| Spring 2011 Reading Groups |
Contact |
Kant's Third Critique
We are currently working our way through the first half of the work, the Critique of Aesthetic Judgement. (We'll go on to the second half if there is sufficient interest.) We meet on Wednesdays at 1 in Rob Hopkins's office (C11). |
Paul Giladi:
p.giladi@sheffield.ac.uk |
Hegel
This semester we will be reading Hegel's Philosophy of Right. This will run alongside Chris Hookway's Hegel module, and will allow those PhD students attending the lectures to discuss the ideas that the book raises (though anyone with an interest not sitting in on the lectures can, of course, attend). We meet on Friday's at 11.00 in the attic. |
Jan Kandiyali:
j.kandiyali@sheffield.ac.uk |
Merleau-Ponty
We will be reading 'The Phenomenology of Perception',
looking at it both in its context as the culmination of the phenomenological movement and as an early work of cognitive science. |
Graeme A. Forbes:
G.A.Forbes@sheffield.ac.uk |
Pragmatism
We're currently working through Richard Bernstein's new book The Pragmatic Turn. We meet on Tuesdays 4-5 in Room B09 (in the philosophy department on the
ground floor). |
Drew Howat:
andrew.howat@sheffield.ac.uk |
Feminism
To see what the Feminism reading group is working on now check out the Feminist Philosophy Blog. |
Jenny Saul
j.saul@sheffield.ac.uk |
Political Philosophy
This semester we will be reading a variety of articles and book chapters. What
we read is decided by members of the group and is not limited to a particular
time period or strand in political philosophy.
Mondays at 3.10pm in Room D01 in the attic of the Philosophy Department, 45
Victoria Street. |
Angie Pepper:
a.pepper@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Autumn 2010 Reading Groups |
Contact |
Philosophy of Psychology
Every week, a postgrad gives a presentation on his/her research topic related to
philosophy of psychology in wide sense. We meet on Tuesdays at 2.10pm, in room
B09. |
Naoki USUI:
pip06nu@sheffield.ac.uk |
Kant's Third Critique
We are currently working our way through the first half of the work, the Critique of Aesthetic Judgement. (We'll go on to the second half if there is sufficient interest.) We meet on Wednesdays at 1 in Rob Hopkins's office (C11). |
Paul Giladi:
p.giladi@sheffield.ac.uk |
Philosophy of Psychology: Two Systems of Reasoning
We will be discussing recent work in Philosophy of Psychology concerning the hypothesis that there are two systems of reasoning in human cognition. We will meet on Mondays at 4pm, in room B07. |
Bernardo Aguilera:
pip09ba@sheffield.ac.uk |
Hegel
This semester we will be reading Hegel's Philosophy of Right. This will run alongside Chris Hookway's Hegel module, and will allow those PhD students attending the lectures to discuss the ideas that the book raises (though anyone with an interest not sitting in on the lectures can, of course, attend). We meet on Friday's at 11.00 in the attic. |
Jan Kandiyali:
j.kandiyali@sheffield.ac.uk |
Merleau-Ponty
We will be reading 'The Phenomenology of Perception',
looking at it both in its context as the culmination of the phenomenological movement and as an early work of cognitive science. |
Graeme A. Forbes:
G.A.Forbes@sheffield.ac.uk |
Collingwood's Principles of Art
We'll be working our way through this classic of aesthetics. We meet on Fridays at 1 in Rob Hopkins's office (C11). |
Robert Hopkins:
r.hopkins@sheffield.ac.uk |
Feminism
To see what the Feminism reading group is working on now check out the Feminist Philosophy Blog. |
Jenny Saul
j.saul@sheffield.ac.uk |
Political Philosophy
This semester we will be reading a variety of articles and book chapters. What
we read is decided by members of the group and is not limited to a particular
time period or strand in political philosophy.
Mondays at 3.10pm in Room D01 in the attic of the Philosophy Department, 45
Victoria Street. |
Angie Pepper:
a.pepper@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Spring 2010 Reading Groups |
Contact |
Hegel
The Hegel reading group is focused on reading Hegel's work The Phenomenology of
Spirit, which is one of Hegel's richest and most exciting works. We are working
through the text, section by section and reading a piece of secondary
literature along side each section - to both get a feel for Hegel himself, as
well as what some thinkers have and do think continue to think about his ideas.
