Philosophy News

From January 2017, Warwick will be hosting a new interdisciplinary research project Time: Between Metaphysics and Psychology, funded by an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The aim of the project is to bring debates about the metaphysics of time, which often invoke claims about our experience of time, into contact with actual research in psychology on the origins and nature of our everyday understanding of time. The three-year project, which will be lead by Christoph Hoerl (Philosophy, Warwick) and Teresa McCormack (Psychology, Belfast), will involve two 2-year postdocs (one in philosophy, one in psychology), a series of workshops and public engagement activities, as well as collaborations with a range of performing arts groups.

Thank you for all of the entries which we received to our photo competition 2016. We saw some excellent interpretations of the theme, and we look forward to using your photographs to promote our department.

We are very pleased to announce the winners of our competition ‘What Philosophy means to me’ are as follows:

The judges were highly impressed with the creative, innovative and intelligent entries that these students submitted - a big congratulations goes to the above students!

The judges would also like to give special mention to the following students, whose entries were highly commended:

• Sophie Davies
• Suida Hasan

A big thank you to all those who have taken part in this year’s competition!

Best wishes

Kat Moore (Senior Marketing Assistant, Philosophy) and Karen Simecek (Director of Student Experience and Progression, Philosophy)

Two articles by Eileen John have been highlighted as contributions to aesthetics:

'Literature and Disagreement' as one of the top five articles in aesthetics in 2014, by Aesthetics for Birds and 'Meals, Art, and Artistic Value' as Article of the Year 2015 by the Slovak and Finnish Aesthetics societies.

Many thanks to all of our students who completed the National Student Survey - your feedback is valuable to us. Our final response rate was over 80%!

As we met our top target, we held our National Student Survey prize draw today at the SSLC meeting and we are pleased to announce the following winners:

• £75 Amazon voucher - Freddie Paul
• £75 Amazon voucher - Benjamin David
• £50 Amazon voucher - Robert Singh
• £50 Amazon voucher - Mandi Chivasa

Congratulations to our winners! All philosophy finalists who were eligible to complete the National Student Survey were automatically entered into this prize draw.

The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey is open from Thursday 28th April until Thursday 16th June 2016. Your participation and feedback is vital to enable the Department and the University of Warwick to help improve teaching, learning, student support and the postgraduate taught student experience for future Philosophy students. It only takes 5-10 minutes to complete and, as a thank you for completing it, the Department will put £5 on your Eating at Warwick card.

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