Confronting the issues of our time, inside and outside academia
In his newest post on the blog "Open for Debate", centre member T. Ryan Byerly writes about what it means to be an intellectually dependenable person and what intellectual virtues are connected to that. As he writes, "[w]e are often at the mercy of others when we are trying to figure things out. The same …
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On our "Links"-page, you can now find a link to the blog "Biopolitical Philosophy", which provides "up-to-date information and cutting-edge critical analysis of biopolitical asymmetries and other mechanisms and effects of power in philosophy and beyond". The Blog was started in 2019 by Melinda Hall and Shelley Tremain, and aims, among other things, to showcase …
Centre Co-director Joshua Forstenzer will be talking about the film "The Class" at Philosophy in the Showroom. When? 28th of Feburary at 18:00Where? The Showroom, Sheffield, 15 Paternoster Row What's "The Class"? "Based on the 2006 novel of the same name (in French Entre les Murs) by François Bégaudeau. The novel is a semi-autobiographical account …
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Centre member Megan Blomfield is co-organising a series of workshops on the topic "Land Rights in a Changing Climate" at the University of Tromsø and the University of Oslo. This project, she is running along with Dr Fabian Schuppert (Queen’s University, Belfast), is supported by a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (funded by the Department of …
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The date for the Education and Philosophy Seminar Series first event this semseter has changed from the 31st of October to the 28th of November. All other details remain the same: Charlotte Haines Lyon (York St John University): "Unpicking the neoliberal noose: working towards democratic parent engagement in a primary school" 2pm-3.30pm Humanities Research Institute …
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Rosa Vince, Nadia Mehdi and Matthew Cull will be speaking at the Sheffield book shop and cafe Cafe Red Haus Books. They will be giving talks on political and social philosophy to a public audience.Event details: Thursday 4th April, 18:00-21:00Location: Cafe+ Red Haus Books, Nether Edge Sheffield Here, you can find more on the event.
This week, centre member Maria-Jose Pietrini-Sanchez will present her research at the LSE Poltical Theory Graduate Conference, which takes place on the 14th and 15th of March.Her talk is part of the panel Embracing assymetry in political theory, and has the title A case for the asymmetric (un)enforceability of surrogacy contracts.You can find the full …
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Data are everywhere: in the news, on social media, in scientific publications, in political debates. They can inform and illuminate, but they can also deceive and manipulate. In the module "Lies, damn lies, and statistics" students will be introduced to some key ideas and techniques in probability and statistics. The module is based upon active …
The Departmental Philosophy Seminar is central to the academic life of the Department. It runs most weeks in term time on Fridays 2.30-4.30pm in Hicks Building Lecture Theatre 4. Speakers send their paper in advance and speak for around 45 minutes, followed by discussion. Afterwards the discussion continues in a local pub. Papers are normally …
