Digest Week 7 Hilary Term 2026

HT26, Week 7 (1 March - 7 March)

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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Wittgenstein Reading Group

Title: Wittgenstein’s Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics.

Date and time: Tuesday 3rd March, 4.45pm - 6.45pm 

Venue: Canada Room, St Hilda’s

Please contact Richard Gipps (richard.gipps@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) to enquire about attending the meeting and to be informed of the relevant passages to read.

 

Iris Murdoch Society Event

Speakers: Dr Arnaud Petit

Title: Iris Murdoch on ‘knowing what a word means’

Date and time: Wednesday 4th March, 6.00pm

Venue: Glen Callater room at the HB Allen Centre (offsite location of Keble College)

 

Heidegger's Way to Being and Time: The Centenary Workshops (Workshop 6)

Title: Drafting Being and Time

Speaker: Sacha Golob (King’s College, London) and Joseph Schear (Oxford)

Date and time: Wednesday 4th March, 2:00pm 

Venue: Lecture Room 2, Christ Church, Oxford and online

Abstract: The final form that ‘Being and Time’ takes emerges in lectures from 1925-26, in particular, History of the Concept of Time (1925), ‘Wilhelm Dilthey’s Research and the Struggle for a Historical Worldview’ (1925) and Logic: The Question of Truth (1925-26), the latter including crucial documentation of the growing influence of Kant, another product of Heidegger’s on-going dialogue with philosophy’s history (see also his 1926 Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy lectures and his 1926-27 Geschichte der Philosophie von Thomas von Aquin bis Kant lectures).

Programme and registration: Heidegger’s Way to ‘Being and Time’ – The Centenary Workshops

Joseph Butler Society

Speakers: Dr Eric Yang (Santa Clara University)

Title: 'Theological Modelling as Conceptual Artmaking'

Date and time: Thursday 5 March, from 8:30 pm

Please note change from usual venue: MacGregor Room, Oriel College

Further details are here: https://josephbutlersociety.weebly.com/