In a recent piece in The Indepenedent, our centre co-director Josh Forstenzer and Magid Magid reflect on how philosophy, specifically in our current climate of misinformation and confusion, can help in making our world a better place. From the article: "Lies are repeated over and over again and carried at the speed of clicks (and …
Understanding Value IX goes online!
The successful Sheffield Postgraduate conference will be held online this year, and will be taking place from the 9th to the 11th of December! Understanding Value IX is the ninth instalment of a highly successful postgraduate conference at the University of Sheffield that aims at cultivating postgraduate work on value in a welcoming and inclusive …
Jennifer Saul on the Republican National Convention and why it’s even more dangerous than 4 years ago
This August, our centre member Jennifer Saul published a piece in The Conversation, talking about "racial fig leaves", the Republican National Convention, and why it's even more dangerous now than it was four years ago. In her article, she discusses how the overall picture of the Convention has changed in comparison to four years ago …
In memory of María Cristina Lugones
To honor the life and work of philosopher María Cristina Lugones (1944-2020) the Editorial Team of the feminist-philosophy journal Hypatia has curated an online issue featuring many of Lugones' key work which were previously published in Hypatia. This comes alongside a translated tribute honoring her life and contributions. From the tribute: "Until her death in …
Epistemic Injustice and Asylum
Our centre member Megan Blomfield will be part of a panel discussion on "Epistemic Injustice and Asylum", alongside Sanjana Govindarajan (The University of Groningen, Netherlands), Leonie Smith (The University of Manchester, UK) and Kerri Woods (The University of Leeds, UK). The event will take place online on the 4th of September, 4:00 PM – 6:00 …
Max Hayward on “Why Bertrand Russel’s argument for idleness is more relevant than ever”
In a recently published article in the New Statesman our centre member Max Hayward reflects on Bertrand Russel's "In Praise of Idleness". Russel is writing in the context of the Great Depression, where "idleness was an unavoidable reality for the millions who had lost their jobs. Russell realised that his society didn’t just need to …
Blog post by Jules Holroyd and Kathy Puddifoot on “Epistemic Injusitce and Implicit Bias”
The authors of several chapters from the recently published book "An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind" (2020), edited by Erin Beeghly and Alex Madva, wrote some blog posts on their contributions for The Brains Blog! A post co-authored by our centre-co-director Jules Holroyd, together with Kathy Puddifoot, has been published …
Climate Futures Initiative-Workshop. Bridging Gaps of Affluence, Nation and Time
Our centre-member Megan Blomfield is giving a talk at the Summer Online Workshop of the Climate Futures Initiative at Princeton Univeristy, which is taking place in August! "The workshop will be online and asynchronous. Twelve authors will provide works-in-progress (WIPs) to registered attendees, including several special invited guests. These WIPs can take the form of …
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Blog-article on “Sub-optimal health” by centre member Lijiaozi Cheng
Our centre member Lijiaozi (Cheer) Cheng has published an article entitled "What is Sub-Optimal Health?" on The Polyphony. Conversatoins across the Medical Humanities. In her article, she talks about her discovery and the genealogy of the term "suboptimal health" in the context of Chinese medicine, how it fits with existing concepts of health, how we …
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Some recent activities of centre member Angie Hobbs
Centre member Angie Hobbs has had a busy couple of months! On the 21st of May she helped compose a letter from the British Philosophical Association to the Government to draw attention to what philosophers at U.K. institutions are doing to assist in the pandemic. Read the letter here. On the 5th of June, Angie …
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