Thursday 19th June 9am - 4.45pm
Our aim is to create an informal community of postgraduate philosophers across Northern England and in our first annual conference, twelve speakers from nine different universities will present their research to an audience of their peers. The conference will be free to attend and we warmly invite you to attend and meet up with your fellow Philosophy PhD students. Contact the Dan Baldwin and Neil Williams for further information and to register at NEPPC@liverpool.ac.uk
Speakers
- Meg Rawson, University of Liverpool, ‘The Pregnant Corporation: Using Group Ontologies to Reframe Ethical Decision-Making in Pregnancy’
- Kumru Akdogan, University of Manchester, ‘Serious Fun: Games, Institutions, and the Ontology of Rules’
- Samuel McKee, Manchester Metropolitan University, ‘The Surprising Emergence of Idealism in Interwar Physics’
- Laurence Wildman, Keele University, ‘The Existential Crisis of a Nietzsche Scholar'
- Faisal Chuhan, University of Liverpool, ‘Serres' Concept of the Language of Life and Human Distinctiveness’
- Ryan Ratchford, University of Manchester, ‘Rational Suicide and Meaning in Life for Medical Immortals’
- Cagla Ozel, University of Lancaster, ‘Eliot’s Ethics of Sympathy and Animal Welfare’
- Samuel Summerfield, University of Leeds, ‘Agent-Regret, Moral Luck, and Moral Cognisance'
- Jacob Barlow, University of Lancaster, ‘Problems with Pragmatism in the Philosophy of Psychiatry’
- Lucy Barnham, University of Newcastle, ‘“Let Me In!”: Catherine’s Ghost and the Return of the Repressed Female Voice in Wuthering Heights’
- Jacob Parkin, University of Newcastle, ‘“you're breaking me Speak Speak Speak” or Derrida’s Echolalia: Literary Voice, Metaphysical Voice, Disabled Voice’
- Felipe Zarate, University of Durham, ‘I’m Batman and I will always be: A Realist Account of Fictional Identity in Serialized Fictions’