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News
Announcing the Musgrave Scholarship in Philosophy Fundraising Appeal To honour Professor Alan Musgrave, who intends to retire from the Chair of Philosophy at the end of 2010, and with the aim of furthering his legacy, we are delighted to announce an appeal that will attract high calibre international students who wish to undertake postgraduate study towards a Masters degree here. If you wish to make a donation to the Musgrave Scholarship Appeal then visit the site.
Aesthetics and History of Science Workshop A Conference sponsored by the Philosophy Department: Feb 25-26 2010 The purpose of this workshop was to promote thinking about the relationship between aesthetics and science. The relationship between science and art was explored by a mixture of experts and graduate students. For more information see the conference website.
Marsden Postdoctoral Fellow arrives Dr Alberto Vanzo has been appointed as Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Professor Peter Anstey on his Marsden funded project. Dr Vanzo is from the University of Padova and the University of Essex. He has now joined our research team working on early modern philosophy, and is based in Room 104.
Two new books published by staff Charles Pigden: Hume on Motivation and Virtue An edited collection, Hume on Motivation and Virtue has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. It is edited by Charles Pigden and contains essays by, among others, Annette Baier, Rosalind Hursthouse, Richard Joyce, Graham Oddie, and Michael Smith.
Alan Musgrave: Secular Sermons Secular Sermons contains fourteen essays by Alan Musgrave that examine the basic assumptions of science, religion, and mathematics. The book is an insightful introduction to the philosophical thought of Aristotle, Bacon, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Darwin, and Einstein, among others. It puts modern science in a broader historical perspective and offers an entertaining introduction to the philosophical paradigm of Critical Rationalism.
Towards a Unified Science of Religion International Conference hosted by the Philosophy Department: Feb 12-14 2010 This conference brought together researchers from disciplines such as cognitive science, anthropology and evolutionary psychology to explore the possibility of a unified science of religion. Keynote speakers were David Sloan Wilson (Binghamton University), Harvey Whitehouse (Oxford) and Jesse Bering (Queens University, Belfast). For more information see the conference website.
Philosophy tops PBRF In 2007 the Otago Philosophy Department was the top-scoring philosophy department, the top-scoring department at the university and the top-scoring research department of any kind in New Zealand, according to the PBRF (the New Zealand equivalent of the British RAE). In the 2003 PBRF round, the Otago department also came top, but in 2007 we improved our score, going up from 6.6 to 7.5.
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