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PhD Seminar

The PhD Seminar takes place each week. This semester, we meet from 4 to 6 pm on Mondays in Roscoe 2.10. The seminar offers current research students the opportunity to present their own work. In addition, once each semester a member of staff will present a paper.

2011-2012 Semester 2

6 February: Phil Letts

13 February: Chris Ovenden, 'Making sense of reasons'

20 February: Leo Tarasov

27 February: Dr Sean Crawford, 'Quantifiers and non-propositional attitudes'

5 March: Andy Routledge

12 March: Dr Simon Barnes (Law), 'Psychopathy, moral cognition and the law: some conceptual issues' (working title)

19 March: Dr Joseph Ehrenmüller, 'On the psychodynamics of doing philosophy'

16 April: Rob Knowles

23 April: James McCarthy

30 April: Lucy Tomlinson

 

2011-2012 Semester 1

27 September: Beccy Simpson

04 October: Dr Phil Meadows

11 October: Chris Ovenden

18 October: Howard Kelly

25 October: Tom Bates

01 November: READING WEEK - NO SEMINAR

08 November: Glyn Owen

15 November: Michael Clark

22 November: Lucy Tomlinson

29 November: Andy Routledge

06 December: Hichem Naar

13 December: Tom Connor

 

PREVIOUS SEMINARS

2010-2011

05 October: Dr Iain Brassington (Law)

12 October: Michael Clark

19 October: Phil Letts

26 October: Moritz Mueller

02 November: READING WEEK - NO SEMINAR

09 November: Chris Ovenden

16 November: Paul Knights

23 November: Study group

30 November: Glyn Owen

07 December: Beccy Simpson

14 December: Anthony Wheatley

31 January: Chris Ovenden - Guidance control and taking responsibility.

7 February: Phil Brown - Why error theorists needn't mind that categorical imperatives exist.

14 February: Philip Letts - A positive proposal concerning the ontology of music.

21 February: James McCarthy - Emotion and perception.

28 February: Howard Kelly - The metaphysics of affordances.

07 March: Michael Clark - The epistemology of grounding.

14 March: Andrew Routledge - Holism in experience.

21 March: Lucy Tomlinson - The sensational story of pleasure.

28 March: Alba Montes - Shame and the narrative self.

04 April: Hichem Naar - The individuation of emotions.

EASTER VACATION

02 May: Moritz Mueller - Emotion and the (re)presentation of value.

09 May: Dr Ann Whittle - What can we do?