Digest Week 6 Hilary Term 2026

HT26, Week 6 (22 February - 28 February)

If you have entries for the weekly Digest, please send information to admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk by midday, Tuesday the week before the event. 

Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond

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The History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) Reading Group

The History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) Reading Group is a new joint venture of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology and the Faculty of Philosophy.

Beginning in Hilary term 2026, we will meet fortnightly to discuss recent work in the broad field of HPS. Our plan is to spend a term working our way through a book, beginning in Hilary with our own Catherine Jackson's Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry (MIT Press, 2023). 

Meetings will take place Tuesday afternoons (4:30-5:30pm) on even weeks (2, 4, 6, 8), in the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

Anyone is free to join, but attendance is limited to the capacity of our booked room. So, if you'd like to join the HPS Reading Group, please sign up here. The co-conveners (Alex Aylward (History, alexander.aylward@history.ox.ac.uk) & Sam Fletcher (Philosophy, sam.fletcher@merton.ox.ac.uk)) will write to attendees with further information at the beginning of Hilary term.

 

Jurisprudence Discussion Group

Title: The Conceptual Priority of Debt: Against the Orthodoxy (and the Heterodoxy) on Exchange and Money

Speaker: Jed Lewinsohn (University of Pittsburgh)

Date and time: Thursday 26th February, 12:30pm 

Venue: Massey Room, Balliol College

Registration: We will provide lunch to those who register their attendance via this form - Registration Form: JDG meetings in Hilary 2026

Invitation to the book launch for the Proceedings of the British Academy volume Consenting Children: Autonomy, Responsibility, Wellbeing

Speakers: Professor Emily Jackson FBA (LSE Law School) acting as commentator; more speakers tbc

Title: 'Consenting Children: Autonomy, Responsibility, Wellbeing'

Date and time: Friday 27th February, 3:30pm to 7:00pm

Venue: Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College, Oxford

Lisa Forsberg (Oxford) and Isra Black (UCL)  warmly invite you to join the book launch for the Proceedings of the British Academy volume Consenting Children: Autonomy, Responsibility, Wellbeing. A wine reception with nibbles follows the academic discussion, which will conclude around 5:00pm.

If you would like to attend, please register via this link: https://forms.office.com/e/mCpgHKEf12?origin=lprLink

(A small number of heavily discounted copies of the volume will be available for sale).