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Job: Lecturer in the History of Philosophy (Modern)

03 Monday Jul 2023

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The Philosophy Department at King’s College London is seeking to appoint a fixed-term (one year) Lecturer with expertise in the history of philosophy, modern period, including Spinoza and Leibniz.  Research specialization, competence and ability to teach at all levels and supervise postgraduate students in that area is required. Teaching competence in epistemology at undergraduate and MA level is also required; research expertise in this area is desirable.

King’s Philosophy Department is one of the largest and most distinguished departments in the UK. We have particular research strengths in the history of philosophy, philosophy of mind and psychology, philosophy of language and logic, metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science, and moral and political philosophy.

This post will be offered on a full-time, fixed term contract for 12 months from 1st September 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter.

For further details, contact Mark Textor or click here. The closing date for the post is 18 July 2023.

Early Modern Philosophy at King’s

03 Wednesday May 2017

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King’s College London is one of the top 5 research centres for philosophy in the country. One area of particular strength is Early Modern Philosophy, and a large proportion of our faculty members work in the field.

Maria Alvarez, Maria Rosa Antognazza, John Callanan, Sacha Golob, Jessica Leech, Thomas Pink, and Jasper Reid have published substantially in the subject recently. Continue reading →

Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy (14/15/16 April)

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:

https://lifeanddeathinearlymodernphilosophy.wordpress.com/