News in Brief – July 2020

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Featured News

The PGRs held their annual graduate conference online. Many thanks to Andy Holland and to all those who participated. 

If our reality is a video game, does that solve the problem of evil? Barry Dainton’s solution to the Problem of Evil in the Conversation

What are words worth? Do poets and philosophers speak the same language? Dr Rachael Wiseman’s Notes from a Biscuit Tin project featured in the Irish Times. Read more

Congratulations to Class of 2020! Prizes were awarded to Josh Hibbert, Madeleine Terrell, Emily Eldridge, and Jemima Hunt. Plus a video-message from Michael Hauskeller…

 

Other News

Katherine Furman discussed AIDS denialism, expertise and chickens in Forum for Philosophy’s podcast, Out of the Vat

We are Not Tourists Here, in Resurgence Magazine, discusses Rachael Wiseman’s Notes from a Biscuit Tin project.

Rachel Handley presented her paper 'Ideal Quasi-Realism and the Revised Relativism Objection' at the Joint Session. 

MA student Owen Morris's Phil704 essay on dementia patients and personal identity has been accepted into the SOTA Anthology.

 

Publications

Philosophy in the workplace: assessing the impact of reflective practices in situated learning by Nikolaos Gkogkas and Panayiota Vassilopoulou is now published in AdvanceHE. 

Michael Hauskeller’s 'A very human form of irrationality' in Global Discourse is a review of Lorraine Daston's Against Nature