糖心TV

Title: 'Logical and Moral Aliens Within Us: Kant on Theoretical and Practical Self-Conceit'

15 minute essay presentations followed by pizza.

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The Hegel Reading Group continues this year, starting a new section of the Science of Logic, specifically the Doctrine of the Concept. The group is open to everyone and we welcome students at any level and faculty to join us at any point. Meetings take place every Friday during Term 2.

1pm - Lunch

1.45pm - Information Talk

2.45pm - Tea and Cake

3pm - Taster Session

Lecture by Katheryn Edwards and Jason Low, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Welllington.

Title: 'A Puzzle About the Nature of Auditory Perceptual Experience'

ABSTRACT:

We commonsensically take it that one of the functions of perception is to enable one to enter in cognitive contact with a variety of elements populating one’s environment, including events in which ordinary material objects participate. The case of auditory perception poses a unique challenge to accommodate this function. A set of phenomenological considerations, which seem to suggest that we undergo acousmatic experiences of sounds divorced from the material events that might count as their sources, raises the question as to how awareness of sounds enables cognitive contact with ordinary material objects in the world. One approach to addressing this question, found in the literature, is to define the ontological relation between sounds and events in which ordinary material objects participate and, consequently, to derive an account of the content of auditory perceptual experience. In this talk, I will put forward a different reading of the question which is not satisfied by this approach. I will argue that there is a puzzle about the nature of auditory perceptual experience which purports to show that sounds sufficiently determine the auditory perceptual experiences we undergo and exclude events in which objects participate from playing a role. After providing some motivation for the puzzle and addressing some worries, I will conclude by pointing to the direction of my solution to the puzzle.

Title: 'Infinity and Immortality'

Recommended background reading: 'Problems of the Self' by Bernard Williams: Chapter 6: The Makropulos Case - Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality.

The Hegel Reading Group continues this year, starting a new section of the Science of Logic, specifically the Doctrine of the Concept. The group is open to everyone and we welcome students at any level and faculty to join us at any point. Meetings take place every Friday during Term 2.

Lucy Campbell (糖心TV):

Title: 'On Anscombe on Practical Knowledge and Practical Truth'

Details to follow.

Kevin Lynch (UCD)
"The structure of the paradigm case argument"

@ S2.81, 4pm-6pm

Workshop supported by CRPLA and HRC at 糖心TV and by Royal Holloway

Barry Stroud will give two Keynote Lectures on the mornings of 8 April and 9 April 2019. In the afternoons speakers will introduce and investigate some key aspects of Stroud's views and discussion will follow.

Joulia Smortchkova is going to give a talk called 'First Impressions' about the role these play in our knowledge of others' minds, and then Jake Quilty-Dunn is going to give a talk about concept possession. For more info please contact sam.clarke@st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Led by Guy Longworth and Tom Crowther.

Title: 'Humility, Terror and the Other'

ABSTRACT:

Intellectual humility requires a willingness to acknowledge and take ownership of one's intellectual limitations. These limitations include gaps in knowledge. Owning limitations that result from willful ignorance is false rather than genuine intellectual humility. Other forms of false humility include owning gaps in our knowledge that do not exist or that can be easily closed. In these terms, some accounts of our supposedly limited knowledge of the root causes and motives of terrorism are expressions of false humility. False humility is especially prevalent in relation to 'new terrorism', whose Middle Eastern practitioners are assumed to be irrational, implacable, and unknowable. The representation of terrorism and terrorists as beyond rational comprehension is a form of 'othering'. The othering of terrorism is rooted in what Edward Said describes as the Orientalist myth of the alien and fundamentally irrational Orient. There are strong empirical and conceptual objections to this approach. True intellectual humility in terrorism studies means recognising the inability of general models of terrorism to explain why some people but not others in the same situation resort to terrorism.

Response by Dr Amedeo Policante (糖心TV)

Drinks and Nibbles at Radcliffe from 7.15pm.

Led by Guy Longworth and Tom Crowther.

Speaker: Chris Noonan

The next HRC Book Launch takes place on this date. Colleagues who will have books published between September 2018 and September 2019, please send full details of the publication to Sue Rae (HRC@warwick.ac.uk) as soon as they are clear.

For information about the inaugural Humanities Book Launch held last year:

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Subject: Publishing Articles and Reviews

Led by Guy Longworth and Tom Crowther.

WMA talks

David Hunter (Toronto)
On the Ethics of Believing
@ R0.04, 4pm-6pm

'Punishment'

Speakers include: Kimberley Brownlee, Patrick Tomlin, David James and David Woods

This seminar is on 'Approaches to Philosophy: Do we need to be critical to do our job well? Does criticism imply antagonism or is there a role that empathy could play?’

Facilitator: Karen Simecek

Recommended reading: Pamela Sue Anderson 'Silencing and Speaker Vulnerability: Undoing an oppressive form of wilful ignorance' available here, http://www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/read-pamela-sue-andersons-iwd-keynote/.

Info: m.corrado@warwick.ac.uk

London 糖心TV Mind Forum

Room A0.23 Social Science Building, University of 糖心TV

Led by Guy Longworth and Tom Crowther.

Speaker: Brigid Evans

Led by Guy Longworth and Tom Crowther.

Facilitator: Kirk Surgener

Reading: TBA

Led by Guy Longworth and Tom Crowther.

Speaker: Michele Giavazzi

Led by Guy Longworth and Tom Crowther.

More details to follow.

