Forthcoming Events in the Department of Philosophy
Below you will find a list of all the upcoming talks and conferences in the Department of Philosophy by date.
NB This list is constantly updated, so do check back regularly for further updates.
2012 events
January
Thursday 12 January 2012, 14.00-16.00, Lecture Room 405, Philosophy Building
Ancient Philosophy reading group – special seminar
George Karamanolis (University of Crete) Lecture Room, Philosophy Dept, KCL
The Origins of Values in Stoicism
Monday 16 January 2012
Phil-Soc Social
Start of year pub crawl - Meet in the UG common room at 6, and we'll then be going to our usual pubs: Roadhouse, Lyceum, Knights Templar
Tuesday 17 January 2012, 14.00-15.30 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Philosophy of Medicine – Concepts of Health seminar
Stephen John (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge)
Cancer Screening and the Ethics of Apt Categorisation
Tuesday 17 January, 16:00-18:00 in the Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Language & Cognition research seminar
Alex Davies (King's College London)
A Genealogy of Context-Sensitivity
* Wednesday 18 January 2012, 14.30-16.00. Lecture Room 405, Philosophy Building
Visiting speakers programme
Pekka Vayrynen (University of Leeds)
Shapelessness in Context
* Friday 20 January, 19.00 in the Edmund J Safra Lecture theatre, Ground floor, King’s Building
Phil-Soc lecture
Daniel Dennett (Tufts)
"A phenomenal confusion over access consciousness"
The philosophy department bar will be open afterwards for drinks
Tuesday 24 January, 16:00-18:00, Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Language & Cognition research seminar
Susan Schweitzer (Institut Jean Nicod, École normale supérieure)
Reassessing Connectionist Reassessments of the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument
Friday 27 January, 19.00 in Lecture Room 405 Philosophy Building
Phil-Soc lecture
Alison Assister (UWE)
Kant and Kierkegaard on freedom and evil
Tuesday 31 January 2012, 14.00-15.30 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Philosophy of Medicine – Concepts of Health seminar
Jeremy Howick (Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford)
The Importance of Conceptual Analysis when Estimating ‘Placebo’ Effects.
Tuesday 31 January 2012. 16.00-18.00 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Language & Cognition research seminar
Dolf Rami (King’s College London / University of Göttingen)
Bad news for the predicate view on proper names
February
Thursday 02 February, 19.00 in The Philosophy Department bar
Phil-Soc social (in conjunction with KCL Comedy Society)
Comedy night with Kate Smurthwaite
Friday 03 February, 19.00 in Lecture Room 405 Philosophy Building
Phil-Soc lecture
Veronique Mundoz-Darde (UCL)
The Regulation of Intimacy
Tuesday 07 February 2012, 16.00-18.00 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Chris Howes (Queen Mary University of London)
A spoonful of repair makes the medicine go down: Predicting patient adherence to treatment from consultation transcripts
Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14.00-15.30 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Philosophy of Medicine – Concepts of Health seminar
Marion Godman (Department of Philosophy, King’s College London)
' The "Apathetic children": A test case for Hacking's looping effects'
Tuesday 14 February 2012, 16:00-18:00 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Language & Cognition research seminar
Sean Mitchell (King's College London)
Human-Robot Interaction
* Wednesday 15 - Friday 17 February 2011
Brazil-UK conference on Aspects of Rhetoric
With participants including Professor Peter Adamson, Dr Raphael Woolf, and Professor MM McCabe.
TBC Friday 17 February, 19.00 in Lecture Room 405 Philosophy Building
Phil-Soc lecture
Eleanor Knox (KCL)
Spacetime from A(bsolute) to E(mergent)'
Tuesday 28 February 2012, 14.00-15.30 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Philosophy of Medicine – Concepts of Health seminar
Tania Gergel (King’s College London)
Medicine and the Individual: is Phenomenology the Answer?
Tuesday 28 February 2012, 16.00-18.00 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Language & Cognition research seminar
Ofra Magidor (University of Oxford)
Epistemicism about Vagueness and Meta-Linguistic Safety
* Wednesday 29 February, 14.30-16.00 in Lecture Room 405, Philosophy Building
Visiting Speaker programme
John Hawthorne (University of Oxford)
On Disagreement
March
Tuesday 06 March 2012, 14.00 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Philosophy of Medicine - Concepts of Health seminar
Gabriel Segal (Department of Philosophy, King's College London)
Alcoholism, Disease and Insanity
Tuesday 06 March 2012, 16.00-18.00 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Language & Cognition research seminar
Tom Breed (KCL)
Minimalism, Epistemicism and Paradox
Friday 08 March, 19.00 in Basement room 304, Philosophy Building
Phil-Soc lecture
Manuel Dries (Oxford)
'Nietzsche on nihilism and "mechanism" of willing
Tuesday 13 March 2012, 14.00-15.30 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Philosophy of Medicine – Concepts of Health seminar
Christopher Megone (Inter Disciplinary Applied Ethics, University of Leeds)
Function, Vice and Illness – a Neo-Aristotelian Approach.
* TBC Tuesday 13 March, 19.00
Phil-Soc lecture
Alvin Goldman (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
Some Problems for Group Epistemology
* Monday 26 March 2012, 18.00 in the Edmund J Safra Lecture Theatre, King's Building, Strand Campus
The Mark Sainsbury annual lecture
Professor Peter Adamson (KCL)
G a p s
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 14.00-15.30 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Philosophy of Medicine – Concepts of Health seminar
Natalie Banner (Centre for Humanities and Health, King’s College London)
TBC
Friday 30 March from 19.00
Phil-Soc Social
End-of-term PARTY in the philosophy department bar
April
TBC 06-07 April (provisional dates )
Phil-Soc event
Undergraduate Research Conference
Tuesday 24 April 2012, 14.00-15.30 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Philosophy of Medicine – Concepts of Health seminar
Andrew Turner (Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham)
Evidence Hierarchies should be Read Heuristically, not Epistemologically
Wednesday 25 April, 14.30-16.00. Lecture Room 405, Philosophy Building
Visiting Speakers Programme
Joseph Raz (University of Oxford)
Topic TBA
Tuesday 08 May 2012, 14.00-15.30 in Seminar Room 605, Philosophy Building
Philosophy of Medicine – Concepts of Health seminar
Brian Hurwitz (Centre for Humanities and Health, King’s College London)
What Sort of a Construal are Clinical Case Reports?