Reading groups

Reading group organizers are asked to book accessible rooms for their meetings. In the department, these are seminar rooms B23 and B09. 

If you are holding your reading group outside the department, we would ask you to consider accessibility needs when choosing a location. 

If you want to join a reading group and have concerns or questions about accessibility, please contact the below mentioned reading-group organizer.

Details of more groups will be added here when they are announced.

Reading groups are regularly formed in response to the specific research interests and needs of both staff and postgraduate students.

Past groups

2018-19

Autumn 2018 Reading Groups	Meetings	Contact
Metaphysics	Monday 4pm	Will Morgan
Feminism	Monday 11am	Jenny Saul
Phenomenology	Thursday 4pm	Tim Moxham
Philosophy of Language	TBA	Patrick Connolly
Consciousness	TBA	Damiano La Manna
Critical Philosophy of Race	Tuesday 3pm	Nadia Mehdi
Philosophy of Cognitive Science	Thursday 1pm	Yifan Mei
German Idealism	Thursday 1pm	Anthony Eagan
Kukla and Lance Yo! and Lo!	TBA	Kayleigh Doherty
Applied Epistemology	Monday 4pm, fortnightly from 12 November	Jack Herbert

Spring 2019 Reading Groups	Meetings	Contact
Ásta’s ‘Categories We Live By'	TBA	Matthew Cull
Applied Epistemology	Monday 4pm, fortnightly from 21 January	Jack Herbert
Pylyshyn	TBA	Andrea Blomqvist
German Idealism	Monday 12pm	James Lewis
Feminism	Tuesday 11am	Jenny Saul
Philosophy of Psychiatry	Tuesday 5pm	Viktoriia Kononova
Race	Thursday 12pm	Kayleigh Doherty
Existentialism	Monday 4pm	Barney Riggs
Philosophy of Action	Thursday 1pm	Will Hornett

2019-20

Autumn 2019 Reading Groups	Meetings	Contact
Moral Philosophy/Intersubjectivity	TBA	Kayleigh Doherty
Continental Philosophy	Thurs 4pm	Barney Riggs
Feminism	TBA	Matthew Cull
Philosophy of Language	TBA	Patrick Connolly
Philosophy of Action	Weds 12pm	Will Hornett
Metaphysics	TBA	Will Morgan
Moral Philosophy	Thurs 1pm	Kayleigh Doherty
Philosophy of Race	Weds 10am	Kayleigh Doherty

2020-21

Autumn 2020 Reading Groups	Meetings	Contact
Critical Philosophy of Race	Monday 1pm	Henry Roe
Feminism	Thursday 2pm	Anna Klieber & Thyra Juana Lea Elsasser
Continental Philosophy	Tuesday 4pm	Barney Riggs
Social Epistemology	Thursday 2pm	Kayleigh Doherty
Ethics	Friday 12pm	Kayleigh Doherty
Metaphysics	Friday 5pm	Will Morgan
Climate Change Ethics	TBA	Carien Smith

Spring 2021 Reading Groups	Meetings	Contact
Critical Philosophy of Race	Monday 1pm	Henry Roe
Feminism Philosophy	Thursday 2pm	Anna Klieber
Vice and Virtue Epistemology	Tuesday 4pm	Barney Riggs
Metaphysics	Friday 11am	Henry Roe
Climate Change Ethics	Thursday 11am	Carien Smith

2021-22

Autumn 2021-Spring 2022 Reading Groups	Meetings	Contact
Feminist Philosophy	Tuesday, 12pm, Room: B23	Imogen P Fell and George A Surtees
Critical Philosophy of Race	Tuesday, 5pm	Tareeq O Jalloh
Ethics	Wednesday, 4pm, Room: B09	James Brown
Metaphysics	Thursday, 2pm, Room: B09	Radivoj Stupar
Vice and Virtue Epistemology	Friday, 11pm	Henry Roe
Aristotle	Online	Please contact Leonard J Weiss to request details and link to join

 

2022-23

Autumn 2022 Reading Groups	Meetings	Contact
Expressivism Reading Group. Meetings to address questions like: What is it to 'express' an attitude? What is the relationship between expression and meaning? What are the differences between different versions of 'expressivism' (especially differences between expressivist views in metaethics and recent versions of expressivism in philosophy of language and linguistics)? What is the role that attitude expression plays in testimony?	First Meeting, Friday 13th October, 12 pm, B23	Henry Schiller
History of Modern Philosophy Please, find reading list HERE Meetings to discuss chapters or extracts of works from the history of modern philosophy from Descartes onwards. Material is to be read beforehand, and suggestions for readings from attendees are welcome.	Fortnightly, Wednesday, 1-2 pm, B09	Josh Hibbert and David Bevan
Environmental Justice Reading Group This group will meet weekly during the autumn semester of 2022. Please see here for the list of texts that we will be reading each week.	Thursdays 4-5pm	Megan Blomfield
Implicit Bias Reading Group An informal fortnight meeting to discuss some of the recent literature on what implicit bias is, interventions, etc.	Fortnightly - B09	Ben Jenkins
Moral psychology. Shaun Nichols Rational Rules (OUP, 2021) How are moral rules acquired? Shaun Nichols (2021) puts forward a neo-empiricist account according to which moral learning can be explained in terms of domain-general statistical learning. The book is essential read for anybody interested in cognitive science, ethics, and experimental philosophy.	Wednesday, 2-3 pm, B09	Luca Barlassina

Autumn 2020 Reading Groups	Meetings	Contact
Expressivism Reading Group. Meetings to address questions like: What is it to 'express' an attitude? What is the relationship between expression and meaning? What are the differences between different versions of 'expressivism' (especially differences between expressivist views in metaethics and recent versions of expressivism in philosophy of language and linguistics)? What is the role that attitude expression plays in testimony?	First Meeting, Friday 13th October, 12 pm, B23	Henry Schiller
History of Modern Philosophy Please, find reading list HERE Meetings to discuss chapters or extracts of works from the history of modern philosophy from Descartes onwards. Material is to be read beforehand, and suggestions for readings from attendees are welcome.	Fortnightly, Wednesday, 1-2 pm, B09	Josh Hibbert and David Bevan
Environmental Justice Reading Group This group will meet weekly during the autumn semester of 2022. Please see here for the list of texts that we will be reading each week.	Thursdays 4-5pm	Megan Blomfield
Implicit Bias Reading Group An informal fortnight meeting to discuss some of the recent literature on what implicit bias is, interventions, etc.	Fortnightly - B09	Ben Jenkins
Moral psychology. Shaun Nichols Rational Rules (OUP, 2021) How are moral rules acquired? Shaun Nichols (2021) puts forward a neo-empiricist account according to which moral learning can be explained in terms of domain-general statistical learning. The book is essential read for anybody interested in cognitive science, ethics, and experimental philosophy.	Wednesday, 2-3 pm, B09	Luca Barlassina