talks : past
The Heythrop Philosophy Society has been running for several years now. As first-years, we sat through lectures that ranged from the interesting and inspired through to the baffling, and on occasion downright incomprehensible, though never dull. With the benefit of a year's training, and a small collection of well leafed books, we can now look back and say "ah, that's what they were talking about!", and sometimes even add "and they were damn wrong!" .. The then second and third-years looked on in deep concentration, scribbling away in notebooks, sometimes raising a pencil to interject. We looked at them, scribbling. Now it's our turn to scribble, and, you bright-eyed first-years, I hope we provide just as good a spectacle. Here's what you missed:
2006-2007
07.03.07 : Samir Okasha (Bristol) : Evolution, Cooperation and Rationality
21.02.07 : David Papineau (KCL) : Analytic Epistemology and the Search for Truth
07.02.07 : Yujin Nagasawa (Birmingham) : Ontological Argument for the Existence of God
24.01.07 : Sarah Brodie (St. Andrews) : What should we mean by 'The Highest Good'?
06.12.06 : Julian Dodd (Manchester) : A world of facts?
22.11.06 : Keith Allen (KCL) : Colour and the Knowledge Argument
25.10.06 : Marije Altorf (St. Mary's) : Iris Murdoch and Feminist Philosophy
11.10.06 : Brad Hooker (Reading) : Some Arguments on Fairness, Need-satisfaction, and Desert
Yes, the David Papineau. (as far as we could tell).