56 search results for “metaphysics” in the Public website
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Metaphysics as Praxis
Metaphysics as Praxis: Rereading Dogen's Metaphysics Through Deleuzian Pragmatism and Pratimutpada
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Musika: The becoming of an artistic musical metaphysics
“Music is about everything else,” theater director Peter Sellars said upon accepting his Polar Music Prize back in 2014. Although it is about particular musical problems, Stanimiras dissertation is about ‘everything else’, too. What and how that is, could be summed up in different ways depending on…
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Martin LipmanFaculty of Humanities
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Shenghao YueFaculty of Humanities
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Carlos Roos MuñozFaculty of Humanities
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Arnold ZiegelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Ahab BdaiwiFaculty of Humanities
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Workshop Anti-Humean metaphysics
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Kazimierz Twardowski: A Grammar for Philosophy
Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938) is the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School with its strong tradition in logic and its scientific approach to philosophy. Twardowski’s unique way of doing philosophy, his method, is of central importance for understanding his impact as a teacher.
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Metaphysics as Praxis: Rereading Dōgen's Metaphysics Through Deleuzian Pragmatism and Pratītyasamutpāda
PhD Defence
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Centre for Theoretical Philosophy
The Leiden Centre for Theoretical Philosophy (LCTP) is a platform for analytic philosophy in a broad sense at Leiden University. Its members do research in philosophy of science, philosophy of logic and metaphysics, with a keen interest in the history of topics such as mind, knowledge, truth, and ti…
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Musika: The Becoming of an Artistic Musical Metaphysic
PhD Defence
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"No one has yet determined what the body can do": the turn to the body in Spinoza
A comparative study in the History of Modern Philosophy focused on the recourse to physiology on the part of two key figures, Spinoza and Nietzsche.
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Philosophy of Humanities (MA)
The master's programme in Philosophy of Humanities at Leiden University allows you to specialise in conceptual and methodological issues in the Humanities.
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Ontology and Subjectivity in Gilles Deleuze and Dōgen Kigen
This research cross-culturally examines the particular ways both the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925 – 1995) and the Japanese Zen Buddhist master Dōgen Kigen (1200 – 1253) considered ontology and one's conception of subjectivity as concretely interwoven with the existential question of life…
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Spiritual Corporeality: Towards a dance language mediating between spirit, matter and levels of reality
Very generally speaking, this study aims at questioning and re-defining the mind-body epistemic problem within contemporary dance and art culture.
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Nietzsche’s Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy
Nietzsche has often been considered a thinker independent of the philosophy of his time and radically opposed to the concerns and concepts of modern and contemporary philosophy. But there is an increasing awareness of his sophisticated engagements with his contemporaries and of his philosophy's rich…
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Philosophy Colloquium with Franz Berto,‘ “Tis an establish’d maxim in metaphysics...”: Modal Epistemology and Hume’s Other Principle’
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About the programme
The programme consists of 60 EC, to be completed in one year.
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Institute for Philosophy
The philosophers at the Institute for Philosophy develop new perspectives and insights not only on topical themes such as immigration and climate change, but also on more fundamental philosophical questions.
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Profile
The philosophers at the Institute of Philosophy develop new perspectives and insights not only on fundamental philosophical questions, but also on topical and interdisciplinary themes such as secrecy, migration, and climate change.
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Programme structure
This Philosophy bachelor's programme offers perspectives from around the world. It will make you one of the next-generation of students who will shape philosophy in the 21st century, ready to take on academic or professional challenges that call for critical thinking, analysis and argumentation skil…
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CFP OZSW Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy
The Institute for Philosophy is pleased to host the OZSW Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy on 9 and 10 January 2019
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Aristotelian semantics – truth and meaning in the Darwinian era
The leading argument of this doctoral thesis is that Aristotle’s text De Interpretatione is of methodical relevance for present-day philosophical thinking. In the era of science and technology, the status of philosophy has become problematic.
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Annual public ILS Lecture: Jurisdiction and the Territorialisation of the Extraterritorial
On Monday 10 February 2020, guest lecturer Prof. Dr. Cedric Ryngaert (Utrecht University) will deliver a lecture on ‘Jurisdiction and the Territorialisation of the Extraterritorial’. This event is hosted by the ‘Interaction between Legal Systems 2.0’ (ILS) projects ‘Policing the high seas’ and SOLID…
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Call for Papers – Islam and Evolution
The Leiden University Shii Studies Initiative (LUSSI) is hosting a two-day online conference on Islam and Evolution.
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CPP Colloquium with Jens Timmermann on 'The Demands of Kant's Ethics'
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LTP Lecture with Nathan Wildman: 'Potential Problems? Some objections to Vetter's potentialist account of modality'
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'Nobody has determined yet what the body is capable of’
Nietzsche may well have criticised Spinoza, but even so, the two philosophers had more in common than we might think, according to young Romanian philosopher Razvan Ioan. PhD defence 1 November.
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OZSW Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy
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Leiden Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium with Henk de Regt, Understanding Scientific Understanding
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Leiden Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium with Jeanne Peijnenburg 'On Hume's Regress Argument'
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Leiden Theoretical Philosophy with Martin Stokhof: The transcendental skeleton in a human context
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Society for Women in Philosophy: Philosophy and Practice & Annual General Meeting
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Islam and Society
Knowledge of Muslim societies is essential to function in a globalised world and to fully understand our own Dutch society. Leiden researchers explore the languages, cultures, religions, legal systems and history of Muslim societies and in this way contribute to a centuries-old tradition.
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Leiden Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium with Sander Verhaegh, Two Dogmas of Empiricism
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CPP Expert Colloquium with Rae Langton: How to gain (and lose) authority with words
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Lecture by Inna Kupreeva "Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Principle of Non-Contradiction"
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"No one has yet determíned what the body can do". The Turn to the Body in Spinoza and Nietzsche
PhD Defence
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Institute Colloquium: The Anti-sovereignty of reason
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Annual CPP Lecture 2015: Hate Speech and Free Speech
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Workshop Existential Ethics
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MAKING MATTERS Symposium 2020- Material Practices in Critical Times
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Leiden Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium with Philip Kitcher, ‘Moral Progress’
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Mauro Carbone: The Clouded Surface, Literature and Philosophy as Visual Apparatuses according to Merleau-Ponty
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Leiden Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium with Joke Spruyt, 'What if...? Thirteenth-century conceptions of (logical) necessity'
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Leiden Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium with Arianna Betti, History of Philosophy in Ones and Zeros
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Opening academic year 2019-2020
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Alumni
Since 2009, at ACPA, 69 candidates received their PhD in Creative and Performing Arts. On this page you will find an overview of ACPA's alumni.