Past Departmental Seminars Autumn 2004 –Spring 2015 2004-2005 Spring 2005 January 27th [Trieste] Speech Acts and Conventionality February 18th [Stirling] What the Disjunctivist is Right About February 25th [Sheffield] Critical Reasoning and Critical Perception March 4th [Bristol] Williamson on Luminosity and Contextualism March 11th [St Andrews] The Concept of Well March 18th [Oxford] Maxims and Thick Ethical Concepts April 15th [Sheffield] On the Significance of the Question of the Function of Modal Judgment April 22nd [Southampton] What Wittgenstein’s Ladder Be Made Of? May 6th [Cambridge] Understanding “There are finitely Many” . . . May 13th [Berkeley] The Deontic Structure of Morality Autumn 2004 October 1st [Auckland] Versions of Musical
and Literary Translations October 8th [Sheffield] The Regularity of Character October 15th [UCL] The Claims of Transparency October 22nd [Stirling] Provocation: Who It? October 29th [Yale] Existence November 5th [Fordham] Holding Defeat to the Fire: Reliabilism and the Problem of Defeating Evidence November 19th [Oxford] Belief Revision, Epistemic Traps and Epistemic Freedom November 26th [Warwick] Plato on War December 3rd [Sheffield] The Curious case of the Concrete Universal 2005-2006 Spring 2006 February 10th [York] Genuine Modal Realism and the Empty World February 17th [Oxford] Williams, Nietzche and the Meaninglessness of Immortality February 24th [Oxford] TBC March 3rd [UBC] True Appreciation
2006 -2007 Spring 2007 February 9th [Sheffield] Freedom and Practical Judgement February 16th [Bristol] On the Identity and Diversity of Objects in a Structure February 23rd [Edinburgh] Moral Theory and Moral Responsibility March 2nd [Stirling] The Value of Knowledge 9th [Trinity, Dublin] A Cosmopolitan Justification for the Legitimacy of Peoples March 16th [Warwick] Justice and Constructivism April 20th [UCL] Confronting Grammatical Properties April 27th [Georgetown] How Normative is Implicature? May 4th [Sheffield] Intercultural Dialogue and organisations: imperialism, respect and conflict
May 11th [Heythrop] Watching, Sight and the Homogeneity of Perceptual Processes Autumn 2006 September 29th [Open University] Emotions as perceptions of value October 6th [Essex] Stoic October 13th [Manchester] Fictionalism without pretence October 20th [Wadham, Oxford] Resemblance nominalism October 27th [St Andrews] The open future November 17th [York] The normativity of rationality November 24th [UCL] Aboutness and December 1st [Sheffield] Lying and Deceiving December 8th [Sheffield] Expressivism 2007-2008 Spring 2008 February 22nd [Birkbeck] Against Deep Agency
November 2nd [Edinburgh] Moral Theory and Moral Responsibility November 16th [Stanford] Constructivism and Metaethics November 23rd [Michigan] Puzzling out Russell: The Curiosity of George IV November 30th [Guelph] Concept Possession and the Mates Example December 7th [Nottingham] Simulation, Intention, and Immunity to Error through Misidentification December 14th [Sheffield] Reasons, and 2008-2009 Spring 2009 February 20th [Sheffield] Impossibilities February 27th [Reading] Are Normative Judgements Attitudes 6th [Cambridge] Contact with Reality March 13th [Maryland] Toward a
Account of Aesthetic Experience March 27th [UCL] How to Discount Harms by their Improbability May 1st [Sheffield] Defending the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing May 6th (Wed) [Rutgers] Leverhulme Lecture One May 8th [St Andrews] Arguments and Cinema May 11th (Mon) [Rutgers] Leverhulme Lecture Two May 15th [Notre Dame] Changing the Past May 18th (Mon) [Rutgers] Leverhulme Lecture Three May 22nd [Warwick] Visual Composing: Works of Photography and Works of Music May 27th (Wed) [Rutgers] Leverhulme Lecture Four Autumn 2008 October 10th [Sheffield] A Practical Account of Defence
October 17th [Southampton] The Normativity of Meaning Defended October 24th [Sheffield] Imagery, the Imagination and Experience October 31st [Glasgow] An Indirect, Multidimensional Consequentialism November 7th [St Hugh's, Oxford] Vats, Sets, and Tits November 21st [Kent] A Tension in Error Theory November 28th [Oxford] Knowledge, Probability and Safety December 5th [Birmingham] Hume's Two Definitions: The Procedural Interpretation December 12th [Bristol] The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds 2009 -2010 Autumn 2009 October 9th [Sheffield] Inflected Pictorial Experience: Its Treatment and Significance October 16th [Cambridge] Wittgenstein 1916 October 23rd [Leeds] Disability and Adaptive Preference
October 30th [Birmingham] 'Faultless' Ignorance: strengths and limitations of epistemic definitions of confabulation November 6th [USC] The Ubiquity of State-Given Reasons November 20th [Bristol] A Probabilistic Semantics for Counterfactuals November 27th [Sheffield] Lies and the Problem of Trust December 4th Thick Concepts and Variability December 11th [McGill] Multiple Instances and Multiple 'Instances' Spring 2010 February 19th [Sheffield] Consent February 26th [Nottingham] The Extent of Metaphysical Necessity Tuesday March 2nd Northgate House Lecture Theatre) [University of Washington] Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology: Robustness and Triangulation
