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06/05 12pm-1pm: Philosophy Staff WiP Seminar

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:02:58 GMT

When: 12pm - 1pm, Wed, 06 May '26

Where: S1.50

06/05 2pm-4pm: Departmental Meeting

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 14 May 2025 09:00:07 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Wed, 06 May '26

06/05 4pm-5:45pm: Departmental Colloquium - Lea Cantor (Cambridge)

Donna McIntyre — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:40:36 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:45pm, Wed, 06 May '26

Where: S0.18

07/05: Workshop: 'The mathematical turn in philosophy'

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:24:05 GMT

When: Thu, 07 May '26

Where: B2.04

Hold the date - further details to follow.

07/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 07 May '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

08/05: Workshop: 'The mathematical turn in philosophy'

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:24:43 GMT

When: Fri, 08 May '26

Where: R0.21

Hold the date - further details to follow.

13/05 12pm-2pm: Undergraduate Module Fair

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:46:30 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Wed, 13 May '26

Where: R0.12 & R0.14

13/05 2pm-3pm: Philosophy in Action

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:06:20 GMT

When: 2pm - 3pm, Wed, 13 May '26

Where: R1.13

13/05 2pm-3pm: Research and Impact Committee

Donna McIntyre — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:09:26 GMT

When: 2pm - 3pm, Wed, 13 May '26

Where: S1.50

13/05 4pm-5:45pm: CRPLA talk: 'Appreciation as a Process, and Well-being' with Daniel Star (Boston University)

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:26:03 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:45pm, Wed, 13 May '26

Where: S0.17

CRPLA Talk Wed 13 May, 4pm S0.17

Daniel Star (Boston University)

Appreciation as a Process, and Well-being (from a coauthored project with Joel Van Fossen)

Aesthetic appreciation is here understood to be an at least partly conscious process, with respect to which agents exercise a significant degree of intentional control, that involves attending to objects and their aesthetic properties, where such are objects are taken to be worth appreciating aesthetically, and cognitively and affectively engaging with them. There are significant differences between this process and two other mental processes about which more has been written: practical deliberation and epistemic inquiry. Some of the similarities and differences between these processes concern the metaphysics of them, but some concern the value and role of the processes. One important conclusion reached is that appreciation, unlike the other two processes, is primarily to be valued in itself as a process, rather than merely instrumentally in relation to the value of its outcomes. And the fact that this is how appreciation is to be properly valued is closely related to what appreciation does for us, so far as our well-being is concerned. A key alternative for what might be thought to be of primary value as a product of appreciation — correct aesthetic judgment — is considered and rejected.

14/05-15/05: Freiburg-Warwick-Zhejiang University German Idealism Workshop

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:47:11 GMT

When: Thu, 14 May - Fri, 15 May '26

Where: Hybrid: R1.04 or online

You are warmly invited to an exciting event: The Freiburg-Warwick-Zhejiang University German Idealism Workshop, taking place on 14–15 May. This workshop will bring together established and early-career scholars from the three universities. Topics include Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Heidegger and Nietzsche, covering the research interests of almost all of our department's continental philosophers!

It is a hybrid event. You can either join us via the Zoom link or attend in person. If you are attending in person, please email Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk) by 10^th May to let me know and to inform me of any dietary requirements you may have for lunch.

Zoom link: https://uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/67489189826?pwd=EkwWoTY02XikW5rUYpX6ECuNJQmDJV.1

Meeting-ID: 674 8918 9826
Code: Vrj8kVK5r

The department, the Mind Association, the UK Kant Society and the Hegel Society of Great Britain have kindly funded this event.

Thursday, 14th of May

9:30-9:40 Welcome
Tobias Keiling (Warwick)
9:40-11:10 Panel 1: Kant
Chair: Rozemin Keshvani (Warwick)
9:40-10:25	What is Wrong with Dogmatism? Kant on the "Storehouse of Reason"	Dino Jakušić (Warwick)
10:25-11:10	Kant’s Philosophy of Nature Reconsidered	Stephen Howard (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:45 Keynote Session 1
Chair: Eric Sancho-Adamson (Liverpool)
11:30-12:45	How to Acquire the World: Hegel’s Practical Theory of Figurative Synthesis and Kant’s Doctrine of Right	Eliza Little (Warwick)
12:45-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:45 Panel 2: Hegel Part I
Chair: Zhaoyi Zhu (Warwick)
14:15-15:00	Unconditioned Condition: Transcendental Dialectic and the Dialectic of Condition	Bruna Picas i Prats (Barcelona/Warwick)
15:00-15:45	From Principle to Negativity: Hegel’s Transformation of German Idealism	Yuyang Zhu (Zhejiang)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:15 Keynote Session 2
Chair: Fridolin Neumann (Warwick)
16:00-17:15	Kant and Hegel on Being	Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)

