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GTA applications call for 2020-2021

14 Friday Feb 2020

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Applications are now open for 2020-21 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 9am on Monday 9th March 2020.

EXTERNAL APPLICANTS WHO ARE CURRENTLY ENROLLED AS POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS IN OTHER UNIVERSITIES, NOT KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

  • Please complete the attached GTA application form (remember to quote both module codes and titles in your application form; these can be found in the attached list of modules available)
  • Please send the completed documents listed below to your primary supervisor via email.
    • GTA application form,
    • Academic CV
    • Academic reference form
  • Please ask your primary supervisor (or a module convenor) to complete the academic reference form and send it via email to antonia.coote@kcl.ac.uk andchelo.rodriguez@kcl.ac.uk by 9am on Monday 9th March 2020  (please note that due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to chase your academic referee on your behalf, so you’ll need to ask them to send you confirmation that they have sent your reference on time).
  • Please send the completed documents listed below (all together in the same email) to antonia.coote@kcl.ac.uk and chelo.rodriguez@kcl.ac.uk by 9am on Monday 9th March 2020 :
    • Staff Registration form
    • Equality & Diversity form
    • Health Capability Form
    • GTA application form
    • Academic CV
  • You will also need to provide proof of eligibility to work in the UK. The list of suitable documents is in the GTA application form (If you have a visa, please note that we cannot accept visas in expired passports. You will need to apply for a Biometric Residence Permit. Non EEA nationals must also provide a confirmation of studies letter). Antonia Coote (antonia.coote@kcl.ac.uk) will get in touch with applicants about providing the proof of eligibility to work in the UK AFTER the closing date of 9am on Monday 9th March 2020

ATTACHMENTS:

Staff Registration Form
HealthCapabilityDeclaration
EqualityDiversityForm
2020-21 Modules-available-all-depts
2020-21 GTA-app-form
2020-21 Academic-Reference

The Phenomenology Reading Group – Autumn 2019 Series

07 Monday Oct 2019

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A new series of the Phenomenology Reading group starts next Wednesday, 9thOctober: 15:00-16:00 in the Emeritus Room (PB508). The group will cover papers that connect the detailed descriptions of phenomenology with systematic debates from analytic philosophy. Anyone is welcome!

For the first week, we will discuss Hubert Dreyfus’ seminal 2005 paper Overcoming the Myth of the Mental: How Philosophers can Profit from the Phenomenology of Everyday Expertise. (download from JSTOR here). For those short on time but still wanting to join, there is a 6-page version from 2006 published in Topoi.

For a list of suggested readings, or if the time and date are not suitable for you, as well as any other questions, do not hesitate to contact Gregor Bös.

The Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy at King’s (24-26 April)

30 Tuesday Apr 2019

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The Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy took place at King’s College London on 24-26 April 2019. Over 120 delegates gathered in London for three days of discussion. The conference covered all periods of the history of philosophy, including sessions on Chinese, Islamic, Indian, and other non-western parts of the canon, in nearly 100 papers.

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Several KCL faculty, emeritus faculty and students gave papers at the event. Maria Rosa Antognazza delivered the welcome remarks as BSHP Chair. Other King’s speakers included: MM McCabe, Mike Beaney, Richard Sorabji, John Callanan, Jessica Leech, Mark Textor, Katharine O’Reilly, Jon W. Thompson, Carlo Cogliati, and Mike Coxhead.

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The British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP), launched in 1984, is a registered charity, which exists to promote and foster all aspects of the study and teaching of the history of philosophy. It publishes one of the leading journals in the field, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (Taylor and Francis), currently based at KCL. Both the BSHP Chair (Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza) and the BJHP Editor (Professor Mike Beaney) are members of King’s Philosophy Department.

The Ship of Theseus – a poem by Mina Aries

21 Thursday Mar 2019

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The Ship of Theseus

The tale of the ship of Theseus
There are some things one has to make clear
If it is one or two ships at a point of time
Depends on the view of identity one might decline.

A ship leaves the harbour to take a little tour,
A plank breaks, then three then four.

By the time it comes back, it is a new ship
Every single part of it has lived through a switch.

But someone collected all of the wood
And reassembled them under a hood
To exhibit a new ship in a museum
So lovers of Greek history can flock in to see ‘em.

Is it the one that lived through the history
The ship of Theseus, that is the mystery!

How many repairs can a ship survive
Without leading to its own demise?

Is it ship A or is it ship B, does that make them all ship C?
One thing is for sure, it can’t be all three.

Mina Aries
Philosophy, Politics, Economics

Essemble for Academic Markdown

12 Tuesday Mar 2019

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If you use Markdown for your academic writing, you can now use (MA alumnus) Nick Gravgaard’s “Essemble” tool to generate the cover page.

“Essemble assembles essays from Markdown files and inserts a coversheet as the first page. The coversheet is populated from metadata in the Markdown file, as well as a word count based on the Markdown after it’s been processed by Pandoc. Since the information for the coversheet is in the Markdown file, this means it can be tracked by one’s version control system, and can be edited using one’s normal text editing tools.”

Get it here.

‘Rejoining Jane’ performance dance at Bush House Arcade – Tuesday, 12th

09 Saturday Mar 2019

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Come along to Bush House Arcade to see a performance of the wonderful dance ‘Rejoining Jane‘. (trailer)

Tuesday, 12 March – 19:00

Registration: Free (required)

 

This performance is presented as part of Art | Philosophy: Migration, Meaning, Time, an exhibition from the Centre for Philosophy and The Visual Arts, hosted in the Bush House Arcade 26 February – 22 March 2019.

Art | Philosophy is a collaboration between King’s College London’s Department of Philosophy and Kunsthuis SYB. It is supported by the university’s Culture team and the Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

Mary Wollstonecraft: Feminism, Freedom and Political Economy – 8 March, Strand

05 Tuesday Mar 2019

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King’s is hosting an event on the work of proto-feminist philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft for International Women’s day, March 8th, 16:30 – 18:30:

Mary Wollstonecraft: Feminism, Freedom and Political Economy

Celebrate International Women’s Day with a discussion on one of the earliest feminist texts, Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), hosted by the Department of Political Economy at KCL. The event will kick off with a reading of the book’s Introduction, followed by a panel discussion that will address Wollstonecraft’s feminism, views on freedom, and political economy. The evening will conclude with a reception for all attendees.

Speakers:

  • Dr Signy Gutnick-Allen is a Fellow in the Department of Government at LSE working on early modern British and European political thought and debates over citizenship.
  • Dr Alan Coffee is a Visiting Fellow in KCL’s Dickson Poon School of Law, working on the civic republican conception of freedom and Mary Wollstonecraft as a republican political philosopher.
  • Dr Catherine Packham is a Reader in the School of English at the University of Sussex, working on the relation between Philosophy and Political Economy in the 18th century and focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft and debates over political economy in the 1790s.
  • Victorine Pontillon is a Franco-American freelance director, producer and actress settled in London.

Registration: Link (free).