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Sin, Art and Philosophy

16 Monday Nov 2020

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This week Sacha Golob (CPVA) and the National Gallery are hosting a panel discussion on Sin and Art.

Speakers include writer, drag performer and filmmaker Amrou Al-Kadhi; philosopher Deborah Casewell; art historian and Chaplain at King’s College, Cambridge, Ayla Lepine; and Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Visual Art Sacha Golob.

Find out more and/or book your tickets here: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/a-philosophy-of-sin-and-art-17-11-2020

To find out more about CPVA, a multi-disciplinary initiative based at King’s College London, click here.

Kneading Knowledge.

30 Friday Oct 2020

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In May 2020, the Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI) worked in collaboration with the charity Migrateful on the project Breaking Bread, providing King’s staff with the opportunity to participate in online cookery classes that were led by refugees, asylum seeker and migrants. Kneading Knowledge builds on the success and positive feedback from this project, and registration is now open for King’s student and staff to take part in eight online cookery classes running across October to November 2020

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To find out more about Migrateful, a charity supporting asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants on their journey to employment, independence and integration into the community, click here.

One of the key academics involved in this project is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Dr. Sarah Fine.

To register for one of the delicious remaining classes, maximum 10 per class, please use the links below.

  • 6 – 7.30pm, Tuesday 3rd November: Cuban cuisine with Chef Lola
  • 12 – 1.30pm, Thursday 5th November: Syrian cuisine with Chef Majeda
  • 6 – 7.30pm, Tuesday 10th November: Iranian cuisine with Chef Parastoo
  • 6 – 7.30pm, Thursday 12th November: Nigerian cuisine with Chef Elizabeth

Philosophy in Prison x The View Magazine blog takeover

10 Friday Jul 2020

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The charity, Philosophy in Prison, has collaborated with The View Magazine to curate a series of blog posts on women, philosophy, and prison, with contributions from King’s philosophers MM McCabe, Jessica Leech, Sarah Fine, and Mike Coxhead. The series also includes a piece by a participant from one of the charity’s courses at HMP Downview.


Philosophy in Prison, founded by MM McCabe, Bill Brewer, and Tom Harrison, promotes and delivers philosophical education in prisons. The View Magazine is a publication by and for women in prison, with paid content by women prisoners, women on license, and those affected by the incarceration of women.


You can read the posts, dated 5th-10th July 2020, here.

A Layperson’s Guide to Epidemiological Modelling – Prof Alexander Bird

06 Monday Apr 2020

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Epidemiological models have been frequently mentioned in the media lately. What are they? And how do they work? Professor Alexander Bird with the Sowerby/King’s Philosophy & Medicine project has helpfully produced this introduction to epidemiological modelling for the layperson.

The particular model he will be looking at is the SIR model developed by Kermack and McKendrick in 1927.

Here’s a link to the project. Professor Bird has also produced a paper to accompany the video which is available here.

New philosophy videos from Clayton Littlejohn

27 Friday Mar 2020

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As everyone is locked up, Clayton Littlejohn has been helpfully recording and gather talks on some recent work in philosophy. This talk is an informal presentation of a paper written with Julien Dutant on epistemic rationality and defeat. It presents a new unified theory of defeat according to which the toxicity of rationality defeaters has to do with the way in which they serve as indicators that we cannot know certain things. The paper engages with recent work on epistemic paradoxes, epistemic rationality, and recent work on defeat. 

If you are interested, there are more videos available here.

Prof. Maria Alvarez Podcast

06 Friday Mar 2020

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Prof. Maria Alvarez recently appeared on the podcast Aleks Listens, here. Over the course of the interview, she discusses being Head of Department, what it means to be an agent, and the importance of talking with people who have different views. 

If you are interested in hearing a thoughtful discussion of some important issues, give it a listen.

The interview begins about 10 minutes from the beginning or 1 hour 8 mins from the end (depending on the direction you are coming from).

New Issue of Philosophy

13 Monday Jan 2020

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The most recent issue the journal Philosophy has arrived. This is the first issue of the the journal to be produced under the auspices of its new editors Prof. Maria Alvarez and Prof. Bill Brewer accompanied by their associate editors Sarah Fine, Sacha Golob, James Stazicker, and Raphael Woolf. Along with the introduction of a new blind peer-review process, the editors have also written a thoughtful editorial introduction deserving of attention. 

The founders, who included the philosophers Samuel Alexander, Bertrand Russell and Sydney Hooper (the first editor), were animated by a conviction that the philosophical quest ‘begets a certain spirit of impartiality in judging all things’. That our culture is in sore need of such fair-mindedness hardly needs saying. In almost every quarter, kinds of thinking that seek truth and produce deeper and truer understanding are under threat from greed for power, fanaticism, ruthless pursuit of profit, and sheer carelessness. These beget mistrust, indifference, even hopelessness at the very time when we most need their opposites, faced as we are with some urgent problems and challenges. We need to understand better how to live well in ourselves, with each other, and with the other creatures with whom we share our endangered planet. While philosophy on its own cannot remedy all these ills, it can help. Its methods – its underlying purposes – make it a powerful tool against mendacity, narrow-mindedness and bunk. 

For further information, click here

Philosophy is the journal of The Royal Institute of Philosophy. 

Oxford Think Festival Reading List

16 Monday Dec 2019

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Dr Sarah Fine

As part of the Oxford Think Festival, Oxford University Press have curated an article reading list in order to celebrate the quest for knowledge. This year, the reading list features three King’s staff and alumni whose work spans issues from language loss and pregnancy to refugees. The articles are:

Refugees, Safety, and a Decent Human Life by Sarah Fine punished in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society [Senior Lecturer in Philosophy]

Language Loss and Illocutionary Silencing by Ethan Nowak published in Mind [Leverhulme Early Career Researcher]

Were You a Part of Your Mother? by Elselijn Kingma published in Mind [former KCL postdoc]

All articles are currently free to read at this link.

 2019 Annual Sowerby Lecture

09 Wednesday Oct 2019

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Raymond Tallis: Are you your Brain?  Neuroscience and Neuromania

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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.

The Ethics of… Exhibiting

12 Thursday Sep 2019

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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). 

THE ETHICS OF… EXHIBITING

Wednesday 25th September

18:30 – 20:30

The Photographers’ Gallery

Click here for details

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