Special issue of Changing English on the Uses of Poetry, guest edited by Karen Simecek (Warwick) and Kate Rumbold (Birmingham) now available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccen20/current. This special issue brings together researchers in Philosophy, Psychology, Education Studies and English Literature to reflect on the value of poetry and the role it should play in education.

Thank you for all of the entries which we received to our photo competition 2016. We saw some excellent interpretations of the theme, and we look forward to using your photographs to promote our department.

We are very pleased to announce the winners of our competition ‘What Philosophy means to me’ are as follows:

The judges were highly impressed with the creative, innovative and intelligent entries that these students submitted - a big congratulations goes to the above students!

The judges would also like to give special mention to the following students, whose entries were highly commended:

• Sophie Davies
• Suida Hasan

A big thank you to all those who have taken part in this year’s competition!

Best wishes

Kat Moore (Senior Marketing Assistant, Philosophy) and Karen Simecek (Director of Student Experience and Progression, Philosophy)

Two articles by Eileen John have been highlighted as contributions to aesthetics:

'Literature and Disagreement' as one of the top five articles in aesthetics in 2014, by Aesthetics for Birds and 'Meals, Art, and Artistic Value' as Article of the Year 2015 by the Slovak and Finnish Aesthetics societies.

The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey is open from Thursday 28th April until Thursday 16th June 2016. Your participation and feedback is vital to enable the Department and the University of Warwick to help improve teaching, learning, student support and the postgraduate taught student experience for future Philosophy students. It only takes 5-10 minutes to complete and, as a thank you for completing it, the Department will put £5 on your Eating at Warwick card.

More information

Eileen John and Felix Pinkert are convening an informal student and faculty reading group on Kwame Anthony Appiah's book/essay collection "In My Father's House - Africa in the Philosophy of Culture". Undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as members of staff are all welcome to join to discuss this book.

We plan to meet on Wednesdays 11:00-12:00, and the initial dates and chapters are the following:

May 4: Chapter 2: "Illusions of Race"

May 11: Chapter 5: "Ethnophilosophy and Its Critics"

May 18: Chapter 6: "Old Gods, New Worlds"

May 25: Chapter 7: "The Postcolonial and the Postmodern"

Please contact Felix Pinkert (F.Pinkert@warwick.ac.uk) if you want to attend and be added to the group's email list.