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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’

26/09 10am-1:30pm: PG Induction

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:02:55 GMT

When: 10am - 1:30pm, Thu, 26 Sept '19

Where: H0.64

26/09 2pm-4pm: Information Fair

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:02:21 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Thu, 26 Sept '19

Where: Warwick Arts Centre Studio

27/09 12pm-6pm: PG Welcome Conference

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:04:21 GMT

When: 12pm - 6pm, Fri, 27 Sept '19

Where: H0.52

04/10: Workshop on Expression and Self-Knowledge with Dorit Bar-On and Lucy Campbell

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:47:11 GMT

When: Fri, 04 Oct '19

Expression and Self-knowledge

Warwick University, Friday 4^th October 2019

Humanities H0.03

Programme

11.00 – 12.30
Lucy Campbell (Warwick)
‘Self-knowledge: expression without expressivism’

12.30 – 2.00

Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut)
‘No ‘How’ Privileged Self-Knowledge’

3.00 – 4.30

Cristina Borgoni (Bayreuth University)

‘Primitive forms of first-person authority and expressive capacities’

07/10 2pm-4pm: WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 20:08:01 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Mon, 07 Oct '19

Where: H4.22/4

Reading: Soteriou, M. 'Cartesian Reflections on the Autonomy of the Mental'. [pdf]

14/10 2pm-4pm: WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:47:39 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Mon, 14 Oct '19

Where: H4.22/4.

Readings:

Week 2: Soteriou, M. 'Cartesian Reflections on the Autonomy of the Mental'. [ pdf]

Week 3: Eilan, N. 'On the Paradox of Gestalt Switches: Wittgenstein’s Response to Kohler'. [ pdf]

Week 5: Roessler, J. 'The Silence of Self-Knowledge'. [pdf]

Week 7: Campbell, J. 'Sense, Reference and Selective Attention' [pdf]

15/10 5:30pm-7:30pm: Official Launch of the Post-Kantian Research Centre

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:39:49 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Tue, 15 Oct '19

Where: Room S0.11, Social Sciences Building

Official Launch of the Post-Kantian Research Centre

18/10 2pm-5pm: First Postgraduate Professional Development Workshop

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:13:40 GMT

When: 2pm - 5pm, Fri, 18 Oct '19

Where: S2.77, The Cowling Room

Programme:

2.00pm - Literature Search Skills and Tools (Kate Courage, Academic Support Librarian)

Group A (MA students and first year MPhil students): Room S2.77

2.30pm - Time Management/Deadlines/Mitigating Circumstances/Extensions (Johannes Roessler)

3.00pm - Writing MA/MPhil Essays (Tom Crowther)

3.45pm - Tea and Coffee (Cowling Room)

4.00pm - Planning your MA/Phil (Johannes Roessler)

Group B (PhD students and second year MPhil students): Room S2.79

2.30pm - Graduate Progress Committees, Teaching, Submitting Papers to Conferences, Conference Funding (Peter Poellner)

3.00pm - Writing an MA/MPhil Thesis (Johannes Roessler)

3.45pm - Tea and Coffee

4.00pm - Planning your PhD/MPhil (Peter Poellner)

Both Groups (Cowling Room, S2.77)

4.15pm - Appling for PhD Programmes and Scholarships (Peter Poellner)

5.00pm - Drinks in The Dirty Duck

28/10 2pm-4pm: WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:47:39 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Mon, 28 Oct '19

Where: H4.22/4.

Readings:

Week 2: Soteriou, M. 'Cartesian Reflections on the Autonomy of the Mental'. [ pdf]

Week 3: Eilan, N. 'On the Paradox of Gestalt Switches: Wittgenstein’s Response to Kohler'. [ pdf]

Week 5: Roessler, J. 'The Silence of Self-Knowledge'. [pdf]

Week 7: Campbell, J. 'Sense, Reference and Selective Attention' [pdf]

29/10 5:30pm-7:30pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:42:01 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Tue, 29 Oct '19

Where: Room S0.11, Social Sciences Building

Speaker: Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)

Title: Kant and Hegel on the Antinomies of Reason

11/11 2pm-4pm: WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:47:39 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Mon, 11 Nov '19

Where: H4.22/4.

