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Recordings of Mark Sainsbury Fest Lectures Now Available

01 Thursday Sep 2022

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King’s College London’s Department of Philosophy is very pleased to announce that recordings from the Mark Sainsbury Fest of the Annual Lecture by Dorothy Edgington (‘Two Kinds of Indeterminacy’) and of Mark’s Lecture (‘Boundarylessness’) are now available at the event webpage (https://marksainsburyfest.wixsite.com/event), as well as below:

You can also see photos of the event by photographer Victoria Goodman in this previous post!

“What is behind a successful academic hoax?” by Costica Bradatan in the Agora series edited by KCL’s @aj_wendland in The New Statesman

29 Monday Aug 2022

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Check out the latest from the Agora, “What is behind a successful academic hoax?” by Costica Bradatan!

The competitive nature of academia produces a tendency to group-think, which hoaxers exploit – Costica Bradatan [Illustration by Sergio Ingravalle/Ikon Images]

Costica Bradatan is Professor of Humanities at Texas Tech University. He is the author of In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility.

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.

“Does the rise of the metaverse mean the decline of cities?” by Max Hayward in the Agora series edited by KCL’s @aj_wendland in The New Statesman

19 Friday Aug 2022

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Check out the latest from the Agora, “Does the rise of the metaverse mean the decline of cities?” by Max Hayward.

Neighbourhoods depend on people looking out for each other, but the growth of virtual worlds threatens to undermine public oversight of real spaces – Max K. Hayward [Illustration by Hiroshi Watanabe/ Getty Images]

Max Khan Hayward is a lecturer in ethics and political philosophy at the University of Sheffield.

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.

“Can Comedy Defeat Dictators?” -Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy, @aj_wendland, reporting from Kyiv for the Toronto Star

18 Monday Jul 2022

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Read the latest piece of public philosophy from Aaron Wendland (@aj_wendland), reporting on civilian life for the Canadian and International press!:

“Jokes from the bomb shelter: Ukrainian comedians show power of humour amid wartime horror”

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.

“There is no end to the problems of philosophy” -MIT’s @KieranSetiya interviews KCL’s @aj_wendland about the interaction between personality and philosophy on Five Questions. https://anchor.fm/kieran-setiya/episodes/Aaron-Wendland-e1fvvts/a-a7jvpub

07 Thursday Jul 2022

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Check out Kieran Setiya’s interview of our very own Aaron Wendland, Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King’s College London and Senior Research Fellow at Massey College, Toronto: https://anchor.fm/kieran-setiya/episodes/Aaron-Wendland-e1fvvts/a-a7jvpub

Professor Kieran Setiya (@KieranSetiya)

Professor Kieran Setiya (MIT) works mainly in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, and is the author of  Life is Hard, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, Practical Knowledge, Reasons without Rationalism, and Knowing Right From Wrong. In his Five Questions podcast, he asks philosophers 5 questions about themselves.

Dr. Aaron James Wendland (@aj_wendland)

Dr. Aaron James Wendland (@aj_wendland) launched and runs the philosophy column in The New Statesman called Agora, which is a space for academics to address contemporary social, political and cultural issues from a philosophical point of view. He is currently in Ukraine doing in-depth reporting on civilian life for the Canadian and International press. You can read our blog post on his recent article “How ought civilians act in a war zone?” for The Toronto Star.

“Why is it so difficult to face grim realities?” by Quassim Cassam in the Agora series edited by KCL’s @aj_wendland in The New Statesman

04 Monday Jul 2022

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Check out the latest from the Agora, “Why is it so difficult to face grim realities?” by Quassim Cassam.

Taking painful truths to heart often requires imagining the unimaginable. – Quassim Cassam [Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images]

Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Conspiracy Theories and Vices of the Mind: from the Intellectual to the Political.

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.

Photos from Mark Sainsbury Fest (16-17 May, 2022)!

01 Friday Jul 2022

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Thank you all for coming!

“How ought civilians act in a war zone?” -Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy, @aj_wendland, reporting from Kyiv for The Toronto Star

27 Monday Jun 2022

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Our own Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy, Dr. Aaron Wendland (@aj_wendland) reports from Kyiv, Ukraine, in the following article from The Toronto Star: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/06/24/air-raid-sirens-coffee-and-cake-how-life-goes-on-in-the-ukraine-russia-war-zone.html

“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.

“Why the right to bodily integrity entails the right to abortion” by Hannah Carnegy in the Agora series edited by KCL’s @aj_wendland in The New Statesman

20 Monday Jun 2022

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Check out the latest from the Agora, “Why the right to bodily integrity entails the right to abortion” by Hannah Carnegy.

“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.

Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza elected to Academia Europaea

15 Wednesday Jun 2022

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Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea’s Philosophy and TRS section!

You can read KCL’s news story here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/professor-maria-rosa-antognazza-elected-to-academia-europaea

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.

Warmest congratulations to Rosa!

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