News in Brief - June 2018
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Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature by Professor Richard Gaskin
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Death is a Bore: BBC Radio 4 Analysis with Professor Michael Hauskeller
In Parenthesis Project Selected Among Anuual Highlights of the North
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Two of our PhD students became Drs! Big congratulations to Dr Seyed Ashrafi ('Ethical Principles for Hospital Design') and Dr Rob Booth ('Environmental Crisis and Ecophenomenological Praxis')
Simon Hailwood is just back from the Arctic. He gave an invited talk ('Normature, Human Edibility and Predatory Wilderness') at 'New Frontiers in Environmental Philosophy' conference at UiT.
Rachael Wiseman’s Women in Parenthesis project has been awarded a grant from the Collegium Institute at Pennsylvania University to visit the newly acquired Anscombe Archive this September. Along with Clare MacCumhaill (Durham) she'll be in the archive and giving a presentation to the Institute. Rachael also attended the British Academy Summer Soiree, where she presented a copy of the Hannah Directory to the Academy.
Rachael was also speaking on 'Self Knowledge and Self Ascription' at Lisbon University's Language, Mind and Cognition group on Friday. David Yates - Liverpool philosophy alumni (class of '96) - is a researcher there.
Daniel Hill made a radical contribution to the debate about marriage law in a guest blog-post. Should the state be a third party in a marriage?
Daniel also spoke at the Merseyside UCAS Higher-Education Fair to a crowd of sixth-formers from around the North-West interested in studying philosophy at university.
Here's a very nice post by MA student Tom Brown discussing PhD student Greg Miller’s recent publication. Tom draws parallels between the problem of the unity of the proposition and the combination problem.
Michael Hauskeller gave a keynote at the Phenomenology of Medicine and Bioethics conference in Stockholm on 14 June. 'Human Vulnerability, Transhumanism, and the Meaning of Life'.
Michael also gave the opening lecture at the Festival of Philosophy at Hanover (Germany) on 'Being (an) I'.
Becky Davnall spoke at the Women in Tech Meetup: The Rise of A.I.
One of our recent alumni has a paper out in Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. Read Oliver Thomas Spinney's 'Priority and Unity in Frege and Wittgenstein' here.