Philosophy in Prison

16 Wednesday Aug 2017

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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.

London Conference: Post-Kantian Receptions of the Enlightenment — 30 August

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 

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Philosophy Time: a video series with Eliot Michaelson and James Franco

26 Wednesday Jul 2017

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Philosophy Time w James Franco and Eliot Michaelson

King’s Eliot Michaelson teams up with Hollywood star James Franco in Philosophy Time, a newly released series of short video interviews with contemporary philosophers on the topics of beauty, abortion, metaphor and imagination. Continue reading →

Truth in Politics and Metaphysics: Celebrating the Work of Peter Winch (Conference at King’s, June 30 – July 2)

12 Monday Jun 2017

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Marking the 20th anniversary of Peter Winch’s death, this major international conference brings together leading academics from around the world to examine the legacy of Peter Winch’s work and to reassess its relevance to contemporary issues. Participants will draw on both Winch’s published work and also unpublished materials contained in the Winch archives. Topics to be discussed include: political philosophy, ethics, and the philosophies of Spinoza and Wittgenstein. The conference is generously supported by the Mind Association and the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value at the University of Pardubice.

Speakers: Marina Barabas (CAS / Pardubice), Ondřej Beran (Pardubice), Michael Campbell (Pardubice), David Cockburn (Wales), Alice Crary (NSSR), Helen Geyer (Weimar), Lars Hertzberg (Åbo), Drew Johnson (Independent), Olli Lagerspetz (Åbo), David Levy (Edinburgh), Michael McGhee (Liverpool), Tony Milligan (KCL / Pardubice), Rupert Read (UEA), Lynette Reid (Dalhousie), Duncan Richter (VMI), Sean Stidd (WSU), Craig Taylor (Flinders), Mark Theunissen (New School), Sarah Tropper (AAU Klagenfurt), Carolyn Wilde (Bristol)

Dates: June 30 – July 2

Full Programme: http://filosofie.upce.cz/data/File/winch-conference-program.pdf

Venue: Room K-1.56, King’s Building, King’s College London

Admission: Free, but please register by e-mailing winchconf@gmail.com

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1274330602662240/?active_tab=discussion

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MM McCabe will be giving this year’s Mark Sainsbury Lecture at King’s College London.

30 Tuesday May 2017

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The Keeling Scholar in Residence in Philosophy at UCL, MM McCabe will be speaking on ‘Giving and Taking an Account: Plato on the Language of Conversation’.

– 1st June, 2017, 4.15-6pm.

– Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s College London, Strand WC2R 2LS.

Workshop on ‘Reasons’ — 31 May – 1 June

24 Wednesday May 2017

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Programme:

Day 1 (May 31)

  • 11-12:30: Julien Dutant (KCL) – The Non-Factualist’s Shiny Oughts
  • Lunch
  • 1:30-3:00: Clayton Littlejohn (KCL) – You’re so Vain. You Probably think your Reasons Should Guide You
  • 3:00-4:30: Kathryn Lindeman (Saint Louis) – TBA

Day 2 (June 1)

  • 10-11:30: Maria Alvarez (KCL) – False Beliefs and the Reasons we Don’t Have
  • 11:30-1: Errol Lord (UPenn) – The Variety of Epistemic Reasons and the Failures of Evidentialism and Pragmatism

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.

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Workshop on ‘Know How’ — 23 May

24 Wednesday May 2017

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Programme:

  • 11-12:30: Eliot Michaelson (KCL)
  • Lunch
  • 1:30-3:00: Ellen Fridland (KCL)
  • 3:00-4:30: Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck) – ‘Against anti-philosophical intellectualism’ *

* 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.