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The Estella Newsome Memorial Prize

14 Monday May 2018

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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.

Major research grants for the Philosophy Department

10 Thursday May 2018

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Three of our staff have recently received major research grants:

  • Ellen Fridland: Templeton grant for work on a conception of intelligent automaticity from the perspective of skill and applying this to moral expertise, especially intelligent affective change as connected with moral behaviour. Part of their Diverse Intelligences programme.
  • Andrea Sangiovanni: 5-year European Research Council Consolidator Grant on ‘Solidarity in the European Union’, aiming to develop a theory of justice for the EU.
  • Mark Textor: Leverhulme Research Fellowship for work on ‘Austrian Philosophy 1874-1918: Empiricism, Evidence and Economy’

Congratulations to Ellen, Andrea and Mark!

 

Job Ad: Teaching Fellow in Philosophy (Political)

13 Tuesday Mar 2018

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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.

GTA applications call for 2018-19

28 Wednesday Feb 2018

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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

  • 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 (if you are a GTA not enrolled in King’s College London, you can ask a module convenor for to complete the academic reference form, as long as the module convenor has observed your class).
    • GTA application form
    • academic CV
    • academic reference form (see attachment)
  • Please ask your primary supervisor (or a module convenor) to complete the academic reference form and send it via email to joseph.o’connor@kcl.ac.uk and chelo.rodriguez@kcl.ac.uk by 9am on Monday 5 March 2018 (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 joseph.o’connor@kcl.ac.uk and chelo.rodriguez@kcl.ac.uk by 9am on Monday 5 March 2018:
    • StaffREg form (attached)
    • EqualityDiversity form (attached)
    • the GTA application form (attached)
    • academic CV (all forms together in the same email)
  • 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).
  • Joe O’Connor (joseph.o’connor@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 5 March 2018

ATTACHMENTS:

Academic-Reference
EqualityDiversityForm-2018
GTA-app-form-2018-9
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StaffRegForm-2018
What is a GTA _Rates for 2018-2019

Active Maps – Dance Workshops

08 Thursday Feb 2018

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Sarah Fine invites everyone to the Active Maps dance workshops:

Thu 22 February 2018
15:00 – 17:00 GMT
Tutu’s, Level 4 Macadam Building. Strand Campus

Dr Fine collaborated on this performance workshop which allows the participants to create their own personal map. Lead by choreographer Sivan Rubinstein and live music composer Liran Donin the journey starts with a visual installation designed by Hamish McPherson where we look at the world as one home, and then through movement, sound and migration we create our very own global map which looks at the constantly changing nature of the world.

Register is free: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/active-maps-dance-workshops-tickets-42502885274

Clare Carlisle wins prize for best article published in 2017 in the JHP

30 Tuesday Jan 2018

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Clare Carlisle (Department of Theology & Religious Studies and Cognate Faculty in the Philosophy Department, as well as co-organizer of the King’s History of Philosophy Seminar) has won the prize for the best article to appear in the pages of the Journal of the History of Philosophy in 2017 with her article,  “Spinoza’s Acquiescentia“, JHP 55.2 (April 2017): 209-236.

The winner is selected by a committee of the Board of Directors from among the two dozen or so articles published over four issues each year, with the result approved by the entire Board.  There were 26 articles published in Volume 55 (2017).
The prize has been awarded annually since 2005. A list of previous winners can be seen here: https://sites.ualberta.ca/~jhphil/book.article.prize.html.

Warmest congratulations to Clare!

British Journal for the History of Philosophy Editorial

16 Tuesday Jan 2018

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Mike Beaney’s editorial for the first issue of this year’s volume of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy has gone live: link.

He presents an analysis of the contents of the last 25 volumes of the BJHP, and compares what the BJHP and the Journal for the History of Philosophy (JHP) have published over the last 5 years. He discusses, in particular, the BJHP’s concern with broadening the range of articles it publishes on the history of philosophy.

Update: Prof. Beaney’s editorial has now become the subject of a post on the influential philosophy blog Daily Nous, here.

Departmental jobs announcements

12 Friday Jan 2018

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We are delighted to announce that two recent PhD graduates from the department have found wonderful positions internationally:

  • Desirée Lim will be joining the Philosophy Department at PennState in August 2018 as an Assistant Professor
  • Mary Carman will be on a three-year lectureship in Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa

Our congratulations to both Desirée and Mary!