Michael Cholbi

Professor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh

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Recent Presentations

“The necessity of necessity: Post-work liberation and its critics.” MANCEPT panel, Post-Work as Political Thought: Establishing and Questioning the Boundaries of a Tradition, University of Manchester, 9/25

“Estrangement from the valuable: Toward a comprehensive account of death’s harms.”Invited presentation, ‘Death and the Self’ conference, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, 7/25

“Suicide in a world without natural death.” Neuroscience and Psychology of Suicide seminar (online), 7/25

“The lonely labourer (and their AI colleagues).” Paper for Digital Workplaces and the Lived Experience of Work, Swansea University, 6/25

“Grief and memory in radically extended human lives.” Workshop on Grief and Memory, Centre for Philosophy of Memory, University of Grenoble, 6/25

“Devotion and the opacity of grief.” Panel presentation, European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion Annual Conference, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, 6/25

“Creating vulnerable agents: Toward a Kantian procreative ethic.” Workshop on ‘Kant’s Ethics Beyond the Strawman’, Greifswald University, 5/25

“Suffering and the virtuousness of grief.” Conference on New Work in Pain and Suffering, University of Glasgow, 5/25

“Grief’s medicalization and disorderly attention.” Emotion and Attention workshop, University of Oslo, 4/25

“Dependency ratios, intergenerational justice, and the duty to work.” Workshop, Ethics of Choosing and Refusing Work, University of Edinburgh, 2/25

“Human capabilities and the right to grieve.” Invited presentation, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, 2/25

“Practical fidelity and the duty to grieve.”

  • Rutgers University Value Theory colloquium, 11/24
  • Departmental colloquium, State University of New York, New Paltz, 11/24

“Immortality and the varieties of agency,” Invited speaker, 19th New York University Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy, 11/24

“Our aversion toward death.” Yale University Moral Philosophy Working Group, 11/24

“Grief and the value of tragedy.” Princeton University Normative Philosophy Workshop, 11/24.

“The cruelty in capital punishment?” Seton Hall University, 11/24

“Griefbots, memory, and death denial.” Keynote presentation, Death and the Digital Realm, Leiden University, 10/24

“The harm of execution.” 5th Biennial World Meeting, International Association for hte Philosophy of Death and Dying, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 8/24

“Warranted affective ambivalence: The case of grief.”

  • International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying, 7/24 (online)
  • European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion, 10th Annual Conference, 6/24

Panelist, “Last Breath: Navigating Morality and End of Life Decisions.” Malaysian Philosophical Society, 7/24

“The human right to grief and the wrong of disenfranchisement.” Cultures of Disenfranchised Grief, Newcastle University, 6/24

“Grief: The philosophical essentials.” NOVA University, Lisbon, 6/24

“Vestigial agency in an immortal life.” University of Edinburgh, 6/24

“Workplace democracy versus… democracy?” Workshop on Work and Equality, Trinity College Dublin, 5/24

“Fearing our deaths, grieving our selves.” International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying/Scots Philosophical Association Conference, ‘Relating to Death, Relating to the Dead’, University of Edinburgh,  UK, 5/24

“Attention, solitude, and the social dimensions of grief.” Keynote address, Alone Together: Solitude in Theory and Practice (International Society for Research on Solitude), Bishop Grosseteste University (Lincoln, UK), 4/24

“Ambivalence and paternalistic suicide prevention.” University of Copenhagen, Centre for Public Health, 4/24

“Memory and mimesis in our relationships with posthumous avatars.” Workshop on Philosophy of Avatars, University of Aberdeen, 3/24

“Productive pluralism as a post-work vision.”

  • Philosophy of Work network (online), 3/24
  • Invited Keynote, workshop on the Future of Work, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, 12/23

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