Two articles by Eileen John have been highlighted as contributions to aesthetics:

'Literature and Disagreement' as one of the top five articles in aesthetics in 2014, by Aesthetics for Birds and 'Meals, Art, and Artistic Value' as Article of the Year 2015 by the Slovak and Finnish Aesthetics societies.

The Joint Session is a three-day conference in philosophy that is held annually during the summer by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. It has taken place at nearly every major university across the United Kingdom and in Ireland. Since 1910, the Joint Session has grown to become the largest gathering of philosophers in the country, attracting prestigious UK and international speakers working in a broad range of philosophical areas.

The 89th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association will be held at the University of Warwick from 10 to 12 July 2015. All enquiries should be sent to jointsession@warwick.ac.uk

For more information, and to register for the event, visit the webpage

Amrish Patel will be presenting “Causal Overdetermination and Blame” at the next DR@W Forum, this Thursday 19th March and will be available to meet with people on Thursday and Friday.

If any staff or students would like to meet with Amrish or attend one of the meals you can register via the doodle poll: http://doodle.com/niqhct47p2zra5ve or email: alexander.mushore@wbs.ac.uk

'Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation' will hold its second conference at Monash University Prato Centre (near Florence, Italy) from 29th June–1st July 2015. We have up TEN student bursaries for travel and accommodation for this event. Please apply to selfcultivation@warwick.ac.uk by 16th March with a 200-word statement of your interest in the project. All Warwick undergraduates or postgraduates are eligible to apply.

Friday 13th – Saturday 14th February 2015

Senate House, Malet Street WC1, London (Deller Hall)

This workshop brings together philosophers and theorists from the UK, USA, Canada, France, Belgium and Germany to discuss very recent developments in the philosophy of photography. Over the last few years, philosophers have taken up the challenge that artists’ use of photography poses for hitherto standard philosophical conceptions of photography as a ‘purely causal’ process ensuring ‘belief independent feature tracking’ or ‘natural counter-factual dependence’ of photographs on what they are photographs of. The workshop considers whether taking photographic art seriously requires a fundamental re-conception of the field.

Wednesday 4th February programme:

(R0.12 - Ramphal Building)

13:00-13:30 – Welcome and refreshments
13:30-14:30 – Dr Eileen John (Philosophy): Children’s Literature and Ethics
14:30-15:30 – Dr Maebh Harding (Law): Children’s Choices and Autonomy
15:30-16:00 – Break
16:00-17:00 – Catherine Lester (Film and Television): Horror for children

Thursday 5th February programme:

(Reinvention Centre, Westwood)

09:30-10:00: Breakfast
10:00-11:00: Philip Gaydon (IATL): “Play up, play up, and play the game”: The Ethics of Sport in Children’s Literature
11:00-12:00: Dr Peter Sidebotham (Warwick Medical School): Dealing with child abuse and neglect in practice, theory, and literature

12:00-13:00: Lunch and discussion

13:00-14:00: Leila Rasheed (Creative Writing and Children’s Author): What we expect from children’s authors
14:00-15:00: Plenary: Creating transdisciplinary and innovative modules

Register now!