Past Events
2019/2020
Candlemas Semester
20.04.2020 Dr. Mona Simion (Glasgow): The Epistemic Normativity of Conjecture
07.04.2020 Professor Jonathan Wolff (Oxford): Putting a Price on Life
20.03.2020 Dr. Katharine Jenkins (Nottingham): Analytic Philosophy as Critical Theory
09.03.2020 Dr. Alex Douglas (St Andrews): Spinoza's Unquiet Aquiescentia
04.03.2020 Dr Barbara Sattler (St Andrews): Space and Void in Early Greek Thought
29.02.2020 - 01.03.2020 1st Annual St Andrews Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
18.02.2020 Professor Cecile Fabre (Oxford): Value, Justice, and Humankind's Common Heritage
10.02.2020 Work: A discussion
05.02.2020 Philsoc Film Night: Examined Life
27.01.2020 Dr Adam Etinson (St Andrews): Anger and Remorse
Martinmas Semester
05.12.2019 Professor Nancy Cartwright ( Durham): Why Big Theory is Here to Stay
02.12.2019 Professor Graham Priest (Graduate Center, CUNY): Nothing
27.11.2019 Professor Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia): Presupposition and Consent
11.11.2019 PhD Flash Talks: Philosophy of Jargon and The Imagination
04.11.2019 Dr. Kevin Scharp ( St Andrews): Using Artificial Intelligence in Philosophy
29.10.2019 Doing the Most Good: A Philosophical Discussion
16.10.2019 Professor Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam): Changing Minds Through Argumentation
09.10.2019 Professor Tommy J. Curry ( Edinburgh): On the Murder of Kinds
03.10.2019 Polyamory and Love - A Discussion
30.09.2019 Professor Imogen Dickie ( St Andrews): The Subject Matter of Thought
23.09.2019 Professor James Harris (St Andrews): What is the People?
16.09.2019 Dr. Patrick. Greenough (St Andrews): Are We All Mentally Ill?
2018/19
Candlemas semester
7.5.2019 Garden Party
29.4.2019 Professor Sarah Sawyer (Sussex): Moral Twin Earth
23.4.2019 Professor Roger Crisp (Oxford): Rescue and Personal Involvement
22.4.2019 AGM
15.4.2019 Dr Justin Snedegar: Reasons, Competition, and Latitude
8.4.2019 Dr Joe Slater (Glasgow): What is Victim-Blaming?
1.4.2019 Dr Lisa Jones: Sport, Art, and Make-Believe
13.3.2019 Professor Hilary Greaves (Oxford): Global priorities research
4.3.2019 Dr Simon Prosser: Moving through time
27.2.2019 Professor Jonathan Wolff (Oxford): Material and social equality
18.2.2019 Discussion group: Living a moral life—How good is good enough?
11.2.2019 Pub Quiz
4.2.2019 Professor Franz Berto: Adding 4.0241 to the Tractatus
28.1.2019 Professor Katherine Hawley: Who speaks for science?
Martinmas semester
26.11.2018 Discussion group: Is there any progress in Philosophy?
19.11.2018 Dr Bryan Weaver (Ohio State): Consent and creation
12.11.2018 Dr Bruno Jacinto: Being and predication
5.11.2018 Pub Quiz
29.10.2018 Dr Chris Hooley: Gauge transformations and their ontological implications
15.10.2018 Professor Kathrin Glüer-Pagin (Stockholm): Is logic normative?
8.10.2018 Dr Theron Pummer: Suboptimal charity
1.10.2018 Dr Alison Duncan Kerr: There's no such thing as sex!
25.9. 2018 Professor Cheshire Calhoun (Ariszona State): Intimidation
17.9.2018 Dr Derek Ball: Arguing about definitions
2017/18
Candlemas semester
23.4.2018 Professor Katherine Hawley: Imposter Syndrome and Conspiracy Theories
16.4.2018 Professor Daniel Weinstock (McGill): Militant Democracy by (Electoral) Design
2.4.2018 Professor Robert Stainton (Western Ontario): Do Languages Really Exist?
12.3.2018 Discussion group: The Case for Moral Enhacement
9.3.2018 Professor John Haldane and Dr Kevin Scharp: Faith and Reason
12.2.2018 Dr. Mark Thakkar: Mind Your Language!
5.2.2018 Professor Larry Temkin (Rutgers): Being Good in a World of Need
19.1.2018 Dr. Fenner Tanswell: LEGO, IKEA and Mathematical Proofs
Martinmas semester
27.11.2017 Dr. Emily Thomas (Durham): Travel Writing as Thought Experiments
23.11.2017 Dr. Fiona Woollard (Southampton): Driverless Cars and Ethics Without Algorithms
13.11.2017 Dr Barbara Sattler: The Labours of Zeno – a Supertask indeed?
30.10.2017 Ethan Landes: It’s the end of philosophy as we know it (and I feel fine)
16.10.2017 Philosophy of Sex: PhilSoc discussion group for SHAG week
2.10.2017 Dr Chris Hooley: Indistinguishability and indiscernibility
25.9.2017 Dr Theron Pummer: Avoid Gratuitous Nonbeneficence
18.9.2017 Professor James Harris: Liberty and Democracy