“Amid the chaos and heartache of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, citizens still stopping to ‘take advantage of the simple pleasures in life’” – Aaron Wendland for The Toronto Star
Dr. Aaron James Wendland
Aaron James Wendland is Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King’s College London and a Senior Research Fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto. He is the editor of the New Statesman’s philosophy series, Agora, and he tweets @aj_wendland.
“No one is entitled to make use of another person’s body, even when another life depends on it.” – Hannah Carnegy [Photo by Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images]
Hannah Carnegy is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York.
This article is part of the Agora series, a collaboration between the New Statesman and Aaron James Wendland. Wendland is Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King’s College, London and a Senior Research Fellow at Massey College, Toronto. He tweets @aj_wendland.
Maria Rosa Antognazza Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London
As a learned academy which embraces all fields of scholarly and scientific inquiry from one end of Europe to the other, the Academia Europaea embodies a set of values which have never been more urgently needed. I am delighted and humbled to have been elected to its membership.”
– Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza
The Academia Europaea is an academy of humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences around the world, for public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages. The aim of the Academy is to promote European research, advise governments and international organisations in scientific matters, and further interdisciplinary and international research.
Membership of the Academia Europaea (MAE) is awarded to individuals that have demonstrated “sustained academic excellence”. Membership is by invitation only by existing MAE only and judged during a peer review selection process.
Maria Rosa Antognazza was also awarded the 2019-2020 Mind Senior Research Fellowship for work on her book Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief (forthcoming with Oxford University Press). She served as Head of the King’s Philosophy Department from 2011/12 to 2014/15, is the Chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, and the President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.
“Accepting low moral standards that we can easily exceed has caused a great deal of suffering throughout history” – Roger Crisp [Illustration by Luciano Lozano/Ikon Images]
This article is part of the Agora series, a collaboration between the New Statesman and Aaron James Wendland. Wendland is Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King’s College, London and a Senior Research Fellow at Massey College, Toronto. He tweets @aj_wendland.
“GDP and other indicators may tell us something about well-being, but they aren’t substitutes for moral and political decision-making” – Anna Alexandrova [Illustration by Alice Mollon/Ikon Images]
This article is part of the Agora series, a collaboration between the New Statesman and Aaron James Wendland. Wendland is Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King’s College, London and a Senior Research Fellow at Massey College, Toronto. He tweets @aj_wendland.
In recent decades there’s been a tremendous growth in the amount of interdisciplinary and collaborative work on consciousness and action. However, in that work the following questions have been largely neglected: What it is to be awake? What is it that changes when you surface from sleep and dream? What does wakeful consciousness explain? At this conference, these questions will be addressed from the perspectives of science, philosophy, art, and the law. Researchers from these different disciplines will be discussing what it is to be awake, and considering how the study of sleep, dreams, and parasomnias can help further our understanding of wakeful consciousness.
SCHEDULE
*Day 1 – 14th June Bush House (NE) -1.01*
11.30 – Welcome / Introduction – Matthew Soteriou (King’s College London) & Tom Crowther (University of Warwick)
11.45 – 12.45 Joachim Aufderheide (King’s College London)
12.45 – 13.30 Lunch (served in -1.01)
13.30 – 14.30 Claire Hogg (University College London)
14.30 -15.30 James Stazicker (King’s College London)
15.30-16.00 – Tea/Coffee Break
16.00 –17.00 Antonio Zadra (Université de Montréal)
19.00 – Speakers’ Dinner (London Venue)
*Day 2 – 15th June Bush House (NE) -1.01*
13.30 – 14.30 Ivana Rosenzweig (King’s College London)
14.30 – 15.30 Alison Hand (The Art Academy, London)
“Stoicism is often seen as an individualistic philosophy – about self-reliance and detachment – but its techniques are really about pursuing the common good.” — Nancy Sherman [Illustration by Poan Pen]
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