Philosophy Research Seminar
The Philosophy Research Seminar (formerly known as The Department Seminar) is central to the academic life of the School of History, Philosophy, and Digital Humanities. The seminar runs most weeks in term time.
The Philosophy Research Seminar takes place on Friday afternoons through the Autumn and Spring terms (2:30-4:30 pm) in Broad Lane, Lecture Theatre 4
Speakers present their paper (sometime shared in advance) for 45 minutes, followed by a short break and discussion.
For more information, please, contact:
Jerry Viera - g.viera@sheffield.ac.uk or Ed Matthews - e.p.matthews@sheffield.ac.uk.
All are welcome!
Upcoming events
Autumn 2024
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of paper |
|---|---|---|
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11th October |
Monima Chadha - University of Oxford |
SPECIAL LECTURE - EXPANDING THE CANON 'Rethinking Responsibility' |
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18th October |
Alison Stone - Lancaster University |
'Frances Power Cobbe and Animal Ethics' |
| 25th October | Laurenz Casser - University of Sheffield | 'The Mismeasure of Pain' |
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1st November |
Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril - University of Sheffield |
SPECIAL LECTURE - THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISABILITY AND DIFFERENCE - 'Cripistemologies of Chronicity: A "coalition of the 'left-behinds'" |
| 8th November |
TzuChien Tho - University of Bristol |
'Living forces and Stationary action: Leibniz at the limits of analytic mechanics' |
| 22nd November |
Daisy Dixon - Cardiff University |
'Aesthetic Slurs' |
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6th December |
Aidan McGlynn - University of Edinburgh | 'Pornography, Objectification, and Fungibility' |
| 13th December | Naomi Thompson - University of Bristol | 'Social Metaphysical Explanation' |
Spring 2025
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of paper |
|---|---|---|
| 21st February | Sophie Grace Chappell - The Open University | TBC |
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28th February |
Helen Frowe - Stockholm University |
TBC |
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7th March |
Jessie Munton - University of Cambridge |
TBC |
| 14th March |
Nicholas Shea - University of London |
SPECIAL LECTURE - Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies' Distinguished Lecture in Cognitive Science |
|
21st March |
Chris Bennett - University of Sheffield |
TBC |
| 28th March |
Julia Borcherding - University of Cambridge |
SPECIAL LECTURE - WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY |
| 4th April | Jessica Begon - Durham University |
TBC |
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2nd May |
Dana Nelkin - University of California, San Diego |
TBC |
| 16th May | Adam Hosein - Northeastern University | SPECIAL LECTURE - MINORITIES AND PHILOSOPHY |
Past events
- Autumn 2023
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Date
Speaker
Title of paper
13th October
David Papineau - Kings College London
The Moral Irrelvance of Consciousness
20th October - CANCELLED
Rachel Fraser - Oxford University - CANCELLED
Open-mindedness as Curiosity - CANCELLED
27th October Ian Kidd - The University of Nottingham Misanthropy 3rd November - CANCELLED
Helen Frowe - Stockholm University - CANCELLED
(Some Nascent Thoughts on) The Moral Permissibility of Collective Defence Agreements - CANCELLED
10th November Lea Cantor - University of Cambridge
Ancient philosophy within a global purview: from historiography to first-order philosophical interpretation
17th November Camil Golub - Rutgers University
The Good, the Bad, and the Meaningful
24th November
Emma Borg - University of Reading Are Heuristics Unthinking Processes? The No Reasons challenge to Common-sense Psychology 1st December Richard Pettigrew - University of Bristol What is the distinctive wrong of testimonial injustice? 8th December Gonzalo Velasco Arias - Universidad Carlos III On Online Virtuous Deference
- Spring 2024
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Date
Speaker
Title of paper
16th February Michael Ridge - University of Edinburgh Immoral Hopes 23rd February
Alexander Prescott-Couch - Oxford University
Against Problematization Accounts of Genealogical Critique
1st March
Frederique Janssen-Lauret - University of Manchester (Women in the History of Philosophy Annual Lecture)
Susan Stebbing’s Philosophy of Physics
8th March Rachel Fraser - University of Oxford
Practical Assurance
22nd March Daniel Rothschild - University College London
Learning Curves: Machine and human learning
19th-20th April
(Two day conference)
Teemu Toppinen - Tampere University & Vilma I Venesmaa - University of Helsinki Conference title: Explaining Normativity
26th April
Patrice Haynes - University of Nottingham (Minorities and Philosophy Annual Lecture) TBC
3rd May Zsuzsanna Chappell The Philosophy of Disability and Difference 10th May Jonathan Parry - London School of Economics Why Paternalism is Wrong (When It is Wrong)?
