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For Personalist Philosophy

What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?​       John Macmurray

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The Latest Appraisal Issue, Vol. 12, No.s 3 and 4, Spring and Autumn, 2021 is now available to read

The latest issue of Appraisal is now available on the website. There are two full papers from our Zoom conference in June 2021, by Giorgio Baruchello and Ársæll Már Arnarsson on humour, with two responses to it, and Henrieta Serban’s article on Emile Cioran, who cheerfully wrote books, first in Romanian and then in award-winning French, on despair. Then comes Richard Allen's Discussion item on the idea that the ‘problem’ of modern philosophy is that philosophers think that philosophy has ‘problems’, followed by a book review, also by Richard Allen, of David Walsh's important book, ‘The Priority of the Person’, It should be a good read! Any comments or feedback would be most welcome. View the current issue by navigating to Appraisal using the menu at the top of this page or click here.

​Kierkegaard: Acts of Philosophy, the 2nd Ereignis Conference

Registration is now open for Kierkegaard: Acts of Philosophy, the 2nd Ereignis Conference, to be held online and on-site in Gdynia, Poland, on June 11-12, 2022. This year we are excited to feature several acclaimed scholars who differently highlight the relevance of Kierkegaard’s thought today, including Prof. Gisle Selnes, Prof. Dr. Jørgen Veisland, and Dr. Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth who will join for a round-table talk at the end of the first day of the conference, under the rubric “The philosophical act: How can Kierkegaard’s work and acts serve to exemplify the ways in which a philosophical life can become a theatre of ideas that are relevant in our time?”

The full programme is now available from the conference page.

The conference will be held on-site, at Hotel Antares in Gdynia, Poland, and on-line, on the Zoom videoconferencing platform. Those who cannot attend the on-site part of conference may follow the proceedings on-line, and participate with questions or comments. Registration is required through eventbrite.co.uk/.

The World Personalism Congress

The first World Personalism Congress will take place from August 1 to 5, 2022 in Mexico, hosted by the Universidad Anáhuac México. The 16th International Conference on Persons and the VI Ibero-American Congress of Personalism come together to give rise to this congress for the first time, whose objective is to bring together all the academics in the world who research on the subject of the person and personality.

Papers will be received in Spanish and English that deal with the person from the philosophical, theological, psychological, social and political perspectives, framed within one of the thematic lines of the congress:

 Anthropology/person
 Ethics
 Epistemology
 Metaphysics and Ontology Politics and Economics
 Bioethics
 Education
 Psychology Aesthetics
 Religion and Transcendence
 Culture and Society
 Community and Family
For further details go to:  ​www.anahuac.mx/mexico/congreso-mundial-de-personalismo

A new paper by Henrieta Serban - Gloria Victis in ‘The Trouble with Being Born’

An advanced publication copy of Henrieta Serban's paper, Gloria Victis in ‘The Trouble with Being Born’, is available to view below.  It examines how existence can be both worthless and tragic, but at the same time meaningful and, paradoxically, victorious - ideas drawn from the book 'The Trouble with Being Born' by the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran, whose signature use of colourful paradox gives some especially unique philosophical insights. Click here to view paper