20 Wednesday Apr 2016
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Professor Bill Brewer will give a three hour masterclass on the topic of personal identity on the 14th of June. The class is part of the Guardian newspaper’s ‘masterclass’ series.
Event details can be found here.
11 Monday Apr 2016
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Questions revolving around the concept of life and its limitations, what it means to lead a good life and what the status of death is are today as relevant as they have been in philosophy’s first beginnings. But these issues and the perspectives on them underwent several changes, and an especially notable one in the early modern period. Fundamental shifts in science and technological advances led to a new awareness of the presence of life in the smallest parts of matter, to the question of what distinguishes life from death, and even to readdressing the general question of what ‘life’ amounts to. The European Society for Early Modern Philosophy (ESEMP) dedicated its triennial conference, which will take place this year in London, April 14 to 16 2016, to these and related questions.
The opening plenary talk by Michael Moriarty (University of Cambridge) will be hosted at King’s College London, followed by two days of talks at Birkbeck College.
The conference is organized and sponsored by the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy and the British Society for the History of Philosophy in association with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, King’s College London and the Wellcome Trust.
The conference’s webpage, including registration form, can be found here:
06 Wednesday Apr 2016
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A symposium on self-knowledge will be held on the 3rd and 4th May, at Guy’s Campus. Speakers include the department’s Nick Shea, Sherri Roush and Sacha Golob.
A full schedule and more info can be found here.
06 Wednesday Apr 2016
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On the 26th and 27th May, the department will host the annual UNC-KCL workshop which this year will be on the theme of explanation.
In addition to talks by graduate students from both London and the University of North Carolina, there will be talks from the department’s Eleanor Knox and Maria Alvarez and UNC’s Marc Lange and John Roberts.
The schedule and registration/access information can be found here.
06 Wednesday Apr 2016
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A new reading group on the topic of acquaintance will begin this month. The organizers of the reading group intend to give particular focus to the work of John Campbell.
The first meeting will take place at noon on Monday the 11th of April. The location is the Philosophy Graduate Common Room.
For more details, contact Jørgen Dyrstad: jorgen.dyrstad@kcl.ac.uk.
09 Tuesday Feb 2016
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On the 18th of February 2016, the Department of Philosophy at King’s College London will host a graduate conference on the topics of rationality and irrationality.
The conference will feature talks from graduate students working in epistemology, the philosophy action and the philosophy of psychology; respondents from KCL faculty members; and Prof Neil Levy as keynote speaker. Details of the schedule can be found here.
For more information, feel free to contact one of the organizers – Charles, Dave or Paul.
08 Monday Feb 2016
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In Semester Two 2015-16 we are launching the King’s History of Philosophy Seminar, which will meet regularly through the academic year at King’s College London.
The Seminar aims to promote discussion of methods and approaches to the History of Philosophy as well as of thinkers and topics within the tradition.
Meetings take place on Fridays. All welcome.
February 19th, 2016, 11am-1pm:
Prof. Sarah Hutton (University of York)
Author of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Small Committee Room, King’s College London
March 18th, 2016, 3-5pm:
Dr James Harris (University of St Andrews)
Author of Hume: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and editor of Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. I: Morals, Politics, Art, Religion (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Room 508, Department of Philosophy, King’s College London
May 27th, 2016, 11am-1pm:
Dr Christopher Brooke (University of Cambridge)
Author of Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau (Princeton University Press, 2012)
Small Committee Room, King’s College London
Titles of talks will be announced closer to the date.
These seminars are organised by John Callanan and Clare Carlisle. Please email clare.carlisle@kcl.ac.uk with any enquiries.
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