Faculty of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Philosophy of Mind
The format for the seminar is read-ahead, except in weeks with external speakers. If you would like to receive the papers, please contact Mike Martin: michael.martin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk or Matt Parrott: matthew.parrott@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk, to be added to the mailing list.
Philosophy of Mind Seminar convenors: Mike Martin and Matthew Parrott
Michaelmas Term 2026 - Term Card
Trinity Term 2026 - Term Card
| Week 1 (1st May) | Amber Riaz (LUMS, Pakistan and Oxford) | Narrative, Affect, and Explanatory Grip |
| Week 2 (8th May) | Carlotta Pavese (Oxford) | General intelligence, skills, and natural kinds |
| Week 4 (22nd May) | Julian Bacharach (Trinity College Dublin) | On the Very Idea of a Temporal Perspective |
| Week 6 (5th Jun) | Ian Phillips (Johns Hopkins University and Oxford) | Unreported imagery and strategic diversity in aphantasia (Or: How not to argue for unconscious imagery) |
| Week 1 (23rd Jan) | Mike Martin (Oxford) | Elusive Objectivity |
| Week 2 (30th Jan) | Henry Schiller (King's College, London) | Cognitive Hoarding |
| Week 3 (6th Feb) | Sepehr Razavi (Oxford) | Intuitive Social Cognition |
| Week 4 (13th Feb) | Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers University) | The Nature of Spatiotemporal Perspectives |
| Week 6 (27th Feb) | Kirstine La Cour (Trinity College) | Telling Takes Two |
| Week 1 (17th Oct) | Sanja Dembic (Humboldt Universitate zu Berlin) | Delusions of Persecution vs. Conspiracy Theory Beliefs: What Justifies the Difference in Pathological Status? |
| Week 5 (14th Nov) | Lea Salje (University of Leeds) | Mythomania and the Sense of Self |
| Week 7 (28th Nov) | Raphael Milliere (Oxford) | Artificial Competence |
| Week 1 (2nd May) | Sally Atkins (Oxford) | You Jump, I Jump: A New Problem for Shared Agency |
| Week 2 (9th May) | Alina Wang (University of California, Berkley) | Being an animal and enjoying fiction |
| Week 3 (16th May) | Piotr Szalek (Catholic University of Lublin) | Brentano and Representationalism |
| Week 4 (23rd May) | Lea Salje (University of Leeds) CANCELLED | Mythomania and the Sense of Self |
| Week 9 (27th Jun) | Jack Lyons (University of Glasgow) | Are cognitive maps really maps? |
| Week 1 (24th Jan) | Matthew Parrott (Oxford) | Dynamic Delusions |
| Week 2 (31st Jan) | Mike Martin (Oxford) | All in Good Time: Scheffler's One Life to Lead, Ch. 2 |
| Week 3 (7th Feb) | Bex Rowson (Oxford) | If you don't attend, you'll never know |
| Week 4 (21st Feb) | Sepehr Razavi (Oxford) | The Social Lives of Moving Shapes |
| Week 6 (28th Feb) | James Stazicker (KLC) | Metacognition, informative identity, and related ways of underestimating consciousness |
| Week 1 (22nd Nov) | Professor Josh Shepherd (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) | Spontaneity, Knowledge, and Control |
| Week 1 (26th Apr) | Zijian Zhu | The Ontology and the Perpective of the Progressive |
| Week 2 (3rd May) | Joe Gough | 'MInd' and 'mental': extended, pluralistic, eliminated |
| Week 3 (10th May) | James Laing | Joint Attention, Communication, and Perceptual Interaction |
| Week 5 (24th May) | Shaun Nichols (Cornell) | Personal Identity in the Wild |
| Week 7 (7th June) | Eric Schwitzgebel (UoC, Riverside) | The Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness |
| Week 9 (17th June) | Andrew Lee (Toronto) | Subjectivity vs. Phenomenal Character |
| Week 6 (23rd Feb) | Victor Verdejo (Pompeu Fabra University) | On how to know what I am doing |
| Week 8 (8th Mar) | Paul Skokowski (Stanford) | Detecting Qualia |
| Week 1 (28th April) | Radcliffe Humanities | Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Cancelled) |
| Week 2 (5th May) | David Collins | Shedding Light on Seeing Things Through Photographs: Indirect or Mediated Seeing and the Question of Photographic Transparency |
| Week 3 (12th May) | Milo Phillips-Brown and Nilanjan Das (Toronto) | The anatomy of anankastic conditionals |
| Week 4 (19th May) | Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh) | The Davos Debate over AI |
| Week 5 (26th May) | Rachel Fraser | Narrative Understanding |
| Week 6 (2nd Jun) | Natalie Waights-Hickman | Virtues and the taxonomy of knowledge |
| Week 7 (9th Jun) | Rory Madden (UCL) | If there's no self, how come you exist? |
| Week 8 (16th Jun) | Milena Bartholain | The Discrimination Definition of the Internalism/Externalism Debate about Mind |
| Week 1 (20th Jan) | Heather Logue (Leeds) | An anti-sceptical metaphysics of perception |
| Week 2 (27th Jan) | Clare MacCumhaill (Durham) | Acting where I am not now stationed |
| Week 3 (3rd Feb) | Roberto Casati (Institut Jean Nicod) | The cognitive life of maps |
| Week 4 (10th Feb) | Patrick Butlin (Oxford) | Functions, content and understanding in language models |
| Week 5 (17th Feb) | Chris Mole (UBC) | The Metaphysics of the Computational Theory of the Mind |
| Week 6 (24th Feb) | Anita Avramides (Oxford) | Knowing and Acknowledging Others |
| Week 7 (3rd Mar) | Michael Martin (Oxford) | Illumination Fading |
| Week 8 (10th March) | Thomas Raleigh (Luxembourg) | On being debased |
| Week 1 (14th Oct) | Matthew Parrott | Self-Knowledge and the Capacity to Judge |
| Week 2 (21st Oct) | Bill Child | Wittgenstein and Immunity to Error through Misidentification |
| Week 3 (28th Oct) | Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford) | The Psychology of Framing Effects and the Ethics of Ordinary Consent |
| Week 4 (4th Nov) | Zijan Zhu | The View from Nowhere and the View from Nowhen' |
| Week 5 (11th Nov) | J.Corns (Glasgow) | Promiscuous Kinds and Individual Minds |
| Week 6 (18th Nov) | Catharine Abell | Art and Medium |
| Week 7 (25th Nov) | CANCELLED: Bill Brewer (KCL) | The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Conscious Perception |
| Week 8 (2nd Dec) | Maja Spencer (Birmingham) | Introspective Kinds |
| Week 1 (29th April) | Adrian Al Smith (KCL) | Imagination, Illusion, and Virtual Reality |
| Week 3 (13th May) | Matt Parrott (Oxford) | Philosophy of Mind Seminar |
| Week 4 (20th May) | Anil Gomes (Trinity) | Strawson and Metacritique |
| Week 5 (27th May) | Michelle Liu (Hertfordshire/Monash) | Mental Imagery & Co-Predication |
| Week 8 (17th June) | Alex Kerr (Antwerp/Princeton) | Following your heart |
| Week 9 (24th June) | Howard Robinson (CEU/Blackfriars) | Why There Cannot be a Materialist Theory of Thought |
For an archive of previous terms, please see Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Seminar and Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar.