Faculty of Philosophy
University of Oxford
DPhil Seminar
If you do not hold a university card, please contact the seminar convenor or admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk at least two working days before a seminar to register your attendance.
DPhil Seminar Convenor: Tom Heywood | DPhil Seminar Website
Michaelmas Term 2026 - Term Card
Past Terms
| Week 3 (15th May) | Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto) | Metacognition and backchannel in conversation: humans versus machines |
| Week 5 (29th May) | Selim Berker (Harvard University) | Knowledge Isn't Grounded in Truth |
| Week 7 (12th Jun) | Rory Madden (UCL) | A Temporal Approach to Phenomenal Unity |
| Week 5 (20th Feb) | Graham Priest () | The Möbius World |
| Week 7 (6th Mar) | James Ladyman (University of Bristol) | Against Paradigms and Underdetermination |
| Week 8 (13th Mar) | Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University) | Identifiers, Consciousness, and Psychological Explanation |
| Week 4 (7th Nov) | Michael Potter (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge) | Facts and Propositions |
| Week 6 (21st Nov) | Gideon Rosen (Princeton) | The Cement of the Universe is Explanation |
| Week 8 (5th Dec) | Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean-Nicod, ENS–PSL) | Unpleasant Seeing |
| Week 6 (6th Jun) | Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder) | Resisting the Increase of Entropy |
| Week 7 (13th Jun) | Jake Nebel (Princeton) | Welfare Reflections: On Duality conditions in the Theory of Value |
| Week 8 (20th Jun) | Zoe A. Johnson King (Harvard) | Aretaic Injustice |
| Week 4 (14th Feb) | Alexandra Zinke (University of Frankfurt) | Induction and Independence. A New Solution to Goodman's Old Riddle |
| Week 7 (7th March) | Francesca Zaffora Blando (Carnegie Mellon University) | Between Symmetries and Best Systems |
| Week 8 (14th Mar) | Victor Verdejo (Universitat Pompeu Fabre) | In Defence of Naivety |
| Week 1 (16th Oct) | Sally Atkins | Asking for Ourselves: Recognition of Other Reasoners in Kant |
| Week 2 (23rd Oct) | Riley Harris | Identifying Artificial Sentience |
| Week 3 (30th Oct) | Sepehr Razavi | What is Active Touch |
| Week 4 (6th Nov) | Jacob Mortimer | The 'Time-Lag Argument' in Early Buddhist Theories of Perception |
| Week 5 (13th Nov) | James Glover | The positivist foundations of Frank Ramsey's philosophy of science |
| Week 6 (20th Nov) | Jonathan Krude | Heidegger on Overcoming Metaphysics |
| Week 7 (27th Nov) | Niklas Welch | Thinking about things and thinking about oneself: Heidegger's critique of Descartes |
| Week 8 (4th Dec) | Frank Cudek | Theoretical Possibility and Spacetime Substantivalism |