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We are very excited to announce our third speaker of 2026: Adrian Moore, professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford. He will give a talk titled “Does Philosophy Need to Know Its History?” on Wednesday March 25th at 18:15 in LUX:B237.Abstract: In this lecture I will address the question whether philosophy needs to know its history, by comparing and contrasting philosophy with other areas of enquiry. In particular, I will emphasize a feature of philosophy that distinguishes it from every other area of enquiry, namely that its history can be a significant contribution to it. That already points towards a positive answer to the question, although the answer takes some teasing out and towards the end of the lecture I will distinguish between what follows from this answer concerning philosophy as a discipline and what follows from it concerning the practice of individual philosophers. In between I will explore two factors that give philosophy this distinctive relation to its history: what I call Self-Consciousness and what I call Appropriation. By Self-Consciousness I mean the fact that the nature of philosophy is itself a philosophical issue; by Appropriation I mean the fact that, with respect to any great philosophical idea of the past that is no longer viable, there always remains a question about what we can do with it.
The talk will be followed by an informal reception.
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Helgonavägen 3, SE-223 62 Lund, Sverige, Helgonavägen 3, SE-223 62 Lund, Sverige, Lund, Sweden
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