Philosophy News and Events
- Calendar of Events
- The Senior Seminar
- The Post-Graduate Seminar
- The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Seminar
After Pain comes Suffering
Principal Investigators Dr David Bain and Dr Michael Brady have been awarded a John Templeton Foundation grant of £362,372 for a new project: "The Value of Suffering: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Nature, Meaning, and Role of Affective Experience".
Dr Leuenberger awarded AHRC Early Career Fellowship
Dr Leuenberger has been awarded an AHRC Early Career Fellowship to work on a project entitled "The Contingency of Contingency", 1 September 2012-31 May 2013.
Dr Leuenberger awarded a Carnegie Trust grant.
Dr Leuenberger has been awarded a Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland research grant, for a visit at eidos (University of Geneva) in the summer of 2012 to work on a project entitled "Grounds without Supplements".
Dr Colburn will be visiting professor in Spring 2013
Ben Colburn will be visiting professor in Spring 2013 at the Department of Political Science of LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome.
Professor Macpherson to become Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Fiona Macpherson will become Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London from January - April 2013.
Professor Macpherson awarded Royal Society of Edinburgh International Exchange Programme Grant
Fiona Macpherson has been awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh International Exchange Programme Grant for Dr Derek Brown of Brandon University, Canada to visit the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience in Autumn 2012.
Professor Macpherson awarded AHRC Fellowship
Fiona Macpherson has been awarded an AHRC Fellowship for 2012-13 to work on a project entitled Perception, Imagination, and the Structure of Consciousness.
Philosophy graduate students secure grants for Graduate Conference on The Problems of Philosophy
Graduate students in Philosophy, working with Professor Fiona Macpherson, have secured funding from a variety of sources to run the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience Graduate Conference on the Problems of Philosophy.
Professor Macpherson and the CSPE win SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for the Network for Sensory Research
Fiona Macpherson and the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience have won a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Development grant for the Network for Sensory Research.
Dr Bain and Dr Brady awarded Templeton Foundation Grant to study pain
David Bain and Michael Brady have been awarded a Templeton Foundation Grant of £107,000 for an interdisciplinary research project, The Nature of Pain: Hedonic Tone, Motivation, and Non-Human Animals.
Professor Macpherson secures grants for the Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory Conference
Fiona Macpherson has secured funding from a variety of sources to run the conference ‘Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory’, 6 - 9 September 2011.
Philosophy graduate students secure grants for Graduate Conference on the Metaphysics of Mind
Graduate students in Philosophy, working with Professor Fiona Macpherson, have secured funding from a variety of sources to run the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience Graduate Conference on the Metaphysics of Mind.
Professor Macpherson secures grants for the Cognitive and Cross-Modal Effects on Vision Workshop
Fiona Macpherson has secured funding from a variety of sources to run the workshop ‘Cognitive and Cross-Modal Effects on Vision’, 26 -27 March 2011.
Abstracta in Concreta Research Network
The Abstracta in Concreta interdisciplinary research network provides a vital link between university based academics with interests in the philosophical and religious dimensions of material culture and their colleagues in the museum sector.
News and Events
- Conference: Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy 2012
31st March-1st April, Philosophy, University of Glasgow
Dorothea Frede: "The determinacy of human nature in the Nicomachean Ethics",
Sir Geoffrey Lloyd: "Phusis in the Hippocratic Corpus",
Peter Adamson: "Relativizing Aristotle's Physics: al-Razi on Place and Time",
George Boys-Stone: “‘The Second God is Also a Third One’: Numenius on the Soul”.
Two graduate papers - tba.
Bursaries for graduates will be available!
Queries and enquiries to Richard.King@glasgow.ac.uk
Information on accommodation in Glasgow
Maps and travel to Glasgow
- Grounding and Modality: Workshop on Saturday 23 April 2011
Venue: Caird Room, Philosophy, 69 Oakfield Avenue, University of Glasgow
Programme:
10:30 – 12:15: Stephan Leuenberger (University of Glasgow), "Supervenience for Classes of Relations"
1:30 – 3:15: Fabrice Correia (Université de Genève), "Metaphysical Grounds and Essence"
3:45 – 5:30: Sonia Roca Royes (University of Stirling), "Conflation, primitive modality and the Humean intuition"
Drafts of papers are to be made available to participants before the workshop. Please email Stephan Leuenberger (stephan.leuenberger@glasgow.ac.uk) if you would like to participate in the workshop. There is no fee, and everyone is welcome.
- Emotion and Perception Workshop
A workshop on Emotion and Perception took place at the University of Glasgow on 29-30 October 2010.
Speakers:
David Bain (Glasgow)
Michael Brady (Glasgow)
Richard King (Glasgow)
Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow)
Matthew Nudds (Edinburgh)
Commentators:
Bill Brewer (Warwick)
Alex Byrne (MIT)
Peter Goldie (Manchester)
Mark Kalderon (UCL)
Michael Nylan (Berkeley)
Full details are available from the conference website.
- Aristotle's Lagoon
On Sunday 17 January BBC4 broadcast Aristotle's Lagoon, a documentary about Aristotle's biology. The programme was co-written by the department's resident Aristotelian Richard King. It will be available to watch on the BBC iPlayer for a week after any repeat broadcasts.
- Stephan Leuenberger
One of our staff, Dr. Stephan Leuenberger, has won a prestigious award, the Lauener Foundation Prize for Up-and-Coming Philosophers. See the organisation’s website for further details.
The award was presented to him on 3rd September 2009 in Geneva, although the Toblerone was later eaten by Professor Alan Weir.
Many congratulations to Stephan.
- National Student Survey 2009
The Department took fifth place in the most recent UK-wide National Student Survey, achieving a 95% satisfaction score. This exceeds both the University of Glasgow average of 90% and the Scottish HEI average of 86%.
The Department also scored highly in other key areas, notably staff performance, course interest and feedback for assessments.
Question Departmental score University average Scottish HEI average Staff are good at explaining things. 95 93 90 Staff have made the subject interesting. 87 87 82 Staff are enthusiastic about what they are teaching. 95 91 85 The course is intellectually stimulating. 93 91 85 Assessment arrangements and marking have been fair. 88 79 76 I have received detailed comments on my work. 85 57 55 The course is well organised and is running smoothly. 86 78 73 Overall, I am satisfied with the quality of the course. 95 90 86
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RAE 2008 Results
In the latest 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise, the profile for the Philosophy Department at Glasgow was:4* 3* 2* 1* Unclassified 5% 50% 45% 0% 0%
4* is defined as ‘world-leading’, 3* as ‘internationally excellent’, 2* as ‘recognised internationally’ and 1* as ‘recognised nationally’.
That means Glasgow has risen substantially in the ranking from the last exercise. The majority of Glasgow’s research was rated as ‘internationally excellent’ and indeed we were one of only 5 UK departments to be rated at international standard in all areas, with nothing rated below 2*.
- Centre for Philosophy and Religion. The Department is playing host to the new Centre for Philosophy and Religion, the mission of which is to draw attention to and support innovative research undertaken by scholars who employ the tools and methods of analytic philosophy to study religious ideas. Any enquiries about the Centre can be directed to its director, Dr Victoria Harrison.
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