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PHILOSOPHY
DIVISIONS OF MEDICAL SCIENCES (EXPERIMENTAL
PSYCHOLOGY), MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL AND LIFE
SCIENCES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FACULTIES OF PHILOSOPHY, CLASSICS, MODERN LANGUAGES,
AND THEOLOGY
Lecture List for Trinity Term 2008
NOTICE: Non-members of the University may not attend university lectures (unless they are announced as open
to the general public) without payment of a fee, otherwise than by personal invitation of the lecturer concerned.
Persons who are neither reading for a qualification of this University nor otherwise exempt, and who wish to attend
lectures in any term, should apply to the Buildings and Events Manager, Examination Schools, for details of fees.
At least three working days' notice is required before a lecture permit can be issued, to allow liaison with the
department or faculty concerned. Senior visiting scholars from other universities who wish to attend lectures,
seminars, or classes should normally apply to the lecturer concerned directly, and not to the Buildings and Events
Manager.
Lectures begin on the first possible day after the beginning of Full Term (Sunday, 20 April) unless
otherwise stated.
Lectures will begin five minutes after the hour and finish at five minutes before the next hour.
CL and paper number denotes core lectures.
NB: The information below is subject to change. Please make sure that you check the Faculty's website
http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/links/lectures.shtml for the most up-to-date information.
Subject Lecturer Time Place
Lectures for Mods and Prelims
Plato: Euthyphro and Meno Mrs L. Brown M.W. 11 10 Merton Street
(Lecture Room)
The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence (wks Dr S. Saunders W. 2 - 4 10 Merton Street
1 -6) (Ryle Room)
Introduction to Logic (for Classics Mods) Dr C. Besson T. 11 10 Merton Street
(Lecture Room)
Frege: Foundations of Arithmetic Dr G. Uzquiano-Cruz W. 10 10 Merton Street
(Ryle Room)
History of Philosophy: Medieval and Modern
CL 101 History of Philosophy: Berkeley Dr P. Kail M. W. 10 10 Merton Street
(wks 1 4) (Lecture Room)
CL 101 History of Philosophy: Locke Dr P. Lodge T. 10 10 Merton Street
(wks 1 4) (Lecture Room)
CL 113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: The Dr G. Lock F. 2.15 - 4 10 Merton Street
Politics of Philosophy. Controversies and (Ryle Room)
conflicts: From Husserl and Heidegger to
Sartre and Merleau-Ponty (wks 1 - 4)
CL 113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Prof. H. Philipse (University of M. 2 - 4 10 Merton Street
Kantian themes in post-Kantian Utrecht) (Lecture Room)
Continental Philosophy (Kant, Nietszche,
Husserl, Heidegger)
Some Medieval Theories of Final Prof. M. McCord Adams and W. 11 - 1 Christ Church
Causality (wks 1 6) Dr C. Trifogli
LECTURE LISTS TRINITY TERM 2008
Subject Lecturer Time Place
History of Philosophy: Medieval and Modern (continued)
Post-Kantian Philosophy: Schopenhauer Dr D. Came T. 11 10 Merton Street
and Nietszche (wks 1 4) (Ryle Room)
Anti-Kantian Kantians: Fichte and Early Dr M. Dries F. 1 10 Merton Street
Romantic Philosophy (wks 1 4) (Ryle Room)
Epistemology and Metaphysics, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Language, Mind, Science
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The 2008 John Locke Lectures Logic, Prof. H. Field (NYU) W. 5 St Cross Building,
Normativity, and Rational Revisability Gulbenkian
(wks 1 - 6) Lecture Theatre
(wks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6)
Lecture Theatre II
(wk 5)
CL 104 Philosophy of Mind Prof. C. Shields Th. 10 10 Merton Street
(Lecture Room)
(wks 1 7)
Lady Margaret
Hall (wk 8 only)
TBC
CL 120 Intermediate Philosophy of Dr W. Myrvold T. 3 10 Merton Street
Physics (Revision class) (wks 1 & 2) (Lecture Room)
Higher-order and self-representational Dr M. Spener M. 11 10 Merton Street
