Programme of Events 2020-21
Thu 1 Oct, '20- |
Sessional Teaching Induction SessionMS Teams9.30 - 10.30 Teaching philosophy seminars and giving feedback (for new STAs) 11-12 Online teaching (David Bather Woods) (the session will be recorded) 2-3pm Round table discussion: ideas for teaching philosophy seminars (all STAs) 3.00 - 3.45 Training session with Susie Cleverly from Report and Support |
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Thu 1 Oct, '20- |
Postgraduate Induction 2020/21MS Teams10.00am-11.30am: Postgraduate Morning Induction (all new postgraduate students) 1.00pm-2.15pm: MA and MPhil Induction 1pm-2.15pm: PhD Induction |
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Thu 1 Oct, '20- |
Undergraduate Welcome Week Event: Philosophy Balloon DebateMS TeamsBalloon Debate. A hot-air balloon carrying an array of philosophical folk is sinking, and needs to drop weight – who will stay and who will go? We’ll hear cases from Tom on Aristotle, Max on Zhuangzi, Andrew on Émilie du Châtelet, Stephen H on Immanuel Kant, Eileen on Jane Austen, and Daniele on Frantz Fanon. If you would like to attend this event as a spectator, please email d.woods@warwick.ac.uk to be added to the invite. You are welcome to join for as much as you like. |
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Fri 2 Oct, '20 |
Postgraduate Welcome Conference 2020MS TeamsProgramme: 9.30am-10.30am: Speaker: Will Gildea Title: 'Misfortune, Modality and Moral Status' Respondent: Sameer Bajaj 11.00am-12.00pm Speaker: Beatrice Pagliarone Title: 'On Thought Insertion' Respondent: Chenwei Nie 1.30pm-2.30pm Speaker: Irene Dal Poz Title: 'Security Between Normality and Exceptionality' Respondent: Miguel de Beistegui 3.00pm-4.00pm Speaker: Chris Earley Title: 'Hypothesis Generators: Insight and Autonomy in Contemporary Art' Respondent: Eileen John |
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Tue 6 Oct, '20- |
CELPA Seminar Series Term 1WebinarGuest Speaker: David Boonin (Colorado Boulder) |
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Thu 8 Oct, '20- |
Online Seminars in MS TeamsMS TeamsBriefing Session with James Roscoe |
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Thu 8 Oct, '20- |
Knowledge and Belief SeminarBy ZoomGuest Speaker: John Hyman (UCL) Title: 'Knowledge and Belief' |
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Fri 9 Oct, '20 |
Philosophy Department (Virtual) Open Day |
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Sat 10 Oct, '20 |
Philosophy Department (Virtual) Open Day |
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Mon 12 Oct, '20- |
Philosophy Skills Development SessionMS TeamsGetting the Most out of Your Degree Led by David Bather Woods |
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Tue 13 Oct, '20- |
CELPA Seminar Series Term 1WebinarGuest Speaker: Jennifer Morton (UNC) |
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Tue 13 Oct, '20- |
CRPLA Reading Group: Philosophy in a Time of Crisis |
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Wed 14 Oct, '20- |
Philosophy Department Staff Meeting |
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Wed 14 Oct, '20- |
Becoming a Personal Tutor: Briefing SessionMS TeamsPlease contact Stephen Houlgate for further information. |
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Wed 14 Oct, '20- |
Biopolitics Reading Group IIWebinarIntroduction: Biopolitics After Foucault Led by Daniele Lorenzini |
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Thu 15 Oct, '20- |
Knowledge and Belief SeminarBy ZoomGuest Speaker: Eva Rafetseder (Stirling) Title: TBC |
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Mon 19 Oct, '20- |
Philosophy Skills Development SessionMS TeamsTaking Effective Notes Led by David Bather Woods |
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Tue 20 Oct, '20- |
CELPA Seminar Series Term 1WebinarGuest Speaker: Tommie Shelby (Harvard) |
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Tue 20 Oct, '20- |
Warwick Post-Kantian European SeminarWebinarSpeaker: Robert C Miner (Baylor University) Title: 'In the South: Nietzsche and the Homines Religiosi in The Gay Science V' |
