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2022/23

Visiting Speakers 2022/23

Spring 2023

Date Speaker Topic

2 Feb

Anca Meirosu (University of Bucharest) Voluntas and Potentia in  Secretum (Petrarch)

9 Feb

Finnur Dellsen (University of Iceland) Abduction: The Glory and Scandal of Philosophy?

16 Feb

Jarrett Zigon (University of Virginia). Ethics Beyond the Human

9 March

Michael Gill (University of Edinburgh) The Original Internal Ought of W.D. Falk

13 April

Christoph Menke (Goethe University Frankfurt) A Theory of Liberation

20 April

Sarah Fine (University of Cambridge) Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be: Responding to change and loss'.

4 May

Newman Centre Annual Lecture Professor Joel Robbins (University of Cambridge) The Present and the Future in the Present: Religion, Values, and Climate Change

Autumn 2022

Date Speaker Topic

October 20

NOTE EARLY STARTING TIME (10am)

Simon Kirchin University of Kent ‘Is Drag morally objectionable?’. 

November 3

M  Folescu, University of Missouri/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (with co-author Tieying Zhou by Zoom) - zoom link for lecture

‘Reid and Shepherd on Beauty and the Subjectivity of Taste’

November 10

Carl Sachs, Marymount University,  ‘Using a Myth to Kill a Myth: Cognitive Science and the Myth of the Given’

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