News in Brief - May 2018
Catch up on the latest news and events in our brand new monthly digest!
Yiota Vassilopoulou, Rachael Wiseman and Alex McPartland (UG, Yr2) were at the Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland annual conference. Yiota gave a paper on the myth of Pandora and Rachael was on an In Parenthesis panel. Also joining us from Liverpool was Siobhan Chapman (English) who gave a keynote on Susan Stebbing. Read more
On 19 May Daniel Hill gave a public talk on ‘Life After Death: Can We Really Know?’ at the Alderley-Edge Golf Club. You can watch Daniel's post-talk interview with the podcast Digital Gnosis here.
We had a brilliant Graduate Conference in the Stapledon. Thanks to Gregory Miller and Thom Atkinson for organising. Read more
Rachael Wiseman gave a paper at Cambridge Moral Sciences Club, 'Being Naive about Humans and Animals'
Barry Dainton gave a public lecture on the philosophical implications of computers/AI at the University of the Arctic
PhD student Rob Booth's paper ‘Why Ecofeminists Should (Also) Be Ecophenomenologists’ has been selected for this year’s UK Sartre Society Conference. A full list of papers is available here: https://uksartresociety.com/
In May 2019 there will be a workshop in Liverpool on ‘The Ethics of Police and Media Stings’, supported by Society for Applied Philosophy.
Becky Davnall must be the world's most popular panellist! She was discussing Ensuring Diversity in a Digital World. Is artificial intelligence controlling our lives through bias and prejudice? Read more
The Annual Lecture of the Jonathan-Edwards Centre UK was held. Professor Paul Helm (KCL) on 'Edwards's Affectional Ethics' in School of the Arts library, 1500-1700. Free and all welcome
Read about the trip to Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Hepworth Museum with students on the MA Arts, Aesthetics and Cultural Institutions programme.
Publications
Michael Hauskeller has just published "Illness as a Crisis of Meaning" (a review of Fredrik Svenaeus's book *Phenomenological Bioethics*) in The Hastings Center Report. Read more
Stephen McLeod’s article ‘Basic Liberties, the Moral Powers and Workplace Democracy’ will appear later this month in the first issue of the new online, open-access journal Ethics, Politics & Society
Stephen McLeod and Ian Dunbar have accepted an invitation to write a chapter on ‘Fregean Sense’ for Routledge Handbook on Linguistic Reference.
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