Workshops & Conferences

The Sheffield Philosophy Department hosts many workshops and conferences and Sheffield staff (and students) regularly organize workshops and conferences on a wide range of topics. The following workshops and conferences have been held at Sheffield, or organised by Sheffield staff elsewhere.

Date	Workshops & Conferences
July 2012	Understanding Value A graduate conference on value in ethics, aesthetics and epistemology
March 2012	CHiPhi Spring Workshop This is one of a series of workshops run by the Centre for the History of Philosophy based at Sheffield, Leeds and York
August 2011	Metaphysics, Modality and Mathematics: Themes from the work of Bob Hale A conference to mark the retirement of Bob Hale
June 2011	White Rose Aesthetics Forum
April 2011	University of Sheffield Philosophy Undergraduate Conference This conference is the second University of Sheffield Philosophy undergraduate conference, organized by undergraduates for undergraduates.
March 2011	Anglo-German Picture Theory Workshop This is the first meeting of a group of those working in the UK and Germany on philosophical issues raised by pictures and other images. Participants include Catharine Abell, Dominic Gregory,Robert Hopkins, John Hyman, Michael Newall, Ludger Schwarte, Martin Seel, and Lambert Wiesing
March 2011	CHiPhi Spring Workshop This is one in a sequence of workshops in the history of philosophy, run by the Centre for the History of Philosophy based at Sheffield, Leeds and York
December 2010	White Rose Aesthetics Forum One of our termly meetings with aestheticians from Leeds and York, this half-day event will include papers on aesthetic attitudes and auditory imagining.
December 2010	Conference on The Ethical Demand in Løgstrup, Kierkegaard and Levinas This conference will offer a forum for the discussion of the ideas of Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905-81). The focus of the conference will be on Løgstrup’s central conception of the ‘ethical demand’ as a basic phenomenological feature of moral experience, which is both particularistic and radically open-ended. This idea has relations to the thought of Kierkegaard on the one side, and Levinas on the other, while Løgstrup’s outlook differs interestingly from them both.
September 2010	Culture and the Mind: Moral Psychology This three day conference is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project. The conference is the final event associated with the second phase of the project, which has been exploring cross-cultural universals and cross-cultural variability in the domains of moral psychology.
August 2010	Conference on War and Self-Defence This conference is the final event in a Leverhulme project on War and Self-Defence.
July 2010	Political Philosophy Conference The White Rose Association of Political Philosophy is holding a conference at Sheffield on “The Future of Political Theory” 5th – 7th July 2010. More information can be found here: Political Philosophy Conference
June 2010	University of Sheffield Philosophy Undergraduate Conference This conference is the first University of Sheffield Philosophy undergraduate conference, organized by undergraduates for undergraduates.
June 2010	CHiPhi Summer Workshop This is one in a sequence of workshops in the history of philosophy, run by the Centre for the History of Philosophy based at Sheffield, Leeds and York
April 2010	Third Fieldwork Planning Workshop on Artifacts and Material Culture This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on planning psychological experiments on themes in the psychology of artifacts and material culture to be conducted at project fieldsites.
April 2010	Third Fieldwork Data Analysis Workshop on Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on analysing data from psychological experiments on themes in folk psychology and folk epistemology being conducted at project fieldsites.
March 2010	CHiPhi Spring Workshop This is one in a sequence of workshops in the history of philosophy, run by the Centre for the History of Philosophy based at Sheffield, Leeds and York
January 2010	Second Fieldwork Planning Workshop on Artifacts and Material Culture This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on planning psychological experiments on themes in the psychology of artifacts and material culture to be conducted at project fieldsites.
December 2009	Assertion and Sincerity This is the first workshop in the Telling and Trusting project. It will explore the connections between various issues concerning assertion, sincerity, testimony and trust.
September 2009	White Rose Aesthetics Forum: The Unity of Imagining The first one-day annual conference of the Forum.
September 2009	Culture and the Mind: Folk Psychology, Folk Epistemology, and Cultural Transmission This three day conference is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project. The conference is the final event associated with the first phase of the project, which has been exploring cross-cultural universals and cross-cultural variability in the domains of folk psychology and folk epistemology.
September 2009	First Fieldwork Planning Workshop on Artifacts and Material Culture This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on planning psychological experiments on themes in the psychology of artifacts and material culture to be conducted at project fieldsites.
August 2009	Constructivism in Practical Philosophy This three days conference is the final event in a year long series of workshops on constructivism with speakers from North America and the UK. We had workshops dedicated to constructivism in political philosophy, practical reason and epistemological issues in constructivism. The final conference will have papers on all aspects of constructivism with a certain emphasis on meta-normative questions. The series was made possible by a generous grant from the AHRC.
