Professor Tommy Curry, Chair of Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, recently gave a talk as part of the University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts and Humanities Decolonisation Lecture Series. The talk, titled "Feminism as Racist Backlash: How Racism Drove the Development of …
Annual Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Lecture with Esa Díaz-León
Esa Díaz-León is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Barcelona. She specializes in philosophy of mind and language and philosophy of gender, race and sexuality. This talk will be about the thesis of epistemic first-person authority about first-person gender avowals. The speaker will discuss several interpretations of the view, and will argue …
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‘What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine’
UPDATE 03/04/23: The Kyiv Independent wrote an article about the event which can be read here. Professor Angie Hobbs' session is able to be viewed below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvEEpAQPoKI ORIGINAL POST: ‘What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine’ will be taking place between 17-19 March 2023, and Professor Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public …
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Responsibility for refugee protection as structural-historical redress for colonial legacies
On February 20th, 1-2pm, visiting PhD researcher Tamara van den Berg will be giving a work in progress talk. In this paper, we conceptualize colonialism as a structural-historical injustice. From this, we develop an ameliorative understanding of refugees, as a particular group that is similarly unjustly constrained by colonial structures, and whose members are therefore …
Is there a free will problem in classic Chinese philosophy?
Affiliate centre member Dr Jingbo Hu is a postdoctoral researcher at Fudan University, China. He has recently published work on reasons-responsive conceptions of responsibility in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. Some of his current research contributes to decolonisation efforts, by bringing contemporary work in Western philosophical debates on free will into contact with …
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A Year of Engaged Philosophy by Centre Member Megan Blomfield
Over the last year or so, Megan has given a number of talks on philosophical issues concerning climate justice. This includes: 'How to be an isolationist about climate justice', for St Andrews Philosophy Society 'Direct action against fossil fuel extraction', at the LSE Climate Agents of Change Workshop 'Climate change as a structural harm', for the Principles of …
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Podcast: Carbon Sinks as Global Commons
In this podcast, Centre member Megan Blomfield explores how carbon sinks might be understood as global commons; and whether justice will be promoted by conceptualising them this way. This is a recording of a talk that Megan gave at the 'Global Commons and their Discontents' online workshop.
Who is responsible for the climate change problem?
This week, Dr Megan Blomfield delivered a talk at the prestigious Aristotelian Society, London. Megan's talk addressed responsibility for the climate change problem. Who is responsible for remedying the problem of climate change? One popular answer is given by the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP), according to which such responsibility falls to excessive emitters of greenhouse …
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Environmental Defenders
On January 20th, Center member Megan Blomfield gave a talk on Civil Disobedience at a WU Vienna conference on 'Environmental Defenders – Current Legal Developments and Challenges'. Environmental defenders - understood by the UN as persons “defending environmental rights, including constitutional rights to a clean and healthy environment” - play a crucial role in protecting …
Philosophy in Prisons
Since July 2021, Centre member Jim Chamberlain has been involved with the charity Philosophy in Prison, first as its Research Associate and then as a Trustee. Philosophy in Prison promotes the development and delivery of philosophy sessions in prisons and aims to explore the practical and philosophical principles that such sessions involve. As an example …
Centre for Engaged Philosophy 