Research Seminar in Post-Kantian European Philosophy, 2019/2020
Unless otherwise stated, Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Group seminars take place on Tuesdays, 5:30–7:30pm in Room S0.11 (ground floor of Social Studies). All welcome. For further information, please contact tbc
Wed 25 Nov, '20- |
Biopolitics Reading Group IIWebinarBiopolitics and the Changing Use of Statistics: Laurence Barry (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) |
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Thu 26 Nov, '20- |
Knowledge and Belief SeminarBy ZoomGuest Speaker: Johannes Roessler (Warwick) Title: 'Perceptual Self-Knowledge and Doxastic Self-Determination' Abstract. According to a widely held view of the nature of belief (which I label the Activity thesis, AT), beliefs belong to the ‘active side’ of the human mind. In this paper I explore a challenge to AT. I argue that reflection on the distinctive immediacy of perceptual knowledge, as we ordinarily understand it, puts pressure on an assumption informing AT, viz. that reasons for belief can always coherently be treated as a basis for ‘making up one’s mind’. Our best reasons for perceptual beliefs, I suggest, manifestly entail that we hold the belief they support, and so imply that our minds are already made up. (For example, one's best reason for believing that p may be 'I can see that p'.) I do not mean to suggest that perceptual beliefs should therefore be classified as belonging to the 'passive side' of the human mind. Rather, I think we should question the exhaustiveness (and perhaps usefulness) of the active vs passive distinction, as it has been employed in the philosophy of mind. |
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Thu 26 Nov, '20- |
Philosophy Society: Festival of Philosophy 2020MS TeamsGuest Speaker: Angie Hobbs (Sheffield) Title: 'Is Ancient Greek Philosophy Any Use in a Pandemic' |
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Mon 30 Nov, '20- |
Philosophy Skills Development SessionMS TeamsManaging Your Workload and Getting "Stuff" Done over Christmas! |
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Wed 2 Dec, '20- |
Philosophy Department ColloquiumBy ZoomGuest Speaker: Miriam Schoenfield (Austin, Texas) Title: 'Can Bayesianism Accommodate Higher Order Defeat?' |
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Thu 3 Dec, '20- |
Knowledge and Belief SeminarBy ZoomGuest Speaker: Leda Berio (HHU, Düsseldorf) Title: "Talking about Thinking: Language Acquisition and False Belief Reasoning" |
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Thu 3 Dec, '20- |
Art and Mind Reading GroupMS TeamsSubject: Literature Please contact Giulia Lorenzi for further information. |
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Wed 9 Dec, '20- |
Postgraduate Study at The University of Warwick: Information SessionThis event is an information session geared towards undergraduates who may be interested in further study, or just curious to learn more. Please contact Dr Thomas Crowther for further information. |
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Thu 10 Dec, '20- |
MAP Cinema ClubMS TeamsThe Film Club will be discussing the short documentary 30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone) and exploring the themes of gender and social collaboration. To be added to the dedicated mailing list and MS Team group and receive further information, please send an email to Sailee (organiser) via sailee.khurjekar@warwick.ac.uk. |
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Thu 10 Dec, '20- |
Knowledge and Belief SeminarBy ZoomGuest Speaker: Guy Longworth (Warwick) Title: 'Unsettling Questions' Abstract: "Should we expect someone who knows by seeing to be in a position positively to settle the questions “How do you know?” “Why do you think so?” or “Are you sure?"? I begin to address that large question by defending the following claims. We should not expect someone who knows by seeing that p to be in a position to know how they know that p (§2). However, we should expect someone who knows by seeing that p to have sufficient reasons for thinking that p, but—in light of the first claim—we should not expect their seeing what they do to figure amongst their reasons. A further issue that will figure in the background to the discussion here concerns how, if at all, sensory awareness of things can furnish one with reasons for thinking things so (§3). Despite the fact that one who knows by seeing need not know how they know and need not have amongst their reasons that they see what they do, still their seeing what they do can play an important role in establishing surety (§4)." |
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Fri 11 Dec, '20- |
MAP Online Q&A Session for Undergraduate StudentsMS TeamsPlease contact Giulia Lorenzi for further information. |
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Thu 14 Jan, '21- |