- 2022
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Autumn 2022
Date
Speaker
Title of paper
13th October
Expanding the Canon Annual Lecture - Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, University of Sheffield, UK
Fanon and the Body Schema
21st October
Margaret Hampson, University of St Andrews, UK
The Tyrant and the Failure of Philia
4th November
Henry Schiller, University of Sheffield, UK
Getting what you "want"
4th November
*(Online Only) The BSHP Annual lecture 2022 - Clare Carlise, King's College London, UK
Note change time: 6.00-8.00 pm - Zoom Link to join HERE.Thought and Feeling: George Eliot and the Expansion of Philosophy
18th November Robbie Williams, University of Leeds, UK
Truth and rationality in mindreading
Postponed (Date TBC) Women in the History of Philosophy Annual Lecture - Rescheduled to 3rd March
2nd December
Alessandra Tanesini, Cardiff University, UK Commitment on-line: On taking responsibility for one’s words on social media
9th December David Sosa, University of Texas, Austin, USA What We Make When We Make an Effort - 2023
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Spring 2023
Date
Speaker
Title of paper
27th January Nomy Arpaly, Brown University, USA - ICOSS Conference Room - this talk will take place at 3:30 pm Deliberation and Fetish 10th February
Cancelled
17th February
Eliot Michaelson, King's College London, UK Knotty Promises
24th February Eli Pitcovski, Tel-Hai Academic College, Israel
Sentiments and personal identity
3rd March
Women in the History of Philosophy Annual Lecture - Sophia Connell, Birkbeck, University of London
The Theoretical and Practical Philosophy of Dr Sophie Bryant (1850-1922)
10th March Jordan MacKenzie, Virginia Tech University, USA
Humorlessness as a Moral Vice
17th March Cancelled 24th March
Matthew Congdon, Vanderbilt University, USA When Emotions Go Wrong: Epistemic and Ethical Distortions
31st March Luke Russell, The University of Sydney, Australia Have You Forgiven Me? 28th April Quassim Cassam, University of Warwick, UK Extremism, Radicalism, and the Politics of Labelling 5th May Lucy O'Brien, University College London, UK 12th May The Minorities and Philosophy Annual Lecture - Esa Díaz-León, Universitat de Barcelona
Register at bit.ly/3A5vvjy
Gender Identity, First-Person Authority, and Philosophy of Mind 19th May Robbie Kubala, University of Texas, Austin, USA Art and Responsibility June (Date TBC) Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Georgetown University, USA
- 2022
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Spring 2022
Date
Speaker
Title of paper
25th February
*Meena Krishamurthy (Queen’s University, Canada)
Martin Luther King on Fearlessness and Faith
4th March
*Megan Hyska (Northwestern University)
Against Irrationalism in the Theory of Propaganda
11th March
Beri Marušić (University of Edinburgh)
Interpersonal Reasoning
18th March
Tommy Curry (University of Edinburgh)
Decolonizing the Intersection: Conceptual and Empirical Evidence against the Presuppositions of Intersectional Theory
25th March
Dan Watts (University of Essex)
Kierkegaard on Thoughts
29th April
Alison Hills (University of Oxford)
6th May
Azita Chellappoo (Open University)
MAP Lecture
13th May
Frederique de Vignemont (École Normale Supérieure)
Anticipating Pain
- 2021
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Autumn 2021
Date
Speaker
Title of paper
8th October
*Henry Schiller (Washington University St Louis)
Informational Chauvinism
15th October
James Chamberlain (University of Sheffield)
A Humean account of moral intuitions
22nd October
*Lynne Tirrell (University of Connecticut)
Resistance isn't Futile: Fending off Toxic Speech
29th October
*Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
The Phenomenal Public
5th November
Boudewijn de Bruin (University of Groningen)
Testimonial injustice in law: Victims and witnesses of climate injustice
19th November
Derek Brown (University of Glasgow)
The Reality of Colour Illusion
26th November
Mona Simion (University of Glasgow)
What is Trustworthiness?
3rd December
Tommy Curry (University of Edinburgh)
Decolonizing the Intersection: Conceptual and Empirical Evidence against the Presuppositions of Intersectional Theory
10th December
Herjeet Marway (University of Birmingham)
Procreative Justice: Genetic Selection and Skin Tone
Spring 2021
Date Speaker Title of paper 19th February
Vanessa Wills (George Washington)
The 'White Privilege' Concept in Marxism and in Critical Race Theory 26th February Stephen Darwall (Yale)
Transformative Knowledge of Love and Respect: The Cases of James Baldwin and Frederick Douglass
5th March Margot Strohminger (Australian Catholic) What’s the difference between supposing and imagining? 12th March Adriana Clavel-Vasquez (Oxford)
Controlling (mental) images and the aesthetic appreciation of racialized bodies 19th March Candice Delmas (Northeastern)
Uncivil disobedience from Black
Lives Matter to the Capitol (2pm)26th March Laura Valentini (LMU Munich) Normative Powers 23rd April Jimmy Lenman (Sheffield) Confucius or Plato?
