Past Departmental Seminars (2008-2009)
Please see below for details of our Departmental Seminars from 2008-2009. Click on the speaker's name to find out details of the speaker's current research. In Spring 2009, there was also be a series of four Leverhulme Lectures by Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Stephen Stich (Rutgers University).
Click here for Current Departmental Seminars.
Spring 2009 |
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| February 20th | Bob Hale [Sheffield] | Impossibilities |
| February 27th | Bart Streumer [Reading] | Are Normative Judgements Non-Cognitive Attitudes |
| March 6th | Jane Heal [Cambridge] | Contact with Reality |
| March 13th | Jerrold Levinson [Maryland] | Toward a Non-Minimalist Account of Aesthetic Experience |
| March 27th | Michael Otsuka [UCL] | How to Discount Harms by their Improbability |
| May 1st | Fiona Woollard [Sheffield] | Defending the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing |
| May 6th (Wed) | Stephen Stich [Rutgers] | Leverhulme Lecture One |
| May 8th | Berys Gaut [St Andrews] | Medium-Specificity Arguments and Cinema |
| May 11th (Mon) | Stephen Stich [Rutgers] | Leverhulme Lecture Two |
| May 15th | Peter van Inwagen [Notre Dame] | Changing the Past |
| May 18th (Mon) | Stephen Stich [Rutgers] | Leverhulme Lecture Three |
| May 22nd | Dawn Phillips [Warwick] | Visual Composing: Works of Photography and Works of Music |
| May 27th (Wed) | Stephen Stich [Rutgers] | Leverhulme Lecture Four |
Autumn 2008 |
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| October 10th | Helen Frowe [Sheffield] | A Practical Account of Self-Defence |
| October 17th | Daniel Whiting [Southampton] | The Normativity of Meaning Defended |
| October 24th | Dominic Gregory [Sheffield] | Imagery, the Imagination and Experience |
| October 31st | Alan Carter [Glasgow] | An Indirect, Multidimensional Consequentialism |
| November 7th | Adrian Moore [St Hugh's, Oxford] | Vats, Sets, and Tits |
| November 21st | Simon Kirchin [Kent] | A Tension in Moral Error Theory |
| November 28th | Tim Williamson [Oxford] | Knowledge, Probability and Safety |
| December 5th | Helen Beebee [Birmingham] | Hume's Two Definitions: The Procedural Interpretation |
| December 12th | Alexander Bird [Bristol] | The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds |