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Guest Speaker: Yumi Suzuki (Bern University)

Title: Sino-Hellenic Environmental Philosophy: How Did Ancient Chinese and Greek Philosophers Think About the Environment Differently?

Colleagues are invited to attend a buffet lunch for our UG applicants with offers for 2023 entry. We have a core team of colleagues and students already, but anyone else who is around campus that day is warmly welcome to join in the fun.

鈥淚n Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on 鈥榤oral relativism鈥�, among others.鈥� For the most part, the seminars are planned to takein person, in S2.77, but we move online forsomelater sessions. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduatestudents, are very welcome.

Thursday April 27, 3–5pm: Chapter 1: Glaucon鈥檚 and Adeimantus鈥� interrogation on Socrates

Thinking Spaces – A Roundtable Discussion

with Matthew Bliss (History of Arts), Tobias Keiling (Philosophy), Hana Samar啪ija (Philosophy), and Naomi Waltham-Smith (CIM)

(Third instalment of the event series Philosophy Goes Architecture)

Tuesday, 2 May, 5:30pm–7pm (followed by drinks reception)

Venue: S0.11 (ground floor Social Sciences)

 Doing philosophy is an embodied activity: it is always someone who thinks, and so thoughts are had, expanded, and written down somewhere, often in human-made surroundings that reflect societal values, ideological currents, and particular interests. How do these spaces interact with the individuals that populate them? How does spatial design interfere with intellectual labour? How does the history of buildings leave a trace on the products of the mind?

The invited speakers are asked to respond to these and similar questions, drawing on their own research and preferred approaches. They are particularly encouraged to relate their answers to our shared experience as people who work and think in the English Midlands, in Coventry, on 糖心TV Campus, at their respective departments.

All 糖心TV Philosophy students and staff (permanent, sessional, administrative) are invited to attend and join the discussion!

Contact: simon.gansinger@warwick.ac.uk

Followed by drinks reception

Organisers: Antonia Hofst盲tter and Christine Achinger (German Studies/Modern Languages)

鈥淚n Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on 鈥榤oral relativism鈥�, among others.鈥�

For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

Thursday May 4, 3–5pm: Chapter 2: Hume鈥檚 genealogy of morals

"The Philosophy of Helene Druskowitz"

(University of Lancaster)

Guest Speaker: Matt Boyle (Chicago)

鈥淚n Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on 鈥榤oral relativism鈥�, among others.鈥� For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions.

Thursday May 11, 3–5pm: Chapter 3: Hume鈥檚 theory extended

Guest Speaker: Jifen Li (Renmin University of China)

Title: A New Account of Human Nature in the Xunzi

鈥淚n Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on 鈥榤oral relativism鈥�, among others.鈥� For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions.

Thursday May 18, 3–5pm: Chapter 4: From Hume to Kant

"Spirit is Artist: On the Aesthetic Dimension of Ethical Life and Why the State is not a Work of Art"

(University of Potsdam)

Guest Speaker: Joseph Schear (Oxford)

鈥淚n Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on 鈥榤oral relativism鈥�, among others.鈥� For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions.

Thursday May 25, 3–5pm: Chapter 5: The laws of morality as the laws of freedom and the laws of freedom as the laws of morality

The symposium will be an opportunity for some PhD students working on continental political philosophy to discuss their works with peers and other members of the staff.

It will take place in room S0.17 on the 7^th of June, from 3pm to 7pm. Thanks to the Philosophy Student Events fund, the symposium will be followed by a wine reception!

Everyone is more than welcome to join.

糖心TV Continental Philosophy Conference 2022/2023:

Continental Philosophy: The Subject and Identity

08-09 June 2023

University of 糖心TV (UK)

Conference Venue (Hybrid): 

Department of Philosophy, University of 糖心TV,
Coventry, United Kingdom

Zoom

Keynote Speakers: 

Prof. Peter V. Zima (Universit盲t Klagenfurt)

Dr. Koshka Duff (University of Nottingham)

Call for Abstracts

The aim of the fifth edition of the WCPC is to stage a discussion of the subject and identity, and the relationship between the two. We hope to prompt a discussion around the various ways in which differing perspectives on subjectivity and identity may serve as philosophical methods of framing experience, reason, and one鈥檚 circumstances in the world. The central problem for this conference is: how does the fraught and often politicised notion of identity, around which there are disparate and contradictory interpretations, problematise the traditional Western notion of the Subject who is assumed to be universal and prior to identity formation. The conference aims to address these issues through an engagement with contemporary debates on the subject and identity, as well as by tracing how the meaning of these concepts has transformed within the history of philosophy. The goal of the discussion being an intervention in the relational dynamic between the two.

Throughout the history of philosophy, subjectivity and identity have been interpreted in radically different ways: from views of a universal (e.g. Cartesian or Kantian) Subject, to subjectivity arising through a historical development (Hegel and Marx), and more contemporary accounts of historically contingent subjectivities and identities constituted, for example, by structures of power (Althusser, Foucault, and Deleuze). Recently, debates on these issues have sought to incorporate non-Western conceptions - such as the concept of Xin (heart-mind) in Chinese Philosophy, or the post-colonial research of Fanon and Bhabha - in order to enrich our understanding of the diverse contexts and traditions in which subjects are positioned. The conference aims to push these historical discourses around subjectivity forward by challenging traditional notions, as well as by interrogating how the many meanings assumed by these concepts throughout history affect our present understanding of them.

To further elucidate the relationship between identity and subjectivity, the conference also intends to explore the tension of whether one鈥檚 identity is self-determined, or rather, whether one鈥檚 identity is thrust upon them by external conditions. The complicated relationship between one鈥檚 individual sense of self and one鈥檚 sense of their social standing is made explicit, for example, in the debate of whether LGBTQ+ identities are formed in resistance to normative standards of gender and sexuality, or whether they are formed independently in ever-developing queer theory. Another tension that speaks to the problematic of self-determination is the role of nationalist discourses in the constitution of one鈥檚 sense of identity. This tension is particularly evident in the case of refugees acquiring new citizenships: regardless of their own relationship to nationalism and the more or less conscious choice to incorporate this into their sense of identity, they are nonetheless thrust into a national identity. In both of these examples, one finds a reflection of the Althusserian's 'subject interpellation', in which, regardless how one views themselves, one is thrown back onto themselves and made an ideological subject in the gaze of the Other. Here, the problem of how one is to orient themself as a 鈥榮elf鈥�, in the face of various socio-political circumstances (such as oppression, class and racial struggles, uncertainty and instability) is made more explicitly into the problem of how one is to understand the relationship between one鈥檚 subjectivity and one鈥檚 identity. That is to say, is one鈥檚 identity constructed by a supposed 鈥榚ssential鈥� and 鈥榬ational鈥� self, the thinking subject, or is one鈥檚 identity thrust upon them in such a way that conditions the very parameters of one鈥檚 supposedly independent rationality?

With this said, some of the questions we hope to engage with in the fifth edition of WCPC are:

• What is the role of the subject in contemporary philosophical discourse?
• Are we in a post-Subject era or does the traditional a priori Subject linger?
• How do accounts of unconscious drives problematise the traditional notion of the self?
• Is there an inherent problem in the subject-object distinction and relation? Is it problematic to, as Adorno suggests, place the subject as the locus from which external 鈥榦bjects鈥� are to be understood?
• What is the relationship between an individual鈥檚 subject position and their wider collective identities? What role might various kinds of identities: national, ethno-racial, gender, sexual, etc., play in shaping ongoing discourse?
• How could this discussion contribute to, and reframe, certain methodological and theoretical insights of the history of philosophy as a discipline?
• How the present debates on subject and identity are determined by their shifting in meaning throughout the history of philosophy?
• How have thinkers of the continental tradition historically addressed such problems? And how do contemporary philosophers approach these? What relevant insights can theorists continue to provide on questions of the subject and identity?

While our focus will be on the continental tradition, we encourage applicants from all areas of philosophy, and welcome interdisciplinary research that connects philosophy with social science.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted abstracts should be approximately 500 words long. Abstracts must be written in English, and should be sent to the WCPC committee at wcpc@warwick.ac.uk. Please use 鈥淎bstract, [your name]鈥� as the subject of your email. In the text of the email, please include 1) the title of your paper, 2) your institutional affiliation, and 3) your preferred email contact address. Please exclude any identifying information from the abstract itself.

Please, also clarify in your email whether you would like to be considered for the award of a partial bursary (covering 50% of accommodation costs), which may become available in due course.

The deadline for abstract submission is the 15th of March 2023.

