SWIP UK Conference: Philosophy and Other Voices

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‘Philosophy and Other Voices’

SWIP UK Annual Conference

University of Essex, 27-28 March 2015

Registration is now open for the 2015 SWIP UK conference. This year the conference will be held at the University of Essex. The theme of this years conference is ‘Philosophy and Other Voices’.
To register for the conference, please go to: http://www.essex.ac.uk/online_shop/philosophy/swip/conference.aspx

PROGRAMME OF SPEAKERS

Keynote speakers

Dr Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton

Professor Pamela Sue Anderson, University of Oxford

Selected titles and speakers

How ‘Objectivity’ Fails Philosophy; Why Philosophy Needs Diversity

Devora Shapiro, Southern Oregon University

Autism and Philosophy: Can Wittgenstein Help Us Understand Autistic Conceptual Problems?

Robert Chapman, University of Essex

Pluralism All the Way Down – Social Objectivity and Scientific Consensus

Jessica Laimann, University of Oxford

Quinoa qua Kwinoah: Philosophy and the Working Class

Karl Dando, independent scholar

Community in Fragments: Reading Relation in the Fragments of Heraclitus

Carrie Giunta, Central St Martins

On Being a Queer Reader of Augustine

Benjamin Brewer, University of Oregon

Athena Swan Lake: The Sororicidal Ballet of Academic Feminism

Lorna Finlayson, University of Cambridge

Reversibility and Chiasm: False Equivalents? An Alternative Approach to Understanding Difference in Merleau-Ponty’s Late Philosophy

Fiona Hughes, University of Essex

More information on the conference, and visitor information for the University of Essex, can be found here:http://www.essex.ac.uk/philosophy/news_and_seminars/swip-uk-conference.aspx

For queries please email Rosie Worsdale: rworsd@essex.ac.uk