22 Friday Sep 2017
“From Descartes and Locke to philosophers of the present day, learn how great thinkers can help you to understand who you are.”
Professor Bill Brewer hosted this masterclass on 12 September at The Guardian headquarters. More philosophy masterclasses by King’s philosophers can be expected in the future.
19 Tuesday Sep 2017
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John Callanan will be speaking about Kant’s Categorical Imperative on the In Our Time programme on BBC Radio 4, this Thursday, 21 September, at 9am.
The show will be available for streaming after the event on the BBC website.
16 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Public engagements
In 2016, the King’s Department of Philosophy piloted an 8-week philosophy course for prisoners at HMP Belmarsh. With the support of Professors Bill Brewer and MM McCabe, Mike Coxhead (PhD candidate and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department), Andy West (senior specialist at The Philosophy Foundation), and Andrea Fassolas (honorary therapist at the Guild of Psychotherapists) developed and delivered a course of discussion-based philosophy classes.
In 2017, King’s will offer a re-run of the original pilot course, as well as a second course specifically targeted at ESOL learners.
More details about the course content and its outcomes can be found on the King’s Philosophy research pages.
31 Monday Jul 2017
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Announcing a one-day London based workshop on “Post-Kantian receptions of the Enlightenment”.
August 30, 2017: 9:00 — 18:00
Senate House, University of London.
Registration required by 10 August by email to Alexis Papazoglou: alexis.papazoglou@rhul.ac.uk
30 Tuesday May 2017
Posted in Events, History of Philosophy, Public talks, Research
30 Tuesday May 2017
Posted in Events, Mind, Metaphysics, Psychology, Public talks, Research
Ellen Fridland will talk on the topic ‘Do as I say and as I do: imitation, pedagogy, and cumulative culture.‘
7.00 p.m. at Blackwell’s bookshop on Broad Street, Oxford.
24 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in Events, Rationality, Research, Seminars
Programme:
Day 1 (May 31)
Day 2 (June 1)
Registration is not required, but it would be appreciated if you send an email to Clayton Littlejohn to let him know how many to expect.
24 Wednesday May 2017
Programme:
* Abstract
Jennifer Hornsby: I’ll argue that questions about the nature of knowing how should be answered in philosophy, not linguistics. (a) Gilbert Ryle’s conception of self-knowledge as requiring “higher order acts” prevented him from addressing questions about knowing-how such as arise in philosophy of action. (b) Jason Stanley’s various misinterpretations of Ryle readily lead to his assumption that Ryle’s anti-intellectualism is a thesis about ascriptions of knowledge.
02 Tuesday May 2017
Posted in Events, Public talks
Clayton Littlejohn and Julien Dutant are taking part in the large interdisciplinary conference From Reasonable Doubt to Undue Scepticism organized by Ulrike Hahn and Marion Worms at Birkbeck this week. Both will be defending knowledge-centred views on the topic. See the programme here.
04 Tuesday Apr 2017
Posted in Events, Formal Methods, Research, Seminars
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belief, Clayton Littlejohn, epistemic utility theory, epistemology, formal epistemology, Jason Konek, Julien Dutant, knowledge, Richard Pettigrew
Prof. Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) will give a masterclass on Epistemic Utility Theory at King’s College London on Thursday-Saturday April 27th-29th, 2017. In addition to the masterclass we will have three guest talks by Jason Konek (Kent), Julien Dutant (KCL) and Clayton Littlejohn (KCL).
The event is open to graduate students and researchers from any institution. Attendance is free but registration is required. To register fill in the form below.
Here is a pdf version of the programme.
