Trinity College Dublin Philosophy Colloquium
Hilary Term 2022
Time: Wednesday 3pm - 5pm .
Room 5012, Arts Building and On Zoom
For further information, please contact Samantha Peavoy (philosophy@tcd.ie) or Adina Preda (Predaa@tcd.ie)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 26 | Valeria Venditti (TCD | ‘Feminist in-difference: should we rethink the concept of difference?’ |
| February 2 | Ashley Shaw (UCD) | ‘The necessity of need’ |
| February 16 | Pablo Fernandez Velasco (TCD) |
‘The metaphysics of place’ |
| February 23 | Jonathan Wolff (Oxford) | Making and remaking the canon in political philosophy’ |
| March 2 | Øystein Linnebo (Oslo) |
‘Abstraction and grounding’ |
| March 16 | Tatjana von Solodkoff (UCD) |
‘How to engage with perfumes’ |
| March 23 | Andrew Stephenson (Southampton |
‘Existence, Modality, and Imagination in Kant: Lessons from Barcan’ |
| March 30 | Katharine Jenkins (Glasgow) | ‘Against the ontology-first approach to gender recognition’ |
| April 6 | Veronique Munoz-Darde (UCL) | ‘The Shadow of Consent: Coercion, Co-operation, & the Source of Wrong’ |
| April 13 | Luna Dolezal (Exeter) |
‘Pandemic poverty and chronic shame’ |
Previous Terms
Hilary 2021
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February 5 (3.p.m.) | Jenann Ismael (Columbia) | Time and the Visual Imagination: from physics to philosophy |
| February 12 (2.30 p.m.) | Cara Nine (UCC) | Secession: Crafting Borders and Environmental Responsibility |
| February 19 (2.30 p.m.) | Alba Montes Sánchez (UCC) |
Three Forms of Pride |
| March 5 (2.30p.m.) | Maria Baghramian (UCD) | Trust as a norm of science |
| March 12 (2.30 p.m.) | Jennifer Hawkins (Duke) |
TBC |
| April 16 (3 p.m.) | Kristen Irwin (Loyola University Chicago) |
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Toleration?: A Baylean Account |
| April 23 (2.30 p.m.) | Showkat Ali (TCD) |
TBC |
Michaelmas Term 2020
October – December 2020
The Colloquium meets most Mondays during term 4-6pm, online via Zoom for Michaelmas Term 2020. All welcome!
For further information, please contact Jessie Smith (philosophy@tcd.ie) or Adina Preda (predaa@tcd.ie)
| Date | Speaker | Title | Chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 January | Jesse Spafford (TCD) |
‘Explanation, Justification, and Egalitarianism’ |
Adina Preda |
| 19 October | Kian Mintz-Woo (UCC) | ‘Progress without convergence’ |
Cara Nine |
| 2 November | Ittay Nissan (HUJ) | ‘Attitudes to risk are complicated’ |
Cara Nine |
| 16 November | Saloni De Souza (UCL) | TBA | Adina Preda |
| 30 November | Michelle Panchuk (Murray State) | TBA | Adina Preda |
| 7 December | Rachel Handley (TCD) | In-Person – Thomas Davies Theatre, Trinity - Title TBA |
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| 14 December | Sara Bernstein (University of Notre Dame) | ‘Ways of Non-Being’ | Cara Nine |
Michaelmas Term 2019
The Colloquium meets most Mondays during term 4-6pm in room 5012 of the Arts Building (level 5). All welcome!
NOTE: On Monday 23rd September 2019 the colloquium will take place at 7pm in the Long Room Hub
For further information, please contact Sarah Smullen (philosophy@tcd.ie) or Vasilis Politis (vpolitis@tcd.ie)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09 September | No Colloquium due to it being the first week of term | |
| 16 September | Dr Daniel Vazquez (Barcelona) | 'Before the Creation of Time in Plato's Timaeus' |
| 23 September | David Albert (Columbia University) |
'The Problem of the Direction of Time' |
| 30 September | Margaret Hampson (TCD) | 'The Learner’s Motivation and the Structure of Habituation in Aristotle' |
| 07 October | Donnchadh O'Conaill (Fribourg) |
'The Problems of Universals' |
| 14 October | Achille Varzi (Columbia) |
'Ontology: Material vs. Formal' |
| 21 October | No Colloquium due to it being Study Week | |
| 28 October | No Colloquium due to Bank Holiday |
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| 04 November | Simon Hewitt (Leeds) | 'Defending an apophatic reading of Aquinas' |
| 11 November | Vasilis Politis (TCD) |
'Why cannot essences, or Forms, be perceived by the senses?' |
| 18 November | Kenneth Pearce (TCD) | 'Knowing by Another’s Understanding: an early modern debate about knowledge, testimony, and faith' |
| 25 November | No Colloquium due to it being the last week of term | |
Hilary Term 2019
The Colloquium meets most Mondays during term 5-7pm in room 5012 of the Arts Building (level 5). All welcome!
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 21 January | No Colloquium due to it being the first week of term | |
| 28 January | Thomas Vogt (University of South Carolina) | “What does chemistry bring to the table? – Sketches of a philosophy of chemistry” |
| 04 February | Johnny Lyons (Trinity College Dublin) |
‘The “history” of political philosophy’ |
| 11 February | Lizzy Ventham (Trinity College Dublin) | To be confirmed |
| 18 February | Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter) |
‘Newton’s metaphysics in practice’ |
| 25 February | Kristina Musholt (Leipzig University) |
‘On the normative dimension of folk psychology’ |
| 04 March | No Colloquium due to it being Study Week | |
| 11 March | Agnieszka Rostalska (Ghent University) |
‘What makes one an authority? Nyāya's reference to current epistemology of testimony' |
| 18 March | No Colloquium due to it being St. Patrick's weekend | |
| 25 March | Philip Ehrlich (University of Ohio) |
‘Cantorian and non-Cantorian theories of finite, infinite, and infinitesimal numbers and the unification thereof’ |
| 01 April | Justin Vlasits (Tuebingen University) |
‘Aristotle on the hunt for essence’ |
| 08 April | No Colloquium due to it being the last week of term | |
Michaelmas Term 2018
Michaelmas Term 2017
Hilary Term 2017
Michaelmas Term 2016
