Monday, August 9, 2021

Department of Philosophy, King's College London Information

August 09, 2021 Posted By AdseRudita

The Department of Philosophy is an academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Kings College London. It is one of the largest and most distinguished centres for the study of philosophy in the United Kingdom.

For over half a century since the Anglican foundation of Kings College in 1829, the study of philosophy was restricted to courses within the Department of Theology and the Department of English Literature. In 1906 a separate Department of Philosophy and Psychology was explicitly established, and in 1912 Philosophy split to form its own department.

The department is located in the Philosophy Building on Surrey Street, a set of three adjacent townhouses joined through a series of corridors and forming part of the Strand Campus of Kings College. The vaults along the back of the building are those containing the old Roman Baths on Strand Lane.

In 1989, Professor Richard Sorabji founded the Kings College Centre for Philosophical Studies at the department with the aim of promoting philosophy to the wider public.

The Head of Department is currently Bill Brewer, Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at Kings.

The Department of Philosophy owns a historic bar on its premises in Surrey Street, officially the Kings College Sports and Social Club Bar but referred to informally as simply the Philosophy Bar. Management of the bar was taken over by the Kings College London Students Union in 2016.

Academic staff and students of the department also make an annual trip to Cumberland Lodge, a Grade II listed country house in Windsor Great Park. There is a programme of lectures, communal meals and other activities, including an annual football match played between staff and students.

Student life in the department is administered mainly by the Kings College London Philosophy Society.