We are very pleased to present here Jørgen Dyrstad's (KCL) winning submission for this year's Jacobsen Prize in Philosophy Seeing and Differentiating - Jørgen Dyrstad (link) The J A B Jacobsen Essay Prize is awarded from funds donated to the University by Mr Jacobsen, who was concerned to propagate a better understanding of life as a universal concept, in the interests of minimizing egocentricity, nationalism, and sectarianism.

LEM ─ Logic, Epistemology & Metaphysics Forum Spring 2017 Programme Tuesday 31/01 Antony Eagle (University of Adelaide) Title: Regionalism and Physical Qualities Abstract: By ‘physical qualities’, I include such things as mass, shape, and charge, as well as the more exotic properties describe by contemporary physics. Regionalism is the thesis that every physical quality just is a property of a region of spacetime. I will clarify regionalism, and offer some arguments in its favour, both from physics and metaphysics. Tuesday 28/02 Marie Guillot (UCL)

The Practical, the Political, the Ethical.   The Institute of Philosophy hosts regular seminars on the Practical, the political, the ethical aspects of philosophy. The forum generally meets fortnightly in term time.   Unless otherwise stated, talks begin at 5.30pm, 2nd floor, Senate House, Malet St., WC1.   10 th January 2017 – When all goes wrong: responsibility for failure and negligence . | Ulrike Heuer (Leeds)   24 th January 2017 – Can Our Eating Animals Be Good For Them? | Jeff McMahan (Oxford)  

  The call for proposals for the IP Supported Conference 2017 has been reopend with a new deadline of 30th November 2016 History of Early Analytic Philosophy Proposals are sought from UK philosophy departments (not including University of London) to organise a one or two day philosophy conference on a topic related to the History of Early Analytic Philosophy. The conference will be financially supported by the Institute, who will also provide the venue. Proposals – of no more than three pages – should contain: