We are pleased to announce that Professor Stephen Houlgate has been awarded one of the highly prestigious three year Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowships to pursue his work on Hegel’s Science of Logic. The fellowships enable well-established and distinguished researchers in the disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences to devote themselves to a single research project of outstanding originality and significance.

Professor Houlgate’s project is to write an accessible and original study of the Science of Logic (1812-16, 1832), which is one of the most important, but also most difficult and complex (and most neglected) texts in the history of Western philosophy. Professor Houlgate’s book, The Opening of Hegel’s Logic (2006), concentrated on the first part of the Logic: the “doctrine of being”. The focus of his Leverhulme project will be on the second and third parts of the Logic: the “doctrine of essence” and the “doctrine of the concept”. The doctrine of essence is where Hegel carries out his revolutionary critique of pre-Kantian metaphysics and Kantian “reflection”, and the doctrine of the concept is where he sets out the core of his own alternative, “speculative-dialectical” metaphysics (which itself builds on the thought of Aristotle).

Professor Houlgate’s project will involve not only clarifying Hegel’s often tortuous arguments, but also bringing out their philosophical significance by comparing Hegel’s understanding of specific concepts (such as identity, difference, form, substance, cause) with those of Aristotle, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant and Deleuze. Professor Houlgate’s study of the Logic will be published by Oxford University Press.

Bill Brewer's latest book, Perception and its Objects, is due to be published in March 2011. The book presents, motivates, and defends a bold new solution to a fundamental problem in the philosophy of perception. For further information, please use the following link:

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A New History of Continental Philosophy Has just been published in 8 volumes by Acumen Press in the UK and University of Chicago Press in the US. The general editor of the series is Alan D. Schrift. Volume three is edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson and is entitled “The New Century: Bergsonism, Phenomenology, and Responses to Modern Science”. 

It features essays on: Bergson, Durkheim and Mauss, Freud, Husserl, the early Heidegger, Jaspers, neo-Kantianism, Scheler, Wittgenstein, and Bergsonism and evolutionary theory.

The AHRC project Aesthetics After Photography announces the programme for its forthcoming conference: 

Agency and Automatism: Photography as Art since the 1960s

Tate Modern, London, 10-12 June 2010

Time: Tuesday 11th of May, 12:00pm (registration) - 7:30pm
Location: University of Warwick, LIB2 and S0.11
Organised by Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, in conjunction with the Research Group in Post-Kantian European Philosophy