“The Practical, the Political, & the Ethical” Series

Spring 2025

Co-organized with Michael Hannon. We meet (roughly) every other Thursday from 4:30-6PM at Senate House. Talks are 45 minutes with 45 minutes Q&A.

Dates

• Jan 16: Daniela Dover (UCLA) & Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers) - “Freedom and Futurity: Simone de Beauvoir's Moral Philosophy”

• Feb 6: Clare Chambers (Cambridge) - “What’s for Dinner? The Gendered Division of Cooking”

• Feb 20: Jonathan Benson (Manchester) - “Affective Polarization and the Aptness of Partisan Anger”

• March 6: Todd Karhu (KCL) - “Temporal Partiality and the Veil of Ignorance”

• March 20: Alison Hills (Oxford) - “Moral Understanding and Moral Motivation”

• (Fri!) March 28: Sam Berstler (MIT) - “Conversing in the Dark: Off-Off Record Speech Acts and the Cooperative Creation of Uncertainty”

• May 1: Erik Zhang (Leeds)

• May 15: Shai Agmon (Oxford/UCL) - “On Suckers”

• May 29: Sam Shpall (Sydney) - “Limerence”

• June 12: Mollie Gerver (KCL) - "Do You Want to Be Nudged?"

• (Fri!) June 27: Niko Kolodny (Berkeley)

Most talks are in Room 243. Exceptions:

• March 28 is in Room 349.

• June 12 is in G7.

• June 27 is in the Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

The Seminar Series is sponsored by and part of the Institute of Philosophy. You can sign up for the mailing list here for regular updates. Last year’s schedule is here.