Graduate Conference 2018

Published on 8 May 2018

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.

The conference has been run by Gregory Miller and Dr. Thom Atkinson for the past 3 years, and during this time we have had a wide range of presentation topics. This reflects the Philosophy department’s wide range of interests and areas of expertise: from Simon Blackburn to Jean Baudrillard, from Martin Luther to Iris Murdoch.

The event will be held on Tuesday the 15th of May in the School of the Arts library. The event is open to all students within the university and the general public. Attendance is free, and tea, coffee, and lunch are provided.

A schedule of the talks can be found below.

GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2018
Tuesday, 15th May
10:00am – 3:15pm in SOTA Library

Date	Time	Student		Supervisors	Topic
Tues 15 May Morning Session
	10:00am	Samuel Cloake	PGR	Richard Gaskin	Richard Rorty's Naturalism
	10:25am	Ian Dunbar	PGR	Stephen McLeod	Fregean Language beyond Frege
	10:50am	Ruthie Millar	PGR	Stephen Mcleod	Time for Change: A Compatibilist Account of Objective Becoming
	11:15am	Short Break
	11:45am	Matt Hart	PGR	Daniel Hill	Martin Luther and Free Will
	12:10pm	Greg Miller	PGR	Barry Dainton	Unrestricted Phenomenal Composition
	12:35pm	Xiaoyan Hu	PGR	Simon Hailwood	Qi Yun Sheng Dong as the Art of Genius Understood along a Similar Line to Kantian Accounts of Genius
	1:00pm	Lunchbreak
Tues 15 May Afternoon Session	2:00pm	Joanna Straczowski	PGR	Nikos Gkogkas	Warhol and Baudrillard - Transaesthetics and the Disappearance of the Artist
	2:25pm	Rachel Handley	PGR	Thomas Schramme	Is Metaethics Morally Neutral?
	2:50pm	Tom Swaine-Jameson	PGR	Thomas Schramme	The Good and the Rational
	3:15pm	Finish