WMA Graduate Research Seminar, 2023/2024
In preparation for MindGrad we will dedicate the first 3 sessions to 3 papers by Matt Soteriou and the following 2 session to background reading for Lea Salje's talk.
Week 4: Matt Soteriou, ‘Determining the Future’ [pdf]
Week 5: Matt Soteriou, ‘The past made present: Mental time travel in episodic recollection’ [pdf]
Week 6: Matt Soteriou, ‘Waking Up and Being Conscious' [link]
Week 7: Eli Alshanetsky, Articulating a Thought, Introduction [link] and Chapter 2 'A Puzzle' [link]
Week 9: Alex Byrne, 'Knowing what I'm thinking'
Mon 29 Apr, '24- |
Heidegger Reading GroupOnline onlyHeidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer’s “Truth and Method” (1960). Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only. For meeting details and the reading schedule, email fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk. Guided by Haley’s expertise, we will work through the entire book in this term. Gadamer is one of Heidegger's most influential students, not just in philosophy but in the humanities more generally (social thought, medical humanities, law, aesthetics, etc.). By way of outline, Gadamer's text is concerned with defending humanistic truth, and he achieves this by looking at three places this truth shows up in human life: aesthetics, history, and conversation. “Truth and Method” is, then, relevant to those of us concerned with epistemology, aesthetics, history as a philosophical topic (beginning with Kant and Hegel), philosophy of language, and ontology. |
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Thu 2 May, '24- |
Summer Seminar 2024: Troy Jollimore, Love’s VisionSeminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome. Thursday May 2, 2–4pm: Chapter 2: Love’s Blindness (1): Love’s Closed Heart. “Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love’s Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love’s moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato’s Symposium, love is “something in between.”” |
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Mon 6 May, '24- |
Heidegger Reading GroupOnline onlyHeidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer’s “Truth and Method” (1960). Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only. For meeting details and the reading schedule, email fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk. Guided by Haley’s expertise, we will work through the entire book in this term. Gadamer is one of Heidegger's most influential students, not just in philosophy but in the humanities more generally (social thought, medical humanities, law, aesthetics, etc.). By way of outline, Gadamer's text is concerned with defending humanistic truth, and he achieves this by looking at three places this truth shows up in human life: aesthetics, history, and conversation. “Truth and Method” is, then, relevant to those of us concerned with epistemology, aesthetics, history as a philosophical topic (beginning with Kant and Hegel), philosophy of language, and ontology. |
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Tue 7 May, '24- |
Philosophy in Action: Innovative CareersOC0.01 |
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Thu 9 May, '24- |
Summer Seminar 2024: Troy Jollimore, Love’s VisionR3.25Thursday May 9, 2–4pm: Chapter 3: Blindness (2): Love’s Friendly Eye Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome. “Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love’s Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love’s moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato’s Symposium, love is “something in between.”” |
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Fri 10 May, '24- |
Philosophy Student WP Network LaunchS0.19 |
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Fri 10 May, '24- |
Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of LogicFAB4.73Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic Time: 3-5 p.m. Every Friday from Week 2 Summer Term Location: FAB 4.73 (the first meeting: 3rd May) Content: Last term, we have almost finished section 1 "Essence as Reflection Within". This term, we will start with a recap and then go further to "complete ground" (11:312) and section 2 "Appearance". [It's absolutely alright if you weren't here last term: )] Format: We aim to read the text carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance. This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated. Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested. |
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Mon 13 May, '24- |
WMA Reading Group: Origins of Naturalised IntentionalityS2.84We are pleased to welcome you to the WMA reading group, Origins of Naturalised Intentionality. In this reading group, we will go through five highly influential authors who seek to provide the grounds for a scientific account of mental content (the stuff we think about). The reading is chosen to provide an accessible introduction to the naturalistic approach to mental content. We hope to have a relatively relaxed discussion of the (sometimes controversial) ideas on offer! We will meet in S2.84 on Mondays of even weeks (starting 29/04/24) at 14:00-15:30. The sessions will be led by Johan Heemskerk. Feel free to reach out to Oscar North-Concar or Johan Heemskerk for any further information. The group is open to absolutely everyone, so do come along if you are interested!
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Mon 13 May, '24- |
Heidegger Reading GroupOnline onlyHeidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer’s “Truth and Method” (1960). Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only. For meeting details and the reading schedule, email fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk. Guided by Haley’s expertise, we will work through the entire book in this term. Gadamer is one of Heidegger's most influential students, not just in philosophy but in the humanities more generally (social thought, medical humanities, law, aesthetics, etc.). By way of outline, Gadamer's text is concerned with defending humanistic truth, and he achieves this by looking at three places this truth shows up in human life: aesthetics, history, and conversation. “Truth and Method” is, then, relevant to those of us concerned with epistemology, aesthetics, history as a philosophical topic (beginning with Kant and Hegel), philosophy of language, and ontology. |
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Thu 16 May, '24- |
Summer Seminar 2024: Troy Jollimore, Love’s VisionR3.25Thursday May 16, 2–4pm: Chapter 4: Beyond Comparison Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome. “Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love’s Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love’s moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato’s Symposium, love is “something in between.”” |