Past Events
2023-2024
Autumn Term
18th October 2023 (Week 3) - S0.09, 16:00- 18:00
Professor Quassim Cassam - Liberation Philosophy
15th November 2023 (Week 7) - S0.09, 16:00- 18:00
Eylem 脰zaltun (Ko莽 University), "The Author of Intention against Descartes on I-thoughts"
6th December 2023 (Week 10) - Mini-Workshop: Time, Pictures and Consciousness
2-4: Jack Shardlow (Edinburgh), 鈥淢otion(less) Pictures and Temporal Appearances鈥�
4-6: Tom Crowther (糖心TV), "Time & Consciousness"
Spring Term
24th January 2024 (Week 3)
Cheryl Misak (Toronto)- "Ryle's Pragmatism: A Gift from Margaret MacDonald"
21st February 2024 (Week 7) - Mini-Workshop
2-3.30pm: Michele Ombrato (Geneva) 鈥漋aluational antinomies, evaluative (Gestalt) switches and mixed affect"
4鈥�5.30辫尘: Jean Moritz M眉ller (T眉bingen) "Are Attitudes Intentional Under a Description?"
13th March (Week 10) - MEEP Mini-Workshop on Helping and Group Membership
2 - 3.45pm: Josef Perner & Anna Kr盲mer (Salzburg) "Prosocial teleology: Does infants' helping depend on understanding value and instrumental reasons?"
Summer Term
8th May 2024 (Week 3) - Mini-Workshop on Self-Identification and Self-Alienation
postponed
5th June 2024 (Week 7) - MEEP Seminar
Elizabeth Fricker (Oxford) 鈥淥n the Metaphysical and Epistemic Contrasts between Real and Fake Testimony鈥�
2022-23
6th-7th October, 2022. 糖心TV-Geneva-Leipzig Interdepartmental collaboration
17th January 2023. CRPLA & WMA Seminar
Paul Smith 鈥� 鈥淐ezanne, perception, autism: (not) putting the pieces together鈥�. Response by Naomi Eilan
17th February 2023. Workshop: Autobiographical Memory and Joint Reminiscing (organized by Daniel)
11am-12.30pm: Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack: "Remember when?鈥� Looking for an account of joint reminiscing"
1.30-3pm: Julian Bacharach: "Is There Such a Thing as Joint Attention to the Past?鈥�
3.20-4.50pm: Tony Marcel: 鈥淧henomena raising questions about 鈥楢utobiographical Memory鈥� and 鈥楨pisodic Memory鈥欌��
24th February 2023. WMA Talk
Simon Wimmer (TU Dortmund) 鈥淧richard on Looks鈥� (joint work with Giulia Martina)
3rd and 10th March 2023. Philosophy of Action Mini-Talk Series: Intentional Action and the Content of Intention
Friday 3rd of March
Lucy Campbell (糖心TV): 鈥淭he Content of Practical Knowledge and the Content of Intention鈥�
Friday 10th March
Xavier Castell脿 (Girona): 鈥淭he Representation of Action in Intention鈥�
8th March 2023. WMA Talk
Giulia Martina (University of T眉bingen), 鈥淪melling Things鈥� (co-written with Matt Nudds).
30th - 31st March 2023. Workshop: Moral Experience
Organisers: Fabienne Peter and Daniel Vanello
Thursday 30th of March
10:30-10.45am Introduction
10:45am-12pm Robert Cowan (University of Glasgow) 鈥淢oral Perception, Moral Deference, and Parity Principles鈥�
1-2:15pm Daniel Vanello (University of 糖心TV) 鈥淢oral Understanding, Experience, and the Personal鈥�
2:30-3.45pm Sophie Grace Chappell (Open University) 鈥淲hat is it Like to be a Human Being?鈥�
4.15-5:30pm Sarah MacGrath (Princeton University) 鈥�(What) is Moral Experience? (What) Do We Want it to Be? (online talk)鈥�
Friday 31st of March
10-11.15am Fabienne Peter (University of 糖心TV) 鈥淢oral Affordances and the Demands of Fittingness鈥�
11.30am-12.45pm Max Khan Hayward (University of Sheffield) 鈥淭he Experience of 鈥楴ormativity鈥�"
1.45-3pm William FitzPatrick (University of Rochester) 鈥淭he Roles of Moral Experience in Metaphysically Committed, Non-Naturalist Ethical Realism鈥� (online talk)
3.30-4.45pm Nomy Arpaly (Brown University) TBA
20th June 2023 MEEP workshop
(Celebrating Daniel Vanello鈥檚 Leverhulme Project, Shaping Our Moral Identity.)
