News in Brief - October 2022

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Featured News 

The Psychology and Epistemology of Political Cognition

The Psychology and Epistemology of Political Cognition, 17-18 October 2022  

 

 Scavenger hunt

The First Great Philosophy Scavenger Hunt 

 

Abercromby Square entrance

Edwards Lecture 2022: Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of the Will, and Reformed High Orthodox, 19 October 2022 

 

 Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany by Hannah Höch

Aesthetics and Political Epistemology, 19-21 June 2023 

 

The Mystery of Consciousness

The Mystery of Consciousness – Fifteen Photographs 

 

News 

Michael Hauskeller joined Simon Kirchin for *Philosophy Takes on the News* 

Yiota Vassilopoulou will be spoke at MMU’s Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Philosophy Festival: Philosophy of Psychiatry and Lived Experience 

The city of Liverpool is down to the final two in the competition to host Eurovision 2023. 

PhD researcher Jack Symes has been appointed Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Chester. 

 

Publications 

Katherine Furman’s ‘Epistemic Bunkers’ is out in Social Epistemology. 

Vid Simoniti’s BBC Free Thinking radio essay is now in Biennial journal on art & climate change. Read it here. And his ‘Transfiguration of a Discipline: What is the point of interdisciplinarity in contemporary art?’ was published in Birgit Eusterschulte and Christian Krüger (eds), Involvierte Autonomie. 

Rachael Wiseman (and Clare Mac Cumhaill) edited and wrote an introduction for a collection of Mary Midgley’s essays for Philosophy. 

 

Forthcoming Events 

We have two Stapledon Lectures in October. On 6th October, in the SOTA library, Raamy Majeed, University of Manchester, will speak on ‘Emotions Beyond Modularity’. On 22nd October, online, Annalisa Coliva, University of California, Irvine, will speak on ‘Hinge Trust’. For the full programme this semester, see here 

The Psychology and Epistemology of Political Cognition, 17-18 October 2022, SOTA Library. 

Between God and Atheism’, 18 October 2022 at 6.30pm - a debate between Philip Goff and Jack Symes, hosted by the Manchester Lit & Phil Society 

Edwards Lecture 2022, 19th October, 15:00-17:00, in the Library of the School of the Arts, 19 Abercromby Square