糖心TV

Hey everyone, MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) continues with their famous fortnightly 鈥淪ip & Study鈥� sessions in the common room. Everybody is invited to drop in for a free coffee or tea, some co-working and/or a chat! Hope to see you there.

The notion of a community that holds together on aesthetic terms seems to be a way of balancing or tempering individualist conceptions of aesthetic life. But what is needed to sustain an aesthetic community? Is agreement in taste required? Is taste the right conceptual focus, with respect to aesthetic community? What is the potential for diversity within aesthetic community? This workshop will bring together speakers from 糖心TV and Auburn, plus speakers responding to a call for papers (to be announced in the new year), to engage with these issues in a wide-ranging, critical spirit.

This event is made possible through support from the British Society of Aesthetics. RegistrationLink opens in a new window

Summer Seminar:

Jessica Moss, Plato鈥檚 Epistemology

Naomi Eilan, Thomas Crowther, Guy Longworth

鈥楯essica Moss has written a book about Plato鈥檚 epistemology that is a fascinating read both for Plato scholars and for those of us whose interests lie more generally in the broad sweep of the history of theorizing about knowledge.鈥�—Robert Pasnau.

Week 1: Thursday 24th April 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 S1.50

Week 2: Thursday 1st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 S1.50

Week 3: Thursday 8th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 S1.50

Week 4: Thursday 15th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 S1.50

Week 5: Friday 23rd May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 S1.50

Week 6: Thursday 29th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 S1.50

Week 7: Friday 6th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 S2.77

Week 8: Thursday 12th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 S1.50

Week 9: Friday 20th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 S1.50

Week 10: Thursday 26th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 [Online only]

Reading group: Kant meets 鈥淪ex, Love, & Gender鈥�

We cordially invite you to a reading group centred on Helga Varden鈥檚 widely acclaimed book 鈥淪ex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory鈥� (2020). In it, Varden proposes an ambitious assessment of Kant鈥檚 moral, legal, and political philosophy, claiming it can provide a robust framework for intimate life as well as a progressive account of gender identity, bodily autonomy, and sexual rights. To do so, Varden insists, we must, of course, also 鈥渙vercome Kant鈥檚 own mistakes鈥� and 鈥渋dentify and overcome Kant鈥檚 own binary positions and, consequently, his cisism, sexism, and heterosexism鈥�.

We鈥檒l read selected chapters from Varden鈥檚 book alongside other relevant articles, starting with Mari Mikkola鈥檚 2011 paper, 鈥淜ant on Moral Agency and Women鈥檚 Nature鈥�. (If you have suggestions or requests, do share!) Just a quick note: we鈥檙e no experts on Kant鈥檚 practical philosophy – and you don鈥檛 need to be either. We鈥檙e simply hoping for some refreshing insights on this confrontation between Kant and 鈥淪ex, Love, and Gender鈥� (without diving into the primary texts together).

Meetings will take place every other Tuesday at 5 pm, starting on 29 April. If you鈥檙e interested, please email map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk or scan the QR code on the poster to join the WhatsApp group!

Week 8, 11 June - Katherine Jenkins (Glasgow): Ephemeral Women: On structural injustice and 鈥渂eing real鈥�

This talk explores the ways in which structural injustice can give rise to a particular kind of vexed relationship with reality. I argue that members of the oppressed groups frequently find that the way the world seems to them is not reflected in collective practices (I focus here on the case of women in the face of widespread sexual violence), and that this experience is philosophically interesting. It can, I suggest, give rise to a felt sense of dislocation from the world, or of not being quite 鈥渞eal鈥�, and I consider what this feeling might tell us about the metaphysics of gender under structural injustice. To help me explore this, I turn to fiction, specifically to not–quite–human feminised figures that are found in speculative fiction generally and in the film Blade Runner 2049 in particular. Whilst the film received some criticism for its portrayal of women, I argue that a feminist reading is available. On this reading, the film鈥檚 treatment of some of its feminised figures in fact captures important truths about the vexed relationship with reality that women come to have under structural injustice.

Summer Seminar:

Jessica Moss, Plato鈥檚 Epistemology

Naomi Eilan, Thomas Crowther, Guy Longworth

鈥楯essica Moss has written a book about Plato鈥檚 epistemology that is a fascinating read both for Plato scholars and for those of us whose interests lie more generally in the broad sweep of the history of theorizing about knowledge.鈥�—Robert Pasnau.

