News in Brief - July 2022
News
Congratulations to Barry Dainton for his fellowship Higher Education Academy. Everyone in the Department involved in teaching now has a HEA teaching qualification!
Laura Gow gave a talk on 'Redefining Non-veridicality in Perception' at the *Delusional Experiences* workshop in Birmingham earlier this month.
We are advertising a one year FTE Grade 7 lecturer, starting January 2023. Deadline 15 July!
Michael Hauskeller was rather busy this month, launching his new book The Things that Really Matter, giving an invited talk at the Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) on whether an AI is likely to make better moral decisions than we, the annual Lumsden Lecture at the University of Nottingham on “Transhumanism and the Myth of Stone Age Man”, and an invited lecture on his love affair with an AI Chatbot at the University of Tromsö (Norway), examining a PhD defence on moral enhancement at the University of Twente (Netherlands), discussing the news with Simon Kirchin, Julian Baggini, and Fiona Macpherson, visiting Her Majesty’s Prison in Liverpool to discuss his work with the inmates, chairing Martin O’Neill’s inaugural Royal Institute of Philosophy’s Lecture for Students at Carmel College in St. Helens, and being questioned and filmed by the host of the Korean interview channel “Delights of Conversation” on his book The Meaning of Life and Death, whose Korean translation recently topped the Korean humanities bestseller lists.
Rachael Wiseman and Clare Mac Cumhaill were on the Guilty Feminist Live Show at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle, to talk about Metaphysical Animals. The podcast episode will follow soon. They also recorded an episode of the Mile End Podcast with Karl Pike. It will be available here soon. Their book was reviewed this month in the New York Times, Boston Review, Washington Post and the New Yorker. It was on the Guardian Summer Reading: 50 hottest new books for a great escape.
PhD researcher Harry will be joining the Debates in Aesthetics Journal as a co-editor in the autumn.
Rachael Wiseman was elected to the British Society for the History of Philosophy Management Committee. She will be the Communications Officer.
MA Philosophy student Ellie Palmer, has been appointed to a Graduate Teaching Scholarship at Kings Leadership Academy Warrington. She’ll be teaching and training in their ‘PPE’ program: ‘Philosophy, Public Speaking and Ethics’. As part of the role she’ll be running an extra-curricular club preparing a team for the 2023 Ethics Cup.
Publications
The public release of the Panpsycast live event, ‘The Mystery of Consciousness (Part I - The Debate)’, featuring Jack Symes and Laura Gow, is available for download.
Robin McKenna is editing a Synthese topical collection, with Ian Kidd, on Epistemic Vices. The CFP is here.
Rachael Wiseman and Clare Mac Cumhaill’s ‘The importance of Murdoch’s early encounters with Marcel and Anscombe’ is in Mark Hopwood and Syliva Pazinni (eds) The Murdochian Mind (Routledge: 2022).
Future Events
Rachael Wiseman and Clare Mac Cumhaill are organising a conference: ‘Wartime Quartet: Significance, Legacy, Spirit’, at the St Aidan’s College, University of Durham, 7th-9th June 2023. The call for abstracts (for talks and poster presentations) is here (deadline 20 September 2022): https://www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/wartime-quartet-conference-call-for-papers/