theories of consciousness (wks 1 4) (Ryle Room)
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Philosophy of Social Science (wks 1 4) Dr L. Braddock and Dr J. Latsis Th. 4 Jowett Walk
Building, Jowett
Walk (Wolfson
Room)
Moral and Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion
The H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture 2008: Prof. S. Issacharoff (NYU) T. 5 Schools
Democracy in Times of War (wk 3)
CL 107 Philosophy of Religion (Revision Prof. B. Leftow T. 3 Schools
Class) (wks 1 4)
Psychoanalysis, Ethics, and Mind Dr E. Harcourt M. 12 10 Merton Street
(Lecture Room)
Research Seminars/Graduate Classes (The classes in this section are open to undergraduates unless otherwise
stated)
3
Seminar for First Year Graduates Convened by 1st Year Graduates W. 11 - 1 10 Merton Street
(Ryle Room)
3
Seminar for First Year Graduates Convened by 1st Year Graduates F. 11 - 1 10 Merton Street
(Lecture Room)
Doctoral Thesis Seminar Dr P. Lodge and Prof. J. T. 2 - 4 10 Merton Street
Hawthorne (Ryle Room)
Workshop: Work in Progress in Ancient Prof. D. Charles and Prof. T. Th. 5 - 6.30 10 Merton Street
Philosophy Irwin (Ryle Room)
Aristotle's Hylomorphism (wks 1, 3, 5, Dr A. Marmodoro W. 4 - 6 10 Merton Street
7) (Ryle Room)
Ontology, Logic, and Argument in Late Dr P. Crivelli, Dr A. T. 3.30 - 5.30 New College
Plato and the Early Aristotle Schiaparelli, and Dr B. Morison
(Conveners)
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PHILOSOPHY
Subject Lecturer Time Place
Research Seminars/Graduate Classes (continued)
The MLE (Metaphysics, Language, and Mr A. Wilson and Ms G. W. 2 - 4 Magdalen College
Epistemology) Seminar Leckie (Archway Seminar
Room)
4
Representational content in cognitive Dr N. Shea Th. 2 - 3.30 Experimental
science Psychology
(Room C 113)
5
Critical Theory and Spiritual Practice: Prof. P. Fiddes (Theology) and Th. 5 - 6.30 Regents Park
An Interdisciplinary, Text -based Seminar Dr P. Anderson (Philosophy) College
(wks 1, 3, 5, 7)
Recent topics in metaethics and Dr K. Bykvist and Dr J. Olson Th. 10 - 12 10 Merton Street
normativity (Ryle Room)
6
The Moral Philosophy Seminar Dr K. Bykvist, and Dr J. Olson M. 4.30 - 6.30 10 Merton Street
(Conveners) (Lecture Room)
7
On What Matters: Reasons and Mr D. Parfit W. 2.15 All Souls
Rationality, Ethics, and Metaethics (wks
2 8)
Applied Ethics (wks 2, 3, 5, 7) Prof. J. Savulescu Th. 10 - 12 21st Century
School
34 Broad Street
(Seminar Room 2)
The James Martin 21st Century School Prof. J. Savulescu and Dr N. T. 2 - 4 21st Century
Advanced Research Seminars Bostrom School
34 Broad Street
(Seminar Room 1)
8
Humour The Warden of All Souls and T. 5 All Souls
Prof. G.A. Cohen (Old Library)
9
Contemporary Political Philosophy Prof. G.A. Cohen and the T. 11 All Souls
Warden of New College (Seminar Room 3)
10
From Freud to Fried: Twentieth- Dr J. Hyman and Dr J. Gaiger F. 5 - 7 10 Merton Street
Century Philosophy and Theory of the (Conveners) (Ryle Room)
Visual Arts
Formal Theories of Truth Dr V. Halbach T. 12 10 Merton Street
(Ryle Room)
Introduction to Semantics Prof. T. Williamson and Dr O. T. 4.30 - 6.30 10 Merton Street
Magidor (Lecture Room)
Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar Dr D. Wallace (Convener) Th. 4.30 10 Merton Street
(Lecture Room)
B.Phil. Classes (These classes are intended for B.Phil. candidates. Others may only attend with the permission of
the lecturer/s)
Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Dr J. Tasioulas W. 11 Corpus Christi
Law (Seminar Room)
Philosophy of Mind Dr L. Fricker F. 10 - 12 10 Merton Street
(Ryle Room)
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Moral Philosophy (wks 2 8) Mr D. Parfit Th. 5 All Souls
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LECTURE LISTS TRINITY TERM 2008
FOOTNOTE REFERENCES
1 In week 5 the lecture will take place in Lecture Theatre II of the St Cross Building, rather than in the
Gulbenkian.
