Events

Upcoming Events

epistemology reading group

Metaphysics, Language, and Epistemology Group (Tuesday, Week 3, MT26 - 14:00-15:45)

27 October 2026
Sepehr Razavi (Merton College, Oxford): 'Cognitive Bias'; Seminar Room (10.303), Level 1, Schwarzman Centre
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Early Career Work in Progress Seminar (Tuesday, Week 3, MT26 - 16:30-18:00)

27 October 2026
Dani Pino (Visiting from University of Granada): 'Towards a Practice-First Normativity of Journalism'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre  
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DPhil Seminar (Wednesday, Week 3, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

28 October 2026
Alexander Meyer (Brasenose College): 'How is Basic Normative Change Possible?'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Thursday, Week 3, MT26 - 14:00-15:00)

29 October 2026
Jonathan Metcalfe (Mansfield College, Oxford): 'Under the Bonnet of McDowell’s Virtue Ethics: Can Ross and Murdoch Provide the Tools for a Fix?'; Seminar Room (20.340), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of Physics

Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Thursday, Week 3, MT26 - 15:00-17:00)

29 October 2026
James Read (Oxford): 'Interpretationalism and motivationalism revisited'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday, Week 3, MT26 - 15:30-17:00)

30 October 2026
Justin D'Ambrosio (St Andrews): 'Whorfianism about Conscious Thought'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar

Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (Monday, Week 4, MT26 - 16:30-18:30)

02 November 2026
Davide Sutto (Christ Church, Oxford): 'Axiomatizing the Weak Iterative Conception of Set, Part 1: Constructible Level Theory'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre  
Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday, Week 4, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

03 November 2026
Evaldo Sampaio (Federal University of Ceará): 'A Tragic Conception of Necessity: Nietzsche and the Possibility of Wisdom'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
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DPhil Seminar (Wednesday, Week 4, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

04 November 2026
Matthew Hitchens (Lincoln College): 'Recognising Life'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar

Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar (Thursday, Week 4, MT26 - 13:00-14:30)

05 November 2026
Bryan Cheng (Oxford): 'Coordinating the sphere (or: do spheres dream of coordinate systems?)'; Seminar Room (20.306), Schwarzman Centre
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Thursday, Week 4, MT26 - 14:00-15:00)

05 November 2026
'TBC'
Philosophical Society

The Jowett Society (Friday, Week 4, MT26 - 15:00-18:00)

06 November 2026
Robert Northcott (Birkbeck University of London): 'Fragility and the impact of AI'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre

Past Events

moral philosophy

Moral Philosophy Seminar (Monday, Week 3, MT26 - 16:15-18:00)

26 October 2026
Tom Pink (Kings College London): 'Legal authority as coercive teacher'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophical Society

The Jowett Society (Friday, Week 2, MT26 - 15:00-18:00)

23 October 2026
Tom McClelland (University of Cambridge): 'Can Tests for Artificial Consciousness be Validated?'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday, Week 2, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

22 October 2026
Alex Long (University of St Andrews): 'Platonic protreptic and the unity of the Phaedrus'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Thursday, Week 2, MT26 - 14:00-15:00)

22 October 2026
Freddie Pflanz (New College, Oxford): 'A Defence of the Distinction Between Complex and Simple Views of Personal Identity'; Seminar Room (20.340), Level 2, Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar

Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar (Thursday, Week 2, MT26 - 13:00-14:30)

22 October 2026
Max Heitmann (Balliol College): 'The emergence of causality: a representation theorem'; Seminar Room (20.306), Schwarzman Centre
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DPhil Seminar (Wednesday, Week 2, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

21 October 2026
Jonathan Krude (Corpus Christi College): 'Heidegger Out of Bounds'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday, Week 2, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

20 October 2026
Hannah Ginsborg (UC Berkeley): 'Normativity, Rationality, and Judicial Discretion'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar

Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (Monday, Week 2, MT26 - 16:30-18:30)

19 October 2026
Daniel Isaacson (Wolfson College, Oxford): "'The axiomatisation of arithmetic'"; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre  
Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday, Week 1, MT26 - 15:30-17:00)

16 October 2026
Ofra Magidor (University of Oxford): 'Researching Polysemy: Theoretical Impact on Experimental Studies' (joint work with David Liebesman); Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday, Week 1, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

15 October 2026
Ian Campbell (Heidelberg University): 'Aristotle’s Defense of the Excluded Middle'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of Physics

Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Thursday, Week 1, MT26 - 15:00-17:00)

15 October 2026
Doreen Fraser (University of Waterloo) and Maria Papageorgiou (Vienna) : 'No superluminal physical influence in QFT with a local measurement theory'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Thursday, Week 1, MT26 - 14:00-15:00)

15 October 2026
Yuxin Tang (University College, Oxford): 'From Labour-Expressed Care to Holistic Care: Can AI Robots in Elderly Care Provide Good Care?'; Seminar Room (20.340), Level 2, Schwarzman Centre