Lydia Goehr will be a Visiting Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Warwick from 18 January 2010 to 29 January 2010.

Lydia is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She works on the Philosophy of Music, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Philosophy of History, and European Philosophy, and is internationally renowned for her innovative, cross-disciplinary work on the relationship between music, politics, history, and philosophy.

Congratulations to Dean Machin (temp lecturer, spring 2009) who has been awarded a three year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.  Dean will take up his fellowship in the autumn 2009.

The influential Leiter report lists Warwick Philosophy in the top groupings in six areas: epistemology; philosophy of art; philosophy of mind; political philosophy; 19th century continental philosophy; 20th century continental philosophy.  In each area, Warwick is one of the top 3 UK departments for that specialism.  Overall, Warwick Philosophy comes 9th in the UK and in the top 50 internationally.  The Leiter report is an extensive peer review ranking of Philosophy departments, produced by Professor Brian Leiter (Chicago) working with an advisory board of nearly 60 international philosophers and a college of specialist evaluators over 100 strong.  For more details see:  http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com

Bildtheorie & Photography: Comparative Philosophical Approaches

A One-day Workshop at the University of Warwick 

This event will bring together expertise from Germany and the UK to stimulate new avenues for future research in the visual arts. 

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Kai Spiekermann, who has won the Political Studies Association's Sir Ernest Barker Prize for Political theory, 2008 for his thesis "Norms and Games: Realistic Moral theory and the Dynamic Analysis of Cooperation".