2 Topics covered will be: Explanation and Interpretation; Individualism and Holism.
3 This seminar is intended for 1st year B.Phil. and 1st year PRS students. Others may only attend if they
have obtained permission in advance from the coordinators. There are 2 weekly slots for this seminar (Wed 11-1,
Ryle room; Fr 11-1, Lecture room) in case students wish to split into two groups.
4 Those attending will need to bring a university card for access to the Experimental Psychology building.
5 Each week a seminar leader will introduce the text for discussion, leaving plenty of time for participants
to make contributions from their own reading of the selected text, so preparation is essential for all of those
attending. Details on the texts will be available in 0th week from pamela.anderson@regents.ox.ac.uk
6 This seminar runs throughout the year with a variety of visiting speakers. For further details please
consult the events page of the Philosophy website www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/misc/moral_philosophy/
futureseminars.shtml
7 Undergraduates are welcome. Please note that the fist meeting of this class will be in SECOND week.
8 Week 1 (22 April): G. A. Cohen (Oxford), Why "Humour" Cannot be Defined
Week 2 (29 April): Jessica Milner Davis (University of Sydney), Beyond the Dictionary The Ordinary
Meanings of Parody and Satire Today.
Week 3 (6 May): Mark Elvin (Australian National University), How Traditional Chinese Humour
Adjusted Itself to the New Absurdities of the Modern Era.
Week 4 (13 May): TBA
Week 5 (20 May): Steve Bell (Celebrated Guardian Cartoonist), TBA
Week 6 (27 May): Andy Medhurst (Sussex), Confessions of a Killjoy How Academic Research on
Humour is Perceived.
Week 7 (3 June): John Davis (Oxford), World Humour
Week 8 (10 June): John Fortune (Celebrated Comedy Actor), TBA
9 Note: this is primarily a teaching seminar for M.Phil. Political Theory students, but others may attend
without asking permission provided that they are willing to respect the main purpose of the seminar.
10 Week 1 (25th April): Prof.. M. Podro and Dr J. Gaiger on Heinrich Wölfflin, Principles of Art History,
'Introduction' and 'General Observations'.
Week 2 (2nd May): Dr M. Loh (UCL) on Linda Nochlin, 'Why have there been no great women artists?'
Week 3 (9th May): Prof.. A. Ridley (Southampton) on R.G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art, ch.2,
'Art and Craft'.
Week 4 (16th May): Dr. S. Mulhall on Michael Fried, Absorption and Theatricality, ch.2, 'Towards a
Supreme Fiction'.
Week 5 (23rd May): Dr J. Hyman on E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, ch.4, 'Reflections on the Greek
Revolution'.
Week 6 (30th May): Prof.. A. Savile (KCL) on Richard Wollheim, Art and its Objects, §§37-39 and
Supplementary Essay IV `Criticism as Retrieval'.
Week 7 (6th June): Prof.. A. Düttmann (Goldsmiths) on Jacques Derrida, The Truth in Painting, section
on `The Colossal' (pp. 119-148) from ch.1, `Parergon'.
Week 8 (13th June): Prof.. R. Scruton on Frank Sibley, 'Aesthetic Concepts'.
11 Please note that the fist meeting of this class will be in SECOND week.
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