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The next postgraduate Work in Progress (WiP) seminar is taking place this Thursday 30th May from 5-6:15 PM in S2.77 and on Teams. Gr谩inne O'Shea will present 'An account of the interdependence of joint and collective intentionality'. Everyone welcome!

Abstract:

The anti-individualist thesis in philosophy of mind is intended to resolve the problem of knowledge of other minds. It is sometimes also thought that this essential sociality of the mind bears some ethical significance. The literature is divided in its focus on interpersonal ethics and the importance of face-to-face interaction (or 'joint intentionality') on one hand, and impersonal ethics and immersion in cultures, forms of life, and history (or 'collective intentionality') on the other. This paper will argue that collective and joint intentionality should be understood as standing in a mutually determining relation, thereby explaining the interdependence that I suggest exists between impersonal and interpersonal ethics.

Teams link:

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 3-5 p.m. Every Friday from Week 2 Summer Term

Location: FAB 4.73 (the first meeting: 3rd May)

Content:

Last term, we have almost finished section 1 "Essence as Reflection Within". This term, we will start with a recap and then go further to "complete ground" (11锛�312) and section 2 "Appearance". [It's absolutely alright if you weren't here last term: )]

Format: We aim to read the text carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Heidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer鈥檚 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� (1960).

Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only.

For meeting details and the reading schedule, email fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk.

Guided by Haley鈥檚 expertise, we will work through the entire book in this term. Gadamer is one of Heidegger's most influential students, not just in philosophy but in the humanities more generally (social thought, medical humanities, law, aesthetics, etc.). By way of outline, Gadamer's text is concerned with defending humanistic truth, and he achieves this by looking at three places this truth shows up in human life: aesthetics, history, and conversation. 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� is, then, relevant to those of us concerned with epistemology, aesthetics, history as a philosophical topic (beginning with Kant and Hegel), philosophy of language, and ontology.

WMA Graduate Research Seminar: pre-MindGrad reading

in weeks 4-7 and 9, Wednesdays 14:00-16:00.

Room S1.39

link: /fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

Weds 5th June           

MEEP Seminar (location TBC)

4-6pm:鈥淥n the Metaphysical and Epistemic Contrasts between Real and Fake Testimony鈥�

Elizabeth Fricker (Oxford)

Contact: oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk

Thursday June 6, 2–4pm: Chapter 6: Valuing Persons

Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

鈥淟ove often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love鈥檚 Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love鈥檚 moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato鈥檚 Symposium, love is 鈥渟omething in between.鈥濃��

The next postgraduate Work in Progress (WiP) seminar is taking place this Thursday 6 June from 5-6:15 PM in S2.77 and on Teams. Davide Versari will present 'Against Political Cognitivism as a Ground of Legitimacy'. Everyone welcome!

Abstract:

Political cognitivism is the commitment to the idea that there exists a standard of correctness for political decisions, and that such a standard can be reached. So-called belief-based approaches to political legitimacy take this to be the ground of legitimacy of a political decision or, more generally, of a political decision-making procedure. My aim is to counter this claim. To do that, I will argue that the epistemic circumstances of politics have some structural problems, linked to the concept of reasonable disagreement, such that the case in favour of cognitivism is not strong enough to justify its use as a ground of legitimacy.

Teams link:

We warmly invite you to the upcoming 'Pathways in Research: Building Resilience and Collaborations' professional development workshop on 馃搯 June 7^th, from 9:30am to 3pm, in馃搷OC 1.06 (Oculus).

The one-day event is comprised of three sessions that each seek to address challenges or experiences common to virtually all researchers, with a particular focus on fostering a sense of community and solidarity amongst researchers within the Department here at Warwick.

Session 1, 9:30 - 11:00am - Communication and Collaboration in Academic Practice

Session 2, 11:15 - 1:00pm - Being Resilient and Resourceful Under Pressure

Session 3, 2:00 3:00pm - Research Roadmap: Combatting Uncertainty Through Community

In collaboration with Athena Professional, the first two sessions of the day will be held by Nicola Jones, an expert in continuous learning strategy and design, whilst the final session will give you an opportunity to hear from your fellow PhD students in a peer-to-peer workshop. For more details on what to expect from each session please see the flyer attached to this email.

On the day, free tea and coffee will be available from 9:00am along with a complementary pizza lunch and post-workshop tea, coffee, and nibbles.

If you're interested in attending, please register via the form (linked ), or follow the QR code on the flyer that can be found attached to this email or across the department.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Kind regards,

Giulia Lorenzi and Clarissa M眉ller

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 3-5 p.m. Every Friday from Week 2 Summer Term

Location: FAB 4.73 (the first meeting: 3rd May)

Content:

Last term, we have almost finished section 1 "Essence as Reflection Within". This term, we will start with a recap and then go further to "complete ground" (11锛�312) and section 2 "Appearance". [It's absolutely alright if you weren't here last term: )]

Format: We aim to read the text carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Interdisciplinary symposium 'Let me explain: Reason-giving across disciplines' on 10 June 2024

Why do we ask why? And do scholars mean the same by it, regardless of their disciplinary background? Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study will host a symposium on these treacherously simple questions.

Who: Speakers from all of Warwick's faculties; everyone welcome to attend.

When: 10 June 2024, 9:45am–2:30pm (TBC). Lunch provided.

Where: IAS Seminar Room, C0.02

More information to follow in late April. For any questions, get in touch with the event organiser, Simon GansingerLink opens in a new window (simon.gansinger@warwick.ac.uk).

We are pleased to welcome you to the WMA reading group, Origins of Naturalised Intentionality. In this reading group, we will go through five highly influential authors who seek to provide the grounds for a scientific account of mental content (the stuff we think about).

The reading is chosen to provide an accessible introduction to the naturalistic approach to mental content. We hope to have a relatively relaxed discussion of the (sometimes controversial) ideas on offer!

We will meet in S2.84 on Mondays of even weeks (starting 29/04/24) at 14:00-15:30. The sessions will be led by Johan Heemskerk. Feel free to reach out to Oscar North-Concar or Johan Heemskerk for any further information.

The group is open to absolutely everyone, so do come along if you are interested!

Heidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer鈥檚 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� (1960).

Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only.

For meeting details and the reading schedule, email fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk.

Guided by Haley鈥檚 expertise, we will work through the entire book in this term. Gadamer is one of Heidegger's most influential students, not just in philosophy but in the humanities more generally (social thought, medical humanities, law, aesthetics, etc.). By way of outline, Gadamer's text is concerned with defending humanistic truth, and he achieves this by looking at three places this truth shows up in human life: aesthetics, history, and conversation. 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� is, then, relevant to those of us concerned with epistemology, aesthetics, history as a philosophical topic (beginning with Kant and Hegel), philosophy of language, and ontology.

Dino Jakusic will present 鈥楳.R. Antognazza and Christian Wolff on Knowing as Assenting鈥�.

Location: S 0.21, Social Sciences Building

9:30–10:00 – Arrival 10:00–10:50 (Online) Qingxuan Wang (CUHK) 鈥淔riedrich Nietzsche and the Religions of Decadence鈥�

10:50–11:00 – Break

11:00–11:50 Asmita Roy (Nottingham) 鈥淔oucault鈥檚 Theory on Power and Subjectivity, and an Analysis of Islamophobia in India鈥�

11:50–12:30 – Lunch

12:30–13:20 Nathan Conceicao Silva (Durham) 鈥淭aking Sceptics to Deleuze鈥�

13:20–13:30 – Break

13:30–14:20 Noah Buckle (Warwick) 鈥淜ant on Gesinnung and the Propensity to Evil鈥�

14:20–14:30 – Break

14:30–15:20 Amelie Baker (Nottingham) 鈥淔oucault, Zen, and the Education System鈥�

15:30–15:40 Break

15:40–16:40 Henry Somers-Hall (RHUL) – Keynote 鈥淭ruth, Meaning, and Resemblance in French Philosophy

Thursday June 13, 2–4pm: Chapter 7: Love and Morality

Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

鈥淟ove often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love鈥檚 Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love鈥檚 moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato鈥檚 Symposium, love is 鈥渟omething in between.鈥濃��

WiP Week 8 - 'An inheritance to come: Derrida on history, the undecidable future, and the metaphysics of presence' - Efan Owen

The next postgraduate Work in Progress (WiP) seminar is taking place this Thursday 13th June from 5-6:15 PM in S2.77 and on Teams. Efan Owen will present 'An inheritance to come: Derrida on history, the undecidable future, and the metaphysics of presence'. Everyone welcome!

