FACULTY
OF
PHILOSOPHY
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Philosophy Lecture List for Hilary Term 2015
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PLEASE NOTE: the Philosophy Centre is based at the Radcliffe Humanities building (Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG).
That building is designated as Rad. Hum. on this plan.
Lectures begin on the first possible day after the beginning of Full Term (Sunday 18 January) unless otherwise
stated. Lecture series run for weeks 1 to 8 unless otherwise stated.
Lectures will begin at five minutes after the hour and end at five minutes before the next hour.
The information below is subject to change. Please make sure that you check the Faculty’s website
http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/lectures for the most up-to-date information. Detailed course descriptions
will be published in the Lecture Prospectus, available on that webpage.
Please comment on our lectures using the online questionnaire at the same webpage.
This information is correct as at 9 January 2015.
Subject
Lecturer / Convener
Time
Place
Undergraduate Lectures: Lectures for the First Public Examination (“Prelims” / “Mods”) - see notes, p.3
Plato: Euthyphro and Meno
Prof Lindsay Judson
M. W. 11
Christ Church
1
(week 1 only) (Blue Boar Lecture Room)
Early Greek Philosophy
Dr Anna Marmodoro
T. Th. 12
Schools
(weeks 1 to 4
– no lecture
Th. wk 2)
Moral Philosophy: Mill, Utilitarianism
Prof Cecile Fabre
Th. 12
Schools
General Philosophy (topic-based)
Prof Ofra Magidor
W. 12
Schools
Elements of Deductive Logic
Dr Brian King
T. 12
Rad. Hum.
(Lecture Room)
Turing: “Computing Machinery and
Prof Peter Millican
Th. 12
Schools
Intelligence”
Undergraduate Lectures: Core Lectures for the Honour Schools (“Finals”)
101 Early Modern Philosophy: Locke
Prof Anita Avramides
101 Early Modern Philosophy: Hume
Prof Peter Kail
103 Ethics I: Metaethics
104 Philosophy of Mind II
106b Philosophy of Social Science
107 Philosophy of Religion
112 The Philosophy of Kant
Dr Felix Pinkert
Prof Ian Phillips
Dr Louise Braddock
Dr Tim Mawson
Prof Anil Gomes
113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Hegel
Prof Bill Mander
113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Sartre,
Merleau-Ponty
114 Theory of Politics
Dr Katherine Morris
115 / 130 Plato: Republic
116 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
118 The Later Wittgenstein
Prof Daniel McDermott and Prof
Daniel Butt (Politics)
Prof Terence Irwin and Dr Damien
Storey
Dr Tom Ainsworth
Prof Bill Child
1
T. 10
W. 10 (not in
week 5)
F. 10
Th. 10
Th. 10
Th. 4
M. 12
T. 11 (except
week 5: F. 9)
W. 11
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Schools
Rad. Hum.
(Lecture Room)
Schools
Schools
T. 12
Schools
W. Th. 2
Schools
T. 10
W. 12
Schools
Schools
Subject
120 Intermediate Philosophy of Physics:
Special Relativity
121 Advanced Philosophy of Physics
Lecturer / Convener
Time
Prof Harvey Brown and Prof Oliver M. T. 11
Pooley
Prof Harvey Brown
Th. 11 – 1
127 Philosophical Logic
Prof James Studd
133 Stoicism and its Critics (suitable for
Latin Philosophy)
140 Plato: Theaetetus
Prof Terence Irwin
141 Aristotle: Physics
Dr Ada Bronowski
Philosophy of Science (for the
Supplementary Subject)
Dr Sophie Allen
Special Lectures
2015 Wilde Lectures: Spiritual traditions
and human possibilities: Learning from the
past about how to live well in the present
2015 Ackrill Memorial Lecture: Colocation
Other Lectures and Events
Computing for Philosophers
The Modern Sublime in Art, Philosophy and
Theology
Controversies in Frege’s Philosophy of
Language
Set Theory Reading Group
Prof Michail Peramatzis
W. 12 plus
F. 12 (weeks 1
to 2)
T. 2 – 4
W. 12
(weeks 1 to 6)
Th. 2 – 4
(weeks 1 to 6)
T. 12.15
Place
Rad. Hum.
(Lecture Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Lecture Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Worcester College
(Seminar Room A)
The Queen’s College
(Lecture Room A)
Schools
Prof Mark Wynn (Leeds)
M. 5 (except Schools
week 6: Th. 5)
Prof Gábor Betegh (Cambridge)
Th. 5 (week 8)
Brasenose College
(Lecture Room XI)
Prof Peter Millican
Prof Paul Fiddes and Prof Pamela
Anderson
Mr Michael Price
T. 2
Th. 5 – 6.30
(weeks 5 to 8)
W. 11
(weeks 1 to 4)
F. 1 – 3
Schools
Regent’s Park
College
Rad. Hum.
