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Report on the Conference, “Dehumanization: New Approaches to the Politics of Human Nature”

April 20, 2016
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A group of international and local experts from history, law, social psychology, art, and philosophy met at the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archive on Apr 6–8, to discuss dehumanization: regarding, depicting or treating some people as ‘less human’ than others.

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Summary of the 6th International Graduate Conference, "Worldly Matters: Issues in Applied and Socially Engaged Philosophy"

April 11, 2016
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The Department of Philosophy hosted its 6th International Graduate Conference on April 1-2 with great success. The biennial IGC marks an important event in the Department’s life, which is traditionally organized by doctoral students and involves the engagement of both faculty and students acting as reviewers, commenters and helpers.

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Alumna Mojca Küplen has been appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

February 12, 2016
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Our alumna Mojca Küplen has been appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Mojca has previously held the position of an Assistant Research Fellow at the Philosophy Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Congratulations, Mojca!

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Three Philosophy students receive Doctoral Students Awards

February 5, 2016
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Warmest congratulations to Yuliya Kanygina and László Kajtár, who have been awarded the Award for Advanced Doctoral Students, and to Matthew Baxendale, who has been awarded the Academic Achievement Award for First-Year Doctoral Students.

Well done, guys!

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"Matter, Mind and Consciousness" - Summer University Course

January 27, 2016
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The application deadline is February 14, 2016 for the summer course run by Central European University on "Matter, Mind and Consciousness"

Applications are invited from high-achieving MA and PhD students, junior faculty, researchers and professionals in universities and other institutions.

Course Director: David Pitt, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

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