Abstract:

In this presentation I will explore the conclusions I came to in a recent essay and the questions they pose for my dissertation. I will give an overview of Derrida鈥檚 understanding of the relationship between that which is already past and that which is yet to come. I will examine here Derrida鈥檚 engagement with Heidegger鈥檚 rejection of a 鈥渕etaphysics of presence,鈥� as well as the specific implications of his own notion of 诲颈蹿蹿茅谤补苍肠别, in the construction of meaning. Derrida holds meaning to be ultimately non-present and always referring to a presence beyond itself, and at the same time grounded in the material trace which signifies it.

In this sense, a future which is truly futural can only be comprehended as an anticipation of that which will never arrive. It is nevertheless determined by its origin, or past, in the trace signifier. I will argue that this leads Derrida to an understanding of the future as taking the form of an inheritance of things passed.

Finally, I will suggest that this approach allows Derrida to think of our relationship both to history and to the future in a manner which refutes the rationalism and calculability which characterise Kant and Husserl鈥檚 philosophies of history. In anticipation of my dissertation, I will also suggest that the decidability of inheritance nevertheless leaves it bearing resemblance to the regulative Idea as employed by Kant and Husserl. I will try to examine avenues I might take in exploring these similarities.

Teams link:

Click here for the event schedule

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 3-5 p.m. Every Friday from Week 2 Summer Term

Location: FAB 4.73 (the first meeting: 3rd May)

Content:

Last term, we have almost finished section 1 "Essence as Reflection Within". This term, we will start with a recap and then go further to "complete ground" (11锛�312) and section 2 "Appearance". [It's absolutely alright if you weren't here last term: )]

Format: We aim to read the text carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

We are in the process of putting together an exciting programme of talks and activities for this End of Year Celebration.

Don't forget to save the date and watch this space for updates!

Everyone welcome!

Heidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer鈥檚 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� (1960).

Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only.

For meeting details and the reading schedule, email fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk.

Guided by Haley鈥檚 expertise, we will work through the entire book in this term. Gadamer is one of Heidegger's most influential students, not just in philosophy but in the humanities more generally (social thought, medical humanities, law, aesthetics, etc.). By way of outline, Gadamer's text is concerned with defending humanistic truth, and he achieves this by looking at three places this truth shows up in human life: aesthetics, history, and conversation. 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� is, then, relevant to those of us concerned with epistemology, aesthetics, history as a philosophical topic (beginning with Kant and Hegel), philosophy of language, and ontology.

WMA Graduate Research Seminar: pre-MindGrad reading

in weeks 4-7 and 9, Wednesdays 14:00-16:00.

Room S1.39

link: /fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

Thursday June 20, 2–4pm: Afterword: Between the Universal and the Particular

Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

鈥淟ove often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love鈥檚 Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love鈥檚 moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato鈥檚 Symposium, love is 鈥渟omething in between.鈥濃��

A student-staff meeting to share information and ideas about promoting equality and diversity at Warwick Philosophy. Learn about what lies behind our excellent acronyms: MAP (Minorities and Philosophy), BVN (Black Voices Network), the WP Network (Widening Participation), and EWC (Equality and Welfare Committee). For all UG and PG students. Rsvp to Eileen John (eileen.john@warwick.ac.uk).

We will be in person in S0.17, but there will be as well.

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 3-5 p.m. Every Friday from Week 2 Summer Term

Location: FAB 4.73 (the first meeting: 3rd May)

Content:

Last term, we have almost finished section 1 "Essence as Reflection Within". This term, we will start with a recap and then go further to "complete ground" (11锛�312) and section 2 "Appearance". [It's absolutely alright if you weren't here last term: )]

Format: We aim to read the text carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

鈥�**Please note the change of day for this week. This is also the last WiP of term - there is no WiP in Week 10.**

Dear all,

The next postgraduate Work in Progress (WiP) seminar is taking place this Friday 21st June from 5-6:15 PM in S2.77 and on Teams. Chris Hall will present 'Intending, doing and the broadness of the progressive'. Everyone welcome!

Abstract:

Following Anscombe, one purported feature of practical knowledge is that it is non-observational. A challenge for accounts committed to this feature is to explain how we can have non-observational knowledge of both what we intend to be doing and what we are doing, with the latter considered a more perplexing claim. One strategy for meeting this challenge involves appealing to the broadness of the progressive to highlight a strong connection between intending and doing, so that in certain circumstances knowledge of what we intend amounts to knowledge of what we are doing. In this talk I explore this strategy. I identify two distinct directions in which the idea of the broadness of the progressive is taken, and I raise some preliminary challenges for views in both directions.

Teams link:

Keynotes:         

Matt Soteriou (KCL)

L茅a Salje (Leeds)

Contact: eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk

We are pleased to welcome you to the WMA reading group, Origins of Naturalised Intentionality. In this reading group, we will go through five highly influential authors who seek to provide the grounds for a scientific account of mental content (the stuff we think about).

The reading is chosen to provide an accessible introduction to the naturalistic approach to mental content. We hope to have a relatively relaxed discussion of the (sometimes controversial) ideas on offer!

We will meet in S2.84 on Mondays of even weeks (starting 29/04/24) at 14:00-15:30. The sessions will be led by Johan Heemskerk. Feel free to reach out to Oscar North-Concar or Johan Heemskerk for any further information.

The group is open to absolutely everyone, so do come along if you are interested!

Heidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer鈥檚 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� (1960).

Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only.

For meeting details and the reading schedule, email fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk.

Guided by Haley鈥檚 expertise, we will work through the entire book in this term. Gadamer is one of Heidegger's most influential students, not just in philosophy but in the humanities more generally (social thought, medical humanities, law, aesthetics, etc.). By way of outline, Gadamer's text is concerned with defending humanistic truth, and he achieves this by looking at three places this truth shows up in human life: aesthetics, history, and conversation. 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� is, then, relevant to those of us concerned with epistemology, aesthetics, history as a philosophical topic (beginning with Kant and Hegel), philosophy of language, and ontology.

Todays reading group is cancelled. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Weds 26th June          

Mini-Workshop on Address

Speakers will include Naomi Eilan, Richard Moore, Giulia Palazzolo.

Full programme TBC.

Contact: giulia.palazzolo.1@warwick.ac.uk

 鈥淟ove often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love鈥檚 Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love鈥檚 moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato鈥檚 Symposium, love is 鈥渟omething in between.鈥濃��

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 3-5 p.m. Every Friday from Week 2 Summer Term

Location: FAB 4.73 (the first meeting: 3rd May)

Content:

Last term, we have almost finished section 1 "Essence as Reflection Within". This term, we will start with a recap and then go further to "complete ground" (11锛�312) and section 2 "Appearance". [It's absolutely alright if you weren't here last term: )]

Format: We aim to read the text carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Join us prior to the Graduation Ceremony to enjoy some Afternoon Tea and Bubbly!

Friends and Family are also Welcome!

When: Monday 24th July, 12:30 - 14:30

Where: Social Sciences Courtyard - Under the Wisteria

Email Gemma.Basterfield@warwick.ac.uk to reserve spaces

Philosophy Balloon Debate

When: Thu 26 Sep 2024 14:00-16:00

Where: FAB0.03 Lecture Theatre 2

Please sign up with Tobias: Tobias.Keiling@warwick.ac.uk

Calling all first years and post grads...

