We are pleased to announce that Matthew Nudds will be joining the department on 1 September 2012 as Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department. He is currently Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Department at Edinburgh. He did his PhD at UCL and he works on philosophy of mind and perception. He has a special interest in auditory perception. He has published extensively on this topic and his arrival will cement Warwick's reputation as one of the best departments in the UK for the philosophy of mind.

The Department would like to offer its congratulations to the following current or previous students:

Frank Chouraqui (graduated summer 2010) on his appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Koc University, Istanbul and to

Joseph Kuzma (graduated winter 2012) on his appointment as lecturer in Philosophy at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Frank wrote his PhD thesis on Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on truth and Joseph wrote his PhD thesis on the exigency of return in Nietzsche and Blanchot.

Joe Barker (third year Philosophy undergraduate) who has been awarded, and has accepted, a 5 year postgraduate studentship at Penn State University from this autumn.

PeopleIn March 2012 and March 2013, and with the support of the British Academy, the Philosophy Department will host both a one-day workshop and a one-day conference on the topic of Nietzsche's philosophy of the free spirit.

A new edition and translation of one of Nietzsche's most neglected but inspiring and thought-provoking texts - Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality - has just been published as volume five in Stanford University Press's 'Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche'. Keith Ansell-Pearson helped prepare the edition and wrote the Afterword for it. Dawn is a pathbreaking work and an exercise in modern emancipation - from fear, superstition, hatred of the self and the body, the short cuts of religion, and the presumptions of morality. Pursuing an experimental philosophy Nietzsche seeks to entice his readers into viewing themselves as experiments and wanting to be such.

For further information please use the following link: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=5885

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'

For more information please visit:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/activities/encfp/

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.