19 Wednesday Sep 2018
Posted in Conference reports, Events, History of Philosophy, Research, Uncategorized
Maria Rosa Antognazza is giving the Westfall Lecture in History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University Bloomington on Thursday 20th September.
The title of Rosa’s talk is ‘Physics and Metaphysics in Leibniz’ and the abstract can be found here.
18 Tuesday Sep 2018
Posted in Events, History of Philosophy, KHOPS, Seminars
The KHOPS schedule for this year is as follows:
Click here for more details.
18 Tuesday Sep 2018
Posted in Announcements, Research
Congratulations to King’s Philosophy PhD student, Jake Wojtowicz, on the publication of his paper ‘Bernard Williams on Regarding One’s Own Action Purely Externally’ in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
Congratulations to Alex Franklin and Eleanor Knox on the publication their paper ‘Emergence without limits: The case of phonons’ in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.
And congratulations to Alex Franklin on his paper ‘Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?’, which is forthcoming in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
17 Monday Sep 2018
Posted in Ideas, Interviews, Public engagements
King’s PhD candidate Vanessa Brassey interviews artists on the CPVA website.
Here’s an excerpt from an interview with artist Nicola Durvasula
I’ve always been deeply interested in the nature of line. For instance, what went on in the head and/or heart of the very first man (or woman) –the Caveperson – when they created a line which had the ability to ‘stir’ another? I think this is fundamental to what drawing is, or can be. The way in which I draw is visceral, immediate and there is a certain sensuality in the curvilinear qualities of the lines. I’m quite intrigued by the idea that these could actually be connected to our sense of movement or other sensory capacities. That seems to make sense on one level. On another, it’s not as if I consciously hear sounds when I’m drawing.
Click here fore more.
16 Sunday Sep 2018
Posted in Conference reports
Bill Brewer will be speaking at the Perceptual Knowledge and Self-Awareness conference in Fribourg next week (24th-26th September).
The full flyer can be found here
09 Monday Jul 2018
Posted in Ideas, Interviews
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Five Books interviews David Papineau on his recommended readings on Philosophy and Sport. Of course, David has recently published his own work on the topic, Knowing the Score (2017), but here are his other picks:
The whole interview can be read here.
05 Thursday Jul 2018
The fraught political debate on immigration in the United States has led some commentators to look beyond orthodox positions and tired slogans. There is an increasing desire to question presuppositions on the topic, and re-examine the fundamental ethical principles that underlie existing policies.
In this context, Sarah Fine’s work on the right to exclude (explanatory podcast) has influenced one argument in The New Yorker explicitly in favour of open borders. Is political philosophy starting to make its way into political discourse and practice once more?
02 Monday Jul 2018
The Times Literary Supplement this week features David Papineau on “Thomas Bayes and the crisis in science“, in their Footnotes to Plato series.
This week’s entire TLS edition can be read here.
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.
