Digest Week 3 Michaelmas Term 2018

MT18, Week 3 (22 October — 28 October)

If you have entries for the weekly Digest, they must be recieved by Wednesday midday of the week before the event. Please send information to admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk. 

Note that if no location is given, the event will take place in the Radcliffe Humanities Building on Woodstock Rd, OX2 6GG.

Notices - Events taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond

The Oxford Kant Colloquium | 5.00- 6:30pm, Merton College, St Alburn's Quad, Room 4.2b

Presentations on Kantian Topics

If you intend to participate please email christopher.benzenberg@stx.ox.ac.uk

 

Epistemology and Language Reading Group | 5.30 - 7.00pm, Meeting Room 4, Radcliffe Humanities

Seth Yalcin. (2018). 'Belief as  Question-Sensitive'. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 97: 23–47.

If you intend to participate please email matthew.hewson@philosophy.ox.ac.uk or james.kirkpatrick@philosophy.ox.ac.uk. NB: this reading group is intended for graduate students only.

Feminisms: Being a Woman and.... | Intersectional Discussion Group | 18:00 - 19:30pm, Ryle Room

Please contact the organisors to be put on the mailing list to recieve the weekly readings 

Please email chiara.martini@pmb.ox.ac.uk , chongming.lim@philosophy.ox.ac.uk , alesia.preite@sjc.ox.ac.uk or maya.krishnan@balliol.ox.ac.uk

 

Seminar Series on Reproducibility and Open Research | 4.30-6.00pm, All Souls College: Old Library

Alexander Bird (Kings College London): ‘Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy’

All are welcome; refreshments will be provided.

 

Audre Lorder: Black History Month Celebration | 6pm, St Hilda's College, Lady Brodie Room 

As part of our Black History Month celebrations, the Queer Studies Network and St Hilda's Feminist Salon are delighted to host an evening to celebrate the life and work of Audre Lorde, Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/305520760276346/

6:10pm: Introduction to the life and work of Audre Lorde

6:20pm: Screening of 'Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years'

8:00pm: Readings of Audre Lorde poetry, writings and responses to Lorde's work (sign-up) 

Sign-up to read Lorde's poetry, writings or your responses (prose or poetry) to her work here:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZAU_A9vCr5xdNqi3Iw9y_jI23twtsoTI16o_fYvdBN8/edit?usp=sharing  

Vagueness Reading Group | Fine on Globalism II | 17:00 - 19:00pm, Ertegun House

Fine, K. (2017) 'The Impossibility of Vagueness', in Synthese 194: 3699-3725

If you intend to participate please email alexander.roberts@philosophy.ox.ac.uk or Iannina.loets@philosophy.ox.ac.uk