News in Brief - June 2023
Featured News
Steve McLeod’s Leverhulme project, Entrapment, Criminal Justice, and Ethics, has made two appointments. Dr Tarek Yusari joins the project team as post-doctoral researcher, and Dr Jon Bebb joins the department as a teaching fellow.
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Vid Simoniti was on Radio 3, Free Thinking, to discuss Liverpool Biennial and art at MIF
Rachael Wiseman was on a Radio 4, In Our Time episode on Elizabeth Anscombe
Other News
Robin McKenna wrote about Non-ideal Epistemology for Imperfect Cognitions
Vid Simonti spoke on Artworks as Arguments Without Conclusions’ at the Humanistic Ethics in the UK Workshop
Laura Gow presented a paper 'When Beliefs don't Seem True' at University of Oxford. She also gave a talk at the 'Marking the Mark of the Mental' conference Turin on 'Apparent Relationality as the Mark of the Mental'.
The department hosted the British Society of Aesthetics Connections: Aesthetics and Political Epistemology
Yiota Vassilopoulou spoke on 'Creative Thinking: a Plotinian Approach' at the University of Patras conference on Cognition in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Lauren Stephens presented her work at the UK Sartre Society Conference
Richard Gaskin was a keynote speaker at the University of Geneva conference on "States of Affairs: Medieval & Austro-German Perspectives".
Rachael Wiseman was at University Lausanne with Clare Mac Cumhaill to give a public lecture and graduate workshop on Metaphysical Animals
Richard Gaskin revealed the disjunctivist solution to the paradox of tragedy at the Dutch Research School of Philosophy
Gary Jones gave a paper on ‘An Anscombean Perspective on so-called ‘Deviant Causal Chains’’ at the Wartime Quartet Conference (co-organised by Rachael Wiseman) at Durham. At the same conference, Yiota Vassilopolou gave a paper, ‘‘Everything is Really All One’: Mary Midgley and Plotinus’
Zishan Khawaja's phd thesis was examined by Yiota Vassilopoulou and Michael McGhee and passed without corrections – congratulations Zishan!
Chris Earley, a recent PhD from Warwick, will be joining us as a recipient of a two-year British Society of Aesthetics Postdoctoral Award, under Vid's tutelage.
Rachael Wiseman gave a paper on ‘Communicating in a Causal World’ at a Birkbeck workshop to celebrate the philosophy of Jennifer Hornsby
Publications
McLeod, S. K., & Tanyi, A. (2023). The basic liberties: An essay on analytical specification. European Journal of Political Theory, 22(3), 465–486.