Year 12 Conference 2025
Our expert lecturers will be giving talks on a range of philosophical topics. You will have the opportunity to meet with students in Warwick's Department of Philosophy and from other schools and colleges to talk about all things philosophical. There will also be an interactive Q&A about studying Philosophy at university.
Date & Time: Friday 21st March 2025, 9AM - 3.15PM.
Location: MS.01 (Ground Floor, Zeeman Building, a.k.a. Mathematics Department)
Philosophy Student Ambassadors will be stationed at the Coach ParkLink opens in a new window between 9AM and 10AM to guide you over to the venue. Please allow at least 15 minutes to walk from the coach park to the venue.
The conference is free to attend with lunch and refreshments provided. A limited number of bursaries are available to help cover the costs for schools that meet Widening Participation criteriaLink opens in a new window or would otherwise face financial obstacles to attendance.
Places are limited and registration is essential. Please complete our online form.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me at: David dot Bather dot Woods at warwick dot ac dot uk
Programme:
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9.00-10.00 | Arrivals with Morning Refreshments |
| 10.00–10.15 | Welcome |
| 10.15–11.00 | 'Early Chinese Philosophy: Confucius and the Zhuangzi' with Dr. Curie Virág |
| 11.00–11.15 | Break |
| 11.15–12.00 | 'Fundamentals of Metaethics' with Dr. Kirk Surgener |
| 12.00–12.45 | Lunch |
| 12.45–13.30 | ''Berkeley's Master Argument and Imagining Seeing' with Dr. Barney Walker |
| 13.30–13.45 | Break |
| 13.45–14.30 | 'The Ethics of Hypocrisy' with Dr. Kartik Upadhyaya |
| 14.30–15.15 | Q&A with Admissions Tutor and Student Ambassadors |
Speaker bios:
Curie Virág
I am an Associate Professor in World Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Warwick. I work in the history of ethics, epistemology, moral psychology, and philosophical anthropology in classical China and across traditions, with a particular focus on emotions. Much of my research on emotions has been dedicated to reconstructing how emotions were conceptualized in early and middle period sources and how these conceptualisations were bound up with ways of thinking about the self and the human being, the nature of human agency, and the meaning and sources of knowledge and understanding.
Kirk Surgener
I am the Director of Student Experience and Progression for the PPE programme at Warwick. I am interested in pretty much all normative matters: political, moral, legal as well as metaethical questions and related issues in the philosophy of language. Flowing out of my thesis I have done work on the Frege-Geach problem, the best way to construe moral realism, and how to make a case for analytic naturalism in ethics. Recently, I've become interested in what our treatment of animals reveals about their moral status.
Barney Walker
I am a Teaching Fellow and the Senior Tutor for the Philosophy Department. I specialise in epistemology and philosophy of mind. Specifically, my research is concerned with issues about enquiry, the value of knowledge, and the nature of belief. My teaching ranges over a much broader area, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, ancient philosophy, and history of modern philosophy.
Kartik Upadhyaya
I am a normative philosopher interested in moral problems relating to our practices of accountability and blaming. I am currently writing about political hypocrisy, and mass "piling-on" of online criticism. Before joining the Philosophy Department at Warwick, I completed a Research Fellowship at Interdisciplinary Research Lab for Bioethics, within the Department of Applied Philosophy and Ethics at the Academy of Sciences in Prague, and a Research Fellowship the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics and Philosophy, King's College London, supported by REPHRAIN.
Organiser: David Bather Woods (David dot Bather dot Woods at warwick dot ac dot uk)
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