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Digest Week 1 Trinity Term 2018

Events for TT18 Week 1 (23 April — 29 April)

(If you have anything to go in this weekly Digest, please send the information to admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk by midday on the Wednesday before the event.)

If no location is given, the event will take place in Radcliffe Humanities on Woodstock Rd, OX2 6GG

◄ Digest Index

 

Susan Wolf

Moral Philosophy Seminar (Week 1, TT18)

23 April 2018
Theron Pummer | St Andrews | 'Optimizing Outside Options'
Indian philosophy

What counts as evidence in Indian philosophies?

23 April 2018
Jessica Frazier, Jonathan Samuels, and Rafal Stepien | Trinity College, Wolfson College, and Wolfson College
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Week 1, TT18)

24 April 2018
Thomas Mitchell and Sebastian Liu | Worcester College and Merton College
Ackrill Lecture

10th John Ackrill Memorial Lecture

24 April 2018
Mary Margaret McCabe | KCL | 'Glaucon, Gyges and the Good'
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Week 1, TT18)

26 April 2018
Sarah Broadie | St Andrews | 'The form of the good in the Republic'
Philosophy of Physics

Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Week 1, TT18)

26 April 2018
Doreen Fraser | Waterloo | 'Renormalization and scaling transformations in quantum field theory'
Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Week 1, TT18)

27 April 2018
Zoe Jenkin | Harvard | 'The Epistemic Role of Core Cognition'
Philosophical Society

The Jowett Society (Week 1, TT18)

27 April 2018
John Hawthorne | USC | 'Chrisholm's Paradox'
Philiminality

Philiminality (Week 1, TT18)

27 April 2018
Perspectives on Democracy: A Panel Discussion
Queen's College

Moral Perception in Iris Murdoch

28 April 2018
A one-day international conference

Notices - Events taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond

 
The Aristotelian Society | 5.30-7.15pm, Senate House: Woburn Suite (London)
Alison Hills (St John's College): ‘Moral and Aesthetic Virtue'
Chair: Helen Beebee (Manchester & President of the Aristotelian Society)
View the 2017-18 calendar for the Aristotelian Society here.

 

Seminar Series on Reproducibility and Open Research | 4.30-6.00pm, All Souls College: Wharton Room
Laura Nelson (Northeastern University): ‘Data Science with Meaning: Reproducibility and Replicability in the Interpretive Social Sciences'
All are welcome; refreshments will be provided.
(1/4) 2018 Hensley Henson Lectures | 5.00-6.00pm, Examination Schools
Diarmaid MacCulloch (St Cross College): Lecture Series – ‘Thomas Cromwell: Enterprising Reformation'
‘The Religion of Thomas Cromwell (Part 1)'
Followed by a drinks reception.

 

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies | 5.00pm-, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (Marston Rd)
Peter Clark (SOAS): ‘Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall: Qur'an Translator and Novelist'

 
Political Economy Seminars | 4.30-6.30pm, All Souls College: the Old Library
Sir Paul Collier: ‘The Future of Capitalism'
Discussant: Baroness Alison Wolf
Places are limited; to register please email events@all-souls.ox.ac.uk by 23rd April.
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies | 5.00pm-, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (Marston Rd)
Lord Pannick QC (All Souls College and Blackstone Chambers): ‘The Right to Freedom of Religion: Cases and Controversies'
All are welcome. Please register here.
For enquiries, please contact events@oxcis.ac.uk
Enlightenment Workshop 2018 | 5.00pm, Voltaire Foundation (Banbury Rd)
Paul Kerry (Brigham Young): ‘The Late German Enlightenment and its temples'

 

The 2018 Dahrendorf Lecture | 5.00pm-, St Anthony's College: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Michael Ignatieff (CEU): ‘The Defence of the University in Illiberal Times'
Respondent: Louise Richardson (Vice-Chancellor, Oxford)
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (St Anthony's College)