News in Brief - November 2023

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Group photo outside stone building

PhD researcher, Paul Taylor, chairs session at Theistic Ethics Workshop, Wake Forest University, North Carolina 

 

Photo of Tom Whyman’s children

Tom Whyman for the Guardian: ‘The latest Google phone promises to transform my children into perfect, smiling angels. Why would I want that?’ 

 

Other News 

Ilias Markolefas has been made an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy  

Vid Simoniti presented at the ‘Game Engine Cultures’ workshop Centre for Culture & Everyday Life 

Tom Wyman was a panelist at Waterstones London for ‘The Conversation: Should I have children?’ 

Vid Simoniti was Interviewed by Pierre d’Alancaisez about his book Artists Remake The World.  Listen here. 

The first Panpsycast episode with our Aesthetics and Political Epistemology Project is out soon: ‘Episode 124, Narrative Critique with Rachel Fraser (Part I – Disrupting Ideology)’ 

 

Publications 

Thomas Schramme has two new publications: ‘Scaffolding athletes’ choices and performance in risky and uncertain circumstances’ in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy and 'Empathy with Future Generations?' in Topoi 

As part of her residency, Lauren Stephens reviewed Suzanne St Clare's socially engaged photography exhibition at the Open Eye. 

Vid Simoniti’s book, Artists Remake the World, is now out in the USA 

Rachael Wiseman’s Metaphysical Animals is out now in Spanish. Review in El País