Investigators:

Dr Tom Cochrane

Summary:

This project explores the ways that fictions can offer insights into the basic philosophical question: what am I? Am I essentially a kind of animal? A soul? A set of memories?

By imagining scenarios in which our various features are teased apart or manipulated, science fiction helps us to explore these options.

This book will accompany 12 science fiction short stories with philosophical essays examining the issues raised and whether the story can convince us of a particular response.

Category:

Metaphysics

Philosophy of art

Investigators:

Associate Professor Craig Taylor

Summary:

The is a book project examining the limits of moral theory to encompass the varieties of moral thought. The project draws and expands on recent research by the researcher and others on the implications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for ethics. 

Category:

Moral philosophy

Investigators:

Dr Tom Cochrane

Summary:

This project examines the nature of long-term happiness, aiming to combine the major philosophical theories of eudaimonia, desire-satisfaction and hedonism.

It will further consider the particular challenges to happiness that confront us at different stages of life such as competition with others, hedonic adaptation, aging and death.

Category:

Value theory

Philosophy of mind

Discipline:

Philosophy, Women's and Gender Studies

Investigators:

Dr Laura Roberts, Associate Professor Athena Colman (Brock University, Canada)

Summary:

This project brings together the leading feminist philosophers of our times in an edited collection celebrating the 50^th anniversary of the publication of Luce Irigaray’s Speculum of the Other Woman.

This text is arguably worthy of being placed amongst the key works that constitute the most important philosophical contributions published in the late twentieth century; undoubtedly, it is one of the most significant texts of feminist philosophy to appear in the later half of the past century.

Our collection will bring together important Irigaray scholars and the range of contributors in this volume illustrate the geographical and generational differences in feminist philosophy.

It includes new work from some of the most influential feminist philosophers of the last 50 years, including Rosi Braidotti and Adriana Cavarero alongside scholars who have translated Irigaray’s texts (Gail Schwab) and written important monographs on Irigaray’s work (Rachel Jones, Tina Chanter, Alison Stone, Penelope Deutscher, Michelle Boulous Walker, Mary Rawlinson, Laura Roberts) as well as mid-career scholars who are taking up ideas in Speculum in conversations with questions of race, trans studies, feminist politics and methodology, and whose voices will be crucial in shaping Irigaray’s influence in the years to come.

Category:

European social philosophy

French feminist philosophy

Philosophy of sexual difference