News in Brief - November 2024
Featured News
Katherine Furman’s article ‘Beliefs, values and emotions: An interactive approach to distrust in science’ made the Philosophical Psychology editor's choice list for UNESCO World Philosophy Day.
International News
Katherine Furman has been awarded a CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) Diaspora fellowship to visit the University of Free State in South Africa for a month in 2025.
Publications
Tom Whyman’s ‘Adorno’s Ethical Materialism’ is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Adorno, now available online here.
Other News
Teo Manea Hauskeller was on the Moral Maze asking, ‘What is a healthy attitude to death?’
Robin McKenna was on the Big Think, where he was asked ‘When should you try to change your friend’s beliefs?’
Rachael Wiseman talked about G. E. M. Anscombe on Timeline Theological Videos
Katherine Furman and Laura Gow were both promoted to Senior Lecturer. Congratulations both!
Upcoming Events
The next talk in the online ‘Women in Parenthesis’ seminar series will be on 10 December. Dr Ian James Kidd, ‘Midgley, Wickedness, and Vices’. For the full programme and to participate see here.
We have had the last of our Stapledon seminars now. Our new season begins in February with Dr Ben Davies (Sheffield).