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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

Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (Week 3, TT18)

7 May 2018, 4:30pm to 4:30pm
Jack Woods | Leeds | 'Structuralist Neo-logicism'
Philiminality

Philiminality (Week 3, TT18)

8 May 2018, 5:00pm to 5:00pm
Should Water Have Rights?
theoretical

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

9 May 2018, 11:00am to 11:00am
Harriet Baber | San Diego | 'Is the Stage Theory an Error Theory?'  
Kant Colloquium

Kant Colloquium (Week 3, TT18)

9 May 2018, 4:30pm to 4:30pm
Reading: Third Section of _Groundwork_
John Locke 2018

(2/6) 2018 John Locke Lectures

9 May 2018, 5:00pm to 5:00pm
Peter Railton | Michigan | 'Belief, affect, and reliance'
power Structuralism

Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies (Week 3, TT18)

9 May 2018, 5:00pm to 5:00pm
Richard Sorabji | Wolfson College & KCL | 'How Ammonius (445?-517/26) paved the way for the expansion of Greek Philosophy to other cultures' 
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Week 3, TT18)

10 May 2018, 4:30pm to 4:30pm
Dhananjay Jagannathan | Columbia | 'Reciprocity and the Character of Particular Justice in Aristotle'
Philosophy of Physics

Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Week 3, TT18)

10 May 2018, 4:30pm to 4:30pm
Matt Farr | Cambridge | 'The C Theory of Time'
Time

Time and the Brain

10 May 2018, 5:00pm to 5:00pm
An interdisciplinary workshop
Madness

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

10 May 2018, 5:15pm to 5:15pm
'A world of one's own?' | Seminar and Discussion
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St Cross Special Ethics Seminar (Week 3, TT18)

10 May 2018, 5:30pm to 5:30pm
Carlo JT van de Weijer | Eindhoven | 'The Future of Mobility: How and why we will transport ourselves in the next decades'
Hegel

Hegel Reading Group (Week 3, TT18)

10 May 2018, 6:30pm to 6:30pm
Please check website for reading
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Week 3, TT18)

11 May 2018, 1:00pm to 1:00pm
Rhys Southan and Sara Chan | Exeter College and Blackfriars Hall
Philosophy of mind

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

11 May 2018, 1:30pm to 1:30pm
Ben Sorgiovanni | the Queen's College | 'Agentialism and Memory'

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'