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25/03 2pm-6:30pm: WMA Workshop on 'When knowledge isn't power'

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:29:21 GMT

When: 2pm - 6:30pm, Wed, 25 Mar '26

Where: MB0.08

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2.00 – 2.15 Intro & welcome: Chenwei Nie

2.15 - 3.15 Knowing in Selfie Culture, Heather Widdows (91��), and Fiona MacCallum (Psychology, 91��).

3.15 - 3.45 Coffee

3.45 - 4.45 The Valuing Body, Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford)

4.45 – 5.00 Break

5.00 – 6.00 The Importance of Feeling for Knowing, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (Birmingham)

6.00– 6.30 Concluding reflections: Quassim Cassam

Hosted by The 91�� Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA) and Funded by Leverhulme Trust.

Organisers: Heather Widdows & Chenwei Nie.

Department of Philosophy, 91��.

Registration is free. However, as space is limited, please email Chenwei (chenwei.nie@warwick.ac.uk) if you plan to attend.

27/03: Year 12 Conference

Tiago Rodrigues — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:25:56 GMT

When: Fri, 27 Mar '26

Where: TBC

25/04 10am-6pm: Ryle Conference

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:00:07 GMT

When: 10am - 6pm, Sat, 25 Apr '26

Where: FAB2.43

To mark the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Philosophy at 91��, the Philosophy Department will hold a one-day conference (25th of April 2026) to celebrate the life and work of one of its Honorary Doctoral Graduates (and one of the pre-eminent philosophers of the 20^th century), Gilbert Ryle. Ryle tends to be associated with a small set of well-known ideas — for example, resistance to Cartesian dualism or the distinction between knowledge-that and knowledge-how. And there has been a widespread tendency to pigeon-hole Ryle as a ‘philosophical behaviourist’. The workshop aims to get beyond caricatures and to promote an appreciation of the depth and breadth of Ryle’s manifold contributions to philosophy, as well as their relevance to contemporary concerns, in philosophy and beyond.

Organisers: Tom Crowther & Johannes Roessler

29/04: Offer Holder Open Day

Tiago Rodrigues — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:52:41 GMT

When: Wed, 29 Apr '26

30/04 2pm-4pm: WMA Talk - Carol Rovane (Columbia University) 'Some Perplexities about Consciousness'

Tiago Rodrigues — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:33:13 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Thu, 30 Apr '26

Where: S0.20

WMA Seminar
Carol Rovane (Columbia University): 'Some Perplexities about Consciousness'

Abstract:

Some decades ago, I offered novel interpretation and defense of Locke’s distinction between personal identity and human (animal) identity. Locke himself had equated personal identity with “sameness of consciousness”, and then argued that sameness of human (animal) life is neither necessary nor sufficient for sameness of consciousness. I granted for the sake of argument that Locke was wrong about this, but then argued for a version of his distinction anyway, on the ground that a person is a rational agent, and there can be single group agents that span many human lives as well as multiple agents within a single human life. Each such individual agent has its own first person point of view, which is the rational point of view from which it deliberates and acts and engages in interpersonal relations with others. Yet this is not the same as the phenomenological point of view from which a subject of experience has access to phenomena in consciousness, by virtue of what they are like. This distinction between two different kinds of point of view forces us to look harder at what role consciousness might play in mental life. We may no longer be sure whether consciousness is an essential and defining feature of mental phenomena, or if so, why; but secondly, even if we retain that conviction, we should find it curious that the unity of consciousness is neither necessary nor sufficient for the sort of rational unity that defines what it is for an individual agent to be fully, or ideally, rational. I want to emphasize that my arguments do not proceed from standard sorts of functionalist considerations, but from purely normative considerations to do with agency.

06/05 12pm-1pm: Philosophy Staff WiP Seminar

Tiago Rodrigues — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:02:58 GMT

When: 12pm - 1pm, Wed, 06 May '26

Where: S1.50

06/05 2pm-4pm: Departmental Meeting

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 14 May 2025 09:00:07 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Wed, 06 May '26

06/05 4pm-5:45pm: Departmental Colloquium - Lea Cantor (Cambridge)

Tiago Rodrigues — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:40:36 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:45pm, Wed, 06 May '26

Where: S0.18

07/05: Workshop: 'The mathematical turn in philosophy'

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:24:05 GMT

When: Thu, 07 May '26

Where: B2.04

Hold the date - further details to follow.

07/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 07 May '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

08/05: Workshop: 'The mathematical turn in philosophy'

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:24:43 GMT

When: Fri, 08 May '26

Where: R0.21

Hold the date - further details to follow.

