Colloquia take place at 16.00-18.00 unless otherwise indicated. They are followed by drinks and then dinner for those interested.

Year 2015-16

Oct 14th 2015	Speaker: Ken Gemes (Birkbeck) Title: Nietzsche and the Crisis of Modernity
Oct 28th 2015	Speaker: Felix Pinkert (Warwick) Title: Justifying unpopular climate policies: The argument from moral error & moral expertise
Nov 11th 2015	Speaker: Alisa Mandrigin (Warwick) Title: 'Being a Woman in Philosophy' Speaker: Alisa Mandrigin (Warwick) Title: “Multimodality and Bodily Awareness”
Dec 2nd 2015	Speaker: Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick) Title: “Striking out for the sake of our Attacker”
Feb 3rd 2016	Speaker: Sarah Fine (KCL) Title: “Political Philosophy and Autobiography”.
Feb 24th 2016	Speaker:Tom Stern (UCL), Title: Nietzsche and Affirmation
Mar 2nd 2016	Speaker: Sacha Golob (KCL). Title: Reframing the Ontological Difference: contra Heidegger.
Mar 16th 2016	Speakers: Stephen Houlgate & Matthew Soteriou (Warwick), Title Hegel, McDowell and Perception
Jun 22nd 2016	Speaker: Paul Katsafanas (Boston University) Title: “Nietzsche on Sacred Values”.

Year 2014-15

Oct 8th 2014	Speaker: Tom Sorell (Warwick) 'The Priority of Private Morality: a Dogma’.
Oct 15th 2014	Speaker: Lawrence Hamilton (Witwatersrand/Cambridge) '‘Freedom as Power through Representation’.
Nov 19th 2014	Speaker: Clare Carlisle (KCL) '‘Spinoza on Religion’.
Dec 3rd 2014	Speaker: Susan James (Birkbeck) '‘Spinoza on Rights as Powers’
Jan 14th 2015	Speaker: Matthew Ratcliffe (Durham). Title: 'What is Thought Insertion?'
Jan 28th 2015	Speaker: Christopher Hamilton (KCL) ‘Nietzsche’s Religious Melancholy’.
Feb 11th 2015	Speaker: Ken Gemes (Birkbeck) Title: “Nietzsche and the Crisis of Modernity” *POSTPONED*
Feb 25th 2015	Speaker: Stacie Friend (Birkbeck) Title: 'The Fiction in Scientific Fictionalism'
Mar 11th 2015	Speaker: Fiona Hughes (Essex) Title: 'Reversibility and chiasm: false equivalents? An alternative approach to understanding difference in Merleau-Ponty’s late philosophy'
Apr 29th 2015	Speaker: Keith Ansell-Pearson & Quassim Cassam Title: 'Self-Knowledge and Self-Cultivation'

Autumn Term 2008-9

Oct. 1 2008	Mark Eli Kalderon ( UCL)
Oct. 15 2008	Matthew Kiernan (Leeds)
Oct. 22 2008	Alex Millar (Birmingham) “Kripke’s Wittgenstein: Old and New”
Nov. 5 2008	Keith Allen (York)
Nov. 12 2008	David Liggins (Manchester)
Nov. 26 2008	Jason McKenzie (LSE)
Dec. 3 2008	Peter Goldie (Manchester)

Spring Term 2008-09

Jan. 7 2009	Chris Peacocke (Columbia)
Jan. 21 2009	Mark Textor (KCL)
Jan. 28 2009	Adrian Haddock (Stirling)
Feb. 11 2009	Bob Sugden (LSE)
Feb 18 2009	Ian Rumfitt (Birkbeck)
Mar 4 2009	Oliver Pooley (Oxford)
Mar 11 2009	Sarah Patterson (Birkbeck)

 

Summer Term 2008-09

Apr. 22 2009	Susan James (Birkbeck)
Apr. 29 2009	Lambert Wiesing (Jena)
May 6 2009	Lydia Goer (Columbia)
May 13 2009	Tom Crowther (Heythrop)
May 27 2009	Peter Kail (Oxford)
Jun. 3 2009	Maria Alvarez (Southampton)
Jun 17 2009	Alex Voorhoeve (LSE)
Jun 24 2009	Maja Spener (Oxford)