Join us in welcome week for a philosophy themed Pub Quiz.

Grab a slice of complimentary pizza and put your thinking hat on for this fun filled event.

See you there!

鈥淢AP (Minorities and Philosophy), a student-led network that aims to reduce inequalities in academic philosophy, will have a first formative meeting on Thursday, 3 October, 10.30-11.30 in the Common Room. We are especially searching for students who would like to get involved and shape what MAP will be like in this academic year! (What should we focus on? Which events, workshops, reading groups etc. should there be?) You are all cordially invited to drop in, also if you can only be present for a part of the time! If you have any questions, feel free to contact map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk.鈥�

Teams link

Join Heather Widdows, Lorenzo Serini and Eliza Little for the Emotions Reading Group.

We will be reading Peter Goldie: The Emotions: A Philosophical Perspective, available on-line from the Warwick library.

Meeting Wednesday mornings 10-11, we will start in Week 2 with the intro and chapter 1, and then one chapter for each subsequent week, finishing in week 9.

If you鈥檇 like to come, please email Heather.Widdows@warwick.acuk

Roberta Locatelli (T眉bingen) - "Understanding ADHD and Bridging the Gap Between the Neurodiversity Model and the Disorder Model"

This workshop is led by Dr. Roberta Locatelli, ADHD Coach and researcher and is open to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, with or without a formal ADHD diagnosis.

While the workshop is primarily aimed at students with ADHD, students who have other conditions that fall under the neurodivergence umbrella (who might have similar executive function challenges) are welcome, as well as anyone who鈥檚 still in the process of seeking a formal diagnosis or of figuring out for themselves if they might have ADHD, or otherwise struggle with executive function skills such as attention, planning, awareness of time, working memory and emotional regulation. 

During this 3-hour workshop, you will:

鈥� Learn about lesser-known aspects of ADHD and how they can affect your academic performance and your well-being during your studies.

鈥� Develop effective strategies to work with your brain —not against it 

鈥� Develop your self-confidence, identify your strengths and learn how to amplify them

鈥� Feel less isolated, and exchange with peers your shared experiences of struggles and successes.

Please note that Roberta has asked for attendees to book a spot in advance here:

Meet the new Black Voices Network reps and enjoy some complimentary pizza!

Join Heather Widdows, Lorenzo Serini and Eliza Little for the Emotions Reading Group.

We will be reading Peter Goldie: The Emotions: A Philosophical Perspective, available on-line from the Warwick library.

Meeting Wednesday mornings 10-11, we will start in Week 2 with the intro and chapter 1, and then one chapter for each subsequent week, finishing in week 9.

If you鈥檇 like to come, please email Heather.Widdows@warwick.acuk

14:30 - 16:00 Craig French (Nottingham) - "Experiences of Derealization: A Na茂ve Realist Account"

16:30 - 18:00 Joe Cunningham (Nottingham) - "What is the Deep Self?"

Contact: eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk

Please see our webpage for more info:

Please contact Chris Hall if you have any enquiries:

Chris.Hall.1@warwick.ac.uk

The metaethics reading group is back this academic year! Anyone with an interest in metaethics is welcome, whether you鈥檙e an undergraduate, postgraduate, or staff.

We will meet on Fridays every other week for the rest of the term:

路 18 Oct, 12:00-14:00, S1.50

路 1 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50,

路 15 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50

路 29 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50.

We will read a new paper each session, with discussion led by the person who picks the paper. Our last slot of the term is still free, so if you鈥檇 like to present a paper, please get in touch with Sara (Sara.Gorea.1@warwick.ac.uk) or Oscar (oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk).

Best wishes,

Sara, Oscar, and Kirk

Getting Started and Planning Your Course

Friday October 18th (week 3) from 2pm to 5:15, Room S0.11

2.00pm Literature search skills and tools (Jackie Hanes, Academic Support Librarian) [for everyone]

2.30pm Planning your MA (Matt Nudds) [for MA students]

3.00pm Getting started on the MA dissertation (Eileen John) [for MA students]

3.30pm Tea/coffee

3.45pm Writing MA or MPhil essays (Tom Crowther) [for MA and MPhil students]

4.30pm Writing an MPhil or PhD thesis (Sameer Bajaj) [for MPhil and PhD students]

5.15pm end/informal visit to Varsity/Dirty Duck

Join Heather Widdows, Lorenzo Serini and Eliza Little for the Emotions Reading Group.

We will be reading Peter Goldie: The Emotions: A Philosophical Perspective, available on-line from the Warwick library.

Meeting Wednesday mornings 10-11, we will start in Week 2 with the intro and chapter 1, and then one chapter for each subsequent week, finishing in week 9.

If you鈥檇 like to come, please email Heather.Widdows@warwick.acuk

Please see our webpage for more info:

Please contact Chris Hall if you have any enquiries:

Chris.Hall.1@warwick.ac.uk

"What's wrong with the Master? A critical analysis of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic"

Join Heather Widdows, Lorenzo Serini and Eliza Little for the Emotions Reading Group.

We will be reading Peter Goldie: The Emotions: A Philosophical Perspective, available on-line from the Warwick library.

Meeting Wednesday mornings 10-11, we will start in Week 2 with the intro and chapter 1, and then one chapter for each subsequent week, finishing in week 9.

If you鈥檇 like to come, please email Heather.Widdows@warwick.acuk

Please see our webpage for more info:

Please contact Chris Hall if you have any enquiries:

Chris.Hall.1@warwick.ac.uk

The metaethics reading group is back this academic year! Anyone with an interest in metaethics is welcome, whether you鈥檙e an undergraduate, postgraduate, or staff.

We will meet on Fridays every other week for the rest of the term:

路 18 Oct, 12:00-14:00, S1.50

路 1 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50,

路 15 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50

路 29 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50.

We will read a new paper each session, with discussion led by the person who picks the paper. Our last slot of the term is still free, so if you鈥檇 like to present a paper, please get in touch with Sara (Sara.Gorea.1@warwick.ac.uk) or Oscar (oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk).

Best wishes,

Sara, Oscar, and Kirk

鈥淜ant鈥檚 Concept of Progress and the Limits of Critical Thinking鈥�

Join Heather Widdows, Lorenzo Serini and Eliza Little for the Emotions Reading Group.

We will be reading Peter Goldie: The Emotions: A Philosophical Perspective, available on-line from the Warwick library.

Meeting Wednesday mornings 10-11, we will start in Week 2 with the intro and chapter 1, and then one chapter for each subsequent week, finishing in week 9.

If you鈥檇 like to come, please email Heather.Widdows@warwick.acuk

14:30 - 16:00 Richard Moore - Three Ways of Addressing Others

16:30 - 18:00 Naomi Eilan - Address and The Second Person

Contact: eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk

Everybody is invited to just drop in for a while, have a coffee, chat for a bit and/or do some co-studying.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please see our webpage for more info:

Please contact Chris Hall if you have any enquiries:

Chris.Hall.1@warwick.ac.uk

The metaethics reading group is back this academic year! Anyone with an interest in metaethics is welcome, whether you鈥檙e an undergraduate, postgraduate, or staff.

We will meet on Fridays every other week for the rest of the term:

路 18 Oct, 12:00-14:00, S1.50

路 1 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50,

路 15 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50

路 29 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50.

We will read a new paper each session, with discussion led by the person who picks the paper. Our last slot of the term is still free, so if you鈥檇 like to present a paper, please get in touch with Sara (Sara.Gorea.1@warwick.ac.uk) or Oscar (oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk).

Best wishes,

Sara, Oscar, and Kirk

Teams link

Join Heather Widdows, Lorenzo Serini and Eliza Little for the Emotions Reading Group.

We will be reading Peter Goldie: The Emotions: A Philosophical Perspective, available on-line from the Warwick library.

Meeting Wednesday mornings 10-11, we will start in Week 2 with the intro and chapter 1, and then one chapter for each subsequent week, finishing in week 9.

If you鈥檇 like to come, please email Heather.Widdows@warwick.acuk

The Critical Theory Reading Group will be reading three texts in Feminism over the next three weeks. We meet on Wednesdays from 14.30-16.00 and the readings and rooms are as follows:

20th Nov - S1.69 - 'Introduction' and 'Chapter 3: The Point of View of Historical Materialism' from Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.

27th Nov - S1.71 - 'Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory' by Judith Butler.

4th Dec - S1.69 - 'Introduction' and 'Chapter 3: The Great Caliban, The Struggle Against the Rebel Body' from Silvia Frederici's Caliban and the Witch.

Each extract will be introduced by a member of the group and we welcome future suggestions for themes and specific readings.

Please email oscar.jenkinson@warwick.ac.uk if you'd like to come along or stay up-to-date with what we're reading in future weeks through our whatsapp group.

Please see our webpage for more info:

Please contact Chris Hall if you have any enquiries:

Chris.Hall.1@warwick.ac.uk

Please join us for dinner and (a) drink to celebrate making it (almost) to the end of term 1 2024/25!

contact: eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk

As part of PH9F7, Topics in Philosophy and the Arts, we will be watching the film Talk to Her. Students who are not in the seminar are very welcome to attend.

The 鈥榃ork鈥� of Art: The Artwork as 峒愇轿�蟻纬蔚喂峋� in Hegel and Heidegger鈥�

Join Heather Widdows, Lorenzo Serini and Eliza Little for the Emotions Reading Group.

We will be reading Peter Goldie: The Emotions: A Philosophical Perspective, available on-line from the Warwick library.

Meeting Wednesday mornings 10-11, we will start in Week 2 with the intro and chapter 1, and then one chapter for each subsequent week, finishing in week 9.

If you鈥檇 like to come, please email Heather.Widdows@warwick.acuk

Giulia Martina (Dortmund) - "Joint Attention to Flavour"

Contact: eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk

The Critical Theory Reading Group will be reading three texts in Feminism over the next three weeks. We meet on Wednesdays from 14.30-16.00 and the readings and rooms are as follows:

20th Nov - S1.69 - 'Introduction' and 'Chapter 3: The Point of View of Historical Materialism' from Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.

27th Nov - S1.71 - 'Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory' by Judith Butler.

4th Dec - S1.69 - 'Introduction' and 'Chapter 3: The Great Caliban, The Struggle Against the Rebel Body' from Silvia Frederici's Caliban and the Witch.

Each extract will be introduced by a member of the group and we welcome future suggestions for themes and specific readings.

Please email oscar.jenkinson@warwick.ac.uk if you'd like to come along or stay up-to-date with what we're reading in future weeks through our whatsapp group.

Everybody is invited to just drop in for a while, have a coffee, chat for a bit and/or do some co-studying. We look forward to seeing you there

Please see our webpage for more info:

Please contact Chris Hall if you have any enquiries:

Chris.Hall.1@warwick.ac.uk

The metaethics reading group is back this academic year! Anyone with an interest in metaethics is welcome, whether you鈥檙e an undergraduate, postgraduate, or staff.

We will meet on Fridays every other week for the rest of the term:

路 18 Oct, 12:00-14:00, S1.50

路 1 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50,

路 15 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50

路 29 Nov, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50.

We will read a new paper each session, with discussion led by the person who picks the paper. Our last slot of the term is still free, so if you鈥檇 like to present a paper, please get in touch with Sara (Sara.Gorea.1@warwick.ac.uk) or Oscar (oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk).

Best wishes,

Sara, Oscar, and Kirk

MAP film screening: 鈥淚t鈥檚 a Wonderful Life鈥� (1946)

As an end-of-term celebration, MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) is organising a film screening of the classic 鈥淚t鈥檚 a Wonderful Life鈥� (1946), an 鈥淎merican Christmas supernatural drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra鈥� (Wikipedia). Doesn鈥檛 sound this exciting?! Everyone welcome!

When: Monday, 2 December, 7 pm

Where: S0.20

Sign up to be a Secret Santa using this link:

The link to join online is:

The Critical Theory Reading Group will be reading three texts in Feminism over the next three weeks. We meet on Wednesdays from 14.30-16.00 and the readings and rooms are as follows:

20th Nov - S1.69 - 'Introduction' and 'Chapter 3: The Point of View of Historical Materialism' from Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.

27th Nov - S1.71 - 'Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory' by Judith Butler.

4th Dec - S1.69 - 'Introduction' and 'Chapter 3: The Great Caliban, The Struggle Against the Rebel Body' from Silvia Frederici's Caliban and the Witch.

Each extract will be introduced by a member of the group and we welcome future suggestions for themes and specific readings.

Please email oscar.jenkinson@warwick.ac.uk if you'd like to come along or stay up-to-date with what we're reading in future weeks through our whatsapp group.

Mo 9 Dec 8:00-12:00

BST / 9:00-13:00 CET / 16:00-20:00 CST / 17:00-21:00 JST

Tomoki Ishikawa (Tokyo University), 鈥淎ugustine鈥檚 Moral Ontology鈥�

Yifan Guo (Tongji University Shanghai), 鈥淎 Phenomenological Interpretation of Sexual Di_erence鈥�

Chris Bowling (Warwick University), 鈥淣ietzsche鈥檚 Revaluation of the Will to Truth鈥�

KEYNOTE Eliza Little (Warwick University) 鈥淪imone de Beauvoir and the Aesthetic Lives of Others鈥�

Zoom URL:

Meeting ID: 873 2464 2337

Passcode: 907409

On December 9th my group will host a talk from Paula Rubio Fernandez (). Paula has in recent years done important work on the relationship between pragmatics and theory of mind, on cross cultural differences in the organisation of intersubjective space, and on the collaborative foundations of reference.

Her talk will take place at 4pm on December 9th in Lib2 in the library. It's a large room and the talk is out of term time, so please feel free to share details of the talk with anyone who might be interested.
All are welcome. Title and abstract are below.
All the best;

Richard

The Cognitive Trinity of Common Ground

Paula Rubio-Fernandez

Human communication is built around interlocutors鈥� common ground (CG), or the information they assume to share. Despite having been the focus of intense interdisciplinary research for more than 60 years, we do not yet understand how CG works, or even what exactly it is. In this talk I will introduce a new research program that is essential to understanding CG: I propose to study CG as a product of cultural evolution. This approach requires identifying (i) those cognitive capacities that are required for the emergence of CG in human cognition, and (ii) how those capacities interact in (a) the development of CG through children鈥檚 social learning across cultures; (b) its formation through social interaction across the lifespan, and (c) its management in conversation across languages. I hypothesize that forming and using CG is a complex human ability that emerges from the interaction of three cognitive capacities — joint attention, shared memory, and the use of reference systems — under a rationality principle. This is what I informally call the Cognitive Trinity of Common Ground, which could also be described as a na茂ve model of rational memory.

Tue 10 Dec

8:00-10:30 BST / 9:00-11:30 CET / 16:00-18:30 CST / 17:00-19:30 JST

Sayaka Takeuchi (Kyoto University), 鈥淓xperience Prior to A Priori: Exploring Transcendentality in Early Nishida Kitar艒鈥�

Yingying Ouyang (Tongji University Shanghai), 鈥淣ature and History: On Merleau-Ponty鈥檚 Eye and Mind鈥�

Ying Xue (Warwick University), 鈥淎 theory of Freedom or the Theory of Freedom: Schelling鈥檚 Freiheitsschrift鈥�

Zoom URL: h*ps://kwanseigakuin.zoom.us/j/84074947358?pwd=wWCOSGJZTnGvMR6gwgX2Lr9g70vpBC.1

Meeting ID: 840 7494 7358

Passcode: 21541

Wed 11 Dec

8:00-10:30 BST / 9:00-11:30 CET / 16:00-18:30 CST / 17:00-19:30 JST

Shunsuke Kurashina (Tokyo University), 鈥淗istoricity in Heidegger: Reconsidering the Existential-Phenomenological Approach to History鈥�

Luyao Shi (Tongji University Shanghai), 鈥淗eidegger鈥檚 Contributions to the Philosophy of Play鈥�

Fridolin Neumann (Warwick University), 鈥淗eidegger and Intentionality鈥�

Zoom URL: https://kwanseigakuin.zoom.us/j/88472237221?pwd=grXHmRgjaa1Fz22UD7IFeQatqd4xNz.1

Meeting ID: 884 7223 7221

Passcode: 064625

MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) continues with their famous fortnightly 鈥淪ip & Study鈥� sessions in the common room. Everybody is invited to drop in for a free coffee or tea, some co-working and/or a chat! Every second Thursday from 10.30-12.30 in the common room (that is: week 1, week 3, week 5, week 7, week 9) See you there!