We will be asking the speakers to pre-circulate their papers and provide, during their speaking slot, a short 5-minute introduction, which will be followed by 25 minutes of questions and discussions (maximum). This means that, if your abstract is accepted, we will require you to send us a 3000-word paper in advance and no later than on 13th of May 2023.

Your paper will be shared with other speakers and conference participants, and conference discussions will be based on the submitted version.

We particularly encourage submissions by philosophers from groups who are underrepresented in the discipline.

Summary of Dates

15th of March 2023 - deadline for abstract submission

13th of May 2023 - deadline for the submission of conference papers (3000 words)

8th – 9th of June 2023 - conference dates

Additional information

This conference is made possible by generous funding provided by the University of 糖心TV Philosophy Department, The Mind Association and The Society for Women in Philosophy, United Kingdom. It is an annual event within The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy (University of 糖心TV). The conference is organised in compliance with the BPA/SWIP guidelines for accessible conferences, the BPA/SWIP good practice scheme for gender equality, and the BPA Environmental Travel Scheme.

鈥淚n Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on 鈥榤oral relativism鈥�, among others.鈥� For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions.

Thursday June 8, 3–5pm: Chapter 6: Classical utilitarianism

Guest Speaker: Ursula Coope (Oxford)

Presenters: M茅lissa Th茅riault (Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 谩 Trois Rivi猫res), Matthew Strohl (University of Montana), and Celia Coll (University of Hertfordshire)

鈥淚n Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on 鈥榤oral relativism鈥�, among others.鈥� For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions.

 Thursday June 22, 3–5pm (Online): Chapter 8: The consequentialist argument

Workshop: Species-Being, Monday 26th June, 11:30 - 18:00

11:30AM- 1PM: Vanessa Wills (George Washington University), 鈥淥n 鈥楳ystical Veils鈥�: Marx鈥檚 Account of the Human Eye as a Product of Labor

1PM-2PM: Lunch

2PM-3:30PM: Christoph Schuringa (Northeastern University London), 鈥淕attungswesen and Universality鈥�

3:30PM-4:30PM Break

[**online only**]

4:30PM-6PM: Karen Ng (Vanderbilt), 鈥淢etabolism and Natural Limits: Rethinking Species-Being in Hegel and Marx鈥�

6PM: Drinks and dinner

Those interested in dinner should contact Andrew Huddleston.

All the best,
Andrew and Tobias (Co-Convenors, PKEP)

Link to join via Teams:

The 糖心TV Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA) is pleased to announce a new mini-workshop as part of our MEEP series. This series explores the intersection of topics typically found under the categories of 'Mind and Epistemology' and 'Ethics and Political Philosophy.' All are welcome!

Professor Carol Rovane, Columbia University

Social Conditions of the Psyche

Professor Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University

The Commons and our Political Ideals

Time: 2:00-6:00pm, Thursday, 29 June 2023.

Venue: TBA

For more information about the WMA events, please visit:/fac/soc/philosophy/research/researchcentres/wma/

Join us for an end-of-year CRPLA party, with short talks on the phenomenon of artworks showing up in other artworks.

Speakers:

Michael Bell on D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, and Schubert

Diarmuid Costello on Cildo Meireles' Insertions in Ideological Systems: Coca Cola Project

Eileen John on Marc Chagall's I and the Village in Alice Munro's 'Soon'

Nick Lawrence on Roberto Bola帽o's "Days of 1978"

Helmut Schmitz on Annie Leibowitz鈥� photo of John Lennon & Yoko Ono in Ulrich Woelk鈥檚 novel Liebespaare (Couples)

Please rsvp to eileen.john@warwick.ac.uk.

 Thursday July 6, 3–5pm (online): Chapter 9: A first-order ethic of solidarity and reciprocity Depending on interest, we might then consider carrying on into chapters 10 (Justice) and 11–12 (Metaethics)

This dinner will be open to all of our new PG students. Please could we ask any staff wishing to come along to sign up via this online form so we have an idea of numbers: /fac/soc/philosophy/intranets/postgraduatehome/welcomepostgraduates/graduatebuffet

Open to all PG students and staff but again please do register if you are coming so we can make sure we order enough lunch and meet any dietary requirements!
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10:30AM-11:30AM

Ben Campion, 鈥淐ollaboration and Trust in Photography鈥�

Commentator: Ben Ferguson

11:45AM- 12:45PM

Ying Xue, 鈥淒oes Universality Matter to Freedom? -- A Comparison Between Hegel and Harry Frankfurt鈥�

Commentator: Nadine Elzein

12:45- 1:45PM

Lunch

1:45AM-2:45PM

Chris Bowling, 鈥淭he Genealogy of Morals as a 'Critical History鈥欌��

Commentator: Tim Stoll

2:45PM-3:15PM- Break

3:15PM-4:15PM:

Maria Zanella, 鈥淐ould Sadness be a Bodily Feeling?鈥�

Commentator: Johannes Roessler

Tobias is organising a welcome event in week 1 especially for incoming students in the MA Continental Philosophy. We will have a workshop on the notion of continental philosophy, followed by a dinner on campus. The event will take place on Tuesday Oct 3, 4-7pm in R0.14. First and second-year students in all PG courses as well as visiting students are welcome to attend. The event is also open to interested third year UG students, so please advertise in your modules if possible. A quick email to tobias.keiling@warwick.ac.uk to confirm participation is appreciated.

Run by quizmaster Kirk, open to all of our UG students and staff, this will be a really nice opportunity to meet our new UG cohort. There will pizza and drinks provided. No need to sign up – just come along!

If you鈥檇 like to join the reading group on Robin McKenna鈥檚 Non-Ideal Epistemology please email Heather and Nadine.

The group will be Tuesday mornings 11-12 in FAB1.37. The group will start in week 2 and will run in weeks 2-5 and 7-10. Each week we will read one chapter (happily the book has eight chapters).

Everyone welcome, no specialist knowledge required.

Contact: Heather & Nadine

Everyone is welcome! We follow a pre-read format, so please message sameer.bajaj@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

W2 - What is Theology? Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, V1, Introduction.

Please get in touch with Benedikt (Vaclav.Loula@warwick.ac.uk) to register your interest, or rock up at the designated time if you feel like joining fellow-minded seekers of wisdom to break (intellectual) bread with.

Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts

Thursday 12 October, R0.04, 5-7pm

Heather Altfeld and Troy Jollimore: 鈥楧reams and Journeys: Two California Writers鈥�

Heather Altfeld is a poet and essayist. She teaches in the Honors Program and for the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities at California State University, Chico. Altfeld's first book, The Disappearing Theatre, won the 2015 Poets at Work Prize. She is the 2017 recipient of the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2015 recipient of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Conjunctions Magazine, Aeon, Orion Magazine, Narrative, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, and others.

Altfeld's second book of poems, Post-Mortem, was selected for the 2019 Orison Prize. Spanning ages and species and cultures, it pays tribute to the passing glory of this planet and all that our hands have made. Eric Pankey writes, "Post-Mortem is a brilliant, baroque, and word-crazed collection of poems. While the primary mode of the poems is elegiac (many taking as their forms obituaries, autopsies, and kaddishes), one cannot help but delight in Altfeld's reverie and in the breadth and depth of her inquiry, her exploration, her katabasis as she leads us like Virgil through a stunning and elaborate posthumous world."

Troy Jollimore is the author of three books of philosophy and four books of poetry, and the editor of the forthcoming book, The Virtue of Loyalty (Oxford University Press, 2024). He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry in 2007, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013; his third poetry collection, Syllabus of Errors, was selected by the New York Times as one of the ten best poetry collections of 2015. His philosophical work often centers on personal relationships and the emotional phenomena they involve, particularly as related to friendship, romantic love, and various forms of loyalty.

He has also published on topics including admirable immorality, the ethics of terrorism, practical reasoning and the nature of instrumental reason, grief, anxiety, philosophy of poetry, and the philosophical dimensions of depictions of love in such films as Her, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rear Window, and Vertigo. In his essays and reviews for mainstream nonacademic publications he has addressed topics including relations between religion and science, questions regarding quality of life and competing conceptions of the good life, issues of political resistance and individual conscience in morally imperfect societies, the value of humanities-based education, and the increasing glorification of strictly quantitative, "data-driven" evaluative practices at the expense of qualitative evaluation and appreciation.

Heather and Troy will read from their work, followed by a conversation.

Eve Poirer will present 'Plausible Abstractions: The role of fiction, truth and history in Genealogy and State of Nature Philosophy'. Everyone welcome!