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Past Colloquia

Autumn Term 2007-8

Oct. 10, 2007: Rowland Stout (University College, Dublin)

Oct. 24, 2007: Gabriel Uzquiano (Oxford)

Nov. 7, 2007: Charles Travis (King's College)

Nov. 21, 2007: John Hawthorne (Oxford)

Nov. 28, 2007: John Protevi (Louisiana State)

 

Spring Term 2007-8

Jan 16, 2008: Ian Rumfitt (Birkbeck) (Cancelled)

Jan. 30, 2008: John Divers (Sheffield)

Feb. 13, 2008: Tim Bayne (St Catherine's, Oxford)

Feb. 27, 2008: Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State)

March 12, 2008: Tom Baldwin (York)

 

Summer Term 2007-8

April 23, 2008: Milos Arsenijevic & Sandra Scepanovic

April 30, 2008: Bob Hale (Sheffield) "The Problem of Mathematics"

May 7, 2008: Richard Dietz (St Andrews)

May 14, 2008: Scott Sturgeon (Wadham) (Cancelled)

May 28, 2008: Anton Friedrich Koch (Tuebingen)

 

Spring Term 2006-7

17 Jan	Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (University of Nottingham) 'The Subtraction of Argument'
31 Jan	Scott Sturgeon (Birkbeck) tbc
14 Feb	Chris Hookway (Sheffield) tbc
28 Feb	Lucy O'Brien (UCL) tbc

 

Autumn Term 2006

11 Oct	Matt Nudds (University of Edinburgh) 'Auditory Perception'
25 Oct	Rory Madden (Oxford) 'Brain Transplants, Externalism and Concreteness'
8 Nov	Bill Child (Oxford) 'Does the Tractatus Contain a Private Language Argument?'
22 Nov	Mike Otsuka (UCL) 'Personal Identity and the Siginificance of Becoming

 

Spring Term 2006

11 Jan	Paul Davies (University of Sussex) 'Without Paraphrase: Metaphors and Poems'
25 Jan	Alan Millar (Stirling) 'Recognitional Abilities and Perceptual Knowledge'
8 Feb	Adrian Moore (Oxford) 'Williams, Nietzsche, and the Meaninglessness of Immortality'
15 Feb	Jagdish Hattiangadi (York, Toronto) 'Fallibilism, Context and Liberal Democracy'
22 Feb	Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck) TBA
8 Mar	Dom Lopes (University of British Columbia) 'True Appreciation'

Autumn Term 2005

5 Oct	Tom Stoneham (York) 'Quod video existit: Berkeley and Collier on Existence and Perception'
12 Oct	Paul Smith (History of Art, University of Warwick)
19 Oct	Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh) 'A Cure for the Cognitive Hiccups'
16 Nov	Mark Sacks (University of Essex)
23 Nov	Tim Williamson
30 Nov	Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck) 'The Virtue of Testimonial Justice - Intellectual or Ethical?'

Summer Term 2005

11 May

Paul Snowdon (UCL) "The 'What-it-is-Likeness' of Experience"

Spring Term 2005

12 Jan	Mike Martin (UCL) 'In Praise of Self: Hume's Love of Fame'
26 Jan	Alex Bird (Bristol) 'Justified Judging'
9 Feb	Nick Shea (Oxford) 'The Which? approach to theories of content: consumers need information' (abstract)
16 Feb	Angie Hobbs (Warwick) 'Plato on War' special time: 3.00-5.00 pm special venue:H0.60
23 Feb	Bob Stern (Sheffield) 'Hegel and Deleuze on the Problem of Individuality'

Autumn Term 2004

20 Oct	David Charles (Oxford) 'On Emotion'
27 Oct	John Broome (Oxford) 'Reasoning' (read abstract)
10 Nov	Quassim Cassam (UCL) 'The Possibility of Knowledge' (read abstract)
24 Nov	Michael Luntley (Warwick) 't.b.c.'