March 5th HRI) 12th [Washington University in St. Louis] Indeterminacy De Re April 16th [Nottingham] 'Intuition'; Intuition, Concepts and the A Priori April 23rd [Sheffield] The Possibility of Constructivism April 30th [Reading] Egoism, Altruism, and Impartiality May 7th [Warwick] Benign Physicalism May 14th [Glasgow] Cognitive Penetration of Colour Experience: Rethinking the Issue in Light of an Indirect Mechanism 2010-2011 Spring 2011 18-Feb Paul Russell Cancelled 25-Feb Lorraine Code tbc 04-Mar ChiPhi Workshop 11-Mar Andrew Howat Regulative Assumptions, Hinge Propositions and the Peircean Conception of Truth 18-Mar Nils Kurbis Semantics for Modal Operators 25-Mar Seiriol Morgan Establishing the Fact of Reason
23 November Raimond Gaita (Melbourne) "Reason and Meaning in Ethics" 30 November John Hadley (Western Sydney) "A critique of the psychological theory of intrinsic 7 December Amber Carpenter (York) "Pleasure as Temptation, as Reward, and as Expression Spring Semester 2013 8th Feb Ben Jarvis (Queens Belfast) "Belief without Credence" LT7
15th Feb Mary McCabe (Kings College London) "Tranformative goods: Rereading Glaucon's challenge in Plato's Republic challenge in Plato's Republic" 21st Feb THURSDAY 5pm!! Annual Women in the History of Philosophy Lecture: Emily Thomas (Cambridge) "The Metaphysics of Catharine Cockburn" AT LT4 22nd Feb Chi Phi Workshop: Catherine Wilson (York) Paul Giladi (Sheffield) Matt Smith (Leeds) "Descartes and Locke: Essential Religiosty vs Theology" "Kant and Re-Enchantment Mechanistic Nature" "The Leviathan's Theory of Political Representation and Why It's Correct" HRI 1st March Katherine Hawley (St Andrews) "Metaphysics and Death" AT 8th March Stephen Mumford (Nottingham) "The Power to Will" AT LT7 15th March Fiona Leigh (UCL) "Does the Sophist rehabilitate mimetic artists?" AT LT7 12th April Tom Cochrane (Sheffield) "The aesthetic value of ugliness" AT LT7 19th April Tillmann Vierkant (Edinburgh) "Why the case for the extended will is stronger than AT LT7
the case for extended cognition" 26th April Neil Sinhababu (National University, Singapore) "Desire's Explanations" AT LT7 3rd May Dorothea Debus (York) "Losing Oneself (In a Good Way): On the value of Full Attention" AT LT7 10th May Jon Webber (Cardiff) "Dispositions in Attitude Psychology" AT LT7 13th June THURSDAY Mitchell S. Green (Virginia) "Organic Meaning" AT LT7 2013-2014 Autumn 2013 11 October Shannon Dea [Waterloo] Peirce and Spinoza's pragmatic metaphysics 18 October Linda Barclay [Monash] Why discrimination is a human rights violation: a membership account 25 October Idealism/Pragmatism Workshop 1 November Ben Sachs [St Andrews] Do moral reasons explain anything? 8 November Igal Kvart, [Hebrew University] The Semantic Autonomy of Knowledge
15th November Writing/Reading Week 22 November Holly Lawford-Smith [Sheffield] Against Aggregates' Obligations 29 November Catherine Abell [Manchester] The Act of Fiction Making 6 December Jonathan Floyd [Oxford] Thoughts and Principles: On the Standard Model of Political Philosophy 13 December Joe Morrison [Queen's Belfast] Obvious Truths Spring 2014 14th February Jeff McMahan, [Rutgers] Aggregation of Small Harms and Propotionality in Defense 21 February Louise Richardson [York] Smelling Things 28 February 3pm - 5pm Siobham Chapman [Liverpool] Susan Stebbing 'Logic, Language and Ideology' Annual Women in the History of Philosophy Lecture 7th Andrea Sangiovanni [Kings College] Moral Equality, Respect & Cruelty 14th March Troy Jollimore, [California State University] The Importance of Whom We Care About 21st March Anca Gheaus, [Sheffield] Cancelled
28th March Matthew Kramer,[Cambridge] Torture and Moral Integrity 4th April 9.30 - 5.30pm One Day Workshop by CHiPhi and Centre for Nordic Studies Jessop Exhibition 'Kierkegaard to Logstrup: the Danish interest in personal responsibility' For further details see 2nd May Richard Holton [Cambridge] Resolution 9th May C J Hookway [Sheffield] Pragmatism, Community and the Method of Science 16th May Jessica Leech [Sheffield] Something or Other on Kant and Modality 2014-2015 Autumn 2014 10 October Alix Cohen (Edinburgh) Kant on the Aesthetic Dimension of Cognition 17 October Anca Gheaus (Sheffield) The right to parent and duties concerning future generations 24 October Peter Poellner (Warwick) Action, value, and autonomy: A view
7 November Matthew Kieran (Leeds) Creative ambition and 21 November Rachel Goodman (Leeds) Cognitivism, Significance and Singular Thought 28 November Beebee 5 December Tom Pink (KCL) Power, scepticism and ethical theory 12 December Steve Makin (Sheffield) Aristotelian Habits Spring 2015 20th February Tim Kenyon (Waterloo) Numerous and credible witnesses': Confounds for testimonial corroboration 27th February Saul (Sheffield) Dogwhistles 6th March Stella Sandford (Kingston) Women in the History of Philosophy lecture: 'Simone de Beauvoir' (venue: Jessop West exhibition space) 13th March Cheryl (Toronto) Ramsey's 1929 Pragmatism