News in Philosophy
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- Lucy Prior discusses the distinction between anxiety as a universally experienced normal emotion and as a clinical problem, arguing that medicalising anxiety could impact on the agency of young people.
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- Wednesday 17 February 2021
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- Rosa discusses her cross-disciplinary research into the meaning of delusions, informed by her day-to-day clinical practice as a consultant psychiatrist and by her phenomenological background.
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- Thursday 11 February 2021
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- Philosophy experts at the University of Birmingham are set to work with long-running US TV series Closer To Truth - exploring the big religious questions facing philosophers today.
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- Thursday 4 February 2021
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- Should psychopaths be blamed for disregarding others? Can they feel empathy and genuine concern? Jane Kisbey argues that psychopaths find it hard to consider the future consequences of their actions.
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- Thursday 4 February 2021
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- Joseph Houlders, supervised by Lisa Bortolotti and Matthew Broome, received an Honourable Mention for the prestigious Jaspers Award issued by the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.
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- Wednesday 3 February 2021
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- The #EverydayLookism Facebook Live series is three live panel discussions taking place in February and March 2021
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- Tuesday 26 January 2021
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- Recent work by Birmingham Professor of Philosophy, Lisa Bortolotti.
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- Friday 15 January 2021
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- The article, published in the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, is listed among the most popular contributions to philosophy in Oxford University Press journals in 2020
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- Friday 11 December 2020
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