Digest Week 1 Michaelmas Term 2022
Digest Week 3 Michaelmas Term 2022
MT22, Week 3 (23rd-29th October)
If you have entries for the weekly Digest, please send information to admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk by midday, Wednesday the week before the event.
Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond
Brain and the Mind: Belief and the Brain. Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, 5.00-7.15 pm.
The St Hilda's Brain and Mind Series continues this term with Belief and the Brain.
Guest speakers will be Dr Guy Longworth (University of Warwick) for philosophy, Dr Ryan McKay (Royal Holloway) for psychology, and Dr Daniel Yon (Birkbeck) for neuroscience.
Please join us on Monday 24th October 202 2 - 5.00 until 7.15 pm in the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College.
Belief and the Brain is a free, live and in-person event where all are welcome.
Book Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brain-and-mind-workshop-belief-and-the-brain-tickets-435725465597
The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series, Sheldonian Theatre, 5.00 - 6.30 pm
Peter Hitchens on After Conservatism (with Daniel Hannan and Noel Malcolm)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roger-scruton-memorial-lectures-peter-hitchens-tickets-414596718947
The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series, inaugurated last year, is dedicated to promoting the highest quality academic, political, and cultural discourse to a wide audience within the Oxford community. Tickets are required, but free. Everyone is welcome, regardless of student status or university affiliation.
The Oxford Pastorate, Reading Group - Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good
Monday 24th October, 7th November & 21st November – 8pm, on Zoom.
A reading group for postgrads and ECRs to explore this text and it’s themes of attention, beauty, imagination, humility, perfection and the good.
This forms part of the Stella Aldwinckle Series - lectures, seminars and reading groups which focus on exploring philosophies of life in an interdisciplinary context.
Sign up is available here. Email bethan.willis@oxfordpastorate.org for more details.
Hegel Reading Group
The Hegel Reading Group meets in term weekly on Tuesdays 6-7.30 pm by Skype. We continue with Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit'; we are now at 'Spirit that is certain of itself. Morality', starting from paragraph 596 of the Miller translation (OUP 1977) although any translation may be used. Each week's reading is posted on hegelinoxford.wordpress.com
To join the Skype group or for enquiries contact susanne.herrmann-sinai@ philosophy.ox.ac.uk or louise.braddock@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
Metaphysics and Language Reading Group | 4:00-5:30pm | New College (Conduit Room)
A weekly pre-read reading group on topics in metaphysics and philosophy of language, focusing this term on predicate reference and properties. Readings will include classic papers and more recent works. Reading for week 3 is chapter seven of Michael Dummett (1973)'s Frege: Philosophy of Language, 'The reference of incomplete expressions'. Please contact katherine.hong@philosophy.ox.ac.uk to be added to the mailing list for future readings.
The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series, Sheldonian Theatre, 5.00 - 6.30 pm
Nigel Biggar on Deconstructing Decolonisation (with Kemi Badenoch, MP and Ali Ansari).
The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series, inaugurated last year, is dedicated to promoting the highest quality academic, political, and cultural discourse to a wide audience within the Oxford community. Tickets are required, but free. Everyone is welcome, regardless of student status or university affiliation.
Syntax-Semantics Workshop, Linguistics department (Room 207), 4.00-5.30pm
Richard Stockwell (Oxford)
Double ellipsis and the dissociation of recoverability and identity
The Faraday Institute will be hosting a play about the life of Michael Faraday:
Fire From Heaven | Michael Faraday And The Dawn Of The Electrical Age
October 27, 6pm, Queen’s Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College
Visit faraday.institute/tickets