We meet every Tuesday 4.30-5.30 in room B09 (in the Philosophy Department). |
Jan Kandiyali
j.kandiyali@sheffield.ac.uk |
Croce's Aesthetics
We'll be working our way through Croce's 'Aesthetics as the Science of Expression'. We meet on Fridays at 12 in Rob Hopkins's office. |
James Wakefield
JRWakefield1@sheffield.ac.uk |
Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man
We meet on Thursdays at 1 in Chris Bennett's office. |
Chris Bennett
c.bennett@sheffield.ac.uk |
Methods in Philosophy
We will be discussing issues in the current debate about philosophical methods including, for instance, the role of intuitions, the use of empirical studies and the relevance of concepts. We will meet on Tuesdays 2, in DO1. |
Inga Vermeulen
I.Vermuelen@sheffield.ac.uk
Kathy Puddifoot
K.Puddifoot@sheffield.ac.uk |
Feminism & Evolutionary Psychology
We will be looking at theories in evolutionary psychology involving issues of feminist concern, for example mate choice, inter-gender violence, life history issues (eg. promiscuity, childcare), 'maternal instinct' and other such things.
The reading group will meet on Thursdays from 12-1pm, room B23. |
Suilin Lavelle
J.Lavelle@sheffield.ac.uk |
Philosophy of Maths and Logic
We meet on Thursdays, 2pm in B23. We are currently reading papers on Absolute Generality. |
Sam Roberts
SRRoberts1@sheffield.ac.uk
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| Fall 2009 Reading Groups |
Contact |
Croce's Aesthetics
We'll be working our way through Croce's 'Aesthetics as the Science of Expression'. We meet on Fridays at 12 in Rob Hopkins's office. |
James Wakefield
JRWakefield1@sheffield.ac.uk |
Morality and the Emotions
This semester we will be reading a series of papers investigating the emotions and their possible links to moral behaviour and moral epistemology. We will be meeting on Fridays at 10am in B14. |
Chris Bennett
C.Bennett@sheffield.ac.uk |
Evolutionary Approaches to the Mind
Evolutionary approaches to the mind tend to get pigeonholed as "Evolutionary Psychology" where this is given a rather specific and narrow interpretation. The reading group will look at a variety of different sorts of evolutionary approaches to the mind as well as critics of these approaches. The reading group will meet more or less weekly on Fridays at 10-11am. Our first meeting will be Friday 30th October. |
Suilin Lavelle
J.Lavelle@sheffield.ac.uk |
Feminism
To see what the Feminism reading group is working on now check out the Feminist Philosophy Blog. |
Jenny Saul
j.saul@sheffield.ac.uk |
Hegel
The Hegel reading group is focused on reading Hegel's work The Phenomenology of
Spirit, which is one of Hegel's richest and most exciting works. We are working
through the text, section by section and reading a piece of secondary
literature along side each section - to both get a feel for Hegel himself, as
well as what some thinkers have and do think continue to think about his ideas.
