Faculty of Philosophy

Oxford is one of the world's great centres for philosophy. More than one hundred and fifty professional philosophers work in the University and its colleges, between them covering a vast range of subjects within philosophy. Many are international leaders in their fields. The Faculty of Philosophy is one of the largest departments of philosophy in the world, and is widely recognized to be amongst the best. Its reputation draws many distinguished visiting philosophers; each year around fifty philosophers from around the world give lectures or seminars in Oxford. Almost every major philosopher speaks in Oxford at some time. Each year, more than five hundred undergraduates are admitted to study philosophy in Oxford, always in combination with another subject. The Faculty also has more than a hundred graduate students, who are either taking a taught graduate degree or working for a doctorate. Oxford is a collegiate university, and every registered student becomes a member of one of the colleges. In this way, he or she has access, not only to the very extensive libraries and facilities of the University, but also to the varied and more intimate life of a college. Colleges offer their students excellent libraries and facilities of their own. Teaching at Oxford is by lectures and seminars, and by tutorials or supervisions. Courses of lectures and seminars are offered on a very large range of topics, for both undergraduates and graduates. Tutorials are a special feature of Oxford; undergraduates receive regular and frequent tutorials either individually or in pairs from members of the Faculty. All graduate students also receive frequent individual supervisions. Oxford University dates from the 12th Century or before. The first colleges were founded in the 13th Century. The ancient buildings remain, mingled with magnificent architecture from subsequent centuries, to make Oxford one of the most inspiring and beautiful cities in the world. Within this setting, Oxford remains at the forefront of philosophy.

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Title	Description	People	Date
Ethics in AI Seminar: Responsible Research and Publication in AI	Ethics in AI Seminar - presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI	Peter Millican, Rosie Campbell, Carolyn Ashurst, Helena Webb	12 July, 2021
Ethics in AI Colloquium with Adrienne Mayor: Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology	Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Adrienne Mayor, Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Armand D'Angour, John Tasioulas	12 July, 2021
AI in a Democratic Culture - Presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI	Launch of the Institute for Ethics in AI with Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Joshua Cohen and Hélène Landemore. Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI	Joshua Cohen, Hélène Landemore, Nigel Shadbolt	12 July, 2021
Turing 2018/8: Searle versus Turing - Conclusion	Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.	Peter Millican	14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/7: Blockhead, the Chinese Room, and ELIZA	Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.	Peter Millican	14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/6: "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" - Overview of Turing's 1950 paper	Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.	Peter Millican	14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/5: Settling Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem, and the Halting Problem	Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.	Peter Millican	14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/4: Enumerating the Computable Numbers, and the Universal Turing Machine	Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.	Peter Millican	14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/3: "On Computable Numbers" - Turing's 1936 Paper	Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.	Peter Millican	14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/2: Hilbert's Programme and Gödel's Theorem	Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.	Peter Millican	14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/1: Types of number, Cantor, infinities, diagonal arguments	Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.	Peter Millican	14 January, 2021
Does AI threaten Human Autonomy?	This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Peter Millican, Jonathan Pugh, Jessica Morley, Carina Prunkl	7 December, 2020
Privacy Is Power	Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Carissa Véliz, Sir Michael Tugendhat, Stephanie Hare, John Tasioulas	5 November, 2020
Algorithms Eliminate Noise (and That Is Very Good)	Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	John Tasioulas, Ruth Chang, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Cass Sunstein	5 November, 2020
Ethics in AI Education	This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Peter Millican, Milo Phillips-Brown, Max Van Kleek, Helena Webb	5 November, 2020
General Philosophy 2018 Handouts	PDF handouts to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.	Peter Millican	23 June, 2020
General Philosophy 2018 Slides	PDF slides to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.	Peter Millican	23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/8: God and Morality	Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.	Peter Millican	23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/7: Free Will and Responsibility	Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.	Peter Millican	23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/6: Identity, Self-Interest, Free Will	Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.	Peter Millican	23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/5: The Mind, and Personal Identity	Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.	Peter Millican	23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/4: Facing Up to Scepticism	Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.	Peter Millican	23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/3: Scepticism and Induction	Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.	Peter Millican	23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/2: Matter, Mind, and Humanity	Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.	Peter Millican	23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/1: Historical Introduction	Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.	Peter Millican	23 June, 2020
Hume 2018 Handouts	PDF handouts to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018 Slides	PDF slides to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/8: Sceptical Crisis and Second Thoughts	Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/7: Scepticism about Body, Soul and Self	Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/6: Causal Interpretation, to Scepticism	Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/5: Probability and the Idea of Necessity	Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/4: Induction and Belief	Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/3: Faculties and Relations, to Causation	Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/2: Ideas, Impressions, and Abstraction	Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/1: Hume’s Background and Chief Aims	Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
