Tobias is organising a welcome event in week 1 especially for incoming students in the MA Continental Philosophy. We will have a workshop on the notion of continental philosophy, followed by a dinner on campus. The event will take place on Tuesday Oct 3, 4-7pm in R0.14. First and second-year students in all PG courses as well as visiting students are welcome to attend. The event is also open to interested third year UG students, so please advertise in your modules if possible. A quick email to tobias.keiling@warwick.ac.uk to confirm participation is appreciated.

Run by quizmaster Kirk, open to all of our UG students and staff, this will be a really nice opportunity to meet our new UG cohort. There will pizza and drinks provided. No need to sign up – just come along!

Event title: Study Abroad, Placement, and Careers Workshop

Type: Workshop

Attendance: No

Audience: all undergrads

Date: 16 Nov 2023 (Thu W7)

Time: 14:00-15:00

Location: LIB2

Tutors: Dino Jakusic; Lorenzo Serini

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

We encourage student who identify as trans and want to explore and share their experiences at university, particularly in terms of mental health and wellbeing, to sign up for this workshop led by Dorian, the Trans Officer for the SU. The numbers are currently low, so if you want to contribute to changes to how university supports students who identify as trans, please do sign up to make the event happen! Please also share within your networks if you can!

Please note that this event is only open to members of the trans community.

For Trans Day of Remembrance, you can join in creating chalk art on the pavements around campus and placing commemorations of trans and gender-diverse lives lost in the past year. This event is open to anyone, and materials will be provided!

For Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding a vigil to remember trans and gender-diverse lives lost to transphobic bigotry and violence in the past year. There will be speeches and reading of names at the Piazza. This event is open to anyone and please note that traditional candles will not be used during this event, but feel free to bring battery-powered lights or signs.

Finally, we encourage everyone to read up on resources to learn more about being trans. Warwick Pride has a vast number of resources available for anyone to read and the University of Warwick website also has a dedicated page for students who identify as trans. We also encourage everyone to reach out to Warwick Wellbeing to get support if you are struggling. Warwick Wellbeing offers drop-in brief consultations as well as longer-term support if needed.

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

Wednesday 6th December, 5 - 7pm

2023 Philosophy Christmas lecture: 'Myself and my selfie.'

Speaker: Professor Heather Widdows (Philosophy Department, University of Warwick

Where: L3 Sciences Concourse

With responses by:

• Ben Campion (PhD student)
• Kaylei Vernon (UG student, 3rd year PPL)
• Erin Doherty (UG student 3rd year PPE)

Everyone is welcome!

Nibbles and drinks included!

(Attendance is optional)

• Two Warwick alumni will be talking about their career paths after Philosophy at Warwick. You will have the opportunity to learn a lot from their experiences and ask them any questions you may have.
• You will start thinking about your potential career options with Ian Scarse, the career person in the Philosophy Department, and MAP.

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

Attendance is optional

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

Attendance is optional

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

International (non-UK) students on any Philosophy and PPE degrees are invited to a meeting with staff, to discuss their experiences at Warwick.

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

Thursday April 25, 2–4pm: Preface + Chapter 1: “Something In Between”: On the Nature of Love

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.””

We 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!

Heidegger 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.

Seminars 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.””

Heidegger 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.

Thursday 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.””

Hegel 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.

We 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!