The department is well-represented at the Aesthetic Emotions Conference with both Carolyn Price and Derek Matravers giving papers. The conference is at Senate House on the 22nd and 23rd September.
The department is well-represented at the Aesthetic Emotions Conference with both Carolyn Price and Derek Matravers giving papers. The conference is at Senate House on the 22nd and 23rd September.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most fascinating figures in the history of philosophy. He was a champion of reason, who was also its great critic; he wrote operas, yet wrote against art; he wrote about child-rearing, and yet consigned his own children to an orphanage.
You can find out more about him in a short piece Derek Matravers has written to kick off a new series on philosophy for the online TLS. You can find it here.