We have a packed programme of talks this term! All staff and students are welcome to all events. Updated 29 September.
Please email luke.elson@reading.ac.uk with any questions.
Week 1
- Debate: Luke Elson and Philip Stratton-Lake, Must all Reasons Stem from Desires?
Tuesday 2-4pm, in the Van Emden Lecture Theatre in HumSS
Week 2
- Research Seminar: Elanor Taylor (Iowa State), Against Explanatory Realism.
Tuesday 2-4pm, in the Van Emden Lecture Theatre in HumSS - Wittgenstein Forum: Harry Tomany, Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics: The Intermediate Period.
Tuesday 4-6 pm, in URS 2n13.
Week 3 (note time change)
- Work in Progress: Brad Hooker, A Theory of Fairness.
Tuesday 4-6pm, in the Van Emden Lecture Theatre in HumSS
Week 4 (note special event)
- Research Seminar: Helen Beebee (Manchester), Metaphysics.
Tuesday 2-4pm, in the Van Emden Lecture Theatre in HumSS
and: Special Event: Helen Beebee, Women in Philosophy. (4:30pm – 6pm in the same room) - Wittgenstein Forum: Felix Hagenström (Southampton), Wittgenstein, Grammar & Idealism.
Tuesday 4-6 pm, in URS 2n13.
(Note that the Special Event and Wittgenstein Forum meeting clash.)
Week 5
- Philosophy Society: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke), Contrastive Mental Causation.
Tuesday 2-4pm, in the Van Emden Lecture Theatre in HumSS
Week 6
- Wittgenstein Forum: Robert Rabinowitz (London), Why coherence is relative and logically impossible things can happen.
Tuesday 4-6 pm, in URS 2n13.
Week 7
- Research Seminar: Joanna Burch-Brown (Bristol), Invention in Action.
Tuesday 2-4pm, in the Van Emden Lecture Theatre in HumSS
Week 8
- Philosophy Society: Michel Le Du (Strasbourg), What is it Like to Be a Relativist?
Tuesday 2-4pm, in the Van Emden Lecture Theatre in HumSS
- Wittgenstein Forum: Michel Le Du, Secondary Meaning.
Tuesday 4-6 pm, in URS 2n13.
Week 9
- Work in Progress: Emma Borg, What is the basis of social cognition? On behaviour-reading, mindreading and nativism.
Tuesday 2-4pm, in the Van Emden Lecture Theatre in HumSS
Week 10
- Research Seminar: Simon Kirchin (Kent), Concepts, Action-Guidance and Motivation: Ethics, Aesthetics and Motivation.
Tuesday 2-4pm, in the Van Emden Lecture Theatre in HumSS
- Wittgenstein Forum: Severin Schroeder, Convention & Necessity.
Tuesday 4-6 pm, in URS 2n13.
Week 11
- Work in Progress: James Stazicker, Self-Knowledge, Perceptual Evidence, and the Significance of Consciousness.
Tuesday 2-4pm, in the Van Emden Lecture Theatre in HumSS