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David Papineau launches new book
04 Saturday Mar 2017
Posted in News
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KCL ‘Gang of 5’ at the British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference
03 Friday Mar 2017
Posted in Conference reports, Events, Public talks, Research, Seminars
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Annual Conference, British Society for the History of Philosophy, Jessica Leech, Mark Textor, Michael Beaney, Sacha Golob, Taichi Miura
Michael Beaney, Sacha Golob, Jessica Leech, Taichi Miura and Mark Textor will be representing King’s Philosophy at this year’s Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, due to take place on 6-8 April, at the University of Sheffield.
Eleanor Knox on the Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast
28 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Public engagements
The Guardian’s Ian Sample asks:”Is emergent quantum mechanics grounded in classical physics?”
He is joined by Gerard t’Hooft, Nobel prize winner, and emeritus professor of theoretical physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, our own Eleanor Knox, who provides the historical context for the discussion and, finally, Carlo Rovelli from Aix Marseille Université, who offers an alternative, “relational” interpretation of quantum mechanics.
You can listen to the discussion here: link
Epistemology at King’s
26 Thursday Jan 2017
Posted in Research
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King’s College London is one of the top 5 research centres for philosophy in the country. One of its particular strengths is in Epistemology. For the past few years, we’ve been running a fortnightly normativity seminar. This seminar provides the opportunity to discuss recent research in epistemology and ethical theory done by visiting speakers and members of our staff. We’ve also made an impressive number of junior and senior appointments that have strengthened this particular area.
Maria Alvarez, Maria Rosa Antognazza, Bill Brewer, John Callanan, Julien Dutant, Ellen Fridland, David Galloway, Sacha Golob, Clayton Littlejohn, Eliot Michaelson, David Owens, David Papineau, Matthew Parrott, Shaul Tor, Sherri Roush, Matthew Soteriou, and Shaul Tor have all recently published work in epistemology. This work covers a wide range of topics (e.g., traditional epistemological problems, discussions of epistemology in the history of philosophy, issues at the interface of epistemology and philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and practical reason). Because of this overlap of interests, King’s has become a fantastic place to do epistemology.
Is it only a game?
12 Monday Dec 2016
Posted in Events, Public talks
The Philosophy Department hosted a panel discussion on the importance of play and games in people’s lives, part of the King’s Arts & Humanities Festival.
The full video recording of the discussion can now be watched on YouTube.
David Papineau in The Conversation
04 Sunday Dec 2016
Posted in Ideas, Interviews
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Prod David Papineau features in an hour-long podcast in The Conversation UK on the subject of Belief, where he is joined by a number of leading psychologists and other scientists. The discussion is very topical in light of the misinformation crisis in our democracies.
Maria Rosa Antognazza in Aeon
02 Friday Dec 2016
Prof Maria Rosa Antognazza comments on Europe’s divisions through the lens of Leibniz’s political philosophy and his own experience of political turmoil in his lifetime in a recent article in Aeon.
Seminar: Mind Metaphysics and Psychology
29 Tuesday Nov 2016
Posted in Seminars, Uncategorized
Join us for this upcoming seminar next week:
6 December: 4-6 pm
Room 508 Philosophy Building
Convenor: Carlotta Pavese, Duke University
Comments by: Ian Jakeway
Epistemology at King’s – Matthew Soteriou
25 Friday Nov 2016
Posted in Mind, Metaphysics, Psychology, Research
Matthew Soteriou has recently published two books on Mind and Epistemology: The Mind’s Construction (2013, OUP) and Disjunctivism (2016, Routledge).
Kant at King’s – Andrea Sangiovanni
18 Friday Nov 2016
Posted in History of Philosophy, Research
The Department of Philosophy is one of the leading departments for the study of Kant’s philosophy. John Callanan, Sacha Golob, Jessica Leech and Andrea Sangiovanni are all currently working on various issues in Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy.
Today in the spotlight, the recent work of Andrea Sangiovanni:
- ‘Why There Can Be No Truly Kantian Theory of Human Rights’ in Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, eds. Rowan Cruft and Massimo Renzo (Oxford University Press 2015), pp. 671-91.
- ‘Can the Innate Right to Freedom Alone Ground a System of Public and Private Rights?’ European Journal of Philosophy 40/3: 60-9 (2012)
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