Philosophy News
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.
10 travel and accommodation student bursaries available for Florence conference
'Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation
' will hold its second conference at Monash University Prato Centre (near Florence, Italy) from 29th June–1st July 2015. We have up TEN student bursaries for travel and accommodation for this event. Please apply to selfcultivation@warwick.ac.uk by 16th March with a 200-word statement of your interest in the project. All Warwick undergraduates or postgraduates are eligible to apply.
Upcoming workshop: The New Philosophy of Photography
Friday 13th – Saturday 14th February 2015
Senate House, Malet Street WC1, London (Deller Hall)
This workshop brings together philosophers and theorists from the UK, USA, Canada, France, Belgium and Germany to discuss very recent developments in the philosophy of photography. Over the last few years, philosophers have taken up the challenge that artists’ use of photography poses for hitherto standard philosophical conceptions of photography as a ‘purely causal’ process ensuring ‘belief independent feature tracking’ or ‘natural counter-factual dependence’ of photographs on what they are photographs of. The workshop considers whether taking photographic art seriously requires a fundamental re-conception of the field.
"A Person's a Person, No Matter How Small": Children's Literature and Ethics - register now!
Wednesday 4th February programme:
(R0.12 - Ramphal Building)
13:00-13:30 – Welcome and refreshments
13:30-14:30 – Dr Eileen John (Philosophy): Children’s Literature and Ethics
14:30-15:30 – Dr Maebh Harding (Law): Children’s Choices and Autonomy
15:30-16:00 – Break
16:00-17:00 – Catherine Lester (Film and Television): Horror for children
Thursday 5th February programme:
(Reinvention Centre, Westwood)
09:30-10:00: Breakfast
10:00-11:00: Philip Gaydon (IATL): “Play up, play up, and play the game”: The Ethics of Sport in Children’s Literature
11:00-12:00: Dr Peter Sidebotham (Warwick Medical School): Dealing with child abuse and neglect in practice, theory, and literature
12:00-13:00: Lunch and discussion
13:00-14:00: Leila Rasheed (Creative Writing and Children’s Author): What we expect from children’s authors
14:00-15:00: Plenary: Creating transdisciplinary and innovative modules
Register now!