Philosophy » Past Equality and Welfare Events

26/09-27/09: Self-knowledge and judgement in early modern philosophy

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:43:04 GMT

When: Thu, 26 Sept - Fri, 27 Sept '19

Where: Cowling room (Social Sciences S2.77)

Programme

Thursday 26^th September

10.30 – 12.00

Maria Rosa Antognazza (KCL) ‘Knowledge and the first person’

12.00 – 1.30

Ioannis Evrigenis (Tufts) ‘The Fly on the axletree: Hobbes on self-knowledge and judgment’

2.30 – 4.00

Mark Philp (Warwick) ‘Godwin and Wollstonecraft: deliberation and self-knowledge '

4.30 – 6.00

Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt/Warwick) ‘Rousseau's solution to a Rousseauean problem’

7.15 Dinner (Radcliffe house)

Friday 27^th September

9.00 – 10.30

Mario De Caro (Roma Tre/Tufts) ‘Machiavelli's naturalism’

10.30 – 12.00

Guy Longworth (Warwick) ‘Descartes on how the mind is better known than the body’

12.00 – 1.15

Johannes Roessler (Warwick) ‘Judgement and self-understanding in Montaigne’s Essays’

17/10 4pm-6pm: MAP Seminar: Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff)

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:15:30 GMT

When: 4pm - 6pm, Thu, 17 Oct '19

Where: S2.77, The Cowling Room

Abstract:

In this talk I offer an account of arrogance as an attitude toward oneself where the senses of one's self-worth depends on feeling superior to others. Arrogance results in behaviours designed to enhance the self (e.g. boasting and bragging and arrogating entitlements) and to diminish other people (e.g. humiliating, intimidating, blocking their efforts). Arrogance can only be sustained by a large dose of ignorance. Arrogant people often have false beliefs about their abilities and avoid thinking about their possible shortcomings. Their arrogance is active because it is "deeply invested in not knowing" (Medina, 2016). I argue that some active ignorance is the output of motivated cognition that include the deployment of vicious epistemic sensibilities. In this talk, I focus on racial insensitivity as an example. Having argued that arrogance needs ignorance to sustain itself, I show that often it is only the privileged that can afford to be ignorant in the ways required by arrogance. I thus show how social privilege facilitates arrogance (by sustaining the ignorance that is needed by arrogant people). Arrogance in turn further widens inequality because it is manifested in discriminatory behaviours. These inequalities in turn entrench privilege. In short, arrogance, ignorance and privilege stand in mutually re-enforcing relation. I conclude the talk with some thoughts about possible ways for disrupting this vicious dynamic.

23/10 2:30pm-4:30pm: MAP Round Table Discussion

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:41:40 GMT

When: 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Wed, 23 Oct '19

Where: Room S1.50, Social Sciences Building

Round Table Discussion on Inclusivity and Diversity in Philosophy at Warwick

30/10 1pm-2:30pm: MAP/Philosophy Society Event

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:43:49 GMT

When: 1pm - 2:30pm, Wed, 30 Oct '19

Where: Philosophy Common Room, 2nd Floor, Social Sciences Building

'Find Your Philosophy'

13/11 2pm-3pm: MAP Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:25:21 GMT

When: 2pm - 3pm, Wed, 13 Nov '19

Where: E0.23 (PAIS), Social Sciences Building

Speaker: Sameer Bajaj

Title: 'Protesting Injustice: Fairness, Sacrifice and Civility'

Abstract:

Recent democratic movements worldwide have put pressure on traditional views of the permissible ways of protesting injustice in democratic societies. These movements raise the following questions: Must principled disobedience of the law be civil as opposed to uncivil? Is rioting ever a permissible method of protesting injustice? What is the proper place of anger in protest movements? Can counterproductive forms of protest - forms of protest that predictably lead political majorities to respond with greater injustices - ever be justified? In this session, we will discuss these and related questions.

27/11 2pm-4pm: MAP Seminar - CANCELLED

Rachel Harrington — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:47:21 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Wed, 27 Nov '19

Where: Room S0.11, Social Sciences Building

Speaker: Simon Jenkins

Title: 'Reproduction, Surveillance and Discrimination: Potential Effects of Emerging Technologies on Minority Groups'

22/01 2pm-3:30pm: MAP Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:53:04 GMT

When: 2pm - 3:30pm, Wed, 22 Jan '20

Where: Room S2.81, Social Sciences Building

Speaker: Tom Crowther

Title: Philosophy and Mental Health

19/02 2pm-3pm: MAP Seminar: Rescheduled for 4 MARCH 2020

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:21:09 GMT

When: 2pm - 3pm, Wed, 19 Feb '20

04/03 2pm-3pm: MAP Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:46:31 GMT

When: 2pm - 3pm, Wed, 04 Mar '20

Where: Room S2.81, Social Sciences Building

Guest Speaker: David Bather Woods

Title: What is the Good of Public Philosophy?

