Philosophy Society seminars 2013 

All seminars are in the European Research Institute, Room 149, and begin at 4.15. All Welcome!

 

Summer Term 2013

22 April 
Corine Besson (Birkbeck, University of London) 
Interpreting what Achilles Said to the Tortoise 

29 April
Tim Button (University of Cambridge) 
Conceptual Cosmopolitanism: What Conceptual Relativity Might Be and Could Do 

9 May
David Chalmers (ANU and New York University)
TBA

13 May
Lilian O’Brien (UCC, Ireland)
Actions, Reasons and Presuppositions

15 May
Erik Angner (George Mason University, US) 
Subjective Wellbeing: When, and Why, It Matters 

 

Previous seminars

Spring Term, 2013

14 January
Phillip Meadows (UWE, Bristol)
Holes Cannot Be Counted As Immaterial Objects

28 January
Ben Colburn (University of Glasgow)
Authenticity

4 February
Jane Friedman (University of Oxford)
Inquiry 

4 March
Bart Streumer (University of Reading)
Unbelievable Errors

 

Autumn Term, 2012

1 October
John Bishop (University of Auckland, NZ)
Trusting Others, Trusting in God, Trusting the World

8 October (hosted by the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics):
Seumas Miller (Charles Sturt University, Au) 
Shooting to Kill: De Menezes and Collective Responsibility

22 October
Chris Tucker (University of Auckland, NZ)
If Dogmatists have a Problem with Cognitive Penetration, You do Too

5 November
Daniel Greco (NYU, US)
Iteration and Fragmentation

19 November (hosted by the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics)
Thomas Porter (University of Manchester) 
What's wrong with practice-independence?

26 November
Jules Holroyd (University of Nottingham)
The relationship between distributive and punitive justice

3 December
Kalle Grill (Keele/Birmingham/ Umeå, Sw)
Six Concepts of Liberty - A Defence of Probabilist Noninterference