All seminars are in the European Research Institute, Room 149, and begin at 16.15. All welcome!
- For more information please contact the current convenors Nick Jones and Scott Sturgeon.
Summer term 2014
6 May
Barbara Vetter (Humboldt-Universität)
What Abilities Are Not
12 May
Shen-Yi Liao (Nanyang Technological University and Leeds)
Aesthetic Adjectives
19 May
Jeff McMahan (Rutgers)
The Comparative Badness for Animals of Death and Suffering
Spring term 2014
20 January
Anne Phillips (LSE)
Human Dignity: A Useful Concept?
27 January
David Etlin (LMU Munich)
Vague Desires: The Sorites and Money Pump
10 February
Bryan Pickel (Edinburgh)
Naming, Saying and Structure
24 February
Thomas Sattig (Tubingen)
Structure and Quasi-Strucutre of Objects
3 March
Tim Bayne (Manchester)
TBA
17 March
Mark Sprevak (Edinburgh)
Predictive Coding
24 March
Nick Trakakis (Australian Catholic University and Birmingham)
Advaita Vendanta and British Idealism
Autumn term 2013
7 October
Mary Leng (York)
Taking Morality Mathematically: Enoch's Indispensibility Argument
21 October
James Pattison (Manchester)
The Morality of Pivate War: The Challenge of Private Military and Security Companies
28 October
Julia Annas (Arizona)
Why Virtue Ethics Does Not Have a Problem with Right Action
18 November
Maria Navarro (Spanish National Research Council and Birmingham)
Poor Heuristics: A Case of Cross-Cultural Variation in Heuristic Reasoning
25 November
Mark Jago (Nottingham)
Impossible Worlds
9 December
Guy Kahane (Oxford)
History and Non-Identity
Summer term 2013
22 April
Corine Besson (Birkbeck)
Interpreting what Achilles Said to the Tortoise
29 April
Tim Button (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 (University College Cork)
Actions, Reasons and Presuppositions
15 May
Erik Angner (George Mason University)
Subjective Wellbeing: When, and Why, It Matters
Spring term, 2013
14 January
Phillip Meadows (UWE)
Holes Cannot Be Counted As Immaterial Objects
28 January
Ben Colburn (Glasgow)
Authenticity
4 February
Jane Friedman (Oxford)
Inquiry
4 March
Bart Streumer (Reading)
Unbelievable Errors
Autumn term, 2012
1 October
John Bishop (Auckland)
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)
Shooting to Kill: De Menezes and Collective Responsibility
22 October
Chris Tucker (Auckland)
If Dogmatists have a Problem with Cognitive Penetration, You do Too
5 November
Daniel Greco (New York University)
Iteration and Fragmentation
19 November (hosted by the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics)
Thomas Porter (Manchester)
What's wrong with practice-independence?
26 November
Jules Holroyd (Nottingham)
The relationship between distributive and punitive justice
3 December
Kalle Grill (Keele / Birmingham / Umeå)
Six Concepts of Liberty - A Defence of Probabilist Non-interference