Abstract

What is the place of historical truth in Genealogy? Why appeal to State of Nature stories even when we know they could never have happened? How far can philosophy abstract from reality while still having explanatory relevance? Pulling from Bernard Williams, Nietzsche, Nozick, Foucault and others, I will attempt to tackle some of these questions: exploring broadly the interaction between supposedly true historical happenings and fictional abstractions in Genealogies and State of Nature stories. I will discuss the purposes for which Genealogy is employed, the way in which State of Nature stories attempt to abstract from history, and the importance of 'plausibility' or 'conceivability' in the explanatory relevance or effectiveness of Genealogy. From this, I hope to suggest some conclusions about the appropriate and inappropriate use of Genealogy. That said, this is a work very much in progress on a very broad topic, so I hope that there will be further conclusion to be found in the discussion.

Teams link

If you鈥檇 like to join the reading group on Robin McKenna鈥檚 Non-Ideal Epistemology please email Heather and Nadine.

The group will be Tuesday mornings 11-12 in FAB1.37. The group will start in week 2 and will run in weeks 2-5 and 7-10. Each week we will read one chapter (happily the book has eight chapters).

Everyone welcome, no specialist knowledge required.

Contact: Heather & Nadine

Everyone is welcome! We follow a pre-read format, so please message sameer.bajaj@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Ellie Anderson (Pomona) – 鈥淭he Critical Phenomenological Turn"

If you鈥檇 like to join the reading group on Robin McKenna鈥檚 Non-Ideal Epistemology please email Heather and Nadine.

The group will be Tuesday mornings 11-12 in FAB1.37. The group will start in week 2 and will run in weeks 2-5 and 7-10. Each week we will read one chapter (happily the book has eight chapters).

Everyone welcome, no specialist knowledge required.

Contact: Heather & Nadine

Everyone is welcome! We follow a pre-read format, so please message sameer.bajaj@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

W4 - First use of the term (excerpts)

Plato - Republic, Aristotle - Metaphysics, Cicero - De natura Deorum, Augustine - De Civitate Dei (on Varro)

Please get in touch with Benedikt (Vaclav.Loula@warwick.ac.uk) to register your interest, or rock up at the designated time if you feel like joining fellow-minded seekers of wisdom to break (intellectual) bread with.

Surrealism, a major movement of late modernism in the 1920s and 1930s, showed an enigmatic parallel with and interest in psychoanalysis as the poets, painters and novelists tried to open a new depth of personal self-understanding. They were 鈥渓oving Freud madly鈥�: they studied psychoanalysis, Breton and Dal铆 visited Freud, and they integrated the basic ideas of psychoanalysis into their literary and theoretical discourses. Breton put the dream and automatism at the centre and developed a kind of hysteria-criticism, while Dal铆 introduced a more radical paranoia-criticism in his theories and creative work. Dal铆鈥檚 work showed important parallel ideas with the psychoanalysis of the early Jacques Lacan. Dal铆 in 1938 visited Freud in London and took with him his freshly finished picture 鈥淭he Metamorphosis of Narcissus鈥�. This major painting is an excellent summary of his paranoia-criticism. The structuring of the picture, and the act of imagining the world through a paranoid-critical method, creates a surrealistic-hallucinatory psycho-analysis, and speaks of Dali鈥檚 narcissistic lacks and excesses as well as our own.

If you鈥檇 like to join the reading group on Robin McKenna鈥檚 Non-Ideal Epistemology please email Heather and Nadine.

The group will be Tuesday mornings 11-12 in FAB1.37. The group will start in week 2 and will run in weeks 2-5 and 7-10. Each week we will read one chapter (happily the book has eight chapters).

Everyone welcome, no specialist knowledge required.

Contact: Heather & Nadine

Everyone is welcome! We follow a pre-read format, so please message sameer.bajaj@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Gregory Moss (Hong Kong) – 鈥淔rom Identity to Ground: The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Hegel's Science of Logic"

To join via Teams click

MAP is hosting a workshop titled 'Mental Health in Philosophy' and all students are invited to join us. It'll be running on Friday 3^rd November (week 6) from 12:00-14:00 in S0.13 and, best of all, there'll be free lunch and tea/coffee. We hope to see you there!

W6 - Early Christianity: Faith and Reason (excerpts)

Paul the Apostle - 1 Corinthians 1&2, Celsus - On the True Doctrine, Tertullian - On the Prescriptions of Heretics, Augustine - De Civitate Dei.

Please get in touch with Benedikt (Vaclav.Loula@warwick.ac.uk) to register your interest, or rock up at the designated time if you feel like joining fellow-minded seekers of wisdom to break (intellectual) bread with.

Open to all MA and MPhil students.

Meet your peers, discuss modules, generate essay ideas, discover 糖心TV University's offering, distribute academic resources and more!

For any questions, email: Amrita.Tewari@warwick.ac.uk

鈥淗ello everyone, this is Haley Burke and Fridolin Neumann, both PhD students working on, among other things, Heidegger and phenomenology. We would like to invite you to our Heidegger Reading Group, which meets weekly on Thursday from 12.30-2 p.m. in FAB1.37 (one of the open rooms).

If you would like to join, just click the link for our WhatsApp group or contact Frido or Haley: ; Fridolin.Neumann@warwick.ac.uk, Haley.Burke@warwick.ac.uk.鈥�

If you鈥檇 like to join the reading group on Robin McKenna鈥檚 Non-Ideal Epistemology please email Heather and Nadine.

The group will be Tuesday mornings 11-12 in FAB1.37. The group will start in week 2 and will run in weeks 2-5 and 7-10. Each week we will read one chapter (happily the book has eight chapters).

Everyone welcome, no specialist knowledge required.

Contact: Heather & Nadine

Everyone is welcome! We follow a pre-read format, so please message sameer.bajaj@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Eliza Starbuck Little (糖心TV) – "Seeing with the Eyes of Reason, or, Hegelian Conceptual Amelioration"

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鈥淗ello everyone, this is Haley Burke and Fridolin Neumann, both PhD students working on, among other things, Heidegger and phenomenology. We would like to invite you to our Heidegger Reading Group, which meets weekly on Thursday from 12.30-2 p.m. in FAB1.37 (one of the open rooms).

If you would like to join, just click the link for our WhatsApp group or contact Frido or Haley: ; Fridolin.Neumann@warwick.ac.uk, Haley.Burke@warwick.ac.uk.鈥�

Event title: Study Abroad, Placement, and Careers Workshop

Type: Workshop

Attendance: No

Audience: all undergrads

Date: 16 Nov 2023 (Thu W7)

Time: 14:00-15:00

Location: LIB2

Tutors: Dino Jakusic; Lorenzo Serini

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

We encourage student who identify as trans and want to explore and share their experiences at university, particularly in terms of mental health and wellbeing, to led by Dorian, the Trans Officer for the SU. The numbers are currently low, so if you want to contribute to changes to how university supports students who identify as trans, please do sign up to make the event happen! Please also share within your networks if you can!

Please note that this event is only open to members of the trans community.

For Trans Day of Remembrance, you can join in creating chalk art on the pavements around campus and placing commemorations of trans and gender-diverse lives lost in the past year. This event is open to anyone, and materials will be provided!

For Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding a vigil to remember trans and gender-diverse lives lost to transphobic bigotry and violence in the past year. There will be speeches and reading of names at the Piazza. This event is open to anyone and please note that traditional candles will not be used during this event, but feel free to bring battery-powered lights or signs.

Finally, we encourage everyone to read up on resources to learn more about being trans. has a vast number of resources available for anyone to read and the University of 糖心TV website also has a . We also encourage everyone to reach out to to get support if you are struggling. 糖心TV Wellbeing offers drop-in brief consultations as well as longer-term support if needed.

If you鈥檇 like to join the reading group on Robin McKenna鈥檚 Non-Ideal Epistemology please email Heather and Nadine.

The group will be Tuesday mornings 11-12 in FAB1.37. The group will start in week 2 and will run in weeks 2-5 and 7-10. Each week we will read one chapter (happily the book has eight chapters).

Everyone welcome, no specialist knowledge required.

Contact: Heather & Nadine

Everyone is welcome! We follow a pre-read format, so please message sameer.bajaj@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

W8 - Theology as an academic discipline (excerpts)

Boethius - On the Holy Trinity, Aquinas - Selection from works

Please get in touch with Benedikt (Vaclav.Loula@warwick.ac.uk) to register your interest, or rock up at the designated time if you feel like joining fellow-minded seekers of wisdom to break (intellectual) bread with.

