Digest Week 4 Trinity Term 2018

Events for TT18 Week 4 (14 May - 20 May)

(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 4, TT18)

14 May 2018
Patrick Tomlin | Warwick | 'Accidentally Killing On Purpose'
All Souls College

Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (Week 4, TT18)

14 May 2018
Benedict Eastaugh | München | 'Does nonclassical truth impair mathematical reasoning?'
Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Week 4, TT18)

15 May 2018
Mark Alznauer | Northwestern | 'Hegel on Aesthetic Reconciliation'
Kant Colloquium

Kant Colloquium (Week 4, TT18)

16 May 2018
Presentations
John Locke 2018

(3/6) 2018 John Locke Lectures

16 May 2018
Peter Railton | Michigan | 'Intelligent action without regress'
power Structuralism

Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies (Week 4, TT18)

16 May 2018
Anna Marmodoro | Corpus Christi College & Durham | 'Late Antique Alexandria: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives'
Applied Ethics

Applied Ethics Discussion Group (Week 4, TT18)

17 May 2018
Graduate Seminar and Discussion
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Week 4, TT18)

17 May 2018
Emily Fletcher | Wisconsin-Madison | 'Cosmology and Human Nature in the Timaeus'
Philosophy of Physics

Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Week 4, TT18)

17 May 2018
Seth Lloyd | MIT | 'The Future of Quantum Computing'
Madness

(3/6) 'On Madness' - Philosophical Seminars in Depth Psychology

17 May 2018
'Delusional reason?' | Seminar and Discussion
Hegel

Hegel Reading Group (Week 4, TT18)

17 May 2018
Please check website for reading
Parfit

Conference in Honor of Derek Parfit

18 May 2018
A three-day conference celebrating Parfit's life and work
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Week 4, TT18)

18 May 2018
Weng Kin San and Kieran Marray | St Hilda's College and St Catherine's College
Philosophical Society

The Jowett Society (Week 4, TT18)

18 May 2018
Ian Proops | UT | 'The inestimable world: Kant's resolution of the mathematical antinomies' 
kant conference

Kant's Theory of Cognition

19 May 2018
A one-day conference

Notices - Events taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond

 
 

 

Seminar Series on Reproducibility and Open Research | 4.30-6.00pm, All Souls College: Wharton Room
Aileen Fyfe (St Andrews): “Open Access' in the Age of Print: Circulating the Royal Society's Publications. C. 1750-1950'
All are welcome; refreshments will be provided.

(4/4) 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 2)'

 
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies | 5.00pm-, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (Marston Rd)
Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College): ‘Speculative Men: Thinking Analogically about Islam and Christian Sectarianism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England'

 
 
Enlightenment Workshop 2018 | 5.00pm, St Edmund Hall: Old Dining Hall
Roundtable Discussion of Anthony la Vopa's The Labor of the Mind: Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures (2017)
Chair: Katherine Ibbett (Trinity College)
Discussants: Joanna Innes (Somerville College); Karen O'Brien (Humanities); Ritchie Robertson (the Queen's College)

Science and Populism: From Evidence to Narrative | 5.00-6.00pm, Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
Fiona Fox (Science Media Centre): 'Science on the front line: getting good quality evidence into the news'
To register, please go here

Titchmarsh Lecture: Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture | 5.00-6.00pm, Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 1
Sir Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh): 'Numbers are Serious but they are also Fun'
The lecture will be followed by an interview with Sir John Ball (the Queen's College).
To register, please visit https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events.

Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in Comparative European Literature | 5.30pm-, St Anne's College: TBC
Elif Shafak: Lecture Series - 'Storytelling in a Divided World

'Collective Amnesia and Collective Remembrance'


The 2018 Disability Lecture | 6.00pm-, Merton College: T S Eliot Lecture Theatre
Gwyneth Lewis: 'That Way Lies Madness: Poets, Power, Health'

All welcome, free event. To register please go here

 

 

 
The 2018 John Stuart Mill Lecture | 5.15pm-, Somerville College: Flora Anderson Hall
Sir Adam Roberts (Balliol College): 'John Stuart Mill;s Vision of a Liberal International Order' 

There will refreshments served after the talk. All welcome, free event. To register, please email alumnievents@some.ox.ac.uk.