Philosophy Seminars are usually held on Tuesday afternoons at the Department’s Resource Room (AS3 0523) unless otherwise stated. Visitors who are interested to present a paper should contact the seminar co-ordinator Dr Loy Hui Chieh or Tel: (+65) 6516-7494.
Seminars for the Current Semester
- 8 Dec: TBA by Justine Burley
- 19 Nov (Thu; 3-5 pm): "A Never-Ending Story" by Ben Blumson
- 17 Nov: "Simplicity and the Reliabilist Solution to the Problem of Induction" By Lee Wang-Yen
- 10 Nov: "Hume on Testimony and Human Nature" by Axel Gelfert
- 22 Oct (Thu; 3-5pm): "The Virtue of Hope" by Stan Van Hooft
- 13 Oct: "Consensus, Compromise, and the 'Wisdom' of Crowds" by Mark Colyvan
- 6 Oct: "Realist vs. Anti-Realist Accounts of Scientific Models and their Cultural Context" by Moh'd Mazim Shah
- 29 Sep: The Interplay of Subjection and Subjectivation in the Disciplinary Regime: Boon or Bust for Feminists and Sexual Minorities? by Luis David
- 22 Sep: "Harmony as a Contested Metaphor and Conceptions of Rightness (Yi) in Early Confucian Ethics" by Alan K. L. Chan
- 15 Sep: "The Influence of On Liberty on Japan's Political Thought in the Earliest Stages of Modernization: Translation, Mistranslation, and Enthusiasm" by Daisuke Arie and Shuzaburo Izumiya
- 1 Sep: "Human Rights" by John Skorupski
- 25 Aug: "The Labor Theory of Justice" by Chandran Kukathas
- 18 Aug: "Moral Disagreement Revisited" by Don Loeb
- Friday, 7 Aug, 2-5:30 pm: "An Afternoon Workshop on Epistemic Injustice" by Miranda Fricker, Axel Gelfert and Alex Serrenti
- Friday, 10 July, 2-4:30 pm: "Why Health Care Allocations are a Perennial Source of Moral Controversy: Beyond Equality and Justice" by H. Tristram Englehardt, and "Confucian Reflective Equilibrium: Why Principlism is Misleading in Medical Decision Making" by Fan Ruiping; A "Medical Ethics Double Bill" jointly organized with the Center for Biomedical Ethics