Friday, 15th of May

9:45-11:15 Panel 3: Hegel Part II
Chair: Shifan Zhou (Warwick)
9:45-10:30	The Relation of Logic to Realphilosophie in G.W.F. Hegel	Evgenia Sonnabend (Freiburg)
10:30-11:15	Hegel’s Intersubjective Logic: Hegel and the Possibility of a New Social Ontology	Juyong Kim (Warwick)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Panel 4: Schelling
Chair: Robb Dunphy (Sussex)
11:30-12:15	Original Sin, Freedom, and the Feminine in Schelling	Jinhua Hao (Freiburg)
12:15-13:00	Four Frameworks for the Hegel - (Late) Schelling Dispute and Schelling’s 1795 Letters	Ying Xue (Warwick)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 Keynote Session 3
Chair: Sally Zhu (Warwick)
14:00-15:15	What is Historicity? From Hegel to Heidegger to Nietzsche	Philipp Schwab (Freiburg)
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Panel 5: The Legacy of German Idealism
Chair: Jinhua Hao (Freiburg)
15:30-16:15	The Positive Primordial Function of the Negative: Heidegger on the “Greatest and Most Hidden Secret of Hegelian Philosophizing”	Karl Kraatz (Zhejiang)
16:15-17:00 Roundtable Discussion

14/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 14 May '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

20/05 2pm-4pm: Education Committee

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:54:12 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Wed, 20 May '26

21/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 21 May '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

27/05 2pm-4pm: Graduate Studies Committee

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:57:18 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Wed, 27 May '26

28/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 28 May '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

01/06-02/06: “Ontological failure in Heidegger and beyond”

Donna McIntyre — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:37:42 GMT

When: Mon, 01 Jun - Tue, 02 Jun '26

Where: OC0.05

“Ontological failure in Heidegger and beyond”, 1-2 June 2025, Room: OC0.05

03/06 10am-1pm: WMA & PKEP Collab - "Agency" Workshop

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:04:50 GMT

When: 10am - 1pm, Wed, 03 Jun '26

Where: TBC

03/06 2pm-5pm: WMA & PKEP Collab - "Letting Be" Workshop

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:04:37 GMT

When: 2pm - 5pm, Wed, 03 Jun '26

Where: TBC

04/06 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 04 Jun '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

04/06 4pm-7pm: WMA Talk: Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut): 'Four Milestones in the Evolution of Human Pragmatic Communication’.

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:47:08 GMT

When: 4pm - 7pm, Thu, 04 Jun '26

Where: S0.20

Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut): 'Four Milestones in the Evolution of Human Pragmatic Communication’.

Abstract:

So-called Protolanguage is a theoretical construct designed to help explain the phylogenetic emergence of human language from animal communication systems. In Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning (forthcoming, OUP), I argue that Protolanguage ought to be conceived as pragmatically (and therefore psychologically) intermediate, and this places certain substantive constraints on the psychological capacities with which we can credit our nonlinguistic ancestors. In particular, we should not credit them with a capacity for Gricean mindreading and the ability to entertain language-like thoughts.

In this talk, I describe four proposed hypothetical milestones on our ancestors’ path toward a pragmatically intermediate Protolanguage (“PIP”), relying on a combination of empirical and theoretical considerations. These milestones can be used to describe a phylogenetic trajectory leading from an ancestral communication system that resembled existing forms of animal communication to PIP. Clarifying the character of – the fourth milestone – and of the preceding three milestones, should, I believe, also shed some light on our ancestor’s progression from PIP to human linguistic pragmatic communication.

10/06 1pm-2pm: Philosophy Teaching Exchange (online)

Donna McIntyre — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:06:21 GMT

When: 1pm - 2pm, Wed, 10 Jun '26

Where: Microsoft Teams

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10/06 2pm-4pm: Equality and Welfare Committee

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 14 May 2025 10:13:40 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Wed, 10 Jun '26

11/06 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 11 Jun '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

17/06 12pm-1pm: Philosophy Staff WiP Seminar

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:23:06 GMT

When: 12pm - 1pm, Wed, 17 Jun '26

Where: S1.50

17/06 2pm-4pm: Departmental Meeting

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 14 May 2025 09:00:27 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Wed, 17 Jun '26

17/06 4pm-5:45pm: Departmental Colloquium - Paul Faulkner (Sheffield)

Donna McIntyre — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:41:04 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:45pm, Wed, 17 Jun '26

Where: S0.18

18/06-19/06: Hold the date - Andrew Cooper memorial event @ Warwick

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:59:47 GMT

When: Thu, 18 Jun - Fri, 19 Jun '26

The Life and Work of Andrew Cooper: Reflections and Conversations

On 18-19 June 2026, the Philosophy Department at Warwick will be hosting a commemorative event for Andrew.

The event will run for 1 ½ days and will involve a special guest presentation about Andrew’s most recent work in Tasmania, three roundtable sessions (each devoted to a broad theme in Andrew’s research), and time for personal reminiscences by students and staff.

All are welcome. If you're able to join us, it would be very helpful for planning if you could please register for the event. We will share more details as the planning develops.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organisers:

Curie Virág curie.virag@warwick.ac.uk.

Karen Simecek k.d.simecek@warwick.ac.uk

18/06 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 18 Jun '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

24/06 11am-1pm: End-of-Year Student Research Conference

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:10:00 GMT

When: 11am - 1pm, Wed, 24 Jun '26

Where: TBC