Happy New Year, Everyone!

Day and Time:   Wednesdays, 2–4pm (unless otherwise stated)

Room:   BSTC 2.39 (Barbara Strang Teaching Centre), Newcastle University

Semester II

Week

1           31/1/2018   Dan Koczy (Newcastle/Sunderland), Introduction to Deleuze

2         7/2                   David Rose (Newcastle), Introduction to Posthumanism

3          14/2                Sinéad Murphy (Newcastle), Introduction to Judgement

4          21/2                Peter Wolfendale (Newcastle), Introduction to German Idealism

5           28/2               Prof. Andrew Ballantyne (Newcastle), ‘Architectural and Urban Reflections after Deleuze and Guattari’

6          7/3                   Adam Potts (Newcastle), Introduction to Blanchot/Sound Studies

7          14/3                Lisa Foran (Newcastle), ‘Translation in the History of Philosophy’

[Easter Break]

8          18/4                 Andrea Rehberg (Newcastle), Introduction to Anti-Humanism I

9          25/4                 Andrea Rehberg (Newcastle), Introduction to Anti-Humanism II

16/5                              Robert Bernasconi (Penn State)

Other, extra-mural events, organised by Bigg Books/Blackwell Books/Newcastle Philosophy Society

{Locations and times to be confirmed}

April 24th: Markus Gabriel

May 15th: Keith Ansell-Pearson

May 19th: Andres de Saenz Sicilia

June 5th: Gregory Claeys

— Introductions are primarily for MLitt students and interested undergraduates.

—‘Talks in apostrophes’ are Work in Progress talks to which all, including staff, are invited.

— Monday events open to all

(Please note, as the Wednesday sessions are part of a course of teaching for our MLitt students, priority must be given to them in the debates and questions (and seating); for the same reason, these Wednesday sessions are not open to members of the public without special dispensation.)

A nice website devoted in particular to the neglected backwaters (or supposed backwaters) of the history of philosophy is The History of Philosophy Without Gaps https://historyofphilosophy.net/ (run by a proper professor, hence respectable.)

Not a substitute for real work, but a good way to get acquainted with parts of the history of the philosophy that you wouldn’t otherwise meet, in a preliminary kind of way.

I would be grateful if you would draw the attention of your best students to the postgraduate scholarships being offered by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University London, for 2018–19.

MA SCHOLARSHIPS

Continue reading Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) →

The Book of Change (your abstracts and “adverts” from stages 2 and 3) for your dissertations is online. You can access it by clicking here.   The address is: http://bookofchange.ncl.ac.uk/index.php

The Book of Change, Philosophy@Newcastle, represents the research interests of students engaged on the BA (Hons.) in Philosophy, which they pursue through personalised context-driven projects. It is an ongoing reflection on contemporary life and consists of one-page outlines or ‘adverts’ for the projects undertaken by students. Each contribution is unique, but they all share common elements: the key concepts that are addressed and the territory of exploration in which those concepts are applied.