The Many Colours of Hegelianism:
Hegel’s Philosophy and its Reception in an International Context
4-5 June, 2010
Supported by the Department of Politics and International Relations, the Faculty of Philosophy, New College, and Trinity College, the conference will bring together scholars who work on Hegel’s thought and its reception in different cultural contexts.
While Hegel’s philosophy itself is an [...]

In the period from 2009 – 2011 the Nordic Network for German Idealism (www.NNGI.org) is organizing various conferences and workshops for researchers and post-graduate students with interest and expertise in the vast and varied field of philosophy, which takes the philosophies of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel and Kierkegaard as its [...]

Young Researchers Conference on Classical German Philosophy
Centre for German Idealism
VU University Amsterdam, August 27, 2010, Room 13A-11/13.
The Dutch-Flemish Centre for German Idealism (‘Centrum voor Duits Idealisme’) invites PhD students, research master students aiming at starting a PhD project soon and PhDs that have graduated recently to submit a proposal for a presentation at [...]

Grants offered through Florida State University supporting philosophical and theological inquiry into the importance and implications of free will in the theological domain.
Fellowship Announcement
The Big Questions in Free Will Program offers funds for inquiry into theological presuppositions and implications of belief in free will. Grants will support work along two general lines. The first includes [...]

NEW WEBSITE FOR JOBS IN PHILOSOPHY – www.jobsinphilosophy.org
This site was hosted since for 13 years (1996-2009) at a server of the University of Hamburg, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences under www.sozwiss.uni-hamburg.de/phil/jobs. In the meantime, it became increasingly difficult to access the server, so I eventually decided to move the site and to use this [...]

The Graduate Philosophical Society at Emory
Call for Papers:
From Kant to Hegel: Rethinking Themes in German Idealism

Keynote speaker: John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh

Graduate Conference, Emory University, March 26 -27, 2010
Philosophical themes in German Idealist thought from Kant to Hegel (including works by figures such as Jacobi, Reinhold, Fichte, Schelling, and Schopenhauer) have become a topic of [...]

International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture
University of Oxford, 23rd – 26th September 2010
On the topic of:
Attending to the Other: Critical Theory and Spiritual Practice
Hosted by the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford
at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
Call for papers | Conference website

Keynote Speakers include:

Amy Hollywood (Harvard University)
Toril Moi (Duke University)
Paul Fiddes (University of [...]

Two books have appeared recently, which both address the issue of atheism, secular life and whether or not philosophy leads to atheism. Both books are collections of personal essays written by prominent philosophers.
The first book, Philosophers without Gods, makes a defense for philosophical atheism and tries, in opposite to the new atheist (Dawkins and Denneth [...]

Last week I was catching up on Hegel’s notion of Will. As I am studying Schelling’s piece on Freedom, I had my reasons for getting stuck on paragraph 4 in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right – it is an amazing paragraph!
I will not flatten out the statements of this paragraph by giving my own comments, but [...]

Slavoj Žižek expounds on his book Violence. Here he tackles five questions:
What does he mean by violence;
Why has God been extracted by the concept of divine violence;
What is the violence inherent in multi-culturalism;
Has all ideology ended?;
Why does he not provide solutions?
For more resources: http://zizekstudies.org
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