Manchester Metropolitan University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 2023
26th and 27th January
Manchester Metropolitan University
The more that you learn the more places you'll go - Dr. Seuss
DOWNLOAD PDF FOR INFORMATION ON THE CALL FOR PAPERS (we will be funding the travel of the 8 students whose papers are chosen)
Keynote Speakers
EXPERTS OF THEIR DISCIPLINE
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Dr. Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
Dr. Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
Komarine Romdenh-Romluc works in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sheffield (UK). Her fundamental interest is in the body, and what it is to be the sort of embodied creatures that we are. That led her quite early on in her academic life to the phenomenological tradition, and its rich history of thinking about embodiment. She has written extensively about Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and is currently writing a book about Frantz Fanon’s philosophy.
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Dr. Adrian Moore
Dr. Adrian Moore
Adrian Moore is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. His publications include: The Infinite (Routledge, 3rd edition, 2019); Points of View (OUP, 1997); Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant’s Moral and Religious Philosophy (Routledge, 2003); The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (CUP, 2012); Language, World, and Limits: Essays in Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics (OUP, 2019); and Gödel’s Theorem: A Very Short Introduction(OUP, 2022). He is Bernard Williams’ literary executor, Philosophy Delegate to OUP, and Co-editor of MIND
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Dr. Yujin Nagasawa
Yujin Nagasawa is H. G. Wood Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Co-Director of the Birmingham Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Maximal God: A New Defence of Perfect Being Theism (OUP 2017), Miracles: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2017), The Existence of God: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge 2011) and God and Phenomenal Consciousness (CUP 2008). He currently lead the Global Philosophy of Religion Project, an major research initiative funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
Dr. Yujin Nagasawa
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Programme
10:00
WELCOME
10:10
Keynote Speaker 1
11:05
Q&A
12:00
LUNCH
1:00
Student Papers and Q&Ax2
2:00
BREAK
2:15
Student Papers and Q&Ax2
3:15
Keynote Speaker 1
4:00
Q&A
5:00
END- Closing
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SPEAKERS
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CONFERENCE
The Venue
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is a public university located in Manchester, England. The university has recently been named as the UK’s most sustainable university. As of the REF2014 results, 65% of the Manchester Met’s research is rated world-leading or internationally excellent. The reach and significance of Manchester Met’s research was rated ‘outstanding’. Manchester Met is home to 13 research centre