Readings:

Week 2: Soteriou, M. 'Cartesian Reflections on the Autonomy of the Mental'. [ pdf]

Week 3: Eilan, N. 'On the Paradox of Gestalt Switches: Wittgenstein’s Response to Kohler'. [ pdf]

Week 5: Roessler, J. 'The Silence of Self-Knowledge'. [pdf]

Week 7: Campbell, J. 'Sense, Reference and Selective Attention' [pdf]

13/11 4pm-6pm: PG Work in Progress Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:34:03 GMT

When: 4pm - 6pm, Wed, 13 Nov '19

Where: S2.77, The Cowling Room

Speaker: Emily Bassett

Title: 'Responsibility for Sexual Desire'

ABSTRACT

Sexual desire is a rich topic dominated by conflicting intuitions - the uncontrollable nature of sexual desire and the indisputable existence of sexual repression often go hand in hand in literary works from the Aeneid to Anna Karenina. Questions of responsibility for sexual desire in particular are muddied by these warring opinions on the nature of sexual desire.

In this paper, I will draw on one account of sexual desire offered by Shaffer. Shaffer rejects what he calls 'propositional theories' of sexual desire - which appear more amenable to questions of responsibility - in favour of an account of sexual desire that is emotion-like, which I begin by outlining. Following this, I move to Shaffer's argument that his account is not parallel to emotions in one key way: sexual desires, unlike emotions, are not appropriately subject to reasons. In exploring whether this argument holds, I touch upon correlative concerns about opening sexual desires up to questions of responsibility, and draw to the conclusion that it is at least intuitively possible to talk about responsibility for sexual desire. However, I also hold this conclusion would be best served with a clear delineation of what it means for something to appropriately be subject to reasons.

19/11 5:30pm-7:30pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:49:30 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Tue, 19 Nov '19

Where: Room S0.11, Social Sciences Building

Speaker: Beatrice Han-Pile (Essex)

Title: 'The Doing Is Everything': A Middle-Voiced Reading of Agency in Nietzsche

25/11 2pm-4pm: WMA graduate research seminar

Rachel Harrington — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:49:54 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Mon, 25 Nov '19

Where: S2.64

26/11 5:30pm-7:30pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:50:55 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Tue, 26 Nov '19

Where: Room S0.11, Social Sciences Building

Speaker: Jeffrey A. Bell (Southeastern Louisiana University)

Title: 'Towards a Deleuzian-Humean Political Theory'

28/11: London-Warwick Mind Forum: London

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:19:27 GMT

When: Thu, 28 Nov '19

The forum will take place at LSE, London. The event is free and does not require registration.

CFA details and updates about the event will be published here: https://lwmindforum.wordpress.com/.

For further info, email: m.corrado@warwick.ac.uk

04/12 5pm-7pm: Philosophy Department Christmas Party 2019

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:00:05 GMT

When: 5pm - 7pm, Wed, 04 Dec '19

Where: Bar Fusion (Rootes Building)

07/12 10am-08/12 11am: MindGrad 2019

Rachel Harrington — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 15:46:46 GMT

When: 10am, Sat, 07 Dec '19 - 11am, Sun, 08 Dec '19

Where: MS.03

MINDGRAD 2019: OURSELVES AND OTHERS

Warwick Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Mind

7th-8th December 2019, University of Warwick (UK)

Invited speakers:
Dr Stina Bäckström - Södertörn University
Professor Matthew Boyle - University of Chicago
Professor Jane Heal - University of Cambridge
Dr Joel Smith - University of Manchester

08/01 3pm-5pm: WMA Graduate Research Seminar - Reading Michael Ayers' Knowing and Seeing

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:46:35 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Wed, 08 Jan '20

Where: S1.39

09/01 3pm-5pm: Knowledge and Understanding Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:05:25 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Thu, 09 Jan '20

