FACULTY
OF
PHILOSOPHY
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Philosophy Lecture Year Plan for 2014-5
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This year plan contains details of undergraduate lectures, graduate classes, and other regular events. It is split
into sections along these lines.
The three columns on the right are used to indicate in which University term(s) each event takes place. The
number of lectures or classes for that event in any term is found in the column for that term. (NB: the numbers
for lectures/classes represent the hours allotted to the series, which may but need not be the same as the
number of lectures/classes. For seminars etc, the number given is the number of events.)
You will find other useful information regarding lectures and classes, including a summary of which
classes/lectures are obligatory for certain student groups.
This information is believed correct as at 22 October 2014, but changes may occur before and during the
academic year. Before you make plans for any particular term, it is wise to check the lecture lists online as near to
the start of term as is practical for your planning.
Errors/queries can be addressed to [email protected].
Undergraduate Lectures: Lectures for the First Public Examination (“Prelims” / “Mods”)
Lecture
Lecturer(s)
Early Greek Philosophy
Dr Anna Marmodoro
Plato, Euthyphro & Meno
Prof Lindsay Judson
Moral Philosophy: Mill, Utilitarianism
Dr Edward Harcourt
Moral Philosophy: Mill, Utilitarianism
Prof Cecile Fabre
General Philosophy (thematic)
Prof Peter Millican
General Philosophy (topic-based)
Dr Ofra Magidor
Introduction to Logic
Dr James Studd
Elements of Deductive Logic
The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
Frege: Foundations of Arithmetic
Turing: “Computing Machinery and
Intelligence”
HT
7
8
8
TT
8
8
8
8
8
Dr Brian King
Dr Sophie Allen and Prof Simon
Saunders
Dr Steven Methven
Prof Peter Millican
Undergraduate Lectures: Core Lectures for the Honour Schools (“Finals”)
Lecture
Lecturer(s)
101 Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes
Prof Bill Mander
101 Early Modern Philosophy: Locke
Dr Anita Avramides
101 Early Modern Philosophy: Hume
Dr Peter Kail
101 Early Modern Philosophy: Berkeley
Dr Peter Kail
102 Knowledge and Reality: Metaphysics
Dr Ralf Bader
102 Knowledge and Reality: Epistemology
Dr Lizzie Fricker
103 Ethics I
Dr Tom Sinclair
103 Ethics II: Metaethics
Dr Felix Pinkert
104 Philosophy of Mind I
Dr Anita Avramides
104 Philosophy of Mind II
Dr Ian Phillips
106a /124 Philosophy of Science
Dr Dennis Lehmkuhl
106b Philosophy of Science and Social Science Dr Louise Braddock
107 Philosophy of Religion
Dr Tim Mawson
1
MT
8
6
TBC
8
1
MT
8
HT
TT
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
Lectures for Philosophy in the Supplementary Subject in History and Philosophy of Science, an optional paper in the natural sciences
schools, are listed at the end of this section. The History lectures for this option are normally offered in Michaelmas Term.
108 Philosophy of Logic and Language
109 Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Criticism
110 Medieval Philosophy: Aquinas
111 Medieval Philosophy: Duns Scotus,
Ockham
112 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Hegel
113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Sartre, MerleauPonty
113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Schopenhauer
113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Nietzsche
113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Heidegger
114 Theory of Politics
115 / 130 Plato: Republic
116 / 132 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
118 The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein
120 Intermediate Philosophy of Physics:
Quantum Mechanics
120 Intermediate Philosophy of Physics:
Special Relativity
121 Advanced Philosophy of Physics
122 Philosophy of Mathematics
124 Philosophy of Science
125 Philosophy of Cognitive Science I
125 Philosophy of Cognitive Science II
126 Environment (for PPE only)
127 Philosophical Logic
131 Plato: Theaetetus
131 Plato: Sophist
134 Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Philosophy of Science (for the Supplementary
Subject)
Dr Josh Parsons
Dr James Grant and Prof John
Hyman
Prof Cecilia Trifogli
8
12
Prof Cecilia Trifogli
8
8
Dr Anil Gomes
Prof Bill Mander
8
8
Dr Katherine Morris
8
Dr Manuel Dries
Prof Stephen Mulhall
Dr Joseph Schear
Given by Politics
Prof Terence Irwin and Dr Damian
Storey
Dr Karen Margrethe Nielsen and Dr
Tom Ainsworth
Dr Bill Child
8
Prof David Wallace
Prof Harvey Brown and Dr Oliver
Pooley
Dr Dennis Lehmkuhl, Dr Oliver
Pooley, Prof Simon Saunders (MT);
Prof Harvey Brown (HT)
Prof Volker Halbach
Dr Dennis Lehmkuhl
Prof Martin Davies
Prof Martin Davies
Dr Guy Kahane
Dr James Studd
Dr Michael Peramatzis
Dr Michael Peramatzis
Dr Daniel Vazquez
8
8
16
8
8
8
15
16
16
16
8
8
8
8
8
8
6
6
8
Dr Sophie Allen
8
Special Lectures
Lecture
Grahame Lock Memorial Lecture: Philosophy,
the University and the Politics of Culture
Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture
The John Locke Lectures 2015
Other Lectures and Events
Lecture
The Modern Sublime in Art, Philosophy and
Theology
Philosophical Questions: Theological Answers
The Philosophy of Economics
Controversies in Frege’s Philosophy of
Language
Kant’s Philosophy of Religion
Sceptical Theism
The Philosophy of Hegel
Virtue Ethics: Ancient and New
Lecturer(s)
Prof Stephen Mulhall
MT
1
Prof Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton)
Prof Rae Langton (Cambridge)
Lecturer(s)
Prof Pamela Anderson and Prof
Paul Fiddes
Mr Stephen Priest
Mr Matthias Brinkmann
Mr Michael Price
Prof Pamela Anderson
Ms Rachel Fraser
Mr Joseph Cregan
Ms Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi and Mr
Jason Carter
HT
TT
1
6
MT
4
HT
4
TT
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
2
Graduate Classes
Class
Pro-seminar for first-year graduate students
Posterior Analytics and Nicomachean Ethics VI
Women in Philosophy: What Needs To
Change?