Hegel made the claim that the truth of necessity is freedom, arguing that the two domains are not logically incompatible but that one should be understood as a development through the other. This has surprising resonances with contemporary thinkers like Daniel Dennett, who argue that determinism has been wrongly understood as a kind of fatalism and that the subsequent dichotomy between determinism and free will is a false one. Unlike Dennett, however, Hegel makes his arguments from a purely logical standpoint, which, if he is right, takes much less for granted in order to make his case. Other examples include debates on modality with Timothy Williamson, Robert Stalnaker and David Lewis, or the nature of causality by authors from other disciplines, such as George Ellis and Terrance Deacon. These are but some examples where Hegel's Logic can be an important resource to tackle contemporary questions and problems.

Led by Guy Longworth and Tom Crowther.

WMA Mini Workshop

June 11, 3.00-6.30, room R0.03

THE PERCEPTION OF OBJECTS AND SPACE

3 - 4.30: Peter Epstein, Pembroke College, Cambridge

Spatial Experience: More Than Mere Structure

5 – 6.30: Umrao Sethi, CUNY, New York

The Objects of Perception

Bert Timmermans (Aberdeen) Social interaction: from joint attention and motor learning to gaze dynamics and social agency

In debates about human rights, philosophers have tended to neglect social rights (i.e. the rights that protect our interpersonal, associative, and community-membership needs irrespective of our economic or political circumstances. Philosophers have focused instead on a familiar list of 'first generation' civil and political rights as well as a subset of the so-called 'second generation' socio-economic rights, namely the economic-welfare rights to shelter, basic subsistence, health and education.

This conference aims to bring together leading philosophers of human rights and rising stars to present frontier work on themes related to social rights, including the conceptual terrain, the place of social rights within the standard dichotomy between so-called 'liberty rights' and 'welfare rights', the defensibility of social rights as human rights, their relevance to distributive justice issues such as equality of opportunity, and their bearing on other branches of political philosophy such as democratic theory. The conference aims both to expand human rights theory and to set an agenda for further research.

Workshop on Self-Knowledge with Hannah Ginsborg (UCBerkeley) and Alexander Greenberg (Southhampton)

OC1.05

Led by Guy Longworth and Tom Crowther.

Speaker: Ahilleas Rokni

Further details to follow.

Claudio Tennie (Tübingen) Action copying in humans and other apes

Organisers: Guy Longworth and Tom Crowther.

Speaker: Matt Chennells

An Introduction to Economics and Finance; A Taste of Social Sciences.

SCHEDULE

14:00-14:30 Michael Brent – ‘Thinkers, Thinking, and Thoughts: A Non-Reductive Account of Conscious Mental Action’

14:30-15:00 Robyn Waller – ‘Sense of Agency and Cognitive Control Under Sleep Deprivation’

15:00-15:30 BREAK

15:30-16:00 Tom McClelland – ‘Free Won’t: Veto Control and the Sense of Agency’

16:00-16:30 Kath Bicknell – ‘Anxiety and the sense of agency in skilled action’

16:30-17:00 Round table discussion

3.00pm-4.15pm: Lucy Campbell (糖心TV): 'Talking about Myself: James Doyle on (Anscombe on)"I"'

4.30pm-6pm: Eylem ?zaltun (Ko? University, Istanbul): 'Anscombe on the Expression of Self-Consciousness'

Participants will enjoy three weeks of learning and debating with renowned academics and high profile guest speakers. The Summer School will take place in a beautiful area of London and it will offer the opportunity to engage with others through a calendar of social activities which will provide a real taster of London life.

Panos Mitkidis (Aarhus) Why Everybody (Yes, You Too) is Corrupt

This event is hosted by the AHRC-funded project Norms for the New Public Sphere, which brings together academic philosophers with media scholars, activists and professionals in order to investigate the opportunities and challenges that new social media pose for the public sphere. This first workshop will focus on the epistemic norms that can foster a public sphere in which democracy can flourish.

Programme:

09:30 - Welcome (tea and coffee)

10:00-11:15 - Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff) - 'Bellicose Debates: Arrogant and Liberatory Anger On and Off-Line'

11:15-12:30 - Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern) - 'Echo Chambers, Fake News, and Social Epistemology'

12:30-1:30 - Lunch

1:30-2.45 - Quassim Cassam (糖心TV) - 'Post-Truth, Lies, and Strategic Bullshit'

2:45-3:00 - Break

3:00-4:15 - Alex Worsnip (UNC Chapel Hill) - 'Deference and Democratic Citizenship'

4:15-5:30 - Michael Hannon (Nottingham) - 'Political Disagreement or Partisan Badmouthing?'

Drinks and Dinner

Alessandro Salice (University College Cork) Primitive Promises

Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt) will be visiting the Philosophy Department this Autumn Term as an IAS International Visiting Fellow. This 2-day workshop marks the beginning of her visit.

Funded by the IAS.

PROGRAMME

10:30-12:00 - Maria Rosa Antognazza (KCL), 'Knowledge and the First Person'

12:00-1:30 - Ioannis Evrigenis (Tufts). 'The Fly on the Axletree: Hobbes on Self-Knowledge and Judgement'

2:30-4:00 - Mark Philp (糖心TV), 'Godwin and Wollstonecraft: Deliberation and Self-Knowledge'

4:30-6:00 - Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt/糖心TV), 'Rousseau's Solution to a Rousseauean Problem'

7:15 - Dinner (Radcliffe Restaurant, UofW Campus)

Programme

Thursday 26^th September

10.30 – 12.00

Maria Rosa Antognazza (KCL) ‘Knowledge and the first person’

12.00 – 1.30

Ioannis Evrigenis (Tufts) ‘The Fly on the axletree: Hobbes on self-knowledge and judgment’

2.30 – 4.00

Mark Philp (糖心TV) ‘Godwin and Wollstonecraft: deliberation and self-knowledge '