We meet every Tuesday 5-6 in room B09 (in the Philosophy Department). |
Chris Cork
pip08cgc@sheffield.ac.uk |
Political Philosophy
The political philosophy reading group, meets on Fridays at
11.10am in D01 in the department. We're reading David Miller's National
Responsibility and Global Justice this term, a chapter a week. |
Megan Kime
m.kime@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Spring 2009 Reading Groups |
Contact |
Aesthetics
We will be reading a selection of papers in contemporary aesthetics. The theme
of the readings will be set at the first meeting. |
Robert Hopkins
R.Hopkins@sheffield.ac.uk
Margot Strohminger
m.strohminger@sheffield.ac.uk |
Feminism
To see what the Feminism reading group is working on now check out the Feminist Philosophy Blog. |
Jenny Saul
j.saul@sheffield.ac.uk |
Morality and the Emotions
This reading group will explore the relation between morality and the emotions, looking at the nature of the emotions and the role they play in our best understanding, both of our moral psychology, and of moral theory. |
Chris Bennett
C.Bennett@sheffield.ac.uk |
Political Philosophy
We will meet every other week to read a wide selection of texts in political philosophy and political theory, both with a historical and with a contemporary focus. |
David Ekstrand
pip07dse@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Autumn 2008 Reading Groups |
Contact |
Aristotle
This semester we are going to read Aristotle's Metaphysics book Gamma. |
Jose Gonzalez Varela
pip05jeg@sheffield.ac.uk |
Artefacts and Material Culture
This reading group is linked to the Department's AHRC Culture and the Mind Project. We will be discussing recent work in philosophy, psychology and anthropology on the cognitive structures underlying our interactions with artefacts and material culture. It will meet every other week alternating with the Philosophy of Psychology reading group. |
Simon Fitzpatrick
s.fitzpatrick@sheffield.ac.uk |
Epistemology
This term we'll primarily be reading papers concerning perception, but you can see exactly what by checking out the Epistemology Reading Group Blog at Sheffield Epistemology Blog. |
Aaron Bogart
pip07ab@sheffield.ac.uk |
Ethics
The ethics reading group meets on Thursdays at 9, not necessarily every week. To be kept up to date ask me to put you on the mailing list. We will be starting out with Scanlon: Moral Dimensions. |
Jimmy Lenman
J.Lenman@sheffield.ac.uk |
Feminism
To see what the Feminism reading group is working on now check out the Feminist Philosophy Blog. |
Jenny Saul
j.saul@sheffield.ac.uk |
Hegel
This reading group will be meeting weekly to work through Hegel's Encyclopaedia Logic. |
Chris Cork
pip08cgc@sheffield.ac.uk |
Kant
We will start reading Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals' and see where it takes us from there. Meetings are Monday 2.10 in room 13.2a, starting week 3 (we will be reading the 'Preface' for that). Please come along! |
Kerstin Budde
K.Budde@sheffield.ac.uk |
Philosophy of Logic/Maths
We'll read some classical papers in the philosophy of maths during the first half the semester (we'll start with the Dummett/Wright exchange on the philosophical significance of Gödel's theorems); then we'll turn to topics in the philosophy of logic - logical consequence and logical pluralism. |
Julien Murzi
J.Murzi@sheffield.ac.uk
Aaron Bogart
pip07ab@sheffield.ac.uk |
Philosophy of Psychology
This reading group will look at some classic and recent debates about issues in the Philosophy of Psychology. It will meet every other week alternating with the Artefacts reading group. |
Simon Fitzpatrick
s.fitzpatrick@sheffield.ac.uk |
Political Philosophy
We will meet every other week to read a wide selection of texts in political philosophy and political theory, both with a historical and with a contemporary focus. |
David Ekstrand
pip07dse@sheffield.ac.uk |
Pragmatism and Kant
This group will study the influences of Kant upon pragmatism, beginning with issues about transcendental arguments and about the pragmatist use of the views expressed in Kant's schematism. |
Chris Hookway
C.J.Hookway@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Spring and Summer 2008 Reading Groups |
Contact |
Epistemology
We will be finishing Wedgwood's book, and then move on to papers or chapters from Hintikka, Lackey, Foley, Williams, and Williamson. To see the most up to date schedule, check out the Epistemology Reading Group Blog at Sheffield Epistemology Blog. |
Aaron Bogart
pip07ab@sheffield.ac.uk |
Ethics