From Moral Learning to Self-Understanding Seminar SeriesWebinarGuest Speaker: Kristina Musholt (Leipzig) |
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Wed 20 Jan, '21- |
Biopolitics Reading GroupMS Teams'Biopolitics and Deconstruction' Guest Speaker: Naomi Waltham-Smith (Warwick) |
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Wed 27 Jan, '21- |
Philosophy Department ColloquiumWebinarGuest Speaker: Andy Hamilton (Durham) Title: 'Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticising Engaged Art and Philistinism' |
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Thu 28 Jan, '21- |
MAP Cinema ClubWe will be discussing the documentary film Paris Is Burning and the themes of drag and sexuality in America. To be added to the dedicated mailing list and MS Team group and receive further information, please send an email to Sailee (organiser) via sailee.khurjekar@warwick.ac.uk. |
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Thu 28 Jan, '21- |
From Moral Learning to Self-Understanding Seminar SeriesWebinarGuest Speaker: Edward Harcourt (Oxford) |
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Wed 3 Feb, '21- |
Philosophy Department Balloon DebateMS TeamsYou are warmly invited to our next Philosophy Balloon Debate. What is a balloon debate, you ask? Some philosophical folk are trapped on a sinking hot air balloon. To stay afloat, they need to drop weight. Staff and students from Philosophy will answer questions to determine who stays and who goes. Featuring: Barney Walker on David Hume David James on Jean-Jacques Rousseau Guy Longworth on Gottlob Frege Diarmuid Costello on Marcel Duchamp (WILD CARD) Jae Hetterley on Edith Stein (PGR) Toby Tremlett on Simone de Beauvoir (UG) This is a Philosophy community event co-organised with PhilSoc. Everyone is welcome – UGs, PGTs, PGRs, and all staff. Please contact David Bather Woods for further information. |
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Wed 3 Feb, '21- |
Biopolitics Reading GroupMS Teams'Transgressive Resistance and Biopolitics' Guest Speaker: Guilel Treiber (KU Leuven) |
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Wed 10 Feb, '21- |
Philosophy Department ColloquiumWebinarGuest Speaker: Jessica Keiser (Leeds) Title: 'The All Lives Matter' Response: QUD-Shifting as Epistemic Injustice' |
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Thu 11 Feb, '21- |
From Moral Learning to Self-Understanding Seminar SeriesWebinarGuest Speaker: Richard Moore (Warwick |
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Thu 25 Feb, '21- |
From Moral Learning to Self-Understanding Seminar SeriesWebinarGuest Speaker: Henrike Moll (Southern California) |
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Wed 3 Mar, '21- |
Biopolitics Reading GroupMS Teams'From Biopolitics to Bodypolitics' Guest Speaker: Karsten Schubert (Freiburg) |
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Wed 10 Mar, '21- |
CANCELLED: Philosophy Department ColloquiumWebinarGuest Speaker: Christopher Janaway (Southampton) Title: 'Different Kinds of Willing in Schopenhauer' |
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Thu 11 Mar, '21- |
From Moral Learning to Self-Understanding Seminar SeriesWebinarGuest Speaker: Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin) |
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Wed 17 Mar, '21- |
Biopolitics Reading GroupMS Teams'The Biopolitics of Mobility' Guest Speaker: Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths) |
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Mon 22 Mar, '21- |
From Moral Learning to Self-Understanding Seminar SeriesWebinarDetails TBC |
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Thu 15 Apr, '21- |
From Moral Learning to Self-Understanding Seminar SeriesWebinarGuest Speaker: Barbora Siposova (Warwick) |
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Thu 22 Apr, '21- |
From Moral Learning to Self-Understanding Seminar SeriesWebinarGuest Speaker: Jonathan Webber (Cardiff) |
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Thu 6 May, '21- |
From Moral Learning to Self-Understanding Seminar SeriesWebinarGuest Speaker: Johannes Roessler (Warwick) |
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Wed 12 May, '21- |
Philosophy Department ColloquiumMS TeamsGuest Speaker: Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) Title: "Hermeneutical Advice” Sometimes we rely on moral testimony to decide what to do. But we also rely on moral testimony for guidance on what to make of a moral situation: how to make sense of it. Such moral testimony has the power to change both hearts and minds; it can affect not just what its recipient knows but also how she feels about her situation. My aim in this paper is to develop an account of this kind of moral testimony – hermeneutical advice – and draw out its implications for the ethics and epistemology of moral testimony, as well as about the nature of moral expertise. |