Featured News
Funded PhD: Restorative Practice and Second Victimisation
MA student, Steve Scull, curates Utopian Future Lab
MA Team win Culture in Crisis Employability Challenge with Rave, Reuse, Repeat
Department launches four new research groups with a series of short videos: Vid Simoniti on Social Imagination; Rachael Wiseman on Women in Parenthesis; Megan Rawson on extra-corporeal gestation; and Daniel Hill on Entrapment.
Philosophy student launches Jay Thakkar Show podcast
PhD students launch Northern England Postgraduate Philosophy Conference
International News
Rachael Wiseman was an invited speaker at a conference at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, ‘Towards the History of a Heterodox Tradition in Analytic Philosophy: Transformative, Humanistic, Conversational’. She spoke on ‘Irrelevant Intrusions: New Conversations with Past Philosophers’
PhD researcher Hannah Moss has been invited to present a poster and give a talk at the Dimensions of radical embodiment conference at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. The poster is called Unravelling Binaries: Perception/action and Ur-intentionality.
Publications
Michael Hauskeller’s new book Meaning in Life. A Subjectivist Account has now been published and can be accessed for free with our institutional subscription.
Richard Gaskin’s The Question of Linguistic Idealism (OUP) was published this month. Richard also has a book forthcoming at the end of the year with Liverpool University Press: Dido’s Tragedy: a Literary Commentary on Virgil’s Fourth Aeneid.
Stephen Clark has a bonanza of recent publications:
- How the Worlds Became: philosophy and the oldest stories (Angelico Press: New Hampshire, 2023)
- Other Lives and Other Worlds: philosophy and modern fictions (Angelico Press: New Hampshire, 2024)
- “Patrides Plotinus, and the Cambridge Platonists”: In The Cambridge Platonists, ed., Sarah Hutton, pp.7-26. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024
- “Forms, intellects, and angels”: Participation in the Divine: A Philosophical History, From Antiquity to the Modern Era, eds. Douglas Hedley & Daniel Tolan (Cambridge University Press 2024)
- “Looking to the Leader: The Divine Dance in Neoplatonism”: GOD AT PLAY: Līlā in Hindu and Christian Traditions, ed. Daniel Soars (Fordham University Press 2025), pp.221-43.
- "Values and Facts and Fancies": Religious Studies (online preview)
Other news
University of Liverpool PhilSoc hosted the annual Philosophy Showcase this month. Final year students presented work to an audience of staff and students. Congratulations to everyone who presented and, most of all, to the PhilSoc committee for all their hard work to make it happen.
Michael Hauskeller will be in Newcastle on 12 April to introduce the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead at an event organised by the Newcastle Philosophy Society: Science and the Modern World – 100 Years on.
Katherine Furman will be speaking at the Connects-UK 3rd Open Forum on Emerging Challenges and Solutions in Healthcare on 10 April. This is a hybrid event, at University of Bristol and online. Details here.
Tarek Yusari gave a paper, 'What is (Distinctively) Wrong about Entrapment?’, at the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy’s workshop on Monday 24th March
Rachael Wiseman was featured as an educational ‘trailblazer’ in the End Sexism in Schools International Women’s Day newsletter for her work with Clare Mac Cumhaill.
Katherine Furman spent a week at the UK Centre for Astrobiology in Edinburgh, studying how scientists handle scarce evidence. Here she is photographed wearing the ‘Mars tartan’, a registered tartan commissioned in honour of the Centre’s research work related to Mars.
Upcoming Events
On 2 April, Tom Bunyard will lead a Teaching and Learning Seminar for SOTA staff on ‘Continuous Seminar Assessment on Undergraduate Humanities Degrees’
Our next Stapledon talk on 3 April is with Helen Frowe (Stockholm), ‘Systematically Deceptive Relationships and the Law’
Women in Parenthesis Research Seminar (online). 8th April 2025, 3-4.30pm: Nicola Holt on ‘‘Iris Murdoch, Susanne Langer and the Great Transformer’’ (contact Rachael Wiseman for a zoom link)