There are THREE elected posts that are vacant on the Executive Committee of the British Philosophical Association at the end of academic year 2021-22. We have TEN people who have come forward for consideration. Elected candidates will start their term of office in September 2022 and will be in post for a three year term… Read the full article
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In May 2022 there has been highly concerning news about proposed course closures and suspensions at some UK universities, with academic colleagues put at risk of redundancy. Some of these proposals affect Departments of Philosophy. The BPA has put out a statement about this general situation here: 20th May 2022 – open letter. We will… Read the full article
Helen Beebee and Jennifer Saul have authored a new report on the state of women in philosophy in the UK, published by the British Philosophical Association (BPA) and the Society For Women In Philosophy (SWIP). You can read the report here. This report follows up, ten years later, on their first-of-its-kind report from 2011. Beebee… Read the full article
The BPA is pleased to be sponsoring the Diversity Reading List‘s seminar series ‘Decolonising Knowledge‘. The idea is to bring together a diverse set of perspectives in a series of talks on the theme of decolonising knowledge. All the sessions will take place online, it’s free to take part, to register email events@diversityreadinglist.org Here is… Read the full article
Association of Philosophy Teachers (APT) The British Philosophical Association is launching a new initiative for people teaching philosophy in UK schools. The plan is to organise and gather teachers together to help support and promote our subject by building a reciprocal relationship between UK philosophy teachers and the BPA. At the moment and in this… Read the full article
BPPA Annual Conference: Radical Philosophy ONLINE 25th – 28th of November In association with Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) This year’s annual British Postgraduate Philosophical Association conference is on the theme of Radical philosophy. Radical Philosophy seeks to challenge, disrupt and expand governing norms, assumptions, and methods within the Analytic tradition. Analytic philosophy, broadly construed, is a tradition… Read the full article
The University of West of England Bristol (UWE) appears to have decided to cancel its successful BA Philosophy degree, without consultation and without any clear rationale. The programme, which is financially viable, popular with students, and scores very well in the NSS, is well known for promoting European philosophy. Its threatened closure is very mysterious…. Read the full article
On Weds 17th June 2020, the British Philosophical Association and other subject associations wrote to UK government ministers calling for significant changes in the way that higher education is funded and supported. As UK higher education institutions reportedly fall in the global rankings, forty-nine professional associations representing diverse academic research fields and thousands of UK-based… Read the full article
The BPA wrote to Ohio University on the 13th May 2020 to protest against the University’s decision to not honour a number of contracts in the philosophy faculty. See a news item about it on Daily Nous here. The letter was sent to Professor Nellis, the University’s President, and also to its Board of Trustees…. Read the full article
The British Philosophical Association has today written to the Minister of State for Universities and the Secretary of State for Education to draw attention to the many important contributions made by philosophers at UK institutions during the pandemic so far. Professor Fiona Macpherson, President of the BPA, wrote to government ministers to describe many of… Read the full article
