Digest Week 5 Michaelmas Term 2026
MT26, Week 5 (8 November - 14 November)
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
Enlarging Reason Seminar Series
Embodiment, Mindfulness and Disagreement
Date: Monday, 2 November, 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, 10 November, 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.
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) On Infinite Time and Divine Knowledge
Speaker: Taneli Kukkonen (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Date: Wednesday, 11 November, 4:30-6pm
Venue: Room 00.056, Ground Floor, Schwarzman Centre
This year is the 900th anniversary of the birth of the Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averroes) 1126 in Cordoba.
PPE Centenary Lecture
'Agency under Slavery: Evidence from the Afro-Brazilian Returnees to West Africa'
Speaker: Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University)
Date: Wednesday, 11 November, 5:30-6:30pm
Venue: Shulman Auditorium, Queen's College
Places are limited so do RSVP to confirm your place
Assisted Dying: A Discussion
Speakers: John Wyatt (UCL), Rachel Clarke (Great Western Hospital), and Tim Ferris (NHS National Director of Transformation)
Date: Thursday, 12 November, 6-7pm
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford
Further details available here
Please check this site for any changes to venue or schedule.
Joseph Butler Society
Philosophy as a Way of Life
Speaker: Paul O'Grady (Trinity College Dublin)
Date: Thursday, 12 November, 8:30-10 pm
Venue: Large SCR, Oriel College
Further details will be available here:
https://josephbutlersociety.weebly.com/
Please check this site for any changes to venue or schedule.