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.

Louise Richardson's (PhD Warwick 2009) paper "Flavour, Taste, and Smell" is the subject of a symposium on the Mind and Language blog with comments from Fiona MacPherson, Mohan Matthen, Matt Nudds, and Barry C. Smith. Why not contribute to the discussion?

Congratulations to Karen Simecek who has been awarded an IAS Early Career Fellowship Award to study the relationship between poetry and the emotions.

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

The dates are March 21 (Thursday) and March 22 (Friday). Speakers include: Rebecca Bamford (Quinnipiac), Jessica Berry (Georgia), Paul Bishop (Glasgow), Christine Daigle (Brock, Canada), and Herman Siemens (Leiden, the Netherlands).

Anyone interested in attending the March 2013 events should contact Dr Simon Scott to register. Places for the workshop are limited, and you are advised to register your interest early.

Registration cost is as follows: £10.00 for single day; £15.00 for both days (payment by cheque, payable to ‘University of Warwick’ or by cash). Send to: Dr Simon Scott, Department of Philosophy (Social Studies), University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL.

Professor Christine Daigle of Brock University (Canada) will be a visitor to the Department later this month where she will give a talk to the Post-Kantian Philosophy Research Seminar on de Beauvoir and feminist phenomenology (February 5th) and a seminar presentation on Nietzsche to MA students (to be announced).

Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy and Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University (Canada). She is the author of Le Nihilisme est-il un humanisme? Étude sur Nietzsche et Sartre (PUL, 2005), and Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge, Critical Thinkers Series, 2009). She has edited Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics (McGill/Queen's University Press, 2006) and co-edited with Jacob Golomb Beauvoir and Sartre. The Riddle of Influence (Indiana University Press, 2009) and co-edited with Élodie Boublil Nietzsche and Phenomenology. Power, Life, Subjectivity (Indiana University Press, forthcoming in the spring 2013). She is currently working on two major research projects. The first is a monograph tentatively titled Nietzsche as phenomenologist. The second, rooted in her work on Simone de Beauvoir, is a series of articles on feminist phenomenology and the ethical and political implications of approaching human inter-relations from that perspective.