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