13/05 12pm-2pm: Undergraduate Module Fair

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:46:30 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Wed, 13 May '26

Where: R0.12 & R0.14

13/05 2pm-3pm: Philosophy in Action

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:06:20 GMT

When: 2pm - 3pm, Wed, 13 May '26

Where: R1.13

13/05 2pm-3pm: Research and Impact Committee

Tiago Rodrigues — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:09:26 GMT

When: 2pm - 3pm, Wed, 13 May '26

Where: S1.50

13/05 4pm-5:45pm: CRPLA talk: 'Appreciation as a Process, and Well-being' with Daniel Star (Boston University)

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:54:50 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:45pm, Wed, 13 May '26

Where: S0.17 or online via Teams

CRPLA Talk Wed 13 May, 4pm S0.17 or online (link at bottom)

Daniel Star (Boston University)

Appreciation as a Process, and Well-being (from a co-authored project with Joel Van Fossen)

Aesthetic appreciation is here understood to be an at least partly conscious process, with respect to which agents exercise a significant degree of intentional control, that involves attending to objects and their aesthetic properties, where such are objects are taken to be worth appreciating aesthetically, and cognitively and affectively engaging with them. There are significant differences between this process and two other mental processes about which more has been written: practical deliberation and epistemic inquiry. Some of the similarities and differences between these processes concern the metaphysics of them, but some concern the value and role of the processes. One important conclusion reached is that appreciation, unlike the other two processes, is primarily to be valued in itself as a process, rather than merely instrumentally in relation to the value of its outcomes. And the fact that this is how appreciation is to be properly valued is closely related to what appreciation does for us, so far as our well-being is concerned. A key alternative for what might be thought to be of primary value as a product of appreciation — correct aesthetic judgment — is considered and rejected.

If you unable to attend in person, the talk will also available be on Teams:

https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fmeet%2F335764804677337%3Fp%3DfjpKWuSY66i0fRQqFV%26anon%3Dtrue&type=meet&deeplinkId=fbc9eac9-9cd1-4c51-9945-bef491d94693&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&suppressPrompt=true

14/05-15/05: Freiburg-91��-Zhejiang University German Idealism Workshop

Tiago Rodrigues — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:47:11 GMT

When: Thu, 14 May - Fri, 15 May '26

Where: Hybrid: R1.04 or online

You are warmly invited to an exciting event: The Freiburg-91��-Zhejiang University German Idealism Workshop, taking place on 14–15 May. This workshop will bring together established and early-career scholars from the three universities. Topics include Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Heidegger and Nietzsche, covering the research interests of almost all of our department's continental philosophers!

It is a hybrid event. You can either join us via the Zoom link or attend in person. If you are attending in person, please email Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk) by 10^th May to let me know and to inform me of any dietary requirements you may have for lunch.

Zoom link: https://uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/67489189826?pwd=EkwWoTY02XikW5rUYpX6ECuNJQmDJV.1

Meeting-ID: 674 8918 9826
Code: Vrj8kVK5r

The department, the Mind Association, the UK Kant Society and the Hegel Society of Great Britain have kindly funded this event.

Thursday, 14th of May

9:30-9:40 Welcome
Tobias Keiling (91��)
9:40-11:10 Panel 1: Kant
Chair: Rozemin Keshvani (91��)
9:40-10:25	What is Wrong with Dogmatism? Kant on the "Storehouse of Reason"	Dino Jakušić (91��)
10:25-11:10	Kant’s Philosophy of Nature Reconsidered	Stephen Howard (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:45 Keynote Session 1
Chair: Eric Sancho-Adamson (Liverpool)
11:30-12:45	How to Acquire the World: Hegel’s Practical Theory of Figurative Synthesis and Kant’s Doctrine of Right	Eliza Little (91��)
12:45-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:45 Panel 2: Hegel Part I
Chair: Zhaoyi Zhu (91��)
14:15-15:00	Unconditioned Condition: Transcendental Dialectic and the Dialectic of Condition	Bruna Picas i Prats (Barcelona/91��)
15:00-15:45	From Principle to Negativity: Hegel’s Transformation of German Idealism	Yuyang Zhu (Zhejiang)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:15 Keynote Session 2
Chair: Fridolin Neumann (91��)
16:00-17:15	Kant and Hegel on Being	Stephen Houlgate (91��)

Friday, 15th of May

9:45-11:15 Panel 3: Hegel Part II
Chair: Shifan Zhou (91��)
9:45-10:30	The Relation of Logic to Realphilosophie in G.W.F. Hegel	Evgenia Sonnabend (Freiburg)
10:30-11:15	Hegel’s Intersubjective Logic: Hegel and the Possibility of a New Social Ontology	Juyong Kim (91��)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Panel 4: Schelling
Chair: Robb Dunphy (Sussex)
11:30-12:15	Original Sin, Freedom, and the Feminine in Schelling	Jinhua Hao (Freiburg)
12:15-13:00	Four Frameworks for the Hegel - (Late) Schelling Dispute and Schelling’s 1795 Letters	Ying Xue (91��)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 Keynote Session 3
Chair: Sally Zhu (91��)
14:00-15:15	What is Historicity? From Hegel to Heidegger to Nietzsche	Philipp Schwab (Freiburg)
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Panel 5: The Legacy of German Idealism
Chair: Jinhua Hao (Freiburg)
15:30-16:15	The Positive Primordial Function of the Negative: Heidegger on the “Greatest and Most Hidden Secret of Hegelian Philosophizing”	Karl Kraatz (Zhejiang)
16:15-17:00 Roundtable Discussion

14/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 14 May '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

