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 in Hicks Building Lecture Theatre 10.
Speakers send their paper in advance and speak for around 30 minutes, followed by discussion. Afterwards the discussion continues in a local pub.
Papers are normally available three days before the meeting; enquire in the Departmental Office. For more information contact Chris Marshall. All are welcome!
Upcoming events
Venue: Hicks Building, LT10
| 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 |
Please note that events are subject to change. Updates are to follow.
Past events
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 |