News in Brief – December 2020
Upcoming Events
21 January, Michael Hauskeller, 'Engineering Goodness: The Pitfalls of Moral Enhancement', at 5pm (6pm CET) on 21 January. Hosted by Munich University. Email Jason.branford@lmu.de to register.
Other News
Third Year student Maisie Green has a place at Sheffield Hallam next year to do a PGCE in secondary Religious Education.
Robin McKenna became a Fellow of the HE Academy, and Nikos Gkogkas became a Senior Fellow.
Publications
Yiota Vassilopoulou’s 'The Gaze in the Mirror: Human Self and the Myth of Dionysus in Plotinus' is now out in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
Ian Dunbar and Steve McLeod’s chapter, 'Fregean Descriptivism', is out now in The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference.
Dr Lizzy Ventham's paper, 'Attitudinal Theories of Pleasure and De Re Desires', will be out soon in Utilitas.
Thomas Brown’s paper ‘Propositions are not representational’ is out now in Synthese.
Former PhD student Dr Xiaoyan Hu’s monography The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius, will be published by Lexingtoon Books in 2021.
Yiota Vassilopoulou and Paul Jones’ paper on 'Philosophers in Residence’ is in Bluecoat, Liverpool: The UK's First Art Centre (2020).
Stephen Clark’s Can We Believe in People: human significance in an interconnected cosmos (Angelico Press) and Plotinus Ennead VI.9 on the Good or the One (Parmenides Press) both came out this year.
Professor Clark has also published ‘Discerning the Spirits: Healing and the Moral Problems of Efficacy’ in Spiritual Healing: Science, Meaning, and Discernment, ed. Sarah Coakley (Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2020), pp.153-80; ‘Souls, Stars and Shadows’ in Differences in Identity in Philosophy and Religion: a cross-cultural approach, eds, Sarah Flavel & Russell Re Manning (Bloomsbury: London 2020), pp.7-20.