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26/06 11:30am-6pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series - Online and in person

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 08:11:24 GMT

When: 11:30am - 6pm, Mon, 26 Jun '23

Where: OC0.05

Workshop: Species-Being, Monday 26th June, 11:30 - 18:00

11:30AM- 1PM: Vanessa Wills (George Washington University), “On ‘Mystical Veils’: Marx’s Account of the Human Eye as a Product of Labor

1PM-2PM: Lunch

2PM-3:30PM: Christoph Schuringa (Northeastern University London), “Gattungswesen and Universality”

3:30PM-4:30PM Break

[**online only**]

4:30PM-6PM: Karen Ng (Vanderbilt), “Metabolism and Natural Limits: Rethinking Species-Being in Hegel and Marx”

6PM: Drinks and dinner

Those interested in dinner should contact Andrew Huddleston.

All the best,
Andrew and Tobias (Co-Convenors, PKEP)

Link to join via Teams:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad399c3b1bb984eba8c4ac547183fd8d5%40thread.tacv2/1685109050098?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2209bacfbd-47ef-4465-9265-3546f2eaf6bc%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22dd402742-2e3e-475c-b957-274f82d13acf%22%7d

03/05 5pm-6:15pm: PG Work in Progress Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:52:05 GMT

When: 5pm - 6:15pm, Wed, 03 May '23

Where: S2.77/MS Teams

29/06 2pm-6pm: WMA MEEP Mini-Workshop

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:21:00 GMT

When: 2pm - 6pm, Thu, 29 Jun '23

Where: TBA

The Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA) is pleased to announce a new mini-workshop as part of our MEEP series. This series explores the intersection of topics typically found under the categories of 'Mind and Epistemology' and 'Ethics and Political Philosophy.' All are welcome!

Professor Carol Rovane, Columbia University

Social Conditions of the Psyche

Professor Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University

The Commons and our Political Ideals

Time: 2:00-6:00pm, Thursday, 29 June 2023.

Venue: TBA

For more information about the WMA events, please visit:https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/researchcentres/wma/

29/06 5pm-6pm: PG Work in Progress Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:19:36 GMT

When: 5pm - 6pm, Thu, 29 Jun '23

Where: S2.77/MS Teams

22/06 5pm-6pm: PG Work in Progress Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:19:08 GMT

When: 5pm - 6pm, Thu, 22 Jun '23

Where: S2.77/MS Teams

15/06 5pm-6pm: PG Work in Progress Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:18:43 GMT

When: 5pm - 6pm, Thu, 15 Jun '23

Where: S2.77/MS Teams

08/06 5pm-6pm: PG Work in Progress Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:18:22 GMT

When: 5pm - 6pm, Thu, 08 Jun '23

Where: S2.77/MS Teams

25/05 5pm-6pm: PG Work in Progress Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:17:54 GMT

When: 5pm - 6pm, Thu, 25 May '23

Where: S2.77/MS Teams

18/05 5pm-6pm: PG Work in Progress Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:17:26 GMT

When: 5pm - 6pm, Thu, 18 May '23

Where: S2.77/MS Teams

27/04 5pm-6pm: PG Work in Progress Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:15:57 GMT

When: 5pm - 6pm, Thu, 27 Apr '23

Where: S2.77/MS Teams

03/05 2pm-4pm: Philosophy Department Staff Meeting

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:00:24 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Wed, 03 May '23

Where: A0.23

10/05 12pm-2pm: UG Philosophy Module Fair

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:59:50 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Wed, 10 May '23

Where: Philosophy Department

10/05 4pm-5:45pm: CANCELLED: Philosophy Department Colloquium

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:52:05 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:45pm, Wed, 10 May '23

Guest Speaker: Matt Boyle (Chicago)

03/05 9:30am-2pm: Philosophy Department Research and Impact Awayday

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:51:12 GMT

When: 9:30am - 2pm, Wed, 03 May '23

Where: Radcliffe Conference Facility

24/03 10am-3pm: Philosophy Department 6th Form Conference

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:05:06 GMT

When: 10am - 3pm, Fri, 24 Mar '23

Where: MS.01, Ground Floor, Zeeman Building

For further details of the day, please see here:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/studywithus/year12conf/

08/06 10am-09/06 6pm: Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference 2022/23

