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Oxford Philosophy 10.Pdf OXFORD 2018–19 PHILOSOPHY OXFORD 2018-19 Welcome PHILOSOPHY from the Chair of the Faculty Board n the course of my peregrinations around the University, and—occasionally—outside it, I am CONTENTS Ioften asked to characterise the size and shape, and the particular character, of the Philosophy Faculty in Oxford. This is not a straightforward proposition, 3 Welcome from the Chair of the Faculty Board Chris Timpson especially if one is to be brief. Oxford as a whole is singular amongst Universities, bearing many marked 4 News organisational differences from even so close and 6 New People long-standing a sibling as Cambridge; whilst the 10 Doing Philosophy Timothy Williamson Philosophy Faculty is singular again within Oxford. 12 MAP of Oxford Maya Krishnan But a helpful place to begin is with the shape of our On the graduate student side our numbers are —as 14 Learning and Doing: John Locke Lectures 2018 Peter Railton undergraduate degree provision. Academically, the one would expect—smaller. Around 150 students University is divided into four Divisions: Humanities; will be undertaking full-time graduate study in 18 Applied Philosophy Dan Zahavi Social Sciences; Maths, Physical, and Life Sciences; philosophy, and a little under a half of these will be 21 Exploring Identity: Kathy Wilkes Conference Anita Avramides and Medical Sciences. Philosophy sits within the doctoral students. As many of you will already know Humanities Division. However, we are unique amongst from our earlier mailing, a major concern of the Faculty 24 Recent Books Oxford faculties and departments in having joint is graduate student funding. We have far fewer 26 Obituary: Mary Midgley Sasha Lawson-Frost and Otto Räsänen undergraduate degree courses with partners across internal resources than we need to fund DPhil places, all four Divisions. This gives us a special place in the and Government support is increasingly dwindling, University, and a special outlook, spreading throughout difficult to access, and difficult to predict. Each the heart of academic activity in Oxford. It also serves year we lose many exceptionally talented students to underscore the fact that philosophy is an activity to other universities, and many who are more than which is naturally of an interdisciplinary character. deserving of the opportunity of doctoral study are unable to take it up. I hope you might consider visiting At any one time within the University there will be campaign.ox.ac.uk/philosophy and supporting our around 1400 undergraduate students reading for Graduate Scholarship Fund. degrees involving philosophy (I’d be surprised if this number were not some kind of a record for a leading This year we welcomed five new Tutorial Fellows research-intensive university). This amounts to over —Rachel Fraser, James Read, Joel David Hamkins, 10% of the entire undergraduate student body. Bernhard Salow, and Amia Srinivasan—whilst Dan Of course we don’t have all of any undergraduate: Zahavi has joined-us part-time from the University each will spend varying proportions of their time on of Copenhagen. You may read more of Prof. Zahavi’s philosophy (even students reading for the very same work, with its fascinating practical dimension, later in degrees) and none will have been doing nothing but the magazine. CONTACT US CREDITS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS philosophy; we always do philosophy with something else. But in my view this is a very healthy thing. There And as I write we have just heard the splendid news Editor Paul Lodge Oxford Philosophy The Faculty would like to thank the is great richness to be found in studying philosophy of a great gift to the Humanities Division which will following people for their kind help Faculty of Philosophy alongside with and intertwining other subjects. allow the construction of our long-awaited Radcliffe Humanities Art Direction Keiko Ikeuchi and assistance: Keeping all this running, with this very large body Humanities Building. You can read more about this Radcliffe Observatory Quarter & Design www.keiko.camera Woodstock Road Clare Mac Cumhaill, Ian Ground of students, eight different possible joint-degrees, at schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk and I look forward Photography Keiko Ikeuchi Oxford, OX2 6GG UK Jo Kay, Bronwyn Travers, and extensive further variation available within each to writing with further details in the next edition of Shutterstock p23 Sophia Nelson, Elina Cotterill degree, is a great testament to the skill, enthusiasm, Oxford Philosophy. email: [email protected] and thoroughgoing commitment of colleagues across Printed by Oxuniprint Views expressed in this publication are the Faculty. Chris Timpson tel: +44 (0)1865 276926 not necessarily those of the Faculty of philosophy.ox.ac.uk Philosophy or the University of Oxford. Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of Brasenose College Cover & Back Cover Photos: Students from the Oxford chapter of Minorities And Philosophy (MAP ) and People for Womxn in Philosophy (PWIP) 2 | Oxford Philosophy Oxford Philosophy | 3 NEWS Oxford Philosophy Ranked No. 1 ERC Consolidator Grant Awarded in The Complete University Guide Tom Douglas, Senior Research Fellow at We are delighted to report that for the second year in In Memoriam the Uehiro Centre for a row, the Philosophy Faculty has been placed 1st in Practical Ethics and the The Complete University Guide among philosophy Fellow of Jesus College, departments in the UK. The guide provides rankings based has been awarded an in five categories (Entry Standards, Student Satisfaction, ERC Consolidator Grant, Research Quality, Research Intensity, and Graduate for the 5-year project Prospects). Philosophy joined The Department of Politics “Protecting Minds: The and International Relations in a group of nine Faculties and Right to Mental Integrity Departments from Oxford which were awarded the top spot. and the Ethics of Mary Warnock Arational Influence.” The 1924-2019 aims of the project are to (1) determine whether and how a moral right to mental integrity can be established; (2) develop a comprehensive and fine-grained account of The Faculty is sad to report of the death of Mary Warnock, its scope, weight, and Baroness Warnock CH, DBE, FBA, FMedSci on 20th March Sanders Public Philosophy Award robustness, and (3) determine what forms of arational 2019. Mary was connected with Oxford Philosophy as a influence infringe it, and whether and when these might Fellow in Philosophy at St Hugh’s College and Lady Margaret nevertheless be justified. The analysis will yield guidance Hall (where she had also been an undergraduate). She, is Amia Srinivasan, Associate Professor of Philosophy and on controversial forms of arational influence including of course, noted for her long career of public service and Fellow of St John’s College, has won the Marc Sanders persuasive digital technologies, salience-based nudges, many contributions to political life, chairing public inquiries Public Philosophy Award, for her article “The Right to Sex” treatments for childhood behavioural disorders, and on education, animal experimentation, fertilisation and published in London Review of Books, March 2018. In the biological interventions in criminal rehabilitation. embryology. Within philosophy, Mary wrote much on ethics article, Amia considers whether we can have a political and the philosophy of mind. critique of desire that avoids authoritarian moralism and the logic of entitlement, but which nonetheless takes seriously that who and what we sexually desire is shaped by oppression. Dan Robinson 1937-2018 Agora – A Marketplace of Ideas £13.3 million Donation to Future of Humanity Institute The Faculty is sad to report the death of Professor Aaron James Wendland, a recent D Phil Dan Robinson, a Philosophy Faculty Fellow, and and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The University of Oxford’s Future of Adjunct Fellow at Linacre College. In philosophy, he the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Humanity Institute (FHI) is pleased produced significant work across several fields: has launched a new column in the New to announce a donation of up to most notably philosophy of psychology (in which he Statesman. “Agora - A Marketplace of £13.3 million from the philanthropic Cantat Ergo Sumus received honours from the American Psychological Ideas” is a platform from which philosophers organisations Good Ventures and Association), philosophy of law, and philosophy engage with current social, political and the Open Philanthropy Project. The On Saturday June 29, Paul Lodge, Professor of Philosophy of mind. Visiting Oxford for a term every year, Dan cultural issues, bringing the wider public donation is the largest in the Faculty of and Fellow of Mansfield College, performed a selection delivered many lectures for the Philosophy Faculty, into the debate. The column runs each week Philosophy’s history. It will support the of songs at the Old Fire Station in Oxford from his project some of have been preserved and can be viewed on with pieces by established members of the “Cantat Ergo Sumus” along with local band Flights of FHI in its mission of ensuring a long and the University’s podcasts site: academic community. Readers can already Helios. The performance was part of “Life and Death,” a flourishing future for humanity. podcasts.ox.ac.uk/people/dan-robinson enjoy articles by Oxford philosophers: Roger ninetey minute showcase for Oxford University academics Crisp, Cécile Farbre, Jeff McMahan, and at the city’s Offbeat Festival. The songs were a selection from Paul’s original settings of poems by philosophers such Timothy Williamson. as Friedrich Nietzsche, Margaret Cavendish, Hildegaard von Bingen, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. To find out more about this and Paul’s other musical projects, visit his website: paullodge.com 4 | Oxford Philosophy Oxford Philosophy | 5 NEW PEOPLE TUTORIAL FELLOWS James Read Rachel Fraser Bernhard Salow Amia Srinivasan Joel Hamkins Pembroke College Exeter College Magdalen College St John’s College University College James completed his DPhil from Rachel joins the faculty from Bernhard returns to Oxford, where Amia joins the Faculty from Joel comes to Oxford from Oxford in 2018.
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