We will meet fortnightly and will be reading a selection of recent journal articles on ethics. To follow the Ethics reading group check out the Ethics Reading Group Blog. |
Jimmy Lenman
J.Lenman@sheffield.ac.uk |
Feminism
To see what the Feminism reading group is working on now check out the Feminist Philosophy Blog. |
Jenny Saul
j.saul@sheffield.ac.uk |
Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology
This reading group is linked to the Department's AHRC Culture and the Mind Project. We will be discussing recent work in philosophy, psychology and anthropology into our everyday understanding of other minds and the norms governing reasoning and justification. |
Simon Fitzpatrick
s.fitzpatrick@sheffield.ac.uk |
Moral Psychology
This reading group is linked to the Department's AHRC Culture and the Mind Project. The aim is to read recent work in philosophy, psychology and anthropology looking at the psychological basis of morality and the philosophical implications of empirical (and particularly cross-cultural) studies into moral cognition. |
Simon Fitzpatrick
s.fitzpatrick@sheffield.ac.uk |
Phenomenology
This reading group will be reading Sartre's Being and Nothingness. To see what the reading group is working on now check out the Reading Group's Blog |
Reza Hadisi
pia07mrk@sheffield.ac.uk |
The Philosophy of Mind
We will be looking at papers by Kripke, Block, Strawson, Shoemaker, Kim, Chalmers and
Papineau amongst others. |
Suilin Lavelle
j.lavelle@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Autumn 2007 Reading Groups |
Contact |
Demonstratives and Indexicals
To see what the Demonstratives and Indexicals reading group is working on now check out the Demonstratives and Indexicals Reading Group Blog |
Jenny Saul
j.saul@sheffield.ac.uk |
Epistemology
We will be reading Ralph Wedgwood's book The Nature of Normativity this term. To follow the Epistemology reading group check out the Sheffield Epistemology Blog. |
Aaron Bogart
pip07ab@sheffield.ac.uk |
Ethics
We will meet fortnightly and will be reading a selection of recent journal articles on ethics. To follow the Ethics reading group check out the Ethics Reading Group Blog. |
Jules Holroyd
J.D.Holroyd@sheffield.ac.uk |
Feminism
To see what the Feminism reading group is working on now check out the Feminist Philosophy Blog. |
Jenny Saul
j.saul@sheffield.ac.uk |
Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology
This reading group is linked to the Department's AHRC Culture and the Mind Project. We will be discussing recent work in philosophy, psychology and anthropology into our everyday understanding of other minds and the norms governing reasoning and justification. |
Simon Fitzpatrick
s.fitzpatrick@sheffield.ac.uk |
Global Justice
This reading group will work through material on various topics in global justice, including: cosmopolitanism, human rights, multinational corporations, global poverty and inequality, and the environment. We will read pieces by various authors, including; Thomas Pogge, Charles Beitz, Carol Gould, Samuel Scheffler, Martha Nussbaum, Simon Caney and Susan Okin. |
Lisa Fuller
L.Fuller@sheffield.ac.uk |
Kant
We will be reading Graham Bird's new commentary
on Kant's first critique, The Revolutionary Kant: A Commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason, and Graham will be attending the reading group to discuss his book with us. |
Robert Stern
R.Stern@sheffield.ac.uk |
Miscellaneous Philosophy Reading Group
The Miscellaneous Philosophy Reading Group reads miscellaneous philosophical papers and meets to discuss these as a group. Papers are announced a week in advance. All are welcome and members are encouraged to suggest papers that they would like to discuss. |
Alexis Artaud de la Ferriere
ega05ama@sheffield.ac.uk |
Moral Psychology
This reading group is linked to the Department's AHRC Culture and the Mind Project. The aim is to read recent work in philosophy, psychology and anthropology looking at the psychological basis of morality and the philosophical implications of empirical (and particularly cross-cultural) studies into moral cognition. |
Simon Fitzpatrick
s.fitzpatrick@sheffield.ac.uk |
Phenomenology
This reading group will be reading Sartre's Being and Nothingness. To see what the reading group is working on now check out the Reading Group's Blog |
Reza Hadisi
pia07mrk@sheffield.ac.uk |
The Philosophy of Time
The Philosophy of Time reading group meets weekly and discusses recent work in the philosophy of time. |
Graeme Forbes
G.A.Forbes@sheffield.ac.uk |
Other Recent Reading Groups
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| Spring & Summer 2007 Reading Groups |
Contact |
Ethics
