News in Brief - February 2019
Featured Research
The Combination Problem for Panpsychism: A Constitutive Russellian Solution, Dr Greg Miller. Read more
A Duty to Love, Lotte Spreeuwenberg. Read more
The Meaning of Life and Death, Prof Michael Hauskeller. Read more
Featured Teaching
Student experience: Working on placement at Collective Encounters. Read more
Featured News
School of the Arts launches free public lecture series on ‘Movement, Place and Meaning’. Read more
Parisa Shah on her two-weeks at XJTLU's Summer Language School. Read more
Prof Barry Dainton Visits Tononi’s Lab. Read more
Launch of the Olaf Stapledon Centre for Speculative Futures. Read more
Other News
Yiota Vassilopoulou’s ‘Philosopher-In-Residence’ placement, with Michael Hauskeller and Rachael Wiseman, at NHS held its first event ‘Is there ever a right time to die?’. The second event in the #thinkingmatters series, 'Is Death a Failure? Making a Decision on Life and Death' will be on March 6th. More information and to register here.
Gary Donnelly successfully defended his doctoral thesis, ‘Against a Mahāyāna Absolute: Why Absolutism Need Not Be a Conclusion of Mahāyāna Philosophy’.
Vid Simoniti gave a talk at UCL on "Deception in Politics Online: A Philosophical Approach."
Laura Gow visited Open University’s philosophy department to talk about what exactly we can see – ‘Is Amodal Perception really Perceptual?’ Listen here.
Rachael Wiseman gave a talk on ‘Elizabeth Anscombe and Brute Facts’ as part of the Royal Institute of Philosophy ‘In Parenthesis’ London Lecture Series. Watch here.
SOTA have announced six full-time fully-funded PhD studentships at School of the Arts. Closing date is March 15th.
Vid Simoniti gave a Stapledon Lecture: 'Art as Philosophy, Art as Propoganda'.
Rachael Wiseman was at University of Oxford’s Jowett Society to talk about 'Linguistic Idealism and Human Nature'.
Laura Gow gave a masterclass on ‘Perception as a Source of Knowledge’ at Queen Anne’s Schooll, Caversham.
Vid Simoniti was at the University of Padova, where he gave a talk on "Art and Political Speech"
Don't forget to register for "The Ethics of Police and Media Stings", 16th May 2019. Sponsored by the Society for Applied Philosophy. Further details and tickets.
Laura Gow has a paper (open access) in the European Journal of Philosophy. "Everything is Clear: All Perceptual Experiences are Transparent".