News in Brief – August 2020
Featured News
Phil Soc Dissertation Anthology, edited by Alice Goodwin
Graduate Prospects for Philosophers at Liverpool
Other News
We welcome new Postdoctoral Researcher Lizzy Ventham. Lizzy will be working with Thomas Schramme on the ‘How does it Feel?’ project. She is co-organising an online conference on 'The Normativity and Epistemology of Friendship', 3-4thSeptember.
Rachel Handley has been appointed as Lecturer at Code University, Berlin.
Katherine Furman’s African Philosophy reading group got underway.
Rachael Wiseman (with Clare Mac Cumhaill) featured in the British Academies ‘Shelfies’ series, in which researchers share their favourite lockdown books.
Jack Symes joined Asha Lancaster-Thomas (University of Birmingham) in co-presenting ‘Developing the Evil-God Challenge: how would an evil-god act?’ at the Joint Session. Jack was also invited to give a public talk on ‘The Philosopher’s Toolkit: Basic Tools for Better Thinking’ as part of Get Living’s Tuned In series, became a mentor for Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) UK, and was awarded a research grant from Hockerill Educational Foundation.
Publications
‘Truth: What is it Good for? Absolutely Something’. Rachel Handley discusses truth and ethics in 316 as part of a series edited by Huw Price.
Do we perceive absences? Is absence experience a kind of cognitive phenomenology? Find out in Laura Gow's 'A New Theory of Absence Experience' out now in *European Journal of Philosophy*.