(Lecture Room)
Prof Alex Paseau
(week 1: later
sessions TBC)
Graduate Classes
Stoicism and its Critics
Prof Terence Irwin
T. 2 – 4
Ockham’s Ontology I
Prof Cecilia Trifogli
Feminism in/and Philosophy
Prof Pamela Anderson
Th. 11 – 1
(even weeks)
W. 9 – 11
Leibniz
Prof Paul Lodge
T. 11 – 1
Kant and the Philosophy of Mind
W. 11 – 1
Philosophy of Science
Prof Anil Gomes and Dr Andrew
Stephenson
Prof Simon Saunders
Philosophy of Physics
Prof Harvey Brown
Th. 11 – 1
Conditionals
Prof John Hawthorne
M. 11 – 1
Topics in Mind and Language: Reasoning,
judgment, and experiments for
philosophers
Prof Philipp Koralus and Dr
Salvador Mascarenhas
F. 11 – 1
2
W. 3 – 5
Rad. Hum.
(Meeting Room 4)
Keble College
(Seminar Room 2)
Rad. Hum.
(Meeting Room 4)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Subject
Logical Consequence
Lecturer / Convener
Dr Owen Griffiths
Time
W. 2 – 3
The Justification and Limits of Defensive
Harming
Intro to Probability and Decision Theory
Prof Jeff McMahan
Prof Frank Arntzenius
W. 2 – 4
(wks 1, 2, 5-7)
T. 9 – 11
Ethics
Prof Ralf Bader
F. 9 – 11
Legal Philosophy
Dr Ambrose Lee
Th. 9 – 11
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
Prof Hilary Greaves and Dr
Andreas Mogensen
M. 2 – 4
Prof Jeff McMahan and Dr Richard
Rowland
Prof Volker Halbach, Dr Dan
Isaacson, Prof James Studd
Various conveners
M. 4.30 – 6.30
(not on in wk 3)
M. 4.30 – 6.30
(even weeks)
Rad. Hum.
(Lecture Room)
T. 2 – 4
Dr Manuel Dries and Prof Joseph
Schear
Dr Anna Marmodoro
T. 5 – 7
(weeks 2, 4, 6, 8)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Corpus Christi
College
Prof Terence Irwin, Prof Karen
Margrethe Nielsen, Prof Michael
Peramatzis
Professor Harvey Brown
Th. 5 – 6.30
(weeks 1 to 7)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Th. 4.30 – 6.30
Dr Martin Pickup
Dr Josh Shepherd and Prof Ian
Phillips
Various conveners
TBC
F. 1.30 – 3.15
(weeks 2, 4, 6)
F. 3.30 – 5.30
Rad. Hum.
(Lecture Room)
New College (TBC)
Rad. Hum.
(Lecture Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Lecture Room)
Regular Faculty Seminars
Moral Philosophy Seminar
Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar
DPhil Seminar
Post-Kantian Philosophy Seminar
Power Structuralism/Metaphysics of
Entanglement group Seminar (odd weeks) /
Reading Group (even)
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
Philosophy of Physics Seminar
Theoretical Philosophy Work in Progress
Philosophy of Mind Work in Progress
The Jowett Society / Philosophical Society
W. 4.30 – 6.30
Place
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Lecture Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
Somerville College
(Maitland 19)
Rad. Hum.
(Ryle Room)
FOOTNOTES
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These lectures complete the series from MT2014, which was unavoidably curtailed.
CORE LECTURES FOR PRELIMS AND MODS
Students preparing for their First Public Examination (Prelims or Mods) should attend the following lectures this term:
PPE, Philosophy and Modern Languages, Philosophy and Theology, Psychology and Philosophy: Moral Philosophy and General Philosophy
Mathematics and Philosophy, Physics and Philosophy, Computer Science and Philosophy: Elements of Deductive Logic and General
Philosophy (all); Turing (Computer Science and Philosophy)
Literae Humaniores: any listed Prelims/Mods lecture that corresponds to their chosen Philosophy option for Mods
A note on locations:
The Radcliffe Humanities building (“Rad. Hum.” on the scheme above) has four floors, with lift access to all floors. The rooms chiefly used
by Philosophy for classes and lectures are the Ryle Room (1st floor), Lecture Room (2nd floor), and Seminar Room (3rd floor). Other rooms
sometimes used are the Colin Matthew Room and Meeting Room 4 (both ground floor).
The Examination Schools (“Schools”) is a major site for University lectures. It is found at 75-81 High Street. Electronic screens showing the
location of lectures and classes are found in the lobby of the building.
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