30th April Jules Holroyd (Sheffield) Bad Praise 7th May Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY)
Language & Social Ontology 14th May Jessica Leech (KCL) Martha Kneale's Necessary A Posteriori - 2020
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Autumn 2020
Date Speaker Title of paper 9th October David Enoch (Hebrew University) Why Care about Morality, Robustly Realistically Understood
16th October
Caspar Hare (MIT) Pleasing the Crowd Within 23rd October Liz Camp (Rutgers) Perspectival Complacency, Perversion and Amelioration
30th October Justin Clarke - Doane (Columbia) Russell's Regressive Method in Mathematics and Philosophy 6th November William Paris (Wesleyan) Looking for Tomorrow in Yesterday: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Utopia of The Souls of Black Folk. 13th November No Seminar Reading Week 20th November Thi Nguyen (Utah) Value Capture and Value Collapse (4pm) 27th November Carrie Fidgor (Iowa) What Could Cognition Be, If Not Human Cognition?
4th December Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Sheffield) Now and Then: Thinking about Time 11th December Margot Strohminger (ACU) Supposition, Imagination, and Offline Belief (Time TBC) 18th December Harjit Bhogal (Maryland) Strikingness (3pm) Spring 2020
Date Speaker Title of paper 14 February Seiriol Morgan (Bristol) On Entitlement 28 February Tom Stern (UCL) Nietzsche's Ethics 6 March Natalie Ashton (Stirling) Productive Online Environments: Why Twitter is (Epistemically) Better than Facebook
Minorities And Philosophy (MAP) Annual Lecture
Please note change of venue to Hicks Lecture Theatre 5
20 March Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Sheffield) 'Now' Thoughts 27 March Boudewijn de Bruin (Groningen) Self-Fulfilling Epistemic Injustice 3 April Carrie Figdor (Iowa) Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Psychology 1 May Dan Watts (Essex) Kierkegaard on the Limits of Reason and the Freedom to Judge 15 May Jessica Leech (King’s College London) Martha Kneale on Why Metaphysical Necessities Are Not A Priori
Annual Women in the History of Philosophy lecture
- 2019
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Autumn 2019
Date Speaker Title of paper 4 October Manolo Martinez (Barcelona) Imperative Transparency 18 October Max Hayward (Sheffield) Terrestrial Ethics 25 October Tatjana von Solodkoff (University College Dublin) Fragrant Games - Playing With Perfumes 1 November Louise Hanson (Durham) How To Be An Epistemic Constitutivist 8 November Oliver Hallich (Duisburg-Essen) The Dark Side of Forgiveness 29 November Margot Strohminger (Oxford) Skepticism About Cases in Philosophy, Near and Far 13 December David Owens (Kings College London) The Wrong of Untruthfulness Spring 2019
Date Speaker Title of paper 8 February Peter Graham (University of California Riverside) Are the Norms of Assertion Social Norms? 22 February Nick Hughes (Durham) Epistemic Dilemmas and the Fixed-Point Thesis 1 March Briana Toole (CUNY) Minorities and Philosophy Annual lecture: Holding Resistance Hostage: When Resistance Is Futile 8 March Mari Mikkola (Oxford) Self-Trust and Discriminatory Speech 22 March Chris Cowie (Durham) Responding to The Negative Repugnant Conclusion 29 March Tatjana von Solodkoff (University College Dublin) Cancelled 5 April Chris Meyns Annual Women in the History of Philosophy lecture: Rose Rand (1903–1980) from the Archives: Real and Unreal 3 May Megan Blomfield (Sheffield) Epistemic injustice in asylum claim credibility assessments 10 May Ellen Clarke (Leeds) On biological individuality - 2018
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Autumn 2018
Date Speaker Title of paper 12 October Dr Chris Marshall (Sheffield) Killing Innocent Threats and Ducking Harm 19 October Dr Jack Woods (Leeds) Disagreement about Logic: How and When 26 October Prof. Janet Radcliffe-Richards (Oxford) TBA 2 November Prof. Samir Okasha (Bristol) Inter-temporal choice and the metaphysics of time 16 November Dr Jessica May Isserow (Leeds) Pluralism about moral worth 23 November Prof. Robert Stern (Sheffield) Beast or Neighbour? Logstrup and Levinas on the Relation Between Ethics and Politics 30 November Dr Nils-Hennes Stear (Southampton) Is Aesthetic Immoralism Obviously True 7 December Dr Susanne Burri (LSE) Risk Imposition and Duties of Care Spring 2018
Date Speaker Title of paper 16 Feb Marika Rose (Winchester) Minorities and Philosophy Annual lecture: "Slaves and Tyrants: Freedom and Domination in the Vindication of the Rights of Women" 2 March Robert Stainton (Western) Meaning Pluralism, Linguistic Register and Slurs 9 March Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Sheffield) Homo Aestheticus 16 March Hili Razinsky (Lisbon) Ambivalence - cancelled due to proposed UCU industrial action. 20 April Teemu Toppinen (Helsinki) From Duty for the Right Reasons 27 April Robert Briscoe (Ohio) Virtual Representation in Pictorial Space 4 May Sandrine Berges (Bilkent) Annual Women in the History of Philosophy lecture: "The Republican Family in the Revolution: Adapting and Subverting Rousseau" 11 May Mathieu Doucet (Waterloo) Culpable ignorance and mental disorders