Please join us for a symposium on Karen Simecek's new book, Philosophy of Lyric Voice (Bloomsbury), with commentaries AND poetry, and a response from Dr. Simecek.

Speakers: Celia Coll, David Fearn, Eileen John, and Stacey McDowell.

Poetry: , Birmingham Poet Laureate

The book is available on-line through the library: https://0-www-bloomsburycollections-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/monograph?docid=b-9781350240551

This reading group will be online, and will be held every Friday at 4 pm.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to one of the organisers (Marco and Luke) so we can put you on the e-mail list.

Contacts:

路 Marco Rienzi: marco.rienzi.mr@gmail.com

路 Luke Valentine Darrell Leong: L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk

Teams link:

Meeting ID: 370 159 187 317

Passcode: 9N6eC9Po

Porn websites rank among the most visited websites globally with billions of visits every month. According to a study from 2018, 91.5% of men and 60.2% of women (ages 18-73) in the US reported having consumed pornography in the past month (). The impact that porn has on feminist issues has been discussed by feminist philosophers for decades. We want to explore the relation between 鈥楶orn and Feminism鈥� by reading a couple of introductory texts together! By 鈥榚xploring鈥� we mean to not take certain evaluative assumptions towards pornography for granted beforehand but to get familiar with some of the things that have been said in feminist debates.

We will start by reading the chapter 鈥淭alking to My Students About Porn鈥� by Amia Srinivasan (contained in her 2021 book 鈥淭he Right to Sex鈥� and attached). After that, we will determine the readings successively which is also an opportunity to bring in your own wishes and suggestions.

Where and when: every second Tuesday, 4-5 pm (weeks 2, 4, perhaps 6, 8, 10); room S2.85 (in the Economics department very close to the Philosophy department). We will, accordingly, start next Tuesday, 14. January!

Any questions, suggestions, or comments: map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk.

Best,

Frido

We meet on Wednesdays from 14.30-16.00 and the texts and rooms are as follows:

15th Jan - A1.05 - Introduction and Chapter One of Fredric Jameson鈥檚 鈥楶ostmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism鈥�

22nd Jan - S0.08 - Extracts from Jean-Fran莽ois Lyotard鈥檚 鈥楾he Postmodern Condition鈥�

29th Jan - S0.28 - Extracts from Jean Baudrillard鈥檚 鈥楽imulacra and Simulation鈥�

5th Feb - S1.50 - Byung-Chul Han鈥檚 鈥楾he Burnout Society鈥�

Each text has been chosen and will be introduced by a different member of the group, and we welcome future suggestions for themes and specific readings.

Please email oscar.jenkinson@warwick.ac.uk if you'd like PDFs of the specific extracts we will be reading, or if you'd like to stay up-to-date with what we're reading in future weeks through our WhatsApp group.

Many thanks,

Oscar Jenkinson

This reading group will be online, and will be held every Friday at 4 pm.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to one of the organisers (Marco and Luke) so we can put you on the e-mail list.

Contacts:

路 Marco Rienzi: marco.rienzi.mr@gmail.com

路 Luke Valentine Darrell Leong: L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk

Teams link:

Meeting ID: 370 159 187 317

Passcode: 9N6eC9Po

"Getting at the Root of Evil: Kant and Fichte on the Murderer at the Door."

We meet on Wednesdays from 14.30-16.00 and the texts and rooms are as follows:

15th Jan - A1.05 - Introduction and Chapter One of Fredric Jameson鈥檚 鈥楶ostmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism鈥�

22nd Jan - S0.08 - Extracts from Jean-Fran莽ois Lyotard鈥檚 鈥楾he Postmodern Condition鈥�

29th Jan - S0.28 - Extracts from Jean Baudrillard鈥檚 鈥楽imulacra and Simulation鈥�

5th Feb - S1.50 - Byung-Chul Han鈥檚 鈥楾he Burnout Society鈥�

Each text has been chosen and will be introduced by a different member of the group, and we welcome future suggestions for themes and specific readings.

Please email oscar.jenkinson@warwick.ac.uk if you'd like PDFs of the specific extracts we will be reading, or if you'd like to stay up-to-date with what we're reading in future weeks through our WhatsApp group.

Many thanks,

Oscar Jenkinson

Hey everyone, MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) continues with their famous fortnightly 鈥淪ip & Study鈥� sessions in the common room. Everybody is invited to drop in for a free coffee or tea, some co-working and/or a chat! Every second Thursday from 10.30-12.30 in the common room (that is: week 1, week 3, week 5, week 7, week 9) See you there!

This reading group will be online, and will be held every Friday at 4 pm.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to one of the organisers (Marco and Luke) so we can put you on the e-mail list.

Contacts:

路 Marco Rienzi: marco.rienzi.mr@gmail.com

路 Luke Valentine Darrell Leong: L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk

Teams link:

Meeting ID: 370 159 187 317

Passcode: 9N6eC9Po

Porn websites rank among the most visited websites globally with billions of visits every month. According to a study from 2018, 91.5% of men and 60.2% of women (ages 18-73) in the US reported having consumed pornography in the past month (). The impact that porn has on feminist issues has been discussed by feminist philosophers for decades. We want to explore the relation between 鈥楶orn and Feminism鈥� by reading a couple of introductory texts together! By 鈥榚xploring鈥� we mean to not take certain evaluative assumptions towards pornography for granted beforehand but to get familiar with some of the things that have been said in feminist debates.

We will start by reading the chapter 鈥淭alking to My Students About Porn鈥� by Amia Srinivasan (contained in her 2021 book 鈥淭he Right to Sex鈥� and attached). After that, we will determine the readings successively which is also an opportunity to bring in your own wishes and suggestions.

Where and when: every second Tuesday, 4-5 pm (weeks 2, 4, perhaps 6, 8, 10); room S2.85 (in the Economics department very close to the Philosophy department). We will, accordingly, start next Tuesday, 14. January!

Any questions, suggestions, or comments: map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk.

Best,

Frido

This reading group will be online, and will be held every Friday at 4 pm.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to one of the organisers (Marco and Luke) so we can put you on the e-mail list.

Contacts:

路 Marco Rienzi: marco.rienzi.mr@gmail.com

路 Luke Valentine Darrell Leong: L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk

Teams link:

Meeting ID: 370 159 187 317

Passcode: 9N6eC9Po

鈥淛apanese Philosophers Thinking with and against Heidegger:
The Evolution and Dissolution of Ontological Pluralism鈥�

We meet on Wednesdays from 14.30-16.00 and the texts and rooms are as follows:

15th Jan - A1.05 - Introduction and Chapter One of Fredric Jameson鈥檚 鈥楶ostmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism鈥�

22nd Jan - S0.08 - Extracts from Jean-Fran莽ois Lyotard鈥檚 鈥楾he Postmodern Condition鈥�

29th Jan - S0.28 - Extracts from Jean Baudrillard鈥檚 鈥楽imulacra and Simulation鈥�

5th Feb - S1.50 - Byung-Chul Han鈥檚 鈥楾he Burnout Society鈥�

Each text has been chosen and will be introduced by a different member of the group, and we welcome future suggestions for themes and specific readings.