Open to all MA and MPhil students.

Meet your peers, discuss modules, generate essay ideas, discover 糖心TV University's offering, distribute academic resources and more!

For any questions, email: Amrita.Tewari@warwick.ac.uk

Abstract

All of Aristotle鈥檚 ethical writings allocate a central place to theoretical philosophical thinking (迟丑别艒谤颈补). Noting the differences both in detail and in spirit, scholars have speculated about the treatises鈥� relative composition and Aristotle鈥檚 philosophical development more generally. However, any kind of judgement about the relationship between these texts requires an account of the place and role of 迟丑别艒谤颈补 in each text taken on its own.

Setting aside the well-known account of the Nicomachean Ethics, I provide such an account for the Protrepticus, the Eudemian Ethics, and the Magna Moralia by considering two questions: 1) What is 迟丑别艒谤颈补? And 2) What role does 迟丑别艒谤颈补 play in the ethical theory of each of these treatises? I argue that the treatises agree broadly on what 迟丑别艒谤颈补 is. It belongs to theoretical philosophy and has to do with knowledge of causes, nature, and truth. The EE and the MM do not say much about the nature of 迟丑别艒谤颈补; the Protrepticus proves to be more informative because it aims at putting the contemplative way of life on the map — in contrast to a more practical approach, associated with Isocrates.

Of the three texts, the Protrepticus has most to say about the nature of 迟丑别艒谤颈补. It presents 迟丑别艒谤颈补 as the contemplation of nature and truth, understood as knowledge of causes. I shall argue that this knowledge is purely theoretical, despite the argument in ch. 10 that 迟丑别艒谤颈补 provides the greatest benefit for human beings. The other two treatises, operating with a similar conception of 迟丑别艒谤颈补, also maintain a firm distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge. However, both argue, in different ways, that we cannot fully understand practical virtue without considering 迟丑别艒谤颈补 because the former is for the sake of the latter. In the course of explaining how each of the treatises subordinates practical to theoretical wisdom, I shall argue that the EE widens the remit of theoretical thinking to include some aspects of politics, whereas the MM operates with a less developed account that does not stress the importance of knowledge of causes.

鈥淗ello everyone, this is Haley Burke and Fridolin Neumann, both PhD students working on, among other things, Heidegger and phenomenology. We would like to invite you to our Heidegger Reading Group, which meets weekly on Thursday from 12.30-2 p.m. in FAB1.37 (one of the open rooms).

If you would like to join, just click the link for our WhatsApp group or contact Frido or Haley: ; Fridolin.Neumann@warwick.ac.uk, Haley.Burke@warwick.ac.uk.鈥�

Our next postgraduate Work in Progress (WiP) seminar is taking place this Thursday 23rd November from 5-6:15 PM in S2.77 and on Teams. Fridolin Neumann will present 'Heidegger on Kant and Ontological Intuition'. Everyone welcome!

Abstract:

In the 1920s and 1930s, Heidegger intensively engaged with Kant鈥檚 philosophy in a way that he himself acknowledges as 鈥渧iolent鈥� since it always attempts to capture the unsaid in the written word. My talk revolves around a crucial claim Heidegger makes about Kant鈥檚 theory of cognition, evoking discomfort in every loyal Kantian: 鈥渒nowing is primarily intuiting [Erkennen ist prim盲r Anschauen].鈥� I argue that in order to understand what is at stake here this claim must be interpreted along the lines of Heidegger鈥檚 distinction between ontic and ontological cognition (that is, cognition of entities on the one hand and cognition of being transcendentally determining our encounter with entities on the other hand). As I propose, the supposed primacy of intuition mainly refers to ontological cognition and hereby offers an account of human responsiveness to ontological norms which determine our ontic experience of entities in the first place. In Heidegger鈥檚 account, this (ontological) responsiveness is cashed out in terms of intuition which is structurally similar to (ontic) intuition involved in sensible perception. I proceed by first elaborating on the distinction between ontic and ontological cognition to then argue why Heidegger鈥檚 thesis about intuition should be understood as referring to the latter. After that, I sketch what it means to understand ontological cognition in terms of intuition.

If you鈥檇 like to join the reading group on Robin McKenna鈥檚 Non-Ideal Epistemology please email Heather and Nadine.

The group will be Tuesday mornings 11-12 in FAB1.37. The group will start in week 2 and will run in weeks 2-5 and 7-10. Each week we will read one chapter (happily the book has eight chapters).

Everyone welcome, no specialist knowledge required.

Contact: Heather & Nadine

Everyone is welcome! We follow a pre-read format, so please message sameer.bajaj@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Timothy Stoll (糖心TV) – "Myth and Metaphysics in The Birth of Tragedy鈥�

To join via Teams please click

鈥淗ello everyone, this is Haley Burke and Fridolin Neumann, both PhD students working on, among other things, Heidegger and phenomenology. We would like to invite you to our Heidegger Reading Group, which meets weekly on Thursday from 12.30-2 p.m. in FAB1.37 (one of the open rooms).

If you would like to join, just click the link for our WhatsApp group or contact Frido or Haley: ; Fridolin.Neumann@warwick.ac.uk, Haley.Burke@warwick.ac.uk.鈥�

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

If you鈥檇 like to join the reading group on Robin McKenna鈥檚 Non-Ideal Epistemology please email Heather and Nadine.

The group will be Tuesday mornings 11-12 in FAB1.37. The group will start in week 2 and will run in weeks 2-5 and 7-10. Each week we will read one chapter (happily the book has eight chapters).

Everyone welcome, no specialist knowledge required.

Contact: Heather & Nadine

Everyone is welcome! We follow a pre-read format, so please message sameer.bajaj@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

W10 - Inventing Modern Natural Theology

Herbert, Lord Cherbury - De Veritate, Descartes - selections from Meditations, Locke - Selections from Essay and A Letter Concerning Toleration.

Please get in touch with Benedikt (Vaclav.Loula@warwick.ac.uk) to register your interest, or rock up at the designated time if you feel like joining fellow-minded seekers of wisdom to break (intellectual) bread with.

Navid Kermani鈥檚 novel Gro脽e Liebe (2014, Love Writ Large) charts the development of a young teenager鈥檚 infatuation with an A-level student in the early 1980s in Germany. The love story is refracted through the adult narrator鈥檚 reflections and through readings from Sufi mysticism and Nizami鈥檚 12^th ct. epic poem Lail茂 and Majn没n. This creates a narrative framework in which (Iranian and Muslim) cultural sources and (West German) cultural memory subtly comment on one another, allowing Kermani to ironically undermine both contemporary masculinity and his narrator鈥檚 former self as lover while simultaneously reflecting on the cultural and religious traditions of his own background and their relations to a Western tradition of love. The paper examines Kermani鈥檚 ironic narrative construction in the context of his construction of a paradoxical cultural identity.

Join us this festive season for a screening of Xmas favourite "The Grinch"

See you there!

Open to all MA and MPhil students.

Meet your peers, discuss modules, generate essay ideas, discover 糖心TV University's offering, distribute academic resources and more!

For any questions, email: Amrita.Tewari@warwick.ac.uk

Wednesday 6th December, 5 - 7pm

2023 Philosophy Christmas lecture: 'Myself and my selfie.'

Speaker: Professor Heather Widdows (Philosophy Department, University of 糖心TV

Where: L3 Sciences Concourse

With responses by:

• Ben Campion (PhD student)
• Kaylei Vernon (UG student, 3rd year PPL)
• Erin Doherty (UG student 3rd year PPE)

Everyone is welcome!

Nibbles and drinks included!

鈥淗ello everyone, this is Haley Burke and Fridolin Neumann, both PhD students working on, among other things, Heidegger and phenomenology. We would like to invite you to our Heidegger Reading Group, which meets weekly on Thursday from 12.30-2 p.m. in FAB1.37 (one of the open rooms).

If you would like to join, just click the link for our WhatsApp group or contact Frido or Haley: ; Fridolin.Neumann@warwick.ac.uk, Haley.Burke@warwick.ac.uk.鈥�

In this interdisciplinary conference, we bring together philosophers, comparative psychologists, and cognitive scientists from a range of disciplines to discuss their recent work on the ontogenetic and phylogenetic origins of syntax, in order to make progress in our understanding of these fundamental issues.

Online attendance will also be possible.

In person attendance is free, although you are requested to register in advance because capacity is limited. To register, please contact giulia.palazzolo.1@warwick.ac.uk.

