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talks : future

 

 

 

Welcome to the very heart of the Heythrop Philosophy Society. Since it's inception, the society has been the locus for serious philosophical discussion. Each year, experts in their fields are invited to visit the college and engage with students on a wide variety of topics. It's a great chance to see professional philosophers go about their business, to broaden your experience of contemporary research, and to put your own questions to a sharp mind at first hand. This year, we have tried to make the programme as accessible and interesting as possible. All speakers are hand picked for freshness, ability to communicate, and a willingness to push, nudge, or otherwise gently poke at boundaries. [ jump to the dates ]

 

 

 

 

 

 

talks are finished for this year ... a new team of young hopefuls take the reins from september, so expect new things and good things in equal measure. we thank you all most heartily for your attendence and your tea drinking proclavities.

 

 

 

 

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talks you missed:

 

(podcasts of which)

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST TERM (2007)

 

 

10th October : Stacie Friend

How can we feel emotions for fictional characters we don't believe exist?

[ paper ]

 

 

24th October : Dr. Anja Steinbauer - with reply by Dr. Michael Lacewing
On A Feminist Approach to Ethics

 

 

21st November : Prof. Peter Lipton - with reply by Dr. Louis Caruana * talk starts at 16:30

Understanding without Explanation

[ partial podcast is coming... ]

 

5th December : Prof. John Cottingham
The Lessons of Life: Wittgenstein, Religion and Analytic Philosophy

[ podcast ]

 

 

 

 

SECOND TERM (2008)

 

 

23rd January : Dr. Peter Thompson
Ernst Bloch's Atheism: Transcendental Materialism or Messianic Eschatology

[ podcast is coming! ]

 

 

6th February : Prof. Luc Bovens
A Plea for Apologies

[ podcast is coming! ]

 

 

13th February : Prof. P.M.S. Hacker * special event on the Wednesday inbetween ..

The Relevance of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology for the Psychological Sciences

[ podcast is coming! ]

 

 

20th February : Dr. Simon Glendenning
The Oldest European Map of the World

[ podcast is coming! ]

 

 

5th March : Christine Battersby

Nietzsche, the Sublime & the Shock of the Old

[ podcast is coming! ]

 

 

 

 

 

WHEN & WHERE

 

All talks take place on a Wednesday around 15:30, in the Brinkman Room, Heythrop College.
There will be a nice cup of tea, and possibly some biscuits if you arrive a little earlier.

 

For directions to the college, please click here. or here.

 

 

RESPOND

 

Would you like to formally respond to a particular speaker? Just ask .. email@philoso.co.uk

Would you like to informally respond? Just turn up.

 

 

 

A bit more about our speakers.

In order of appearance, we give you:

 

• Dr. Stacie Friend : Stanford PhD holder, brand new Heythrop lecturer, and life saver.

• Dr. Anja Steinbaur : Editor of Philosophy Now magazine, President of Philosophy for All, and lecturer at the Mary Ward Centre, Bloomsbury.

• Prof. Peter Lipton : Head of Department, History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge - Fellow of King's College. Author of the Inference to the Best Explanation (Routledge, 2004).

• Prof. John Cottingham : Editor of the journal Ratio (and most probably your book on Descartes, amongst others). He's an expert on the meaning of life.

• Dr Peter Thompson : Director of Sheffield University's Ernst Bloch Center, editor of the political journal DEBATTE, media commentator and Guardian columnist on Atheism.

• Prof. Luc Bovens : Co-author of the influential Bayesian Epistemology, a great public speaker and a most enthusiastic visiting professor at LSE.

• Prof. P.M.S. Hacker : Distinguished Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford; staunch Wittgenstinian and outspoken critic of neuroscience-philosophy.

• Dr. Simon Glendenning : Director of the Forum for European Philosophy, editor of The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, and fellow member of staff at the LSE.

• Dr. Christine Battersby : Major figure in feminist metaphysics and aesthetics, fresh from writing her latest Routledge publication: The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference.

 

 

This leaves us pretty full up, but we may be able to squeze in one more .......