27th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference

Radcliffe Humanities

The 27th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference will be held on the 11-12 November 2023 at the University of Oxford.

This highly anticipated event enjoys a reputation for being one of the most prestigious philosophy conferences at graduate level in the world. It involves 3 Keynotes, 11 presentations by Graduate Students with responses from Oxford faculty members, as well as a session on publishing by the co-editor of Mind. It is an opportunity to network with the faculty members as well as other Graduate Students from around the world.

We are delighted to announce our three keynote speakers at this year’s conference:  

Julia Driver (Austin/ St. Andrews)

Cécile Fabre (Oxford) 

Crispin Wright (Stirling)

The conference is often filled to capacity and spaces may be limited. This is your opportunity to secure your place to attend in person. To register click here.

Sponsors: The 27th annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference has been made possible thanks to the generous support of The Aristotelian Society, The Analysis Trust, The Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford, and The Royal Institute of Philosophy

For more information you can contact us at gradconf@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

The current conference schedule is:

Saturday 11 November

9.00 - 9.30 Breakfast and registration

9.30 - 10.25 Joel Joseph (St Andrews) 'Eliminative Harming Without Intentions'

Response: Jeff McMahan

10.30 - 11.20 Adrian W. Moore (Oxford, Co-Editor of Mind) Publishing Workshop

15 mins tea and coffee break

11.35 - 12.45 KEYNOTE: Julia Driver (UT Austin / St Andrews) 'It's Understandable'

12.45 - 13.45 Lunch

13.45 - 14.40 Subin Park (UC San Diego) 'Can Crafts Be Misused? Craft in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics'

Response: Karen Margrethe Nielsen

14.45 - 15.40 Emma Emrich (Fordham University) 'Teleological Unity Among Plurality: Richard of Mediavilla and the Plurality of Substantial Form Debate'

Response: Cecilia Trifogli

15 mins tea and coffee break

15.55 - 16.50 Christabel Cane (UCL) 'The Problems of Temporarily Held Properties'

Response: Nick Jones

16.55 - 17.50 Frederik J. Andersen (St Andrews) 'Countering Justification Holism in the Epistemology of Logic: The Argument from Pre-Theoretic Universality'

Response: Timothy Williamson

15 mins tea and coffee break

18.05 - 19.15 KEYNOTE: Crispin Wright (Stirling) 'The Sceptic and the dogmatist (small 'd')'

19.40 - 22.00 Dinner

Sunday 12 November

9.00 - 9.30 Breakfast and registration

9.30 - 10.25 Brett Park (Pittsburgh) 'Causation Beyond Manipulation'

Response: Christopher Timpson

10.30 - 11.25 Ruodan Que (KCL) 'Bringing Explanation and Grounding Together: An Investigation into Metaphysical Explanation, Grounding, and Explanation Tout Court'

Response: Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

15 mins tea and coffee break

11.40 - 12.35 Tobias Sandoval (UT Austin) 'Is the Content of Episodic Memory Propositional?'

Response: Bernhard Salow

12.35 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.25 Levin Güver (UCL) 'The Unity of Motive'

Response: Grant Lamond

14.30 - 15.25 Jordan Scott (Rutgers) 'The Implications of Racist Perception'

Response: Cécile Fabre

15 mins tea and coffee break

15.40 - 16.35 Katherine Crone (St Andrews) 'The Fitting Resolution of Anger in Unconditional Forgiveness'

Response: Julia Driver

16.40 - 17.50 KEYNOTE: Cécile Fabre (Oxford) 'The Expressive Duty to Vote'

17.50 - 19.00 Wine Reception