Faculty of Philosophy
University of Oxford
DPhil Seminar
If you do not hold a university card, please contact the seminar convenor or admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk at least two working days before a seminar to register your attendance.
DPhil Seminar Convenor: Tom Heywood | DPhil Seminar Website
Michaelmas Term 2026 - Term Card
Past Terms
| Week 1 (29th Apr) | Reginald Chua (Blackfriars College) | A puzzle of relative identity |
| Week 2 (6th May) | Léon Probst (Recognised Student: Università della Svizzera Italiana) | Interpreting Gödel's second incompleteness theorem |
| Week 3 (13th May) | Mhairi Tait (Regent's Park College) | Loving Beauty: Articulating a Puzzle for Feminists |
| Week 4 (20th May) | Cara Addleman (Christ Church College) | Reasons and Resentment: Why the Reactive Attitudes Don't Support Internal Reasons Theory |
| Week 5 (27th May) | John Maier (Balliol College) | Unexceptional Evaluative Perception |
| Week 6 (3rd Jun) | Zhengguan Chen (Recognised Student: Universität Bern) | Sortals, Intension, and Essence |
| Week 7 (10th Jun) | Juan Miguel López Munive (New College) | Negation and semantic presupposition |
| Week 8 (17th Jun) | Thomas Heywood (Reuben College) | Scepticism about Morally Wrongful Belief |
| Week 1 (21st Jan) | Sepehr Razavi (Merton College) | Intuitive Social Cognition |
| Week 2 (28th Jan) | Yotam Harel (Merton College) | Reactivity and the Moral Responsibilities of Scientists |
| Week 3 (4th Feb) | Eve Poirier (The Queen's College) | What Can I Intend to Do? |
| Week 4 (11th Feb) | Ryan Kulesa (St Cross College) | Death is Always Maximally Prudentially Bad |
| Week 5 (18th Feb) | Otto Räsänen (Corpus Christi College) | Two Concepts of Thinking |
| Week 6 (25th Feb) | Pranciškus Gricius (St Hilda's College) | Rigid Classicism |
| Week 7 (4th March) | Rasmus Bakken (Balliol College) | The syntax sensitivity of Truth |
| Week 8 (11th March) | Asia Sakchatchawan (The Queen's College) | Towards a Dramaturgical Theory of Self-Constitution |
| Week 2 (21st Oct) | Yuqi Liang (Oxford) | Peak Experiences |
| Week 3 (29th Oct) | Matt Hitchens | Two kinds of generality |
| Week 4 (5th Nov) | Kenneth Novis (St Hugh's College) | Spinoza and the Politics of Atheism |
| Week 5 (12th Nov) | Patrick Williamson (St Cross College) | Demandingness and Autonomy |
| Week 6 (19th Nov) | Amit Karmon (Reuben College) | Which Ideal Epistemology? |
| Week 7 (26th Nov) | Juan Miguel López Munive (New College) | Logical reconstruction and the metalinguistic turn in modal logic |
| Week 8 (3rd Dec) | Thibault Rushbrooke (Magdalen College) | Radical Semantic Internalism |
| Week 1 (30th April) | Katie Moody | Perspectives and epistemic dependence |
| Week 2 (7th May) | Alina Wang | Being an animal and enjoying fiction |
| Week 3 (14th May) | Jonathan Krude | What is wrong with identifying being and thought? |
| Week 4 (21st May) | Hatis Acar | One Truth is Not Enough: On the Limits of Monist Human Rights Theories |
| Week 5 (28th May) | Kida Ling | Minor Threateners and Wrongful Killings in War |
| Week 6 (4th June) | Pranciskus Gricius | On Typed Reality |
| Week 7 (11th June) | Julian Ratcliffe | Conceptual Agency |
| Week 8 (18th June) | Julius Geissler | What is the "central area of moral philosophy"? - Religious orientation and the shortcomings of contemporary ethics in Iris Murdoch |
| Week 1 (22nd Jan) | Miguel Lopez Munive | Possible-words semantics for a partial necessity predicate |
| Week 3 (5th Feb) | Óscar Monroy | Ideology and the commitments of abductive methodology |
| Week 4 (12th Feb) | Lewis Williams | Deliberative Extra-Normativism |
| Week 5 (19th Feb) | Jakob Lohmar | Moral Theory and the Importance of the Far Future |
| Week 6 (26th Feb) | Mariona Miyata Sturm | Effortless elegance and other epistemic pleasures |
| Week 7 (5th March) | Evie Moss | Dynamic Desire: Explaining our Privileged Access to Dispositional States |
| Week 8 (12th March) | Julius Geissler | A mismatch between heaven, earth, and human beings: practical cultivation and the purpose of divinatory practices in the Xìcí Zhuàn繫辭傳 |
| Week 1 (16th Oct) | Sally Atkins | Asking for Ourselves: Recognition of Other Reasoners in Kant |
| Week 2 (23rd Oct) | Riley Harris | Identifying Artificial Sentience |
| Week 3 (30th Oct) | Sepehr Razavi | What is Active Touch |
| Week 4 (6th Nov) | Jacob Mortimer | The 'Time-Lag Argument' in Early Buddhist Theories of Perception |
| Week 5 (13th Nov) | James Glover | The positivist foundations of Frank Ramsey's philosophy of science |
| Week 6 (20th Nov) | Jonathan Krude | Heidegger on Overcoming Metaphysics |
| Week 7 (27th Nov) | Niklas Welch | Thinking about things and thinking about oneself: Heidegger's critique of Descartes |
| Week 8 (4th Dec) | Frank Cudek | Theoretical Possibility and Spacetime Substantivalism |