Confirmed speakers:

Nick Chater (University of 糖心TV)

Cas Coopmans (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Cathy Crockford (ISC Marc Jeannerod)

Olga Feher (University of 糖心TV)

Richard Moore (University of 糖心TV)

Nirmalangshu Mukherji (Delhi University)

Ross Pain (University of Bristol)

Giulia Palazzolo (University of 糖心TV)

Ronald Planer (University of Wollongong)

Ljiljana Progovac (Wayne State University)

Simon W. Townsend (University of 糖心TV and University of Zurich)

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger鈥檚 essays, starting with 鈥淲hat is Metaphysics?鈥� today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include 鈥極n the Essence of Ground鈥� and the 鈥楲etter on Humanism鈥�. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

German Philosophy Reading Group: Tobias and Andrew H are starting a reading group on understudied texts in the Post-Kantian tradition. The group will be a forum for staff and advanced students to discuss short texts that we feel are interesting but, for whatever reason, not well known. The aim is to look beyond the canon while honing our skills in close reading. The focus will be on German-language philosophy and possibly include texts unavailable in translation or that involve issues regarding translation, hence proficiency in German is helpful (but not a requirement).

We meet Tuesdays 12-1 (room TBD) in weeks where there is no Post-Kantian Seminar, with the possibility of going for lunch afterward. Tobias will be kicking things off Tuesday in week 1, January 9th, 12-1, with a short excerpt from one of Heidegger鈥檚 philosophical dialogues. Contact him for the reading and with any questions. Suggestions for future readings are welcome. The group is open to advanced UG and PG students as well as all staff.

Our first postgraduate Work in Progress (WiP) seminar of the term is taking place this Thursday 11th January from 5-6:15 PM in S2.77 and on Teams. Aurian De Briey will present 'From Heidegger's social ontology to his answer to the technological challenge'. Everyone welcome!

Abstract:

In Der Spiegel Interview, Heidegger acknowledges his difficulty in providing a political answer to the technological challenge he depicts in The Question Concerning Technology. I aim to make sense of such difficulty by going back to Being and Time where lies Heidegger鈥檚 social ontology and ideal of authenticity. I argue that such an ideal, when translated in collective terms, is one of mere co-existence, where individuals can at best all be authentic alongside each other but never build together a common good. I then show how this feature is transferred in Heidegger鈥檚 critique of technology which is one of the way we see the world and then to his solution to it which is a praise of art.

Teams link:

Christopher Satoor (York University)

The talk will be held online, on Microsoft Teams:

Contact: Noah.Buckle@warwick.ac.uk

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger鈥檚 essays, starting with 鈥淲hat is Metaphysics?鈥� today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include 鈥極n the Essence of Ground鈥� and the 鈥楲etter on Humanism鈥�. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Dear All,

We're delighted to announce the WMA Reading Group schedule for this term - Eve Poirier will be leading the sessions. The details are below:

Please note: in the run-up to this year's MindGrad conference, we will also be using this reading group to have some pre-reading sessions on the work of the keynote speakers. These will be valuable sessions for PG students to attend to familiarise themselves with the keynote speakers' work ahead of the conference. More details on this will be announced in due course.

WMA reading group: Montaigne on MEEP (Mind, Epistemology, Ethics & Political Philosophy)

Where/When: Cowling Room (S2.77), Tuesdays 16:00-17:00 in even weeks, starting in week 2.

A message from Eve: This term in the WMA reading group we will look at some Montaignian takes on topics in Mind, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics. Suitable for Montaigne beginners and experts, everyone is welcome. I will be reading from Donald Frame鈥檚 translation, of which there are hard copies available in the library. Get in touch with me (eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk) if you need help finding the readings or want a digital copy.

We will meet in the Cowling Room (S2.77) at 16:00 on Tuesday in even weeks, starting on the 16^th. I promise it will be relatively light-hearted and fun, so please don鈥檛 be afraid to come along and discover the joys of Montaigne 馃槉 

Schedule:

Week 2 – Intro to Montaigne: Judgement, Personality, Humankind (and Chess!)

鈥楾o the Reader鈥� (p. 2 in the Frame translation)

鈥極f Democritus and Heraclitus鈥� I. 50. (pp. 266-268)

Week 4 – Knowing Facts, Learning Virtues

鈥極f Pedantry鈥� I. 25. (pp. 118-129)

Week 6 – Justice and Dirty Hands

鈥極f the Useful and the Honourable鈥� III. 1 (pp. 726 at least up to p. 736)

Week 8 – TBC

Week 10 – TBC

Open to all MA and MPhil students.

Meet your peers, discuss modules, generate essay ideas, discover 糖心TV University's offering, distribute academic resources and more!

For any questions, email: Amrita.Tewari@warwick.ac.uk

Dear Colleagues,

You are warmly invited to the first Departmental Colloquium of Term 2, which will take place at 4pm, Wednesday 17 January, Room S0.18.

Speaker: (KCL)

False measures in the science and philosophy of consciousness

According to a widespread contemporary view of the mind, consciousness plays less of a role than was traditionally assumed: much of perception, decision and action occurs independently of our conscious experiences. I will criticise one central line of scientific support for this view, which measures consciousness by a subject鈥檚 capacity to identify and discriminate their experiences and actions. This style of measurement underestimates consciousness, and is not justified even if we grant that, necessarily, subjects are aware of their own conscious experiences. In search of a better measure, I look to philosophical accounts of the first-order, demonstrative thoughts most immediately related to conscious perception and action. But here we find the same problem: our best philosophical account individuates these thoughts by subjects鈥� capacity to discriminate their experiences. I trace the problem to broadly Fregean criteria for individuating thoughts, propose a related solution, and discuss implications for the science of consciousness.

Their next colloquium will take place on 28 February with Kate Kirkpatrick on 鈥橳he Myth of Recognition in The Second Sex鈥�.

I hope to see you on Wednesday!

Best,

Andrew

A new reading group will be running this term on Karl Marx. Our plan is to work through some of Marx's early writings in term 2 and, if this goes well, hopefully continue into term 3 reading parts of Capital and some of Marx's other later work. The planned reading for term 2 is below. If you're interested, please get in touch and we'll keep you updated on the specific excerpts of these works we're going to look at.

Marx Reading Group

Time: 3-4.45 p.m. Every second Thursday, beginning week 2

Location: FAB 2.25

Content:

Week 2: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right - we'll read the introduction, available

Week 4: On the Jewish Question

Week 6: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Week 8: Theses on Feuerbach, The German Ideology

Week 10: The Communist Manifesto

This reading group is organised by 骋谤谩颈苍苍别, Chris, Sara, Max, Emily and Luke. Please get in touch with 骋谤谩颈苍苍别 to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much! I hope to see many of you there : )

Kind regards,

骋谤谩颈苍苍别

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger鈥檚 essays, starting with 鈥淲hat is Metaphysics?鈥� today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include 鈥極n the Essence of Ground鈥� and the 鈥楲etter on Humanism鈥�. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway) – book workshop on Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant (forthcoming OUP)

Applying for Academic jobs. With Lucy Campbell (applying in the UK) and Tobias Keiling (applying in Europe and the US).

(Attendance is optional)

• Two 糖心TV alumni will be talking about their career paths after Philosophy at 糖心TV. You will have the opportunity to learn a lot from their experiences and ask them any questions you may have.
• You will start thinking about your potential career options with Ian Scarse, the career person in the Philosophy Department, and MAP.

"Ryle's Pragmatism: A Gift from Margaret MacDonald"

Cheryl Misak (Toronto)

Contact: oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger鈥檚 essays, starting with 鈥淲hat is Metaphysics?鈥� today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include 鈥極n the Essence of Ground鈥� and the 鈥楲etter on Humanism鈥�. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Dear All,

We're delighted to announce the WMA Reading Group schedule for this term - Eve Poirier will be leading the sessions. The details are below:

Please note: in the run-up to this year's MindGrad conference, we will also be using this reading group to have some pre-reading sessions on the work of the keynote speakers. These will be valuable sessions for PG students to attend to familiarise themselves with the keynote speakers' work ahead of the conference. More details on this will be announced in due course.

WMA reading group: Montaigne on MEEP (Mind, Epistemology, Ethics & Political Philosophy)

Where/When: Cowling Room (S2.77), Tuesdays 16:00-17:00 in even weeks, starting in week 2.

A message from Eve: This term in the WMA reading group we will look at some Montaignian takes on topics in Mind, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics. Suitable for Montaigne beginners and experts, everyone is welcome. I will be reading from Donald Frame鈥檚 translation, of which there are hard copies available in the library. Get in touch with me (eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk) if you need help finding the readings or want a digital copy.

