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.

*Starred talks will take place on Google Meetings: meet.google.com/mdw-nhaq-vnz

All other meetings will be held in: Diamond Workroom 3

Speakers send their paper in advance and speak for around 45 minutes, followed by discussion.

Papers are shared before the meeting. For more information contact Max Khan Hayward (m.hayward@sheffield.ac.uk).  All are welcome!

Upcoming events

Spring 2022

Please note that events are subject to change. Updates are to follow. 

Past events

2021

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

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

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

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