Week 1: Thursday 24th April 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 S1.50

Week 2: Thursday 1st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 S1.50

Week 3: Thursday 8th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 S1.50

Week 4: Thursday 15th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 S1.50

Week 5: Friday 23rd May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 S1.50

Week 6: Thursday 29th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 S1.50

Week 7: Friday 6th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 S2.77

Week 8: Thursday 12th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 S1.50

Week 9: Friday 20th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 S1.50

Week 10: Thursday 26th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 [Online only]

Meeting link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ODcyNzljOTMtNWM4Yi00YTU0LWI1N2QtYzI4YjczMjQ5NDky%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2209bacfbd-47ef-4465-9265-3546f2eaf6bc%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2232dc18e2-55fe-4746-b45f-9b7e3e823e54%22%7d

糖心TV Philosophy Department is the grand old age of 60!

To kick off the celebrations, our launch event is taking place on June 16th, 2025 at Senate House, Bloomsbury, from 5pm–7pm

We will be joined by past academics, students, alumni, partners and stakeholders to remember our past and look ahead to the future.

Numbers are limited, so if you would like to attend please contact Gemma.Basterfield@warwick.ac.uk

Happy 60th 糖心TV Philosophy! 

6 of our students will present their research and work on the themes of Bodies, Beauty, and Injustice.

Join us to celebrate the end of the year with a BBQ in the Social Sciences courtyard.

Hey everyone,

MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) continues with their famous fortnightly 鈥淪ip & Study鈥� sessions in the common room. Everybody is invited to drop in for a free coffee or tea, some co-working and/or a chat! Hope to see you there.

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Summer Seminar:

Jessica Moss, Plato鈥檚 Epistemology

Naomi Eilan, Thomas Crowther, Guy Longworth

鈥楯essica Moss has written a book about Plato鈥檚 epistemology that is a fascinating read both for Plato scholars and for those of us whose interests lie more generally in the broad sweep of the history of theorizing about knowledge.鈥�—Robert Pasnau.

Week 1: Thursday 24th April 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 S1.50

Week 2: Thursday 1st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 S1.50

Week 3: Thursday 8th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 S1.50

Week 4: Thursday 15th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 S1.50

Week 5: Friday 23rd May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 S1.50

Week 6: Thursday 29th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 S1.50

Week 7: Friday 6th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 S2.77

Week 8: Thursday 12th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 S1.50

Week 9: Friday 20th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 S1.50

Week 10: Thursday 26th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 [Online only]

Join us to celebrate the life of Professor David Miller. David taught in the department from 1969 until his retirement in 2007. He was best known for work in logic and methodology, including fervent support and development of some of Popper鈥檚 work on scientific method. 

Reading group: Kant meets 鈥淪ex, Love, & Gender鈥�

We cordially invite you to a reading group centred on Helga Varden鈥檚 widely acclaimed book 鈥淪ex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory鈥� (2020). In it, Varden proposes an ambitious assessment of Kant鈥檚 moral, legal, and political philosophy, claiming it can provide a robust framework for intimate life as well as a progressive account of gender identity, bodily autonomy, and sexual rights. To do so, Varden insists, we must, of course, also 鈥渙vercome Kant鈥檚 own mistakes鈥� and 鈥渋dentify and overcome Kant鈥檚 own binary positions and, consequently, his cisism, sexism, and heterosexism鈥�.

We鈥檒l read selected chapters from Varden鈥檚 book alongside other relevant articles, starting with Mari Mikkola鈥檚 2011 paper, 鈥淜ant on Moral Agency and Women鈥檚 Nature鈥�. (If you have suggestions or requests, do share!) Just a quick note: we鈥檙e no experts on Kant鈥檚 practical philosophy – and you don鈥檛 need to be either. We鈥檙e simply hoping for some refreshing insights on this confrontation between Kant and 鈥淪ex, Love, and Gender鈥� (without diving into the primary texts together).

Meetings will take place every other Tuesday at 5 pm, starting on 29 April. If you鈥檙e interested, please email map.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk or scan the QR code on the poster to join the WhatsApp group!

WMA Workshop on Delusions, 4pm to 7:15pm, Wednesday, 25 June 2025, Term 3.

Link:

Summer Seminar:

Jessica Moss, Plato鈥檚 Epistemology

Naomi Eilan, Thomas Crowther, Guy Longworth

鈥楯essica Moss has written a book about Plato鈥檚 epistemology that is a fascinating read both for Plato scholars and for those of us whose interests lie more generally in the broad sweep of the history of theorizing about knowledge.鈥�—Robert Pasnau.

