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Infinite love in a finite life: why, according to philosopher Errol Boon, we promise each other ‘eternal’ love28 July 2025In love, we like to use great words. We promise to love each other ‘forever’ and praise the beloved as nothing less than ‘the one’ . Meanwhile, we kno...
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AI and emotion recognition: ‘It could disrupt social interactions’Research 21 July 2025Just imagine new AI technology is able to read human emotions flawlessly. How would that affect us as humans? That is the question PhD candidate Alexa...
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Board visit: the Institute for Philosophy wants to continue to grow through new collaborations07 July 2025The university is home to many pearls of research institutes that do not make the news every day. The Executive Board visited one such pearl, the Inst...
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A new look at Kant, Fichte and Hegel26 November 2024When you think of political philosophy, you think of Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel and Johann Fichte. Both philosophers are considered great representati...
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Veni grants for 22 researchers from Leiden University17 July 2024An impressive 22 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Death and the Digital RealmCall for Abstracts 02 July 2024Event co-sponsored by the IAPDD, Leiden University, and the Australian Research Council project “Digital Death and Immortality”
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CFP Monotheisms in Medieval Islamic Thought17 June 2024The Leiden University Centre for Islamic Thought and History (LUCITH) is hosting a two-day conference on the topic of monotheism in medieval Islamic t...
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LCCP Research Seminar Program Spring 202406 December 2023The seminar is dedicated to the research and work in progress of Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy staff and doctoral students. It also welcome...
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Trying to fight global warming with philosophy16 November 2023In her inaugural lecture Susanna Lindberg will ask how philosophy should respond to global warming. She does not simply aim to apply existing philosop...
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Botany: a love you can’t force22 May 2023Botanical philosopher Norbert Peeters talks about how people treat plants in general and weeds in particular.
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Man, woman and more: 'Why does my passport have to say I'm a woman?'17 May 2023Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently a...
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Woman, man or somewhere in between? You decide (and not just your body)05 December 2022A female body equals a woman. Nonsense, says Professor by Special Appointment to the Socrates Chair Annemie Halsema. She argues that our sense of iden...
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3 October University: ‘Artificial intelligence is like young people and sex’04 October 2022‘Everyone’s talking about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, but the reality is disappointing,’ says biochemist Gerard van Westen in his 3...
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Veni grant for research on ‘lost pearl’ in Buddhist philosophy07 July 2022University lecturer in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy Jingjing Li has been awarded a Veni grant for her research on feminist theories within the B...
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Funded fellowship for African practical philosophers21 April 20222023 GGJ FELLOWSHIP Philosophy- Leiden University The Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University is offering a fellowship to practical philo...