A New Collection on Philosophy and Translation, from Routledge, including contributions from one of our own:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Translation-and-Philosophy/Rawling-Wilson/p/book/9781138933552

All students and staff and alumni welcome to these events, which may be added to as time goes on:

AUTUMN TERM:

Week 4    FILM SCREENING: Being in the World: Friday 1–2:25pm MERZ.L301

Week 6   Tuesday 6th November 2018, 3pm-5pm Brian O’Connor (University College Dublin), Autonomy as a Political Problem, BSTC.2.51

Week 11    FILM SCREENING: Vita Activa (on Hannah Arendt), Friday 1–2:55 pm in MERZ.L301 (possibly much shorter: I’ve yet to ascertain the film’s length)

SPRING TERM:

Thursday 31^st January 2019, 4pm–5pm, BSTC.B.32 – FILM SCREENING: Bryan Magee interviews Herbert Marcuse, BSTC.B.32

And more film screenings, on Sartre, to follow in later weeks.

Which, is to be confirmed.

(If anyone can find a film on Tran Duc Thao, the Vietnamese-French philosopher we’re also covering on the Phenomenology course, with which these film screenings are loosely connected, there are cash prizes.)

Please come along, Newcastle Students and Staff!

Philosophy Extra Events Autumn_Winter 2018

Newcastle Philosophy has been ranked 3rd among all United Kingdom university philosophy programmes in the Times Good University Guide!

Everyone is welcome to attend this always wonderful conference in Alnmouth, organised by Newcastle’s own, Michael Bavidge:

Philosophy Workshop

Sponsored by the PSE Northern Group

Of Sound Mind

Saturday, 6^th October, 2018

10.30 am – 6.00 pm

Methodist Hall, Alnmouth,

Northumberland

 If you would like to join us please enrol by contacting

Michael Bavidge, 6 Craghall Dene Avenue,

Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 1QR                                                m.c.bavidge@ncl.ac.uk

Fee: £15 payable on the day

Timetable

10.00 am      Coffee

10.30 am      Context and Constraints     Ian Ground

11.40 am      Coffee

11.50 am      The Space of a Shared Life    Michael Bavidge

1 pm             Lunch

2.00 pm        Participants’ workshop

3.00 pm        Cetaceans and Conceptualisation    Ian Ground

4.15 pm        Tea

4.30 pm        Betraying animals    Michael Bavidge

5 pm             General Discussion

6 pm              Close.

Ian Ground is a Teaching Fellow in the Fine Art Department at Newcastle University. He has published on animals minds and has recently edited the formidable Portraits of Wittgenstein.

Michael is President of the Philosophical Society of England. He was a lecturer in Philosophy at Newcastle University. He struggles with theories of mind – human (adult and child) and brute.

Ian’s Discussions

A default position in our ordinary thought, the philosophy of mind and to an extent, the cognitive sciences, is that while we may now think that at least some, perhaps many other animals are” minded”, still the character of their mindedness not only is but must remain mysterious to us. In these two discussions, I try to confront default mainstream positions about animal mindedness with empirical results, in particular the known facts about the dolphin sonar system: ensonfication. My aim is not to defend a thesis but only to offer some reflections on how some mainstream constraints relating to concept possession fare when faced with the ethological findings.

Mike’s Discussions

In 1998 Ian and I wrote Can We Understand Animal Minds? The first chapter was entitled ‘The Shared World’. We inhabit the shared world as humans, but that does not mean it is an exclusively human space. In my talks I will examine the contours of our shared life. I hope to show how our world is impoverished and our philosophical theories are distorted when we forget or downgrade the mindedness of animals.

Philosophical Economics: Discussion Group

The Newcastle Philosophy Society is pleased to announce the creation of a new discussion Group: Philosophical Economics. And our first event:

Topic: Do we know what Money is? (or Towards an Ontology of Money)

Venue: Room 1 – Good Space – Commercial Union House (Floor two).

Date: Monday 17th September.

Time: 18:30-20:30.

Cost: Free; but a small donation of £2 is requested from those who can afford it to recoup the charity’s (NPS) costs.

In the post-2008 world we need a philosophical discussion of economics. We are barred by those in academic institutions, or think tanks, from knowing the intricacies of our own world – and this needs to change. We aim to give any interested individual the opportunity to present and discuss difficult topics in a group of like-minded people, with a view to look at the social impacts of belief structures that guide our age. Therefore, this is an attempt to work on the social, psychological, ontological and epistemological theories present in economics – to derive a philosophy of our world as it presently is. We aim to give those who attend the opportunity to learn and debate the systems that guide our modern world, as well as the theories that drove economics to successive heights. These groups are designed to be open to all and will commence with a talk designed to promote discussion and engagement with the theory. It should be stressed that this group will be discussing the theory of economics, not its practice, and thus should operate more like a philosophy/arts/humanities discussion than a debate on scientific principles.

This group will also be tailored by those who regularly attend, thus the topic for a meeting will be set at the one directly prior. If there is something you would specifically like to see, please come along. We are also open to a wide range of people giving talks, thus if there is something you are knowledgeable about, or want the impetus to research for a discussion, come to a group and request it.

Potential Topics:

* What is the Homo Economicus/Rational Economic Man debate?

* Should Economics become a more Sociological Discipline?

* Is there a space for Ethics in Economics?

* Are there inherent ideologies in Economics?

* What does a crypto-currency mean for the modern world?

* Also talks are planned for specific economic thinkers: e.g. Friedman, Marx, Hayek, Smith, Sen, etc..

* We are also open to discuss how cannon philosophers interact with economics (e.g. Deleuze, Foucault, Kant, Hegel, Plato, etc.) or the impacts of certain texts on philosophy (Wealth of Nations, Capitalism and Freedom, Road to Serfdom, Das Kapital, etc.).

Future Events:

It will mostly run on the third Monday of every month – there might be variation though, so if one wants to attend in the future it would be advisable to reach out to the facilitator to join the email list.

Facilitator of group and contact details: Hannes Ingo Torbohm – H.Torbohm@Newcastle.ac.uk

Our dear friends at Dundee have put on quite a show this coming year:

26.09. Lynn Turner (Goldsmith, University of London): In Lieu of Conclusion: Derrida’s Cardio-pedagogy and / in White God
30.10. Hynek Janousek (Charles University, Prague): The Charm of Hume’s Treatise: Husserl and Deleuze on Hume’s Transcendental Empiricism
07.11. Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana): Masterwords of Politics
08.11. Slavoj Žižek (The Birkbeck for the Humanities): Samuel Beckett’s Art of Abstraction
29.11. Laura Cull (University of Surrey): Opening the Circle, Toward a Radical Equality: Performance, Philosophy & Animals
05.12. Charlotte Alderwick (UWE Bristol): An Alternative Virtue Ethics