Undergraduate conference
The Undergraduate Philosophy Conference is a great opportunity for students to experience presenting one of their own papers to an interested group of peers.
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The University of Sheffield Undergraduate Philosophy Conference is organised annually by students. Previous events have included student talks on topics including God, existential crisis and hope, feminist philosophy of disability, and personal identity. The conference has also featured lecturer discussion panels, a philosophy quiz, and invited speakers such as:
- Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow) on 'Philosophy of Hallucination'
- Jenny Saul (University of Sheffield) on 'Dogwhistles and Figleaves: Techniques of Racist Political Manipulation'
- Jack Woods (University of Leeds) on 'Abductive immodesty in mathematics and morality'
- David Liggins (University of Manchester) on 'Nihilism about truth'
- Robbie Morgan (University of Sheffield) on 'What makes an attack sexual?'