News in Brief – August 2019

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Philosophy News Digest

Featured Research

Jonathan Edwards Centre, UK

Daniel Hill on the Jonathan Edwards Centre, UK, based at Liverpool and Belfast QU. 

Featured News

BA Leverhulme Grant

Robin McKenna has been awarded a BA/Leverhulme grant for his project on the psychology and epistemology of cognition. 

Other News

Former PhD student and staff-member Thom Atkinson discuses ‘body, soul and the life everlasting’ on R. T. Mullins’ The Reluctant Theologian podcast

Vid Simoniti discussed humour in a bunker at the Biennale in the 3rd Clandestine Talk in Lara Favaretto’s ‘Thinking Head’ project. Livestreamed at labiennale.org

Ian Dunbar had a letter in the New Scientist.

Daniel Hill gave a pre-sessional lecture to students at University of Liverpool’s English Language Centre

Publications

Stephen McLeod, Daniel Hill and Thom Atkinson, ‘On a Supposed Puzzle Concerning Modality’ , Organon F

Michael Hauskeller, ‘Editing the Best of All Possible Worlds’ in Erik Parsens and Josephine Johnston (eds), Gene Editing and Human Flourishing (OUP: 2019).