Digest Week 2 Michaelmas Term 2026
MT26, Week 2 (18 October - 24 October)
If you have entries for the weekly Digest, please send information to admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk by midday, Tuesday the week before the event.
For events occurring at the Institute for Ethics in AI, see here.
Notices
Other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond
Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab
Date: Monday, 19 October, 3–4pm
Venue: Uehiro Oxford Institute and online
The Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab continues this year at the Uehiro Oxford Institute. Bringing together philosophers and psychologists, the interdisciplinary lab uses experimental philosophy and moral psychology to investigate moral judgment and agency, and their implications for ethics.
Students and faculty in Philosophy are warmly invited, particularly those interested in moral psychology, experimental philosophy, and philosophy of psychology. Weekly term-time meetings feature works-in-progress and friendly, constructive discussion.
To join the mailing list, email moralpsychlab@uehiro.ox.ac.uk, or contact Dr Joanna Demaree-Cotton at joanna.demaree-cotton@uehiro.ox.ac.uk.
Enlarging Reason Seminar Series
The Ethical Stance and Radical Self-reflection
Date: Monday, 19 October, 4–5:30pm
Venue: Large Seminar Room, St Cross College
Speaker: Jana Sedlakova
For more information on the workshop series and details of each talk, please check the website. Registration is recommended to help with event-planning.
Please feel free to contact the organisers at jana.sedlakova@ethox.ox.ac.uk or michael.wee@ethox.ox.ac.uk in case of any queries.
Avicenna Reading Group
Convenor: Ibrahim Safri
Date: Tuesday, 20 October, 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 philosophical 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.
This MT26, and following a comprehensive introduction to the concept of time in global Arabic philosophy, we will continue with Chapter 11, on the Essence of Time.
Text: Avicenna, The Physics of The Healing; a Parallel English-Arabic Text. Translated by: Jon McGinnis. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2009.
The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Convenor: Andrew Moeller
Date: Tuesday 20 October, 5.30 pm
Venue: Online, via Zoom
For more information please visit: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/the-boundaries-of-humanity-discussion-group