The Crick Centre invites to their second seminar in the series "Studying the Public"! This session will be about exploring different methods and approaches of investigating and understanding the public. 22nd of May 2019, 2-4 pm Room 109, Elmfield "This workshop will reflect on how we collect data about the public. We will consider different …
Centre-Member Megan Blomfield publishes book on “Global Justice, Natural Resources, and Climate Change”
Today, 21st of May, Megan Blomfield's book is getting published with Oxford University Press! In Global Justice, Natural Resources, and Climate Change, she provides an "innovative and original political theory of natural resource justice and also motivates and applies the theory by reference to the problem of climate change". Description: "To address climate change fairly, …
Talk by Sebastiano Moruzzi: “Towards an Epistemology of Post-Truth”
The Centre for Engaged Philosophy and the Crick Centre have the pleasure to invite you to a talk by Sebastiano Moruzzi (University of Bologna): When? Wednesday the 29th of May, 11am to 12:30pmWhere? ICOSS Conference Room Abstract: The term ‘post-truth’ has been widely used in recent years to characterise a broad epistemic trend in which persons …
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#MentalHealthAwareness Week: Alana Wilde on “Ending the Stigma: What We Can Learn From ‘Mad Pride’”
As part of our #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek series, centre member and PhD student Alana Wilde talks about practical ways to combat stigma surrounding mental health, both in philosophy and beyond. Alana’s work relates to mental health related disability more broadly, looking both at what disability is, and how we might better understand or accommodate the views of …
#MentalHealthAwareness Week: Cheer Cheng on “What Is Well?”
Here is the first in a series of posts to mark #MentalHealthAwareness week. The first, from Sheffield PG student Cheer Cheng, provides an opportunity to reflect on the complex relationship between mental and physical health, and our notions of wellness.As she points out, "this video was shot as part of the "Storytelling with Arts and …
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Philosophy PhD Studentship in Sheffield: ‘Climate Ethics and Enhanced Weathering’
The Department of Philosophy here in Sheffield invites applications for a fully-funded PhD studentship in Philosophy, starting in September/October 2019, as part of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation at the University of Sheffield. The studentship includes UK/EU tuition fees and a maintenance stipend at the standard RCUK rate for up to four years. …
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Blog-Post: Kierkegaard on Losing Oneself in Busyness
BY BARNEY RIGGS.Barney Riggs is a CEP member, and PG-student in the department. He mainly works on the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, and is concerned with developing an account of Kierkegaard’s concept of busyness, as both a personal-religious and a socio-political critique. Read more about his research below! “How are you?” you ask your friend …
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Education and Philosophy Seminar Series: Which Truth for Philosophy with Children?
The "Eduction and Philosophy Seminar Series" is organized by Ansgar Allen and Centre co-director Joshua Forstenzer. In the next event of the series, Sebastiano Moruzzi and Luca Zanetti (University of Bologna) talk about questions of truth in relation to philosophy with children. The event will take place on Thursday the 30th of May 2019 from …
Centre Member Megan Blomfield on “Epistemic injustice in asylum claim credibility assessments”
Friday 3rd May, 2.30-4.30pmHicks Building Lecture Theatre 4At this Friday's department seminar, centre-member Megan Blomfield will talk about the issues of asylum and epistmic injustice. Abstract: To be granted protection in the UK, asylum claimants must establish to a reasonable degree of likelihood that they have a well-founded fear of persecution if returned to their …
Angie Hobbs on Sheffield as City of Sanctuary
In a recent interview, Angie Hobbs (Professor for the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield) talks about how Sheffield is taking a lead in welcoming refugees, identifing the cities history as an important factor. Sheffield, being influenced by decades of immigration, could “serve as an inspiration to other local authorities around the …
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