Senior Postgraduate Seminar 2011-12
This seminar is open to all research students in the Department of Philosophy. It runs throughout both semesters, and the students run their own series over the summer. Each week a student presents a paper, followed by discussion. (The year traditionally starts with a member of staff.) A hand-out, abstract or draft of the paper is usually circulated in advance. Anyone from outside the department wishing to attend should email Bob Stern (r.stern@sheffield.ac.uk).
Time: Wednesdays 3.00-5.00pm
Venue: Mappin Building, Lecture Theatre 8 [Autumn] Bartolome House SR-BB16 [Spring]
Autumn 2011
28th September Rob Hopkins: Imagining the Past: On the Nature of Episodic Memory
5th October Angie Pepper: Feminism and the Problem of Generalisations: Political Risk and Utility
12th October Jan Kandiyali: The Abolition of the Division of Labour
19th October Paul Giladi: Ostrich Nominalism, Peacock Realism, and Liberal Naturalism
26th October Inga Vermeulen: Clarifying the Concept of Terrorism: The Misguided Ideal of Neutrality
2nd November Joe Saunders: A Kantian Sleight of Hand
16th November Bernardo Aguilera: On the Minimal Conditions for Having Mental Representations
23rd November Stephen Wright: Our Entitlement to Believe What People Say
30th November Ivar Hannikainen: Agent and Patient Simulation in Moral Judgment
7th December Josh Fedorko: The Conception of Things-in-themselves in the Critical Philosophy
14th December Josh Forstenzer: In Pursuit of Relevance: Dewey's Pragmatist Conception of the Role of Philosophy
Spring 2012
18th January Lindsey Porter: You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You, Baby
25th January Richard Healey: Autonomy and the Power of Consent
1st February Carl Fox: Getting a Handle on Autonomy
8th February Jess Begon: Midfare vs Capabilities: Athleticism, Freedom and Well-Being
15th February Paniel Reyes Cardenas: Mathematical Structuralism, Continuity, and Peirce's Diagrammatic Reasoning
22nd February Jonathan Payne: The Epistemological Bad Company Problem
29th February Al Baker-Graham: 'People Always Think Something's All True': How to Get Fictional Truth from Unreliable Narration
7th March Simon Kittle: The Causal Theory of Action, Skilled Activity, and the Individuation of Action
14th March White Rose Graduate Seminar
21st March Natasha McKeever: Why Don't Men Sell Sex to Women and Why Should We Care?
28th March Ryan Doran: Hume's Aesthetic Key: From Wine Glasses to Rose-Tinted Spectacles
25th April Joe Kisolo-Ssonko: Plural Subjectivity vs Individual Autonomy
2nd May Jack Wadham: Virtual Content, P-properties, and the Problem of Invisible Content
9th May Philip Rau: The Self in Autism
23rd May Kathy Puddifoot: How and Why Science Is Relevant to Epistemology
30th May Charlotte Alderwick: tba
6th June Armin Khameh: tba