WMA Graduate Research Seminar, 2023/2024
In preparation for MindGrad we will dedicate the first 3 sessions to 3 papers by Matt Soteriou and the following 3 session to background reading for Lea Salje's talk.
Week 4: Matt Soteriou, ‘Determining the Future’ [pdf]
Week 5: Matt Soteriou, ‘The past made present: Mental time travel in episodic recollection’ [pdf]
Week 6: Matt Soteriou, ‘Waking Up and Being Conscious' [link]
Week 7: Eli Alshanetsky, Articulating a Thought, Introduction [link] and Chapter 2 'A Puzzle' [link]
Week 8: TBA
Week 9: Alex Byrne, TBA
Thu 4 May, '23- |
Wiggins on EthicsS2.77“In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on ‘moral relativism’, among others.” For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome. Thursday May 4, 3–5pm: Chapter 2: Hume’s genealogy of morals |
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Thu 11 May, '23- |
Wiggins on EthicsS2.77“In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on ‘moral relativism’, among others.” For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions. Thursday May 11, 3–5pm: Chapter 3: Hume’s theory extended |
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Fri 12 May, '23- |
Chinese Philosophy Seminar Series 2022/23MS TeamsRegistrationLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window Guest Speaker: Jifen Li (Renmin University of China) Title: A New Account of Human Nature in the Xunzi |
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Thu 18 May, '23- |
Wiggins on EthicsS2.77“In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on ‘moral relativism’, among others.” For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions. Thursday May 18, 3–5pm: Chapter 4: From Hume to Kant |
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Thu 25 May, '23- |
Wiggins on EthicsS2.77“In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on ‘moral relativism’, among others.” For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions. Thursday May 25, 3–5pm: Chapter 5: The laws of morality as the laws of freedom and the laws of freedom as the laws of morality |
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Thu 8 Jun, '23- |
Wiggins on EthicsS2.77“In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on ‘moral relativism’, among others.” For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions. Thursday June 8, 3–5pm: Chapter 6: Classical utilitarianism |
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Thu 15 Jun, '23- |
Wiggins on EthicsS2.77 |
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Thu 22 Jun, '23- |
Wiggins on EthicsOnline“In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on ‘moral relativism’, among others.” For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions. Thursday June 22, 3–5pm (Online): Chapter 8: The consequentialist argument |
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Wed 28 Jun, '23- |
WMA seminar - Eylem ÖzaltunS0.17 |
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Tue 17 Oct, '23- |
PKEP Seminar - Ellie Anderson (Pomona) – “The Critical Phenomenological Turn"R0.03Ellie Anderson (Pomona) – “The Critical Phenomenological Turn" |
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Wed 18 Oct, '23- |
WMA Seminar - Quassim Cassam - Liberation PhilosophyS0.09 |
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Tue 31 Oct, '23- |
PKEP Seminar - Gregory Moss (Hong Kong) – “From Identity to Ground: The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Hegel's Science of Logic"R0.04Gregory Moss (Hong Kong) – “From Identity to Ground: The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Hegel's Science of Logic" To join via Teams click here |
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Tue 14 Nov, '23- |
PKEP Seminar - Eliza Starbuck Little (Warwick) – "Seeing with the Eyes of Reason, or, Hegelian Conceptual Amelioration"R0.03Eliza Starbuck Little (Warwick) – "Seeing with the Eyes of Reason, or, Hegelian Conceptual Amelioration" To join via Teams click here |
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Wed 15 Nov, '23- |
WMA SeminarTBC |
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Tue 28 Nov, '23- |
PKEP Seminar - Timothy Stoll (Warwick) – "Myth and Metaphysics in The Birth of Tragedy“R0.03Timothy Stoll (Warwick) – "Myth and Metaphysics in The Birth of Tragedy“
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Wed 6 Dec, '23- |
WMA SeminarTBC |
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Tue 23 Jan, '24- |
PKEP Seminar - Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway) – book workshop on Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant (forthcoming OUP)S0.19Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway) – book workshop on Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant (forthcoming OUP) |
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Tue 6 Feb, '24- |
PKEP Seminar - Sean D. Kelly (Harvard) – “The Proper Dignity of Human Being”S0.19Sean D. Kelly (Harvard) " The Proper Dignity of Human Being" |
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Tue 20 Feb, '24- |
PKEP Seminar - Nicolas de Warren (Penn State) - "Phenomenology of the After-Life"S0.19Nicolas de Warren (Penn State) - "Phenomenology of the After-Life" |
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Wed 28 Feb, '24- |
Staff WiP seminarS2.77Chenwei Nie Title: ‘White Queen Irrationality’. |
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Tue 5 Mar, '24- |
PKEP Seminar - Toril Moi (Duke – online) – “Simone de Beauvoir and the Experience of Otherness”S0.19Toril Moi (Duke - online) - "Simone de Beauvoir and the Experience of Otherness" |
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Tue 12 Mar, '24- |
PKEP Seminar - Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) “The Transcendence of Spinoza's God“S0.19 |
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Thu 25 Apr, '24- |
Summer Seminar 2024: Troy Jollimore, Love’s VisionR3.25Thursday April 25, 2–4pm: Preface + Chapter 1: “Something In Between”: On the Nature of Love Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome. “Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love’s Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love’s moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato’s Symposium, love is “something in between.”” |
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Wed 1 May, '24- |
Staff WiP SeminarS2.77 |
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Thu 2 May, '24- |
Summer Seminar 2024: Troy Jollimore, Love’s VisionSeminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome. Thursday May 2, 2–4pm: Chapter 2: Love’s Blindness (1): Love’s Closed Heart. “Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love’s Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love’s moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato’s Symposium, love is “something in between.”” |