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Wed 21 Oct, '20- |
Biopolitics Reading Group IIWebinarBiopolitics and the Corona Virus: Tim Christiaens (Ku Leuven) |
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Thu 22 Oct, '20- |
Knowledge and Belief SeminarBy ZoomGuest Speaker: Simon Wimmer (TU Dortmund) Title: 'Lessons from Ryle?' |
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Fri 23 Oct, '20- |
Postgraduate Professional Development WorkshopBy ZoomProgramme 2.00 – 2.30 Literature search skills and tools (Kate Courage, Academic Support Librarian) 2.30 – 3.00 Planning your MA (Johannes Roessler) 3.15 – 3.45 Planning your PhD/MPhil (Johannes Roessler) 3.45 – 4.15 Applying for PhD programmes and scholarships (Peter Poellner) The first session is for everyone, the second session is for MA students only, the third session for PhD and MPhil students only, the fourth session is for anyone who is contemplating a scholarship application (not just MA students but also, potentially, first-year MPhil or PhD students). Later in the term there will be another meeting specifically on writing essays and theses. Please contact Johannes Roessler for further information. |
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Sat 24 Oct, '20 |
Philosophy Department (Virtual) Open Day |
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Mon 26 Oct, '20 |
Philosophy Department (Virtual) Open Day |
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Mon 26 Oct, '20- |
Philosophy Skills Development SessionMS TeamsUnderstanding the Marking Criteria Led by David Bather Woods |
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Tue 27 Oct, '20- |
CELPA Seminar Series Term 1WebinarGuest Speaker: Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh) |
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Tue 27 Oct, '20- |
CRPLA Reading Group: Philosophy in a Time of Crisis |
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Wed 28 Oct, '20- |
Philosophy Department ColloquiumBy ZoomGuest Speaker: Michael Hardimon (UC, San Diego) Title: 'How to Disentangle Race and Racism' |
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Thu 29 Oct, '20- |
Knowledge and Belief SeminarBy ZoomGuest Speaker: Eylem Õzaltun (Koç University) Title: 'What is the Moral of Davidson's Carbon Copier? Towards an Anscombean Account of Practical Knowledge' |
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Fri 30 Oct, '20- |
Evolutionary Pragmatics ForumBy Zoom‘Pragmatics-First’ Approaches to Animal Communication and the Evolution of Language Dorit Bar-On, University of Connecticut; Director, Expression, Communication, and Origins of MeaningResearch Group (ECOM) Recent discussions of animal communication and the evolution of language have advocated a ‘pragmatics-first’ approach to the subject. Seyfarth & Cheney (2017), for example, propose that “animal communication constitutes a rich pragmatic system” and that “the ubiquity of pragmatics, … suggest[s] that, as language evolved, semantics and syntax were built upon a foundation of sophisticated pragmatic inference”. I begin by distinguishing two different notions of pragmatics advocates of the ‘pragmatics-first’ approach have implicitly relied on (cf. Bar-On and Moore, 2018). On the first, Carnapian notion, pragmatic phenomena are those that involve context-dependent determination of the content or significance of an utterance or signal. On the second, Gricean notion, pragmatic phenomena involve reliance on speakers’ communicative intentions and their decipherment by their hearers. I use the distinction, first, to evaluate a recent formal linguistic analysis of monkey calls, due to Schlenker et al. (e.g. 2014, 2016a,b), which explains the derivation of call meanings through a form of pragmatic enrichment. And, second, I use the distinction to motivate the need for an ‘intermediary pragmatics’ that, I argue, applies only to a subset of animal communicative behaviors, and would allow us to reconceive the significance of animal communication for our understanding of the evolution of language. Please contact Richard Moore for further information. |