The National Student Survey 2013 is still open until the 30th April 2013 for you to complete and all philosophy finalist students are strongly encouraged to use this opportunity to provide feedback to the department on their experiences here.

The survey only takes a few minutes to complete and can be found on the following link

http://go.warwick.ac.uk/nss.

If you respond to the survey before it closes, you will be entered into a University prize draw (first prize £200). More details can be found here.

In addition, if the Philosophy Department reaches an overall response rate of 75% or more (i.e., if more than 75% of our finalists fill in the survey), there will be a special Philosophy prize draw to say thank you. All Philosophy finalists will be entered into this prize draw if we reach the 75% response rate.

The department’s response rate has not yet reached 75% so more students do need to complete the survey please to make sure that the department prize draw goes ahead.

Details on what the prizes are and how past National Student Survey results have fed back into life in the Philosophy Department in a number of important and concrete ways can be found at the following link: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/undergraduate/current_students/nss13

The results of the survey are anonymous and will be made available in the summer at www.unistats.com to help future applicants decide where to study.

In March 2013, and with the support of the British Academy, the Philosophy Department will host a further one-day workshop and one-day conference on the topic of Nietzsche's philosophy of the free spirit.

The dates are March 21 (Thursday) and March 22 (Friday). Speakers include: Rebecca Bamford (Quinnipiac), Jessica Berry (Georgia), Paul Bishop (Glasgow), Christine Daigle (Brock, Canada), and Herman Siemens (Leiden, the Netherlands).

Anyone interested in attending the March 2013 events should contact Dr Simon Scott to register. Places for the workshop are limited, and you are advised to register your interest early.

Registration cost is as follows: £10.00 for single day; £15.00 for both days (payment by cheque, payable to ‘University of Warwick’ or by cash). Send to: Dr Simon Scott, Department of Philosophy (Social Studies), University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL.

Professor Christine Daigle of Brock University (Canada) will be a visitor to the Department later this month where she will give a talk to the Post-Kantian Philosophy Research Seminar on de Beauvoir and feminist phenomenology (February 5th) and a seminar presentation on Nietzsche to MA students (to be announced).

Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy and Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University (Canada). She is the author of Le Nihilisme est-il un humanisme? Étude sur Nietzsche et Sartre (PUL, 2005), and Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge, Critical Thinkers Series, 2009). She has edited Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics (McGill/Queen's University Press, 2006) and co-edited with Jacob Golomb Beauvoir and Sartre. The Riddle of Influence (Indiana University Press, 2009) and co-edited with Élodie Boublil Nietzsche and Phenomenology. Power, Life, Subjectivity (Indiana University Press, forthcoming in the spring 2013). She is currently working on two major research projects. The first is a monograph tentatively titled Nietzsche as phenomenologist. The second, rooted in her work on Simone de Beauvoir, is a series of articles on feminist phenomenology and the ethical and political implications of approaching human inter-relations from that perspective.

The Annual Philosophy Weekend, held since 1967, is an opportunity for staff and students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, to discuss philosophy in a beautiful place and a supportive atmosphere. As in previous years, we will have an exciting series of discussions and short talks throughout the weekend.

To find out more please come to a short meeting:

Time: Wednesday 14 November (this Wednesday), 1.10pm
Venue: Philosophy Common Room

If you have been to Cumberland Lodge before, please do come to this meeting and share your experiences.

The weekend this year will be 1 - 3 Feb 2013 beginning with dinner on Friday evening and finishing with afternoon tea on Sunday. It is held at Cumberland Lodge, a beautiful country house near Windsor.

For more information on cost, registration process and potential bursaries please attend the introductory meeting and visit the below webpages:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/conferences/cumberland-lodge/

If you’re a member of academic staff and you’re interested in attending a focus group to talk about your experience of using Warwick’s online environment, please email Sam Boulby at s.boulby@warwick.ac.uk.

No technical knowledge required – we’re interested in the experiences and opinions of people with no in-depth IT knowledge.