https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BOR899/department-of-philosophy-scholarships
Other MA’s of course are available, including our own MLitt!
PhD funding for Philosophy 2019-20
Do apply to come and study for a Philosophy PhD at Newcastle University:
State-funding for European and UK students is available from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under the heading of the ‘Northern Bridge Consortium’:
Click here for details: PhD Studentships in the Arts and Humanities for 2019 Entry
Visit the department website for some more information on applying for a place, which should be done first. Approach a possible supervisor, and then apply, mentioning that you’ve made that contact.
Interesting talk
This event is happening in Sociology but may well be of interest to some of you, especially where a project theme may coincide:
Please find below details of forthcoming Sociology events:
Utopia Now? New thinking, new practices: David Bell, Lisa Garforth and Adam Stock
Wednesday 21 November, 4-6pm, Armstrong Building 2.49
Public event – open to all
Please join us for a talk about contemporary utopian thought.
David Bell, Lisa Garforth and Adam Stock will be talking about their recent books which reflect respectively on utopian politics, affect and performative practices; green utopian visions and post-war environmental discourse; and dystopian fiction and political thought. The three speakers share a background in utopian studies and the conversation will also explore issues in contemporary utopian theory, practice and politics.
David Bell is author of Rethinking Utopia: Place, Power, Affect (Routledge, 2017) and a member of the Out of
the Woods collective
Lisa Garforth, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University is author of Green Utopias: Environmental Hope Before and After Nature (Polity, 2018)
Adam Stock, Lecturer in English Literature at York St. John, is author of Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought (Routledge, 2018)
An Imagining Pasts and Futures cluster event
Heidegger film, this Monday, 4pm, BSTC 2.41a
Sorry for the late notice, but the Monday afternoon ‘Extra’ event, is a film screening, of the BBC documentary on Heidegger, ‘Human, All too Human’. Very much worth watching.
Philosophy and the Body, Student Conference, Friday 7th December 2018
Mary Midgley, Archive event in Durham
Join In Parenthesis and the Royal Institute of Philosophy on Saturday November 10th to celebrate the launch of the Midgley Archive at Durham University.
Mary Midgley (1919-2018) was one of the world’s leading philosophers and her work continues to shape the way we think about human life and our relation to each other, to animals, and to nature. Join us for a short film and discussion about Mary’s work and her place in 20th Century intellectual history, followed by a chance to look at some of the archive‘s most significant pieces. Tea and coffee will be provided.
Book via eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mary-midgley-archive-launch-tickets-50065326740
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Eventbrite – In Parenthesis with the Royal Institute of Philosophy presents Mary Midgley Archive Launch – Saturday, 10 November 2018 at Durham University Library, Durham, England. Find event and ticket information.
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For further information on the collection, see http://www. womeninparenthesis.co.uk/ about/visit-the-midgley–archive/
For enquiries, please contact rachael.wiseman@liverpool.ac. uk and clare.maccumhaill@dur.ac.uk
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Brian O’Connor, Talk, on ‘Autonomy as a Political Problem’, Tuesday 6th November 3pm, BSTC2.51
***UPDATE: a recording of the talk and the discussion afterwards is available here. (N.b. it starts rather quietly, but as soon as the discussion starts, the volume is much louder).
Help needed
When I was doing the student inductions, I thought about looking for an app to help with referencing. I was lazy and went with the first one I found, MYLibrary (android) which allows you to scan barcodes of books and it then adds all the details required for your bibliography. This is useful and allows you to add comments on the texts. I am sure there are better ones out there.
For my own note taking I use Google Keep, and I write using their Docs so that I open Keep directly from within the word processor with a couple of bibliography add-ons. This means I can take pictures of quotations for later with my phone, add in thoughts when I am on the bus and so on. I know others use Evernote for the same reasons.
But I want to open this further. I am leaning Spanish by both private lessons and using the Duolingo app to reinforce vocabulary. I would really like to know if others have any specific apps they use which they find useful. Those directly to the learning of philosophy do, of course, interest me most.
I’d really appreciate if you would tell me which apps you use and which you find more useful, or what you would like to be able to do with your phones/tablets. Please just add in below. This is so we can build and share a list of useful tools to improve the learning environment. Bear in mind these apps are supposed to facilitate thinking (like a word processor does) rather than replace it.
You can either put in a comment below or just email me directly.
David
Film Screening
A film screening, a week on Friday, and other events in Philosophy: a poster for you to display where you see fit: