Programme

Thursday 26^th September

10.30 – 12.00

Maria Rosa Antognazza (KCL) ‘Knowledge and the first person’

12.00 – 1.30

Ioannis Evrigenis (Tufts) ‘The Fly on the axletree: Hobbes on self-knowledge and judgment’

2.30 – 4.00

Mark Philp (Warwick) ‘Godwin and Wollstonecraft: deliberation and self-knowledge '

4.30 – 6.00

Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt/Warwick) ‘Rousseau's solution to a Rousseauean problem’

7.15 Dinner (Radcliffe house)

Friday 27^th September

9.00 – 10.30

Mario De Caro (Roma Tre/Tufts) ‘Machiavelli's naturalism’

10.30 – 12.00

Guy Longworth (Warwick) ‘Descartes on how the mind is better known than the body’

12.00 – 1.15

Johannes Roessler (Warwick) ‘Judgement and self-understanding in Montaigne’s Essays’

Expression and Self-knowledge

Warwick University, Friday 4^th October 2019

Humanities H0.03

Programme

11.00 – 12.30
Lucy Campbell (Warwick)
‘Self-knowledge: expression without expressivism’

12.30 – 2.00

Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut)
‘No ‘How’ Privileged Self-Knowledge’

3.00 – 4.30

Cristina Borgoni (Bayreuth University)

‘Primitive forms of first-person authority and expressive capacities’

Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research): Tragedy, the Greeks and Us

Response by Andrew Cooper (Warwick) and David Fearn (Warwick)

Tutors:

David Bather Woods

Mat Coakley

Lucy Campbell

Speaker: Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)

Title: Kant and Hegel on the Antinomies of Reason

Warwick PPL Society, Warwick Philosophy Society, Warwick Bio Society and Warwick PPE Society are delighted to host ‘Medicine or Murder: A Medical Ethics Panel’ with Professor Tom Sorell, Dr Amzy Birdi, Greg Moorlock and Dr Anne-Marie Slowther, all experts in their domain, who will be debating during this hour-long panel on controversial issues such as abortion, compulsory vaccination or even the right to euthanasia.

Speaker: Beatrice Han-Pile (Essex)

Title: 'The Doing Is Everything': A Middle-Voiced Reading of Agency in Nietzsche

A chance to meet your course rep for UG programmes and tell them what you think about the course: Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy with Psychology and Maths and Philosophy.

Struggling to finish an essay? Find it too easy to look for excuses?

Join us for a productive morning, stripped away from all distractions in the Cowling Room (S2.77) at 10.00am. Bring a goal with you: what do you want to accomplish in the next two hours? Be ambitious, while keeping it realistic - what can you do if you were in your top state of mind?

Imagine finishing that essay you've been dreading to write, in two hours, on a Monday morning! This is like a Library all-nighter, minus the noisy crisps and feeling of slight disgust.

A continental breakfast will be provided.

Speaker: Jeffrey A. Bell (Southeastern Louisiana University)

Title: 'Towards a Deleuzian-Humean Political Theory'

The Philosophy Department will be running an information session on the opportunities and attractions of postgraduate study in Philosophy on Wednesday 27 November 2019.

The session will provide detailed information on the various postgraduate degrees in Philosophy, or including a Philosophy component, that are available at Warwick, both immediately post-BA, and more advanced (doctoral degrees). In addition to information on the different postgraduate courses, the session will also provide guidance about deadlines, sources of funding (including Departmental scholarships), and the career advantages of postgraduate study in Philosophy.

Speakers will include members of the Philosophy Department involved in running postgraduate degrees, as well as students currently taking graduate degrees in the Department. A representative from the Careers Team will also be in attendance. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions. Wine and nibbles will be served. We hope to see many of you there!

Warwick PAIS and Philosophy have organised a roundtable to discuss Martina Tazzioli's new book, The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe's Borders (London: SAGE, 2019). The book addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: How are migrants governed as individual subjects and as part of groups? What are the modes of control, identification and partitions that migrants are subjected to? Bringing together an ethnographically grounded analysis of migration, and a critical theoretical engagement with the security and humanitarian modes of governing migrants, The Making of Migration pushes us to rethink notions that are central in current political theory such as multiplicity and subjectivity. This is an innovative and sophisticated study, deploying migration as an analytical angle for complicating and reconceptualising the emergence of collective subjects, mechanisms of individualisation, and political invisibility/visibility.

Contributors:

Stuart Elden (PAIS, Warwick)

Daniele Lorenzini (Philosophy, Warwick)

Vicki Squire (PAIS, Warwick)

Maurice Stierl (PAIS, Warwick)

and Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London)

This reading group, or 'communion', focuses on the work of Georges Bataille and his henchmen, including but not limited to Andre Masson, Roger Caillois, Michel Leiris, Pierre Klossoski, Raymond Queneau. Alexandre Kojève and Lev Shestov, as well as literary figures including Colette Peignot, Jacques Vaché, Lautréamont, Marques de Sade, Baudelaire, Catherine of Siena and Meister Eckart.

A few key texts will be analysed:

Le Coupable (1944) Guilty

L'Erotisme (1957) Eroticism

La Haine de la Poésie (1947) The Hatred of Poetry

L'Impossible (1962) The Impossible

La literature et le Mal (1957) Literature and Evil

Open to all.

Contributors:

Alison Downham Moore (Western Sydney University)

Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham)

Stuart Elden (PAIS, Warwick)

Daniele Lorenzini (Philosophy, Warwick)

Federico Testa (Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick)

Supported by Centre Michel Foucault, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick, and The University of Warwick.

Guest Speakers:

Daniele Lorenzini  (Warwick)

Title: Genealogy, Possibilization, and (Post-)Critique

 David Owen (Southampton)

Title: Genealogy as Re-Problematization: Autonomy, Aspect-Change and Limits

The panel includes Fabienne Peter, Sameer Bajaj, Daniele Lorenzini and Michele Giavazzi who will be discussing the following: 

• Is state authority undermined by unjust political decisions?

• When is civil disobedience justified? Is uncivil disobedience ever justified?

• Does a thin democratic majority weaken a government’s mandate?

• What are the civic duties associated with democratic citizenship?

 Come along and join the discussion and put your questions to the panel! The event will include pizza and drinks.

Speaker: Nina Power (Roehampton)

Title: 'Philosophies of the Wolf: Freud and Deleuze & Guattari