10.00 - 11.00 - "On the location of ethics and politics in the mind: introductory comments", Naomi Eilan
11.15 - 12.15 - "The epistemology of emancipation", Quassim Cassam
13.00 - 14.00 - "Rethinking Body Shame", Heather Widdows
14.15 - 15.15 - "Sentence structure, thought and attention", Eileen John
15.45 - 16.45 - "Montaigne on the ethics and politics of self-knowledge", Johannes Roessler
17.00 - 18.00 - "The authority of moral witnesses", Daniel Vanello
28 June, 2023. WMA Talk
Eylem 脰zaltun (Ko莽 University) "Paralogisms revisited: transcendental object as arbitrary object"
29 June 2023 - MEEP Mini-Workshop, 2:00-6:00pm
Professor Carol Rovane (Columbia University) "Social Conditions of the Psyche"
Professor Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University) "The Commons and our Political Ideals"
2021-22
28th October 2021. WMA talk
Matt Duncan and Hannah Nahas 鈥淕etting Acquainted with Art鈥�
Seminar Series: Autobiographical Memory, Value, and Moral Identity (Online)
Contact: Daniel Vanello
12th January 2022 - Fabrice Teroni (Philosophy; Geneva)
26th January 2022 - Deborah Laible (Psychology; Lehigh)
2nd February 2022 - Robyn Fivush (Psychology; Emory)
16h February 2022 - Tobias Krettenauer (Psychology; Wilfrid Laurier University)
23rd February 2022 - Marya Schechtman (Philosophy; Illinois at Chicago)
9th March 2022 - Matthew Soteriou (Philosophy; King鈥檚 College)
16th March 2022 - Kristin H. Lagattuta (Psychology; UC Davis)
22nd March 2022 - Christoph Hoerl (Philosophy; 糖心TV)
27th April 2022 - Shaun Nichols (Philosophy; Cornell)
11th May 2022 - Monisha Pasupathi (Psychology, University of Utah)
18th May 2022 - Carl Craver (Philosophy/Psychology; St. Lohuis, Washington)
1st July 2022 - Naomi Eilan (Philosophy; 糖心TV)
30th 鈥� 31st March 2022. Workshop on Testimony and Other Minds (In person)
Organised by Lucy Campbell and Jack Shardlow
Wed 30th March
10.30鈥�12.00: Matt Parrott (Oxford) 鈥� Testimony and Expressive Benhaviour
12.15 鈥� 13.45: Lucy Campbell (糖心TV) 鈥� 鈥�Expression-based Testimonial Knowledge of Other Minds鈥�
14.45鈥�16.15: Guy Longworth (糖心TV) 鈥� 鈥淭hinking Together鈥�
16.30鈥�18.15: Beri Maru拧i膰 (Edinburgh), with commentary from Jane Heal (Cambridge) 鈥� 鈥淚nterpersonal Reasoning鈥�
Thurs 31st March
10.00鈥�11.30: Anita Avramides (Oxford) 鈥� 鈥淓xploring a Duality in the Problem of Other Minds鈥�
11.45鈥�13.15: Sanford Diehl (Oxford) 鈥� 鈥淩espect and Acknowledgement鈥�
July 2-3 2022. Themes from the work of Mark Eli Kalderon
Organisers: Guy Longworth and Jack Shardlow
Saturday July 2
10am鈥�11.30am 鈥極n the Homeric Roots of Intentionality鈥�, Mark Kalderon (UCL)
12noon鈥�1.30pm 鈥楶artiality and perception鈥�, Giulia Martina (Turin)
2.30辫尘鈥�4辫尘 鈥�Aristotle on having reason strictly speaking鈥�, Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (UCL)
4.30pm鈥�6pm 'Le Psychologue Malgr茅 Lui', Charles Travis (Porto)
Sunday July 3
10am鈥�11.30am 'Perceptual activity and the state of wakefulness', Thomas Crowther (糖心TV)
12noon鈥�1.30pm 鈥楰alderon鈥檚 Puzzle Solved鈥�, Vivian Mizrahi (Geneva)
2.30辫尘鈥�4辫尘 鈥欌�滻llumination fading away in outer darkness鈥�: Revisiting Russellian Psychology鈥�, M. G. F. Martin (Oxford/Berkeley)
2020-21
Seminar series: Knowledge and belief seminar
8th October: John Hyman (UCL) 'Knowledge and Belief'
15th October: Eva Rafetseder (Stirling) Title: TBC
22nd October: Simon Wimmer (TU Dortmund) 'Lessons from Ryle?'