3f. Values and AI: view from public policy	Jo Wolff and Vafa Ghazavi, Blavatnik School of Government, gives the sixth and final talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Jo Wolff, Vafa Ghazavi	10 February, 2020
3e. AI and business	Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, gives the fifth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Alan Morrison	10 February, 2020
3d. AI and finance	Nir Vulkan, Saïd Business School, gives the fourth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Nir Vulkan	10 February, 2020
3c. Population health and AI: efficiency, accuracy and trust	Angeliki Kerasidou, Ethox Centre, gives the third talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Angeliki Kerasidou	10 February, 2020
3b. AI in healthcare	Claire Bloomfield, National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging, gives the second talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Claire Bloomfield	10 February, 2020
3a. Rethinking ethics and humanities for the 21st Century	Mike Parker, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities gives the first talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Mike Parker	10 February, 2020
2e. Artificial Intelligence and the news	Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, gives the fifth talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).	Rasmus Kleis Nielsen	27 January, 2020
2d. Computational propaganda	Vidya Narayanan, Oxford Internet Institute,	Vidya Narayanan	27 January, 2020
2c. Use, users and the social context for AI	Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the third talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).	Gina Neff	27 January, 2020
2b. Capital, labour and power in the age of automation	Carl Benedikt Frey gives the second talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).	Carl Benedikt Frey	27 January, 2020
2a. AI Governance and Ethics	Allan Dafoe and Carina Prunkl, Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy give the first talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).	Allan Dafoe, Carina Prunkl	27 January, 2020
A discussion of ethical challenges posed by AI, involving experts from fields across Oxford - Seminar 1	An introduction by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt; The place of Ethics in AI, AI Ethics and legal regulation, Ethics of AI in healthcare	Tom Douglas, Carissa Véliz, Vicki Nash, Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Gil McVean, Jess Morley	20 January, 2020
1h. Ethics of AI in healthcare	Jess Morley, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the eigth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Jess Morley	11 November, 2019
1g. Ethics and AI at the Oxford Big Data Institute	Gil McVean, Big Data Institute, gives the seventh talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Gil McVean	11 November, 2019
1f. Re-uniting ethics and the law for AI	Brent Mittelstadt, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the sixth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Brent Mittelstadt	11 November, 2019
1e. When AI disrupts the law	Sandra Wachter, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the fifth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Sandra Wachter	11 November, 2019
1d. AI ethics and legal regulation	Vicki Nash, Oxford Internet Institute gives the fourth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Vicki Nash	11 November, 2019
1c. AI-ethics research at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy	Tom Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy gives the third talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Tom Douglas	11 November, 2019
1b. The place of philosophy in the ethics of AI	Carissa Véliz, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, gives the second talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Carissa Véliz	11 November, 2019
1a. Background and Aims of the Institute for Ethics in AI	Nigel Shadbolt, Principal of Jesus College, Department of Computer Science, gives the first talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Nigel Shadbolt	11 November, 2019
Modal Epistemology and the Formal Identity of Intellect and Object	A defence of the Formal Identity Thesis and of the immateriality of the human intellect, based on specifically epistemological arguments about our knowledge of necessary or essential truths, including especially essential truths about value.	Robert Koons	27 February, 2018
Hylomorphism, natural science, mind and God	Howard Robinson argues that the early moderns were right to think that Aristotelian or scholastic hylomorphism was inconsistent with modern science.	Howard Robinson	27 February, 2018
Dependent Powerful Qualities and Grounded Downward Causation	David Yates argues that some physically realised qualitative properties have their causal roles solely in virtue of being the qualities they are, and not in virtue of the powers bestowed by their physical realizers on a given occasion.	David yates	27 February, 2018
A Biologically Informed Hylomorphism	Utilising recent advances in developmental biology, Christopher Austin argues that the hylomorphic framework is an empirically adequate and conceptually rich explanatory schema with which to model the nature of organisms.	Christopher J Austin	27 February, 2018
Hylomorphic Structure, Emergence, and Supervenience	William Jaworski argues why the hylomorphic structure is the best (and perhaps only) thing that can explain the persistence of individuals that change their matter over time.	William Jaworski	27 February, 2018
2015 Welcome & Loebel Lecture in Neuroethics: Death and the self	This lecture investigates changing attitudes and beliefs about the persistence of the self.	Shaun Nichols	23 August, 2017
2015 Loebel Lecture 1: Neurobiological materialism collides with the experience of being human	The first of three public lectures which took place in Oxford in November 2015. Series title: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure	Steven Hyman	23 August, 2017
2015 Loebel Lecture 2: Science is quietly, inexorably eroding many core assumptions underlying psychiatry	The second of three public lectures which took place in Oxford in November 2015. Series title: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure	Steven Hyman	23 August, 2017
