Category Archives: statements

[From Mdx anti-cuts group:] There are 7 weeks until Alfie’s trial. Join the call for the charges to be dropped NOW. Alfie nearly died after being struck with a police baton during the 2010 anti-fees protest. He should not be … Continue reading →

Hegel Now? Workshop at the Philosophy Department, Thursday 5 May 2011. Saloon, Mansion Building, Trent Park campus, 2.45-9.00pm Immediacy is reality; language is ideality; consciousness is contradiction. The moment I make a statement about reality, contradiction is present, for what … Continue reading →

The Metropolitan police have charged Alfie Meadows, Middlesex philosophy student, with ‘violent disorder’, after bludgeoning him with a baton at the student demonstration in London on 9th December 2010. There is an ongoing IPCC investigation into this assault by the … Continue reading →

[Shutdown of philosophy in London continues. From philosophers at LMU:] Closure of Philosophy at LMU A meeting of London Metropolitan University’s Academic Board yesterday approved proposals for the closure of Philosophy, along with its fellow Humanities subjects, History and Performing … Continue reading →

Philosophy at Greenwich is under threat. The petition to save the department is here. “The situation: The management of the School of Humanities has closed recruitment to the Philosophy programme with immediate effect and are writing to students who have … Continue reading →

Philosophy Seminar this week: Thursday 31 March, 6.30pm. Milena Ivanova, ‘Can the Realist Solve the Problem of Underdetermination of Theory by Evidence?’ Milena Ivanova is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy Department at Bristol University, where she is writing a … Continue reading →

[UPDATE from Keele:] We are pleased to report that, following constructive discussions with senior management yesterday and the extraordinary meetings of the Faculty Board and Senate today, it has been agreed that the proposal to close down the Philosophy Programme … Continue reading →

Two forthcoming Philosophy events at Middlesex: Thursday 17 March, 6.30pm Martin Liebscher, ‘Sigmund Freud and his Philosophical Mediators’ Martin Liebscher teaches at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London. He is the co-editor (with Angus Nicholls) of the recent … Continue reading →

Philosophy Event at Middlesex, Tuesday 1 March 2011, 5.30pm Marcus Boon, ‘Buddhism after Badiou: Between Ideology and Practice’ Marcus Boon is a writer and Associate Professor in the English Literature department at York University, Toronto. In his most recent book, … Continue reading →

Philosophy Event at Middlesex, Tuesday 15 February 2011, 5.30pm Dylan Evans (Cork University): ‘Is Lacanian Psychoanalysis Wrong, or Not Even Wrong?’ Dylan Evans is the author of An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (1996) and several key articles on Lacan’s … Continue reading →