News in Brief - December 2022

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Philosophy News Digest

Featured News 

Vid on BBC Radio 3

How do we look at art? Vid Simoniti discusses the Turner Prize shortlist on BBC Radio Three, Free Thinking 

Metaphysical Animals

Rachael Wiseman’s Metaphysical Animals is the winner of the HWA 2022 Non-fiction Crown Award 

Labeeba Miah

MA Philosophy Student Labeeba Miah appointed onto the BIPPA Executive Committee 

Mince Pies

Progress to Postgraduate Philosophy Festive Event 

 

News 

Thomas Schramme gave a course on academic publishing for PhD students at Hamburg University 

Robin McKenna gave a talk (virtually) on “The New Scepticism” for Queens University Belfast’s visiting speaker series 

Jack Symes was awarded his PhD. His thesis was supervised by Daniel Hill and Barry Dainton and examined by Michael Hauskeller and Stephen Law. Congratulations Jack! 

Rachael Wiseman and Clare Mac Cumhaill’s book, Metaphysical Animals, has been shortlisted for Austrian ‘Science Book of the Year’  

Vid Simoniti spoke at the Public Art conference at King's College London.   

Rachael Wiseman spoke at the ‘Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Social Science’ conference at Durham University. 

Michael Hauskeller and Rachael Wiseman visited Liverpool College to discuss why philosophy matters. 

Thomas Schramme presented papers at Hamburg Uni and at the University of Essen. 

Thanks to Nikos Gkogkas, we now have a Departmental account on the Mastodon social network, where we are gaining followers. 

 

Publications 

Robin McKenna's “Is Knowledge a Social Phenomenon?” is now available online at Inquiry.