Where: S2.77, The Cowling Room

Speaker: Kurt Sylvan (Southampton)

Title: 'Knowledge and the Presentation of Reality'

10/01 2:30pm-4:30pm: PG Professional Development Workshop

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:14:37 GMT

When: 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Fri, 10 Jan '20

Where: S2.77, The Cowling Room

Completing Application Forms and Attending Job Interviews

With Sameer Bajaj, Lucy Campbell and Daniele Lorenzini

13/01 4pm-6pm: Hegel Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:35:48 GMT

When: 4pm - 6pm, Mon, 13 Jan '20

Where: Room S1.39, Social Sciences Building

15/01 4:30pm-5:45pm: 'The Making of Migration': A Roundtable

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:17:48 GMT

When: 4:30pm - 5:45pm, Wed, 15 Jan '20

Where: Room S0.17, Social Sciences Building

Warwick PAIS and Philosophy have organised a roundtable to discuss Martina Tazzioli's new book, The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe's Borders (London: SAGE, 2019). The book addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: How are migrants governed as individual subjects and as part of groups? What are the modes of control, identification and partitions that migrants are subjected to? Bringing together an ethnographically grounded analysis of migration, and a critical theoretical engagement with the security and humanitarian modes of governing migrants, The Making of Migration pushes us to rethink notions that are central in current political theory such as multiplicity and subjectivity. This is an innovative and sophisticated study, deploying migration as an analytical angle for complicating and reconceptualising the emergence of collective subjects, mechanisms of individualisation, and political invisibility/visibility.

Contributors:

Stuart Elden (PAIS, Warwick)

Daniele Lorenzini (Philosophy, Warwick)

Vicki Squire (PAIS, Warwick)

Maurice Stierl (PAIS, Warwick)

and Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London)

16/01 10am-11am: Reading Group: Communion de Bataille

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:58:34 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Thu, 16 Jan '20

Where: Room H4.22, Humanities Building

This reading group, or 'communion', focuses on the work of Georges Bataille and his henchmen, including but not limited to Andre Masson, Roger Caillois, Michel Leiris, Pierre Klossoski, Raymond Queneau. Alexandre Kojève and Lev Shestov, as well as literary figures including Colette Peignot, Jacques Vaché, Lautréamont, Marques de Sade, Baudelaire, Catherine of Siena and Meister Eckart.

A few key texts will be analysed:

Le Coupable (1944) Guilty

L'Erotisme (1957) Eroticism

La Haine de la Poésie (1947) The Hatred of Poetry

L'Impossible (1962) The Impossible

La literature et le Mal (1957) Literature and Evil

Open to all.

16/01 3pm-5pm: Knowledge and Understanding Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:17:15 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Thu, 16 Jan '20

Where: S2.79, Social Sciences Building

Speaker: Rachel Fraser (Oxford)

Title: 'Narrative Testimony'

17/01 5pm-7pm: Foucault at Warwick

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:16:55 GMT

When: 5pm - 7pm, Fri, 17 Jan '20

Where: Room OC1.06, Oculus

Contributors:

Alison Downham Moore (Western Sydney University)

Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham)

Stuart Elden (PAIS, Warwick)

Daniele Lorenzini (Philosophy, Warwick)

Federico Testa (Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick)

Supported by Centre Michel Foucault, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick, and The University of Warwick.

20/01 4pm-6pm: Hegel Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:36:38 GMT

When: 4pm - 6pm, Mon, 20 Jan '20

Where: Room S1.39, Social Sciences Building

21/01 5:30pm-7:30pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:50:48 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Tue, 21 Jan '20

Where: Room S0.11, Social Sciences Building

Guest Speakers:

Daniele Lorenzini (Warwick)

Title: Genealogy, Possibilization, and (Post-)Critique

David Owen (Southampton)

Title: Genealogy as Re-Problematization: Autonomy, Aspect-Change and Limits

23/01 10am-11am: Reading Group: Communion de Bataille

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:00:34 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Thu, 23 Jan '20

Where: Room H4.22, Humanities Building