Week 1: Thursday 24th April 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 S1.50

Week 2: Thursday 1st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 S1.50

Week 3: Thursday 8th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 S1.50

Week 4: Thursday 15th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 S1.50

Week 5: Friday 23rd May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 S1.50

Week 6: Thursday 29th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 S1.50

Week 7: Friday 6th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 S2.77

Week 8: Thursday 12th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 S1.50

Week 9: Friday 20th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 S1.50

Week 10: Thursday 26th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 [Online only]

'We are holding a workshop on September 17^th to celebrate the work of Avishai Margalit, to which you are warmly invited. The workshop will have as background a manuscript consisting of a brief autobiography and an extended interview linking much of his published work, books and articles. If you would like to take part in it, please let me know, as we need to register people. The bibliography below gives an indication of some of the work that may be discussed. The speakers giving brief discussion-introducing talks to issues raised in Margalit鈥檚 work will be: Quassim Cassam, John Dunn, Assaf Sharon, Moshe Halbertal, Ulrike Heuer, Michael Waltzer. (David Enoch will be joining us by zoom).

Publications

Books

路 Idolatry (jointly with ), , 1992.

路 The Decent Society, Harvard University Press, 1996.

路 Views in Review: Politics and Culture in the State of the Jews, , 1998.

路 The Ethics of Memory, Harvard University Press, 2002.   (A partial German version of this book, Ethik der Erinnerung, was published by in 2000.)

路 Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (with ), New York: The , 2004.  

路 On Compromise And Rotten Compromises, , 2010

路 On Betrayal, Harvard University Press, 2017

The workshop will be the second event in a collaboration between our department and colleagues at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, on issues at the intersection between Mind, Ethics, Epistemology and Politics (aka MEEP). Speakers from our department will be Curie, Nadine and Kartik, and there will be four speakers from Prague — see below for the programme.

Philosophical Perspectives on Human Relations and Contemporary Politics 

23rd/24th September 2025, Cowling Room

Tuesday 23rd September

9.30 -10.45

Hana Fo艡tov谩

Conflict as a feature of political language in Rousseau鈥檚 writings

10.45-11.15 coffee/tea

11.15-12.30

Curie Virag

The moral power of anger in early Confucianism

12.30 Lunch

2.00- 3.15pm

Petr Glomb铆膷ek

An Appeal to Common Sense. What We Mean?

[exam board meeting 3.30-4.30]

4.30-4.45pm coffee/tea

4.45-6pm

Juraj Hvoreck媒

AI and the unconsciousness

The workshop will be the second event in a collaboration between our department and colleagues at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, on issues at the intersection between Mind, Ethics, Epistemology and Politics (aka MEEP). Speakers from our department will be Curie, Nadine and Kartik, and there will be four speakers from Prague — see below for the programme.

Philosophical Perspectives on Human Relations and Contemporary Politics 

23rd/24th September 2025, Cowling Room

Wednesday 24th September

9.30 -10.15

Dan Swain

Old Concepts, New Meanings: Contestation, Prefiguration and Reciprocal Recognition

10.15-10.30 coffee/Tea

10.30 -11.45

Nadine Elzein

A puzzle about Responsibility for one鈥檚 Character

11.45 -12 coffee/Tea

12- 1.15

Kartik Upadhyaya

Lockdown for the Masses, Parties for the Few

MORNING 11-12:30

Panel 1: Murdoch on Literature & Philosophy

, Chichester

, Northwestern

Eliza Little, 糖心TV

LUNCH

AFTERNOON 13:30-17:00

Panel 2: Murdoch & Existentialism

, Southhampton

, Liverpool

Tobias Keiling, 糖心TV

COFFEE

Panel 3: Murdoch鈥檚 Moral Philosophy

, Oxford

, Emory

Heather Widdows, 糖心TV

KEYNOTE 17:30

, Emory

鈥淏ecome What You Are Not: Murdoch鈥檚 Perfectionism鈥�

This is an academic welcome event for all incoming MA, MPhil, and PhD students. The event begins with tea & coffee followed by a plenary discussion and small breakout group discussions on different readings.

