Wednesday, 03 March 2010

The University of Warwick Philosophy Society invites you to a Symposium on the 'Non-Philosophy' of François Laruelle.

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.

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Dr Angie Hobbs has just become the first ever 'Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy' in the UK.

This role will involve Dr Hobbs being tasked with bringing Philosophy to as wide an audience as possible both domestically and internationally.  She will be building upon her work with traditional print and broadcast media as well as newer social media.

More detailed information can be accessed at the Communication Office's webpages at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/uk146s_first_ever

Also do visit Angie's staff pages

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".

'Automatism, Causality and Realism: Foundational Intuitions in the Philosophy of Photography'

Co-authored by Diarmuid Costello and Dawn M. Phillips

This article is published in Philosophy Compass (2009) Vol.4 Issue 1 pp.1-21

(See webpage link for an abstract)