Greetings, philosophers and sympathizers, and welcome to this WegWijzer. This week’s theme was arbitrarily chosen by my beautiful yet unknowing assistant. As a consequence, we will talk about the pterodactylus antiques, better known as simply “pterodactylus”. The pterodactylus was a pterosaurian that supposedly lived during the late Jura. The name “pterodactylus” was given by Georges Cuvier in 1809. That is much later than when the last pterodactylus died out, so we will probably never know how they felt as a species about that name. On Monday, NFK organizes nothing. That means you’re free to spend your time doing other useful things like: studying paleontology, watching funny cat videos or pondering the fact that the pterodactylus had  middle hand bones, just like humans. The options to choose from are endless. You could also register for a Chinese Philosophy reading group, organized by two PhD students. The studied texts will be taken from “ A sourcebook in Chinese philosophy” from 1969.  There is no previous knowledge required. If you’re interested or have questions, you can send an email to Dashan.Xu@student.kuleuven.be .  Time and place will follow. Tuesday evening you can go to the Fakparty  in the M-café from 9pm. Just like every […]

Dear philosophers, time flies! This is the last NFKalendar of this academic year already. With pain in our hearts, we tell you what’s on the schedule for the last time. For each activity you find an exam-related song to prepare you already… On Tuesday, we hope to see you in the fakbar! It’s the inauguration fakbar. The triumvirate passes on the leadership to the heroes who’ll take care of us next year! It’s the last fakbar of this year, so be there from 21:00 onwards, there will also be a free drink on the new team! Listen to Jimmy Wahlsteen’s ‘Shifts of attention’. We hope for you you can shift your mind to only one thing: studying… Good luck! On Thursday, Ph.D. Stine Kaasgaard from Denmark will give a lecture titled: ‘Kierkegaard: out of many one — or does the plural remain?’ Kierkegaard may be known for his plurality of voices, and with them the question stands forth: must these many voices be understood as one breath of does the multiplicity of pronunciation remain even with the most arduous attempt at finding singularity? It also discusses the question of the possibility of unanimity when philosophy finds itself posed in existence, […]