Digest Week 7 Hilary Term 2026
HT26, Week 7 (1 March - 7 March)
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.
Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond
Wittgenstein Reading Group
Title: Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics.
Date and time: Tuesday 3rd March, 4.45pm - 6.45pm
Venue: Canada Room, St Hilda's
Please contact Richard Gipps (richard.gipps@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) to enquire about attending the meeting and to be informed of the relevant passages to read.
Iris Murdoch Society Event
Speaker: Dr Arnaud Petit
Title: Iris Murdoch on ‘knowing what a word means'
Date and time: Wednesday 4th March, 6.00pm
Venue: Glen Callater room at the HB Allen Centre (offsite location of Keble College)
Heidegger's Way to Being and Time: The Centenary Workshops (Workshop 6)
Title: Drafting Being and Time
Speakers: Sacha Golob (King's College, London) and Joseph Schear (Oxford)
Date and time: Wednesday 4th March, 2:00pm
Venue: Lecture Room 2, Christ Church, Oxford and online
Abstract: The final form that ‘Being and Time' takes emerges in lectures from 1925-26, in particular, History of the Concept of Time (1925), ‘Wilhelm Dilthey's Research and the Struggle for a Historical Worldview' (1925) and Logic: The Question of Truth (1925-26), the latter including crucial documentation of the growing influence of Kant, another product of Heidegger's on-going dialogue with philosophy's history (see also his 1926 Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy lectures and his 1926-27 Geschichte der Philosophie von Thomas von Aquin bis Kant lectures).
Programme and registration: Heidegger's Way to ‘Being and Time' – The Centenary Workshops
Joseph Butler Society
Speakers: Dr Eric Yang (Santa Clara University)
Title: 'Theological Modelling as Conceptual Artmaking'
Date and time: Thursday 5 March, from 8:30 pm
Please note change from usual venue: MacGregor Room, Oriel College
Further details are here: https://josephbutlersociety.weebly.com/
DARCA (Decision Aid for the Restitution of Cultural Artefacts) Launch Event
Panel: Jonathan Pugh (Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Oxford Institute), Alexander Herman (Director, Institute of Art and Law), Erica Crump (Head of Culture + Creative and Managing Partner, Bates Wells) and Frezer Haile (Associate Director, Panterra)
Date and time: Friday 6th March, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Venue: Reuben College, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QP
Abstract: The Decision Aid for the Restitution of Cultural Artefacts (DARCA) is a free online ethics tool designed to help museums and others evaluate whether there is a strong moral case for returning cultural artefacts. Rather than prescribing decisions, it guides users through a structured set of questions based on established ethical guidance and academic research. The panel discussion introduces DARCA, explains how it can be used, and provides an opportunity to meet its creators.
Registration: https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/introducing-the-decision-aid-for-the-restitution-of-cultural-artefacts-panel-discussion