Featured News
Is ‘net zero’ a moral pursuit? Professor Sorin Baiasu appears on BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze
The Big Idea, a new operatic monodrama with a libretto by Vid Simoniti, premieres in Melbourne
Jack Shardlow joins department as Postdoctoral Researcher
From Campus Halls to Great Walls: Reflecting on My Year Abroad in China
AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award on ‘Restorative Practice and Second Victimisation’
Dr Rachel Handley joins department as Lecturer
International News
Rachael Wiseman participated in a graduate seminar on her book (Metaphysical Animals) at Queen’s University, Canada.
Katherine Furman gave a keynote on ‘How to think about health policy development in contexts of deep distrust’ at the International Network for Economic Method conference in Bayreuth, Germany.
The Kantian Political Thought Standing Group of the ECXPR (European Consortium for Political Research, with Sorin Baiasu as Chair of the Standing Group’s Steering Committee) has organised a section on ‘Kantian Theory in the Age of Polycrisis’ as part of the General Conference of the ECPR at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Sorin Baiasu co-organised the section with Jakob Rendl (Vienna) and also convened a panel on ‘Financial Crises: Kant and Economic Justice’; in his paper, ‘Economic Justice: Kant and “Merit”’, he argued that there are several notions of desert [Verdienst] in Kant and that it is important to identify them, in order to make sense of some of Kant's claims concerning distributive justice, for instance, the distribution of public offices. See here for more information.
Tarek Yusari Khaliliyeh presented a paper entitled "Entrapment's Asymmetry" at the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP: Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie) Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany
Thomas Schramme gave a keynote on Sceptical Psychiatry for the 23rd Hansesymposium at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Rostock. He also participated in a (German speaking) podcast on health and disease, hosted by one of his previous PhD students and his colleague.
Other news
Megan Rawson gave a talk at the Future of Practical Ethics conference run by IDEA at the University of Leeds entitled: ‘Pregnancy, Corporations and Reproductive Rights’
Katherine Furman gave a talk on ‘What kind of thing is distrust?’ at the Templeton Funded Trusting Science, Trusting God workshop.
Tom Whyman gave a talk on Murdoch and Heidegger at the University of Warwick at their ‘A Celebration of Iris Murdoch’ conference.
Publications
Robin McKenna’s ‘Sophistry on steroids? The ethics, epistemology and politics of persuasive AI’ is out now in AI and Society
Sorin Baiasu has a chapter in the forthcoming Law and Morality in Kant, edited for Cambridge University Press by Martin Brecher and Philipp-Alexander Hirsch. This chapter belongs to a series of 5 articles he researched on the relation, in Kant, between ethics and law. More information can be found here.
The second edition of the Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, edited by Thomas Schramme and Mary Walker has been published. The volume contains 96 chapters (1754 pages) and is easily the largest of its kind. It includes chapters by Katherine Furman (Science Skepticism), Megan Rawson (Metaphysics of Pregnancy) and Thomas Schramme (Health as Notion in Public Health)
Forthcoming events
The new Stapledon seminar series gets underway on 2 October, 3-5pm. Our first speaker is Professor Simon Kirchin (Leeds) on ‘Comic Personae and Comic Licence’. Later in the month we have talks from Professor Jon Williamson (Manchester), ‘Causal inference is not statistical inference’ (October 16) and Dr Jack Shardlow (Liverpool), ‘Appearances of Activity and Motion(less) Pictures’ (October 30). More details here.
The KantianDESERT work-in-progress seminar is underway. Contact Tom Tom.Whyman@liverpool.ac.uk to join.