28th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference

Radcliffe Humanities

The 28th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference was held on the 16th - 17th November 2024 at the University of Oxford.

Keynote speakers at this year’s conference:  

  • Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge)
  • David Enoch (University of Oxford)
  • Stephen Mulhall (University of Oxford)

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 28th annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference was made possible thanks to the generous support of The Oxford Uehiro Institute, The Analysis Trust, The Society for Applied Philosophy The Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford, and The Royal Institute of Philosophy

 

The current conference schedule was:

Saturday 16 November 2024

9.00 Registration

9.30 – 10.30 Keynote Lecture: Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge) What’s for Dinner? The Gendered Division of Cooking
Chairs: Esther Braun and Ronya Ramrath, Lecture Room (second floor)

10.30 – 11.00 Break Tea and coffee provided in the Ryle Room (first floor)

11.00 – 12.00 Parallel Sessions Colin Matthew Room (ground floor) Chair: Kenneth Novis Liam Livesley (University of Southampton) Hermeneutical Rug Pulls and Just Conceptual Engineering Respondent: Roger Crisp Lecture Room (second floor) Chair: Dan Gallagher Marina Moreno (Ludwig-MaximilianUniversity Munich) On the Possibility of Moderate Humeanism Respondent: Timothy Williamson

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch Vegetarian and vegan lunch options provided in the Ryle Room (first floor)

13.00 – 14.00 Parallel Sessions
Colin Matthew Room (ground floor) Chair: Katerina Jennings Pelin Kasar (Central European University) Implicit Biases as Traces of the Past
Respondent: Jules Salomone-Sehr
Lecture Room (second floor) Chair: Asia Sakchatchawan Victor Popa (Ecole Normale Supérieure) Taste Terms and the Specificity of Aesthetic Predication
Respondent: James Grant

14.00 – 14.30 Break Tea and coffee in the Ryle Room (first floor)

14.30 – 15.30 Parallel Sessions
Colin Matthew Room (ground floor) Chair: Kenneth Novis Yuanjin Xia (Queen’s University, Canada) Communal Reciprocity and Uncommodifiable Labour
Respondent: Thomas Sinclair
Lecture Room (second floor) Chair: Paul Heller Alice Wheatley (University of East Anglia) The Value of Grasping
Respondent: Alison Hills

15.30 – 16.00 Break

16.00 – 17.00 Keynote Lecture: Stephen Mulhall (University of Oxford) Metaphorical Truth: Nietzsche and Cavell on the Mobile Armies of Language Chairs: Esther Braun and Ronya Ramrath, Lecture Room (second floor)

19.00 Conference Dinner Al-Shami, 25 Walton Cres, OX1 2JG

Sunday 17 November 2024

From 9.00 Registration

9.30 – 10.30 Keynote Lecture: David Enoch (University of Oxford) Why Isn’t (Purely) Epistemic Autonomy of Value? Chairs: Esther Braun and Ronya Ramrath, Lecture Room (second floor)

0.30 – 11.00 Break Tea and coffee provided in the Ryle Room (first floor)

11.00 – 12.00 Parallel Sessions
Colin Matthew Room (ground floor) Chair: Ben Lang Calida Kang (The University of British Columbia) Caring Whispers: Re-evaluating Gossip as a Form of Care
Respondent: Sebastien Bishop
Lecture Room (second floor) Chair: Flora Nelson Sofija Anna Kozlova (Munich School of Ancient Philosophy, LMU) Aristotle on the Unity and Multiplicity of Sense Modalities
Respondent: Michail Peramatzis

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch Vegetarian and vegan lunch options provided in the Ryle Room (first floor)

13.00 – 14.00 Parallel Sessions
Colin Matthew Room (ground floor) Chair: Katerina Jennings Eli Benjamin Israel (Temple University) Participant Trust
Respondent: Stephen Wright
Lecture Room (second floor) Chair: Tibo Rushbrooke Yunlong Cao (University of California, Irvine) Virtual-Inclusive Categories and the Simulation Hypothesis
Respondent: Bernhard Salow

14.00 – 14.30 Break Tea and coffee provided in the Ryle Room (first floor)

14.30 – 15.30 Parallel Sessions
Colin Matthew Room (ground floor) Chair: Kenneth Novis Sam Williams (University of Edinburgh) ‘Men, not beasts’: Peter Winch and Concepts of the Human
Respondent: Edward Harcourt
Lecture Room (second floor) Chair: Paul Heller Gareth Norman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Keeping Count of Co-Predications
Respondent: Ofra Magidor

15.30 – 16.00 Break

16.00 – 17.00 Workshop on Publishing in Philosophy with Ian Rumfitt Chair: Tibo Rushbrooke, Lecture Room (second floor)

17.30 Drinks at the Royal Oak (across the street)