June 2009	Workshop on Self-Defence and National-Defence
June 2009	Constructivism and Practical Reason This one day workshop is part of the Constructivism in Practical Philosophy series of workshops and conferences. The series brings together speakers from North America and the UK to discuss different aspects of constructivism. The series was made possible by a generous grant from the AHRC.
May 2009	Third Workshop on Artefacts and Material Culture This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will explore cross-cultural universals and cross-cultural variability in the domains of artefacts, material culture, and cultural transmission.
April 2009	Proportionality in Law and Ethics This one-day workshop will assemble researchers from law, politics and philosophy to discuss the idea of proportionate response as it comes up in self-defence, punishment, the emotions, and other areas. We will be asking whether there is any unified notion of proportionality operating in these different fields.
April 2009	Third Fieldwork Planning Workshop on Norms and Moral Psychology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on planning psychological experiments on themes in moral psychology to be conducted at project fieldsites.
April 2009	Second Fieldwork Data Analysis Workshop on Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on analysing data from psychological experiments on themes in folk psychology and folk epistemology being conducted at project fieldsites.
March 2009	Epistemological issues in constructivism This one day workshop is part of the Constructivism in Practical Philosophy series of workshops and conferences. The series brings together speakers from North America and the UK to discuss different aspects of constructivism. The series was made possible by a generous grant from the AHRC.
February 2009	Constructivism in political philosophy This one day workshop is part of the Constructivism in Practical Philosophy series of workshops and conferences. The series brings together speakers from North America and the UK to discuss different aspects of constructivism. The series was made possible by a generous grant from the AHRC.
January 2009	Second Workshop on Artefacts and Material Culture This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will explore cross-cultural universals and cross-cultural variability in the domains of artefacts, material culture, and cultural transmission.
January 2009	Second Fieldwork Planning Workshop on Norms and Moral Psychology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on planning psychological experiments on themes in moral psychology to be conducted at project fieldsites.
January 2009	First Fieldwork Data Analysis Workshop on Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on analysing data from psychological experiments on themes in folk psychology and folk epistemology being conducted at project fieldsites.
October 2008	First Workshop on Artefacts and Material Culture This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will explore cross-cultural universals and cross-cultural variability in the domains of artefacts, material culture, and cultural transmission.
October 2008	First Fieldwork Planning Workshop on Norms and Moral Psychology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on planning psychological experiments on themes in moral psychology to be conducted at project fieldsites.
March 2008	Third Workshop on Norms and Moral Psychology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will explore cross-cultural universals and cross-cultural variability in the domains of norms and moral psychology.
March 2008	Third Fieldwork Planning Workshop on Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on planning psychological experiments on themes in folk psychology and folk epistemology to be conducted at project fieldsites.
January 2008	Second Workshop on Norms and Moral Psychology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will explore cross-cultural universals and cross-cultural variability in the domains of norms and moral psychology.
January 2008	Second Fieldwork Planning Workshop on Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on planning psychological experiments on themes in folk psychology and folk epistemology to be conducted at project fieldsites.
October 2007	First Workshop on Norms and Moral Psychology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will explore cross-cultural universals and cross-cultural variability in the domains of norms and moral psychology.
October 2007	First Fieldwork Planning Workshop on Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will be focused on planning psychological experiments on themes in folk psychology and folk epistemology to be conducted at project fieldsites.
September 2007	Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (At Oxford, Hegel Society of Great Britain).
April 2007	Third Workshop on Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will explore cross-cultural universals and cross-cultural variability in the domains of folk psychology and folk epistemology.
March 2007	Hegel &/or Kierkegaard This one-day conference at the University of Sheffield, is being held under the auspices of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, and the Søren Kierkegaard Society of the United Kingdom.
January 2007	Well-Being, Liberty and Practical Reason
January 2007	Second Workshop on Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will explore cross-cultural universals and cross-cultural variability in the domains of folk psychology and folk epistemology.
December 2006	Semantics and Pragmatics This international workshop brings together leading figures in semantics and pragmatics to explore both traditional and less traditional issues concerning semantics, pragmatics, and the relationship between the two.
October 2006	First Workshop on Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology This workshop is part of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project, and will explore cross-cultural universals and cross-cultural variability in the domains of folk psychology and folk epistemology.
October 2006	Art and the Senses
July 2006	After Kant
June 2006	Altruism and Moral Psychology This interdisciplinary conference will explore the psychological underpinnings of altruism and moral norms, and the implications of these psychological systems for ethical theory.