Hume
Heidegger: Being And Time
Modal Logic
Introductory Epistemology
Practical Ethics
Philosophy of Physics
Stoicism and its critics
Ockham’s Ontology I
Feminism and/in Philosophy
Leibniz
Kant and Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science
Conditionals
Philosophy of Action
Mind and Language
Logical Consequence
Intro to Probability and Decision Theory
Ethics
Legal Philosophy
Ockham’s Ontology II
Butler’s Sermons
Women Philosophers of the Early Modern
Period
Wittgenstein
Sartre’s Being And Nothingness
Topics in Epistemology
Philosophy of Logic
Philosophy of Psychology and of Cognitive
Science
Formal Theories of Truth
The Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics
Dynamics of Meaning
Topics in Aesthetics
Political Philosophy
Population Ethics
Issues in metaphysics and moral philosophy
relating to abortion
2
Class-giver(s)
Dr James Grant, Prof John Hyman,
Prof Adrian Moore, and Dr Josh
Parsons
Dr Michael Peramatzis and Dr
Paolo Fait
Dr Paul Lodge
MT
TBC
Dr Peter Kail and Dr Lorenzo Greco
Prof Stephen Mulhall and Dr Joseph
Schear
Dr James Studd
Prof John Hawthorne
Prof Julian Savulescu
Dr Dennis Lehmkuhl, Dr Oliver
Pooley, Prof Simon Saunders (MT);
Prof Harvey Brown (HT)
Prof Terence Irwin
Prof Cecilia Trifogli
Dr Pamela Anderson
Dr Paul Lodge
Dr Anil Gomes and Dr Andrew
Stephenson
Prof Simon Saunders
Prof John Hawthorne
Prof John Hyman
16
16
Dr Philipp Koralus and Dr Salvador
Mascarenhas
Dr Owen Griffiths
Prof Frank Arntzenius
Dr Ralf Bader
Dr Ambrose Lee
Prof Cecilia Trifogli
Prof Terence Irwin and Prof Roger
Crisp
Dr Paul Lodge
Dr Bill Child
Dr Katherine Morris and Dr Joseph
Schear
Prof Timothy Williamson and Prof
John Hawthorne
Prof Timothy Williamson
Dr Philipp Koralus and Dr Ian
Phillips
Dr Volker Halbach
Dr David Wallace
Dr Daniel Rothschild
Prof Alison Denham
Prof Cecile Fabre and Dr Thomas
Sinclair
Dr Hilary Greaves and Dr Toby Ord
Prof Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
HT
TT
16
16
8
16
16
16
16
16
8
16
16
16
16
16
16
12
16
16
16
16
8
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
12
16
16
16
These classes are designed for the Philosophy Faculty’s graduate students (except where otherwise indicated). Others wishing to attend
should seek the permission of the class-giver.
Regular Faculty Seminars
Lecture
Moral Philosophy Seminar
Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar
Post-Kantian Philosophy Seminar
Work in Progress in Ancient Philosophy
Philosophy of Physics Seminar
Theoretical Philosophy Work in Progress
Philosophy of Mind Seminar / Reading Group
The Jowett Society / Philosophical Society
Convener(s)/Organiser(s)
Dr Edward Harcourt and Dr G.
Kahane
Prof Volker Halbach, Dr James
Studd, Dr Daniel Isaacson
Dr Manuel Dries and Dr Joseph
Schear
Prof Terence Irwin, Dr Karen
Nielsen, Dr Michail Peramatzis
Prof Harvey Brown
Dr Martin Pickup
Dr Ian Phillips and Dr Josh
Shepherd
Various Conveners
MT
8
HT
8
TT
8
8
8
8
4
4
4
8
8
8
8
TBC
3
8
TBC
TBC
8
TBC
TBC
8
8
8