Autumn 2020
11/10 Week 2 - Sarah Sawyer (Sussex) ‘Moral Twin Earth’
18/10 Week 3 - Rory Madden (UCL) ‘Frege on Idealism and the Self’
25/10 Week 4 Mark Wrathall (Oxford) Does Heidegger have a Method?
1/11 Week 5 Paul K. Jones (ANU) (SPT) ‘Critical Theory, Modern Demagogy, Populism’
7-8/11 Week 6 CONFERENCE ‘Post-truth and the Objectivity of Epistemic Norms’
15/11 Week 7 Catriona McKinnon (Exeter) ‘Climate justice in a carbon budget’
22/11 Week 8 Rosie Worsdale (CRASSH, Cambridge, Essex) (SPT) ‘Is Sisterhood Powerful? Re-evaluating the Idea of Feminist Solidarity’
29/11 Week 9 Mahon O’Brien (Sussex) ‘The Padded Whip in Horseracing: Re-assessing the Debate’
6/12 Week 10 Paul Davies and Michael Morris (Sussex) End of Term Symposium
You can see SPT research seminar programmes from previous years here.
Autumn 2019
5th October: Ruth Kinna (Loughborough) "Women nihilists and anarchist ethics."
12th October: Paul Davies (Sussex), ‘Symptoms and Works’
19th October: Colin Tyler (Hull) “Common goods and final ends: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Thomism versus British idealism”
26th October: Daniel Molto (Sussex), ‘Relativizing Identity’
2nd November: Jane Heal (Cambridge), ‘Joint Intentionality, Fact and Value’
9th November: Simon Kirchin (Kent), ‘The Concept-Conception Distinction’
16th November Han van Wietmarschen (UCL) "What is Social Hierarchy?"
23rd November: Alison Assiter (UWE), ‘Sexual Desire’
30th November: Peter Dews (Essex), 'How to start thinking: Hegel's Logic and Schelling's "Negative Philosophy"
7th December Mary Leng (York): TBD
14th December Christmas Party (time to be confirmed)
Autumn 2018
27th October: Gordon Finlayson (Sussex) ‘Religion in the Public Sphere’
24th November: Joerg Schaub (Essex) ‘Aesthetic Freedom and Democratic Ethical Life: A Hegelian Approach’
8th December: Adam Swift (Warwick) & Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford) ‘Justice and Legitimacy in Non-Ideal Circumstances’
Spring 2017
10 February: Esther Leslie (Birkbeck UL), 'Clouds'
10 March: Gordon Finlayson (Sussex) 'Reflections on Adorno and Existence'
24 March: Phillipe van Parijs, 'Basic Income: Free riding or Fair-sharing?'
7 April: Gordon Finlayson and Enzo Rossi, ''Legitimacy'
28 April: Robin Celikates (Amsterdam), 'Civil Disobedience'
Spring 2016
February 19th: Murali Ramachandran (University of the Witwaterstrand) “Knowledge-to-Fact Arguments (Bootstrapping, Closure, Paradox, and KK)”
March 4th March 4th SPT Dagmar Wilhelm (UWE) On Axel Honneth’s Revival of ‘Socialism’.
(Followed by Studies in Social and Political Thought On-line Launch Party Issue no. 25 Pathologies of Recognition)
March 18th, SPT Lois McNay (Oxford University) 'Dilemmas of transcendence and immanence: the antinomies of Rainer Forst’s justification critique’.
April 8th, SPT Asger Sorensen (Aarhus) ’Justice Versus Democracy’
April 29th Mahon O’Brien (Sussex University) ‘Heidegger and Rights’
Autumn 2015
October 9th: Dr. Chris Belshaw (Open/York) Environmental Ethics What's wrong with Anthropocentrism?
October 23rd: Dr Andrew Chitty (University of Sussex) Species-being, capitalism and communism
November 6th: Professor Hallvard Lillehammer (Birkbeck) Who cares? Understanding the ethics of indifference
November 20th: Professor Anne Phillips (LSE) "Are we not both human beings?" The Paradoxes of the Human
Autumn term 2014
October 3rd
Lucy Finchett-Maddock (Sussex):
'Protest, Property and the Commons – Being Naughty with Law'
October 17th
Fabio Petito (Sussex)
'Dialogue of Civilizations in International Political Theory'
October 31st
Nina Power (Roehampton)
'The Death of Public Life and the Rise of Public Order'
November 14th
Alison Stone (Lancaster)
'Beauvoir and Fanon on Oppression'
December 5th
William Outhwaite (Newcastle)
'Habermas Today' (Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture)
Summer term 2014
May 14th
Chris O’Kane (Independent scholar, formerly Sussex)
"The Rationalization of Isolated Activity and the irrational Whole: Lukács, Reification and Critical Social Theory"
May 28th
Chris Allsobrook (University of Fort Hare)
"Critique in Crisis: on Apathy, Resignation, Disengagement and Boycott"
Spring Term 2014
January 29th
Nathalie Frogneux (Louvain)
"The cosmic option of Hans Jonas to moderate ecological risk"
February 5th
Iain McDaniel (Sussex):
"Democracy, Imperialism and Caesarism: Views from Nineteenth-Century Germany"
February 19th
David Berry (Sussex)
"The Question Concerning Technological Rationality in Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man"
February 26th
John Drury (Sussex)
"Crowd Behaviour as Collective Action"
March 5th
Nick Srnicek (UCL)
"The Eyes of the State: Machine Thinking and the Production of Economic Knowledge"
March 12th
Zoe Sutherland (Brighton) and Marina Vishmidt
“The Artistic Labour Contract: The Legislative Imperative of Authorship”
March 19th
Stella Sandford (Kingston University London)
"What is a Critical Theory of Sex?