24 Thursday Oct 2019
Posted in Reading Groups, Uncategorized
Joe McKenzie is running a Wittgenstein Reading Group (Wednesdays at 3pm, Room 605, Philosophy Building). If anyone wants to come they should email joseph.mckenzie@kcl.ac.uk
There is also an Aristotle reading group being run at the Warburg – details here, all are welcome: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/21380
22 Tuesday Oct 2019
Posted in Announcements, Events, News, Uncategorized, Workshops
There are currently several reading groups running in the department. Even if you haven’t attended any before, you are more than welcome to drop by. MA students are particularly welcome.
(Mostly) Metaphysics Reading Group: Wednesday 1pm, Room 508, Philosophy Building
This term: Individuals by P.F. Strawson
Email: roope-kristian.ryymin@kcl.ac.uk
Philosophy of Mind: Wednesday, 11am, Room 508, Philosophy Building
(alternates with A Spirit of Trust)
Email: patrick.butlin@kcl.ac.uk
A Spirit of Trust: Wednesday, 11am, Room 508, Philosophy Building
(alternates with Philosophy of Mind)
Email: fintan.mallory@kcl.ac.uk
Phenomenology in Analytic Philosophy: Wednesday 3pm, Room 508, Philosophy Building
Email: gregor.boes@kcl.ac.uk
Minorities and Philosophy: Date/Time varies
Email: alice.c.wright@kcl.ac.uk
The Formal Methods Group
Friday, 2-4, Room 508
Keep an eye on the Events tab for more updates!
09 Wednesday Oct 2019
Posted in Events, Public engagements, Public talks
Raymond Tallis: Are you your Brain? Neuroscience and Neuromania
Professor Raymond Tallis FMedSci FRCP FRSA 
Theatre 2, New Hunt’s House, KCL Guy’s Campus
The lecture will be introduced by Lord Turnberg FRCP FMedSci, past president of the Royal College of Physicians.
Professor Tallis is the author of Why the Mind is Not a Computer: A Pocket Dictionary on Neuromythology, The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Fantastical Journey Around Your Head, and most recently Logos: The Mystery of How We Make Sense of the World.
For more information on the speaker and the lectures: click here
REGISTRATION: Registration is required so that King’s Estate Security have the names of all external visitors. You should not register if you have a valid King’s ID. You must register with your full name and email if you are a visitor – you can omit all other information. For further questions, email philosophyandmedicine@gmail.com.
12 Thursday Sep 2019
Posted in Events, News, Public engagements, Public talks, Seminars, Uncategorized
Prof. Sarah Fine will be chairing a panel discussion on the ethics of exhibiting to be held at the Photographer’s Gallery on Wednesday 25th September. This is part of an ongoing collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery and the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts at King’s College London.
Speakers include the playwright and researcher, Raminder Kaur (University of Sussex); anthropologist and art historian Christopher Pinney (University College London); curator and cultural historian Mark Sealy (Autograph ABP).
Click here for details
21 Thursday Mar 2019
Posted in Events, Public talks
Sarah Fine is inviting us to an Active MAPS dance performance on Migration on Tuesday, 26 March at the Jewish Community Centre London.
Followed by a panel discussion led by her, also featuring Dominik Czechowski (Jewish Museum) and Sivan Rubinstein.
More details and booking can be found here.
19 Tuesday Mar 2019
Thomas Hodgson will be presenting at the Perspectives on content workshop, part of The Buenos Aires Linguistics and Philosophy of Language Group (BA-LingPhil) series Issues in Contemporary Semantics and Ontology.
The workshop takes place between 29-31 May, 2019, in Buenos Aires.
More details: link.
18 Monday Mar 2019
Posted in Events
The MAPS dance performance to which our own Dr Sarah Fine contributes as an academic adviser will be performed at the OOPS Festival, taking place 22 – 24 March.
More details can be viewed here, and you can book here.
09 Saturday Mar 2019
Posted in Events
Come along to Bush House Arcade to see a performance of the wonderful dance ‘Rejoining Jane‘. (trailer)
Tuesday, 12 March – 19:00
Registration: Free (required)
This performance is presented as part of Art | Philosophy: Migration, Meaning, Time, an exhibition from the Centre for Philosophy and The Visual Arts, hosted in the Bush House Arcade 26 February – 22 March 2019.
Art | Philosophy is a collaboration between King’s College London’s Department of Philosophy and Kunsthuis SYB. It is supported by the university’s Culture team and the Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
05 Tuesday Mar 2019
Posted in Events, Public talks
King’s is hosting an event on the work of proto-feminist philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft for International Women’s day, March 8th, 16:30 – 18:30:
Celebrate International Women’s Day with a discussion on one of the earliest feminist texts, Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), hosted by the Department of Political Economy at KCL. The event will kick off with a reading of the book’s Introduction, followed by a panel discussion that will address Wollstonecraft’s feminism, views on freedom, and political economy. The evening will conclude with a reception for all attendees.
Registration: Link (free).
22 Friday Feb 2019
Posted in Events, Public talks
Erica Chenoweth (Harvard) will deliver the KCL Peace Lecture:
Time: Fri, 1 March 2019, 18:30 – 19:30 GMT
Place: Bush House Lecture Theatre 1 (Bush House North Entrance, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG)
More: Details and free Registration.
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