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You are welcome to attend the Centre for Engaged Philosophy workshop 2026! A day of talks on engaged philosophy! Full details are below. Please register here.

Affiliated centre member Dr Tareeq Jalloh discusses with Jim Baxter, on the Ethics Untangled Podcast, the philosophical underpinnings of the claims made about whether drill rap causes violence. Tareeq argues a philosophically robust understanding of causation is lacking in these debates, and once supplied it is harder to substantiate claims about drill rap causing violence …

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We are delighted to share news of the following workshop, organised by Philosophers in the Centre for Machine Intelligence at Sheffield. AI systems are becoming increasingly autonomous, in ways that pose important ethical challenges. This is particularly significant in cases of human-AI teaming (HAT) - that is, where a human (or group of humans) works with AI systems …

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The next iteration of the White Rose Practical Philosophy meeting will take place at Sheffield on 18th December, with colleagues and students from York and Leeds joining us. There will be four talks in the morning on Responsibility Practices from Sheffield Philosophy faculty, and eight afternoon talks from White Rose PGRs and ECRs.  The full …

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Abstracts are solicited in particular from MA, PhD students, and Early Career Researchers in Philosophy. The University of Sheffield will host the next meeting of the White Rose Practical Philosophy Network on 18 December. As per the highly successful inaugural meeting of the network in June, which brought together researchers from Leeds, Sheffield, and York, …

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The timetable is now confirmed for this event. Details below. Please email Simon Kirchin at Leeds if you'd like to attend! (s.kirchin@leeds.ac.uk)

Centre member Ben Davies is organising a British Academy-funded conference on The Ethics of Health Communication. The event will bring together speakers (including Centre Co-director Jules Holroyd) with backgrounds in philosophy, politics, and health, and with expertise on a range of ethical issues in health communication including the communication of clinical uncertainty; public health expertise; and communication in …

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Date: 16th June, 4.30-5.30pm John Carr Library, Frederick Mappin Building. Come and celebrate the new books published in Philosophy, by philosophers at Sheffield! Find out more about the cutting edge research they've been doing in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, moral and social philosophy!

In light of the UK Supreme Court ruling about 'gender' in the Equality Act 2010 (reported on here and further discussed here), now is a good time to reiterate that Philosophy at Sheffield, and the Arts & Humanities faculty, has a Gender inclusion policy (see also here), which aims to support and educate about trans …

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The annual Women in the History of Philosophy lecture at Sheffield is this week! Julia Borcherding on ‘Towards a New History of Philosophy? Early Modern Women Philosophers and the Canon: A Case Study'. 28/03/2025, 2:30-4:30pm, Diamond LT2. More details here: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/research/philosophy/themes/annual-women-history-philosophy-lecture