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.

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'.

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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