February 2006	British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy Day Conference This one day conference put on under the auspices of the British Undergraduate Philosophy Society Day Conference will celebrate the launch of the British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy
February 2006	Electrifying Experimentation: Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain The departments of English Literature and Philosophy, in association with and supported by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, will be hosting a one-day interdisciplinary conference on science in nineteenth-century Britain.
January 2006	Character and Imagination Various influential ethical theories propose that we should strive to develop morally sound character traits, either because good actions are those that issue from good character traits, or because good traits generally incline us toward actions that are good for some independent reason such as the intentions with which they are performed or the consequences of performing them. This one-day workshop will investigate the nature of character traits and the role of imagination in the attribution of traits to ourselves and others, in the context of the current debate over these issues.
November 2005	What is Testimony? (At The Institute of Philosophy, London)
June 2005	Hegel and Peirce
May 2005	Gender, The Body and Objectification The Gender, the Body & the Objectification Conference (21–22 May 2005) examines three interconnected topics that have been central to much feminist thought: gender, objectification and the body. Issues considered include the sex/gender distinction; the relationship of both sex and gender to the body; the importance of the concepts of sex and gender; the role of objectification in gender and of gender in objectification; and the relationship between the body and objectification. Papers at the conference will relate these topics to race, pornography, prostitution, and surrogate motherhood.
February 2005	Planning Workshop on Culture and Mind
May 2004	The Nature of Rights (at Tulane, New Orleans, Murphy Institute of Political Economy)
September 2004	Hegel and British Idealism (At Oxford, Hegel Society of Great Britain)
2004	Kant
June-July 2004	Reflections on Innateness Conference This 4 day interdisciplinary conference is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will address a variety of questions about the foundations and future of nativist research, such as: What is nativism? What is at stake in debates between nativists and empiricists? How do different research methodologies contribute to nativist research? Where next for research in the nativist tradition?
April 2004	Fourth Workshop on Foundations of the Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will a variety of questions about the foundations and future of nativist research.
March 2004	Third Workshop on Foundations of the Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will a variety of questions about the foundations and future of nativist research.
November 2003	Second Workshop on Foundations of the Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will a variety of questions about the foundations and future of nativist research.
October 2003	First Workshop on Foundations of the Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will a variety of questions about the foundations and future of nativist research.
July 2003	Conference on Culture and the Innate Mind This 4 day interdisciplinary conference is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will investigate the interaction of culture and the innate mind. Twenty-two speakers from the UK and abroad will address such questions as: To what extent are mature cognitive capacities a reflection of particular cultures and to what extent are they a product of innate elements? How do innate elements interact with culture to achieve mature cognitive capacities? How do minds generate and shape cultures? How are cultures processed by minds?
April 2003	Fourth Workshop on Culture and Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will investigate the interaction of culture and the innate mind.
March 2003	Third Workshop on Culture and Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will investigate the interaction of culture and the innate mind.
November 2002	Second Workshop on Culture and Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will investigate the interaction of culture and the innate mind.
October 2002	First Workshop on Culture and Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will investigate the interaction of culture and the innate mind.
September 2002	Hegel and his Critics (At Oxford, Hegel Society of Great Britain)
July 2002	The Structure of the Innate Mind Conference This 4 day interdisciplinary conference is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will investigate the nature of the innate capacities, processes, representations, biases and connections in the human mind. Twenty-two speakers from the UK and abroad will address such questions as: What elements of the mind are plausibly innate? How do these innate elements feed into a story about the development of our mature cognitive capacities? Which of these elements are shared with other members of the animal kingdom? What is the structure of the innate mind?
April 2002	Fourth Workshop on the Structure of the Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project, and will explore the nature of the innate capacities, processes, representations, biases, and connections in the human mind.
March 2002	Third Workshop on the Structure of the Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will explore the nature of the innate capacities, processes, representations, biases, and connections in the human mind.
November 2001	Second Workshop on the Structure of the Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will explore the nature of the innate capacities, processes, representations, biases, and connections in the human mind.
October 2001	First Workshop on the Structure of the Innate Mind This workshop is part of the AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project , and will explore the nature of the innate capacities, processes, representations, biases, and connections in the human mind.
August 2001	The Will in Moral Psychology (At the University of Edinburgh) This two-day conference on The Will and Moral Psychology features talks by Richard Holton, Alison McIntyre, Alan Millar, Richard Moran, David Owens, Tom Pink, Gideon Rosen, Sarah Stroud, Christine Tappolet, and David Velleman.
July 2001	Joint Session of the Mind Association and Aristotelian Society