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Digest Week 2 Hilary Term 2026

25 January 2026

HT26, Week 2 (25 January - 31 January)

If you have entries for the weekly Digest, please send information to admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk by midday, Tuesday the week before the event. 

moral philosophy

Moral Philosophy Seminar (Monday - Week 2, HT26)

26 January
Guy Kahane (Uehiro Institute, Oxford): 'Why Want a World' 
Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar

Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (Monday - Week 2, HT26)

26 January
Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College) : 'Will formalization change mathematics?'
epistemology reading group

Metaphysics and Epistemology Group (Tuesday - Week 2, HT26)

27 January
Chris Kelp (University of Glasgow) : 'Understanding and Conjunction Closure'
Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday - Week 2, HT26)

27 January
Jensen Suther (Harvard University): 'Kant's Problem: Purposiveness Without Purpose'
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Institute for Ethics in AI Work-in-progress meeting (Tuesday - Week 2, HT26)

27 January
Associate Professor Michael Foran (Faculty of Law): 'Rule by machine: artificial intelligence and the rule of law'
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DPhil Seminar (Wednesday - Week 2, HT26)

28 January
Yotam Harel (Merton College): 'Reactivity and the Moral Responsibilities of Scientists'
philosophy of physics grad lunch seminar

Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar (Thursday - Week 2, HT26)

29 January
Pierce Comerford (Oxford): 'Ineluctable modality: the Deutsch--Wallace theorem as necessary rather than redundant'
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Thursday - Week 2, HT26)

29 January
Joe Parsons (St Anne's College) : 'A (somewhat) Kantian account of the right to personal autonomy'
Philosophy of Physics

Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Thursday - Week 2, HT26)

29 January
Oliver Pooley (Oriel College, Oxford): 'Geometry, Groups, and Coordinates'
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, HT26)

29 January
Paolo Fait (New College, Oxford) : 'The Elements of Language and Thought: Reinterpreting De Interpretatione 1'
Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 2, HT26)

30 January
Henry Schiller (King's College, London): 'Cognitive Hoarding'

Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond

Oxford Seminar of Philosophy of Science

Title: Social Science: A Constructivist Account

Speaker: Professor Anna Alexandrova (HPS, Cambridge)

Date and time: Monday 26th January, 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Venue: Seminar Room 00.308, Schwarzman Centre

Convenor: Yotam Harel

The History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) Reading Group

The History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) Reading Group is a new joint venture of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology and the Faculty of Philosophy.

Beginning in Hilary term 2026, we will meet fortnightly to discuss recent work in the broad field of HPS. Our plan is to spend a term working our way through a book, beginning in Hilary with our own Catherine Jackson's Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry (MIT Press, 2023). 

Meetings will take place Tuesday afternoons (4:30-5:30pm) on even weeks (2, 4, 6, 8), in the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

Anyone is free to join, but attendance is limited to the capacity of our booked room. So, if you'd like to join the HPS Reading Group, please sign up here. The co-conveners (Alex Aylward (History, alexander.aylward@history.ox.ac.uk) & Sam Fletcher (Philosophy, sam.fletcher@merton.ox.ac.uk)) will write to attendees with further information at the beginning of Hilary term.

Jurisprudence Discussion Group

Title: Coercion as an Excuse

Speaker: David Owens (University of Oxford)

Date and time: Thursday 29th January, 12:30pm 

Venue: Russell Room, Balliol College

Registration: We will provide lunch to those who register their attendance via this form - Registration Form: JDG meetings in Hilary 2026