Past PPE Seminars
Past schedules and posters for the Practical, the Political, and the Ethical seminar series at the Institute of Philosophy. For the current series, see here.
Spring 2026
- Jan 29Carolina Flores (Lisbon) — “Moral Panics!”
- Feb 12Massimo Renzo (KCL) — “Choices, Desires, Commitments”
- March 12Lea Ypi (LSE) — “What is Political Progress?”
- March 26Joe Horton (UCL) — “Deontology, Decision Theory, and Preferences-First”
- April 23Alexander Prescott-Couch (Oxford) — “The Politics of Nuance” (Room 243)
- May 14Ella Whiteley (LSE) — “Striking-Salience and Exclusion”
- June 4Chris Cowie (Durham) — “New Wave Lexical Totalism” (Room 261)
Spring 2025
- Jan 16Daniela Dover (UCLA) & Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers) — “Freedom and Futurity: Simone de Beauvoir’s Moral Philosophy”
- Feb 6Clare Chambers (Cambridge) — “What’s for Dinner? The Gendered Division of Cooking”
- Feb 20Jonathan Benson (Manchester) — “Affective Polarization and the Aptness of Partisan Anger”
- March 6Todd Karhu (KCL) — “Temporal Partiality and the Veil of Ignorance”
- March 20Alison Hills (Oxford) — “Moral Understanding and Moral Motivation”
- Fri March 28Sam Berstler (MIT) — “Conversing in the Dark: Off-Off Record Speech Acts and the Cooperative Creation of Uncertainty”
- May 1Erik Zhang (Leeds) — “Promising to Do Wrong”
- May 15Shai Agmon (Oxford/UCL) — “On Suckers”
- May 29Sam Shpall (Sydney) — “Limerence”
- June 12Mollie Gerver (KCL) — “Do You Want to Be Nudged?” (Room G37)
- Fri June 27Niko Kolodny (Berkeley) — “Vacating Consent” (Council Chamber, IALS)
Spring 2024
- Jan 25Victor Tadros (Warwick) — “Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity”
- Feb 8Lewis Ross (LSE) — “Preferring Punishment? Ostracism, Reintegration and Stigma”
- Feb 22Kate Vredenburgh (LSE) — “Moral Understanding, Justice, and the AI-Driven Workplace”
- March 7Giulia Cavaliere (KCL) — “What is Infertility? (And Why We Should Care)”
- March 21Jules Holroyd (Sheffield) — “Resisting Oppressive Praise”
- April 4Chris Woodard (Nottingham) — “Justice for Utilitarians”
- April 18Rob Simpson (UCL) — “Problems in Ethical Debates Around Content Moderation”
- May 2Farbod Akhlaghi (Cambridge/TCD) — “The Ethics of Transformative Experience”
- May 23Sarah Fine (Cambridge) — “Not at Home”
- May 30Dan Williams (Sussex) — “The Focus on Misinformation in Science and Society”
- June 27Mark McBride (NUS) — “Hybridity and Surrogacy” (co-hosted with UCL Laws)