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Warwick Professor Becomes President of the Aristotelian Society
Professor Fabienne Peter, from the Department of Philosophy at The University of Warwick, delivered her inaugural address as the newly elected President of the prestigious Aristotelian Society on Monday, 30 September.
Chimpanzee see, chimpanzee know: Apes understand reasons behind each other’s actions, says new University of Warwick research
A research team, including academics from The University of Warwick, has suggested that apes can understand the communicative goals behind each other’s actions – a skill previously thought to be unique to humans.
University of Warwick Professor, Fabienne Peter, Chosen as President of the Aristotelian Society for 2024-25
Professor Fabienne Peter, a philosopher from the University of Warwick, has been elected President of the Aristotelian Society for 2024-25 . Founded in the 1880s, the Aristotelian Society is one of the UK's oldest and most esteemed philosophical societies, fostering intellectual discourse in the field.
Confessions of the Flesh - Fourth volume of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality published in English
"He spoke of his work as a ‘history of the present’, an examination of how we got to where we are, how what is currently taken for granted was made possible. With the publication of his lecture courses, and now this book, we are continually finding new work to explore and think with him.” The publication today of the first English translation of Confessions of the Flesh has been welcomed by Professor Stuart Elden, one of the leading experts on French philosopher Michel Foucault’s work.
UKRI fellowships awarded to Seven University of Warwick Academics
Several academics at the University of Warwick have been awarded a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship, providing world class research in topics including autonomous vehicles to life in outer space.
Neurocognitive basis for free will set out for the first time
Do human beings genuinely have free will? Philosophers and theologians have wrestled with this question for centuries and have set out the ‘design features’ of free will – but how do our brains actually fulfil them? A University of Warwick academic has answered this question for the first time in a paper published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.