Please email oscar.jenkinson@warwick.ac.uk if you'd like PDFs of the specific extracts we will be reading, or if you'd like to stay up-to-date with what we're reading in future weeks through our WhatsApp group.

Many thanks,

Oscar Jenkinson

MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) continues with their famous fortnightly 鈥淪ip & Study鈥� sessions in the common room. Everybody is invited to drop in for a free coffee or tea, some co-working and/or a chat! Every second Thursday from 10.30-12.30 in the common room (that is: week 1, week 3, week 5, week 7, week 9) See you there!

We will discuss obstacles and access to doing philosophy, both for students and researchers/lecturers. Philosophy has some surprisingly enduring underrepresentation at the professional level, with respect to race and gender (and class?), and there are salient patterns for PG study as well. There is also longstanding cultural narrowness in the intellectual traditions studied. Why is this? How do these facts affect people鈥檚 experience in philosophy? Please join students and faculty members for brief presentations from the panel and open discussion of the issues. The session will be held in the Cowling Room, S2.77. Refreshments will be served.

Porn websites rank among the most visited websites globally with billions of visits every month. According to a study from 2018, 91.5% of men and 60.2% of women (ages 18-73) in the US reported having consumed pornography in the past month (). The impact that porn has on feminist issues has been discussed by feminist philosophers for decades. We want to explore the relation between 鈥楶orn and Feminism鈥� by reading a couple of introductory texts together! By 鈥榚xploring鈥� we mean to not take certain evaluative assumptions towards pornography for granted beforehand but to get familiar with some of the things that have been said in feminist debates.

We will start by reading the chapter 鈥淭alking to My Students About Porn鈥� by Amia Srinivasan (contained in her 2021 book 鈥淭he Right to Sex鈥� and attached). After that, we will determine the readings successively which is also an opportunity to bring in your own wishes and suggestions.

Where and when: every second Tuesday, 4-5 pm (weeks 2, 4, perhaps 6, 8, 10); room S2.85 (in the Economics department very close to the Philosophy department). We will, accordingly, start next Tuesday, 14. January!

Any questions, suggestions, or comments: map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk.

Best,

Frido

Joint conference organised by the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy, Warwick University, and the Centre for Post-Kantian Philosophy, University of Potsdam 12-14 February, 2025 Warwick University Campus, Oculus building Wednesday 12 February OC0.01

16.00 coffee and welcome 1

6.15-17.15 David James (Warwick) Moral Psychology and an Environmental History of Political Ideas: Some Reflections on Pierre Charbonnier鈥檚 A"luence and Freedom

17.30-18.30 Elena Tripaldi (Padua) Monistic Definitions of Nature in the Anthropocene Debate: A Hegelian Critique

drinks on campus (open to all)

OC0.01

09.45-10.45 Thomas Khurana (Potsdam) Politics of Nature: Prolegomena to a Critique of Political Ecology

11.00-12.00 Tim Howles (Oxford), Deferring the End and Holding Open the Present: Katechontic Political Theology at the Time of the Anthropocene

OC0.04 12.00-13.00 Lunch

OC1.09

12.45-13.45 Isabel Sickenberger (Potsdam) Nature and Dialectics: A Hegelian Critique of Engels

14.00-15.00 Alexey Weissmueller (Potsdam) Adorno鈥檚 Negative Dialectics of Nature and History

15.15-16.15 Tom Simpson (Warwick) Planetary Pictures: Historicizing environmental sciences in the Anthropocene

16.30-18.00 KEYNOTE Travis Holloway (Pratt) Philosophy at the End of the World: History, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene

Friday 14 February OC1.08

09.45-10.45 Maximilian Hepach (Durham) Climate Phenomenology

11.00-12.00 Tobias Keiling (Warwick) Mourning for Certainty: Historical Understanding in the Anthropocene

Friday 14th Feb (Week 6), A1.05, 11:00-18:00

MEEP Workshop: "Autobiographical Memory"

With talks from Daniel Vanello (UCL), Anthony Marcel & Lia Kvavilashvili (Hertfordshire), Christoph Hoerl (Warwick), Thomas Crowther (Warwick), and Naomi Eilan (Warwick) (see details for schedule)

This reading group will be online, and will be held every Friday at 4 pm.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to one of the organisers (Marco and Luke) so we can put you on the e-mail list.

Contacts:

路 Marco Rienzi: marco.rienzi.mr@gmail.com

路 Luke Valentine Darrell Leong: L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk

Teams link:

Meeting ID: 370 159 187 317

Passcode: 9N6eC9Po

Porn websites rank among the most visited websites globally with billions of visits every month. According to a study from 2018, 91.5% of men and 60.2% of women (ages 18-73) in the US reported having consumed pornography in the past month (). The impact that porn has on feminist issues has been discussed by feminist philosophers for decades. We want to explore the relation between 鈥楶orn and Feminism鈥� by reading a couple of introductory texts together! By 鈥榚xploring鈥� we mean to not take certain evaluative assumptions towards pornography for granted beforehand but to get familiar with some of the things that have been said in feminist debates.

We will start by reading the chapter 鈥淭alking to My Students About Porn鈥� by Amia Srinivasan (contained in her 2021 book 鈥淭he Right to Sex鈥� and attached). After that, we will determine the readings successively which is also an opportunity to bring in your own wishes and suggestions.

Where and when: every second Tuesday, 4-5 pm (weeks 2, 4, perhaps 6, 8, 10); room S2.85 (in the Economics department very close to the Philosophy department). We will, accordingly, start next Tuesday, 14. January!

Any questions, suggestions, or comments: map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk.

Best,

Frido

"Schopenhauer and the Frankfurt School"

MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) continues with their famous fortnightly 鈥淪ip & Study鈥� sessions in the common room. Everybody is invited to drop in for a free coffee or tea, some co-working and/or a chat! Every second Thursday from 10.30-12.30 in the common room (that is: week 1, week 3, week 5, week 7, week 9)

See you there!

This reading group will be online, and will be held every Friday at 4 pm.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to one of the organisers (Marco and Luke) so we can put you on the e-mail list.

Contacts:

路 Marco Rienzi: marco.rienzi.mr@gmail.com

路 Luke Valentine Darrell Leong: L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk

Teams link:

Meeting ID: 370 159 187 317

Passcode: 9N6eC9Po

Porn websites rank among the most visited websites globally with billions of visits every month. According to a study from 2018, 91.5% of men and 60.2% of women (ages 18-73) in the US reported having consumed pornography in the past month (). The impact that porn has on feminist issues has been discussed by feminist philosophers for decades. We want to explore the relation between 鈥楶orn and Feminism鈥� by reading a couple of introductory texts together! By 鈥榚xploring鈥� we mean to not take certain evaluative assumptions towards pornography for granted beforehand but to get familiar with some of the things that have been said in feminist debates.

We will start by reading the chapter 鈥淭alking to My Students About Porn鈥� by Amia Srinivasan (contained in her 2021 book 鈥淭he Right to Sex鈥� and attached). After that, we will determine the readings successively which is also an opportunity to bring in your own wishes and suggestions.

Where and when: every second Tuesday, 4-5 pm (weeks 2, 4, perhaps 6, 8, 10); room S2.85 (in the Economics department very close to the Philosophy department). We will, accordingly, start next Tuesday, 14. January!

Any questions, suggestions, or comments: map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk.

Best,

Frido

We will re-schedule Professor Smith's talk at a later date.

Abstract

How we determine the scope of consent – the range of actions that consent applies to – has implications on the discussion of deception in sex.

Some philosophers endorse the view that deception鈥檚 moral effect on consent can be, at least partly, explained by the fact that an act that someone consented to is not actually the act that is carried out (where the act carried out does not fall within the scope of their consent). If this is the case, then delineating which acts are within the scope of consent can provide us with a partial account of which acts could be morally impermissible as a result of deception.

