Center for Contemporary European Philosophy

The Center for Contemporary European Philosophy (CCEP) is the only scientific centre in the Netherlands specialising in teaching and researching 20th and 21st century continental philosophy. The centre is anchored in Radboud University’s strong tradition in continental philosophy. Researchers scrutinise every-day concepts from a critical philosophical viewpoint, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the social public debate.

Highlights

professor Marjolein Oele

Inaugural lecture professor Marjolein Oele

Professor of Philosophy of the Humanities at Radboud University, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies will deliver an inaugural lecture (in English) on Friday, November 8, 2024 at 3.45 pm.

Hippatia

CCEP - SWIP NL Lecture

CCEP and SWIP-NL are hosting a joint lecture. Find out more about the event.

Heideggers hut

Phenomenology and Naturalism

This PhD project concerns the concept of ‘naturalism’ and its meaning in the philosophical projects of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.

Main lines of research

  • A critical dialogue between continental philosophy and the natural sciences
  • The impact of gender, race, sexuality, pregnancy, and intersectionality on the concept of man
  • The meaning of anthropocene and nihilism
  • Psychoanalytic criticism of religion
  • Nature and sustainability

Radboud Annual Continental Philosophy Conference

Each year the CCEP organises a conference on continental philosophy. 
Learn more about the 2025 edition

Understanding our world

The CCEP focuses on subjects from metaphysics and philosophical anthropology and studies these with methods and perspectives derived from phenomenology, hermeneutics and psychoanalysis. It looks into these movements in a critical dialogue with other approaches presented in European philosophy in the 20th century. The CCEP acts from the conviction that continental philosophy is one of the major sources for understanding ourselves in today’s world. 

Founded in 2013, the CCEP strives to be the hub for researchers and students in continental philosophy. The CCEP maintains active ties with colleagues and institutions in the English, French and German speaking world, as well as in countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey and Russia.

Events

professor Marjolein Oele

Inaugural lecture professor Marjolein Oele

Professor of Philosophy of the Humanities at Radboud University, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies will deliver an inaugural lecture (in English) on Friday, November 8, 2024 at 3.45 pm.

Hippatia

CCEP - SWIP NL Lecture

CCEP and SWIP-NL are hosting a joint lecture. Find out more about the event.

De letters CCEP in donderrood tegen een Radboudrode achtergrond

Radboud Annual Continental Philosophy Conference 2025

The CCEP hosts its annual two-day conference about continental philosophy in March 2025.

Contact information

Location

Erasmus building

Erasmusplein 1
6525HT Nijmegen
024-3612166