Departmental Seminars
The Departmental seminar is central to the academic life of the Department, and runs most weeks in term time on Fridays 2.30 - 4.30pm. This semester the seminars will be held online.
Speakers send their paper in advance and speak for around 45 minutes, followed by discussion.
Papers are normally available three days before the meeting. For more information contact Max Khan Hayward (m.hayward@sheffield.ac.uk). All are welcome!
Upcoming events
| Date | Speaker | Title of paper |
|---|---|---|
| 9th October | David Enoch (Hebrew University) |
Why Care about Morality, Robustly Realistically Understood |
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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) |
Please note that events are subject to change. Updates are to follow.
Past events
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 |
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 |
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 |