However, this approach needs to be able to deal with cases where deception might be the only way in which to avoid discriminatory consequences, ideally avoiding the conclusion that deception in these cases are serious moral wrongs.

I will be looking at Dougherty鈥檚 approach to get around this problem, namely building in moral reasonableness into how we determine the scope of consent. I will be arguing that this approach fails, and that if we want consent to remain a useful moral concept which is able to protect people鈥檚 autonomy, the scope of consent should be an epistemically reasonable interpretation of the expression of consent.

This reading group will be online, and will be held every Friday at 4 pm.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to one of the organisers (Marco and Luke) so we can put you on the e-mail list.

Contacts:

路 Marco Rienzi: marco.rienzi.mr@gmail.com

路 Luke Valentine Darrell Leong: L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk

Teams link:

Meeting ID: 370 159 187 317

Passcode: 9N6eC9Po

Join Prof. Inga R枚mer (Freiburg), for a workshop on the failure of Heidegger's Being and Time and the idea of a "metaphysics of Dasein".

Monday 3 March, 3-6pm, in A 1.1.

The event is open to interested staff and students. It will be based on a reading from Heidegger's Metaphysical Foundations of Logic. Please sign up by emailing Tobias Keiling.

鈥淲hat is a Metaphysics of Dasein? Heidegger after Being and Time鈥�

MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) continues with their famous fortnightly 鈥淪ip & Study鈥� sessions in the common room. Everybody is invited to drop in for a free coffee or tea, some co-working and/or a chat! Every second Thursday from 10.30-12.30 in the common room (that is: week 1, week 3, week 5, week 7, week 9)

See you there!

This reading group will be online, and will be held every Friday at 4 pm.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to one of the organisers (Marco and Luke) so we can put you on the e-mail list.

Contacts:

路 Marco Rienzi: marco.rienzi.mr@gmail.com

路 Luke Valentine Darrell Leong: L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk

Teams link:

Meeting ID: 370 159 187 317

Passcode: 9N6eC9Po

Porn websites rank among the most visited websites globally with billions of visits every month. According to a study from 2018, 91.5% of men and 60.2% of women (ages 18-73) in the US reported having consumed pornography in the past month (). The impact that porn has on feminist issues has been discussed by feminist philosophers for decades. We want to explore the relation between 鈥楶orn and Feminism鈥� by reading a couple of introductory texts together! By 鈥榚xploring鈥� we mean to not take certain evaluative assumptions towards pornography for granted beforehand but to get familiar with some of the things that have been said in feminist debates.

We will start by reading the chapter 鈥淭alking to My Students About Porn鈥� by Amia Srinivasan (contained in her 2021 book 鈥淭he Right to Sex鈥� and attached). After that, we will determine the readings successively which is also an opportunity to bring in your own wishes and suggestions.

Where and when: every second Tuesday, 4-5 pm (weeks 2, 4, perhaps 6, 8, 10); room S2.85 (in the Economics department very close to the Philosophy department). We will, accordingly, start next Tuesday, 14. January!

Any questions, suggestions, or comments: map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk.

Best,

Frido

This reading group will be online, and will be held every Friday at 4 pm.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to one of the organisers (Marco and Luke) so we can put you on the e-mail list.

Contacts:

路 Marco Rienzi: marco.rienzi.mr@gmail.com

路 Luke Valentine Darrell Leong: L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk

Teams link:

Meeting ID: 370 159 187 317

Passcode: 9N6eC9Po

Mitch Green (Connecticut) - The Cultural Evolution of Speech Act Norms

Anyone interested in attending should email k.d.simecek@warwick.ac.uk

Hey everyone,

MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) continues with their famous fortnightly 鈥淪ip & Study鈥� sessions in the common room. Everybody is invited to drop in for a free coffee or tea, some co-working and/or a chat! Hope to see you there.

Summer Seminar:

Jessica Moss, Plato鈥檚 Epistemology

Naomi Eilan, Thomas Crowther, Guy Longworth

鈥楯essica Moss has written a book about Plato鈥檚 epistemology that is a fascinating read both for Plato scholars and for those of us whose interests lie more generally in the broad sweep of the history of theorizing about knowledge.鈥�—Robert Pasnau.

Week 1: Thursday 24^th April 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 S1.50

Week 2: Thursday 1^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 S1.50

Week 3: Thursday 8^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 S1.50

Week 4: Thursday 15^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 S1.50

Week 5: Friday 23^rd May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 S1.50

Week 6: Thursday 29^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 S1.50

Week 7: Friday 6^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 S2.77

Week 8: Thursday 12^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 S1.50

Week 9: Friday 20^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 S1.50

Week 10: Thursday 26^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 [Online only]

In preparation for the WMA Symposium on Bernard Williams' Truth and Truthfulness in week 6, the WMA is hosting a reading group on the book. We aim to cover two chapters of the book each week, all are welcome to join. Any questions please email wma@warwick.ac.uk

Reading group: Kant meets 鈥淪ex, Love, & Gender鈥�

We cordially invite you to a reading group centred on Helga Varden鈥檚 widely acclaimed book 鈥淪ex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory鈥� (2020). In it, Varden proposes an ambitious assessment of Kant鈥檚 moral, legal, and political philosophy, claiming it can provide a robust framework for intimate life as well as a progressive account of gender identity, bodily autonomy, and sexual rights. To do so, Varden insists, we must, of course, also 鈥渙vercome Kant鈥檚 own mistakes鈥� and 鈥渋dentify and overcome Kant鈥檚 own binary positions and, consequently, his cisism, sexism, and heterosexism鈥�.

We鈥檒l read selected chapters from Varden鈥檚 book alongside other relevant articles, starting with Mari Mikkola鈥檚 2011 paper, 鈥淜ant on Moral Agency and Women鈥檚 Nature鈥�. (If you have suggestions or requests, do share!) Just a quick note: we鈥檙e no experts on Kant鈥檚 practical philosophy – and you don鈥檛 need to be either. We鈥檙e simply hoping for some refreshing insights on this confrontation between Kant and 鈥淪ex, Love, and Gender鈥� (without diving into the primary texts together).

Meetings will take place every other Tuesday at 5 pm, starting on 29 April. If you鈥檙e interested, please email map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk or scan the QR code on the poster to join the WhatsApp group!

Week 2, 30 April - Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford): The Myth of Recognition in The Second Sex 

Since Eva Lundgren-Gothlin鈥檚 Sex and Existence and Nancy Bauer鈥檚 Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism, several philosophical interpreters of The Second Sex have shared the assumption that The Second Sex is Hegelian and that 鈥渢he Hegel question鈥�—namely, the debate about whether and to what extent Beauvoir鈥檚 account of woman as the Other is indebted to Hegel鈥檚 Master/Slave dialectic—is best answered by reading Beauvoir through 鈥淔rench Hegel鈥�, and especially through the reading of Alexandre Koj猫ve. This paper argues on historical, textual, and conceptual grounds that Beauvoir鈥檚 philosophical and political project in The Second Sex is better characterized as anti-Hegelian, sharing methodological and political commitments with the 鈥渢urn to the concrete鈥� and 鈥淔rench Marx鈥�. Moreover, reading Beauvoir as a "French" Hegelian theorist of recognition overlooks her suspicion—a longstanding suspicion in French philosophy—of what she calls the "myth" of recognition itself.

Summer Seminar:

Jessica Moss, Plato鈥檚 Epistemology

Naomi Eilan, Thomas Crowther, Guy Longworth

鈥楯essica Moss has written a book about Plato鈥檚 epistemology that is a fascinating read both for Plato scholars and for those of us whose interests lie more generally in the broad sweep of the history of theorizing about knowledge.鈥�—Robert Pasnau.

