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Katherine Furman gave a keynote lecture for the 'Distrust in Science Reframed: Understanding and Countering Anti-scientific Behaviour' conference at University of Roma Tre, in Rome.
Other news
The KantianDESERT launch conference on ‘Kantian Justice: A Desert-sensitive
Responsibility-enhancing Theory’ was held on 3 – 4 November.
Tom Bunyard presented his paper, ‘Spectacle and Mourning: Guy Debord and Gillian Rose on Time and History’, at the PostKantian European Philosophy Seminar series at the University of Oxford on the 18th November, and as part of the Continental Philosophy Northwest Research Network Keynote Series at the University of Manchester on the 26th November.
Laura Gow gave a talk titled 'The Temporal Profile of Absence Experience: A New Challenge for Perceptualism' at a perception workshop at King's College London (7th and 8th November)
Rachel Handley gave a creative writing workshop on philosophical fiction at the University of Nottingham on 19th November. They also gave a poetry reading live on the radio as part of Manchester North FM’s Poetry Special (2nd hour).
Jack Shardlow spoke at a workshop on Temporal Experience at the University of Warwick on November 14th.
Publications
Tom Bunyard produced an introduction to Debord's The Society of the Spectacle for the Historical Materialist website.
Richard Gaskin’s book Dido's Tragedy: A Literary Commentary on Virgil's Fourth Aeneid has appeared with Liverpool University Press.
Michael Hauskeller gave a talk (online and in German) on “what we owe to the future” at the Centre for Ethical Questions in the 21st Century in Karlsruhe, discussing longtermism and its ethical foundations and implications.
Michael Hauskeller and his PhD student Liam Shore published an article on epigenetic age testing in the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics.
The article is accompanied by a short interview with Michael Hauskeller on the same subject.
Robin McKenna, along with Gerry Dunne (Trinity College Dublin), is the editor on a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies on ‘Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory in Epistemology’. The issue includes an introduction written by the editors, a symposium on Robin McKenna’s book Non-Ideal Epistemology (OUP. 2023), and several full articles on ideal and non-ideal epistemology.
Robin McKenna published an article with Chris Ranalli (VU Amsterdam) in the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism on ‘Skepticism and Political Conservatism’.
Vid Simoniti's paper ‘On Pensiveness: A Defence of Aesthetic Cognitivism’ has been published in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
Vid Simoniti's paper on impact in the arts, ‘What does art do, and for whom? The social relevance of art’ has been published in the FACT Journal.
Tom Whyman’s paper ‘Adorno on Modesty as a Virtue’ is out in the History of Philosophy Quarterly.
Rachael Wiseman has a chapter on Philippa Foot in Andrew Irvin (ed) Good and Evil: 12
Forthcoming events
The Liverpool-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian (LOSAK) Research Centre will be holding the first regular meeting of the Philosophical Counselling Reading Group (PCRG) on Tuesday 9th December 2025 at 1pm-2:30pm in Gillian Howie House. The first session will be discussing Gerd B. Achenback's paper, ‘On Wisdom in Philosophical Practice’.