Digest Week 1 Trinity Term 2025
Digest Week 4 Trinity Term 2025
Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond
We invite you to join us at Somerville College, Oxford, on Tuesday 20th May, 9.00am to 6.30pm, for Multidisciplinary Mill(s), a one-day conference dedicated to the ideas and influence of all the Mills: John Stuart Mill, James Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill and Helen Taylor. For further information about the conference, including the full programme and a link to the registration page, please see the conference web page.
The conference builds upon the success of the John Stuart Mill annual lecture hosted by Somerville College since 2016. It presents an opportunity for researchers from a wide range of disciplines, whether new to Mill research or long-established, to come together to exchange ideas on John Stuart Mill and members of Mill’s family, and promote future research into academic themes which continue to be important in a changing world.
Places at the conference are limited, so early registration is recommended. More information about how to register is available on the conference web page.
Joseph Butler Society
From 8:30 pm, in the Large SCR at Oriel
Jim Sterba (Notre Dame)
A Simpler Logical Argument from Evil.
Refreshments from 8:15 pm.
Further details here: http://josephbutlersociety.weebly.com/
The Oxford Philosophy, Law and Politics Colloquium
Title: Challenges to Creating an Egalitarian Society
Speakers: Professor Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan), with David Enoch (Oxford Law and Philosophy) opening discussion
Time: 17:00-19:00
Venue: Old Library - All Souls College
Further information available here
Plato and Aristotle on Art and Beauty
Title: Knowledge, Beauty, and Happiness in Plato's Hippias Major and Symposium
Speaker: Madeleine Parkinson (DPhil student, Oxford)
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College
For further information on the seminar series, please contact the convenors Emily Daly or Flora Nelson.
The HLA Hart Memorial Lecture 2025
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Anderson
Title: The Forgotten Political History of Utilitarianism
Time: 17.00
Venue: The College Chapel, Main Quad (University College), followed by drinks.
Abstract: This year’s HLA Hart Memorial Lecture (the lecture will be streamed live and recorded for future use, the 39th in the series funded by the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, will be given by Elizabeth Anderson, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, on the subject “The Forgotten Political History of Utilitarianism”. Professor Anderson specialises in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences.
The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.
The Isaiah Berlin Lecture 2025
Speaker: Dr Amy Gutman
Title: Democracy in Distress
Time: 18.00
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium (Wolfson College)
Abstract: From the perspective of a life-long academic who became U.S. Ambassador to Germany, I offer reflections on my diplomatic experience and how it illuminates major threats to American democracy and our allies today. As the only survivor of a generation of German Jews, I also reflect personally on how my own family’s trajectory is a story of the destructive weight of autocracy, the redeeming power of democracy, and the urgency of this perilous moment in history. In conclusion, I offer three broad strategies—requiring civic courage, sooner not later—to reverse the potential demise of democracy and to protect the people democracy must serve to survive.
For more information and to register, please go to: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-berlin-lecture/
