Departmental seminars
The Departmental seminar is central to the academic life of the Department, and runs most weeks in term time.
The BSHP Annual lecture 2022 with Clare Carlise on 4 November will take place in Mappin Hall, 6-8pm.
*Starred talks will take place on Google Meetings: meet.google.com/mdw-nhaq-vnz
The talk on 27 January will be held in the ICOSS Conference Room, 3.30 - 5.30pm.
All other meetings will be held in Diamond Workroom 1, Fridays 2.30 - 4.30pm.
Speakers present their paper (sometime shared in advance) for 45 minutes, followed by a short break and discussion.
For more information, please, contact Max Khan Hayward (m.hayward@sheffield.ac.uk). All are welcome!
Upcoming events
Autumn 2022
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of paper |
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14th October |
Expanding the Canon Annual Lecture - Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, University of Sheffield, UK |
Fanon and the Body Schema |
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21st October |
Margaret Hampson, University of St Andrews, UK |
The Tyrant and the Failure of Philia |
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4th November |
Henry Schiller, University of Sheffield, UK |
Getting what you "want" |
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4th November |
*(Online Only) The BSHP Annual lecture 2022 - Clare Carlise, King's College London, UK |
Thought and Feeling: George Eliot and the Expansion of Philosophy |
| 18th November |
Robbie Williams, University of Leeds, UK |
Truth and rationality in mindreading |
| Postponed (Date TBC) |
Women in the History of Philosophy Annual Lecture - Rescheduled to 3rd March |
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2nd December |
Alessandra Tanesini, Cardiff University, UK |
Commitment on-line: On taking responsibility for one’s words on social media |
| 9th December | David Sosa, University of Texas, Austin, USA | What We Make When We Make an Effort |
Spring 2023
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of paper |
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| 27th January | Nomy Arpaly, Brown University, USA - ICOSS Conference Room - this talk will take place at 3:30 pm | Deliberation and Fetish |
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10th February |
Cancelled |
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17th February |
Eliot Michaelson, King's College London, UK |
Knotty Promises |
| 24th February |
Eli Pitcovski, Tel-Hai Academic College, Israel |
Sentiments and personal identity |
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3rd March |
Women in the History of Philosophy Annual Lecture - Sophia Connell, Birkbeck, University of London |
The Theoretical and Practical Philosophy of Dr Sophie Bryant (1850-1922) |
| 10th March |
Jordan MacKenzie, Virginia Tech University, USA |
Humorlessness as a Moral Vice |
| 17th March | Cancelled | |
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24th March |
Matthew Congdon, Vanderbilt University, USA |
When Emotions Go Wrong: Epistemic and Ethical Distortions |
| 31st March | Luke Russell, The University of Sydney, Australia | Have You Forgiven Me? |
| 28th April | Quassim Cassam, University of Warwick, UK | Extremism, Radicalism, and the Politics of Labelling |
| 5th May | Lucy O'Brien, University College London, UK | |
| 12th May | The Minorities and Philosophy Annual Lecture - Esa Díaz-León, Universitat de Barcelona | |
| 19th May | Robbie Kubala, University of Texas, Austin, USA | Art and Responsibility |
| June (Date TBC) | Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Georgetown University, USA |
Past events
- 2022
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Spring 2022
Date
Speaker
Title of paper
25th February
*Meena Krishamurthy (Queen’s University, Canada)
Martin Luther King on Fearlessness and Faith
4th March
*Megan Hyska (Northwestern University)
Against Irrationalism in the Theory of Propaganda
11th March
Beri Marušić (University of Edinburgh)
Interpersonal Reasoning
18th March
Tommy Curry (University of Edinburgh)
Decolonizing the Intersection: Conceptual and Empirical Evidence against the Presuppositions of Intersectional Theory
25th March
Dan Watts (University of Essex)
Kierkegaard on Thoughts
29th April
Alison Hills (University of Oxford)
6th May
Azita Chellappoo (Open University)
MAP Lecture
13th May
Frederique de Vignemont (École Normale Supérieure)
Anticipating Pain
- 2021
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Autumn 2021
Date
Speaker
Title of paper
8th October
*Henry Schiller (Washington University St Louis)
Informational Chauvinism
15th October
James Chamberlain (University of Sheffield)
A Humean account of moral intuitions
22nd October
*Lynne Tirrell (University of Connecticut)
Resistance isn't Futile: Fending off Toxic Speech
29th October
*Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
The Phenomenal Public
5th November
Boudewijn de Bruin (University of Groningen)
Testimonial injustice in law: Victims and witnesses of climate injustice
19th November
Derek Brown (University of Glasgow)
The Reality of Colour Illusion
26th November
Mona Simion (University of Glasgow)
What is Trustworthiness?
3rd December
Tommy Curry (University of Edinburgh)
Decolonizing the Intersection: Conceptual and Empirical Evidence against the Presuppositions of Intersectional Theory
10th December
Herjeet Marway (University of Birmingham)
Procreative Justice: Genetic Selection and Skin Tone
Spring 2021
Date Speaker Title of paper 19th February
Vanessa Wills (George Washington)
The 'White Privilege' Concept in Marxism and in Critical Race Theory 26th February Stephen Darwall (Yale)
Transformative Knowledge of Love and Respect: The Cases of James Baldwin and Frederick Douglass
5th March Margot Strohminger (Australian Catholic) What’s the difference between supposing and imagining? 12th March Adriana Clavel-Vasquez (Oxford)
Controlling (mental) images and the aesthetic appreciation of racialized bodies 19th March Candice Delmas (Northeastern)
Uncivil disobedience from Black
Lives Matter to the Capitol (2pm)26th March Laura Valentini (LMU Munich) Normative Powers 23rd April Jimmy Lenman (Sheffield) Confucius or Plato?
30th April Jules Holroyd (Sheffield) Bad Praise 7th May Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY)
Language & Social Ontology 14th May Jessica Leech (KCL) Martha Kneale's Necessary A Posteriori - 2020
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Autumn 2020
Date Speaker Title of paper 9th October David Enoch (Hebrew University) Why Care about Morality, Robustly Realistically Understood
16th October
Caspar Hare (MIT) Pleasing the Crowd Within 23rd October Liz Camp (Rutgers) Perspectival Complacency, Perversion and Amelioration
30th October Justin Clarke - Doane (Columbia) Russell's Regressive Method in Mathematics and Philosophy 6th November William Paris (Wesleyan) Looking for Tomorrow in Yesterday: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Utopia of The Souls of Black Folk. 13th November No Seminar Reading Week 20th November Thi Nguyen (Utah) Value Capture and Value Collapse (4pm) 27th November Carrie Fidgor (Iowa) What Could Cognition Be, If Not Human Cognition?
4th December Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Sheffield) Now and Then: Thinking about Time 11th December Margot Strohminger (ACU) Supposition, Imagination, and Offline Belief (Time TBC) 18th December Harjit Bhogal (Maryland) Strikingness (3pm) Spring 2020
Date Speaker Title of paper 14 February Seiriol Morgan (Bristol) On Entitlement 28 February Tom Stern (UCL) Nietzsche's Ethics 6 March Natalie Ashton (Stirling) Productive Online Environments: Why Twitter is (Epistemically) Better than Facebook
Minorities And Philosophy (MAP) Annual Lecture
Please note change of venue to Hicks Lecture Theatre 5
20 March Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Sheffield) 'Now' Thoughts 27 March Boudewijn de Bruin (Groningen) Self-Fulfilling Epistemic Injustice 3 April Carrie Figdor (Iowa) Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Psychology 1 May Dan Watts (Essex) Kierkegaard on the Limits of Reason and the Freedom to Judge 15 May Jessica Leech (King’s College London) Martha Kneale on Why Metaphysical Necessities Are Not A Priori
Annual Women in the History of Philosophy lecture
- 2019
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Autumn 2019
Date Speaker Title of paper 4 October Manolo Martinez (Barcelona) Imperative Transparency 18 October Max Hayward (Sheffield) Terrestrial Ethics 25 October Tatjana von Solodkoff (University College Dublin) Fragrant Games - Playing With Perfumes 1 November Louise Hanson (Durham) How To Be An Epistemic Constitutivist 8 November Oliver Hallich (Duisburg-Essen) The Dark Side of Forgiveness 29 November Margot Strohminger (Oxford) Skepticism About Cases in Philosophy, Near and Far 13 December David Owens (Kings College London) The Wrong of Untruthfulness Spring 2019
Date Speaker Title of paper 8 February Peter Graham (University of California Riverside) Are the Norms of Assertion Social Norms? 22 February Nick Hughes (Durham) Epistemic Dilemmas and the Fixed-Point Thesis 1 March Briana Toole (CUNY) Minorities and Philosophy Annual lecture: Holding Resistance Hostage: When Resistance Is Futile 8 March Mari Mikkola (Oxford) Self-Trust and Discriminatory Speech 22 March Chris Cowie (Durham) Responding to The Negative Repugnant Conclusion 29 March Tatjana von Solodkoff (University College Dublin) Cancelled 5 April Chris Meyns Annual Women in the History of Philosophy lecture: Rose Rand (1903–1980) from the Archives: Real and Unreal 3 May Megan Blomfield (Sheffield) Epistemic injustice in asylum claim credibility assessments 10 May Ellen Clarke (Leeds) On biological individuality - 2018
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Autumn 2018
Date Speaker Title of paper 12 October Dr Chris Marshall (Sheffield) Killing Innocent Threats and Ducking Harm 19 October Dr Jack Woods (Leeds) Disagreement about Logic: How and When 26 October Prof. Janet Radcliffe-Richards (Oxford) TBA 2 November Prof. Samir Okasha (Bristol) Inter-temporal choice and the metaphysics of time 16 November Dr Jessica May Isserow (Leeds) Pluralism about moral worth 23 November Prof. Robert Stern (Sheffield) Beast or Neighbour? Logstrup and Levinas on the Relation Between Ethics and Politics 30 November Dr Nils-Hennes Stear (Southampton) Is Aesthetic Immoralism Obviously True 7 December Dr Susanne Burri (LSE) Risk Imposition and Duties of Care Spring 2018
Date Speaker Title of paper 16 Feb Marika Rose (Winchester) Minorities and Philosophy Annual lecture: "Slaves and Tyrants: Freedom and Domination in the Vindication of the Rights of Women" 2 March Robert Stainton (Western) Meaning Pluralism, Linguistic Register and Slurs 9 March Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Sheffield) Homo Aestheticus 16 March Hili Razinsky (Lisbon) Ambivalence - cancelled due to proposed UCU industrial action. 20 April Teemu Toppinen (Helsinki) From Duty for the Right Reasons 27 April Robert Briscoe (Ohio) Virtual Representation in Pictorial Space 4 May Sandrine Berges (Bilkent) Annual Women in the History of Philosophy lecture: "The Republican Family in the Revolution: Adapting and Subverting Rousseau" 11 May Mathieu Doucet (Waterloo) Culpable ignorance and mental disorders