Philosophy News
Come along to our graduation party!
All students graduating from the Department are invited to a drinks celebration in the Philosophy foyer. Guests welcome to come along too!
Applications now being taken for two new Teaching Fellow posts
The Department is advertising for two new 10 month posts: Teaching Fellow in Moral and Political Philosophy, and Teaching Fellow in Aesthetics.
The closing dates for both is the 11th July 2014.
Postgraduate Philosophy and Literature student, Philip Gaydon, has been awarded a WATEPGR Teaching Excellence Prize
Philip Gaydon, a postgraduate student in the Department has been selected as a winner in this year’s Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research Students scheme.
The Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research students (WATEPGR) gives students and staff the opportunity to recognise and celebrate excellent teaching by postgraduate research students. Research students can carry out a range of teaching activities including facilitating seminars,lecturing,demonstrating and project supervision.How the scheme works
The award aims to recognise and reward postgraduate research students who teach or demonstrate and who have had positive impact on the student learning experience and also to enhance the profile of teaching excellence at the University.
Philip has been awarded a teaching excellence prize of £500, to spend on teaching or research activities.
Beyond Obligation?: Life and Ethics
Keith Ansell-Pearson will give a plenary paper on ‘Beyond Obligation?: Life and Ethics’ at the annual conference of the Royal Institute of Philosophy on ‘Supererogation’, being held at University College Dublin, 4-6 June, 2014.
Massimo Renzo will be speaking at The Ethics of War in the 21st Century conference in Stockholm
Massimo will be giving a talk entitled "Duties of Citizenship and Just War" at a conference on The Ethics of War in the 21st Century (Stockholm University, 24-25 May)