Week 1: Thursday 24th April 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 S1.50

Week 2: Thursday 1st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 S1.50

Week 3: Thursday 8th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 S1.50

Week 4: Thursday 15th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 S1.50

Week 5: Friday 23rd May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 S1.50

Week 6: Thursday 29th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 S1.50

Week 7: Friday 6th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 S2.77

Week 8: Thursday 12th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 S1.50

Week 9: Friday 20th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 S1.50

Week 10: Thursday 26th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 [Online only]

In preparation for the WMA Symposium on Bernard Williams' Truth and Truthfulness in week 6, the WMA is hosting a reading group on the book. We aim to cover two chapters of the book each week, all are welcome to join. Any questions please email wma@warwick.ac.uk

Weds. 7th May (Week 3), Wolfson Research Exchange (Library), 14:00-18:00

MEEP Mini-Workshop: "Philosophy of Barbarism"

14:00 - 15:45 Maria Boletsi (Leiden)

16:15 - 18:00 Quassim Cassam (Warwick)

Dinner and drinks at Radcliffe will follow. Any questions, please contact lorenzo.serini@warwick.ac.uk and oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk

Hey everyone,

MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) continues with their famous fortnightly 鈥淪ip & Study鈥� sessions in the common room. Everybody is invited to drop in for a free coffee or tea, some co-working and/or a chat! Hope to see you there.

Summer Seminar:

Jessica Moss, Plato鈥檚 Epistemology

Naomi Eilan, Thomas Crowther, Guy Longworth

鈥楯essica Moss has written a book about Plato鈥檚 epistemology that is a fascinating read both for Plato scholars and for those of us whose interests lie more generally in the broad sweep of the history of theorizing about knowledge.鈥�—Robert Pasnau.

Week 1: Thursday 24th April 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 S1.50

Week 2: Thursday 1st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 S1.50

Week 3: Thursday 8th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 S1.50

Week 4: Thursday 15th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 S1.50

Week 5: Friday 23rd May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 S1.50

Week 6: Thursday 29th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 S1.50

Week 7: Friday 6th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 S2.77

Week 8: Thursday 12th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 S1.50

Week 9: Friday 20th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 S1.50

Week 10: Thursday 26th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 [Online only]

In preparation for the WMA Symposium on Bernard Williams' Truth and Truthfulness in week 6, the WMA is hosting a reading group on the book. We aim to cover two chapters of the book each week, all are welcome to join. Any questions please email wma@warwick.ac.uk

Follow to register for the workshop on Eventbrite.

Reading group: Kant meets 鈥淪ex, Love, & Gender鈥�

We cordially invite you to a reading group centred on Helga Varden鈥檚 widely acclaimed book 鈥淪ex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory鈥� (2020). In it, Varden proposes an ambitious assessment of Kant鈥檚 moral, legal, and political philosophy, claiming it can provide a robust framework for intimate life as well as a progressive account of gender identity, bodily autonomy, and sexual rights. To do so, Varden insists, we must, of course, also 鈥渙vercome Kant鈥檚 own mistakes鈥� and 鈥渋dentify and overcome Kant鈥檚 own binary positions and, consequently, his cisism, sexism, and heterosexism鈥�.

We鈥檒l read selected chapters from Varden鈥檚 book alongside other relevant articles, starting with Mari Mikkola鈥檚 2011 paper, 鈥淜ant on Moral Agency and Women鈥檚 Nature鈥�. (If you have suggestions or requests, do share!) Just a quick note: we鈥檙e no experts on Kant鈥檚 practical philosophy – and you don鈥檛 need to be either. We鈥檙e simply hoping for some refreshing insights on this confrontation between Kant and 鈥淪ex, Love, and Gender鈥� (without diving into the primary texts together).

Meetings will take place every other Tuesday at 5 pm, starting on 29 April. If you鈥檙e interested, please email map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk or scan the QR code on the poster to join the WhatsApp group!

Summer Seminar:

Jessica Moss, Plato鈥檚 Epistemology

Naomi Eilan, Thomas Crowther, Guy Longworth

鈥楯essica Moss has written a book about Plato鈥檚 epistemology that is a fascinating read both for Plato scholars and for those of us whose interests lie more generally in the broad sweep of the history of theorizing about knowledge.鈥�—Robert Pasnau.

Week 1: Thursday 24th April 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 S1.50

Week 2: Thursday 1st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 S1.50

Week 3: Thursday 8th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 S1.50

Week 4: Thursday 15th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 S1.50

Week 5: Friday 23rd May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 S1.50

Week 6: Thursday 29th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 S1.50

Week 7: Friday 6th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 S2.77

Week 8: Thursday 12th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 S1.50

Week 9: Friday 20th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 S1.50

Week 10: Thursday 26th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 [Online only]

In preparation for the WMA Symposium on Bernard Williams' Truth and Truthfulness in week 6, the WMA is hosting a reading group on the book. We aim to cover two chapters of the book each week, all are welcome to join. Any questions please email wma@warwick.ac.uk

Hey everyone,

MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) continues with their famous fortnightly 鈥淪ip & Study鈥� sessions in the common room. Everybody is invited to drop in for a free coffee or tea, some co-working and/or a chat! Hope to see you there.

In preparation for the WMA Symposium on Bernard Williams' Truth and Truthfulness in week 6, the WMA is hosting a reading group on the book. We aim to cover two chapters of the book each week, all are welcome to join. Any questions please email wma@warwick.ac.uk

Summer Seminar:

Jessica Moss, Plato鈥檚 Epistemology

Naomi Eilan, Thomas Crowther, Guy Longworth

鈥楯essica Moss has written a book about Plato鈥檚 epistemology that is a fascinating read both for Plato scholars and for those of us whose interests lie more generally in the broad sweep of the history of theorizing about knowledge.鈥�—Robert Pasnau.

Week 1: Thursday 24th April 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 S1.50

Week 2: Thursday 1st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 S1.50

Week 3: Thursday 8th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 S1.50

Week 4: Thursday 15th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 S1.50

Week 5: Friday 23rd May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 S1.50

Week 6: Thursday 29th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 S1.50

Week 7: Friday 6th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 S2.77

Week 8: Thursday 12th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 S1.50

Week 9: Friday 20th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 S1.50

Week 10: Thursday 26th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 [Online only]

Reading group: Kant meets 鈥淪ex, Love, & Gender鈥�

We cordially invite you to a reading group centred on Helga Varden鈥檚 widely acclaimed book 鈥淪ex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory鈥� (2020). In it, Varden proposes an ambitious assessment of Kant鈥檚 moral, legal, and political philosophy, claiming it can provide a robust framework for intimate life as well as a progressive account of gender identity, bodily autonomy, and sexual rights. To do so, Varden insists, we must, of course, also 鈥渙vercome Kant鈥檚 own mistakes鈥� and 鈥渋dentify and overcome Kant鈥檚 own binary positions and, consequently, his cisism, sexism, and heterosexism鈥�.

We鈥檒l read selected chapters from Varden鈥檚 book alongside other relevant articles, starting with Mari Mikkola鈥檚 2011 paper, 鈥淜ant on Moral Agency and Women鈥檚 Nature鈥�. (If you have suggestions or requests, do share!) Just a quick note: we鈥檙e no experts on Kant鈥檚 practical philosophy – and you don鈥檛 need to be either. We鈥檙e simply hoping for some refreshing insights on this confrontation between Kant and 鈥淪ex, Love, and Gender鈥� (without diving into the primary texts together).

Meetings will take place every other Tuesday at 5 pm, starting on 29 April. If you鈥檙e interested, please email map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk or scan the QR code on the poster to join the WhatsApp group!

Weds. 28th May (Week 6), MB0.07, 11:00-18:00

Special Symposium on Bernard Williams' Truth and Truthfulness:

To register, please email wma@warwick.ac.uk with your name and affiliation. Featuring:

Maria Alvarez (KCL)
Andrew Huddleston (Warwick)
Tim Lewens (Cambridge)
Guy Longworth (Warwick)
Adrian Moore (Oxford)
Mark Philp (Warwick)
Alexander Prescott (Oxford)
Johannes Roessler (Warwick)

Summer Seminar:

Jessica Moss, Plato鈥檚 Epistemology