Abstract: Rapid advances in visual forms of generative AI have prompted disagreement about the nature, ethics and integrity of the new practices arising from uses of the technology. Correspondingly, scepticism is routinely expressed towards their prospects as art. Addressing worries about the use of copyrighted materials as training data, I look to appropriation art to argue that the concern underpinning much of the scepticism is whether the creator has acted for what might be termed 鈥渁rtistic reasons鈥�. I disentangle what it means to act for 鈥渁rtistic reasons鈥� in these practices and propose that a lack of trust, compounded by social media platforms, in image-makers to act with a commitment to these threatens aesthetic discourse about these practices.

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo鈥檚 office.

If you haven鈥檛 come along before the book group is very informal and super fun. It is mostly staff, with (usually) a couple of PhD students. Staff come from across the department and we have members from every research centre, so it really is a broad church. Expertise in the subject is absolutely not a prerequisite for coming. It鈥檚 a way to do philosophy together and get to know each other better. All welcome!

The book is available online in the library:

1. Every Friday, 4pm to 6pm. Beginning in Week 2.
2. Open to undergraduates (if they are keen), postgraduates, and members of staff.
3. Room S1.69

Interested parties may want to join the Whatsapp group - link provided below. Or contact Luke Leong (L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk)

Vous avez 茅t茅 invit茅路e 脿 rejoindre un groupe sur WhatsApp :

‎Hegel Reading Group Science of Logic - Doctrine
Voici votre lien personnel :

Join us this term for I鈥檓 Glad I Read It—an informal series where faculty from several departments will discuss a reading experience that they are glad to have had. See webpage for details of speakers and works to be discussed. For students and staff - all are welcome.

"Varieties of Metacritique"

Join us at our welcome event for Philosophy with Psychology/EPP/GSD to enjoy some pizza, refreshments and good company!

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo鈥檚 office.

If you haven鈥檛 come along before the book group is very informal and super fun. It is mostly staff, with (usually) a couple of PhD students. Staff come from across the department and we have members from every research centre, so it really is a broad church. Expertise in the subject is absolutely not a prerequisite for coming. It鈥檚 a way to do philosophy together and get to know each other better. All welcome!

The book is available online in the library:

Date: Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Location: Social Sciences Building, S0.11

Schedule:

14:05-14:55

Speaker: Michelle Liu (Monash)

Title: Mental Imagery and Harmful Language*

14:55-15:05

Coffee Break

15:05-15:50

Q&A

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*Abstract:

Research on pernicious language tends to focus on harmful beliefs and associations transmitted by such language. In this paper, I explore the idea that pernicious language often transmits harmful mental imagery. Empirical studies suggest that mental imagery is a pervasive feature of language processing. Furthermore, mental imagery prompted by language can influence our memories and judgements in an insidious way. Focusing on language containing misinformation about witnessed events, as well as generics and metaphors about social groups, this paper argues for the importance of mental imagery for theorising harmful language and suggests ways to combat the imagistic harm.

1. Every Friday, 4pm to 6pm. Beginning in Week 2.
2. Open to undergraduates (if they are keen), postgraduates, and members of staff.
3. Room S1.69

Interested parties may want to join the Whatsapp group - link provided below. Or contact Luke Leong (L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk)

Vous avez 茅t茅 invit茅路e 脿 rejoindre un groupe sur WhatsApp :

‎Hegel Reading Group Science of Logic - Doctrine
Voici votre lien personnel :

Join us this term for I鈥檓 Glad I Read It—an informal series where faculty from several departments will discuss a reading experience that they are glad to have had. See webpage for details of speakers and works to be discussed. For students and staff - all are welcome

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo鈥檚 office.

If you haven鈥檛 come along before the book group is very informal and super fun. It is mostly staff, with (usually) a couple of PhD students. Staff come from across the department and we have members from every research centre, so it really is a broad church. Expertise in the subject is absolutely not a prerequisite for coming. It鈥檚 a way to do philosophy together and get to know each other better. All welcome!

The book is available online in the library:

WMA Graduate Research Seminar 30 Oct 2025 14:00-16:00 s2.64

For further information

1. Every Friday, 4pm to 6pm. Beginning in Week 2.
2. Open to undergraduates (if they are keen), postgraduates, and members of staff.
3. Room S1.69

Interested parties may want to join the Whatsapp group - link provided below. Or contact Luke Leong (L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk)

Vous avez 茅t茅 invit茅路e 脿 rejoindre un groupe sur WhatsApp :

‎Hegel Reading Group Science of Logic - Doctrine
Voici votre lien personnel :

Join us this term for I鈥檓 Glad I Read It—an informal series where faculty from several departments will discuss a reading experience that they are glad to have had. See webpage for details of speakers and works to be discussed. For students and staff - all are welcome.

