Southampton Philosophy
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Philosophy Department at the University of Southampton
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Our 2025 PPE Lecture will be given by Professor Maya Eden (Zurich) on 'Fertility Rates and Fixed-Point Utilitarianism'. All very welcome!
Thurs 13th Nov, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy (@triphilosophy.bsky.social) #PhilosophyMatters
Thurs 13th Nov, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy (@triphilosophy.bsky.social) #PhilosophyMatters
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Our 2025 PPE Lecture will be given by Professor Maya Eden (Zurich) on 'Fertility Rates and Fixed-Point Utilitarianism'. All very welcome!
Thurs 13th Nov, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy (@triphilosophy.bsky.social) #PhilosophyMatters
Thurs 13th Nov, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy (@triphilosophy.bsky.social) #PhilosophyMatters
Come and work with us! Our Ethics of Doubt project is advertising a two year research fellowship, details: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow on ‘Ethics of Doubt’ project
The University of Southampton seeks to appoint a Research Fellow in Philosophy on a two-year fixed-term basis, who will work on Prof. Genia Schönbaumsfeld’s ERC Advanced Grant project, ‘The Ethics of ...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Come and work with us! Our Ethics of Doubt project is advertising a two year research fellowship, details: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
@ethics-of-doubt.bsky.social
@ethics-of-doubt.bsky.social
Our 2025 Ethical Challenges lecture will be given by Professor Roger Crisp (Oxford) on 'The Badness of Extinction'. All very welcome!
Tues 14th Oct, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy #PhilosophyMatters
Tues 14th Oct, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy #PhilosophyMatters
October 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Our 2025 Ethical Challenges lecture will be given by Professor Roger Crisp (Oxford) on 'The Badness of Extinction'. All very welcome!
Tues 14th Oct, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy #PhilosophyMatters
Tues 14th Oct, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy #PhilosophyMatters
We are delighted to welcome two new lecturers this academic year. Umut Baysan (metaphysics, mind, metaethics) will join us this September, and Samuel Kimpton-Nye (metaphysics, philosophy of science) will join us in January. Welcome Umut and Sam!
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September 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We are delighted to welcome two new lecturers this academic year. Umut Baysan (metaphysics, mind, metaethics) will join us this September, and Samuel Kimpton-Nye (metaphysics, philosophy of science) will join us in January. Welcome Umut and Sam!
www.umutbaysan.org
philpeople.org/profiles/sam...
www.umutbaysan.org
philpeople.org/profiles/sam...
@ethics-of-doubt.bsky.social is hosting their second workshop of the year on 17 September here in Southampton, entitled "Kierkegaard and Intellectual Virtue". More info here: t.co/YdnGwX8IUu
www.ethicsofdoubt.org/event/kierke...
www.ethicsofdoubt.org/event/kierke...
August 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
@ethics-of-doubt.bsky.social is hosting their second workshop of the year on 17 September here in Southampton, entitled "Kierkegaard and Intellectual Virtue". More info here: t.co/YdnGwX8IUu
www.ethicsofdoubt.org/event/kierke...
www.ethicsofdoubt.org/event/kierke...
NOTA Conference 2, 11-12 September, Southampton and online
The Nature of the Objects of Thought and Assertion
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The Nature of the Objects of Thought and Assertion
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NOTA Conference 2: The nature of the Objects of Thought and Assertions
If you have any question, or would like to join online, please write to Giulia: g.felappi@soton.ac.uk
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August 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
NOTA Conference 2, 11-12 September, Southampton and online
The Nature of the Objects of Thought and Assertion
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The Nature of the Objects of Thought and Assertion
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Come and work with us! We are advertising for a Lecturer in Philosophy (roughly=Assistant Prof) with research interests in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or language. Details:
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
May 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Come and work with us! We are advertising for a Lecturer in Philosophy (roughly=Assistant Prof) with research interests in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or language. Details:
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
At the recent SUSU Academic Awards, Giulia Felappi won Best Pastoral Support and Fiona Woollard was highly commended for Most Engaging Lecturer. Many congratulations to both! www.susu.org/whats-on/awa...
Academic Awards 2025 Nominees
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May 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
At the recent SUSU Academic Awards, Giulia Felappi won Best Pastoral Support and Fiona Woollard was highly commended for Most Engaging Lecturer. Many congratulations to both! www.susu.org/whats-on/awa...
Come and work with us! We are advertising for a Lecturer in Philosophy (roughly=Assistant Prof) with research interests in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or language. Details:
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
May 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Come and work with us! We are advertising for a Lecturer in Philosophy (roughly=Assistant Prof) with research interests in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or language. Details:
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Join us next week for “Creatures and their Minds. Workshop for a Creature-Based Philosophy of Mind and Action” organized by our Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Brice Bantegnie.
Hybrid. Supported by the Mind Association.
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Hybrid. Supported by the Mind Association.