ABSTRACT:

There has been a boom in public philosophy recently, with philosophers taking full advantage of the range of new media as well as continuing with the old. This session is titled ‘What is the good of public philosophy?’ There have been many answers to this question, including enrichment, guidance, self-improvement, entertainment, and citizenry. But as I research this literature, I find few if any linking public philosophy to the goods of university access and participation. In this session, then, I pose a more specific set of question: Does public philosophy support the good of widening participation? Does widening participation need public philosophy? If so, what kind of public philosophy does it need? At first glance, public philosophy does not look essential to widening participation in university philosophy. On further investigation, however, there is a role for philosophers to play in raising awareness of the discipline of philosophy, encouraging and increasing philosophical literacy, and shaping the environment and image of philosophy.

20/05 3:30pm-4:30pm: MAP Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 11 May 2020 07:52:58 GMT

When: 3:30pm - 4:30pm, Wed, 20 May '20

Where: By Zoom

Speaker: Richard Moore

Title: Inequality in Times of Crisis

Please contact Giulia Lorenzi for further details

24/06 2pm-3pm: MAP Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:06:52 GMT

When: 2pm - 3pm, Wed, 24 Jun '20

Where: By Zoom

Guest Speaker: Dr Irene Dal Poz (Warwick)

Title: 'Women in Philosophy in a Time of Crisis'

Please contact Giulia Lorenzo for details on how to join.

30/06 3:30pm-5pm: MAP Summer Online Short Story Reading Group: 'Race and Fiction'

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:24:53 GMT

When: 3:30pm - 5pm, Tue, 30 Jun '20

Where: By Zoom

Please contact Giulia Lorenzi for further information

07/07 3:30pm-5pm: MAP Summer Online Short Story Reading Group: 'Race and Fiction'

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:25:55 GMT

When: 3:30pm - 5pm, Tue, 07 Jul '20

Where: By Zoom

Please contact Giulia Lorenzi for further information

14/07 3:30pm-5pm: MAP Summer Online Short Story Reading Group: 'Race and Fiction'

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:25:18 GMT

When: 3:30pm - 5pm, Tue, 14 Jul '20

Where: By Zoom

Please contact Giulia Lorenzi for further information

12/11 10am-11am: CineMap (Map Film Club)

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:28:11 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Thu, 12 Nov '20

Where: MS Teams

For discussion: Danquart's 'Schwarzfahrer' (1992)

Please contact Sailee Khurjekar for further information or if you wish to join.

10/12 10am-11am: MAP Cinema Club

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:50:43 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Thu, 10 Dec '20

Where: MS Teams

The Film Club will be discussing the short documentary 30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone) and exploring the themes of gender and social collaboration. To be added to the dedicated mailing list and MS Team group and receive further information, please send an email to Sailee (organiser) via sailee.khurjekar@warwick.ac.uk.

11/12 3pm-4pm: MAP Online Q&A Session for Undergraduate Students

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 14:28:16 GMT

When: 3pm - 4pm, Fri, 11 Dec '20

Where: MS Teams

Please contact Giulia Lorenzi for further information.

15/01 4pm-5:15pm: Race and Philosophy Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:26:29 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:15pm, Fri, 15 Jan '21

22/01 4pm-5:15pm: Race and Philosophy Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:26:29 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:15pm, Fri, 22 Jan '21

28/01 10am-11am: MAP Cinema Club

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 08:47:54 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Thu, 28 Jan '21

We will be discussing the documentary film Paris Is Burning and the themes of drag and sexuality in America. To be added to the dedicated mailing list and MS Team group and receive further information, please send an email to Sailee (organiser) via sailee.khurjekar@warwick.ac.uk.

29/01 4pm-5:15pm: Race and Philosophy Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:26:29 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:15pm, Fri, 29 Jan '21

03/02 2pm-3pm: MAP Seminar Series - Term 2

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:17:14 GMT

When: 2pm - 3pm, Wed, 03 Feb '21

Where: MS Teams

'Disability, Mental Health and Inclusion'

Facilitator: Eileen John

Please contact Giulia Lorenzi for further information (giulia.lorenzi@warwick.ac.uk)

05/02 4pm-5:15pm: Race and Philosophy Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:26:29 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:15pm, Fri, 05 Feb '21

12/02 4pm-5:15pm: Race and Philosophy Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:26:29 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:15pm, Fri, 12 Feb '21

19/02 4pm-5:15pm: Race and Philosophy Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:26:29 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:15pm, Fri, 19 Feb '21

26/02 4pm-5:15pm: Race and Philosophy Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:26:29 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:15pm, Fri, 26 Feb '21

03/03 4pm-5pm: MAP Seminar Series - Term 2

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 09:04:23 GMT

When: 4pm - 5pm, Wed, 03 Mar '21

Where: MS Teams

'Handle Rejections: Mental Health and Academia'

Facilitator: Thomas Crowther

Please contact Giulia Lorenzi for further information (giuila.lorenzi@warwick.ac.uk)

05/03 4pm-5:15pm: Race and Philosophy Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:26:29 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:15pm, Fri, 05 Mar '21

12/03 4pm-5:15pm: Race and Philosophy Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:26:29 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:15pm, Fri, 12 Mar '21

19/03 4pm-5:15pm: Race and Philosophy Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:26:29 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:15pm, Fri, 19 Mar '21