A-Level students from a number of schools in the Kent region will be on campus next week to attend our Philosophy Sixth-Form Conference, on Wednesday 30 November 2016.<\/p>\n
Staff from the Department of Philosophy<\/a>\u00a0will be delivering sessions to give a taster for studying these subjects\u00a0at a university level. A mixture of seminars and plenary sessions are offered throughout the day, including such tempting titles as \u2018Machiavelli on the Man and the Beast’, \u2018The Intellectually Disabled: Persons or Non-Persons?\u2019, How To Tell If The Drugs Work’, ‘Fate and the Future’, and ‘The Evil of Death’.<\/p>\n The day will run from 10.00am until the afternoon, with five half-hour seminars and a campus tour.<\/p>\n Participating members of the Department include Dr Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij, Dr Graeme Forbes<\/a>, Dr Edward Kanterian<\/a>, Dr Camillia Kong, Dr Veli-Pekka Parkkinen<\/a>, and Dr Michael Wilde<\/a>. The conference will be introduced by the Head of Department, Dr Todd Mei<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you would like further information on participating, please contact\u00a0Mary Daly on\u00a0secl@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n For full programme of events, including abstracts of each talk, please see the page:\u00a0www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/events<\/a><\/p>\n For a video about studying Philosophy at Kent, please see below.<\/p>\n