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@SotonPhilosophy @HumanitiesUoS
Creatures and their Minds. Workshop for a Creature-Based Philosophy of Mind and Action
Call for registration (in-person or online)Creatures and their Minds. Workshop for a Creature-Based Philosophy of Mind and ActionThursday, May 22, 2025, University of SouthamptonA dominant view in con...
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May 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Join us next week for “Creatures and their Minds. Workshop for a Creature-Based Philosophy of Mind and Action” organized by our Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Brice Bantegnie.
Hybrid. Supported by the Mind Association.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
@SotonPhilosophy @HumanitiesUoS
Hybrid. Supported by the Mind Association.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
@SotonPhilosophy @HumanitiesUoS
Next week, Leo Townsend (philosophy) and UoS colleagues from law, english, and geography and environmental science will participate in a public conversation on ‘Representation, inclusion and environmental relations’ jhg.art/events/the-w...
John Hansard Gallery | What's on | the words, give notice*
Dr Dina Lupin, Leo Townsend, Dr Giulia Champion and Michael Lomotey will look at who gets to speak and be heard in the articulation and regulation of these relationships. Critically examining how diff...
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April 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Next week, Leo Townsend (philosophy) and UoS colleagues from law, english, and geography and environmental science will participate in a public conversation on ‘Representation, inclusion and environmental relations’ jhg.art/events/the-w...
Congratulations to our PhD student Will Moorfoot, whose 'Grounding Physicalism and the Metaphysical Exclusion Problem' is now out in Ratio. Check it out!
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Grounding Physicalism and the Metaphysical Exclusion Problem
Ground physicalism is the view that higher-level properties, such as phenomenal and normative properties, are fully grounded in the fundamental physical properties. Like other non-identity physicalis...
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April 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Congratulations to our PhD student Will Moorfoot, whose 'Grounding Physicalism and the Metaphysical Exclusion Problem' is now out in Ratio. Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This month we begin our Philosophy and Art Talks at
Southampton City Art Gallery, exploring key issues about human experience. First up, Aaron Ridley on 'The Value of Suffering', 12/4, 13.45pm. southamptonmuseumsandgallery.co.uk/events/philo...
#PhilosophyMatters @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Southampton City Art Gallery, exploring key issues about human experience. First up, Aaron Ridley on 'The Value of Suffering', 12/4, 13.45pm. southamptonmuseumsandgallery.co.uk/events/philo...
#PhilosophyMatters @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Philosophy and Art Talks: The Value of Suffering with Professor Aaron Ridley - Ticketing
Humans experience the world in many different ways. How should we think about these different experiences? What commonalities are there, and how might they matter? In these engaging talks, held... Rea...
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April 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This month we begin our Philosophy and Art Talks at
Southampton City Art Gallery, exploring key issues about human experience. First up, Aaron Ridley on 'The Value of Suffering', 12/4, 13.45pm. southamptonmuseumsandgallery.co.uk/events/philo...
#PhilosophyMatters @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Southampton City Art Gallery, exploring key issues about human experience. First up, Aaron Ridley on 'The Value of Suffering', 12/4, 13.45pm. southamptonmuseumsandgallery.co.uk/events/philo...
#PhilosophyMatters @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Join us for our Southampton Ethics Centre seminar:
Chris Woodard (Nottingham), 'Dignity as a Practice'. The talk will explore challenges around the crucial notion of human dignity.
Tues 25/3, room 2115, building 65, Avenue Campus
#PhiloFortnight2025, supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Chris Woodard (Nottingham), 'Dignity as a Practice'. The talk will explore challenges around the crucial notion of human dignity.
Tues 25/3, room 2115, building 65, Avenue Campus
#PhiloFortnight2025, supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Join us for our Southampton Ethics Centre seminar:
Chris Woodard (Nottingham), 'Dignity as a Practice'. The talk will explore challenges around the crucial notion of human dignity.
Tues 25/3, room 2115, building 65, Avenue Campus
#PhiloFortnight2025, supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Chris Woodard (Nottingham), 'Dignity as a Practice'. The talk will explore challenges around the crucial notion of human dignity.
Tues 25/3, room 2115, building 65, Avenue Campus
#PhiloFortnight2025, supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social
We are very excited for our annual PPE lecture today - Prof Lea Ypi, 'On the Wrong of Colonialism'. Still time to register! Details below. #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2025
Join us for our annual PPE lecture, 18/3, 6pm:
Prof Lea Ypi (LSE), 'On the Wrong of Colonialism'.
Supported by: @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Info: eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
Part of British Philosophy Fortnight: #BPFP2025 #PhilosophyMatters,
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Prof Lea Ypi (LSE), 'On the Wrong of Colonialism'.
Supported by: @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Info: eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
Part of British Philosophy Fortnight: #BPFP2025 #PhilosophyMatters,
@leaypi.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Philosophy, Politics and Ethics Lecture 2025
On the wrong of colonialism. Professor Lea Ypi.