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:17:42 GMT

When: 10am, Thu, 08 Jun '23 - 6pm, Fri, 09 Jun '23

Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference 2022/2023:

Continental Philosophy: The Subject and Identity

08-09 June 2023

University of Warwick (UK)

Conference Venue (Hybrid):

Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick,
Coventry, United Kingdom

Zoom

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Peter V. Zima (Universität Klagenfurt)

Dr. Koshka Duff (University of Nottingham)

Call for Abstracts

The aim of the fifth edition of the WCPC is to stage a discussion of the subject and identity, and the relationship between the two. We hope to prompt a discussion around the various ways in which differing perspectives on subjectivity and identity may serve as philosophical methods of framing experience, reason, and one’s circumstances in the world. The central problem for this conference is: how does the fraught and often politicised notion of identity, around which there are disparate and contradictory interpretations, problematise the traditional Western notion of the Subject who is assumed to be universal and prior to identity formation. The conference aims to address these issues through an engagement with contemporary debates on the subject and identity, as well as by tracing how the meaning of these concepts has transformed within the history of philosophy. The goal of the discussion being an intervention in the relational dynamic between the two.

Throughout the history of philosophy, subjectivity and identity have been interpreted in radically different ways: from views of a universal (e.g. Cartesian or Kantian) Subject, to subjectivity arising through a historical development (Hegel and Marx), and more contemporary accounts of historically contingent subjectivities and identities constituted, for example, by structures of power (Althusser, Foucault, and Deleuze). Recently, debates on these issues have sought to incorporate non-Western conceptions - such as the concept of Xin (heart-mind) in Chinese Philosophy, or the post-colonial research of Fanon and Bhabha - in order to enrich our understanding of the diverse contexts and traditions in which subjects are positioned. The conference aims to push these historical discourses around subjectivity forward by challenging traditional notions, as well as by interrogating how the many meanings assumed by these concepts throughout history affect our present understanding of them.

To further elucidate the relationship between identity and subjectivity, the conference also intends to explore the tension of whether one’s identity is self-determined, or rather, whether one’s identity is thrust upon them by external conditions. The complicated relationship between one’s individual sense of self and one’s sense of their social standing is made explicit, for example, in the debate of whether LGBTQ+ identities are formed in resistance to normative standards of gender and sexuality, or whether they are formed independently in ever-developing queer theory. Another tension that speaks to the problematic of self-determination is the role of nationalist discourses in the constitution of one’s sense of identity. This tension is particularly evident in the case of refugees acquiring new citizenships: regardless of their own relationship to nationalism and the more or less conscious choice to incorporate this into their sense of identity, they are nonetheless thrust into a national identity. In both of these examples, one finds a reflection of the Althusserian's 'subject interpellation', in which, regardless how one views themselves, one is thrown back onto themselves and made an ideological subject in the gaze of the Other. Here, the problem of how one is to orient themself as a ‘self’, in the face of various socio-political circumstances (such as oppression, class and racial struggles, uncertainty and instability) is made more explicitly into the problem of how one is to understand the relationship between one’s subjectivity and one’s identity. That is to say, is one’s identity constructed by a supposed ‘essential’ and ‘rational’ self, the thinking subject, or is one’s identity thrust upon them in such a way that conditions the very parameters of one’s supposedly independent rationality?

With this said, some of the questions we hope to engage with in the fifth edition of WCPC are:

What is the role of the subject in contemporary philosophical discourse?
Are we in a post-Subject era or does the traditional a priori Subject linger?
How do accounts of unconscious drives problematise the traditional notion of the self?
Is there an inherent problem in the subject-object distinction and relation? Is it problematic to, as Adorno suggests, place the subject as the locus from which external ‘objects’ are to be understood?
What is the relationship between an individual’s subject position and their wider collective identities? What role might various kinds of identities: national, ethno-racial, gender, sexual, etc., play in shaping ongoing discourse?
How could this discussion contribute to, and reframe, certain methodological and theoretical insights of the history of philosophy as a discipline?
How the present debates on subject and identity are determined by their shifting in meaning throughout the history of philosophy?
How have thinkers of the continental tradition historically addressed such problems? And how do contemporary philosophers approach these? What relevant insights can theorists continue to provide on questions of the subject and identity?

