Developments in Feminist Philosophy
Over the last 100 years the condition of women in society has changed and so has feminist philosophy. Professor Clare Chambers will reflect on the philosophy, politics, and practice of sex discrimination as it has developed over the past century.
Apocalyptic Technology: Naturalism and Nihilism
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta. Science assumes the universe is comprehensible to the human mind. AI tech casts doubt on this. So, should scientists give up on their goal?
Is Philosophy a Science?
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Timothy Williamson. He asks what it might mean to call philosophy a science, and explores different views of the relation between philosophy and science over the past century.
Imagining Democracy
In this London Lecture, Professor Michele M. Moody-Adams will explore the role of imagination in political communities as democracies.
Why Does Philosophy Have a History?
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Michael Rosen. Unlike other disciplines, the history of philosophy does not involve the accumulation of knowledge or the resolution of problems. But why?
The You Turn
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Naomi Eilan. She offers an account of second person awareness, mutual I-you relations, and the essential link between second person awareness and ethics.
Empathy and Ethics: A Complicated Relation?
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Rowan Williams. Is empathy required for ethical values? How we can hang on to a proper valuation of empathic understanding without sentimentality.
Avicennan and Cartesian Doubt
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Peter Adamson, who will argue that Avicennan and Cartesian “arguments from doubt” may actually be stronger than they seem.
The Most Permanent Interests of the Human Spirit
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor John Haldane. He looks back at philosophy since 1925, arguing for a kind of philosophical humanism that was more prominent a century ago than it is today.
Why philosophers need to think about pregnancy
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Fiona Woollard. She explores how philosophy can help us to understand pregnancy and improve the treatment of people who are pregnant.
What became of the public philosopher?
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Regina Rini. She explores why we no longer need philosophers as all-purpose public sages.
The Problematic and the Unproblematic
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Nikhil Krishnan. The politics of the last decade have been accused of moralistic excess. If this is fair, how might moral philosophy cure us of moralism?