Summer Postgraduate Colloquium

Join the Philosophy Graduate Students' Society on 13 and 14 July for their Summer Colloquium with 16 speakers from around the world.

Registration webisite

Dates and times

Tue 13 Jul - Wed 14 Jul 10:00 - 16:00

Where Online event, details below

Who to contact

Elliot Porter [email protected]

• Conferences
  
• Lectures, talks and seminars
  
• Research

Due to the high number and quality of submissions, as well as the diversity of subjects, talks have been paired together on thematic similarity. Panel sessions will last for an hour and a half, and be shared by two speakers. Each speaker will have half an hour to speak, followed by a shared half hour Q&A. Congratulations everyone, and I hope you find your partner’s talk interesting: 

Day 1 

10:00 - Mental StatesNon-intentional Consciousness or Non-objectual intentionality, Zixuan Liu, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou Mind Wandering, Büşra Telli.

11:15 - General PhilosophyTime: Phenomenal Passage in B-Theory, Athamos Stradis, King’s College London, London Is Philosophical Discourse Representational? Tom Kaspers, University of St Andrews, St Andrews.

13:00 - Lunch 

14:00 - ArendtWork after Lockdown, Joe Jones, University of Kent, Canterbury The Possibilities and Limits of Agency in the Algorithmic Public Square Anthony Longo, King’s College London / University of Antwerp. 

15:50 - Public EpistemologyDuties to Object and Duties to Negotiate, Joel Yalland, University of Kent, Canterbury HIV and Covid-19 in South Africa: against epistemic contextualis, Ragnar van Der Merwe, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg. 

16:00 - End of Day 1 

Day 2 

10:00 - EvidenceEvidence-Based Medicine and Sports Science, William Levack-Pane, University of Kent, Canterbury Experimental Semantics and the reference of proper names in Jonah-style cases, Nicolò D’Agruma, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan. 

11:30 - AutonomyLiberto on Sexual Promises, David MacDonald, University of St Andrews, St AndrewsCW: This abstract uses the potential for someone to be pressured into non- consensual sex as part of the argument against the view I criticise. Self-Determination at Scope: self-care in bipolar disorder, Elliot Porter, University of Kent, Canterbury.

CW: This talk briefly raises decisions concerning suicide, and discussion of suicide and self-injury might come up during the Q&A. 

13:00 - Lunch 

14:00 - MetaphilosophyTurn to Butterfly Dream, CP Hertogh, Form, Vision, and the Business of Philosophy: Themes from Diamond and Hipponax, Matt Rosen, University of Oxford, Oxford. 

15:30 - AvicennaAvicenna and Ontological Pluralism, Taymaz Azimi Sadjadi, University of Kent, Canterbury From the Necessary to the Must-be of Existence; The Principle of Noncontradiction in Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Avicenna’s synthetic ontologisation of transcendentals in the Metaphysics of the Healing, Nojan Komeyli, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.

16:00 - End of Day 2 Remember, times listed here are in British Summer Time (UTC+1).