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.

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'

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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.

The Shpilman Institute of Photography launched its inaugural research awards this year with a special call for projects in the “Philosophy and Photography.” Diarmuid Costello has been awarded one of six awards in this category, drawn from 500 applications from 47 countries.

Professor Dominic McIver Lopes, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship to spend January-June 2012 at Warwick.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Quassim Cassam has been awarded the highly prestigious Mind Senior Research Fellowship in Philosophy for the Academic year 2012-13.

These fellowships (for which only one is awarded per year) are intended for senior academics with a proven track record of high quality research in any area of Philosophy to release them from administrative and teaching duties in order to pursue a period of sustained research. The fellowships are awarded in recognition of the distinction of the applicant's work, and above all of the exceptional interest and importance of the project proposed. Professor Cassam will spend the fellowship period writing a book on self-knowledge and irrationality, building on the ideas contained in his 2011 Aristotelian Society Presidential Address 'Knowing What You Believe'.