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Meet Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives in Madrid
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Meet Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives in Rome
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Meet Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives in London
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Meet Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives in Milan
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Edoardo VignocchiFaculty of Humanities
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Sakineh Karimi
Faculty of Humanities
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Aoife McInerneyFaculty of Humanities
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Karineke Sombroek
Faculty of Humanities
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The human digital world
AI has huge societal and economic potential and is widely used. But it also brings challenges: how do we combine human values with AI, how do we make AI more transparent and understandable, and what can AI and human cognition learn from each other, for example about language learning?
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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Centre for Political Philosophy
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Artistic Truth
What makes a truth true? Throughout the history of philosophy, numerous theories have been proposed to define what it means for something to be ‘true’. Despite their wide variety, most accounts presuppose that a truth is expressed through linguistic assertations or propositional statements. But can…
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Philosophy Workshop 100 years after Frege (1848-1925)
Conference
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Philosophy Colloquium “The Land of Old Age” Boredom versus Alienation
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docARTES
docARTES is a doctoral programme for performers and composers. It offers a unique environment for critical reflection on musical practice.
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Faculty of Humanities
The expertise at the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University ranges from languages, cultures, area studies to history, philosophy, arts, and religious studies.
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Andrei PoamaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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A Pursuit of Ontological Truth in Aristotle's Philosophy
PhD defence
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Fan LinFaculty of Humanities
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their potential.
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Pre-master’s programme
The pre-master's is a bridging programme for students who have applied for the MA Philosophy but who, according to the Board of Admissions, still have deficiencies in their educational background. Once you have completed the pre-master’s programme, you will be admitted to the relevant specialization…
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their potential.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their potential.
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Raisa Blommestijn: Removal of children’s books about Black Pete troubling
Libraries in the Netherlands are removing books that contain references to Black Pete. According to the director of the Public Library Association, a logical and fitting response in the spirit of the times.
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Pluralism within Parameters : towards a mature evaluative historiography of science
Historiography of science is in its current self-image a non-evaluative discipline. Its main goal is to understand past processes of knowledge formation on their own terms. In the last few decades this approach has greatly improved our understanding of the phenomenon of science. Yet, something strange…
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Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities
This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed ‘epistemic virtues’ such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences…
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Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography
This month Ali Shobeiri's monograph, Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography came out at Leiden University Press.
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Kant on Self-Control
This Element considers Kant's conception of self-control and the role it plays in his moral philosophy. It offers a detailed interpretation of the different terms used by Kant to explain the phenomenon of moral self-control, such as 'autocracy' and 'inner freedom'.
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A Priori Truth in the Natural World : A Non-referentialist Response to Benacerraf's Dilemma
The main question addressed in this thesis is how we can best conceive the contrast between a priori and empirical truths.
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Benjamin’s Figures: Dialogues on the Vocation of the Humanities
The writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are famously and purposely marked by fragmentariness. Paradoxically, a central aim of his work was to connect: all his life he sought to further the integration of scholarship in the humanities which, he believed, had too long suffered from the prevalence…
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The institute has six secretariats for the various departments and is located at the Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw.
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Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an Old Concept
The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be accounted…
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Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation
Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality.
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Social Resilience and Security
As our society becomes increasingly complex, it is critical that we better understand how we can deal with fundamental issues such as societal and personal security, and resilience against threats to our security.
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Sietse van MierloFaculty of Humanities
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Donovan StewartFaculty of Humanities
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Gwendolyn BolderinkFaculty of Humanities
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Michaël Schapers
Faculty of Humanities
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Reynier Pet
Faculty of Humanities
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Angelique Heijstek-HofmanFaculty of Humanities
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We highly value the precision and clarity brought by the use of analytic tools combined with creative and non-standard attempts to shine new light on the big questions of theoretical philosophy.
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How democratic are state secrets?
Transparency is seen as an important value for democratic government policy. Does that mean that we should do away with state secrets, such as confidential information involving intelligence agencies and political deals made behind closed doors? Political philosopher and ERC grant recipient Dorota Mokrosinska…
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Past colloquia
The CPP colloquium is organized by the The Centre for Political Philosophy (CPP) at Leiden University. In the right side column you will find a list of the past colloquia.
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Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities has 8 institutes:
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Harald van Mil
Lecturer at Leiden University, Mathematical Institute and Institute of Biology, Leiden - the Netherlands
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Online Course Risk in Modern Society
Risk has become one of the defining features of modern society. This course examines various types of safety and security risks, and how these are perceived and dealt with in a wide array of professional and academic fields, ranging from criminology, counter-terrorism and cyber security, to philosophy,…
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Boyd Leupen wins MSc Thesis Prize 2015
Boyd Leupen has won the Institute of Political Science MSc Thesis Prize 2015. With 'Refuting asymmetrical Kantianism: On the moral standing of animals', Leupen completed his Political Science master studies and contributed an excellent piece of scholarly work. According to the jury, his thesis stands…
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Marcin RabizaFaculty of Humanities