Sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy The University of Sussex Philosophy and Social and Political Thought seminars provide a friendly and intellectually stimulating environment to discuss new ideas. We meet on campus on Fridays 3.30-5.00 pm at Arts A 108*
WEEK 2 - 7 FEB UG CONFERENCE
WEEK 3 - 14 FEB Giulia Felappi (Southampton) ‘Propositions brought back to the activity of the mind? Ockham and Soames on the nature of propositions’
WEEK 4 - 21 FEB Andrew Chitty (Sussex) ‘Species-existence and species-consciousness’
WEEK 5 - 28 FEB Emma Borg (Reading) ‘Understanding our thought and talk about pain’
WEEK 6 - 6 MARCH Tanja Staehler (Sussex) and Paul Coldwell (UAL) ‘The invisible in art and philosophy’
WEEK 7 - 13 MARCH Maria Alvarez (KCL) ‘Anscombe on actions and descriptions’
WEEK 8 - 20 MARCH - SPT James Gledhill (Leiden) ‘Habermas on Morality and the Political: Ideal Theorist or Political Realist?’
WEEK 9 - 27 MARCH – SPT Jan Kandiyali (LSE) ‘The importance of others: Marx on unalienated labour’
WEEK 10 - 24 APRIL Special event – details to follow
Philosophy Society/SPT Research Seminar Autumn 2019
All meetings will take place at 3.30-5.00 pm in A108 unless otherwise stated.
11/10 Week 2 - Sarah Sawyer (Sussex) ‘Moral Twin Earth’
18/10 Week 3 - Rory Madden (UCL) ‘Frege on Idealism and the Self’
25/10 Week 4 Mark Wrathall (Oxford) Does Heidegger have a Method?
1/11 Week 5 Paul K. Jones (ANU) (SPT) ‘Critical Theory, Modern Demagogy, Populism’
7-8/11 Week 6 CONFERENCE ‘Post-truth and the Objectivity of Epistemic Norms’
15/11 Week 7 Catriona McKinnon (Exeter) ‘Climate justice in a carbon budget’
22/11 Week 8 Rosie Worsdale (CRASSH, Cambridge, Essex) (SPT) ‘Is Sisterhood Powerful? Re-evaluating the Idea of Feminist Solidarity’
29/11 Week 9 Mahon O’Brien (Sussex) ‘The Padded Whip in Horseracing: Re-assessing the Debate’
6/12 Week 10 Paul Davies and Michael Morris (Sussex) End of Term Symposium