centre for Philosophy, SSS-1, JNU

Shefali Moitra
Problems Related to Vagueness
Friday, January 27, 2:30 pm -4:30 pm
Library, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi

Two public lectures by Professor Jay Drydyk (Carleton University)

13 January 2012, Friday: Sen's Justice I: The Comparative Approach (2.30 pm)


20 January 2012, Friday: Sen's Justice II: Acting Justly (2.30 pm)

Lecture and Discussion by Professor Akeel Bilgrami

11 January 2012, Wednesday

Conference Room, CP/SSS-1 (II Floor), JNU

11.00 am: The Concept of Identity in Politics

2.30 pm: Secularism: Its Content and Context

NOVEMBER 2011

Events via DelPhi

H S Gill (Jawaharlal Nehru University) 

Theories of Signification in 18th Century France

Friday, November 18, 11:00am – 1:00pm

#212 Committee Room, 2nd Floor, SSLCS, JNU 

Devasia (Hindu College)

Hermeneutic Understanding And Meaning in Religious Language: An Elucidation with Reference to Shankara, Wittgenstein and Derrida

Friday, November 18, 2:30am – 4:30pm

Library, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi

G. Varghese K. (Manipal University)

Alain Badiou: The Philosopher of Subtractive Ontology

Friday, November 18, 3:30pm – 5:30pm       

#212 Committee Room, 2nd Floor, SLLCS, JNU 

Shashi Motilal (Delhi University)

Human Rights and Human Moral Obligations

Wednesday, November 16, 3:30pm – 5:30pm

Conference Room, Centre for Philosophy, SSS, JNU 

Workshop with Francoise Dastur, Honorary Professor of Philosophy, attached to the Archives HusserI from Paris, a research unit affiliated to the French Centre for Research (CNRS), and author of Death: An Essay on Finitude, Heidegger and the Question of Time, Telling Time: Sketch of a Phenomenological Chronology

Organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

On 8th November 2011

Venue: Senate Room, IIT Delhi

10:30 am        Lecture by Francoise Dastur: What is Understanding

11:30 am        Tea

12.00 am        Discussion

1 pm               Lunch

2:30 pm          Lecture by Francoise Dastur: Phenomenology of the Event: Waiting and Surprise

3:30 pm          Tea

4:00 pm          Discussion

  

OCTOBER 2011

Lecture Series by Dr Kranti Saran on The Problem of Perception

Thirteen weekly lectures on the philosophy of perception

Seminar Room, Centre for Philosophy School of Social Sciences, JNU 

Mondays 2:30-4:30pm 
First Meeting: Monday, October 10th, 2011

More information about the course, including a syllabus, is available on the course website: https://sites.google.com/site/jnuperception