News in Brief – January 2020!

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Featured Research

How Does it Feel? Interpersonal Understanding and Affective Empathy

How Does it Feel? Interpersonal Understanding and Affective Empathy

Professor Thomas Schramme has been awarded £350,000 for the project “How Does it Feel? - Interpersonal Understanding and Affective Empathy”. The grant application was selected within the newly established UK and German research collaboration programme between UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG). Thomas will pursue this project with his colleague Professor Neil Roughley (Essen University), who has been awarded €572.000. 

Dr Katherine Furman

Introducing our new Director of PPE, Dr Katherine Furman

We are delighted to introduce our new lecturer in PPE and director of the PPE programme, Katherine Furman. Katherine joins us from University College Cork, where she directed the MA in Health and Society.

Sufficiency and Sufficientarianism

Workshop on Sufficiency and Sufficientarianism: Theory and Practice

Prof Thomas Schramme is hosting a workshop at UoL London, 2-3 April 2020.

Featured Teaching

The importance of trusts and foundations

SOTA300 Student Charlotte Burns on The Importance of Trust and Foundations

For her work placement, Charlotte Burns is Research and Grant Associate Intern at the charity Made With Hope. Here she writes about the importance of Trust and Foundation funding for the charity.

Other News

Daniel Hill was on BBC Radio Merseyside discussing the government’s involvement in marriage. Listen again here, at 1:26:30 and read his piece in the Conversation. You can find out more about Daniel’s work on marriage here.

Rachael Wiseman’s Notes from a Biscuit Tin (funded by BSA) had its January meeting in Queens University Canada, with poet Helen Humphreys and philosopher Christine Sypnowich on the theme ‘Children’. The tin is now on its way to New York. You can follow its progress via Instagram.   https://www.notesfromabiscuittin.com/

Dr Yiota Vassilopoulou gave the first Lecture in SOTA’s Beauty, Utility, Time public lecture series on natural vs artificial beauty. ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ attracted an audience of over 100.

The department reading group on Cheshire Calhoun’s Doing Valuable Time starts next week. We’ll be reading one chapter every two weeks. Staff and students can participate virtually via the Department VLE, or IRL at the Staff-Student Reading group. Contact Robert Booth for more info.

Part two of Daniel Hill’s introduction to the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga is available to view here.

Rachael Wiseman’s ‘Philosophy by Postcard’ project appeared in The Irish Stamp Yearbook 2019

Dr Yiota Vassilopoulou was promoted to Reader and Rachael Wiseman was promoted to Senior Lecturer.

Publications

Rachael Wiseman's 'The Misidentification of Immunity to Error through Misidentification' is in the latest issue of Journal of Philosophy

Vid Simoniti has an essay on Satire & Equality in Crack Up, Crack Down

Rachael Wiseman contributed to a dialogue on Rhythm in Cheyne & Hamilton (eds), The Philosophy of Rhythm.

Daniel Hill wrote for The Conversation: ‘Marriage & Civil partnerships are regulated by the government – here’s why that’s a problem’.