4.30 – 6.00

Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt/糖心TV) ‘Rousseau's solution to a Rousseauean problem’

7.15 Dinner (Radcliffe house)

Friday 27^th September

9.00 – 10.30

Mario De Caro (Roma Tre/Tufts) ‘Machiavelli's naturalism’

10.30 – 12.00

Guy Longworth (糖心TV) ‘Descartes on how the mind is better known than the body’

12.00 – 1.15

Johannes Roessler (糖心TV) ‘Judgement and self-understanding in Montaigne’s 贰蝉蝉补测蝉’

Day 2

PROGRAMME

9:00-10:30 - Mario De Caro (Roma Tre/Tufts), 'Machiavelli's Naturalism'

10:30-12:00 - Guy Longworth (糖心TV), 'Descartes on How the Mind is Better Known Than the Body'

12:00-1:15 - Johannes Roessler (糖心TV), 'Judgement and Self-Understanding in Montaigne's Essays'

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Expression and Self-knowledge

糖心TV University, Friday 4^th October 2019

Humanities H0.03

Programme

11.00 – 12.30
Lucy Campbell (糖心TV)
‘Self-knowledge: expression without expressivism’

12.30 – 2.00

Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut)
‘No ‘How’ Privileged Self-Knowledge’

3.00 – 4.30

Cristina Borgoni (Bayreuth University)

‘Primitive forms of first-person authority and expressive capacities’

Reading: Soteriou, M. 'Cartesian Reflections on the Autonomy of the Mental'. [pdf]

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Readings:

Week 2: Soteriou, M. 'Cartesian Reflections on the Autonomy of the Mental'. [ pdf]

Week 3: Eilan, N. 'On the Paradox of Gestalt Switches: Wittgenstein’s Response to Kohler'. [ pdf]

Week 5: Roessler, J. 'The Silence of Self-Knowledge'. []

Week 7: Campbell, J. 'Sense, Reference and Selective Attention' []

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research): Tragedy, the Greeks and Us

Response by Andrew Cooper (糖心TV) and David Fearn (糖心TV)

Speaker: Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt)

Title: 'Socratic Self-Knowledge and the Concept of the Human Self: From Phenomenology to Metaphysics and Back Again'

Title: 'Arrogance, Ignorance, and Privilege'

Programme:

2.00pm - Literature Search Skills and Tools (Kate Courage, Academic Support Librarian)

Group A (MA students and first year MPhil students): Room S2.77

2.30pm - Time Management/Deadlines/Mitigating Circumstances/Extensions (Johannes Roessler)

3.00pm - Writing MA/MPhil Essays (Tom Crowther)

3.45pm - Tea and Coffee (Cowling Room)

4.00pm - Planning your MA/Phil (Johannes Roessler)

Group B (PhD students and second year MPhil students): Room S2.79

2.30pm - Graduate Progress Committees, Teaching, Submitting Papers to Conferences, Conference Funding (Peter Poellner)

3.00pm - Writing an MA/MPhil Thesis (Johannes Roessler)

3.45pm - Tea and Coffee

4.00pm - Planning your PhD/MPhil (Peter Poellner)

Both Groups (Cowling Room, S2.77)

4.15pm - Appling for PhD Programmes and Scholarships (Peter Poellner)

5.00pm - Drinks in The Dirty Duck

Departmental Undergraduate events will be taking place throughout the day.

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Serge Trottein (CNRS/?cole Normale Supérieure/PSL Research University)

Title: 'Kant and Postmodern Aesthetics'

Round Table Discussion on Inclusivity and Diversity in Philosophy at 糖心TV

Speaker: Adam Neal

Title: 'Social Poverty'

Respondent: Simon Gansinger

ABSTRACT:

The paper explores the relationship between material deprivation, and our needs as social beings. It argues that those who suffer at that intersection do so in two distinct but sometimes overlapping ways: 1) their needs for friendship, human contact and intimacy; and 2) status driven harms. The paper then conceptualises these harms as social poverty and argues that any complete account of poverty should include the impact on our social needs and our social position. The paper explores the ways in which each aspect of social poverty can lead to a worsening of material conditions. These include the social capital we gain from our social relationships, the impact of social poverty on our ability to participate in the job market and the impact on our ability to make and sustain social connections. The paper contextualises social poverty by discussing studies on the residents of Chicago who died during the 1995 Heatwave, poverty in inner city areas and low-income pensioners. After assessing different accounts of poverty, the paper shows that assessing poverty using income fails to do justice to the many factors which determine the extent of one's deprivation, including people's environments, social situation, social norms, friends and family, unemployment and life expectancy. This leads to an assessment of poverty as capability deprivation which, the paper argues, is more effective in assessing deprivation in respect of our nature as social beings. However, the paper argues that capability deprivation goes too far from our ordinary understanding of poverty. Instead, the paper outlines a conception of social poverty and argues that should be prominent in our thinking about deprivation.

Tutors:

David Bather Woods

Mat Coakley

Lucy Campbell

Speaker: Carlos Soto Román's Experiments in Poetry

An evening of poetic reading and discussion with the Poet.

Readings:

Week 2: Soteriou, M. 'Cartesian Reflections on the Autonomy of the Mental'. [ pdf]

Week 3: Eilan, N. 'On the Paradox of Gestalt Switches: Wittgenstein’s Response to Kohler'. [ pdf]

Week 5: Roessler, J. 'The Silence of Self-Knowledge'. []

Week 7: Campbell, J. 'Sense, Reference and Selective Attention' []

How does poetry defend itself in the court of philosophy? Does it have any say in the matter; or does someone, or something, speak on its behalf? Does philosophy, in a perverse inversion, ever get tried in the court of poetry? This reading group places itself in the thick of these trials, tracing the debates they wage and the judgements they provoke. Readings will include 21st century texts that have taken the challenging entanglement of poetics and philosophy forward. These texts will be read beside the poems they discuss or the poems that suggest themselves through the text. We invite students and Faculty members from Departments across the University to join us!

