Philosophy and Ethics Group past topics

Date
Topic
30/09/16
Sport and genetic enhancement :
14/10/16
Free speech :
28/10/16
Private Languages 1 - Fred Cole
11/11/16
Private Languages 2 - Fred Cole
25/11/16
Why should we care about climate change?
09/12/16
Art, censorship and morality
23/12/16
 
06/01/17
The family :
20/01/17
Copyright :
03/02/17
Sex and perversion
17/02/17
Business ethics :
03/03/17
Organ transplants :
17/03/17
What's wrong with killing? Michael Sandell "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"
31/03/17
Trolleys, killing and the doctrine of double effect :
14/04/17
Blame and historic injustice : How should we judge slave owners?
28/04/17
The right to have babies : As IVF technology has developed, so have ethical questions
12/05/17
Human use of animals : Peter Singer,
26/05/17
Where am I? Daniel Dennett
07/07/17
Neuroscience Can Tell Us About Morality
21/07/17
Bio-Ethics Bites
15/09/17
Trust
29/09/17
Status Quo Bias
13/10/17
Life and Death
27/10/17
Moral Status
10/11/17
Designer Babies
16 February 2018
Kate Jeffery on Concepts and Representation
2 March 2018
Cancelled
16 March 2018
No meeting
30 March 2018
Anthony Gottlieb on Pierre Bayle & Kathleen Stock on Fiction and the Emotions
13 April 2018
David Miller on Immigration
27 April 2018
Sophie Scott on the Meaning of Laughter

Michael Sandell on 'Citizens of Nowhere?'
11 May 2018
No meeting
25 May 2018
No meeting
8 June 2018
No meeting
22 June 2018
Peter Godfrey-Smith on Mental Representations
6 July 2018
Noel Carroll on Criticism
20 July 2018
Cecile Fabre on Remembrance
3 August 2018
Jesse Prinz on Thinking with Pictures
17 August 2018
Kieran Setiya on the Mid-Life Crisis
31 August 2018
Catherine Wilson on Epicureanism
14 September 2018
Gregg Caruso on Freewill and Punishment
28 September 2018
Greg Currie on the Philosophy of Film
12 October 2018
Katherine Morris on Merleau-Ponty on the Body
26 October 2018
Michael Devitt on Experimental Semantics
9 November 2018
Steven Hyman on Categorising Mental Disorders
23 November 2018
Leif Wenar on Trade and Tyranny
7 December 2018
Katrin Flikschuh on Philosophy in Africa
21 December 2018
Carlo Rovelli on Philosophy and Physics
4 January 2019
John Worrall on Evidence-Based Medicine
18 January 2019
Joshua Greene on the Construction of Thought
1 February 2019
Graham Priest on Buddhism and Philosophy
15 February 2019
Jesse Prinz on Is Everything Socially Constructed?
1 March 2019
Massimo Pigliucci on the Demarcation Problem
15 March 2019
David Owens on Duty
29 March 2019
Kimberley Brownlee on Social Deprivation..
12 April 2019
Shelly Kagan on Speciesism
26 April 2019
David Owens on Duty
10 May 2019
Shaun Nichols on Death and the Self
24 May 2019
No meeting
24 May 2019
Larry Temkin on Obligations to the Needy
7 June 2019
William B. Irvine on Living Stoically
21 June 2019
Kathleen Stock on What is a woman?
26 July 2019
Philip Pettit on the Birth of Ethics
23 August 2019
Paul Sagar on Scepticism about Philosophy
13 September 2019
Katherine Hawley on Trustworthiness
27 September 2019
Rebecca Roache on Swearing
11 October 2019
How biology, not religion, made humans moral
25 October 2019
Steven Lukes on Power
8 November 2019
Jesse Prinz on Art and Emotion
22 November 2019
Theodore Zeldin on Philosophy and History
13 December 2019
Cassim Quassam on Conspiracy Theories
27 December 2019
No meeting
10 January 2020
Tim Williamson on the Appeal of Relativism.
24 January 2020
Lisa Bortolotti on Irrationality
14 February 2020 
Jonathan Webber on Deceiving With Words
28 February 2020 
Susan James on Foucault and Knowledge
13 March 2020 
Larry Temkin on Transitivity
LOCK DOWN
9 October 2020
Teresa Bejan on Civility
23 October 2020
Emily Thomas on Wildly Implausible Metaphysics
13 November 2020
Christian List on Free Will
27 November 2020
Are thought experiments the best way of doing practical ethics?
11 December 2020
Helen Beebee on Possible Worlds
18 December 2020
Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt on Pluralism
8 January 2021
Elizabeth Anderson on 'Let's Talk'
15 January 2021
Steven Nadler on Spinoza on Death
22 January 2021
Kate Manne on Misogyny and Male Entitlement
29 January 2021
Liam Bright on Verificationism
5 February 2021
Philip Goff on Galileo and Consciousness
12 February 2021
David Bather Woods on Schopenhauer on Compassion
19 February 2021
Robert B. Talisse on Overdoing Democracy
26 February 2021
Kate Kirkpatrick on the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir
5 March 2021
Christian Miller on the Character Gap
12 March 2021
Sport and Sex with Jon Pik
19 March 2021
How should humans relate to animals? with Steve Cooke
26 March 2021
Political Disagreement with Michael Hannon
2 April 2021
Post-Christian Britain and religion in schools
9 April 2021
Lockdowns and Liberties
16 April 2021
Philosophy 247: Responsibility and Justice
23 April 2021
https://philosophy247.org/podcasts/microaggression
30 April 2021
https://philosophy247.org/podcasts/the-future-of-privacy
7 May 2021
https://philosophy247.org/podcasts/paternalism-and-public-health-challenges-to-patient-autonomy/
14 May 2021
Do victims have obligations too? / Are you a victim of crime? What are YOUR obligations?
21 May 2021
Self Defence How far can we go in self defence? And are some civilians legitimate targets in war?
28 May 2021
Can saving an important building ever be worth a life? How far should we go to protect a building?
4 Jun 2021
Richard Rorty, language as a tool
11 Jun 2021
A world without work How we will find meaning when machines take our jobs.
18 Jun 2021
Doctors and their conscience! Should a doctor say NO on conscience?
25 Jun 2021
Responsibility and effort What is the link between responsibility and effort?
2 Jul 2021
Responsibility and Addiction Are addicts responsible for harming their health?
9 Jul 2021
Eating Responsibly Should obese people be held responsible for being overweight?
16 Jul 2021
Democracy How can we save democracy?
23 Jul 2021
Lookism Francesca Minerva says discrimination based on looks is a serious problem.
30 Jul 2021
How neo-liberalism has twisted liberalism Does neo-liberalism continue the values of classical liberalism?
6 Aug 2021
Should we pay reparations for wrongs committed in the past? Are African Americans owed reparations for the enslavement of their ancestors? 
13 Aug 2021
Is Life Without Meaning? Do you ever get the feeling that life is meaningless?
20 Aug 2021
Are we becoming too preoccupied with beauty? Society expects us to conform to standards of beauty more than ever - says Heather Widdows.
27 Aug 2021
Are there benefits to Psychedelic Drugs? An intellectual trip with Ole Martin Moen.