Guest Speaker: Jonathan Webber (Cardiff)

Contact: Jack Shardlow, jack.shardlow@warwick.ac.uk

Guest Speaker: Johannes Roessler (Warwick)

Art and Mind Reading Group Joint Event with the Race and Philosophy Reading Group,

'Controlling (mental) images the aesthetic appreciation of racialized bodies' via Zoom

Guest Speaker: Dr Adriana Clavel-Vazquez (University of Oxford)

Contact: Giulia Lorenzi (giulia.lorenzi [at] warwick.ac.uk)

Contact: Jack Shardlow, jack.shardlow@warwick.ac.uk

Contact: Jack Shardlow, jack.shardlow@warwick.ac.uk

Guest Speaker: Naomi Eilan (Warwick)

Contact: Jack Shardlow, jack.shardlow@warwick.ac.uk

Welcome

Guest Speaker: Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham)

Title: 'The Agential Stance: How to Support Young People's Sense of Agency in Mental Health Clinical Encounters'

Chair: Giulia Lorenzi (Warwick)

Event sponsored by Marc Sanders Foundation

Contact Giulia Lorenzi (G.Lorenzi@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Guest Speaker: Professor Quassim Cassam (Warwick)

Title: 'Imposter Syndrome in Philosophy'

Chair: Jaspal Singh Gharu (University of Birmingham)

Event sponsored by Marc Sanders Foundation

Contact Giulia Lorenzi (G.Lorenzi@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Contact: Jack Shardlow, jack.shardlow@warwick.ac.uk

Guest Speaker: Assistant Professor Matthew Duncombe (University of Nottingham)

Title: 'Mental Health and the Philosophical Profession'

Chair: Victoria Galvao (University of Birmingham)

Event sponsored by the Marc Sanders Foundation

Contact Giulia Lorenzi (G.Lorenzi@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Guest Speaker: Vasu Reddy (Portsmouth)

Guest Speaker: Lauren Blackwood (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Officer, King's College London)

Title: Understanding Micro-Aggressions Within the Higher Education Setting'

Chair: Riana Popat (University of Nottingham)

Event sponsored by Marc Sanders Foundation

Contact Giulia Lorenzi (G.Lorenzi@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Contact: Jack Shardlow, jack.shardlow@warwick.ac.uk

Guest Speaker: Jasmine Khan (Journalist, Public Speaker and Mental Health Advocate)

Title: Mental Health and the Modern World'

Chair: Sailee Khurjekar (Warwick)

Event sponsored by Marc Sanders Foundation

Contact Giulia Lorenzi (G.Lorenzi@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Guest Speaker: Dana Miranda (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Title: 'Admission: The Subject as an Object of Study'

Chair: Janset Ö Çetinkaya (University of Nottingham)

Event sponsored by Marc Sanders Foundation

Contact Giulia Lorenzi (G.Lorenzi@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Contact: Jack Shardlow, jack.shardlow@warwick.ac.uk

Details to follow.

Prof Robin Le Poidevin (Leeds) will be joining us to talk about his 'Music without the Flow of Time’ (attached). The session will begin with a brief précis of his paper, and then a few comments from our own Giulia Lorenzi, before the session is opened for discussion. It would be really great to see a lot of you - staff and graduate students - there. Robin has published a great deal on topics in the philosophy of time, temporal experience, and temporal representation in art (in addition to many other areas); this session also promises to nicely bookend the MindGrad conference on the consciousness of time taking place the weekend before.

Please contact Tom Crowther (T.Crowther@warwick.ac.uk) for information about joining this session.

Contact: Jack Shardlow, jack.shardlow@warwick.ac.uk

Two talks on memory by James Openshaw (Warwick) and Thomas Crowther (Warwick)

Contact: Jack Shardlow, jack.shardlow@warwick.ac.uk

More details to be announced

Getting Acquainted with Art 

By Matt Duncan and Hannah Nahas 

We learn from art. By viewing, hearing, touching, creating, performing, and in yet other ways interacting with art, we gain new knowledge—knowledge that we wouldn’t have had, and perhaps couldn’t have had, without encountering that art. That’s obvious. But what is less obvious is the nature, or structure, of this knowledge—what constitutes it. A standard assumption in contemporary analytic philosophy is that all knowledge is and must be propositional—that is, constituted by beliefs in propositions. However, this assumption, despite being standard, has come under attack in recent years. One front in this attack comes from aesthetics and philosophy of art, where some philosophers have claimed that some knowledge gained from art is non-propositional. In this paper we will fortify and expand this front by giving new reasons to think that some knowledge from art is indeed non-propositional and is instead “knowledge of things,” which is constituted, not by beliefs in propositions, but by awareness of properties and objects. We will also fill a gap in the contemporary literature by giving an account of this knowledge—of its nature, structure, and relation to other knowledge.

This conference is an opportunity for Undergraduates present some of your best work, and to discuss it with leading academics, graduate students, and your undergrad peers from other universities. If you’re considering applying for graduate work in philosophy, this would be an excellent opportunity to get feedback on a potential work sample, or just to develop some of your ideas in conversation with other philosophers interested in the same topics as you (and let’s be honest, a conference talk on your CV won’t look bad!).

You don’t need to be applying for further study (in philosophy, or at all) to apply, of course – you might just fancy the opportunity to discover some new topics, to meet new likeminded people, to hone your presentation skills, or just to discuss, debate, and argue the day away (as it befits a philosopher to do). Philosophy conferences are one of the main ways in which professional philosophy ‘gets done’. So perhaps you’re just curious to see how they work, and to be involved in a conference at undergraduate level.

Topics

The conference is organised by the Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA). WMA is the centre in the Warwick Philosophy Department for research in the philosophy of mind and action, ‘broadly construed’, and interdisciplinary work with psychology. We take ‘broadly construed’ seriously! You are encouraged to apply to give a talk in any of the following areas of philosophy:

• philosophy of mind
• philosophy of action/moral psychology
• epistemology
• history of philosophy
• philosophy of psychology or psychiatry
• philosophy of language
• interdisciplinary work with all branches of psychology.

The plan for the day:

The undergraduate sessions

There will be 3 undergraduate sessions, each lasting 1 hour – 30 mins for the talk itself, and 30 mins for discussion.

‘Further study in philosophy’ information session

An optional session for delegates interested in further study in philosophy. The session is an opportunity to get a sense of the difference between the various higher degrees (MA, MPhil, PhD), what they each involve, what to think about if you’re keen to apply for any of them, how funding works, and so on. You’ll be able to ask any other questions you might have too.

Keynote lecture

A talk by a WMA academic, followed by discussion.

Guest Speaker: Fabrice Teroni (Philosophy, Geneva)

Please contact Daniel Vanello for further information (D.Vanello.1@warwick.ac.uk)

Guest Speaker: Deborah Laible (Psychology, Lehigh)

Please contact Daniel Vanello for further information (D.Vanello.1@wawick.ac.uk)

Guest Speaker: Robyn Fivush (Psychology, Emory)

Title: “The Value of Family Storytelling". 

Please contact Daniel Vanello for further information (D.Vanello.1@warwick.ac.uk)