Digest Week 6 Michaelmas Term 2024

MT24, Week 6 (17th-23rd November)

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Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond

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Philosophy, Law & Politics Graduate Forum Seminar

Seminar Title:  ‘Against Treason: An Argument from Political Obligation’

  • Presenter: Felix Westeren (LSE, Political Science)
  • Student Commentator: Juliet Paiva (Oxford, Politics)
  • Academic Commentator: Cécile Fabre (Oxford, Philosophy)
  • Date: Wednesday, 20th November
  • Time: 5pm
  • Venue: University College, Goodhart Seminar Room or, For those attending remotely, the Zoom to join is: https://lse.zoom.us/j/85223059138. 

For more information, please see this website: https://www.plpgraduateforum.org.uk/events

 'Judicial Reasoning and the Role of UK Law in in a Changing World' 

Speaker: Lord Jonathan Mance (Former Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court),  in conversation with Jonathan Herring (KCL Law) and Rebecca Williams (Oxford Law).

Tea from 4:00pm - 5:00pm followed by the talk and discussion 5.00pm - 6.30pm

10 Merton Street Lecture Theatre (enter through University College Lodge). 

There will be no paper to read in advance of this special meeting.

If you have any interest in attending this session, please send an email to plp@law.ox.ac.uk indicating: Your name, department, degree programme (if a student) / Whether you would like to come to the dinner at Quod.

 For a full list of this year's PLP Colloquium, go to: PLP Colloquium

Oxford University Chabad Society warmly invites you to Shabbat Dinner and Lecture

Lecture by Professor David Enoch, the newly inaugurated Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford.

Title: ‘Law, philosophy, and the susceptible skins of living beings’

David Enoch does primarily moral, political, and legal philosophy. David studied law and philosophy at Tel Aviv University, then clerked for Justice Beinisch at the Israeli Supreme Court. He pursued a PhD in philosophy at NYU (2003), and has been a faculty member at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem ever since, on a joint appointment in philosophy and law. He started at Oxford as the Professor of the Philosophy of Law in 2023.  David published work in metaethics (where he defends a robust, non-naturalistic kind of moral realism), in the philosophy of law (where he criticizes some versions of "general jurisprudence", discusses moral and legal luck, and analyses the role of statistical evidence), in political philosophy (where he criticizes Rawlsian, public-reason liberalism, discusses false consciousness, and nudging), in ethics (where he discusses the status of hypothetical consent, and rejects the existence of moral luck), and more. 

Time: Dinner: 8pm. Lecture:  9.30pm

Venue: Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

For more information and to RSVP: click here.

All are welcome!