29th October: Eylem 脮zaltun (Ko莽 University) 'What is the Moral of Davidson's Carbon Copier? Towards an Anscombean Account of Practical Knowledge'
5th November: Paul Silva (University of Cologne) 'Knowledge, Belief, and the Possession of Reasons'
12th November: Alan Millar (Stirling) 'Detached Factual Knowledge'
19th November: Rachel Dudley (CEU) 'The Pragmatics of Knowing'
26th November: Johannes Roessler (糖心TV)'Perceptual Self-Knowledge and Doxastic Self-Determination'
3rd December: Leda Berio (HHU, D眉sseldorf) 鈥楾alking about Thinking: Language Acquisition and False Belief Reasoning鈥�
10th December: Guy Longworth (糖心TV) 'Unsettling Questions'
20th November 2020. 糖心TV Mind and Action Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (online)
10.50 Welcome with HoD Professor Guy Longworth
11.00 - 11.40: Binjie Zou (KCL) 鈥滱gainst objective perception as a practical capacity鈥�
11.50 - 12.30: Borbala Schlanger (UCL) 鈥淐an higher-order thought theories explain animal consciousness?鈥�
13.00 - 14.00: 鈥�Further Studies in Philosophy鈥� with MPhil Convenor Professor Naomi Eilan and MA Convenor Dr Thomas Crowther
14.00 - 14.40: Zofia Orlowska (糖心TV) 鈥淒oes Shoemaker establish that introspection is not perceptual?鈥�
14.50 - 15.30: Jeffrey Torborg (Columbia) 鈥淎nalyticity Again: Concepts, Inferences, and Transcendental Arguments鈥�
15.40 - 16.20: Nik Land (Durham) 鈥淩eally Interactive Kinds: Ontological Confusion in Iain Hacking on Psychiatry鈥�
16.40 - 17.40: Keynote with Professor Naomi Eilan 鈥淧sychopathy, Understanding, and Character鈥�
Seminar Series: From Moral Learning to Self-Understanding
Organised by Daniel Vanello
Thursday 14/01: Kristina Musholt (Leipzig)
Thursday 28/01: Edward Harcourt (Oxford)
Thursday 11/02: Richard Moore (糖心TV)
Thursday 25/02: Henrike Moll (Southern California)
Thursday 11/03: Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin)
Monday 22/03: Amrisha Vaish (Virginia)
Thursday 08/04: Barbora Siposova (糖心TV)
Thursday 22/04: Jonathan Webber (Cardiff)
Thursday 06/05: Johannes Roessler (糖心TV)
Thursday 20/05: Naomi Eilan (糖心TV)
Thursday 04/06: Vasudevi Reddy (Portsmouth)
18th February 2021. A mini workshop temporal representation
Speakers: Julian Bacharach (Humboldt, Berlin) and Christoph Hoerl (糖心TV)
26th-27th June, 2021. MindGrad: The Consciousness of Time
Invited Speakers: John Campbell (UC Berkeley), Natalja Deng (Yonsei University)
1st July 2021. WMA mini-workshop on memory
Speakers: James Openshaw (糖心TV) and Thomas Crowther (糖心TV)
26th-27th September 2019
IAS Workshop, Self-knowledge and judgement in early modern philosophy
Programme
Thursday 26th September
10.30 鈥� 12.00: Maria Rosa Antognazza (KCL) 鈥楰nowledge and the first person鈥�
12.00 鈥� 1.30: Ioannis Evrigenis (Tufts) 鈥楾he Fly on the axletree: Hobbes on self-knowledge and judgment鈥�
2.30 鈥� 4.00: Mark Philp (糖心TV) 鈥楪odwin and Wollstonecraft: deliberation and self-knowledge '
4.30 鈥� 6.00: Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt/糖心TV) 鈥楻ousseau's solution to a Rousseauean problem鈥�
Friday 27th September
9.00 鈥� 10.30: Mario De Caro (Roma Tre/Tufts) 鈥楳achiavelli's naturalism鈥�
10.30 鈥� 12.00: Guy Longworth (糖心TV) 鈥楧escartes on how the mind is better known than the body鈥�
12.00 鈥� 1.15: Johannes Roessler (糖心TV) 鈥楯udgement and self-understanding in Montaigne鈥檚 贰蝉蝉补测蝉鈥�
Expression and Self-Knowledge
