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Centre member CM Lim's workshop was a great success! Here is an (incomplete) photo record of some of its highlights. Thanks to British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant scheme for supporting the event! For details of the full program, see here: https://engagedphilosophy.org/2026/09/07/workshop-evaluative-attitudes-towards-the-past/ Alasia Nuti presented her work on thanotoactivism. Chris Bennett presented on our evaluative attitudes …

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Centre member Ben Davies has been running an ongoing workshop series in August and September, funded by the British Academy (IWW24\100229) in collaboration with Dr Lisa Forsberg (Oxford) and Dr Isra Black (UCL), and with partners at Universidade de Caxias do Sul; Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos; Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; Universidade Federal …

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Lorenzo Sartori, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Philosophy at Sheffield, is running the upcoming conference “Interpreting Medical Images (IMI): epistemological, methodological, and hermeneutical perspectives on visual representations in the medical sciences”. See below for full details! Dates: 17 and 18 September 2026.Venue: The Diamond, 32 Leavygreave Rd, S3 7RD.Room: G04 – Workroom 01 The conference will bring together philosophers of science and medicine, and …

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Centre member CM Lim is organising a workshop on evaluative attitudes towards the past, which takes place in Sheffield Sept 10th and 11th. Full details below! Evaluative attitudes towards the pastDownload

Join us for the online launch of Professor Chris Bennett's most recent book, Expressive Action: A Philosophical Exploration. Chris EA launchDownload This is the first book in the Oxford University Press series on Positive Moral Philosophy - a series co-edited by Centre co-director Jules Holroyd, Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona) and Karen Stohr (Georgetown). You can find …

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At the start of July, Centre member Yonatan Shemmer and Sheffield philosopher Paul Faulkner convened a workshop in Sheffield, in collaboration with the Center for Machine Intelligence on Trust, Trustworthiness and AI. The workshop explored the relations between Trust, Trustworthiness and AI.  Central questions included: - Is it a category mistake to think of AI as …

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Centre member Megan Blomfield is co-organising a panel on Justice in Climate Litigation at the MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory (University of Manchester, September 2-4). The panel will examine how litigation might be used as a tool in the pursuit of climate justice, new concerns of justice that are raised by such efforts, and how …

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Philosophers gathered on the 22nd May to participate in the annual CEP workshop. It was an excellent day of philosophical talks and discussion. Sheffield PGRs produced excellent poster presentations, as here viewed by centre members Dr Jim Chamberlain and Dr Megan Blomfield. Dr Nikhil Venkatesh (Sheffield, Leverhulme ECF) presents his paper 'Consequentialism on the Picket …

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The third meeting of the network will take place on 25th June. Full program is below! White Rose Practical Philosophy Network ProgrammeDownload

Centre member Tony Milligan has a piece in The Conversation about the classic anime Akira which has a limited re-release over the weekend. In it, Tony discusses wealth, power, authority and the nature of humanity itself! Read more here: https://theconversation.com/akira-returns-to-cinemas-why-the-legendary-anime-demands-a-rewatch-279830