Current Seminars & Teaching

Graduate Seminars (2024-2025)

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Faculty: Philosophy

Convenors: Prof Alex Bown & Prof Simon Shogry

Thursdays, 9am–11am, Balliol College (Massey Room except week 3: Russell Room)

More information here.

Faculty: Philosophy

Convenor: Prof Dominic Scott

Tuesdays, 11am–1pm, Radcliffe Humanities building: Ryle Room (first floor)

More information here.

Faculty: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Convenor: Prof. Dirk Meyer

Wednesdays, 11am–1pm, The Queen's College

This seminar convenes each Wednesday between second and eight week of each term.  Each term, we meet to discuss and translate a different text in classical Chinese philosophy.

Please note that a good command of Classical Chinese is a prerequisite for this seminar.

If interested, please contact Prof. Dirk Meyer (dirk.meyer@queens.ox.ac.uk).

 

Upcoming Lectures (MT 2024)

Undergraduate lectures:
For times/locations, see the Philosophy Lecture List and the Theology Lecture List.

 

Other Lectures:

The 2024 Isaiah Berlin Lectures: 'Lycurgus to Moses: Thinking through Lawgivers in Legal and Political Philosophy' (Professor Melissa Lane, Princeton University)

  • Week 3 (29 October, 5pm; St Luke's Chapel): Genealogies of law and lawgivers from Zaleucus to Hart

  • Week 4 (5 November, 5pm; Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities): Functions of lawgivers from Solon to Fuller

  • Week 5 (12 November, 5pm; Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities): The lawgiver's point of view in Plato and Aristotle

  • Week 6 (19 November, 5pm; Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities): Written laws? Ethical education in Plutarch's Lycurgus and related debates

  • Week 7 (26 November, 5pm; Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities): Moses and Greek lawgivers in Philo, Josephus and Rousseau

  • Week 8 (3 December, 5pm; Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities): Are we all legislators now? Athens to Nietzsche

 

Semior Seminars in Indian Philosophy (convened by Dr Jessica Frazier), hosted by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

These seminars explore different topics in philosophy through Indian material: there will be discussion of two short presentations on a question, source or idea/argument in Indian Philosophy. All are welcome.

  • Week 2 (Wednesday, 23 October, 4:30pm-6pm; OCHS Library)
    • Marie Helene Gorisse (University of Birmingham)
    • 2nd Speaker TBC
  • Week 4 (Wednesday, 6 November, 4:30pm-6pm; OCHS Library)
    • Zishan Khawaja (University of Manchester)
    • Szilvia Szanyi (University of Oxford)
  • Week 6 (Wednesday 20 November, 4:30pm-6pm; OCHS Library)
    • Monima Chadha (University of Oxford)
    • Karen O'Brian-Kopp (King's College London)