Philosophy Events
Over the two years that I was involved in running the Birkbeck Philosophy Society, we hosted 14 guest talks and 11 reading groups.
Hosted by the Birkbeck Philosophy Society (2023 - 2025)
- October 2023: Rory Philips - Fichte’s Striving Argument
- November 2023: Max Khan Hayward - On Ethics
- November 2023: Sam Coleman - An Argument for Unconscious Mental Qualities
- March 2024: Diarmuid Costello - Wrongful, Degrading, or Merely Indecent? Exploitation in Three Works by Santiago Sierra (with the London Aesthetics Forum)
- May 2024: Sophia Connell - Expanding the Canon
- May 2024: Vanessa Brassey - The Pictorial Narrator
- June 2024: Tim Button - Stories about Mathematical Objects
- October 2024: Colin Chamberlain - Cavendish on the Oneness of Colour and Body
- November 2024: Giulia Cavaliere - Pregnancy, Birth and Women’s Freedom
- November 2024: Ulrike Heuer - Friendship’s Special Duties
- March 2025: Sam Carter - Planning for Mistakes
- March 2025: Elvis Imafidon - Fluidity, Relationality and Personhood in African Understanding of Health and Wellbeing
- May 2025: Hugo Turner - Poverty, Production and Paranoia
- May 2025: Marco C.E. Leone - Towards a Theory-Neutral Test for AI Phenomenal Consciousness that Precludes False Positives
Birkbeck Philosophy Society Reading Group (2023 - 2025)
- David Benatar (1997) Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence
- W.V. Quine (1951) Two Dogmas of Empiricism
- Saul A. Kripke (2011) A Puzzle about Belief
- Motsamai Molefe (2017) Personhood and Rights in an African Tradition
- Lilian Cicerchia (2021) Why Does Class Matter?
- Keith Campbell (1997) The Metaphysics of Abstract Particulars
- Silvia Federici (1974) Wages Against Housework
- William James (1895) Is Life Worth Living?
- Ifeanyi A. Menkiti (1984) Person and Community in African Traditional Thought
- Phillip Goff (2006) Experiences Don’t Sum
- Phelan & Lawford-Smith (2022) Feminist Separatism Revisited