4th October 2019
11.00 鈥� 12.30: Lucy Campbell (糖心TV), 鈥楽elf-knowledge: expression without expressivism鈥�
12.30 鈥� 2.00: Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut), 鈥楴o 鈥楬ow鈥� Privileged Self-Knowledge鈥�
3.00 鈥� 4.30: Cristina Borgoni (Bayreuth University), 鈥楶rimitive forms of first-person authority and expressive capacities鈥�
27th February 2020. Talk. Anil Gomes (Oxford). 'Lichtenberg鈥檚 Puzzle'
16th January 2020. Talk. Rachel Fraser (Oxford) 'Narrative Testimony'
9th January 2020. Talk. Kurt Sylvan (Southampton) 'Knowledge and the Presentation of Reality'
Leverhulme Trust ECF 'Knowledge & Understanding' seminar series
Some of these events will take place online.
23rd April 2020. Michael Hannon (Nottingham). "Empathetic Understanding in Politics"
30th April 2020. Naomi Eilan (糖心TV). "Knowing and Understanding Other People"
7th and 14th June 2020. Double-session with Eileen John and David Woods (糖心TV).
21st May 2020. Chris Earley (糖心TV). "The Cognitive Value of Contemporary Avant-Garde Art"
28th May 2020. Christoph Hoerl (糖心TV). "Episodic Memory and Knowledge"
4th June 2020. Richard Gipps (Oxford). "On the Importance of not understanding the Patient"
11th June 2020. Johannes Roessler (糖心TV). "Self-Understanding"
18th June 2020. Maria Corrado (糖心TV). "Action, Force, and Auditory Perception"
25th June 2020. Ellisif Wasmuth (Essex). TBC.
Older
Seminars and Talks
David Hunter (Toronto) 14th May 2019
Kevin Lynch (UCD) 27th March 2019
Lucy Campbell (University of 糖心TV) 21st March 2019, 10th July 2019
Ivan Ivanov (Shandong University) 20th February 2019
鈥‥va Schmidt (Zurich)鈥� 5th of February 2019
Wayne Wu (Carnegie Mellon), 鈥楢ccess to action as attention鈥�. 17 June, 2016
Birgit Derntl (University of T眉bingen, Germany), 鈥楨mpathy through the lens of clinical neuroscience鈥�.
Casey O'Callaghan (Washington University in St. Louis), 'Psychological Taxonomy for Multisensory Perception'. Rethinking the Senses Seminar 19 May 2016
J茅r么me Dokic (Institut Jean-Nicod), 'Metaperception and the senses'. Rethinking the Senses Seminar. 22 October 2015
Cristina Borgoni, 'Unendorsed Beliefs' 24 February 2015
Mike Martin, 'Acquaintance', 9 May 2014
Jennifer Corns, 'Hedonic Rationality' 30 April 2014
Rachael Wiseman, ' Dreaming and Historical Psychological Statements', 14 March 2014
Clare Mac Cumhaill, 'Visual Evanescence', 15 January 2014
Workshops and conferences
Conference, Actions: The Mental and the Bodily, 6th-7th July 2019
Speakers: Lucy O'Brien (UCL) & Matthew Soteriou (KCL), Kath Bicknell (Macquarie) & Wayne Christensen (糖心TV), Lucy Campbell (糖心TV), Tom Crowther (糖心TV), Tom McClelland (糖心TV)
WMA Mini Workshop, Self-knowledge, 18th June 2019. Speakers: Hannah Ginsborg (UCBerkeley), Alexander Greenberg (Southhampton)
WMA Mini Workshop: The perception of objects and space,11th June 2019. Speakers: Peter Epstein (Pembroke College, Cambridge), Umrao Sethi (CUNY, New York)
Perceptual Knowledge: workshop with Barry Stroud, 8th-9th April 2019
Speakers: Barry Stroud (UCBerkeley), Lucy Campbell (糖心TV), Andrea Giananti (Fribourg), Christoph Pfisterer (Zurich), Giulia Luvisotto (糖心TV), Johannes Roessler (糖心TV)
About Time (Performance), 8th-9th February 2019
Big Telly Theatre Company, BBeyond Performance Art, and Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company.