Session 1: The Affect of Poetry

Rei Terada, 'Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction', Kant to Adorno (p.35-73)

Adrienne Rich: 'What is Found There'

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Constancy to an Ideal Object'

Vinod Kumar Shukla: 'I Toss a Bunch of Keys'

Guest Discussant: Dr Stacey McDowell

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Stephen Houlgate (糖心TV)

Title: Kant and Hegel on the Antinomies of Reason

'Find Your Philosophy'

Speaker: Sameer Bajaj (Philosophy, 糖心TV)

Title: TBC

Please contact Alex Obrigewitsch for further information (Alex.Obrigewitsch@warwick.ac.uk)

Readings:

Week 2: Soteriou, M. 'Cartesian Reflections on the Autonomy of the Mental'. [ pdf]

Week 3: Eilan, N. 'On the Paradox of Gestalt Switches: Wittgenstein’s Response to Kohler'. [ pdf]

Week 5: Roessler, J. 'The Silence of Self-Knowledge'. []

Week 7: Campbell, J. 'Sense, Reference and Selective Attention' []

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Joanna Zylinska (Department of New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths)

Title: 'Artificial Intelligence, Anthropocene Stupidity'

ABSTRACT

'My talk will engage with two defining apocalyptic narratives of our times: the Anthropocene and AI (Artificial Intelligence). Both of these narratives, in their multiple articulations, predict the end of the human and of the world as we (humans) know it, while also hinting at the possibility of salvation. Looking askew at the conceptual and aesthetic tropes shaping them, and at their socio-political contexts, I will be particularly interested in the way in which these two stories about planetary-level threats come together, and in the reasons for their uncanny proximity. Concurring with Marshall McLuhan that art works as a 'Distant Early Warning system' for all kinds of apocalypse, I will suggest that it can also serve as a testing ground for the making and unmaking of such apocalyptic scenarios. And it is in art that I will seek the possibility of envisaging a better and more prudent relationship with technology - and with the world - from within the Anthropocene-AI nexus. The talk will include a presentation of some visual work from my own art practice'.

Speaker: Sameer Bajaj

Title: 'Protesting Injustice: Fairness, Sacrifice and Civility'

Abstract:

Recent democratic movements worldwide have put pressure on traditional views of the permissible ways of protesting injustice in democratic societies. These movements raise the following questions: Must principled disobedience of the law be civil as opposed to uncivil? Is rioting ever a permissible method of protesting injustice? What is the proper place of anger in protest movements? Can counterproductive forms of protest - forms of protest that predictably lead political majorities to respond with greater injustices - ever be justified? In this session, we will discuss these and related questions.

Work placement year, internships and volunteering

Speaker: Emily Bassett

Title: 'Responsibility for Sexual Desire'

ABSTRACT

Sexual desire is a rich topic dominated by conflicting intuitions - the uncontrollable nature of sexual desire and the indisputable existence of sexual repression often go hand in hand in literary works from the Aeneid to Anna Karenina. Questions of responsibility for sexual desire in particular are muddied by these warring opinions on the nature of sexual desire.

In this paper, I will draw on one account of sexual desire offered by Shaffer. Shaffer rejects what he calls 'propositional theories' of sexual desire - which appear more amenable to questions of responsibility - in favour of an account of sexual desire that is emotion-like, which I begin by outlining. Following this, I move to Shaffer's argument that his account is not parallel to emotions in one key way: sexual desires, unlike emotions, are not appropriately subject to reasons. In exploring whether this argument holds, I touch upon correlative concerns about opening sexual desires up to questions of responsibility, and draw to the conclusion that it is at least intuitively possible to talk about responsibility for sexual desire. However, I also hold this conclusion would be best served with a clear delineation of what it means for something to appropriately be subject to reasons.

Please contact Alex Obrigewitsch for further information (Alex.Obrigwitsch@warwick.ac.uk)

CANCELLED due to severe weather notice

Speakers: Maria Corrado and Matthew Nudds

Abstract:

Philosophical theories of perception tend to be modelled on vision, but how do we need to expand or revise them to accommodate other senses? In this session, we consider the case of hearing and we focus on the objects of auditory perceptual experience. While we commonly report that we hear ordinary objects and the event in which they participate, such as the dog barking, according to some, we only indirectly hear them in virtue of being directly presented with the sounds that these events produce. In these two short talks, we aim to accommodate a sense in which environmental elements other than sounds, including events in which ordinary objects participate, are present in auditory perceptual experience. In the first talk, Maria Corrado will spell out a particular version of the indirect view and argue that it fails to accommodate a phenomenally manifest difference between two cases of hearing. In the second talk, Matthew Nudds will offer a sense in which events other than sounds are phenomenally present in auditory perceptual experience.

糖心TV PPL Society, 糖心TV Philosophy Society, 糖心TV Bio Society and 糖心TV PPE Society are delighted to host ‘Medicine or Murder: A Medical Ethics Panel’ with Professor Tom Sorell, Dr Amzy Birdi, Greg Moorlock and Dr Anne-Marie Slowther, all experts in their domain, who will be debating during this hour-long panel on controversial issues such as abortion, compulsory vaccination or even the right to euthanasia.

