University of Reading Visiting Speaker Sessions

Semester 1  2024
Thursdays 2-3.50pm

Talk details will be continuously updated on this page.

If you have any questions, email michela.bariselli@reading.ac.uk.

 

Date &
Location
Speaker Title Abstract
03/10/2024
ONLINE
Julia Mosquera (Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm) Emotions and conflicts: A new problem from a long-standing value inquiry
10/10/2024 EM 227 Gerald Lang (Leeds) Retreating from Necessity Abstract
17/10/2024 EM 227 Bart Streumer (Groningen) How Berkeley Can Go Quasi and Lose his Mind-Dependence Abstract
24/10/2024 EM 227 Tom Angier (Cape Town) Bodily Goods Abstract
31/10/2024 EM 227 Yulong Tan (Reading – visiting)  

Zui: An Ideal Realm of Chinese Aesthetics

Abstract
07/11/2024 READING WEEK
14/11/2024 EM 227 Fiona Woollard (Southampton) Intimate Intertwinement In and After Pregnancy  Abstract
21/11/2024 EM G74

4pm-6pm

Gonzalo Núñez Erices (Universidad Católica del Maule) Frege’s Influence on the Thesis of the Determinacy of Sense in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus  Abstract
28/11/2024 EM 227 Joe Horton (UCL) Loopy Decisions Abstract
05/12/2024 EM 227 Maximilian De Gaynesford (Reading) T.S. Eliot’s Philosophy Years (1910-18): What are we missing? Abstract
12/12/2024 ONLINE Elise Marrou (Sorbonne) “The depth of magic ought to be preserved” : Re-reading Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough Abstract