We will meet in the Cowling Room (S2.77) at 16:00 on Tuesday in even weeks, starting on the 16^th. I promise it will be relatively light-hearted and fun, so please don鈥檛 be afraid to come along and discover the joys of Montaigne 馃槉 

Schedule:

Week 2 – Intro to Montaigne: Judgement, Personality, Humankind (and Chess!)

鈥楾o the Reader鈥� (p. 2 in the Frame translation)

鈥極f Democritus and Heraclitus鈥� I. 50. (pp. 266-268)

Week 4 – Knowing Facts, Learning Virtues

鈥極f Pedantry鈥� I. 25. (pp. 118-129)

Week 6 – Justice and Dirty Hands

鈥極f the Useful and the Honourable鈥� III. 1 (pp. 726 at least up to p. 736)

Week 8 – TBC

Week 10 – TBC

Caroline Summers (糖心TV SMLC)

5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 30 Jan '24 Location: Ramphal R3.41

Narrative afterlife: translating lived experience into literary texts

Literary studies is fond of the metaphor of an 鈥榓fterlife鈥� to describe the enduring resonance and visibility of an author鈥檚 work long after they have died. Meanwhile, in Translation Studies, the term has a more specific meaning, rooted in Walter Benjamin鈥檚 exploration of the concept in his 1923 essay 鈥楾he Task of the Translator鈥�. Benjamin tells us that true translation is the point at which 鈥榓 work, in its continuing life, has reached the age of its fame. [鈥�] In [translation], the original鈥檚 life achieves its constantly renewed, latest and most comprehensive development鈥�. Thus, for Benjamin, translation is a form that embodies something not otherwise captured in the original text. The possibility of translation is something that both is inherent in the essence of an original and contributes to its transformational fulfilment of self: it is at once a remainder of the past and a projection of the future.

Building chiefly on the work of Bella Brodzki (2007), who frames the text as a 鈥榣iterary invigoration鈥� of memory, this paper reads the literary narrative as a 鈥榯ranslation鈥� of experience and asks what Benjamin鈥檚 reading of afterlife might teach literary studies more broadly about the relationship between the stories we live and those that we read or write. Exploiting the intersection between literary narratology and a sociological understanding of experience as narrative, the paper draws on literary accounts of German Reunification (1989/90) to explore how these texts create a space in which the spectres of experience can enjoy a long afterlife.

In collaboration with the 糖心TV Workshop for Interdisciplinary German Studies

Open to all MA and MPhil students.

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Preparing job applications: Writing academic CVs, cover letters, and research proposals. With Giulia Palazzolo. We will also include time for sharing your own job documents and getting peer feedback.

A new reading group will be running this term on Karl Marx. Our plan is to work through some of Marx's early writings in term 2 and, if this goes well, hopefully continue into term 3 reading parts of Capital and some of Marx's other later work. The planned reading for term 2 is below. If you're interested, please get in touch and we'll keep you updated on the specific excerpts of these works we're going to look at.

Marx Reading Group

Time: 3-4.45 p.m. Every second Thursday, beginning week 2

Location: FAB 2.25

Content:

Week 2: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right - we'll read the introduction, available

Week 4: On the Jewish Question

Week 6: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Week 8: Theses on Feuerbach, The German Ideology

Week 10: The Communist Manifesto

This reading group is organised by 骋谤谩颈苍苍别, Chris, Sara, Max, Emily and Luke. Please get in touch with 骋谤谩颈苍苍别 to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much! I hope to see many of you there : )

Kind regards,

骋谤谩颈苍苍别

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger鈥檚 essays, starting with 鈥淲hat is Metaphysics?鈥� today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include 鈥極n the Essence of Ground鈥� and the 鈥楲etter on Humanism鈥�. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Sean D. Kelly (Harvard) " The Proper Dignity of Human Being"

Open to all MA and MPhil students.

Meet your peers, discuss modules, generate essay ideas, discover 糖心TV University's offering, distribute academic resources and more!

For any questions, email: Amrita.Tewari@warwick.ac.uk

Attendance is optional

Writing articles and getting them published. With Benedict Eastaugh.

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Join us for discussion of the notion of a sentence and of examples from literary and philosophical sources. With help from Dr Christopher Strelluf (Applied Linguistics), Declan Gillespie (English PGR), and Dr Joe Watson (Classics), All are welcome!

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger鈥檚 essays, starting with 鈥淲hat is Metaphysics?鈥� today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include 鈥極n the Essence of Ground鈥� and the 鈥楲etter on Humanism鈥�. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Dear All,

We're delighted to announce the WMA Reading Group schedule for this term - Eve Poirier will be leading the sessions. The details are below:

Please note: in the run-up to this year's MindGrad conference, we will also be using this reading group to have some pre-reading sessions on the work of the keynote speakers. These will be valuable sessions for PG students to attend to familiarise themselves with the keynote speakers' work ahead of the conference. More details on this will be announced in due course.

WMA reading group: Montaigne on MEEP (Mind, Epistemology, Ethics & Political Philosophy)

Where/When: Cowling Room (S2.77), Tuesdays 16:00-17:00 in even weeks, starting in week 2.

A message from Eve: This term in the WMA reading group we will look at some Montaignian takes on topics in Mind, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics. Suitable for Montaigne beginners and experts, everyone is welcome. I will be reading from Donald Frame鈥檚 translation, of which there are hard copies available in the library. Get in touch with me (eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk) if you need help finding the readings or want a digital copy.

We will meet in the Cowling Room (S2.77) at 16:00 on Tuesday in even weeks, starting on the 16^th. I promise it will be relatively light-hearted and fun, so please don鈥檛 be afraid to come along and discover the joys of Montaigne 馃槉 

Schedule:

Week 2 – Intro to Montaigne: Judgement, Personality, Humankind (and Chess!)

鈥楾o the Reader鈥� (p. 2 in the Frame translation)

鈥極f Democritus and Heraclitus鈥� I. 50. (pp. 266-268)

Week 4 – Knowing Facts, Learning Virtues

鈥極f Pedantry鈥� I. 25. (pp. 118-129)

Week 6 – Justice and Dirty Hands

鈥極f the Useful and the Honourable鈥� III. 1 (pp. 726 at least up to p. 736)

Week 8 – TBC

Week 10 – TBC

A new reading group will be running this term on Karl Marx. Our plan is to work through some of Marx's early writings in term 2 and, if this goes well, hopefully continue into term 3 reading parts of Capital and some of Marx's other later work. The planned reading for term 2 is below. If you're interested, please get in touch and we'll keep you updated on the specific excerpts of these works we're going to look at.

Marx Reading Group

Time: 3-4.45 p.m. Every second Thursday, beginning week 2

Location: FAB 2.25

Content:

Week 2: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right - we'll read the introduction, available

Week 4: On the Jewish Question

Week 6: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Week 8: Theses on Feuerbach, The German Ideology

Week 10: The Communist Manifesto

This reading group is organised by 骋谤谩颈苍苍别, Chris, Sara, Max, Emily and Luke. Please get in touch with 骋谤谩颈苍苍别 to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much! I hope to see many of you there : )

Kind regards,

骋谤谩颈苍苍别

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger鈥檚 essays, starting with 鈥淲hat is Metaphysics?鈥� today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include 鈥極n the Essence of Ground鈥� and the 鈥楲etter on Humanism鈥�. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Nicolas de Warren (Penn State) - "Phenomenology of the After-Life"

WMA Mini-Workshop on Emotion, Time, and Reason

2-3.30pm - Michaele Ombrato (Oxford) title TBC

4-6pm - Jean Moritz M眉ller (T眉bingen) "Are Attitudes Intentional Under a Description?"

Contact: oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk

Open to all MA and MPhil students.

Meet your peers, discuss modules, generate essay ideas, discover 糖心TV University's offering, distribute academic resources and more!

For any questions, email: Amrita.Tewari@warwick.ac.uk

Attendance is optional

Networking in academia, with Patrick Tomlin.

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

Title: WPS Talk: Garrath Williams (Lancaster), '"Free Markets": A Kantian Perspective'

When: 16:00 –17:30, Thursday February 22^nd 2024

Where: Online

Notes: "Free Markets": A Kantian Perspective           

Garrath Williams (Lancaster University)

 'We hear a lot about the virtues of 鈥渇ree markets.鈥� We also hear a lot about their problems and, by implication, the need to constrain markets. In this talk, I sketch an alternative, Kantian way of framing markets – as public goods. First, I explain the central ideas of Kant鈥檚 political theory – how states must uphold freedom and rights through coercive laws. I suggest that, for Kant, markets rest on a public framework, not just on individual rights. I also point out how individual rights to property and contract can, in situations of inequality, undermine their Kantian justification. Overall, I claim that markets are free where they enable people to act as not-mere-means for one another. These Kantian markets have little to do with familiar economic or neoliberal notions of market freedom.'

