Reading groups
Reading groups are regularly formed in response to the specific research interests and needs of both staff and postgraduate students.
Please, do not hesitate to contact the lead for further information.
Reading group organizers are asked to book accessible rooms for their meetings. In the department, these are seminar rooms B23 and B09.
If you are holding your reading group outside the department, we would ask you to consider accessibility needs when choosing a location.
If you want to join a reading group and have concerns or questions about accessibility, please contact the below mentioned reading-group organizer.
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Current Reading Groups |
Meetings |
Contact |
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| Ethics | Friday, 10-11:30 pm, B23 |
Charlie Potter - CRPotter1@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Metaphysics | Friday, 1-2 pm, B23 | Bo Meinertsen - b.meinertsen@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Feminist Philosophy | Monday, 1-2pm, B23 |
Rae Fielding - rfielding1@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Plato | Monday, 3-4:30 pm, B09 | James Welch - jlwelch1@sheffield.ac.u |
| Wittgenstein | Tuesday, 2-3:30 pm, B09 | Ethan Clack - EMClack1@sheffield.ac.uk |
Details of more groups will be added here when they are announced.
Reading groups are regularly formed in response to the specific research interests and needs of both staff and postgraduate students.
Past groups
- 2018-19
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Autumn 2018 Reading Groups
Meetings
Contact
Metaphysics Monday 4pm Will Morgan Feminism Monday 11am Jenny Saul Phenomenology Thursday 4pm Tim Moxham Philosophy of Language TBA Patrick Connolly Consciousness TBA Damiano La Manna Critical Philosophy of Race Tuesday 3pm Nadia Mehdi Philosophy of Cognitive Science Thursday 1pm Yifan Mei German Idealism Thursday 1pm Anthony Eagan Kukla and Lance Yo! and Lo! TBA Kayleigh Doherty Applied Epistemology Monday 4pm, fortnightly from 12 November Spring 2019 Reading Groups
Meetings
Contact
脕sta鈥檚 鈥楥ategories We Live By' TBA Matthew Cull Applied Epistemology Monday 4pm, fortnightly from 21 January Jack Herbert Pylyshyn TBA Andrea Blomqvist German Idealism Monday 12pm James Lewis Feminism Tuesday 11am Jenny Saul Philosophy of Psychiatry Tuesday 5pm Viktoriia Kononova Race Thursday 12pm Kayleigh Doherty Existentialism Monday 4pm Barney Riggs Philosophy of Action Thursday 1pm Will Hornett - 2019-20
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Autumn 2019 Reading Groups
Meetings
Contact
Moral Philosophy/Intersubjectivity TBA Kayleigh Doherty Continental Philosophy Thurs 4pm Barney Riggs Feminism TBA Matthew Cull Philosophy of Language TBA Patrick Connolly Philosophy of Action Weds 12pm Will Hornett Metaphysics TBA Will Morgan Moral Philosophy Thurs 1pm Kayleigh Doherty Philosophy of Race Weds 10am Kayleigh Doherty - 2020-21
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Autumn 2020 Reading Groups
Meetings
Contact
Critical Philosophy of Race Monday 1pm Henry Roe Feminism Thursday 2pm Anna Klieber & Thyra Juana Lea Elsasser Continental Philosophy Tuesday 4pm Barney Riggs Social Epistemology Thursday 2pm Kayleigh Doherty Ethics Friday 12pm Kayleigh Doherty Metaphysics Friday 5pm Will Morgan Climate Change Ethics TBA Carien Smith Spring 2021 Reading Groups
Meetings
Contact
Critical Philosophy of Race Monday 1pm Henry Roe Feminism Philosophy Thursday 2pm Anna Klieber Vice and Virtue Epistemology Tuesday 4pm Barney Riggs Metaphysics Friday 11am Henry Roe Climate Change Ethics Thursday 11am Carien Smith - 2021-22
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Autumn 2021-Spring 2022 Reading Groups
Meetings
Contact
Feminist Philosophy Tuesday, 12pm,
Room: B23Imogen P Fell and George A Surtees Critical Philosophy of Race Tuesday, 5pm Tareeq O Jalloh Ethics Wednesday, 4pm,
Room: B09James Brown Metaphysics Thursday, 2pm,
Room: B09Radivoj Stupar Vice and Virtue Epistemology Friday, 11pm Aristotle Online Please contact Leonard J Weiss to request details and link to join - 2022-23
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Autumn 2022 Reading Groups Meetings Contact Expressivism Reading Group.
Meetings to address questions like:
What is it to 'express' an attitude?
What is the relationship between expression and meaning?
What are the differences between different versions of 'expressivism' (especially differences between expressivist views in metaethics and recent versions of expressivism in philosophy of language and linguistics)?
What is the role that attitude expression plays in testimony?First Meeting, Friday 13th October, 12 pm, B23 Henry Schiller History of Modern Philosophy
Please, find reading list
Meetings to discuss chapters or extracts of works from the history of modern philosophy from Descartes onwards. Material is to be read beforehand, and suggestions for readings from attendees are welcome.
Fortnightly, Wednesday, 1-2 pm, B09 Josh Hibbert and David Bevan Environmental Justice Reading Group
This group will meet weekly during the autumn semester of 2022. Please see for the list of texts that we will be reading each week.
Thursdays 4-5pm Megan Blomfield Implicit Bias Reading Group
An informal fortnight meeting to discuss some of the recent literature on what implicit bias is, interventions, etc.
Fortnightly - B09 Ben Jenkins Moral psychology. Shaun Nichols Rational Rules (OUP, 2021)
How are moral rules acquired? Shaun Nichols (2021) puts forward a neo-empiricist account according to which moral learning can be explained in terms of domain-general statistical learning. The book is essential read for anybody interested in cognitive science, ethics, and experimental philosophy.
Wednesday, 2-3 pm, B09 Luca Barlassina -
Autumn 2020 Reading Groups Meetings Contact Expressivism Reading Group.
Meetings to address questions like:
What is it to 'express' an attitude?
What is the relationship between expression and meaning?
What are the differences between different versions of 'expressivism' (especially differences between expressivist views in metaethics and recent versions of expressivism in philosophy of language and linguistics)?
What is the role that attitude expression plays in testimony?First Meeting, Friday 13th October, 12 pm, B23 Henry Schiller History of Modern Philosophy
Please, find reading list
Meetings to discuss chapters or extracts of works from the history of modern philosophy from Descartes onwards. Material is to be read beforehand, and suggestions for readings from attendees are welcome.
Fortnightly, Wednesday, 1-2 pm, B09 Josh Hibbert and David Bevan Environmental Justice Reading Group
This group will meet weekly during the autumn semester of 2022. Please see for the list of texts that we will be reading each week.
Thursdays 4-5pm Megan Blomfield Implicit Bias Reading Group
An informal fortnight meeting to discuss some of the recent literature on what implicit bias is, interventions, etc.
Fortnightly - B09 Ben Jenkins Moral psychology. Shaun Nichols Rational Rules (OUP, 2021)
How are moral rules acquired? Shaun Nichols (2021) puts forward a neo-empiricist account according to which moral learning can be explained in terms of domain-general statistical learning. The book is essential read for anybody interested in cognitive science, ethics, and experimental philosophy.
Wednesday, 2-3 pm, B09 Luca Barlassina