The Programme
Chaired by Jonathan Wolff, University of Oxford
Edited by Guy Longworth, University of Warwick
2018-2019
the 139th Session
Volume CXIX
Venue change for Proceedings – Spring Term
In connection with the IWGB boycott of Senate House, and the call to support it from several local UCU branches and the NUS, the Aristotelian Society has made arrangements to relocate its talks during Spring Term 2019.
The talks will now take place at the UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, in the room numbers below. Please note that on 4 March we will begin at the slightly later time of 5.45pm, however the room will be available for people to arrive from 5.30pm. Times and venue will be given again in our regular emails giving notice of the talks.
The venue is fully accessible, but any attendees who have concerns about disabled access please contact hdelascasas@aristoteliansociety.org.uk. There is also detailed information about the rooms and location at the website for 20 Bedford way.
The amended times and locations are as follows:
• 21 January 2019. Keith Allen - Room 802. 5.30pm
• 04 Feb 2019. Amia Srinivasan - Room 728. 5.30pm
• 18 Feb 2019. Nicholas Jones - Room 802. 5.30pm
• 04 March 2019. Sophia Connell - Room 804. Please note the later start time of 5.45pm
• 18 March 2019. Stephen Mulhall - Room 802. 5.30pm
Issue No. 1
1 October 2018
The 111th Presidential Address
The Chancellor's Hall - Senate House
Equality and Hierarchy
Jonathan Wolff
University of Oxford
15 October 2018 |
Refugees, Safety, and a Decent Human Life |
Sarah Fine
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29 October 2018 |
Normative Facts and Reasons |
Fabienne Peter
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12 November 2018 |
Empathy and First-Personal Imagining |
Rae Langton
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26 November 2018 |
Means Means Means |
Stephen Neale
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Issue No. 2
21 January 2019 |
Should We Believe Philosophical Claims on Testimony? |
Keith Allen
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4 February 2019 |
On Genealogy |
Amia Srinivasan
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18 February 2019 |
Propositions and Cognitive Relations |
Nicholas Jones
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4 March 2019 |
Nurture and Parenting in Aristotelian Ethics |
Sophia Connell
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18 March 2019 |
Two Shoes and a Fountain |
Stephen Mulhall
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Issue No. 3
29 April 2019 |
Responsibilities and Taking On Responsibility |
Cheshire Calhoun
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13 May 2019 |
What’s Wrong with the Consequence Argument: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response |
Christian List
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20 May 2019 |
The Hard Problem of Temporal Consciousness |
Thomas Sattig
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3 June 2019 |
What is a Sexual Orientation? |
Kathleen Stock
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17 June 2019 |
What is Medio-Passive Agency? |
Beatrice Han-Pile
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Meeting Address
Senate House - University of London
The Woburn Suite
Malet Street
London WC1E 5DN
United Kingdom
Catering
All of the Society’s philosophy talks are catered with fairtrade teas, coffees, and biscuits.
Meeting Times - 17.30 to 19.15
The Society’s philosophy talks take place every fortnight on Mondays throughout the academic year. Each talk starts at 17.30 and lasts for approximately an hour. The remainder of the time is dedicated to discussion, which ends at 19.15.
Admission
In line with the Society’s mission to make philosophy readily available to the general public, all talks are free and membership is not required.
Draft Papers
Following 137 years of tradition, draft papers for all the talks are available in advance. Please note that draft papers can only be cited with the authors permission (see below for final publication and subscription details).
The draft paper for a talk is available approximately one week prior to its schedule delivery.
Podcasts
The Aristotelian Society Philosophy Podcast Series contains free audio recordings of the talks delivered for the Proceedings. The Series was launched for the 2011/12 academic year and is produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy.
The podcast for a talk is available approximately one week after its scheduled delivery.
Publications
For the past 131 years, the Proceedings has featured widely respected papers delivered by a range of prominent philosophers, such as Alfred North Whitehead, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, A.J. Ayer, P.F. Strawson, Karl Popper, Elizabeth Anscombe, Bernard Williams, Hubert Dreyfus, Alexander Nehamas, and Onora O’Neill.
Final drafts of the papers - including discussion notes and exemplary graduate papers - are published in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
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The Society’s archive dating from 1888 to 1999 can be accessed online via JSTOR.
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