Join us for our regular “Tea and Talk” events, open to all Warwick students! A chance for you to meet, chat and have a virtual cuppa with students across the university; or chat informally about a different wellbeing theme each week. It is also a great way for you to stay connected with others.

Adam Curtis: 'Can't get you out of my head’ Episode 1

All of the texts and links are available on the CCLS reading group

If you’re ready to apply to one of our programmes, are midway through the application process, or just have some general questions you’d like to ask our recruitment team, our Recruiter drop-in session is your opportunity to speak with our team. Our Student Recruitment team will be available in our new virtual world, PwC’s Virtual Park, and you’ll be able to drop in and out of the platform at whatever time suits you during the two hour availability.

Guest Speaker: Robert Stern (Sheffield)

Title: "How is human freedom compatible with the authority of the Good?’ Murdoch on moral agency, freedom, and imagination"

This paper deals with the issue of choice and agency in moral action. On the one hand, it seems that the moral agent should use their practical reason to determine what it is right for them to do, and act accordingly; on the other hand, this seems to leave little room for choice in their action, where choice is often said to be a marker of freedom and how the will is exercised. In response to this difficulty, Ruth Chang has argued recently that reasons themselves need to be seen as being created through an act of will. Looking at the work of Iris Murdoch, it is argued that this response is problematic. At the same time, it is also argued that Murdoch can provide a fruitful way of dealing with this problem through her account of imagination, which gives a role to the agent not in choice, but in uncovering the reasons that should guide their actions.

Welcome

Guest Speaker: Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham)

Title: 'The Agential Stance: How to Support Young People's Sense of Agency in Mental Health Clinical Encounters'

Chair: Giulia Lorenzi (Warwick)

Event sponsored by Marc Sanders Foundation

Contact Giulia Lorenzi (G.Lorenzi@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.