Our own Tina Chanter giving a talk at Newcastle, in the INSIGHTS public lecture series.
Details here:
Other events in the same series here:
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/events/public-lectures/upcoming/#
Our own Tina Chanter giving a talk at Newcastle, in the INSIGHTS public lecture series.
Details here:
Other events in the same series here:
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/events/public-lectures/upcoming/#
The Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference (APPC) is an annual conference that provides an opportunity for postgraduate philosophy students from Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore to present their work, debate their ideas, receive feedback from peers and form collaborations across institutions.
In 2019 APPC will be hosted by Victoria University of Wellington from Friday the 6th of December to Sunday the 8th of December. The conference environment is laid-back and an excellent introduction to conferences for new graduate students.
The call for papers is now open; and will close on 31 October 2019. Please let your students know about this conference and encourage them to come and present their work.
The conference website is https://www.appc2019.com/
Centenary Celebrations – Mary Midgley
Mary Midgley died last year at the age of 99 – some three weeks after the publication of her 21st and last book, ‘What is Philosophy For?’, crowning a 50 year career as one of the UK’s most relevant and most read philosophers.
On the occasion of the centenary of her birth, her surviving family invite you to celebrate her remarkable life in a way she would have approved, with an afternoon of intense debate and discussion of her ideas and their influence on the world. There are two celebration events:
‘Celebrating Mary Midgley at 100‘
Saturday 7 September, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Speakers:
Mary Midgley 100th Birthday Memorial: A Philosophical Celebration
Saturday 14 September, Leech Hall St John’s College 3 South Bailey Durham DH1 3RJ, 10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Speakers:
Newcastle Philosophy at no.6 in the Telegraph top ten best places to study Philosophy:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education-and-careers/0/10-best-uk-universities-study-philosophy/
Bryan Magee, some of whose interviews we watched at Newcastle this year, has died. An obituary may be found here:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jul/26/bryan-magee-obituary
I do seriously recommend, particularly for people looking to keep reading philosophy after university, or outside of the university system, (but also for everyone), this really excellent journal, The Philosopher.
It really has gone from strength to strength.
Please support their activities by subscribing to their journal, or buying some of the books their publisher publishes:
The great, and relatively hard to get hold of journal, Umbr(a) has gratifyingly been put online:
The second volume of the Journal of Italian Philosophy has been published and is available here: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/italianphilosophy/currentissue/