 The talk will be held on Microsoft Teams, at the following link:

 Contact: Noah.Buckle@warwick.ac.uk

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger鈥檚 essays, starting with 鈥淲hat is Metaphysics?鈥� today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include 鈥極n the Essence of Ground鈥� and the 鈥楲etter on Humanism鈥�. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Dear All,

We're delighted to announce the WMA Reading Group schedule for this term - Eve Poirier will be leading the sessions. The details are below:

Please note: in the run-up to this year's MindGrad conference, we will also be using this reading group to have some pre-reading sessions on the work of the keynote speakers. These will be valuable sessions for PG students to attend to familiarise themselves with the keynote speakers' work ahead of the conference. More details on this will be announced in due course.

WMA reading group: Montaigne on MEEP (Mind, Epistemology, Ethics & Political Philosophy)

Where/When: Cowling Room (S2.77), Tuesdays 16:00-17:00 in even weeks, starting in week 2.

A message from Eve: This term in the WMA reading group we will look at some Montaignian takes on topics in Mind, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics. Suitable for Montaigne beginners and experts, everyone is welcome. I will be reading from Donald Frame鈥檚 translation, of which there are hard copies available in the library. Get in touch with me (eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk) if you need help finding the readings or want a digital copy.

We will meet in the Cowling Room (S2.77) at 16:00 on Tuesday in even weeks, starting on the 16^th. I promise it will be relatively light-hearted and fun, so please don鈥檛 be afraid to come along and discover the joys of Montaigne 馃槉 

Schedule:

Week 2 – Intro to Montaigne: Judgement, Personality, Humankind (and Chess!)

鈥楾o the Reader鈥� (p. 2 in the Frame translation)

鈥極f Democritus and Heraclitus鈥� I. 50. (pp. 266-268)

Week 4 – Knowing Facts, Learning Virtues

鈥極f Pedantry鈥� I. 25. (pp. 118-129)

Week 6 – Justice and Dirty Hands

鈥極f the Useful and the Honourable鈥� III. 1 (pp. 726 at least up to p. 736)

Week 8 – TBC

Week 10 – TBC

This is an online event. Professor Stump will speak remotely. Follow this link to join the seminar:

Chenwei Nie

Title: 鈥榃hite Queen Irrationality鈥�.

Andrew Huddleston will present a paper on Nietzsche with the title: 鈥榃hat is This Thing Amor Fati?鈥�.

Writing an MA dissertation.

A new reading group will be running this term on Karl Marx. Our plan is to work through some of Marx's early writings in term 2 and, if this goes well, hopefully continue into term 3 reading parts of Capital and some of Marx's other later work. The planned reading for term 2 is below. If you're interested, please get in touch and we'll keep you updated on the specific excerpts of these works we're going to look at.

Marx Reading Group

Time: 3-4.45 p.m. Every second Thursday, beginning week 2

Location: FAB 2.25

Content:

Week 2: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right - we'll read the introduction, available

Week 4: On the Jewish Question

Week 6: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Week 8: Theses on Feuerbach, The German Ideology

Week 10: The Communist Manifesto

This reading group is organised by 骋谤谩颈苍苍别, Chris, Sara, Max, Emily and Luke. Please get in touch with 骋谤谩颈苍苍别 to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much! I hope to see many of you there : )

Kind regards,

骋谤谩颈苍苍别

International (non-UK) students on any Philosophy and PPE degrees are invited to a meeting with staff, to discuss their experiences at 糖心TV.

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger鈥檚 essays, starting with 鈥淲hat is Metaphysics?鈥� today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include 鈥極n the Essence of Ground鈥� and the 鈥楲etter on Humanism鈥�. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Toril Moi (Duke - online) - "Simone de Beauvoir and the Experience of Otherness"

Open to all MA and MPhil students.

Meet your peers, discuss modules, generate essay ideas, discover 糖心TV University's offering, distribute academic resources and more!

For any questions, email: Amrita.Tewari@warwick.ac.uk

Designing new undergraduate modules.

The metaethics reading group is a venue for those interested in metaethics to talk through metaethics papers (either contemporary or classic) that are relevant to their work - whether that be for an undergraduate essay/dissertation or postgraduate/professional research. We meet regularly to talk through a paper suggested by a member of the group.

If you are interested please email k.a.surgener@warwick.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Heidegger Reading Group

We are happy to announce that the Heidegger Reading Group will continue in term 2! This time, we will read a couple of Heidegger鈥檚 essays, starting with 鈥淲hat is Metaphysics?鈥� today. We will decide on the other readings successively, but they will for example include 鈥極n the Essence of Ground鈥� and the 鈥楲etter on Humanism鈥�. Everybody is invited to join. Additionally, we will stream the reading group via Microsoft Teams so that Haley Burke can join from Texas; if you cannot attend in person and would like to participate online as well, please get in touch with Frido.

Time: every Monday during term, 5-6.30 p.m. (08. January – 11. March 2024)

Location: FAB1.05

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

Dear All,

We're delighted to announce the WMA Reading Group schedule for this term - Eve Poirier will be leading the sessions. The details are below:

Please note: in the run-up to this year's MindGrad conference, we will also be using this reading group to have some pre-reading sessions on the work of the keynote speakers. These will be valuable sessions for PG students to attend to familiarise themselves with the keynote speakers' work ahead of the conference. More details on this will be announced in due course.

WMA reading group: Montaigne on MEEP (Mind, Epistemology, Ethics & Political Philosophy)

Where/When: Cowling Room (S2.77), Tuesdays 16:00-17:00 in even weeks, starting in week 2.

A message from Eve: This term in the WMA reading group we will look at some Montaignian takes on topics in Mind, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics. Suitable for Montaigne beginners and experts, everyone is welcome. I will be reading from Donald Frame鈥檚 translation, of which there are hard copies available in the library. Get in touch with me (eve.poirier@warwick.ac.uk) if you need help finding the readings or want a digital copy.

We will meet in the Cowling Room (S2.77) at 16:00 on Tuesday in even weeks, starting on the 16^th. I promise it will be relatively light-hearted and fun, so please don鈥檛 be afraid to come along and discover the joys of Montaigne 馃槉 

Schedule:

Week 2 – Intro to Montaigne: Judgement, Personality, Humankind (and Chess!)

鈥楾o the Reader鈥� (p. 2 in the Frame translation)

鈥極f Democritus and Heraclitus鈥� I. 50. (pp. 266-268)

Week 4 – Knowing Facts, Learning Virtues

鈥極f Pedantry鈥� I. 25. (pp. 118-129)

Week 6 – Justice and Dirty Hands

鈥極f the Useful and the Honourable鈥� III. 1 (pp. 726 at least up to p. 736)

Week 8 – TBC

Week 10 – TBC

Weds. 13th March  

MEEP Mini-Workshop on Helping and Group Membership

2-3.30pm: Josef Perner (Salzburg) Title TBC

4-6pm: Harriet Over (York) Title TBC     

Contact: oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk            

A new reading group will be running this term on Karl Marx. Our plan is to work through some of Marx's early writings in term 2 and, if this goes well, hopefully continue into term 3 reading parts of Capital and some of Marx's other later work. The planned reading for term 2 is below. If you're interested, please get in touch and we'll keep you updated on the specific excerpts of these works we're going to look at.

Marx Reading Group

Time: 3-4.45 p.m. Every second Thursday, beginning week 2

Location: FAB 2.25

Content:

Week 2: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right - we'll read the introduction, available

Week 4: On the Jewish Question

Week 6: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Week 8: Theses on Feuerbach, The German Ideology

Week 10: The Communist Manifesto

This reading group is organised by 骋谤谩颈苍苍别, Chris, Sara, Max, Emily and Luke. Please get in touch with 骋谤谩颈苍苍别 to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much! I hope to see many of you there : )

Kind regards,

骋谤谩颈苍苍别

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 4-6 p.m. Every Friday from Week 1 Spring Term

Location: FAB 2.33 (for the first and the fourth meetings on 12/01 and 02/02) and FAB 1.07 (for the other meetings)

Content:

Book 2: The Doctrine of Essence (Die Lehre vom Wesen)

Section 1: Essence as Reflection Within (Das Wesen als Reflexion in ihm selbst)

Chapter 1. Shine (Der Schein)

Chapter 2. The essentialities or the determinations of reflection (Die Wesenheiten oder die Reflexionsbestimmungen)

Chapter 3. Ground (Der Grund)

Format: We aim to read through and discuss the three chapters carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.uk). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you so much!

