Professor Thomas Schramme of the Department of Philosophy has been invited to give the keynote speech at the Conference for Practical Philosophy at the University of Salzburg. Taking place on the 16th and 17th November, the conference covers the entire spectrum of practical philosophy including applied philosophy, social philosophy, ethics, legal philosophy and political philosophy.
An 'informal and informative' philosophy podcast inspiring and supporting students, teachers, academics and free-thinkers worldwide, The Panpsycast is the creation of Philosophy graduate Jack Symes, alongside co-hosts Olly Marley and Andrew Horton.
In the next edition of the Royal Institute of Philosophy Stapledon Colloquium, we are delighted to welcome Mary Leng from the University of York.
This SWIP-Ireland conference, in collaboration with In Parenthesis, invites papers on the broad topic of Women in Philosophy: Past, Present and Future.
This September the Department of Philosophy welcomed Dr Rachael Wiseman onto the team, and with her came an exciting research project on women philosophers.
Dr Yiota Vassilopoulou and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences & Partnerships and Innovation team scooped the award for Partnership of the Year for the Tate Exchange partnership.
The University of Liverpool’s School of the Arts invites expressions of interest for the 2018 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme. These awards offer opportunities for outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment.
The Department of Philosophy is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Michael Hauskeller as Head of Department.
In February I will begin a postdoctoral research fellowship at North-West University, South Africa. It will be for one year in the first instance, but extendible for up to three.
Following Dr Yiota Vassilopoulou's successful tenure as Bluecoat's Philosopher in Residence, the scheme continued with Dr Paul Jones taking up the role of Sociologist in Residence throughout 2018. My PhD project evolved from the relationship between the University and Bluecoat, and has benefitted from being jointly supervised in the Philosophy Department (Dr Vassilopoulou) and Sociology Department (Dr Jones) along with Bluecoat's artistic director Bryan Biggs.
We are growing! Having recently appointed a new head of department, Michael Hauskeller, and a new lecturer, Rachael Wiseman, we are now looking for three new colleagues.
On May 22nd 2018, I will join the team of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz as a curatorial trainee for the upcoming 2 years. This is a wonderful opportunity for me, as I will be able to apply my research in arts and aesthetics to the work at a renowned cultural institution.
The Department of Philosophy has appointed Dr Rebecca Davnall to a new lectureship in Philosophy and Games in preparation for the launch in September of the School of the Arts’ Game Design Studies programme.
We were delighted to report on the first field trip organised by the Philosophy Department and the School of Arts for MA students, which was such a great success!
This month the Philosophy department at the University of Liverpool will be holding its annual graduate conference. The graduate conference is an opportunity for junior researchers within the philosophy department to share their current work with one another and their more senior colleagues.
On 10 May 2018 Lecture Theatre 8 in the Rendall Building on campus was packed with a crowd of students, staff, and visitors that had come to hear a round-table discussion on free speech.
Liverpool academics and students visited Dublin for the annual conference for the Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland.
The Durham and Liverpool-based In Parenthesis project, directed by Dr. Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham) and Dr. Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool) has been selected among the highlights of the year in the north of England.
The School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool invites expressions of interest for the 2018/19 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme.
Reclaiming the role of women in C20th British philosophy
The prize competition on the question ‘Will the post-talk cake be gluten-free?’ has ended and we have a winner: George Marshall. The competition was launched at the Philosophy Department welcome event, when this question was posed by an audience member.
Researchers from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool are beginning a 12-month residence with NHS Research & Development North West (NHS R&D NW).
By Professor Barry Dainton
Since the publication of Thomas Nagel’s Mortal Questions with its chapter on panpsychism (Nagel 1979) – the view that all things have a mind or mind-like nature (Skrbina 2007) – the theory has been getting increasingly more attention in mainstream analytic philosophy of mind. My research over the last few years has, in part, aimed at contributing to this renewed attention in panpsychism.
In the summer of 2018 I participated in a Summer Language School over at XJTLU in Suzhou, China for 2 weeks. During this period I completed a 30 hour beginner Mandarin course, as well as taking part in cultural activities and exploring the town and nearby cities.
Shakespeare, jazz, and the meaning of life will be some of the diverse topics up for discussion in a new series of public lectures by academic experts from the University of Liverpool.
Lotte Spreeuwenberg, visiting PhD student from the University of Antwerp
To mark the centenary of Iris Murdoch, the Irish postal service An Post are issuing a beautiful commemorative stamp on 15th July 2019. Murdoch was born in Dublin and the stamp records Murdoch’s important place in Irish literary and philosophical history.
The Nature and Significance of Temporal Well-Being
Workshop at the University of Liverpool
By Katherine Furman
We look closely at the fringes of social phenomena, we push unusual perspectives, and we take minority views seriously. We are a collective because we pursue research jointly. Our shared question is: How is a better social world achievable, and what do neglected forms of social imagination bring to the table in this pursuit?
Philosophy student Peggy Fitzgerrald reports back from the SotA field trip to Rome.
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