Author: Splijtstof
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Love & Queerness: Symposium with Splijtstof and F.C. Sophia
Splijtstof and F.C. Sophia invite you to join this year’s symposium!The theme is “Love & Queerness” and we have put together a truly interesting and inspiring line-up of speakers. There will be a workshop, lectures, a poetry recital and lots of space for your own questions. So join us on Friday, November 14 from 11:00…
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Splijtstof Student Conference: Submission Information and Criteria
The editors-in-chief at Splijtstof are excited to invite Splijtstof editors and all other students to submit abstracts for philosophical conference papers written on the theme of ‘Disease’. The conference will take place on December 4, 2025. We can accommodate your requests with regards to the relative timing of your presentation on the day (e.g. you…
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RAGweek Nijmegen Events in Collaboration With Splijtstof
Alongside Radboud University’s Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Student Council and the faculty’s student associations, F.C. Sophia and Awaz, the Splijtstof team has organised two exciting new events in collaboration with RAGweek Nijmegen. RAGweek Nijmegen is affiliated with the RAGweek foundation, an organisation dedicated to raising funds for, and awareness of, two charities…
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Splijtstof Student Conference: ‘Fantasy’
The Splijtstof Editorial Team is proud to present their first student conference, based on the theme of ‘Fantasy’! You are invited to attend a day of philosophical inquiry into ‘Fantasy’ and its manifestations in various specialisations, from object-oriented ontology, critical disability studies, philosophy of technology, animal ethics, political philosophy and much more. The event will…
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Splijtstof Student Conference: Call for Abstracts
The editors-in-chief at Splijtstof are excited to invite Splijtstof editors and all students of the FFTR to submit abstracts for philosophical conference papers written on the theme of ‘fantasy’. The conference will take place on November 28, 2024, at E15.39/41. We can accommodate your requests with regards to the timing of your presentation. All finished…
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The Communist and Their Rolex
Imagine for a moment that you are a communist. One evening you arrive at one of your local communist organisation’s meetings, eager to quote Marx back and forth with your comrades until the sun rises. But then you see something that makes your heart sink; from underneath the cuff of a neatly ironed Brooks Brothers…
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Virtual Presence and Descartes’ Last Stand
Are we fully ‘present’ in a virtual world when we are playing in VR? Or does a VR headset finally turn us into the detached spectators Descartes always said we were? According to Hubert Dreyfus, the epistemological concerns that were largely abandoned by philosophers in the twentieth century, have become very relevant again in the…
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Dress to Impress: Communicating Knowledge and Power Through Fashion
If he had not worn that borrowed blazer from Princeton University, Dickie Greenleaf would not be dead. In the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Thomas Ripley fakes having attended Princeton to be accepted into the high society of New York. As part of his ruse, he flies out to Italy to visit Dickie Greenleaf,…