A new edition and translation of one of Nietzsche's most neglected but inspiring and thought-provoking texts - Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality - has just been published as volume five in Stanford University Press's 'Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche'. Keith Ansell-Pearson helped prepare the edition and wrote the Afterword for it. Dawn is a pathbreaking work and an exercise in modern emancipation - from fear, superstition, hatred of the self and the body, the short cuts of religion, and the presumptions of morality. Pursuing an experimental philosophy Nietzsche seeks to entice his readers into viewing themselves as experiments and wanting to be such.

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Congratulations to Professor Beistegui for having been awarded a three-year grant by the Leverhulme Trust for his project: 'key-issues in Bioethics and Biopolitics'

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The aim of this research project is to understand, delimit, investigate, and assess the specificity of the problem of life today. To say that life is a problem is to recognize that it is constituted by a series of internal tensions, the ethical and political consequences of which we intend to analyze and question. In each case, and at every stage of their various evolutions, those tensions produce and/or open up specific modes of knowledge and regimes of power. Such is the reason why the philosophical approach, which governs this research project, intersects with that of the historian, the epistemologist, and the clinician.This project involves the participation of the European Partners of the ENCFP, The Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick, and The Health Sciences Research Institute (HSRI) at the Warwick Medical School.

The Shpilman Institute of Photography launched its inaugural research awards this year with a special call for projects in the “Philosophy and Photography.” Diarmuid Costello has been awarded one of six awards in this category, drawn from 500 applications from 47 countries.

Professor Dominic McIver Lopes, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship to spend January-June 2012 at Warwick.

Six students from the Philosophy department have won 2011 Warwick Advantage Awards, with two of them winning Gold Awards. The awards recognize students who have been able to demonstrate commitment to, and learning from, their extra-curricular activities, and are able to present their learning from these experiences in a compelling way, including to potential employers. Congratulations to this year’s winners!