News in Brief - December 2022
Featured News
How do we look at art? Vid Simoniti discusses the Turner Prize shortlist on BBC Radio Three, Free Thinking
Rachael Wiseman’s Metaphysical Animals is the winner of the HWA 2022 Non-fiction Crown Award
MA Philosophy Student Labeeba Miah appointed onto the BIPPA Executive Committee
Progress to Postgraduate Philosophy Festive Event
News
Thomas Schramme gave a course on academic publishing for PhD students at Hamburg University.
Robin McKenna gave a talk (virtually) on “The New Scepticism” for Queens University Belfast’s visiting speaker series
Jack Symes was awarded his PhD. His thesis was supervised by Daniel Hill and Barry Dainton and examined by Michael Hauskeller and Stephen Law. Congratulations Jack!
Rachael Wiseman and Clare Mac Cumhaill’s book, Metaphysical Animals, has been shortlisted for Austrian ‘Science Book of the Year’
Vid Simoniti spoke at the Public Art conference at King's College London.
Rachael Wiseman spoke at the ‘Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Social Science’ conference at Durham University.
Michael Hauskeller and Rachael Wiseman visited Liverpool College to discuss why philosophy matters.
Thomas Schramme presented papers at Hamburg Uni and at the University of Essen.
Thanks to Nikos Gkogkas, we now have a Departmental account on the Mastodon social network, where we are gaining followers.
Publications
Robin McKenna's “Is Knowledge a Social Phenomenon?” is now available online at Inquiry.