We are a group dedicated to collectively reading the core works of the German philosopher, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831). Our goal is to facilitate a better understanding of the often difficult contents of Hegel's texts and to provide a forum for meaningful engagement between his thought and contemporary questions. Although we are primarily made up of postgraduate students working on Hegel, we happily welcome non-philosophers and beginners in Hegel's philosophy to join us at any point.

This term we will be working on the third part of Hegel's Science of Logic, the Doctrine of Concept. Please bring a copy of the book for the session. We will mainly use the Di Giovanni translation, but there are usually no problems if people bring other translations (Miller, etc).

Contact: Mert Yirmibes: m.yirmibes@warwick.ac.uk

website:

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Beatrice Han-Pile (Essex)

Title: 'The Doing Is Everything': A Middle-Voiced Reading of Agency in Nietzsche

A chance to meet your course rep for UG programmes and tell them what you think about the course: Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy with Psychology and Maths and Philosophy.

Speaker: Sonia Sedivy (Toronto)

Title: 'Aesthetic Properties and Philosophy of Perception'

Speaker: Jae Hetterley

Title: 'Heidegger's Kantianism in Being and Time'

ABSTRACT

This paper investigates Heidegger's intellectual development at a specific historical moment: the centrality of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason to Heidegger's understanding of ontology in the late 1920s. Why does fundamental ontology become a specifically transcendental philosophy, and how ought we to understand the transcendental thread in relation to the wider systematics of Being and Time? Regarding the first question, I argue that Heidegger's thought undergoes its own 'Copernican Revolution' in response to a methodological aporia Heidegger is confronted with - namely, how can phenomenology address the question of the meaning of being whilst going beyond mere anthropology? The Copernican Revolution, I argue, signals a way out insofar as it demonstrates that intentional conditions coincide with ontological conditions - and with this in place, structures of Dasein are consequently structures of being. Secondly, in filling out Heidegger's transcendental conception of ontology, I draw an analogy between Kantian imagination and Heideggerian disclosedness as the root of their systematic unity - that what both philosophers foundationally recognise ontologically is a structure of ambiguity at the heart of the human subjectivity, between intuition and understanding, existentiality and facticity. Ontological interpretation, in turn, is structually projective for both Kant and Heidegger - which is to say, the formal structures of their respective ontologies cohere. Finally, I consider the question of transcendental idealism in relation to Kant and Heidegger, and set out how the primarily systematic argument that I provide in the thesis can provide the basis for closer readings of Being and Time.

The seminar will be followed by a Q&A session and drinks in The Duck.

Please contact Alex Obrigewitsch for further information (Alex.Obrigewitsch@warwick.ac.uk)

Speaker: Mert Yirmibes

Struggling to finish an essay? Find it too easy to look for excuses?

Join us for a productive morning, stripped away from all distractions in the Cowling Room (S2.77) at 10.00am. Bring a goal with you: what do you want to accomplish in the next two hours? Be ambitious, while keeping it realistic - what can you do if you were in your top state of mind?

Imagine finishing that essay you've been dreading to write, in two hours, on a Monday morning! This is like a Library all-nighter, minus the noisy crisps and feeling of slight disgust.

A continental breakfast will be provided.

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Jeffrey A. Bell (Southeastern Louisiana University)

Title: 'Towards a Deleuzian-Humean Political Theory'

Speaker: Simon Jenkins

Title: 'Reproduction, Surveillance and Discrimination: Potential Effects of Emerging Technologies on Minority Groups'

The Philosophy Department will be running an information session on the opportunities and attractions of postgraduate study in Philosophy on Wednesday 27 November 2019.

The session will provide detailed information on the various postgraduate degrees in Philosophy, or including a Philosophy component, that are available at 糖心TV, both immediately post-BA, and more advanced (doctoral degrees). In addition to information on the different postgraduate courses, the session will also provide guidance about deadlines, sources of funding (including Departmental scholarships), and the career advantages of postgraduate study in Philosophy.

Speakers will include members of the Philosophy Department involved in running postgraduate degrees, as well as students currently taking graduate degrees in the Department. A representative from the Careers Team will also be in attendance. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions. Wine and nibbles will be served. We hope to see many of you there!

The forum will take place at LSE, London. The event is free and does not require registration.

CFA details and updates about the event will be published here:

For further info, email: m.corrado@warwick.ac.uk

Please contact Alex Obrigewitsch for further information (Alex.Obrigewitsch@warwick.ac.uk)

Speaker: Professor David Papineau (KCL and City University of New York Graduate Center)

Title: 'The Statistics and Metaphysics of Causation'

Royal Statistical Society event. Please contact Ian Hamilton: (I.Hamilton@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Please note that this event has been postponed and will now take place on 05/12/2019.

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Rachel Bowlby (Department of Comparative Literature, UCL)

Title: 'Unnatural Resources: Changing Arguments and Reproductive Technologies'

Speaker: Zak Stinchcombe

Title: 'This Moral Vision: Martha Nussbaum and the Novel'

ABSTRACT:

This talk is interested in examining the relations that hold between ethical and literary value with a particular focus on whether they are in tension, do not neatly complement one another, perhaps violently disagree, and so on. Initially we will look at two competing accounts of this tension, namely Ethicism (wherein ethical deficiency, or merit, corresponds to literary deficiency or merit) and Aestheticism (there is no real tension to discuss - aesthetic value and ethical value do not occupy the same space, have nothing to do with one another, that ethical considerations are irrelevant to aesthetic judgements, and so on). Neither account is satisfactory, treating the relationship too superficially. Martha Nussbaum's account of the novel, particularly in the Jamesian novel, points to a deeper, more textured account of the relationship. Quite apart from the ethical and literary value covarying. or else standing independently of one another, Nussbaum argues: 1) novels are themselves works of moral philosophy. 2) it is in novels that one finds the most appropriate articulation of the, or this, moral vision. 3) we can find in novels a paradigm of moral activity. I shall assess the plausibility of these claims, taking into consideration some interpretative ambiguities that exist in her account. I will then be in a position to say something of how this might be applied to the tension we began with. Nussbaum says that there exists a 'dynamic tension between two possible irreconcilable visions...' I agree that this tension exists. Moreover, though, I intend to claim something stronger. The dynamic tension is not merely present; it is an essential component of the relationship between ethical and aesthetic value.

