http://www.bpa.ac.uk British Philosophical Association - representing professional philosophers in the UK Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:23:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alessandra Tanesini, a member of our Executive Committee, has sent a letter on behalf of all Russell Group philosophy department heads to Rick Trainor (Principal) and Lord Douro (Chair of Council). You can read the letter here. An update on the situation at KCL, including a link to the document outlining ... http://www.bpa.ac.uk/news/bpa_news/kcl-update/ KCL are planning to make two members of the Philosophy Department redundant, and more redundancies are in the pipeline as a cost-cutting measure across the Humanities. The BPA, together with a number of UK learned societies, have sent this letter to the Principal (Rick Trainor) and the Chair of Council ... http://www.bpa.ac.uk/news/bpa_news/philosophy-at-kings-college-london/ You can read our response to HEFCE's consultation on the Research Excellence Framework here. http://www.bpa.ac.uk/news/bpa_news/bpa-response-to-ref-consultation/ We are pleased to launch our new 'Philosophical Answers' site, aimed at helping schoolteachers of philosophy. If you are a schoolteacher, please check it out; if you know any, please tell them about it. http://www.bpa.ac.uk/news/bpa_news/new-philosophical-answers-site/ You can read our position paper here; also the notes from the meeting we held in late October are here. http://www.bpa.ac.uk/news/bpa_news/bpa-position-paper-on-impact-in-the-ref/ Click here for a short THE article about the dwindling of philosophy provision in new universities http://www.bpa.ac.uk/news/latest/the-article-philosophy-in-new-universities/ All our members should have received an email about the meeting we're having in London on 29 October, at the Institute of Philosophy, to discuss the 'impact agenda'. If you didn't receive it, please check your junk mail folder; if the message is there, please add admin@bpa.ac.uk to your address ... http://www.bpa.ac.uk/news/bpa_news/bpa-impact-meeting/ The Philosophers' Magazine's latest issue contains an article on the lack of women in UK philosophy; click here to read it. The BPA is currently conducting a survey of UK philosophy departments about the proportion of women at all levels from undergraduate to professorial staff; we'll put the data on ... http://www.bpa.ac.uk/news/latest/where-are-all-the-women/ We note with sadness the death of David Evans, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Queen's University Belfast. David's contribution to the cause of Philosophy, over many years, was enormous. He was a member of the National Committee for Philosophy, the forerunner to the BPA, for eleven years, including a ... http://www.bpa.ac.uk/news/bpa_news/david-evans/ Hefce have published their consultation document on the Research Excellence Framework; you can see it here. We'll be discussing this at our next Executive Committee meeting, and also liaising with learned societies in Philosophy and other subject associations in the Arts and Humanities. If you'd like to let us know ... http://www.bpa.ac.uk/news/consultations/hefce-ref-consultation/