Philosophy News

The National Student Survey 2012 opened on 16 January 2012 for Warwick students. This is an important opportunity for you, as a finalist undergraduate student, to give your opinion, in a national forum, on teaching and learning within our department and your overall experience at Warwick.

If you respond to the survey before it closes on 30 April 2011, you will be entered into a University free prize draw (first prize £200).

In addition, if the Philosophy Department reaches an overall response rate of 75% or more (i.e., if more than 75% of our finalists fill in the survey), there will be a special Philosophy prize draw to say thank you. For more details of the Philosophy prize draw and which cohort of students it applies to please see:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/undergraduate/current_students/nss/

All unassessed essays (with the exception of tutorial/class essays/exercises that are submitted weekly/fortnightly) must be submitted in hard copy only (with the appropriate cover sheet attached) to the Departmental Office in line with the deadlines that have been published in the handbook and on the essay information webpages

The office will then distribute work to relevant markers and contact students on a module when work has been marked and is ready for collection from the Departmental Office

Work should only be submitted directly to tutorial/seminar leaders where tutorial/class essays/exercises are submitted weekly/fortnightly and this will be detailed clearly on the relevant module webpage. In ALL other cases unassessed essays should be submitted to the Departmental Office to meet the published deadlines and not to individual module or seminar tutors.

PeopleIn March 2012 and March 2013, and with the support of the British Academy, the Philosophy Department will host both a one-day workshop and a one-day conference on the topic of Nietzsche's philosophy of the free spirit.

A new edition and translation of one of Nietzsche's most neglected but inspiring and thought-provoking texts - Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality - has just been published as volume five in Stanford University Press's 'Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche'. Keith Ansell-Pearson helped prepare the edition and wrote the Afterword for it. Dawn is a pathbreaking work and an exercise in modern emancipation - from fear, superstition, hatred of the self and the body, the short cuts of religion, and the presumptions of morality. Pursuing an experimental philosophy Nietzsche seeks to entice his readers into viewing themselves as experiments and wanting to be such.

For further information please use the following link: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=5885

Congratulations to Professor Beistegui for having been awarded a three-year grant by the Leverhulme Trust for his project: 'key-issues in Bioethics and Biopolitics'

For more information please visit:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/activities/encfp/

The aim of this research project is to understand, delimit, investigate, and assess the specificity of the problem of life today. To say that life is a problem is to recognize that it is constituted by a series of internal tensions, the ethical and political consequences of which we intend to analyze and question. In each case, and at every stage of their various evolutions, those tensions produce and/or open up specific modes of knowledge and regimes of power. Such is the reason why the philosophical approach, which governs this research project, intersects with that of the historian, the epistemologist, and the clinician.This project involves the participation of the European Partners of the ENCFP, The Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick, and The Health Sciences Research Institute (HSRI) at the Warwick Medical School.