Teresa McCormack (Queen鈥檚 University Belfast) and Christoph Hoerl (University of 糖心TV) join the artists to introduce the ideas.
The Flow of Time: An interdisciplinary workshop. 18th-19th January 2019 (Venice)
Speakers: Roberto Bottini (Trento), David Braddon-Mitchell (Sydney), Patrick Burns (Queen's University Belfast), Craig Callender (UCSD), Thomas Crowther (糖心TV), Alison Fernandes (Trinity College Dublin), Christoph Hoerl (糖心TV), Jenann Ismael (Columbia), Ruth Lee (Queen's University Belfast), Teresa McCormack (Queen's University Belfast), Kristie Miller (Sydney), Simon Prosser (St Andrews), Luca Rinaldi (Milano-Bicocca), Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan), Gerardo Viera (Antwerp).
WMA mini workshop: Time and Action. 20 October, 2017. Speakers: Thor Gr眉nbaum (Copenhagen) and Alison Fernandes (糖心TV)
WMA mini Workshop. 17 May, 2017. Speakers: Sam Clarke (Oxford) and Olle Blomberg (Copenhagen)
WMA mini Workshop. 11 May, 2017. Speakers: Matthew Soteriou (KCL) and Helen Steward (Leeds)
'Epistemology-led Metaphysics'. 4 May, 2017. Anil Gomes (Oxford) and Matthew Parrott (KCL)
'Self-Consciousness and Objectivity' Workshop with Sebastian R枚dl (Leipzig). 28 April, 2017.
WMA mini Workshop 26 April, 2017. Speakers: Till Vierkant (Edinburgh) and Neil Sinhababu (Singapore)
TEMI conference. Temporal Experience, Memory, and Imagination: Insights from Philosophy and Psychology. 24-25 March, 2017. Speakers: Natalia Deng (Yonsei), Thomas Crowther (糖心TV), Sarah Beck (Birmingham).
Emotion and Experience. 17 February, 2016. Speakers: Julien Deonna, Jonathan Mitchell, Christoph Hoerl, Michele Ombrato, Daniel Vanello. info
Action & Awareness Workshop. 17-19 March 2016. info
Early Career Mind Network Research Forum. 27-28 April 2016. Speakers: Lucy Campbell; Tony Cheng; Joe Cunningham; Casey Doyle; Max Jones; Vivan Joseph; Tom McClelland; Katherine Puddifoot; Barney Walker.
Only Connect Workshop. 24-25 June 2016. Speakers: Jane Barlow, Liz Barry, Maggie Ellis, Edward Harcourt, Paul Hart, Jonathan Heron, Catherine Hughes, Vasu Reddy, Claire Wilson, Suzanne Zeedyk.
Joint Practical Knowledge. 11-12 July 2016. Speakers: Steve Butterfill, Lucy Campbell, Naomi Eilan, Anil Gomes. Ben Laurence, Douglas Lavin, Glenda Satne, Hans Bernard Schmid. ()
BPPA Masterclass on Naive Realism and Its Challenges. 8 October 2016. Keynote speakers: Craig French, Mark E. Kalderon
Early Career Mind Network Pilot Meeting, Info
The Second Person, info
Mini-workshop: Joint attention
Speakers: Juan Carlos Gomez (St Andrews) and Maria Nunez (Glasgow)
Speakers: Ian Phillips (Oxford) and Bob Kentridge (Durham)
Time, Tense and the Psychology of Relief,
Attention and Perceptual Activity Workshop,
糖心TV-Geneva Philosophy of Mind Conference 2014,
Perspectives on Joint Action, a two-day workshop,