This reading group will meet fortnightly to discuss recent work in normative ethics and metaethics. |
Jules Holroyd
j.d.holroyd@sheffield.ac.uk |
Feminism
To see what the Feminism reading group is working on now check out the Feminist Philosophy Blog. |
Jenny Saul
j.saul@sheffield.ac.uk |
Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology
This reading group is linked to the Department's AHRC Culture and the Mind Project. We will be discussing recent work in philosophy, psychology and anthropology into our everyday understanding of other minds and the norms governing reasoning and justification. |
Stephen Laurence
s.laurence@sheffield.ac.uk |
Heidegger
We will be making a start on Heidegger's Being and Time. |
Daniel Herbert
pip05drh@sheffield.ac.uk |
Modality
We will be reading the main works of the literature on non-cognitivism about modality including work by, Craig, Wright, Blackburn, Hale, and Nozick. |
José González
pip05jeg@sheffield.ac.uk |
Philosophy of Law
This reading group will look at both classic and contemporary readings from the philosophy of law. We will look at work by such authors as JL Austin, HLA Hart, Ronald Dworkin, Lord Patrick Devlin, Lon Fuller, and JS Mill, covering such topics as natural law, legal realism, positivism, interpretivism, civil disobedience, and paternalism in the law. |
Lisa Fuller
L.Fuller@sheffield.ac.uk |
The Philosophy of Time
The Philosophy of Time reading group meets weekly and discusses recent work in the philosophy of time. In the last few months we have discussed work by L. Nathan Oaklander, Micheal Tooley and Craig Bourne, among others. |
Graeme Forbes
G.A.Forbes@sheffield.ac.uk |
Probability
We will be reading Hugh Mellor's 'Probability: A Philosophical Introduction' and work on Bayesianism. |
Aaron Bogart
pip07ab@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Autumn 2006 Reading Groups |
Contact |
Chris Hookway's New Book Manuscript
This reading group will be reading Chris Hookway's new book manuscript, Epistemology as theory of inquiry |
Chris Hookway
C.J.Hookway@sheffield.ac.uk |
Folk Psychology and Folk Epistemology
This reading group is linked to the Department's AHRC Culture and the Mind Project. We will be discussing recent work in philosophy, psychology and anthropology into our everyday understanding of other minds and the norms governing reasoning and justification. |
Stephen Laurence
s.laurence@sheffield.ac.uk |
Moral Psychology
We will start by reading Jesse Prinz's, Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion. |
Robin Scaife
pip05drh@sheffield.ac.uk |
Parfit Manuscript
We will be reading the manuscript for Derek Parfit's forthcoming Climbing the Mountainas a precursor to the symposium on the text, with Prof Parfit, in Reading (autumn 2006). |
Jules Holroyd
J.D.Holroyd@sheffield.ac.uk |
Phenomenology
We will start by reading Edmund Husserl's, Cartesian Meditations. |
Daniel Herbert
pip05drh@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Autumn 2002 Reading Groups |
Contact |
Aesthetics
We will be (continuing) reading Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgement, a work of importance not just in
aesthetics, but in the study of the conditions of judgment itself. |
Robert Hopkins
R.Hopkins@sheffield.ac.uk |
Causation and Explanaton
We will be reading a variety of papers on causation and explanation, some (but not all) of which are of particular interest for mental/special science causation, e.g. supervenient causation. We will begin with Frank Jackson's "Mental Causation" (Mind 1996, 105, pp. 377-413) |
Sue Lock
S.Lock@sheffield.ac.uk |
Innateness
We will be reading a selection of recent work in philosophy and cognitive science on the topic of innateness. |
Tom Walker and Sarah Clegg
PIP00TW@sheffield.ac.uk
PIP00SEC@sheffield.ac.uk |
Jenny Saul's New Book Manuscript
This reading group will be reading Jenny Saul's new book manuscript, Feminism: Issues and Arguments |
Stephen Laurence
s.laurence@sheffield.ac.uk |
Jonathan Webber's New Translation Manuscript
This reading group will be reading the manuscript for Jonathan Webber's new translation of Sartre's L'Imaginaire. |
Jonathan Webber
j.m.webber@sheffield.ac.uk |
Peirce/Hegel Reading Group
We will be reading some papers from Peirce that relate to Hegelian themes. |
Robert Stern
R.Stern@sheffield.ac.uk |
Philosophy of Psychology
We will be reading a selection of recent work in Philosophy of Psychology, starting with Patricia Greenspan's paper, "Emotions, Innateness, and Ethics". |
George Botterill
g.botterill@sheffield.ac.uk |
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