Digest Week 6 Trinity Term 2026
Digest Week 7 Trinity Term 2026
TT26, Week 7 (7 June - 13 June)
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Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond
Avicenna Reading Group
Convenor: Ibrahim Safri
Date: Tuesday, 9 June, 2–3:30pm
Venue: Magdalen College, McFarlane Library
The theory of time remains one of the most complex and significant subjects of inquiry, central to both philosophical and physical discourse globally. Throughout the history of world philosophy, this concept has been continually refined, spanning Late Antiquity and Neoplatonism through to Islamic, Medieval, and Early Modern traditions. Within the global corpus of Arabic philosophy, diverse interpretations of time have emerged, shaped by three primary perspectives that influenced Islamic medieval conceptions of this theory. This reading class will focus on Avicenna’s The Physics of The Healing, in which he presents various notions of time before establishing his own account.
Our objective is to engage in a profound reading of Avicenna’s thesis to determine the extent to which his theory of time represents a departure from Aristotelian thought, a continuation of the Peripatetic tradition, or an innovative synthesis. We will discuss how his contributions facilitated the development of this concept within the context of global philosophy.
Text: Avicenna, The Physics of The Healing; a Parallel English-Arabic Text. Translated by: Jon McGinnis. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2009. Chapter 10: Beginning the discussion about time.
MacIntyre in the Conflicts of Modernity
Speaker(s): Professor Jason Blakely, Pepperdine; Dr Dominic Burbidge, Regent’s Park; Professor David Cloutier, Notre Dame; Professor John Cottingham, Reading; Dr Daniel De Haan, Blackfriars & Campion; Professor Anne Jeffrey, Baylor; Professor Christopher Kaczor, Loyola; Andreas Masvie, Christ Church; Professor Melissa Moschella, Notre Dame; Professor Stephen Mulhall, New College; Professor Mark C. Murphy, Georgetown; Professor Tracey Rowland, Notre Dame, Australia.
Date: Thursday 11 June, 8am to Friday 12 June, 8:00 pm
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street Oxford, OX1 1QS
The Aquinas Institute are co-sponsoring a conference with the Canterbury Institute, and The Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture at Pusey House, on 11 and 12 June at Campion Hall, Christ Church, and Pusey House.
For more information and to book tickets click here
In-Person Book Launch
Speaker: Jaimee van Gemerden
Title: The Faithfulness of Self-Realisation: No Longer an Object
Date: Friday 12 June, 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Venue: Regent's Park College, University of Oxford
Convenor: Kate Kirkpatrick
A conversation about theology, existentialism, feminism, and self-realisation with the author Jaimee van Gemerden in conversation with Kate Kirkpatrick. Organised by the Centre for Baptist Studies, Regent’s Park College. Free registration (includes drinks reception), via this event page: https://www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/event/book-launch-the-faithfulness-of-self-realisation-no-longer-and-object/
