Departmental news
Steve Buterfill's paper, 'How to construct a minimal theory of mind' will be the subject of a symposium on Brains
www.philosophyofbrains.com - Beginning 11/4: Symposium on Butterfill and Apperly.
Michael Luntley is the opening speaker at the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain seminar series: ‘Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Expertise, Know-how and Professional Education’
Friday 1 November 2013 at King’s College, London.
Prof Luntley’s paper, ‘Know-how, agential knowledge and experience – the aesthetics of expertise’ opens the series at KCL with further meetings in the series alternating between King’s College and Birmingham City University and running through the academic year 2013-14.
21st Century Theories of Literature: Essence, Fiction, and Value – Call for Papers
There is still a month to submit an abstract for ‘21st Century Theories of Literature’, an exciting interdisciplinary conference to be held at Warwick from the 27th-29th of March 2014.
The conference is built around three double keynote addresses where world-renowned academics from the fields of philosophy and literary studies will collaborate on and debate the nature of three topics: essence, fiction, and value.
It is hoped that the conference will promote active interdisciplinary relationships and reap the benefits of such direct engagement and open collaboration.
The conference will also have talks from other postgraduate students or academics on these three areas. If you wish to be one of these speakers, and have the chance to be part of what promises to be an intellectually stimulating event, then submit a 500-word abstract for a 20 minute presentation on any of the three themes to fveconference@live.warwick.ac.uk by 30/11/2013.
Bursary support: the American Society for Aesthetics will be funding two travel bursaries for graduate students from North America. Please indicate if you wish to be considered for a bursary and which institution you are enrolled with when you submit an abstract. And the Analysis Trust is providing some funds that will be distributed to subsidise accommodation and conference fees for UK postgraduates.
If you wish to simply attend the conference rather than speak, all the details on how to register and a complete programme will be released in January 2014.
To find out more about the conference visit the website (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/21stcenturytheoriesofliterature/)
We hope you will join us and our keynote speakers, Prof. Sergia Adamo (Trieste), Prof. Catherine Belsey (Swansea), Prof. Gregory Currie (Nottingham), Prof. Peter Lamarque (York), Prof. Stein Haugom Olsen (Østfold), and Prof. Jean-Michel Rabaté (Pennsylvania), in March.
This conference is supported by the generous funding of the British Society of Aesthetics, Warwick HRC, the American Society for Aesthetics, the Analysis Trust, and Warwick's Philosophy Department.
Stephen Butterfill will be speaking at French Academy of Sciences, ''Vision, action and concepts: Behavioural and neural basis of embodied perception and cognition" in Lille, 28-30 October 2013.
Bergsonism, Phenomenology and Responses to Modern Science out now in paperback and a second and expanded edition of Bergson Key Writings to be published in 2014, both edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson
*NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK*
The New Century
Bergsonism, Phenomenology and Responses to Modern Science
THE HISTORY OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY 3
EDITED BY KEITH ANSELL-PEARSON AND ALAN D. SCHRIFT
“One of the finer achievements of its kind and one that will aid both new- comers to continental philosophy (students and analytic philosophers) and seasoned scholars.” – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
“This is by far the most comprehensive and insightful history of that key period in continental philosophy spanning Husserl’s entire career, the beginning of Heidegger’s, and contributions of numerous other thinkers including Bergson, Scheler, Freud, and Wittgenstein. I know of no finer introduction to the thinkers and issues covered in this volume, which will be indispensable to any serious philosopher.”
– Robert P. Crease, Stony Brook University
Volume 3 covers the period between the 1890s and 1930s, a period that witnessed revolutions in the arts and society which set the agenda for the rest of the century. In philosophy, the period saw the birth of analytic philosophy, the development of new programmes and new modes of inquiry, the emergence of phenomenology as a new rigorous science, the birth of Freudian psychoanalysis, and the maturing of the discipline of sociology. This period saw the most influential work of a remarkable series of thinkers who reviewed, evaluated and transformed nineteenth- century thought. A generation of thinkers – among them, Henri Bergson, Émile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Max Scheler, and Ludwig Wittgenstein - completed the disenchantment of the world and sought a new re-enchantment.
Plus the second and expanded edition of Bergson Key Writings to be published by Bloomsbury Press in 2014:
'Two Historical Regimes of Desire' - Miguel Beistegui will be giving a talk at the University of Amsterdam on the 8th November
On Friday afternoon, November 8 (14.00-18.00), there will be a presentation from Miguel Beistegui (Dep. of Philosophy, Warwick) and Chiara Bottici (New School for Social Research, NYC). The paper will be spread about a week in advance to all participants.
Walter Dean will be speaking at HaPoC 2013 : 2nd International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing, in Paris, France
Algorithms and Ontology
The broad goal of this paper is to bring to the attention of philosophers of mathematics and computation the concept of \textsl{algorithm} (e.g Euclid's algorithm, Strassen's algorithm, the Gröbner basis algorithm) as it is studied in contemporary theoretical computer science, and at the same time address several foundational questions about the role this notion plays in mathematical practice. A variety of considerations such as the need to prove correctness and provide running time analyses suggest that algorithms ought to be assimilated to mathematical objects such as models of computation or recursion schemes -- a view which is embodied by the well-known proposals of Yiannis Moschovakis and Yuri Gurevich. I will suggest instead that a variety of considerations grounded in complexity theory and algorithmic analysis serve as in principle obstacles to making such an identification.
28-31 Oct 2013 Paris (France)
2013 Philosophy and Literature Essay Competition
The results of the 2013 Philosophy and Literature Essay Competition, sponsored by alumnus Andy Charman are out !
Congratulations go to:
1st prize: James Loveard (BA 2012)
2nd prize: Jamie Williams (BA 2012)
3rd prize: Edward McNally (2nd year BA)