Digest Week 3 Trinity Term 2018

Events for TT18 Week 3 (7 May - 13 May)

(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

 

All Souls College
7 May

Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (Week 3, TT18)

Jack Woods | Leeds | 'Structuralist Neo-logicism'
(Ryle Room)
Philiminality
8 May

Philiminality (Week 3, TT18)

Should Water Have Rights?
(Lecture Room)
theoretical
9 May

Theoretical Philosophy Work in Progress Seminar (Week 3, TT18)

Harriet Baber | San Diego | 'Is the Stage Theory an Error Theory?'  
(Dolphin Yard Teaching Room, Trinity College)
Aquinas
9 May

Summa Contra Gentiles: Reading, Commentary, and Translation Group (Week 3, TT18)

Reading: SCG IV.30-32
(Front Lecture Room, Blackfriars Hall)
philosophy of race
9 May

Philosophy of Race Reading Group (Week 3, TT18)

Please contact organiser for reading
(Lecture Room)
Kant Colloquium
9 May

Kant Colloquium (Week 3, TT18)

Reading: Third Section of _Groundwork_
(Room 4.2b - St Alban's Quad, Merton College)
John Locke 2018
9 May

(2/6) 2018 John Locke Lectures

Peter Railton | Michigan | 'Belief, affect, and reliance'
(Mathematical Institute)
power Structuralism
9 May

Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies (Week 3, TT18)

Richard Sorabji | Wolfson College & KCL | 'How Ammonius (445?-517/26) paved the way for the expansion of Greek Philosophy to other cultures' 
(Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College)
Philosophy of Physics
10 May

Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Week 3, TT18)

Matt Farr | Cambridge | 'The C Theory of Time'
(Lecture Room)
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
10 May

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Week 3, TT18)

Dhananjay Jagannathan | Columbia | 'Reciprocity and the Character of Particular Justice in Aristotle'
(Ryle Room)
Time
10 May

Time and the Brain

An interdisciplinary workshop
(Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College)
Madness
10 May

(2/6) 'On Madness' - Philosophical Seminars in Depth Psychology

'A world of one's own?' | Seminar and Discussion
(Colin Matthew Room)
uehiro logo
10 May

St Cross Special Ethics Seminar (Week 3, TT18)

Carlo JT van de Weijer | Eindhoven | 'The Future of Mobility: How and why we will transport ourselves in the next decades'
(Lecture Theatre, St Cross College)
Hegel
10 May

Hegel Reading Group (Week 3, TT18)

Please check website for reading
(Ryle Room)
Global Priorities Seminar 1
11 May

Global Priorities Seminar (Week 3, TT18)

Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan | Nuffield College | 'Program Evaluation in the Presence of Strategic Interactions'
(Petrov Room, Littlegate House)
Ockham Society
11 May

The Ockham Society (Week 3, TT18)

Rhys Southan and Sara Chan | Exeter College and Blackfriars Hall
(Meeting Room 7)
Philosophy of mind
11 May

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Week 3, TT18)

Ben Sorgiovanni | the Queen's College | 'Agentialism and Memory'
(Lecture Room)

Notices - Events taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond

 
Inaugural Lecture Cambridge University | 5.00pm-, Faculty of Divinity: Runcie Room (Sidgwick - Cambridge)
Douglas Headley (Cambridge): "Devout Contemplation and Sublime Fancy': The Cambridge Platonists and their Legacy for the Philosophy of Religion'
The Joseph Butler Society | 8.15pm-, Oriel College: Smaller SCR
John Schellenberg (Mount St. Vincent University): 'Truth-Triggered Religious Commitments'
 

 
(1/3) Kyoto Prize Public Lectures | 9.30am-, Blavatnik School of Government 
Graham Farquhar (ANU): 'Adventures Across Disciplines: studying biophysics, and observing the shaping of policies'
All are welcome; please register here. 
(2/3) Kyoto Prize Public Lectures | 11.45am-, Blavatnik School of Government 
Takashi Mimura (NICT Japan): 'My fifty years with the transistor'
All are welcome; please register here. 
(3/3) Kyoto Prize Public Lectures | 3.00pm-, Blavatnik School of Government 
Richard Taruskin (Berkeley): 'How to win a Stalin prize: Shostakovich's piano quintet' - support by the Villiers Quarter and Jeremy Young (pianist). 
All are welcome; please register here. 
Seminar Series on Reproducibility and Open Research | 4.30-6.00pm, All Souls College: Wharton Room
Janet Pierrehumbert (Trinity College): ‘Statistical Natural Language Processing in the Open Science Era’
All are welcome; refreshments will be provided.
(3/4) 2018 Hensley Henson Lectures | 5.00-6.00pm, Examination Schools
Diarmaid MacCulloch (St Cross College): Lecture Series – ‘Thomas Cromwell: Enterprising Reformation’
‘Cromwell and the Monasteries (Part 2)’

 

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies | 5.00pm-, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (Marston Rd)
Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (Copenhagen): ‘Al-Azhar and the Ulama’

 
Enlightenment Workshop 2018 | 5.00pm, Voltaire Foundation (Banbury Rd)
Caroline Warman (Jesus College): ‘Patterns of materialist thought: fragments and formulations from Diderot to Destutt de Tracy’
Science and Populism: From Evidence to Narrative | 5.00-6.00pm, Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
Andrea Siodmok (Cabinet Office): 'Government needs to get better at policy-making; more open and connected with people'

To register, please go here. 

Jurisprudence Discussion Group | 5.00pm-, Balliol College: Massey Room
Timothy Endicott (Balliol College): 'Meaning'
 
Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in Comparative European Literature | 5.30pm-, St Anne's College: TBC
Elif Shafak: Lecture Series - 'Storytelling in a Divided World' 
'Voicelessness and Taboos'
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