Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea’s Philosophy and TRS section!

You can read KCL’s news story here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/professor-maria-rosa-antognazza-elected-to-academia-europaea

As a learned academy which embraces all fields of scholarly and scientific inquiry from one end of Europe to the other, the Academia Europaea embodies a set of values which have never been more urgently needed. I am delighted and humbled to have been elected to its membership.”

– Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza

The Academia Europaea is an academy of humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences around the world, for public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages. The aim of the Academy is to promote European research, advise governments and international organisations in scientific matters, and further interdisciplinary and international research.

Membership of the Academia Europaea (MAE) is awarded to individuals that have demonstrated “sustained academic excellence”. Membership is by invitation only by existing MAE only and judged during a peer review selection process.

Maria Rosa Antognazza was also awarded the 2019-2020 Mind Senior Research Fellowship for work on her book Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief (forthcoming with Oxford University Press). She served as Head of the King’s Philosophy Department from 2011/12 to 2014/15, is the Chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, and the President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.

Warmest congratulations to Rosa!

Check out the latest from the Agora, “Can you really do more than moral duty requires?” by Roger Crisp!

See this new article by Roger Crisp in @aj_wendland‘s Agora series @NewStatesman. Roger Crisp is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Uehiro Fellow in Philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford. He is the author of Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Oxford University Press).

This article is part of the Agora series, a collaboration between the New Statesman and Aaron James Wendland. Wendland is Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King’s College, London and a Senior Research Fellow at Massey College, Toronto. He tweets @aj_wendland.

Check out the latest from the Agora, “Why public policy shouldn’t be guided by master numbers” by Anna Alexandrova!

See this new article by Anna Alexandrova in @aj_wendland‘s Agora series @NewStatesman. Anna is Professor in Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is also the author of A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being (OUP).

This article is part of the Agora series, a collaboration between the New Statesman and Aaron James Wendland. Wendland is Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King’s College, London and a Senior Research Fellow at Massey College, Toronto. He tweets @aj_wendland.

All are very welcome to attend KCL’s Philosophy Department’s Professor Chris Hughes’ Valedictory Lecture on the 1st of June, 2022.

Valedictory Lecture: “Anselm, Meinong, Thought, Being, and Perfection”

Speaker: Professor Chris Hughes

Date & Time: Wednesday 1 June, 16:00-17:45

Venue: Safra Theatre, Strand Campus, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

All are very welcome! But please note that registration is required for attendees without a KCL ID card. 

You can register here: Professor Chris Hughes – Valedictory Lecture Tickets, Wed 1 Jun 2022 at 16:00 | Eventbrite

What is it to ‘be awake’?

You can book tickets for this event via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wakeful-consciousness-tickets-341161331727

About this event

In recent decades there’s been a tremendous growth in the amount of interdisciplinary and collaborative work on consciousness and action. However, in that work the following questions have been largely neglected: What it is to be awake? What is it that changes when you surface from sleep and dream? What does wakeful consciousness explain? At this conference, these questions will be addressed from the perspectives of science, philosophy, art, and the law. Researchers from these different disciplines will be discussing what it is to be awake, and considering how the study of sleep, dreams, and parasomnias can help further our understanding of wakeful consciousness.

SCHEDULE

*Day 1 – 14th June Bush House (NE) -1.01*

11.30 – Welcome / Introduction – Matthew Soteriou (King’s College London) & Tom Crowther (University of Warwick)

11.45 – 12.45 Joachim Aufderheide (King’s College London)

12.45 – 13.30 Lunch (served in -1.01)

13.30 – 14.30 Claire Hogg (University College London)

14.30 -15.30 James Stazicker (King’s College London)

15.30-16.00 – Tea/Coffee Break

16.00 –17.00 Antonio Zadra (Université de Montréal)

19.00 – Speakers’ Dinner (London Venue)

*Day 2 – 15th June Bush House (NE) -1.01*

13.30 – 14.30 Ivana Rosenzweig (King’s College London)

14.30 – 15.30 Alison Hand (The Art Academy, London)

15.30-15.50 Tea/Coffee Break

15.50- 16.50 – Round table

17.00 Conference close

You can also find out more about the Centre for Philosophy and Art here!: https://philosophyarts.co.uk/

All are very welcome to attend KCL’s Philosophy Department’s Professor Chris Hughes‘ Valedictory Lecture on the 1st of June, 2022!

Valedictory Lecture: “Anselm, Meinong, Thought, Being, and Perfection”

Speaker: Professor Chris Hughes

Date & Time: Wednesday 1 June, 16:00-17:45

Venue: Safra Theatre, Strand Campus, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

All are very welcome! But please note that registration is required for attendees without a KCL ID card.

You can register here: Professor Chris Hughes – Valedictory Lecture Tickets, Wed 1 Jun 2022 at 16:00 | Eventbrite

Check out the latest from the Agora, “Why Stoicism isn’t just about you” by Nancy Sherman!

See this new article by Nancy Moore in @aj_wendland‘s Agora series @NewStatesman. Nancy Sherman is University Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. She is the author of Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience (OUP).

@aj_wendland launched and runs the philosophy column in The New Statesman called Agora, which is a space for academics to address contemporary social, political and cultural issues from a philosophical point of view.

Check out this new blog post by Dr. Matilda Carter, Lecturer in Philosophy at KCL, in the Philosophy & Medicine Project’s blog!: https://www.philosophyandmedicine.org/philmedblog/matilda-carter-still-there-dementia-substitute-decision-making-and-authenticity

You can also read other posts on the Philosophy & Medicine Project’s blog here: https://www.philosophyandmedicine.org/philmedblog

The Philosophy & Medicine Project’s blog features posts from members and friends of the project. If you’re interested in writing one, please do feel free to get in touch with the Philosophy & Medicine Project team at philandmed@kcl.ac.uk!

And you can check out more from the Philosophy & Medicine Project on their:

Website: www.philosophyandmedicine.org

Twitter: https://twitter.com/philandmed

and YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbwZgH0yLR2F26PdNeN2-wQ

Professor Elselijn Kingma has been featured in a short video on creating life, which you can view in English here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsNP6aN8dTs

and in Dutch here: https://klara.be/luister/podcast/zijdenkers 

Elselijn has also been featured in 1 of 4 longer podcasts on the same topic, which you can view here: https://futurebased.org/topics/a-central-human-condition-elselijn-kingma/ . 

You can learn more about Elselijn’s BUMP (Better Understanding of Metaphysics of Pregnancy) Project on their website here: https://bump.group/

You can also check out more from the Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project, of which Elselijn is Director, on their:

Website: www.philosophyandmedicine.org

Twitter: https://twitter.com/philandmed

and YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbwZgH0yLR2F26PdNeN2-wQ

A quick reminder that the Mark Sainsbury Lecture, which will this year be given by Professor Dorothy Egington FBA, and the Mark Sainsbury Fest are taking place on the 16 and 16-17th of May, respectively!

All are still very welcome to attend (registration required for Mark Sainsbury Lecture).

You can register for the Mark Sainsbury Lecture here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/311672660317

Mark Sainsbury Lecture

‘Two Kinds of Indeterminacy’

Speaker: Professor Dorothy Edgington FBA

Date & Time: Monday 16^th May, 18:00 GMT+1

Venue: Safra Theatre, Strand Campus, King’s College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

The lecture will be followed by a reception (Somerset Room, KCL).

Mark Sainsbury Fest

SCHEDULE

Day One – May 16

[Venue: The Council Room, King’s College London]

2:00-2:10pm: Introduction by Maria Alvarez, Maria Rosa Antognazza, and Alex Grzankowski

2:10-3:00pm: Panel discussion
Barry Smith
MM McCabe
Tim Crane
Anthony Savile
David Papineau

3:00-3:30pm: Break

3:30-5:30pm: 2 Talks (40+20 minutes discussion each)
Hans Kamp (Chair: Julie Hunter)
Sir Richard Sorabji (Chair: Anna-Sara Malmgren)

5:30-6:00pm: Break

[Venue: Move to Safra Lecture Theatre]

6:00pm: Mark Sainsbury Lecture by Dorothy Edgington (Chair: MM McCabe)
(Please note that booking is required to attend this lecture – link to register for the Annual Sainsbury Lecture here.)

8:00pm: Wine Reception in the Somerset Room


Day Two – May 17 

[Venue: Senate House/Institute of Philosophy, Room 349]

10:00am-12:00pm: 2 Talks (40+20 minutes discussion each)
Genoveva Marti (Chair: Bryan Pickel)
Keith Hossack (Chair: Michael Tye)

12:00-13:30pm: Lunch Break

13:30-14:30pm: “Short Talks” (Chair: Stacie Friend)
Giulia Felappi
Marcello Oreste Fiocco
Tom Crowther

14:30-16:00pm: Lecture by Mark Sainsbury (Chair: David Sosa)

Final greetings by Maria Alvarez, Maria Rosa Antognazza, Alex Grzankowski

Please feel free to direct any questions about the Mark Sainsbury Fest to Alex Grzankowski at alex.grzankowski@gmail.com!