Please contact Alex Obrigewitsch for further information (Alex.Obrigewitsch@warwick.ac.uk)

Title: The Statistics and Metaphysics of Causation

ABSTRACT:

For the last 100 years statisticians have been developing techniques to tease causal conclusions of observational correlational data. For the most part, philosophers have simply ignored these developments. Even when they have taken notice, they have done nothing to related the success of these techniques to the metaphysical nature of causation. Curiously, this silence has been encouraged by the attitude of statisticians like Judea Pearl. The talk will reflect on the puzzling situation.

MINDGRAD 2019: OURSELVES AND OTHERS

糖心TV Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Mind

7th-8th December 2019, University of 糖心TV (UK)

Invited speakers:
Dr Stina B?ckstr?m - S?dert?rn University
Professor Matthew Boyle - University of Chicago
Professor Jane Heal - University of Cambridge
Dr Joel Smith - University of Manchester

Alison Phipps is a renowned sociologist, focusing on gender studies. She will discuss her research for her upcoming book: Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism.

For further details on the talk:

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Kurt Sylvan (Southampton)

Title: 'Knowledge and the Presentation of Reality'

Completing Application Forms and Attending Job Interviews

With Sameer Bajaj, Lucy Campbell and Daniele Lorenzini

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Naomi Waltham-Smith (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, 糖心TV)

Title: 'Homofaunie: Non-Human Tonalities of Listening in Derrida and Cixous'

糖心TV PAIS and Philosophy have organised a roundtable to discuss Martina Tazzioli's new book, The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe's Borders (London: SAGE, 2019). The book addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: How are migrants governed as individual subjects and as part of groups? What are the modes of control, identification and partitions that migrants are subjected to? Bringing together an ethnographically grounded analysis of migration, and a critical theoretical engagement with the security and humanitarian modes of governing migrants, The Making of Migration pushes us to rethink notions that are central in current political theory such as multiplicity and subjectivity. This is an innovative and sophisticated study, deploying migration as an analytical angle for complicating and reconceptualising the emergence of collective subjects, mechanisms of individualisation, and political invisibility/visibility.

Contributors:

Stuart Elden (PAIS, 糖心TV)

Daniele Lorenzini (Philosophy, 糖心TV)

Vicki Squire (PAIS, 糖心TV)

Maurice Stierl (PAIS, 糖心TV)

and Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London)

This reading group, or 'communion', focuses on the work of Georges Bataille and his henchmen, including but not limited to Andre Masson, Roger Caillois, Michel Leiris, Pierre Klossoski, Raymond Queneau. Alexandre Kojève and Lev Shestov, as well as literary figures including Colette Peignot, Jacques Vaché, Lautréamont, Marques de Sade, Baudelaire, Catherine of Siena and Meister Eckart.

A few key texts will be analysed:

Le Coupable (1944) Guilty

L'Erotisme (1957) Eroticism

La Haine de la Poésie (1947) The Hatred of Poetry

L'Impossible (1962) The Impossible

La literature et le Mal (1957) Literature and Evil

Open to all.

Speaker: Rachel Fraser (Oxford)

Title: 'Narrative Testimony'

Contributors:

Alison Downham Moore (Western Sydney University)

Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham)

Stuart Elden (PAIS, 糖心TV)

Daniele Lorenzini (Philosophy, 糖心TV)

Federico Testa (Institute of Advanced Study, 糖心TV)

Supported by Centre Michel Foucault, Institute of Advanced Study, 糖心TV, and The University of 糖心TV.

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Guest Speakers:

Daniele Lorenzini  (糖心TV)

Title: Genealogy, Possibilization, and (Post-)Critique

  (Southampton)

Title: Genealogy as Re-Problematization: Autonomy, Aspect-Change and Limits

Speaker: Tom Crowther

Title: Philosophy and Mental Health

Speakers: Tom Crowther (糖心TV) and Guy Longworth (糖心TV)

Titles: 'Knowledge, Abilities, and Wakeful Consciousness' (TC) and 'Learning from Theaetetus' (GL)

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Josh Robinson (School of English, Communications, Philosophy, Cardiff)

Title: 'Crisis in Theory'

Josh Robinson teaches modern and contemporary critical theory in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. Most recently, he is author of Adorno’s Poetics of Form, which appeared last year in SUNY’s Contemporary Continental Philosophy series):

Crisis in Theory: Beyond the Representational Paradigm

This paper aspires to offer a critical account of a set of assumptions that are widespread in literary and critical theory, both in its historical emergence (as seen primarily through its institutional histories) and in several more recent developments (including the various ‘turns’ that arise from time to time. My focus is on what I term the representational paradigm: in its simplest and broadest formulation, the assumption, explicit or otherwise, within literary studies that works of literature matter insofar as they are representative; that what matters about literary works is their representative character.