2015 Loebel Lecture 3: What is the upshot?	The last of three public lectures which took place in Oxford in November 2015. Series title: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure	Steven Hyman	23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lecture 1: Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions	Professor Essi Viding delivers the first of two talks in the 2016 Loebel Lectures in Psychiatry and Philosophy series	Essi Viding	23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lecture 2: Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions	Professor Essi Viding delivers the second of two talks in the 2016 Loebel Lectures in Psychiatry and Philosophy series	Essi Viding	23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Eamon McCrory	To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions	Eamon McCrory	23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Charlotte Cecil	To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions	Charlotte Cecil	23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Neil Levy	To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions	Neil Levy	23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Richard Holton	To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions	Richard Holton	23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Matthew Parrott	To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions	Matthew Parrott	23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Nikolaus Steinbeis	To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions	Nikolaus Steinbeis	23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Peter Dayan	To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions	Peter Dayan	23 August, 2017
Euthydemus English Text	The Euthydemus of Plato. To read this document, please see 'Download Media' section	Christopher Kirwan	15 February, 2017
Deliberation welcomes prediction	Alan Hájek (Australian National University) gives a talk for the New Insights seminar series on 21st May 2015.	Alan Hájek	24 July, 2015
Reasoning with Plenitude	Roger White (MIT) gives the final talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.	Roger White	14 July, 2015
Testimony, Error, and Reasonable Belief in Medieval Religious Epistemology	Richard Cross (Notre Dame) gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is Christina Van Dyke, Calvin	Richard Cross, Christina Van Dyke	14 July, 2015
Fine-Tuning Fine-Tuning	John Hawthorne (Oxford/USC) gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.	John Hawthorne	14 July, 2015
What is Justified Group Belief	Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern) gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.	Jennifer Lackey	14 July, 2015
Foundations of the Fine-Tuning Argument	Hans Halvorson (Princeton) give a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is John Pittard (Yale).	Hans Halvorson, John Pittard	14 July, 2015
How to Appear to Know that God Exists	Keith DeRose (Yale), gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is Jane Friedman (NYU).	Keith DeRose, Jane Friedman	14 July, 2015
Show and Tell	Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) gives the first talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.	Paulina Sliwa	14 July, 2015
The Rev’d Mr Bayes and the Life Everlasting	Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame) gives the second talk for the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is Jeffrey Sanford Russell (USC).	Peter Van Inwagen, Jeffrey Sanford Russell	14 July, 2015
Phenomenal Conservatism and Religious Belief	Richard Swinburne, University of Oxford, gives the first talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.	Richard Swinburne	14 July, 2015
Can you choose to be gay?	Brian Earp discusses the ethics of sexual orientation.	Brian Earp, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds	14 July, 2015
Skeptical Theism and the Future	First talk given by Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini (Rutgers) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.	Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini	9 February, 2015
Foundations for an Accuracy-based Approach to Imprecise Credence	Second talk given by Jason Konek (Bristol) and Billy Dunaway (Oxford) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.	Jason Konek, Billy Dunaway	9 February, 2015
Divine Indifference, or Whatever	Third talk given by Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.	Jonathan Weisberg	9 February, 2015
Against the Orthodoxy: Rethinking Epistemic Reasons and Pascal's Wager	Fourth talk given by Rima Basu (USC) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.	Rima Basu	9 February, 2015
Salvaging Pascal's Wager	Fifth talk given by Liz Jackson (Nortre Dame) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.	Liz Jackson	9 February, 2015
Updating on Evil	Sixth and final talk given by Professor Roger White (MIT) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.	Roger White	6 February, 2015
The ethics of sexuality	Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that homosexuality is natural, and that what is natural can be neither good nor bad.	Janet Radcliffe Richards, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds	4 November, 2014
Should we allow genetic engineering on embryos?	Does a human embryo have moral status? Tom Douglas explores the ethical issues surrounding genetic research on developing embryos.	Tom Douglas, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds	28 October, 2014
Is there such a thing as a just war?	Is an ethical war a paradoxical notion? If violence is almost always unacceptable, how can we justify acts of war?	Jeff McMahan, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds	21 October, 2014
The Dappled Causal World of Psychiatric Disorders: The Link Between the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders and Their Causal Complexity	The second of the 2014 Loebel Lectures in Philosophy and Psychiatry, by Professor Kenneth S Kendler	Kenneth S Kendler	21 October, 2014
The Genetic Epidemiology of Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Disorders: Multiple Levels, Interactions and Causal Loops	The first of the 2014 Loebel Lectures in Philosophy and Psychiatry, by Professor Kenneth S Kendler	Kenneth S Kendler	16 October, 2014
The rights and wrongs of abortion	Rebecca Roache discusses the conflicting rights and interests of both foetus and mother.	Rebecca Roache, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds	14 October, 2014
Choosing the sex of your child	Is sex-selection harmful or injust? Julian Savulescu outlines four methods used in sex-selection and explores the ethical issues surrounding each.	Julian Savulescu, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds	6 October, 2014
Free will, and its connection to moral responsibility	Professor Neil Levy explores the link between free will and responsibility. What makes us blameworthy for our actions?	Neil Levy, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds	29 September, 2014
What is virtue ethics?	In this episode, Professor Roger Crisp introduces the strand of ethical theory known as 'virtue ethics'.	Roger Crisp, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds	22 September, 2014

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