07 Thursday Jun 2018
Posted in Ideas, Interviews
MM has recently spoken at length with the Los Angeles Review of Books on the themes of her recent book, Platonic Conversations.
And she also has some insights into reading gleaned from the decades of reading ancient philosophy for The Reading List – as well as confessing to the the crime of marginalia writing!
Both interviews are well worth a read.
02 Saturday Jun 2018
The latest edition of the Times Literary Supplement features two of our colleagues:
The rest of this edition of the TLS can be found here.
14 Monday May 2018
Posted in Announcements
Following a generous gift from the Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from the Estate of their member Estella Newsome, we are able to offer an annual prize of £100 for an undergraduate philosophical essay on issues in ethics arising from conflict and war. No particular viewpoint need be represented in the essay, which will be judged on purely philosophical grounds.
2018 Topic: Pacifism
Winning essay prize: £100
Eligibility: The essay competition is open to any current undergraduate student at King’s College London (including final year students). Only one submission per student.
Length: up to 3,000 words (including footnotes, excluding bibliography).
Deadline: 16 July 2018.
Instructions: Please send your completed essay via email attachment to philosophy@kcl.ac.uk. Word document or pdf. Email subject line: ‘The Estella Newsome Memorial Prize’.
Panel: The essays will be assessed by a panel of 3 philosophers.
10 Thursday May 2018
Posted in Announcements, News
Three of our staff have recently received major research grants:
Congratulations to Ellen, Andrea and Mark!
25 Wednesday Apr 2018
Posted in Events, Public engagements, Public talks, Seminars
Sacha Golob, Vanessa Brassey and Emma Syea will be leading a series of art/philosophy discussions at Tate Britain over the summer in response to their hugely popular All Too Human show (Bacon, Freud, Rego, Souza and others).
The first event features Amalia Ulman, described by the Telegraph as having created the first ever ‘Instagram masterpiece’, the philosopher Timothy Secret and the Bacon specialist Katharina Guenther:
WHAT MAKES US HUMAN: THE GAZE
12 May 2018
13:00-15:00 and 15:30-17:30
(full details and bookings)
13 Tuesday Mar 2018
Posted in Announcements
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The Philosophy Department at King’s College London is seeking an excellent philosopher with research expertise and teaching experience in political philosophy. Competence and ability to teach at all UG and PGT levels in political philosophy are required; the ability to offer some teaching in the philosophy of race and/or gender would be an advantage. Research specialization in political philosophy is required.
This Full Time post will be fixed term for 24 months.
The deadline for applications is midnight on Wednesday, 11 April 2018.
Full details and application form are available here. For any further questions, please contact Professor Bill Brewer at bill.brewer@kcl.ac.uk.
28 Wednesday Feb 2018
Posted in Announcements
Applications are now open for 2018-19 Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) positions across the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. If you are a graduate student in philosophy at a UK higher education institution (whether it is King’s or not), you can apply to contribute to the teaching at King’s. Instructions and forms below. The deadline is March 5th, 2018.
FOR EXTERNAL APPLICANTS WHO ARE CURRENTLY ENROLLED AS POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS IN OTHER UNIVERSITIES, NOT KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
ATTACHMENTS:
Academic-Reference
EqualityDiversityForm-2018
GTA-app-form-2018-9
Modules-available-2018-19-all-depts
StaffRegForm-2018
What is a GTA _Rates for 2018-2019
22 Thursday Feb 2018
Posted in Events, Formal Methods, Research, Seminars
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conditionals, credence, epistemic modals, epistemic norms, epistemology, evidence, formal epistemology, knowledge, legal proof, peer disagreement, pragmatic encroachment, probabilistic semantics, probability, racial profiling, statistical evidence, transformative experience, women's speech
Prof. Sarah Moss (Michigan) will give a masterclass on Probabilistic Knowledge at King’s College London on March 6th-7th, 2018. The masterclass will include guest talks by Siliva Milano (LSE), Jason Konek (Bristol), Matt Mandelkern (Oxford) & Daniel Rothschild (UCL), Bernhard Salow (Cambridge) and Richard Holton (Cambridge). The keynote lecture of the masterclass is a joint session with LSE’s Choice Group.
The event is open to graduate students and researchers from any institution. Attendance is free but registration is required. To register fill in the form below.
Here is a pdf version of the programme. Final location confirmed: though the strike is taking place and many of us would have preferred not to cross picket lines, the event will have to take place in KCL (venues below).
19 Monday Feb 2018
Posted in Events, Public talks
Prof. Daniel Hausman, a prominent US philosopher on topics at the intersection of philosophy and economics, will give a talk at KCL for the PPE programme:
“The Link Between Positive and Normative Economics”
Monday Feb 26th
17:30-19:00
Bush House, North-East wing, Room 9.03
The talk is open to all students (undergraduates very welcome) and staff. Attendance is free, no registration required. For more information contact Roberto Fumagalli. Continue reading
15 Thursday Feb 2018
Posted in Events, Public talks
The February 14 episode of Philosophy Bites features Sarah Fine in conversation with Nigel Warburton on the Right to Exclude. You can see more details and listen to the full podcast here.
