The Jowett Society
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The Jowett Society provides a forum for the discussion of philosophical issues. The Society dates back to the nineteenth century and was named in honour of Benjamin Jowett. Previous speakers include Russell, Wittgenstein, and Davidson. Admission is free and open to all.
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Jowett Society Organising Committee: Ryan Kendall | Jowett Society Website
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Past Terms
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Ethan Nowak (Umeå) |
Speech and the Significance of Style |
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Thomas Blanchard (Cologne) |
Interventionism and the Causal Efficacy of Composites |
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Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam/St Andrews/Munich) |
The Dialogical Roots of Deduction |
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Matthew Mandelkern (NYU) |
Bounds and Probabilities |
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Tim Button (UCL) and Robert Trueman (York) |
Metaphysicians hate this one simple trick for avoiding universals, but they can’t stop you using it! |
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Vera Flocke (Indiana University Bloomington) |
Carnap Is Not Against Metaphysics |
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Paul Egré (Institut Jean Nicod/École Normale Supérieure Paris) |
On the optimality of vagueness - "Around", "Between", and the Gricean Maxims |
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Branden Fitelson (Northeastern) |
Probabilities of Conditionals & Conditional Probabilities |
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Karen Bennett (Rutgers) |
Kinds and Groups |
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Gil Sagi (Haifa): Formalization |
Normative and Descriptive Aspects |
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Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers) |
Just Kidding: Sarcasm, Jokes and Willful Deniability in Speech |
| Week 1 (16th October) | Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers) |
''No Money, No Women: From Social Constructionism to Social Relationalism'' |
| Week 4 (6th November) | Ginger Schultheis (Chicago) |
''Counterfactual Probability'' |
| Week 5 (13th November) | Katalin Bimbo (Alberta) |
''The development and applications of the Curry–Kripke proof technique'' |
| Week 6 (20th November) | Justin Khoo (MIT) |
''No fact of the middle'' |
| Week 8 (4th December) | Sam Berstler (Princeton) |
''The Geometry of Open Secrets'' |
| Week 1 (24th January) |
Una Stojnic (Princeton) |
Nonnegotiable Meanings |
| Week 2 (31st January) |
Emma Borg (Reading) |
Understanding Agency in Others and Ourselves |
| Week 4 (14th February) |
Ben Holguin (NYU) |
Thinking, Guessing, and Believing |
| Week 6 (28th February) |
Fabrizio Cariani (Northwestern) |
Indirect Evidence and the Easy Foreknowledge Puzzle |
| Week 1 (18th October) | Penelope Mackie (University of Nottingham) | Essentialism, Context-dependence, and Lewisian Counterpart Theory |
| Week 2 (25th October) | Simon Blackburn (Cambridge) | Semantic minimalism and meta-semantic theories |
| Week 4 (8th November) | Peter Fritz (Oslo) | Possible Worlds |
| Week 6 (22nd November) | Kevin Dorst (Oxford) | Rational Polarization |
| Week 8 (6th December) | Katharina Felka (Graz) | Slurs As Asides - A Non-Expressivist Conventional Implicature View |
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Jessie Munton (Cambridge) |
'Seeing the past, remembering the present' |
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| Week 2 (25th January) (Jowett) | Helen Beebee (Manchester) | 'Lewis and van Inwagen on the consequence argument' | |
| Week 3 (1st February) (Philosophical) | Kit Fine (NYU) | 'Chisholm’s Puzzle and Unconditional Obligation' | |
| Week 4 (8th February) (Jowett) | Joel David Hamkins (Univ, Oxford) | 'Potentialism and implicit actualism in the foundations of mathematics' | |
| Week 5 (15th February) (Jowett) | Bernhard Salow (Magdalen, Oxford) | 'Sequential Decisions under the Idea of Freedom' | |
| Week 6 (22th February) (Jowett) | Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool) | 'Linguistic Idealism and Human Essence' | |
| Week 7 (1st March) (Philosophical) | Lavinia Picollo (UCL) | 'Deflationism and Logical Consequence' | |
| Week 8 (8th March) (Jowett) | Anton Ford (Chicago) | 'The Objectification of Agency' |
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Margot Strohminger (Oxford) |
'Supposition, Imagination and Offline Belief' |
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| Week 2 (19th October) (Jowett) | Nilanjan Das (UCL) | 'Externalism and Exploitability' |
| Week 3 (26th October) (Jowett) | Andrew Chignell (Princeton) | 'Knowledge and Ignorance in Kant' |
| Week 4 (2nd November) (Jowett) | John Carriero (UCLA) | 'Spinoza and Our Ontological Demotion' |
| Week 7 (23rd November) (Phil.) | Georgi Gardiner (Oxford) | 'Profiling and Proof: Are Statistics Safe?' |
| Week 8 (30th November) (Jowett) | Maria Alvarez (King's College London) | 'Agency, Abilities and Control' |
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Week 1 (27th April) (Jowett) |
John Hawthorne (USC) |
"Chrisholm's Paradox" |
| Week 2 (4th May) (Jowett) | Murat Aydede (UBC) | "What is pain in a body part?" |
| Week 4 (17th May) (Jowett) | Ian Proops (UT) | "The inestimatable world: Kant's resolution of the mathematical antinomies" |
| Week 5 (24th May) (Phil.) | Fraser MacBride (Manchester) | TBA |
| Week 6 (31st May) (Jowett) | Miriam Schoenfield (MIT) | TBA |
| Week 8 (14th June) (Jowett) | Helen Beebee (Manchester) | TBA |
