Events in 2024-25

The Department of Philosophy runs an active program of events.

Conferences and Workshops 2024–25

Departmental Research Seminar 2024–25

The department research seminar is our central weekly event covering topics across the discipline.

  • Panos Paris (University of Cardiff)
  • Adam Toon (Exeter) – Minds, metaphors, and (historical) materialism
  • Anna-Sofia Maurin (University of Gothenburg) – The Value of Car(v)ing
  • Benedict Eastaugh (University of Warwick) – Probability, consistency, and idealisation
  • Clara Bradley (UCL) – Are Sophistication and Reduction Always Viable Alternatives?
  • Giulia Felappi (University of Southampton) – Saving Logic from a Metaphysical Limbo. Susanne Langer on Logical Assertion
  • Jer Steeger (University of Bristol) – A pluralist approach to quantum probabilism
  • Jingyi Wu (London School of Economics) – Rigour Capture
  • Mark Pinder (Open University) – Conceptual engineering as a philosophical methodology
  • Matteo Mameli (King's College London) – Human Nature and Conceptual Engineering
  • Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol) – When are choices, actions, and consent based on adaptive preferences nonautonomous?
  • Ross Pain (University of Bristol) – Structural representation, teleosemantics and the proximate/ultimate distinction
  • Ryan Nefdt (University of Cape Town) – Language Models, Impossible Grammars, and Natural Selection
  • Brian McElwee (Southampton) – Moral Duties to Our Elderly Parents
  • David Enoch – Why Isn't (Purely) Epistemic Autonomy of Value?
  • Elisabeth Widmer – Max Adler’s Neo-Kantian Reinvention of Marx’s Notion of History
  • Joel Krueger – Joel Krueger (University of Exeter)
  • Joey Pollock – ‘Testimonial pessimism’
  • Sarah Fine – Prof. Sarah Fine (University of Cambridge)
  • Tzu Chien Tho and Duncan Kennedy – The emergence of historical ontology
  • Jade Fletcher (St Andrews)
  • Saira Khan (University of Bristol)

Further Research Seminars 2024–25

The department organises various research seminars on specialised topics. These are open to everyone, but can be more focused than our general departmental research seminar.

  • Barbara Montero (Notre Dame)
  • Co-constructing spacetime seminar series
  • EPIC seminar series
  • Formal epistemology reading with Pavel Janda (Prague)
  • LMS Hardy Lecture by Emily Riehl
  • Philosophy of Physics Seminar: Bethany Terris (Paris-Saclay) What do weak values reveal?
  • Philosophy of Physics Talk: Pascal Warnier (Western) Physics and Information
  • Philosophy of Science Graduate Seminar: Dean Rickles (Sydney), The Physics and Philosophy of Information
  • Philosophy of Science Seminar: Anastasiia Lazutkina (Wuppertal): Evidence in cosmology: how galaxies became complicate
  • Philosophy of Science Seminar: David Wallace (Pittsburgh)
  • Philosophy of Science Seminar: Dean Rickles (Sydney), The Metaphysical Implications of an Ontology of Information
  • Philosophy of Science Seminar: Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht), Unscrambling Subjective and Epistemic Probabilities
  • Philosophy of Science Seminar: Sarwar Ahmed (Wuppertal)
  • Pre-read session with Andrew Bacon
  • Research talk - Adam Bjorndahl (CMU)
  • Research talk - Jeffrey S. Bowers
  • Reserach talk - James DiFrisco (Crick Institute) - The interplay of tissue mechanics and gene regulatory networks in animal morphogenesis
  • Simon Allzén (Amsterdam/Stockholm): On The Ontology and Epistemology of Dark Matter
  • Simon Saunders (Oxford): Imprecise Probability and Quantum Indeterminacy
  • Tobias Henschen (Cologne) and James Ladyman (Bristol): Causality in Complex Systems

Work in Progress Sessions 2024–25

Work in progress sessions provide a platform for sharing ongoing research and receiving feedback.

Departmental Work In Progress Seminar 2024–25

  • Eoin Perry
  • Anthony Everett - 'Existence denials I: Meta-representational approaches'
  • Catrin Campbell-Moore
  • James Ladyman
  • Jonathan Grose
  • Max Jones - Sentience, Autonomy, and Cyborg Animals
  • Tzuchien Tho

Postgraduate Work In Progress Seminar 2024–25

  • Speaker: Calum Sims
  • Speaker: Alejandra Casas Munoz
  • Speaker: Alex Hepburn
  • Speaker: Calum Sims
  • Speaker: Flavia Pepi
  • Speaker: Fred Matthews
  • Speaker: Lem
  • Speaker: Li Zenhua
  • Speaker: Mathew Rutherford
  • Speaker: Michael Huber
  • Speaker: Oliver Hurcum
  • Speaker: Oliver Hurcum
  • Speaker: Tom Lee
  • Xmas WiP
  • Amanda Horner

Reading Groups 2024–25

Reading groups offer an informal setting for participants to discuss literature and research papers in a specific area of interest.

  • EPIC project reading group
  • Epistemology of Scientific Experimentation Reading Group
  • Ethics reading group
  • Formal Epistemology and Decision Theory reading group
  • Imagination Reading Group
  • Imagination, Skills and Virtue Reading Group
  • LLM Reading Group
  • Mind as Metaphor Reading Group
  • Political Philosophy Reading Group
  • Representing evolution reading group