All the best,

Ying

Thursday April 25, 2–4pm: Preface + Chapter 1: 鈥淪omething In Between鈥�: On the Nature of Love

Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

鈥淟ove often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love鈥檚 Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love鈥檚 moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato鈥檚 Symposium, love is 鈥渟omething in between.鈥濃��

We are pleased to welcome you to the WMA reading group, Origins of Naturalised Intentionality. In this reading group, we will go through five highly influential authors who seek to provide the grounds for a scientific account of mental content (the stuff we think about).

The reading is chosen to provide an accessible introduction to the naturalistic approach to mental content. We hope to have a relatively relaxed discussion of the (sometimes controversial) ideas on offer!

We will meet in S2.84 on Mondays of even weeks (starting 29/04/24) at 14:00-15:30. The sessions will be led by Johan Heemskerk. Feel free to reach out to Oscar North-Concar or Johan Heemskerk for any further information.

The group is open to absolutely everyone, so do come along if you are interested!

Heidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer鈥檚 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� (1960).

Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only.

For meeting details and the reading schedule, email fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk.

Guided by Haley鈥檚 expertise, we will work through the entire book in this term. Gadamer is one of Heidegger's most influential students, not just in philosophy but in the humanities more generally (social thought, medical humanities, law, aesthetics, etc.). By way of outline, Gadamer's text is concerned with defending humanistic truth, and he achieves this by looking at three places this truth shows up in human life: aesthetics, history, and conversation. 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� is, then, relevant to those of us concerned with epistemology, aesthetics, history as a philosophical topic (beginning with Kant and Hegel), philosophy of language, and ontology.

Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

Thursday May 2, 2–4pm: Chapter 2: Love鈥檚 Blindness (1): Love鈥檚 Closed Heart.

鈥淟ove often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love鈥檚 Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love鈥檚 moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato鈥檚 Symposium, love is 鈥渟omething in between.鈥濃��

Heidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer鈥檚 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� (1960).

Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only.

For meeting details and the reading schedule, email fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk.

Guided by Haley鈥檚 expertise, we will work through the entire book in this term. Gadamer is one of Heidegger's most influential students, not just in philosophy but in the humanities more generally (social thought, medical humanities, law, aesthetics, etc.). By way of outline, Gadamer's text is concerned with defending humanistic truth, and he achieves this by looking at three places this truth shows up in human life: aesthetics, history, and conversation. 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� is, then, relevant to those of us concerned with epistemology, aesthetics, history as a philosophical topic (beginning with Kant and Hegel), philosophy of language, and ontology.

CANCELLED: This event has been cancelled. HOWEVER, keep the slot of 2pm-6pm free in your diary. We are looking into the possibility of doing something else during this time and will circulate a message if that materialises.

Thursday May 9, 2–4pm: Chapter 3: Blindness (2): Love鈥檚 Friendly Eye

Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

鈥淟ove often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love鈥檚 Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love鈥檚 moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato鈥檚 Symposium, love is 鈥渟omething in between.鈥濃��

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 3-5 p.m. Every Friday from Week 2 Summer Term

Location: FAB 4.73 (the first meeting: 3rd May)

Content:

Last term, we have almost finished section 1 "Essence as Reflection Within". This term, we will start with a recap and then go further to "complete ground" (11锛�312) and section 2 "Appearance". [It's absolutely alright if you weren't here last term: )]

Format: We aim to read the text carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

We are pleased to welcome you to the WMA reading group, Origins of Naturalised Intentionality. In this reading group, we will go through five highly influential authors who seek to provide the grounds for a scientific account of mental content (the stuff we think about).

The reading is chosen to provide an accessible introduction to the naturalistic approach to mental content. We hope to have a relatively relaxed discussion of the (sometimes controversial) ideas on offer!

We will meet in S2.84 on Mondays of even weeks (starting 29/04/24) at 14:00-15:30. The sessions will be led by Johan Heemskerk. Feel free to reach out to Oscar North-Concar or Johan Heemskerk for any further information.

The group is open to absolutely everyone, so do come along if you are interested!

Heidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer鈥檚 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� (1960).

Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only.

For meeting details and the reading schedule, email fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk.

Guided by Haley鈥檚 expertise, we will work through the entire book in this term. Gadamer is one of Heidegger's most influential students, not just in philosophy but in the humanities more generally (social thought, medical humanities, law, aesthetics, etc.). By way of outline, Gadamer's text is concerned with defending humanistic truth, and he achieves this by looking at three places this truth shows up in human life: aesthetics, history, and conversation. 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� is, then, relevant to those of us concerned with epistemology, aesthetics, history as a philosophical topic (beginning with Kant and Hegel), philosophy of language, and ontology.

WMA Graduate Research Seminar: pre-MindGrad reading

in weeks 4-7 and 9, Wednesdays 14:00-16:00.

Room S1.39

link: /fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

Thursday May 16, 2–4pm: Chapter 4: Beyond Comparison

Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

鈥淟ove often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love鈥檚 Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love鈥檚 moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato鈥檚 Symposium, love is 鈥渟omething in between.鈥濃��

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 3-5 p.m. Every Friday from Week 2 Summer Term

Location: FAB 4.73 (the first meeting: 3rd May)

Content:

Last term, we have almost finished section 1 "Essence as Reflection Within". This term, we will start with a recap and then go further to "complete ground" (11锛�312) and section 2 "Appearance". [It's absolutely alright if you weren't here last term: )]

Format: We aim to read the text carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Heidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer鈥檚 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� (1960).

Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only.

For meeting details and the reading schedule, email fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk.

Guided by Haley鈥檚 expertise, we will work through the entire book in this term. Gadamer is one of Heidegger's most influential students, not just in philosophy but in the humanities more generally (social thought, medical humanities, law, aesthetics, etc.). By way of outline, Gadamer's text is concerned with defending humanistic truth, and he achieves this by looking at three places this truth shows up in human life: aesthetics, history, and conversation. 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� is, then, relevant to those of us concerned with epistemology, aesthetics, history as a philosophical topic (beginning with Kant and Hegel), philosophy of language, and ontology.

WMA Graduate Research Seminar: pre-MindGrad reading

in weeks 4-7 and 9, Wednesdays 14:00-16:00.

Room S1.39

link: /fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

Thursday May 23, 2–4pm: Chapter 5: Commitments, Values, and Frameworks.

Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

鈥淟ove often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love鈥檚 Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love鈥檚 moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato鈥檚 Symposium, love is 鈥渟omething in between.鈥濃��

Hegel Reading Group: "The Doctrine of Essence" in the Science of Logic

Time: 3-5 p.m. Every Friday from Week 2 Summer Term

Location: FAB 4.73 (the first meeting: 3rd May)

Content:

Last term, we have almost finished section 1 "Essence as Reflection Within". This term, we will start with a recap and then go further to "complete ground" (11锛�312) and section 2 "Appearance". [It's absolutely alright if you weren't here last term: )]

Format: We aim to read the text carefully and slowly together during the session, seeing how far we can go each time. Therefore, no specific text is assigned for each meeting, but you are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the text in advance.

This reading group is organised by Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window), Bruna (bruna.picas-i-prats.1@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window) and Marco (Marco.Rienzi@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window). Please get in touch with Ying to register your interest and keep updated.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

We are pleased to welcome you to the WMA reading group, Origins of Naturalised Intentionality. In this reading group, we will go through five highly influential authors who seek to provide the grounds for a scientific account of mental content (the stuff we think about).

The reading is chosen to provide an accessible introduction to the naturalistic approach to mental content. We hope to have a relatively relaxed discussion of the (sometimes controversial) ideas on offer!

We will meet in S2.84 on Mondays of even weeks (starting 29/04/24) at 14:00-15:30. The sessions will be led by Johan Heemskerk. Feel free to reach out to Oscar North-Concar or Johan Heemskerk for any further information.

The group is open to absolutely everyone, so do come along if you are interested!

Heidegger turns Gadamer in this term: You are warmly invited to join the Heidegger Reading Group where we in this term read Hans-Georg Gadamer鈥檚 鈥淭ruth and Method鈥� (1960).

Every Monday, 7.15-8.45 pm, online only.