Digest Week 6 Hilary Term 2021
HT21, Week 6 (21st - 27th February)
If you have entries for the weekly Digest, please send information to admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk by midday, Wednesday the week before the event.
Unless otherwise stated, all events will take place online.
Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond
Mesopotamian and Egyptian Cosmogonies Reading Group | 15:00 - 16:30pm | Online
The Egyptian Pyramid Texts, chaired by Jordan Miller (Oxford). Sign up here to receive Zoom details and bibliography. This reading group has been organised by Philiminality and Early Text Cultures.
The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society | 17:30 - 19:15 | Online via Zoom
Title: Aristotle's Hylomorphism Reconceived
Speaker: Mary-Louise Gill (Brown)
Faraday Institute Research Seminars | 13:00 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom
Dr Bethany Sollereder (Oxford): Theology Past the Tipping Point: God's goodness in a world of rapid change
The seminars will be held as Zoom Webinars and are free to attend. All are welcome.
More information can be found at faraday.institute/seminars
Theaetetus Reading Group | 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
Anyone who would like to join can email Dimosthenis Patramanis or Hermann Koerner and we can send out a Teams link. We will pick up at 199e7.
St Cross Special Ethics Seminar | 12:30 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom
Title: Towards a plasticity of the mind – New-ish ethical conundrums in dementia care, treatment, and research
Speaker: Dr David M. Lyreksog (Wellcome Centre for Ethics & Humanities; NEUROSEC, Department of Psychiatry)
OxTalks: https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/6a0e826d-3ef6-4bdf-b506-70384294c9c1/
Aquinas Seminar Series | 16:30 - 18:00 | Online via Zoom; free registration required
Tittle: Can Aquinas's sana doctrina on Learning and Teaching Be Extracted from Its Place in sacra doctrina?
Speaker: Rev Prof Vivian Boland, OP (Angelicum)
Further information here.
South Asian Philosophy discussion group | 17:00 | Online
Title: Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Textualization: Grammar as Philosophy
Speaker: Prof Veena Das
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86071211077?pwd=RmMxSFp2aldXRTBGNTZ6UFFkN0swdz09
Meeting ID: 860 7121 1077 | Passcode: 328331
The Joseph Butler Society | 20:00 - 21:30 | Online via Zoom
Title: God and the Grounds of Basic Equality
Speaker: Dr James Orr (University of Cambridge)
Register at Eventbrite here.