Philosophy News
One of our PhD students has been offered an IAS Early Career Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Joe Cunningham who has been offered an IAS Early Career Fellowship Award at Warwick. Joe recently completed his thesis on 'Visual Perception as a Source of Epistemic Reasons'.
Registration for the The 89th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind is now open
The Joint Session is a three-day conference in philosophy that is held annually during the summer by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. It has taken place at nearly every major university across the United Kingdom and in Ireland. Since 1910, the Joint Session has grown to become the largest gathering of philosophers in the country, attracting prestigious UK and international speakers working in a broad range of philosophical areas.
The 89th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association will be held at the University of Warwick from 10 to 12 July 2015. All enquiries should be sent to jointsession@warwick.ac.uk
For more information, and to register for the event, visit the webpage
Amrish Patel presentation: Causal Overdetermination and Blame
Amrish Patel will be presenting “Causal Overdetermination and Blame” at the next DR@W Forum, this Thursday 19th March and will be available to meet with people on Thursday and Friday.
If any staff or students would like to meet with Amrish or attend one of the meals you can register via the doodle poll: http://doodle.com/niqhct47p2zra5ve or email: alexander.mushore@wbs.ac.uk
Man and Superman
Bernard Shaw’s innovative play ‘Man and Superman’ is currently running at the National Theatre in a new production starring Ralph Fiennes as Jack Tanner and directed by Simon Godwin. Our very own Keith Ansell-Pearson is to do a ‘Platform’ event at the NT discussing the philosophical influences on the play, and with the Shaw biographer Michael Holroyd, on March 13th, 2015. The platform will be chaired by Joan Bakewell. A podcast of the event will be available.
One of our PhD students has been offered an IAS Early Career Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Sander Werkhoven who has been offered an IAS Early Career Fellowship Award. Sander recently completed a PhD on 'The Being and Value of Health’ and now plans to develop the central arguments in his thesis into a series of journal papers.