This paradigm persists in multiple, not always interdependent (or even necessarily compatible) manifestations, which include: an analytical focus on events represented within works of literature (what might be called a focus on content at the expense of form); a set of analytical procedures that rely on an implicit theory of allegory whereby readings are produced that see elements of a work as representing elements outside it; attempts to reconfigure the canon and/or redesign our curricula such that the works and authors within it are more representative of global society. I outline a tentative taxonomy of these different versions of representationalism, and relate them to a set of shared democratic assumptions about political representation—assumptions which have a tendency to place themselves beyond scrutiny. I argue that while the democratic aspirations expressed at least in progressive versions of representationalism paradigm constitute a commendable alternative to the (not only cultural) conservatism of the tendencies against which they are in many respects a reaction, these underlying assumptions ultimately overlook or even limit the potential of literature’s ways of thinking to contribute to a transformation of our understanding of the political. I thus set out some of the ways in which criticism and theory might move beyond the representational paradigm.

The panel includes Fabienne Peter, Sameer Bajaj, Daniele Lorenzini and Michele Giavazzi who will be discussing the following: 

? Is state authority undermined by unjust political decisions?

? When is civil disobedience justified? Is uncivil disobedience ever justified?

? Does a thin democratic majority weaken a government’s mandate?

? What are the civic duties associated with democratic citizenship?

 Come along and join the discussion and put your questions to the panel! The event will include pizza and drinks.

In the first part of the seminar, Stephanie Redding (Centre for Student Careers and Skills) will give a presentation on 'Philosophy Postgrads: Exploring All Your Options', which will be about how to go about finding a job once you've completed your degree.

The second part of this seminar will be led by Tom Crowther, and will focus on 'How to Write an MA (or MPhil) Dissertation'. MA students are particularly encouraged to attend this workshop, since the issues are of particular relevance to them. But everyone is invited!

Session following on from 16 January:

Speakers: Tom Crowther (糖心TV) and Guy Longworth (糖心TV)

Titles: 'Knowledge, Abilities, and Wakeful Consciousness' (TC) and 'Learning from Theaetetus' (GL)

Speaker: J?rn Wiengarn

Title: 'I Trusted You! - On the Normativity of Interpersonal Trust'

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Nina Power (Roehampton)

Title: 'Philosophies of the Wolf: Freud and Deleuze & Guattari

Speaker: Sophia Connell (Birkbeck)

Title: 'Aristotle on Animal Cognition: Contemporary Perspectives'

Wednesday 5 February 2020, 4.15pm-6pm, Room OC1.07, Oculus

Speaker: Daniele Lorenzini (糖心TV)

Title: 'Understanding and Acknowledging: Some Remarks on the Illocutionary/Perlocutionary Distinction'

The objective of this conference is to revitalise one of the oldest methodological concerns in philosophy of aesthetics: namely, should the inquiry focus on the concept of Beauty as such, as the experience which is evoked through the aesthetic object, or are we to focus on the aesthetic objects themselves: their particular forms and contents and how these particularities are themselves beautiful?

To foster a renewed discussion around these topics the conference will take on an intra-disciplinary approach. This is done by inviting philosophers who do not specialise in aesthetics to give papers alongside established philosophers of aesthetics. The idea is that those who have not specialised in aesthetics but who are nevertheless acquainted with the general methodological problem that faces many fields in philosophy will offer new perspectives on the issue that will impact on the discussion.

The event is open to all related disciplines, i.e, art history, history, literature studies, etc.

Speakers:

Derek Attridge (English and Related Literature, York)

Esther Leslie (Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck)

Please join the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and the Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA) at the University of 糖心TV for their annual conference for postgraduate students working in political and legal theory.

Speakers:

Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge)

Elizabeth Cripps (University of Edinburgh)

Speaker: Giulia Lorenzi

Title: The Role of Conceptualisation in DeBellis' Work on Music: A Discussion

Respondent: Chenwei Nie

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T. Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Simone Kotva (Cambridge)

Title: 'An Enquiry Concerning Non-Human Understanding: Philosophy, Ecstasy and Ecological Thinking'

Speaker: Peter Adamson (LMU Munich; KCL)

Title: 'Self-Knowledge in Islamic Philosophy'

Speakers:

Hartmut Rosa (Sociology, Jena University/Max Weber Kolleg Erfurt)

Daniel Hartley (World Literatures, Durham)

Irina Hron (German Studies, Vienna University/Gothenburg University)

Guest Speaker: Hartmut Rosa on the English translation of his publication Resonance.

“Resonance and Alienation. Two Modes of Experiencing Time in an Age of Acceleration”

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German Social Theorist Hartmut Rosa and his publication Resonance.

Speaker: Adam Bainbridge

Title: How to Appreciate Art (according to the critics)

Respondent: Gianluca Lorenzini

What is it to appreciate a work of art? For example, is it coherent to say “That’s a good sculpture, but I don’t like it”?

Analytic philosophers of art who think about art criticism typically agree that successful criticism must be evaluative. They claim that critics must judge the value of artworks, as art. But philosophical consensus quickly unravels into disagreements about how judgements are to be justified, and into disagreements about what makes artistic value valuable.

These philosophical divergences emerge in different beliefs about what a “proper” encounter with a work of art amounts to. In this talk, I want to suggest that the philosophers are not paying adequate attention to the actual practice of art criticism. I will introduce three possible ways of understanding appreciation in this context and I’ll ask: is there a relationship between our beliefs about an artwork’s value and our susceptibility to experience affective and emotional responses? I will argue that to appreciate an artwork is not merely to recognise its value, it is to incorporate the work into our lives.

