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Our students at a conference in Pardubice
Two of our fantastic undergraduate students, Emil Wolff and Adam Petryk, travelled to Czechia after being selected to give presentations for the conference ‘ Why Bother? Nihilism and Uncertainty or Care and Hope’ at the University of Pardubice.
Four students expressed an interest in going to this conference after Dr Aloysius Ventham signposted the Philos_L call for papers in his metaethics class. The four students then met with Dr Ventham to work on their abstracts. Each student contributed to a collaborative and positive research environment. Of the four submissions, three were accepted. Of the three accepted, two of our students, Adam and Emil, were able to attend. They were supported by Pardubice’s generous financial assistance.
Emil presented a paper that modified stoicism (normally taken to be a position concerned with personal attitudes) to help us think through, and cope with, collective issues in a paper titled How Stoicism is the Right Approach to Tackling the Climate Crisis.
Adam presented a paper titled Social Media: A Kantian Perspective in which he argued social media warrants a higherlevel of censorship especially when considered in the context of the recent UK riots and vaccine misinformation. His argument made recourse to Kant’s Categorical Imperative to justify this claim.
Both talks were received very well and provoked an engaged and fruitful discussion. Good work representing the philosophy department and our undergrads, Adam and Emil!
New book by Daniel Gregory
Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues
Daniel Gregory, researcher at our department, and Kourken Michaelian published a book in Springer’s Synthese Library.
This edited volume is the first systematic philosophical investigation of the complex and multifarious relationships between dreaming and memory. What does one remember when one remembers what one dreamt, and what is it for a memory of a dream to be accurate? What are the phenomenological, cognitive, and epistemic similarities and dissimilarities between dreaming and remembering? How does the self figure in dreams and memories? The book will serve as an indispensable resource both for philosophers interested in dreaming or memory and for their philosophically-minded colleagues in empirical disciplines and will provide an invaluable starting point for advanced students in need of a snapshot of the state of the art in philosophical research on dreaming and memory.
You can find more details about the book here.