While our focus will be on the continental tradition, we encourage applicants from all areas of philosophy, and welcome interdisciplinary research that connects philosophy with social science.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted abstracts should be approximately 500 words long. Abstracts must be written in English, and should be sent to the WCPC committee at wcpc@warwick.ac.uk. Please use “Abstract, [your name]” as the subject of your email. In the text of the email, please include 1) the title of your paper, 2) your institutional affiliation, and 3) your preferred email contact address. Please exclude any identifying information from the abstract itself.

Please, also clarify in your email whether you would like to be considered for the award of a partial bursary (covering 50% of accommodation costs), which may become available in due course.

The deadline for abstract submission is the 15th of March 2023.

We will be asking the speakers to pre-circulate their papers and provide, during their speaking slot, a short 5-minute introduction, which will be followed by 25 minutes of questions and discussions (maximum). This means that, if your abstract is accepted, we will require you to send us a 3000-word paper in advance and no later than on 13th of May 2023.

Your paper will be shared with other speakers and conference participants, and conference discussions will be based on the submitted version.

We particularly encourage submissions by philosophers from groups who are underrepresented in the discipline.

Summary of Dates

15th of March 2023 - deadline for abstract submission

13th of May 2023 - deadline for the submission of conference papers (3000 words)

8th – 9th of June 2023 - conference dates

Additional information

This conference is made possible by generous funding provided by the University of Warwick Philosophy Department, The Mind Association and The Society for Women in Philosophy, United Kingdom. It is an annual event within The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy (University of Warwick). The conference is organised in compliance with the BPA/SWIP guidelines for accessible conferences, the BPA/SWIP good practice scheme for gender equality, and the BPA Environmental Travel Scheme.

16/03 5pm-6pm: PG Work in Progress Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:47:32 GMT

When: 5pm - 6pm, Thu, 16 Mar '23

Where: S2.77/MS Teams

This week's PG WiP Seminar will be led by Xavier Castellà-Güell (PhD)

Title: "Bodily movements, Intentional actions and extra features"

Thursday March 16th 2023

5pm in S2.77 and on TeamsLink opens in a new window.

Everyone welcome!

Abstract:

The prevalent, orthodox view on the nature of intentional action is the theory that has been called the “standard story of action” (STA). STA is the thesis that an intentional action is an action or a bodily movement that is the causal product of an intention to bring about the action in question. This theory has been defended by, among others, Davidson and Smith. STA has been the object of various objections. For example, some have argued that STA cannot exclude deviant causal chains in a non-ad hoc way. For others, the main problem with STA is that it is compatible with an image of intentional action that excludes the causal role of the agent in the production of action.

I am going to focus on a more general type of critique, oriented towards what we could call "additional property theory". The additional property theory is the theory that an action can be characterized as intentional by having a property that is independent of those properties that qualify the action as being the type of action that it is. STA is an example of the additional property theory in that it postulates that an action is intentional to the extent that it possesses the additional property of being caused by a certain qualified type of mental event. If my position against the additional property theory is correct, then not only do we seem to have good justification for ruling out STA, but we can also diagnose what appears to be the fundamental problem with this theory. This diagnosis, I contend, can offer us further insight into the nature of intentional action.

06/07 3pm-5pm: Wiggins on Ethics

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:37:58 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Thu, 06 Jul '23

Where: Online

Thursday July 6, 3–5pm (online): Chapter 9: A first-order ethic of solidarity and reciprocity Depending on interest, we might then consider carrying on into chapters 10 (Justice) and 11–12 (Metaethics)

22/06 3pm-5pm: Wiggins on Ethics

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:36:37 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Thu, 22 Jun '23

Where: Online

“In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on ‘moral relativism’, among others.” For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions.

