FACULTY

OF

PHILOSOPHY

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Philosophy Lecture Year Plan for 2014-5

This year plan contains details of undergraduate lectures, graduate classes, and other regular events. It is split
into sections along these lines.
The three columns on the right are used to indicate in which University term(s) each event takes place. The
number of lectures or classes for that event in any term is found in the column for that term. (NB: the numbers
for lectures/classes represent the hours allotted to the series, which may but need not be the same as the
number of lectures/classes. For seminars etc, the number given is the number of events.)
You will find other useful information regarding lectures and classes, including a summary of which
classes/lectures are obligatory for certain student groups.
This information is believed correct as at 2 April 2015, but changes may occur before and during the academic
year. Before you make plans for any particular term, it is wise to check the lecture lists online as near to the start
of term as is practical for your planning.
Errors/queries can be addressed to enquiries@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.

Undergraduate Lectures: Lectures for the First Public Examination (Prelims / Mods)
Lecture
Lecturer(s)
Early Greek Philosophy
Dr Anna Marmodoro
Plato, Euthyphro & Meno
Prof Lindsay Judson
Moral Philosophy: Mill, Utilitarianism
Prof Edward Harcourt
Moral Philosophy: Mill, Utilitarianism
Prof Cecile Fabre
General Philosophy (thematic)
Prof Peter Millican
General Philosophy (topic-based)
Prof Ofra Magidor
Introduction to Logic
Prof James Studd
Elements of Deductive Logic
The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
Frege: Foundations of Arithmetic
Turing: Computing Machinery and
Intelligence

HT
7

8
8

TT
8

8
8
8
8

Dr Brian King
Dr Sophie Allen and Prof Simon
Saunders
Dr Steven Methven
Prof Peter Millican

Undergraduate Lectures: Core Lectures for the Honour Schools (Finals)

Lecture
Lecturer(s)
101 Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes
Prof Bill Mander
101 Early Modern Philosophy: Locke
Prof Anita Avramides
101 Early Modern Philosophy: Hume
Prof Peter Kail
101 Early Modern Philosophy: Berkeley
Prof Peter Kail
102 Knowledge and Reality: Metaphysics
Prof Ralf Bader
102 Knowledge and Reality: Epistemology
Prof Lizzie Fricker
103 Ethics I
Prof Tom Sinclair
103 Ethics II: Metaethics
Dr Felix Pinkert
104 Philosophy of Mind I
Prof Anita Avramides
104 Philosophy of Mind II
Prof Ian Phillips
106a /124 Philosophy of Science
Dr Dennis Lehmkuhl
106b Philosophy of Science and Social Science Dr Louise Braddock
107 Philosophy of Religion
Dr Tim Mawson
1

MT

8
6
TBC
8

MT
8

HT

TT

8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8

Lectures for Philosophy in the Supplementary Subject in History and Philosophy of Science, an optional paper in the natural sciences
schools, are listed at the end of this section. The History lectures for this option are normally offered in Michaelmas Term.

108 Philosophy of Logic and Language

109 Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Criticism
110 Medieval Philosophy: Aquinas
111 Medieval Philosophy: Duns Scotus,
Ockham
112 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Hegel
113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Sartre, MerleauPonty
113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Nietzsche
113 Post-Kantian Philosophy: Heidegger
114 Theory of Politics
115 / 130 Plato: Republic
116 / 132 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
118 The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein
120 Intermediate Philosophy of Physics:
Quantum Mechanics
120 Intermediate Philosophy of Physics:
Special Relativity
121 Advanced Philosophy of Physics

122 Philosophy of Mathematics

124 Philosophy of Science
125 Philosophy of Cognitive Science I
125 Philosophy of Cognitive Science II
126 Environment (for PPE only)
127 Philosophical Logic
131 Plato: Theaetetus
131 Plato: Sophist
134 Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Philosophy of Science (for the Supplementary
Subject)

Prof Josh Parsons

Prof James Grant and Prof John
Hyman
Prof Cecilia Trifogli

12

Prof Cecilia Trifogli

Prof Anil Gomes

Prof Bill Mander

8
8

Dr Katherine Morris

Prof Stephen Mulhall

Prof Joseph Schear
Given by Politics
Prof Terence Irwin and Dr Damian
Storey
Prof Karen Margrethe Nielsen and
Dr Tom Ainsworth
Prof Bill Child
Prof David Wallace
Prof Harvey Brown and Prof Oliver
Pooley
Dr Dennis Lehmkuhl, Prof Oliver
Pooley, Prof Simon Saunders (MT);
Prof Harvey Brown (HT)
Prof Volker Halbach
Dr Dennis Lehmkuhl
Prof Martin Davies
Prof Martin Davies
Prof Guy Kahane
Prof James Studd
Prof Michael Peramatzis
Prof Michael Peramatzis
Dr Daniel Vazquez

8
8
16
8

8
8

15
16
16

16

8
8
8
8
8
8
6
6
8

Dr Sophie Allen

Special Lectures
Lecture
Grahame Lock Memorial Lecture: Philosophy,
the University and the Politics of Culture
Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture
The John Locke Lectures 2015
H L A Hart Memorial Lecture 2015

