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Digest Summer Vacation 2018

Events for Summer Vacation 2018

(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

moral philosophy

Moral Philosophy Seminar (Monday, Week 3, MT26 - 16:15-18:00)

26 October 2026
Tom Pink (Kings College London): 'Legal authority as coercive teacher'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre
epistemology reading group

Metaphysics, Language, and Epistemology Group (Tuesday, Week 3, MT26 - 14:00-15:45)

27 October 2026
Sepehr Razavi (Merton College, Oxford): 'Cognitive Bias'; Seminar Room (10.303), Level 1, Schwarzman Centre
j laing

Early Career Work in Progress Seminar (Tuesday, Week 3, MT26 - 16:30-18:00)

27 October 2026
Dani Pino (Visiting from University of Granada): 'Towards a Practice-First Normativity of Journalism'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre  
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DPhil Seminar (Wednesday, Week 3, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

28 October 2026
Alexander Meyer (Brasenose College): 'How is Basic Normative Change Possible?'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Thursday, Week 3, MT26 - 14:00-15:00)

29 October 2026
Jonathan Metcalfe (Mansfield College, Oxford): 'Under the Bonnet of McDowell’s Virtue Ethics: Can Ross and Murdoch Provide the Tools for a Fix?'; Seminar Room (20.340), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of Physics

Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Thursday, Week 3, MT26 - 15:00-17:00)

29 October 2026
TBC: 'TBA'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday, Week 3, MT26 - 15:30-17:00)

30 October 2026
Justin D'Ambrosio (St Andrews): 'Whorfianism about Conscious Thought'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar

Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (Monday, Week 4, MT26 - 16:30-18:30)

02 November 2026
Davide Sutto (Christ Church, Oxford): 'Axiomatizing the Weak Iterative Conception of Set, Part 1: Constructible Level Theory'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre  
Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday, Week 4, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

03 November 2026
Evaldo Sampaio (Federal University of Ceará): 'A Tragic Conception of Necessity: Nietzsche and the Possibility of Wisdom'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
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DPhil Seminar (Wednesday, Week 4, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

04 November 2026
Matthew Hitchens (Lincoln College): 'Recognising Life'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar

Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar (Thursday, Week 4, MT26 - 13:00-14:30)

05 November 2026
Bryan Cheng (Oxford): 'Coordinating the sphere (or: do spheres dream of coordinate systems?)'; Seminar Room (20.306), Schwarzman Centre
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Thursday, Week 4, MT26 - 14:00-15:00)

05 November 2026
'TBC'
Philosophical Society

The Jowett Society (Friday, Week 4, MT26 - 15:00-18:00)

06 November 2026
Robert Northcott (Birkbeck University of London): 'Fragility and the impact of AI'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre
moral philosophy

Moral Philosophy Seminar (Monday, Week 5, MT26 - 16:15-18:00)

09 November 2026
Alex Kaiserman (Balliol College, Oxford): 'Complicity and 'Significant Contribution' to Crime'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre
Oxford Colloquium in Linguistics and Philosophy 2026

Oxford Colloquium in Linguistics and Philosophy 2026

09 November 2026
Jeffrey C. King (Rutgers University), 'Deferred reference'; Anna Morpurgo Davies Room, Schwarzman Centre
j laing

Early Career Work in Progress Seminar (Tuesday, Week 5, MT26 - 16:30-18:00)

10 November 2026
Kirstine La Cour (Trinity College): 'Resistant Responsibility'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre  
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DPhil Seminar (Wednesday, Week 5, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

11 November 2026
James Robinson (St Cross College): 'On the Value of Fair Chances'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Thursday, Week 5, MT26 - 14:00-15:00)

12 November 2026
'TBC'
Philosophy of Physics

Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Thursday, Week 5, MT26 - 15:00-17:00)

12 November 2026
Danilo Fucci (Oxford): 'Bell tests for nonclassicality in collider decay processes'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday, Week 5, MT26 - 15:30-17:00)

13 November 2026
Will Davies (University of Oxford): 'Beyond the Object File: Stuff-Field Representations Underlie Stuff Perception'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre

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
Laura Fortunato (Magdalen College): ‘Effective Computing for Research Reproducibility'
All are welcome; refreshments will be provided.

 

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies | 5.00pm-, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (Marston Rd)
Eugene Rogan (St Anthony's College): ‘1918: The Fall of the Ottomans and the Beginning of a Century of Conflict'

 
Science and Populism: From Evidence to Narrative | 5.00-6.00pm, Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
Panel: 'Putting science at the heart of society and culture'
Discussants: Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing); Emily Wilson (New Scientist); Katherine Mathieson (British Science Association)
To register, please go here. 
Jurisprudence Discussion Group | 5.00pm-, Balliol College: Massey Room
Jeff King (UCL): 'The Social Dimension of the Rule of Law'
The 2018 Newman Lecture | 5.30pm-, Pembroke College: Pichette Auditorium
Lord Patten of Barnes (CH PC Chancellor, Oxford): 'The Idea of a University in the 21st Century'
The event will be followed by a Q&A and a drinks reception. All are welcome. Please email sarah.gray@campion.ox.ac.uk if you have any queries. 
Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in Comparative European Literature | 5.30pm-, St Anne's College: TBC
Elif Shafak: Lecture Series - 'Storytelling in a Divided World' 
Open Discussion