Conferences and Workshops in 2019-20

Department research seminar

• Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff) - Speech Extraction and Epistemic Injustice
• Bernhard Salow (Oxford) - Sequential Decisions under the Idea of Freedom
• Catrin Campbell-Moore (Bristol) - Undermining Beliefs and Imprecise Probabilities
• Donnchadh O'Conaill (Fribourg) - he Argument From Revelation: Metaphilosophical Issues
• Karim Thebault (Bristol) - On The Limits of Experimental Knowledge
• Katie Robertson (Birmingham) - Autonomy and Asymmetry in the Special Sciences
• Lena Zuchowski (Bristol) - What Kind of Models are Deep-Learning Algorithms?
• Matthew Ratcliffe (York) - The Appropriateness of Grief
• Paul Noordhof (York) - Are the Senses Fragmented By Science?
• Pekka Vayrynen (Leeds) - Normative Explanation Unchained
• Rachel Cooper (Lancaster) - Disorder Revisited
• Sam Wilkinson (Exeter) - What Are We Doing When We Call Someone Mentally Ill?
• Tim Fowler (Bristol) - Funding Procreative Technologies: The (Non) Importance of Adoption
• Joe Saunders (Durham) - What's Wrong with the Master?

Specialised research seminars

Logic (Foundational Studies Bristol group):

• Gil Sagi (Haifa). Logic and Natural Language: Commitments and Constraints
• Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M) - Realism in Mathematics: The Case of the Hyperreals (joint work with Henry Towsner)
• Damian Szmuc (Buenos Aires) - A Classical Logic of Nonsense 
• Martin Fischer (Munich) - Hype, Truth and Predicative Analysis
• Beau Madison Mont (Oxford) - Esoteric quantifiers and expressive power.
• Sam Roberts (Oslo) - Ultimate V
• Thomas Schindler (Amsterdam) - Numbers and Numerically Definite Quantifiers
• Ollie Tatton-Brown - The Logic of Arithmetic
• Johannes Stern - Belief, Truth, and Ways of Believing 
• Luca Castaldo - KF, PKF, and Reinhardt's program (Joint work with Johannes Stern)

Philosophy of Physics:

• Gábor Hofer-Szabó (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) - Contextuality and the Kochen-Specker theorem
• Tushar Menon (Cambridge)
• Henrique Gomes (Cambridge) - Gauge-fixing and the empirical significance of symmetries
• James Fraser (Durham) - Understanding Ultraviolet Divergences
• Sean Gryb (Groningen) - Explaining time's arrow: how scale symmetry affects notions of typicality in the universe
• Simon Saunders (Oxford) - Disinterpreting the Everett interpretation: quantum mechanics without probability

Political Theory and Philosophy seminar:

• Alice Baderin (Reading): Anticipatory Injustice
• Kerri Woods (Leeds) - Institutional Ignorance and the (Harmful) Construction of LGBTQ Identities in UK Asylum Policy Instructions
• Gemma Bird (Liverpool) - The ‘badlands’ of the Balkan Route(s): refugee housing and support in urban hubs
• Gina Schouten (Harvard) - Justice and Legitimacy in Caregiver Support: Managing Tradeoffs between Gender Egalitarian and Economic Egalitarian Social Aims

Formal Epistemology:

• Leszek Wroński (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) - Dutch Books, Probabilism and Exploitability
• Kevin Zollman (CMU) - Wisdom of the crowds and information cascades: modeling the boundary

General Philosophy of Science:

• Alice Murphy (Leeds) - Thought Experiments and the Value of Surprise

Philosophy of medicine:

• Jeremy Simon (Columbia) - Is it true that the valiant never taste of death but once?: A pluralistic approach to time of death

Regular reading groups 

• The Metaphysics of Science (associated with the corresponding ERC project)
• Truth and Semantics (associated with the corresponding ERC project)
• Hegel "Phenomenology of Mind"

Women in Philosophy sessions

Informal discussion meetings with visiting philosophers to discuss anything surrounding the topic of women in philosophy.

• Catrin Campbell-Moore (Bristol)
• Katie Robertson (Birmingham)
• Lena Zuchowski (Bristol)
• Rachel Cooper (Lancaster)

Our PGR students also organised a Women in Philosophy PGR Conference as a celebration of International Womens Day. 

Public events

• Catch Your Breath exhibition.
• A seires of classes open to all adults "Thinking Philosophically".
• Public Lecture and Panel Discussion: Why Precision Medicine is not Very Precise (and why this should not surprise us)
• Book discussion in Waterstones on "Materialism A Historical and Philosophical Inquiry"
• Staff-student discussion event open to the public on "Einstein, Bohr and the Quantum Heresy"

Work in Progress seminars