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Kate Soper (Philosophy, University of Brighton/London Metropolitan University)

Title: 'The Dialectics of Progress: Towards a Post-Growth Aesthetic and Politics of Prosperity'

Speaker: Chris Janaway (Southampton)

Title: Schopenhauer

Speaker: Anil Gomes (Oxford)

Title: Lichtenberg's Puzzle

"Sometime in 1793 or 1794, the German philosopher, physicist, and aphorist George Christoph Lichtenberg writes in his notebook: ‘One should say it is thinking, just as one says, it is lightning. To say cogito is already too much as soon as one translates it as I am thinking. To assume the I, to postulate it, is a practical requirement’ (my translation). Lichtenberg’s claim was influential on a range of philosophers, including Ernst Mach, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein. But – I’ll suggest – the problem which he is pressing has been misunderstood. I’ll try and set out the nature of the puzzle and explain why it has force. It will raise a set of questions about the kind of agency involved in conscious thought."

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Par (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information

This is a unique opportunity to hear from fantastic female talent writing in many fields of philosophy. Whether you are considering postgraduate study or simply pursuing an interest in philosophy, there will be something to engage you. We are pleased to welcome staff from The University of 糖心TV for a Q&A panel as well as two guest speakers:

Helen Steward (University of Leeds) is the Deputy Head of The School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science. She is President of the Aristotelian Society, as well as being one of the leading philosophers in the country pioneering work in philosophy of action, free will and philosophy of the mind.

Fabienne Peter (University of 糖心TV) is the Head of the Department of Philosophy. Before coming to 糖心TV in 2004, she taught at the University of Basel and was Postdoc at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Bergson on Time and Freedom

With Keith Ansell-Pearson (糖心TV), Emily Herring (Leeds) and Mark Sinclair (Roehampton)

Guest Speaker: David Bather Woods

Title: What is the Good of Public Philosophy?

ABSTRACT:

There has been a boom in public philosophy recently, with philosophers taking full advantage of the range of new media as well as continuing with the old. This session is titled ‘What is the good of public philosophy?’ There have been many answers to this question, including enrichment, guidance, self-improvement, entertainment, and citizenry. But as I research this literature, I find few if any linking public philosophy to the goods of university access and participation. In this session, then, I pose a more specific set of question: Does public philosophy support the good of widening participation? Does widening participation need public philosophy? If so, what kind of public philosophy does it need? At first glance, public philosophy does not look essential to widening participation in university philosophy. On further investigation, however, there is a role for philosophers to play in raising awareness of the discipline of philosophy, encouraging and increasing philosophical literacy, and shaping the environment and image of philosophy.

Speaker: Sameer Bajaj

Title: TBC

Speaker: Simon Wimmer (糖心TV)

Title: 'Knowledge, Facts, and why Knowledge might be a Socio-Linguistic Kind'

Details TBC

Speaker: Will Gildea

Title: 'Grounding Our Equality Amid Inequality: Towards a View of Moral Status'

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: James MacDowell (Department of Film and TV, 糖心TV)

Title: 'Regarding YouTube as Art'

Speaker: Alan Millar (Stirling)

Title: TBC

Speaker: Stephen Houlgate

Title: Idealism in the Thought of Berkeley, Kant and Hegel

Speaker: M.M. McCabe (KCL)

Title: 'Knowing, Saying and the Value of Understanding: Plato's Account of Epistemic Virtue'

Speaker: Toby Ord, Senior Research Fellow at Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.

Hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Effective Altruism 糖心TV.

We hope to re-schedule this event. Contact Eileen John (eileen.john@warwick.ac.uk) for more information.

First saying, then believing: the pragmatic roots of folk psychology

TBC

A one day conference at the Institute of Philosophy, Room 349, Third Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Workshop with David Hunter on his forthcoming book On being a believer.

Further info TBA

Contact: Johannes Roessler

Philosophy and Empirical Perspectives

Interdisciplinary conference

Speakers:
Rachel Dudley, Kati Farkas, John Hyman (tbc), Guy Longworth, Eva Rafetseder, Paul Silva, and Simon Wimmer.

Katalin Farkas, CEU

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Speaker: Michael Hannon (Nottingham)

Title: 'Empathetic Understanding in Politics'

The Cultural Origins of Human Mind-Reading

Papers are circulated prior to the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Guest Speakers:

Kate Soper (Philosophy, University of Brighton/London Metropolitan University)

Title: 'The Dialectics of Progress: Towards a Post-Growth Aesthetic and Politics of Prosperity'

James MacDowell (Department of Film and TV, 糖心TV)

Title: 'Regarding YouTube as Art'

Speaker: Naomi Eilan (糖心TV)

Title: 'Knowing and Understanding Other People'

These two hour Zoom-based seminars focus on the publication 'Truth and Truthfulness' by Bernard Williams, (Princeton University Press, 2002).

Organised by Thomas Crowther and Guy Longworth.

Papers are circulated prior the seminar. Please contact Tom Parr (T.Parr@warwick.ac.uk) for further information.

Please contact Irene Dal Poz for further information.

Speaker: David Bather Woods (糖心TV)

Title: 'The World as One: Learning from Solitude with Schopenhauer'

Abstract

Schopenhauer praises solitude and derides sociability. An active mind requires solitude, and tolerance of solitude requires an active mind, thus a capacity for solitude is an intellectual virtue, he reasons. The need for sociability, a sign of an inactive mind, is solitude’s opposite vice. Time has not been kind to this view. It is now widely accepted, and has scarcely been more apparent, that human beings are ineluctably social creatures, and better off that way. Worse still, Schopenhauer’s praise of solitude jars with his praise of worldliness as another intellectual virtue. Thinkers should learn from experience of the world, he believes; but can thinkers be both worldly and solitary? How can they know more about the world by getting out in it less? I propose a reading of Schopenhauer’s praise of the intellectual virtue of solitude which is neither insensitive to the patent human need for sociability, nor inconsistent with the intellectual virtue of worldliness.