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The 2016 NSS Survey results have been released, confirming an overall 89% level for student satisfaction for students in the Department of Philosophy.

Notably, 90% of students in the department were satisfied with the teaching on their course. This included 95% of students in the department agreeing that their course was intellectually stimulating and 93% that staff were good at explaining things.

The Philosophy and Literature course in particular has this year received some very high ratings, with 98% of respondents on this course stating they were satisfied with the teaching, and 91% for academic support. The Philosophy and Literature course also received 100% agreement from respondents for a number of questions: ‘Staff have made the subject interesting’, ‘Staff are enthusiastic about what they are teaching’, ‘The course is intellectually stimulating’, ‘I have been able to contact staff when I needed to’.

It is good news to receive these strong overall levels of satisfaction from students in the department, and looking ahead, we hope to continue to work together with students and staff on this in the coming academic year.

From January 2017, 糖心TV will be hosting a new interdisciplinary research project , funded by an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The aim of the project is to bring debates about the metaphysics of time, which often invoke claims about our experience of time, into contact with actual research in psychology on the origins and nature of our everyday understanding of time. The three-year project, which will be lead by (Philosophy, 糖心TV) and (Psychology, Belfast), will involve two 2-year postdocs (one in philosophy, one in psychology), a series of workshops and public engagement activities, as well as collaborations with a range of performing arts groups.

Two articles by have been highlighted as contributions to aesthetics:

' as one of the top five articles in aesthetics in 2014, by Aesthetics for Birds and '' as Article of the Year 2015 by the Slovak and Finnish Aesthetics societies.

Eileen John and Felix Pinkert are convening an informal student and faculty reading group on Kwame Anthony Appiah's book/essay collection "In My Father's House - Africa in the Philosophy of Culture". Undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as members of staff are all welcome to join to discuss this book.

We plan to meet on Wednesdays 11:00-12:00, and the initial dates and chapters are the following:

May 4: Chapter 2: "Illusions of Race"

May 11: Chapter 5: "Ethnophilosophy and Its Critics"

May 18: Chapter 6: "Old Gods, New Worlds"

May 25: Chapter 7: "The Postcolonial and the Postmodern"

Please contact Felix Pinkert (F.Pinkert@warwick.ac.uk) if you want to attend and be added to the group's email list.

The Department of Philosophy is delighted to announce that Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department has been awarded a (one of only 29 awards made from a high-calibre field of applications). This scheme provides funding of up to £15,000 to distinguished Early Career Researchers to assist their career development through organising interdisciplinary events for other Early Career Researchers and Alisa’s project will run from April 2016 to March 2017.