20/05 2pm-4pm: Education Committee

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:54:12 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Wed, 20 May '26

21/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 21 May '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

27/05 2pm-4pm: Graduate Studies Committee

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:57:18 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Wed, 27 May '26

28/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 28 May '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

01/06-02/06: “Ontological failure in Heidegger and beyond”

Tiago Rodrigues — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:37:42 GMT

When: Mon, 01 Jun - Tue, 02 Jun '26

Where: OC0.05

“Ontological failure in Heidegger and beyond”, 1-2 June 2025, Room: OC0.05

03/06 10am-1pm: WMA & PKEP Collab - "Problems from Eckhart“

Tiago Rodrigues — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:37:43 GMT

When: 10am - 1pm, Wed, 03 Jun '26

Where: A1.11

Including papers from:

Ian Alexander Moore (Loyola Marymount University)

Christoph Hoerl (91��)

Tobias Keiling (91��)

04/06 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:11:47 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 04 Jun '26

Where: C1.11/15

Week 2: Thursday 7^th May 12noon–2pm – Introduction + Chapter 1 Mind

Week 3: Thursday 14^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 2 Mind and Body

Week 4: Thursday 21^st May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 3 The Objective Self

Week 5: Thursday 28^th May 12noon–2pm – Chapter 4 Knowledge

Week 6: Thursday 4^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 5 Thought and Reality

Week 7: Thursday 11^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 6 Freedom

Week 8: Thursday 18^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 7 Value

Week 9: Thursday 25^th June 12noon–2pm – Chapter 8 Ethics

Week 10: Thursday 2^nd July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 9 Living Right and Living Well

Week 11: Thursday 9^th July 12noon–2pm – Chapter 10 Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

04/06 4pm-7pm: WMA Talk: Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut): 'Four Milestones in the Evolution of Human Pragmatic Communication’.

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:47:08 GMT

When: 4pm - 7pm, Thu, 04 Jun '26

Where: S0.20

Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut): 'Four Milestones in the Evolution of Human Pragmatic Communication’.

Abstract:

So-called Protolanguage is a theoretical construct designed to help explain the phylogenetic emergence of human language from animal communication systems. In Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning (forthcoming, OUP), I argue that Protolanguage ought to be conceived as pragmatically (and therefore psychologically) intermediate, and this places certain substantive constraints on the psychological capacities with which we can credit our nonlinguistic ancestors. In particular, we should not credit them with a capacity for Gricean mindreading and the ability to entertain language-like thoughts.

In this talk, I describe four proposed hypothetical milestones on our ancestors’ path toward a pragmatically intermediate Protolanguage (“PIP”), relying on a combination of empirical and theoretical considerations. These milestones can be used to describe a phylogenetic trajectory leading from an ancestral communication system that resembled existing forms of animal communication to PIP. Clarifying the character of – the fourth milestone – and of the preceding three milestones, should, I believe, also shed some light on our ancestor’s progression from PIP to human linguistic pragmatic communication.

10/06 1pm-2pm: Philosophy Teaching Exchange (online)

Tiago Rodrigues — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:06:21 GMT

When: 1pm - 2pm, Wed, 10 Jun '26

Where: Microsoft Teams

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10/06 2pm-4pm: Equality and Welfare Committee

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 14 May 2025 10:13:40 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Wed, 10 Jun '26

Philosophy » Postgraduate "Work In Progress" Seminar

25/03 2pm-6:30pm: WMA Workshop on 'When knowledge isn't power'

27/03: Year 12 Conference

25/04 10am-6pm: Ryle Conference

29/04: Offer Holder Open Day

30/04 2pm-4pm: WMA Talk - Carol Rovane (Columbia University) 'Some Perplexities about Consciousness'

06/05 12pm-1pm: Philosophy Staff WiP Seminar

06/05 2pm-4pm: Departmental Meeting

06/05 4pm-5:45pm: Departmental Colloquium - Lea Cantor (Cambridge)

07/05: Workshop: 'The mathematical turn in philosophy'

07/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

08/05: Workshop: 'The mathematical turn in philosophy'

13/05 12pm-2pm: Undergraduate Module Fair

13/05 2pm-3pm: Philosophy in Action

13/05 2pm-3pm: Research and Impact Committee

13/05 4pm-5:45pm: CRPLA talk: 'Appreciation as a Process, and Well-being' with Daniel Star (Boston University)

14/05-15/05: Freiburg-91����-Zhejiang University German Idealism Workshop

14/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

20/05 2pm-4pm: Education Committee

21/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

27/05 2pm-4pm: Graduate Studies Committee

28/05 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

01/06-02/06: “Ontological failure in Heidegger and beyond”

03/06 10am-1pm: WMA & PKEP Collab - "Problems from Eckhart“

04/06 12pm-2pm: Summer Seminar 2026: Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

04/06 4pm-7pm: WMA Talk: Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut): 'Four Milestones in the Evolution of Human Pragmatic Communication’.

10/06 1pm-2pm: Philosophy Teaching Exchange (online)

10/06 2pm-4pm: Equality and Welfare Committee

14/05-15/05: Freiburg-91��-Zhejiang University German Idealism Workshop