Philosophy News

Departmental Postgraduate Scholarships are now available for taught postgraduate study in 2014-5. The length of award is one year.

• Up to 5 Departmental Scholarships of £6,700 will be awarded in a competition open to all applicants.
• Up to 5 Departmental Scholarships of £3,350 will be awarded in a competition open to all Warwick Philosophy undergraduates.

The deadline for receipt of applications for Scholarship Awards is 28^th February 2014.

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The Conference will be held on friday, 30th May at the University of Warwick

Keynote Speakers: Daniel Whistler (Liverpool) and Iain Hamilton Grant (UWE)

In recent years, there has been a rapidly growing interest in the thought of F.W.J. Schelling, in the United Kingdom as well as abroad. In order to contribute to this ‘Schelling renaissance’, the University of Warwick will hold a conference on two of Schelling’s most significant works, the fundamental texts of the so-called ‘middle period’: Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Ages of the World. By focusing on this central period of Schelling’s thought, the conference aims to expose the significance of Schelling’s philosophy to the wider philosophical community while providing a platform for faculty and students already working on Schelling to collaborate on two of his essential projects.

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Graduates from the University of Warwick and Monash University have recently been awarded £20,000 for a research project entitled:“Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation”. The project will commence with a series of video-linked seminars and will culminate in a two-day workshop and one-day conference at each institution. Both events will invite leading scholars in Hellenistic and Modern European philosophy to investigate the revival of an ethics of self-cultivation, with especial focus on the writings of Nietzsche and Foucault.

Please check the research project’s forthcoming website over the next few weeks with schedules of events, workshop reading materials, and calls for participation. Events will be open to all philosophy students. Please contact m.dennis@warwick.ac.uk for further details.

The conference will be held between the 27th-29th March 2014, at the University of Warwick.

Whilst aestheticians in the Analytic tradition and literary critics may engage with each other’s fields in individual works, collections, and particular collaborations, particularly now that interdisciplinarity is becoming more of a sought after criterion in the academic sphere and in funding applications, there are still too few conference platforms that directly and explicitly promote this interaction.

This conference seeks to capitalise upon such works as Terry Eagleton’s The Event of Literature (which surprised many by systematically engaging with analytic philosophy) and the all-too-rare live interaction between literary critics and philosophers (such as Peter Lamarque and Derek Attridge at York’s ‘Contemporary Aesthetic Education’ event) in order to develop active relationships and reap the benefits of such collaboration.

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Sergia Adamo (Trieste), Prof. Catherine Belsey (Swansea), Prof. Gregory Currie (York), Prof. Peter Lamarque (York), Prof. Stein Haugom Olsen (Østfold), Prof. Jean-Michel Rabaté (Pennsylvania)

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Reading group for those interested in Non-Classical Logic. Maths and Computer Science students are welcome. The Term 1 topic will be Intuitionism. Thursday 3-4pm in the Philosophy Common Room.