Philosophy-Politics Guest Talk 4^th November: Dr Mollie Gerver

We are hosting a guest talk for students, delivered by , Assistant Professor at Political Economy, King's College London. You are cordially invited!

The talk, on 4^th November, will be at 12.00-13.00 in S0.18, followed by lunch at 13.00-13.30 in the Philosophy Common Room. Please if you plan to attend to ensure that we can cater for your dietary requirements.

Beth Lord (Aberdeen)
鈥淪pinoza鈥檚 Image of Thought: ratio and the Example of the Fourth Proportional鈥�
Reply: Stephen Houlgate (糖心TV)

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo鈥檚 office.

If you haven鈥檛 come along before the book group is very informal and super fun. It is mostly staff, with (usually) a couple of PhD students. Staff come from across the department and we have members from every research centre, so it really is a broad church. Expertise in the subject is absolutely not a prerequisite for coming. It鈥檚 a way to do philosophy together and get to know each other better. All welcome!

The book is available online in the library:

1. Every Friday, 4pm to 6pm. Beginning in Week 2.
2. Open to undergraduates (if they are keen), postgraduates, and members of staff.
3. Room S1.69

Interested parties may want to join the Whatsapp group - link provided below. Or contact Luke Leong (L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk)

Vous avez 茅t茅 invit茅路e 脿 rejoindre un groupe sur WhatsApp :

‎Hegel Reading Group Science of Logic - Doctrine
Voici votre lien personnel :

WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Link to further info:

Event Schedule:

Event Schedule:

Final details TBC

1. Every Friday, 4pm to 6pm. Beginning in Week 2.
2. Open to undergraduates (if they are keen), postgraduates, and members of staff.
3. Room S1.69

Interested parties may want to join the Whatsapp group - link provided below. Or contact Luke Leong (L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk)

Vous avez 茅t茅 invit茅路e 脿 rejoindre un groupe sur WhatsApp :

‎Hegel Reading Group Science of Logic - Doctrine
Voici votre lien personnel :

Join us this term for I鈥檓 Glad I Read It—an informal series where faculty from several departments will discuss a reading experience that they are glad to have had. See webpage for details of speakers and works to be discussed. For students and staff - all are welcome.

鈥淐ontinental Philosophy at 糖心TV鈥�

Andrew Benjamin, Miguel de Beistegui, Christine Battersby

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo鈥檚 office.

If you haven鈥檛 come along before the book group is very informal and super fun. It is mostly staff, with (usually) a couple of PhD students. Staff come from across the department and we have members from every research centre, so it really is a broad church. Expertise in the subject is absolutely not a prerequisite for coming. It鈥檚 a way to do philosophy together and get to know each other better. All welcome!

The book is available online in the library:

1. Every Friday, 4pm to 6pm. Beginning in Week 2.
2. Open to undergraduates (if they are keen), postgraduates, and members of staff.
3. Room S1.69

Interested parties may want to join the Whatsapp group - link provided below. Or contact Luke Leong (L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk)

Vous avez 茅t茅 invit茅路e 脿 rejoindre un groupe sur WhatsApp :

‎Hegel Reading Group Science of Logic - Doctrine
Voici votre lien personnel :

Join us this term for I鈥檓 Glad I Read It—an informal series where faculty from several departments will discuss a reading experience that they are glad to have had. See webpage for details of speakers and works to be discussed. For students and staff - all are welcome.

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo鈥檚 office.

If you haven鈥檛 come along before the book group is very informal and super fun. It is mostly staff, with (usually) a couple of PhD students. Staff come from across the department and we have members from every research centre, so it really is a broad church. Expertise in the subject is absolutely not a prerequisite for coming. It鈥檚 a way to do philosophy together and get to know each other better. All welcome!

The book is available online in the library:

WMA Graduate Research Seminar 27 Nov 2025 14:00-16:00 s1.50

For further information

1. Every Friday, 4pm to 6pm. Beginning in Week 2.
2. Open to undergraduates (if they are keen), postgraduates, and members of staff.
3. Room S1.69

Interested parties may want to join the Whatsapp group - link provided below. Or contact Luke Leong (L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk)

Vous avez 茅t茅 invit茅路e 脿 rejoindre un groupe sur WhatsApp :

‎Hegel Reading Group Science of Logic - Doctrine
Voici votre lien personnel :

Join us this term for I鈥檓 Glad I Read It—an informal series where faculty from several departments will discuss a reading experience that they are glad to have had. See webpage for details of speakers and works to be discussed. For students and staff - all are welcome.

Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy鈥檚 Greatest Pessimist (Chicago University Press).
With Patrick Hassan (Cardiff), Sam Shores (糖心TV UG Philosophy student))

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo鈥檚 office.

If you haven鈥檛 come along before the book group is very informal and super fun. It is mostly staff, with (usually) a couple of PhD students. Staff come from across the department and we have members from every research centre, so it really is a broad church. Expertise in the subject is absolutely not a prerequisite for coming. It鈥檚 a way to do philosophy together and get to know each other better. All welcome!

The book is available online in the library:

1. Every Friday, 4pm to 6pm. Beginning in Week 2.
2. Open to undergraduates (if they are keen), postgraduates, and members of staff.
3. Room S1.69

Interested parties may want to join the Whatsapp group - link provided below. Or contact Luke Leong (L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk)

Vous avez 茅t茅 invit茅路e 脿 rejoindre un groupe sur WhatsApp :

‎Hegel Reading Group Science of Logic - Doctrine
Voici votre lien personnel :

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo鈥檚 office.

If you haven鈥檛 come along before the book group is very informal and super fun. It is mostly staff, with (usually) a couple of PhD students. Staff come from across the department and we have members from every research centre, so it really is a broad church. Expertise in the subject is absolutely not a prerequisite for coming. It鈥檚 a way to do philosophy together and get to know each other better. All welcome!

The book is available online in the library:

WMA Graduate Research Seminar 11 Dec 2025 14:00-16:00 s1.50

1. Every Friday, 4pm to 6pm. Beginning in Week 2.
2. Open to undergraduates (if they are keen), postgraduates, and members of staff.
3. Room S1.69

Interested parties may want to join the Whatsapp group - link provided below. Or contact Luke Leong (L.Leong@warwick.ac.uk)

Vous avez 茅t茅 invit茅路e 脿 rejoindre un groupe sur WhatsApp :

‎Hegel Reading Group Science of Logic - Doctrine
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Friday 12 December, 14.00-17.30, A0.28 (Millburn House) and on

Join us to hear from a wonderful array of speakers including CRPLA leading lights Martin Warner, Michael Bell and Peter Larkin, and PhD alums Tania Ganitsky, Philip Gaydon, Andrea Selleri, Joe Shafer, and Ole Martin Skille氓s; and BA and MA alums Sydney Harvey, Alberto Parisi, Kae Rose, and Xita Rubert. Please rsvp Link opens in a new windowif you plan to attend.

Mon 15 Dec - 8:00-12:00 BST / 9:00-13:00 CET / 16:00-20:00 CST / 17:00-21:00 JST

Shohei Kobayashi (University of Erfurt),
鈥淥ught We to Discard Useless Concepts?: The effect of the word 鈥瀊eing鈥� in Martin Heidegger鈥檚 philosophy鈥�

Liang, Yulin (Tongji University Shanghai),
鈥淩eassessing Jonas鈥檚 Critique of Heidegger鈥檚 Conception of Nature鈥�

Keigo Shimada (糖心TV University),
鈥淩eason in Kant and Husserl鈥�

KEYNOTE Matthias Flatscher (University of W眉rzburg)
鈥淒errida鈥檚 Politics of Alterity鈥�

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Tue 16 Dec

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Ryosuke Sasaki (Kwansei Gakuin University),
鈥淭he Truth of Judgment in Kitar艒 Nishida鈥檚 System of the Universal: Drawing on Heidegger鈥檚 Critique of Propositional Truth鈥�

Xing Sun (Capital Normal University),
鈥淥n the authentic 鈥榖eing-with鈥�: from the perspective of temporality in Heidegger鈥�

Samuel Ronalds (糖心TV University),
鈥淎 Heideggerian Approach to the Question of Plant Minds鈥�

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Wed 17 Dec

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Ryo Yamazaki (Keio University),
鈥淲hat Do I Perform, When I Ask? Early Heidegger on the Subjective Meaning of Question鈥�

Luyao Shi (Tongji University Shanghai),
鈥淏eing and Play: on the concept of Play in middle Heidegger鈥檚 thought鈥�

Andreas Wiener (W眉rzburg University),
鈥淒emocratic Ethics as self-alienation鈥�

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