Aberdeen Philosophy

Our Ulrich Stegmann has a chapter in this forthcoming collection, Images of the Plant Humanities (ed. by Sands & Whistler, Bloomsbury). The chapter discusses the history of plant morphology, specifically the 18th century insight that different-looking floral organs (like petals and stamens) are actually 'the same' organ.

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/u.stegmann

🗞️ Our Eilidh Beaton's latest paper, 'Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem' is now out in Philosophy.

The paper raises worries for calls to outright reject methodological nationalism - i.e. nation-state-centric ways of seeing the world.

Methodological Nationalism is Not the (Best Articulation of the) Problem | Philosophy | Cambridge Core Methodological Nationalism is Not the (Best Articulation of the) Problem - Volume 100 Issue 3

💬 Our Mike Beaney will be delivering the GRIPh annual lecture at the GRoningen Institute of Philosophy this evening. He'll be speaking about his recent book, "The Joy of Chinese Philosophy".

The Joy of Chinese Philosophy Michael Beaney will discuss how Chinese philosophy helps us to uncover and interrogate some of the most basic assumptions of Western philosophy.

We welcome expressions of interest in the 2026 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme.

Our internal triage deadline is 8th June 2026. Interested candidates should reach out to their prospective mentor & [email protected] ahead of this deadline.

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Early Career Fellowships and Awards in the Arts and Humanities | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History is keen to support outstanding candidates in a number of externally funded research fellowship schemes.  We welcome expressions of interest from high quality early-career candidates whose research interests align with those of academics in...

🗓️ Reminder: THIS WEEK!

⛰️ Last weekend Philosophy students and staff visited Ballater for the annual Reading Party. The weekend included walking the Seven Bridges and Sgor Buidhe, talks by students and staff and the (in)famous philosophy quiz.

📖 Join us this Thursday 19th March for a public lecture by Michael Beaney celebrating the publication of his new book, The Joy of Chinese Philosophy.

The event is open to all. Register here:

The Joy of Chinese Philosophy: Book Launch & Public Lecture at Sir Duncan Rice Library, Lower Ground Floor Seminar Room Tickets are now available for The Joy of Chinese Philosophy: Book Launch & Public Lecture at Sir Duncan Rice Library, Lower Ground Floor Seminar Room, Aberdeen on Thursday 19th March 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

💬 Last week, our Stephan Torre presented this (fabulously-titled) paper at the Geneva Linguistics & Metaphysics of Time Workshop.

https://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/actualites/upcoming-events/geneva-linguistics-metaphysics-time-workshop

🤖 💭 Check out this workshop on AI Epistemics taking place at the Onassis Library in Athens, co-organised by our Jesper Kallestrup via his Digital Knowledge Project.

💬 🇳🇴 Our Eilidh Beaton is in Oslo today giving a talk in the Dynamic Territory seminar series. She'll be presenting her work on methodological nationalism, forthcoming in "Philosophy".

DynamiTE Seminar: Eilidh Beaton (University of Aberdeen) - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem

🗓️ Save the date! Our Jesper Kallestrup is hosting a workshop on the Ethics & Epistemology of AI on Friday 27th March.

Contact [email protected] if you are interested in attending.

🎓 Postgraduate Fair | Tomorrow!

📍 Elphinstone Hall
⏰ 11am–6pm

We’re looking forward to welcoming prospective and current students and alumni to our Postgraduate Fair tomorrow.

Didn’t register? No problem — registration is still open, or simply come along and we’ll be happy to welcome you.

🔗 View the full event itinerary and register: http://abdn.io/1Zb