News in Brief - August 2018

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Philosophy News Digest

Featured Research

Quantum Entanglement and the Problem of Natural Evil

Quantum Entanglement and the Problem of Natural Evil by Barry Dainton

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Featured News

Terracotta Warriors

Chinese Philosophy and the Meaning of Life

Prof Michael Puett (Harvard) to give Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture on October 12th. Tickets available.

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Stapledon Insights

New Insights seminar series to accompany Stapledon Lectures

Registration open now.

Stephen Clark to retire from Philos L

Stephen Clark to retire from PHILOS-L

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Other News

Becky Davnall presented "Grand Theft Argument: The Problem with Paradigm Cases of Virtual Violence" at The Games Studies Triple Conference in Copenhagen has begun!

Rachael Wiseman and John Picton (Law) and Eddy Hogg (Social Policy, Kent) were awarded a research development grant from HSS to co-founders the Donation Research Network - an interdisciplinary network aiming to elicit & share boundary-crossing perspectives on the nature of donation.

The Semester 1 schedule for the Stapedon Lectures is available here. Please note the new day (Thursday) and time (4-6pm).

Publications

Michael Hauskeller’s, “The Concept and the Perception of Atmospheres”, in: Designing Atmospheres, ed. Juergen Weidinger.

Stephen McLeod and Daniel Hill's article with Attila Tanyi, 'The Concept of Entrapment', was downloaded 1.4k times in its first 12 months.