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Upcoming Events

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
moral philosophy

Moral Philosophy Seminar (Monday, Week 5, MT26 - 16:15-18:00)

09 November 2026
Alex Kaiserman (Balliol College, Oxford): 'Complicity and 'Significant Contribution' to Crime'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre
Oxford Colloquium in Linguistics and Philosophy 2026

Oxford Colloquium in Linguistics and Philosophy 2026

09 November 2026
Jeffrey C. King (Rutgers University), 'Deferred reference'; Anna Morpurgo Davies Room, Schwarzman Centre
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Early Career Work in Progress Seminar (Tuesday, Week 5, MT26 - 16:30-18:00)

10 November 2026
Kirstine La Cour (Trinity College): 'Resistant Responsibility'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre  
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DPhil Seminar (Wednesday, Week 5, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

11 November 2026
James Robinson (St Cross College): 'On the Value of Fair Chances'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar

Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar (Thursday, Week 5, MT26 - 13:00-14:30)

12 November 2026
Ripunjay Dwivedi (Oxford): 'A Fibre-Bundle Foundation for the Work-Heat Decomposition in Classical Thermodynamics'; Seminar Room (10.019), Schwarzman Centre
Ockham Society

The Ockham Society (Thursday, Week 5, MT26 - 14:00-15:00)

12 November 2026
'TBC'
Philosophy of Physics

Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Thursday, Week 5, MT26 - 15:00-17:00)

12 November 2026
Danilo Fucci (Oxford): 'Bell tests for nonclassicality in collider decay processes'; Lecture Theatre L1 (10.300), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday, Week 5, MT26 - 15:30-17:00)

13 November 2026
Will Davies (University of Oxford): 'Beyond the Object File: Stuff-Field Representations Underlie Stuff Perception'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar

Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (Monday, Week 6, MT26 - 16:30-18:30)

16 November 2026
Richard Pettigrew (New College, Oxford): 'Instrumental nominalism, modalism, and the commitments of mathematical language'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre  
Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar

Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday, Week 6, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

17 November 2026
Asia Sakchatchawan (Oxford): 'Play-based reading of Sartre's Authenticity as a Relational Virtue'; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
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DPhil Seminar (Wednesday, Week 6, MT26 - 16:00-18:00)

18 November 2026
TBC; Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre

Past Events

Ockham Society

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

05 November 2026
Xichen Li (Pembroke College): 'Imitation and Being Imitative in Socrates’s Critique of Poetry in the Republic’
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
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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
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
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  
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 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
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
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CANCELLED 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
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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  
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
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