Other Lectures and Events

Lecture
The Modern Sublime in Art, Philosophy and
Theology
Philosophical Questions: Theological Answers
The Philosophy of Economics
Controversies in Freges Philosophy of
Language
Kants Philosophy of Religion
Sceptical Theism
The Philosophy of Hegel
Virtue Ethics: Ancient and New

Lecturer(s)
Prof Stephen Mulhall

MT
1

Prof Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton)

Prof Rae Langton (Cambridge)
Prof Nicola Lacey (LSE)

Lecturer(s)
Prof Pamela Anderson and Prof
Paul Fiddes
Mr Stephen Priest
Mr Matthias Brinkmann
Mr Michael Price
Prof Pamela Anderson
Ms Rachel Fraser
Mr Joseph Cregan
Ms Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi and Mr
Jason Carter

HT

TT

1
6
1

MT
4

HT
4

TT

4
4
4
4
4
4
4

Graduate Classes

Class
Pro-seminar for first-year graduate students

Posterior Analytics and Nicomachean Ethics VI

Women in Philosophy: What Needs To
Change?
Hume
Heidegger: Being And Time
Modal Logic
Introductory Epistemology
Practical Ethics
Philosophy of Physics

Stoicism and its critics

Ockhams Ontology I
Feminism and/in Philosophy
Leibniz
Kant and Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science
Conditionals
Mind and Language
Logical Consequence
The Justification and Limits of Defensive
Harming
Intro to Probability and Decision Theory
Ethics
Legal Philosophy
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
Ockhams Ontology II
Butlers Sermons
Women Philosophers of the Early Modern
Period
Wittgenstein
Sartres Being And Nothingness
Topics in Epistemology
Philosophy of Logic
Philosophy of Psychology and of Cognitive
Science
Philosophy of Action
Formal Theories of Truth
The Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics

Class-giver(s)
Prof James Grant, Prof John
Hyman, Prof Adrian Moore, and
Prof Josh Parsons
Prof Michael Peramatzis and Dr
Paolo Fait
Prof Paul Lodge

MT
TBC

Prof Peter Kail and Dr Lorenzo

Greco
Prof Stephen Mulhall and Prof
Joseph Schear
Prof James Studd
Prof John Hawthorne
Prof Julian Savulescu
Dr Dennis Lehmkuhl, Prof Oliver
Pooley, Prof Simon Saunders (MT);
Prof Harvey Brown (HT)
Prof Terence Irwin
Prof Cecilia Trifogli
Prof Pamela Anderson
Prof Paul Lodge
Prof Anil Gomes and Dr Andrew
Stephenson
Prof Simon Saunders
Prof John Hawthorne
Prof Philipp Koralus and Dr
Salvador Mascarenhas
Dr Owen Griffiths
Prof Jeff McMahan

16

Prof Frank Arntzenius

Prof Ralf Bader
Dr Ambrose Lee
Prof Hilary Greaves and Dr Andreas
Mogensen
Prof Cecilia Trifogli
Prof Terence Irwin and Prof Roger
Crisp
Prof Paul Lodge
Prof Bill Child
Dr Katherine Morris and Prof
Joseph Schear
Prof Timothy Williamson and Prof
John Hawthorne
Prof Timothy Williamson
Prof Philipp Koralus and Prof Ian
Phillips
Prof John Hyman
Prof Volker Halbach and Dr Carlo
Nicolai
Prof David Wallace

HT

TT

16
16

16
8
16
16
16

16

16
8
16
16
16
16
16
12
16
10+
16
16
16
16
8
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
8
16
16

These classes are designed for the Philosophy Facultys graduate students (except where otherwise indicated). Others wishing to attend
should seek the permission of the class-giver.

Lecture
Topics in Aesthetics
Political Philosophy
Population Ethics
Moral Disagreement

Regular Faculty Seminars

Moral Philosophy Seminar
Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar
Post-Kantian Philosophy Seminar
Work in Progress in Ancient Philosophy
Philosophy of Physics Seminar
Theoretical Philosophy Work in Progress
Philosophy of Mind Seminar / Reading Group
The Jowett Society / Philosophical Society

Convener(s)/Organiser(s)
Prof Alison Denham
Prof Cecile Fabre and Prof Thomas
Sinclair
Prof Hilary Greaves and Dr Toby
Ord
Dr Richard Rowland

MT

HT

TT
12
16

Prof Jeff McMahan and Dr Richard

Rowland
Prof Volker Halbach, Prof James
Studd, Dr Daniel Isaacson
Prof Manuel Dries and Prof Joseph
Schear
Prof Terence Irwin, Prof Karen
Nielsen, Prof Michail Peramatzis
Prof Harvey Brown
Dr Martin Pickup
Prof Ian Phillips and Dr Josh
Shepherd
Various Conveners

8
TBC
3

8
TBC
TBC

8
TBC
TBC

16
16