Thursday June 22, 3–5pm (Online): Chapter 8: The consequentialist argument

08/06 3pm-5pm: Wiggins on Ethics

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:35:44 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Thu, 08 Jun '23

Where: S2.77

Thursday June 8, 3–5pm: Chapter 6: Classical utilitarianism

25/05 3pm-5pm: Wiggins on Ethics

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:35:08 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Thu, 25 May '23

Where: S2.77

Thursday May 25, 3–5pm: Chapter 5: The laws of morality as the laws of freedom and the laws of freedom as the laws of morality

18/05 3pm-5pm: Wiggins on Ethics

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:34:26 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Thu, 18 May '23

Where: S2.77

Thursday May 18, 3–5pm: Chapter 4: From Hume to Kant

11/05 3pm-5pm: Wiggins on Ethics

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:33:07 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Thu, 11 May '23

Where: S2.77

Thursday May 11, 3–5pm: Chapter 3: Hume’s theory extended

04/05 3pm-5pm: Wiggins on Ethics

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:31:54 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Thu, 04 May '23

Where: S2.77

For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

Thursday May 4, 3–5pm: Chapter 2: Hume’s genealogy of morals

27/04 3pm-5pm: Wiggins on Ethics

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:28:08 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Thu, 27 Apr '23

Where: S2.77

“In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on ‘moral relativism’, among others.” For the most part, the seminars are planned to takein person, in S2.77, but we move online forsomelater sessions. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduatestudents, are very welcome.

Thursday April 27, 3–5pm: Chapter 1: Glaucon’s and Adeimantus’ interrogation on Socrates

02/05 5:30pm-7pm: Event: Thinking Spaces - A Rountable Discussion

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:55:25 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 02 May '23

Where: S0.11

Thinking Spaces – A Roundtable Discussion

with Matthew Bliss (History of Arts), Tobias Keiling (Philosophy), Hana Samaržija (Philosophy), and Naomi Waltham-Smith (CIM)

(Third instalment of the event series Philosophy Goes Architecture)

Tuesday, 2 May, 5:30pm–7pm (followed by drinks reception)

Venue: S0.11 (ground floor Social Sciences)

Doing philosophy is an embodied activity: it is always someone who thinks, and so thoughts are had, expanded, and written down somewhere, often in human-made surroundings that reflect societal values, ideological currents, and particular interests. How do these spaces interact with the individuals that populate them? How does spatial design interfere with intellectual labour? How does the history of buildings leave a trace on the products of the mind?

The invited speakers are asked to respond to these and similar questions, drawing on their own research and preferred approaches. They are particularly encouraged to relate their answers to our shared experience as people who work and think in the English Midlands, in Coventry, on Warwick Campus, at their respective departments.

All Warwick Philosophy students and staff (permanent, sessional, administrative) are invited to attend and join the discussion!

Contact: simon.gansinger@warwick.ac.uk

Followed by drinks reception

15/06 3pm-5pm: Wiggins on Ethics

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:01:25 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Thu, 15 Jun '23

Where: S2.77

09/03 5pm-6pm: PG Work in Progress Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:32:55 GMT

When: 5pm - 6pm, Thu, 09 Mar '23

Where: S2.77/MS Teams

This week's PG WiP Seminar will be led by Giulia Lorenzini (PhD)

Title: "On the Distinctiveness of Listening to Music"

Thursday March 9th 2023

5pm in S2.77 and on TeamsLink opens in a new window.

Everyone welcome!

Abstract:

In philosophy of auditory perception, taxonomic works, such as O’Callaghan (2021) and O’Callaghan & Nudds (2009), consider the perception of music as a distinctive case. Yet, the current literature on the matter does not furnish a standardised and generally accepted reason for which this should be the case. In this talk, I consider two possible ways to go to reply to the question regarding the distinctiveness of perceiving music. I start presenting what I call here “the Naturalistic View”, based on Budd (2008) and DiBona’s (2022) works. I then show how this view provides some insights on necessary, yet, not sufficient mechanisms, at play in the experience of perceiving music. I proceed considering Scruton’s account of the experience of music, to which I refer here as “the Metaphorical View”. After presenting some wide-spread criticisms to this view, I discuss the case of enculturated and unenculturated listeners to highlight a core, interesting element present in Scruton’s proposal which I consider worth saving.

22/06 12:15pm-2pm: Head of Department Lunch - Postgraduates

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:32:00 GMT

When: 12:15pm - 2pm, Thu, 22 Jun '23

30/03 10am-31/03 5pm: Moral Experience Workshop

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:53:20 GMT

When: 10am, Thu, 30 Mar '23 - 5pm, Fri, 31 Mar '23

Further details here:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/peter/moral_experience/