We are pleased to announce that Matthew Nudds will be joining the department on 1 September 2012 as Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department. He is currently Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Department at Edinburgh. He did his PhD at UCL and he works on philosophy of mind and perception. He has a special interest in auditory perception. He has published extensively on this topic and his arrival will cement Warwick's reputation as one of the best departments in the UK for the philosophy of mind.

We are pleased to announce that Massimo Renzo will be joining the Department on 1 September 2012. He is currently a lecturer at York University and works primarily in political philosophy and legal theory.

The Department would like to offer its congratulations to the following current or previous students:

Frank Chouraqui (graduated summer 2010) on his appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Koc University, Istanbul and to

Joseph Kuzma (graduated winter 2012) on his appointment as lecturer in Philosophy at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Frank wrote his PhD thesis on Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on truth and Joseph wrote his PhD thesis on the exigency of return in Nietzsche and Blanchot.

Joe Barker (third year Philosophy undergraduate) who has been awarded, and has accepted, a 5 year postgraduate studentship at Penn State University from this autumn.

The National Student Survey 2012 opened on 16 January 2012 for Warwick students. This is an important opportunity for you, as a finalist undergraduate student, to give your opinion, in a national forum, on teaching and learning within our department and your overall experience at Warwick.

If you respond to the survey before it closes on 30 April 2011, you will be entered into a University free prize draw (first prize £200).

In addition, if the Philosophy Department reaches an overall response rate of 75% or more (i.e., if more than 75% of our finalists fill in the survey), there will be a special Philosophy prize draw to say thank you. For more details of the Philosophy prize draw and which cohort of students it applies to please see:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/undergraduate/current_students/nss/

All unassessed essays (with the exception of tutorial/class essays/exercises that are submitted weekly/fortnightly) must be submitted in hard copy only (with the appropriate cover sheet attached) to the Departmental Office in line with the deadlines that have been published in the handbook and on the essay information webpages

The office will then distribute work to relevant markers and contact students on a module when work has been marked and is ready for collection from the Departmental Office

Work should only be submitted directly to tutorial/seminar leaders where tutorial/class essays/exercises are submitted weekly/fortnightly and this will be detailed clearly on the relevant module webpage. In ALL other cases unassessed essays should be submitted to the Departmental Office to meet the published deadlines and not to individual module or seminar tutors.