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March 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We are very excited for our annual PPE lecture today - Prof Lea Ypi, 'On the Wrong of Colonialism'. Still time to register! Details below. #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2025
I've recorded a short video on 'How Should We Treat Animals?' as part of a new series by @htaylorphil.bsky.social aimed at upper primary children, discussing important philosophical topics (with accompanying lesson plans).
You can watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaCJ...!
You can watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaCJ...!
How should we treat animals?
YouTube video by Philosophy Smash With Henry!
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March 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Join us for our annual PPE lecture, 18/3, 6pm:
Prof Lea Ypi (LSE), 'On the Wrong of Colonialism'.
Supported by: @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Info: eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
Part of British Philosophy Fortnight: #BPFP2025 #PhilosophyMatters,
@leaypi.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Prof Lea Ypi (LSE), 'On the Wrong of Colonialism'.
Supported by: @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Info: eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
Part of British Philosophy Fortnight: #BPFP2025 #PhilosophyMatters,
@leaypi.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Philosophy, Politics and Ethics Lecture 2025
On the wrong of colonialism. Professor Lea Ypi.
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March 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Join us for our annual PPE lecture, 18/3, 6pm:
Prof Lea Ypi (LSE), 'On the Wrong of Colonialism'.
Supported by: @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Info: eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
Part of British Philosophy Fortnight: #BPFP2025 #PhilosophyMatters,
@leaypi.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Prof Lea Ypi (LSE), 'On the Wrong of Colonialism'.
Supported by: @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Info: eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
Part of British Philosophy Fortnight: #BPFP2025 #PhilosophyMatters,
@leaypi.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Reposted by Southampton Philosophy
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February 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Near Southampton on 12th of March? Join @fionawoollard.bsky.social and artists, Yonat Nitzan-Green and Jane Bennett for a free workshop Thinking With Drawing: Exploring Maternal Identity.
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Southampton Science and Engineering Festival 2025 - Whats-on
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February 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Our next Philosophy Research Seminar:
4/3, David Liggins (Manchester), 'A Priorian solution to a Priorian paradox’, 3-5pm, Room 2115, Building 65 (Avenue Campus)
All welcome!
4/3, David Liggins (Manchester), 'A Priorian solution to a Priorian paradox’, 3-5pm, Room 2115, Building 65 (Avenue Campus)
All welcome!
February 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Our next Philosophy Research Seminar:
4/3, David Liggins (Manchester), 'A Priorian solution to a Priorian paradox’, 3-5pm, Room 2115, Building 65 (Avenue Campus)
All welcome!
4/3, David Liggins (Manchester), 'A Priorian solution to a Priorian paradox’, 3-5pm, Room 2115, Building 65 (Avenue Campus)
All welcome!
Our colleague Heather Browning (@zoophilosophy.bsky.social) has been speaking about animal feelings and consciousness on ABC radio - you can hear the episode here #PhilosophyMatters
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Animal Sentience - ABC listen
Nightlife explores the world of animal sentience. From groundbreaking research on octopus problem-solving to the remarkable social lives of crows and dolphins, we'll examine the minds of our fellow cr...
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February 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Our colleague Heather Browning (@zoophilosophy.bsky.social) has been speaking about animal feelings and consciousness on ABC radio - you can hear the episode here #PhilosophyMatters
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Near Southampton on 12th of March? Join @fionawoollard.bsky.social and artists, Yonat Nitzan-Green and Jane Bennett for a free workshop Thinking With Drawing: Exploring Maternal Identity.
#SOTSEF #BSW25 #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2025)
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#SOTSEF #BSW25 #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2025)
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Southampton Science and Engineering Festival 2025 - Whats-on
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February 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Near Southampton on 12th of March? Join @fionawoollard.bsky.social and artists, Yonat Nitzan-Green and Jane Bennett for a free workshop Thinking With Drawing: Exploring Maternal Identity.
#SOTSEF #BSW25 #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2025)
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Do you work with families before, during, or after #pregnancy? Interested in learning how to make your language #inclusive?
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February 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Come to a free online workshop! March 10th.
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Margaret Cavendish: Trailblazer is a new exhibition exploring the fascinating life and work of this 17th century philosopher, scientist, and author. It results from collaboration between Daniel Whiting and Colchester Museums.
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Margaret Cavendish: Trailblazer | Colchester Museums
From 14 February until 31 August 2025, join us and celebrate the extraordinary life and legacy of Margaret Cavendish.
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February 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Margaret Cavendish: Trailblazer is a new exhibition exploring the fascinating life and work of this 17th century philosopher, scientist, and author. It results from collaboration between Daniel Whiting and Colchester Museums.
colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/events/caven...
@colmuseums.bsky.social
colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/events/caven...
@colmuseums.bsky.social