| Information about the 2011 Summer School will be available here some time in October - keep an eye out, or sign up to our mailing list to be informed when this information, and that about other MSCP events, becomes available. |
The MSCP runs a Spring and an Autumn Workshop each year, dedicated to examining a topic or thinker from a variety of different angles. These workshops are free and open to the public.
Details about the 2011 Spring Workshop - 'Humanism and Anti-Humanism' - will be available here shortly.
Past Workshops
Autumn 2010: Body, Soul Organism: Leibniz
Spring 2009: The Future of the University
Autumn 2009: Why Philosophy? 
| Summer School 2010 | Deleuze's Leibniz: The Fold Sean Bowden
Foucault's Archeology of Knowledge Jon Roffe
The Problem of Socrates: Plato, Xenophon and the Limits of Philosophy Bryan Cooke
History of Philosophy I: the Pre-Socratics James Garrett
Nietzsche's Legacy: Existentialism, Post-Structuralism, Transhumanism Ashley Woodward
Phenomenology meets the Neurosciences Maurita Harney
Jacques Lacan and Leo Strauss: A Symposium on the Ancient and Modern Matthew Sharpe
Emmanuel Levinas: Philosopher of Radical Alterity Andrea Léon-Montero |
| Winter School 2009 | Meaning and Metaphor in Nietzsche and Wittgenstein Paul Daniels Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition Jon Roffe Kant's Critical Philosophy I Marc Hiatt and Philip Quadrio Kant's Critical Philosophy II Philip Quadrio, Paul Daniels, Bryan Cooke and Sherah Bloor Marx and Marxism Andy Blunden Recent Continental Rationalism Jon Roffe |
| Summer School 2009 | Foucault and Hadot: Philosophy as a Way of Life Ashley Woodward History of Philosophy IV: Medieval Philosophy, Part 2 (Late Medieval Era) Ian Weeks History of Philosophy V: Rationalism Jon Roffe Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction James Williams Heidegger's Being and Time James Garrett On Slavoj Zizek's Political Theory, or: Would You Like A Politics With That? Matthew Sharpe and Geoff Boucher Dialectics of Enlightenment Bryan Cooke |
| Evening School 2009 |
Global Warming: Science and Politics in Troubled Times (details PDF) Cameron Shingleton |
| Winter School 2008 | History of Philosophy III: Aristotle - The Practical Philosophy Matthew Sharpe and James Garrett Intepretations of Nietzsche Various Presenters History of Philosohy IV: Medieval Philosophy I Ian Weeks Hans Blumenberg's The Legitimacy of the Modern Age Mark Hewson Mind and Society: Robert Brandom and the Continental Tradition Andrew Montin and Gilles Bouche An Introduction to Hegel's Logic Andy Blunden |
| Summer School 2008 | History of Philosophy I: the pre-Socratics David Rathbone Nietzsche and the Birth of Tragedy: Music, Science and Philosophy Paul Daniels History of Philosophy II: Plato and his Contemporaries Matthew Sharpe and James Garrett Women in Dark Times [Arendt and Heller] Felicity Joseph and Matthew Sharpe Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy of Radical Alterity Andrea Leon-Montero Thinking the Analytic-Continental Divide Jack Reynolds and George Duke The Pleasures: Of Political Philosophy and Other Interruptions Bryan Cooke Alain Badiou's Being and Event Jon Roffe |
| Evening School 2008 | Images of Nature: A Philosophical Introduction to an Environmental Ethics (details PDF) Cameron Shingleton Global Warming: The Science and its Implications (details PDF) Phillip Sutton Global Warming: An Economic Perspective (details PDF) Jim Crosthwaite |
| More information on past classes to come |