Lectures take place every Thursday at 6:30 pm. Our lectures are free for members. For non-members, entry to lectures costs ÂŁ2.50.
There is an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the lecture and we expect the event to run until 8pm after which we will go to the pub.
Lecture Series 2023/24
SEMESTER 2
THURSDAY NIGHTS, IN PERSON (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED)
A full list of lecture series events will be posted before the semester begins 🙂
Date | Time | Location | Lecturer (Affiliation) | Interests | Title |
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18th Jan | 18.30 | 50GS_G.03 | Stacie Friend (Edinburgh) | Philosophy of Fiction | Fiction, Fact and Value |
25th Jan | 18.30 | 50GS_G.03 | Dominic Smith (Dundee) | Continental Philosophy and Technology | Programme without Transmission: The Translatability of Benjamin’s Radio Work. |
01st Feb | 18.30 | 50GS_G.03 | Quan Nguyen (Edinburgh) | Ethics, Rationality Theory, and Feminist Philosophy | Why take the side of the powerful? Lessons from Feminist Ethics on Effective Altruism, Longtermism and Existential Risk |
08th Feb | 18.30 | 50GS_G.03 | Timothy Williamson (Oxford) | Philosophical Logic | Collective Imagining |
15th Feb | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
22nd Feb READING WEEK | 18.30 | 50GS_G.03 | Michael Beaney (Aberdeen) | Chinese Philosophy, Philosophical Logic, Wittgenstein | Talking Happily with Zhuangzi |
29th Feb | 18.30 | 50GS_G.03 | David Papinau (KCL) | Epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science | The Moral Standing of Animals (and Machines) Doesn’t Depend on Consciousness |
07th Mar | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
14th Mar | 18.30 | 50GS_G.03 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
21st Mar | 18.30 | 50GS_G.03 | Jasjit Singh (Leeds) | Sikh Philosophy | TBA |
28th Mar | 18.30 | 50GS_G.03 | David Sorfa (Edinburgh) | Film-Philosophy, Film Theory, Phenomenology, Existentialism | TBA |