Do you also catch yourself thinking the new year has just started but it’s already March? Fortunately, we’ve been quite busy in that time and are happy to tell you all about it!
News
Seminar Series on Women in Nineteenth Century Philosophy
We are excited to invite you to a DRL research seminar series on Women in Nineteenth Century Philosophy organised by Alison Stone (Lancaster, featured in our August 2019 Newsletter), under the patronage of the British Philosophical Association and the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association. The series draws together scholarship rediscovering women philosophers from nineteenth-century Britain who have been unjustly left out of the philosophical canon. The talks introduce these women and their thinking on such topics as feminism, animals, metaphysics, religion, science and Darwinism.
The first talk will take place online on March 20th. You can find more details, sign up, and join the via our Event page.
APA and St Andrews funding for new Blueprints and the Categorisation Project
We are grateful to the APA for not just one but two Small Grants for two separate projects. The first will focus on developing a series of new Blueprints focused on different aspects of Philosophy of Mind, overseen by Jimena Clavel (featured below). The other is tied with our past research on how philosophy is systematised in indexes such as PhilPapers, and will focus on implementing the index concept we presented in Fokt, Pharr, Torregrossa 2023. It will be overseen by Quentin Pharr and has already found further financial support from the University of St Andrews. Both projects have launched and we will update you on their development soon.
Call for Editors
We are once again opening a call for DRL Editors. Editing is not only a great way to be a part of making philosophy a discipline of equal opportunity – we will also sing your praises to everyone and put you first in line for any grant projects we run. We particularly welcome applications from people specialising in the following areas:
- Aesthetics
- African, Native American, Islamic, Indian, and other philosophical traditions
- Epistemology
- History of Western Philosophy
- Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
- Philosophy of Science
You can find more information about Editing on our Volunteer page. Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have questions or would like to express your interest!
Volunteer Spotlight: Jimena Clavel (she, her)
I’m a philosopher working on the intersection of Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, and Phenomenology. I received my PhD from the St Andrews/Stirling Philosophy Graduate Programme in 2020. I work now at the philosophy department at Tilburg University as an assistant professor. Before coming to Tilburg, I was a visiting lecturer at the Philosophy Department of Tartu Ülikool (the University of Tartu), in Estonia. I am interested in situated approaches to cognition, in their notion of embodiment, and in what they can tell us about perception and imagination. My work has focused on the sensorimotor theory of perception. More generally, I draw on critical and feminist phenomenology to explore the different ways in which our cognitive faculties are impacted by our sociohistorical context.
I first collaborated with the DRL as part of the MAP chapter of the St Andrews and Stirling graduate programme, when we organized the workshop Creating Inclusive Classrooms in St Andrews. Ever since then, I’ve been interested in their work and I’ve used their resources to support my teaching. The index has been incredibly helpful. It has allowed me to identify and incorporate literature from experts who are so often not visible in our syllabi. Moreover, the commentaries and classifications allow me to select resources that are adequate to the different profiles of students I teach. More recently, I co-created a Blueprint on Mayan and Aztec philosophy of mind. I also joined the DRL volunteers team as the Editor for the Philosophy of Mind section. I am also part of a group of colleagues who recently secured funding from the APA to put together a collection of three blueprints focused on philosophy of mind.
Get involved, get funded!
We continuously expand our list and you can help us by contributing content via our contribution page.
We couldn’t do what we do without the help of our fantastic volunteers. Check out our Volunteer Page to find out more, and join the Team! There are so many ways to get involved: creating new Reading Group Blueprints; becoming an editor; adding new list entries; organising events, promoting, and much more.
As a volunteer, you will also have access to the funding we receive for various projects we run. Get in touch to find out more!
Thanks so much again for all your support,
The DRL Team
