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2010 |
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February |
Derrida for Beginners |
Professor Carrol Clarkson (English, UCT) |
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March |
The Ethics of the Oppressed: Lessons from Uncle Toms' Children |
Professor Tommie Shelby (Harvard University) |
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April |
Evolution and Emergence: A Paradigm-Shift for Theology? |
Dr. Augustine Shutte (Formerly Philosophy, UCT) |
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May |
On being responsible for our mental life |
Dr. Jeremy Wanderer (Philosophy, UCT) |
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July |
The Political Power of Sexual Preferences |
Mr. Nathaniel Coleman (PhD student, Philosophy, University of Michigan, USA) |
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August |
Ethics, Economics and the Future: Back to Hobbes and Locke |
Professor Peter Collins (Salford University, UK) |
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September |
Moral convergence and gender equality |
Dr Andres Luco (Philosophy, UCT) |
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October |
Using big words to explain little words: Philosophy of language at the interface of metaethics and semantics |
Dr Matthew Chrisman(University of Edinburgh) |
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2011
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February |
Character, Talent, and "Epistemic Irresponsibility" |
Professor Judith Baker (York University, Canada) |
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March |
Should kidney sales be legal? |
Jessica Du Toit (Philosophy, UCT) |
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April |
How we Need the concept of Need to Help us to Help |
Dr Soran Reader (Durham University, UK) |
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May |
The Case Against Rights-Based Judicial Review |
Dr Patrick Lenta (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban) |
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July |
Disagreement |
Professor Bernhard Weiss (Philosophy, UCT) |
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August |
Hume on Miracles |
Dr Greg Fried (Philosophy, UCT) |
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September |
Moral Decision-Making in real time: Dennett's Evolutionary Ethics |
Professor Peter Collins |
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October |
Who am I? What am I? |
Jessica Lerm (Philosophy, UCT) |
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November |
The Case for Decriminalizing Blackmail |
Professor David Boonin |
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2012
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February |
Is it Rational to Trust?" |
Dr Jeremy Wanderer (Philosophy, UCT) |
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March |
The Apology of Socrates: an argument for the examined life |
Dr Laurence Bloom (Philosophy, UCT) |
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April |
The Career of Philosophy: How an unlikely esoteric subject came to have a powerful influence on the Rise of Civilization |
Dr Kenneth Hughes (UCT) |
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May |
The Philosophy of Time Travel |
Dr Jack Ritchie (UCT) |
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August |
Socratic Irony |
Dr Dylan Futter (WITS) |
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August |
Exploiting vulnerable people in biomedical research |
Prof Marcel Verweij (Utrecht University, Netherlands) |
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September |
Thinking about Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the tricentenary of his birth |
Prof Peter Collins (formerly Salford University, UK) |
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2013
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February |
A Heap of Trouble: the Sorites Paradox |
Mr Kyle Blumberg (Philosophy, UCT) |
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March |
Philosophy, Happiness and the Meaning of Life |
Professor John Cottingham (Philosophy, University of Reading) |
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April |
Empathy and Fellow Feeling |
Professor Lawrence Blum (Philosophy, University of Massachusetts - Boston, USA) |
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May |
Can we empathize with fictional characters? |
Dr Elisa Galgut (Philosophy, UCT) |
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July |
Can a dog really be a human's (best) friend? |
Jessica du Toit (Philosophy, UCT) |
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August |
Nietzsche
and Genealogy: Drawing Morals from History |
Dr
George Hull (Philosophy, UCT) |
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September |
Death and the Meaningfulness of Life |
Dr
Dean Chapman(Philosophy, UCT) |
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October |
Disagreement and Relativism |
Professor Bernhard Weiss(Philosophy, UCT) |
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2014
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February |
The Ethics of Leadership |
Dr Tom Angier (Philosophy, UCT) |
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March |
Freedom of belief and access to information |
Professor Mark Leon (Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand) |
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April |
How Cricket Can Make You Bad |
Professor Simon Beck (Philosophy, UWC) |
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May |
The excuse of ignorance in the age of information |
Ms Anna Hartford (Philosophy, UCT) |
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July |
The Price of Life |
Professor Jonathan Wolff (Philosophy, University College London, UK) |
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August |
Race: A Philosophical Introduction |
Professor Charles Mills (Philosophy, Northwestern University, USA) |
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September |
Courage in the Face of Death |
Dr Dylan Futter (Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand) |
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October |
Blasphemy Against God |
Mr Richmond Kwesi (Philosophy, UCT) |
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2015 |
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February |
The value of caring relationships |
Dr Moises Vaca (Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) |
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March |
God and Mathematics |
Dr Greg Fried (Philosophy, UCT) |
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April |
Quantum Oddities, Realism and the Philosophy of Science |
Dr Jack Ritchie (Philosophy, UCT) |
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May |
God and Utilitarianism |
Dr Tom Angier (Philosophy, UCT) |
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July |
Reasoning Backwards: Thinking about the "First Principles" of Thought |
Dr Laurence Bloom (Philosophy, UCT) |
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August |
Climate change denialism and epistemic over-caution |
Dr Richard Flockemann (Philosophy, Rhodes) |
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September |
Race, Gender, and Identity Politics |
Mr Jacques Rousseau (UCT) |
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October |
Henry Sidgwick and the limits of utilitarian moral philosophy |
Dr Kenneth Hughes (UCT) |
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2016 |
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February |
How the social world is built and why it matters |
Dr Brian Epstein (Philosophy, Tufts University, USA) |
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March |
Linguistic Injustice and Its Remedies |
Dr George Hull (Philosophy, UCT) |
April |
The Benfits of Judicial Corporal Punishment |
Professor Patrick Lenta (Philosophy, UKZN) |
May |
Reflections on the Definition of Death |
Professor David DeGrazia (Philosophy, George Washington University) |
July |
Art, Science and Understanding |
Professor Catherine Elgin(Philosophy, Harvard University, USA) |
August |
What is African Philosophy? |
Professor Bruce Janz (Philosophy, University of Central Florida, USA) |
September |
I Heard that Lonely Whistle Blow |
Professor Carl Elliott (Bioethics & Philosophy, University of Minnesota, USA) |
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2017
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March |
Understanding Thomas More's Utopia: Christian Humanism, and the Challenge of Philosophy in the Renaissance |
Dr Kenneth Hughes (Mathematics, UCT) |
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April |
Honour as a Masculine Ethic: Philosophical implications of an evolutionary theory of agonistic norms | Dr Daniel Demetriou (Philosophy, University of Minnesota-Morris, USA) |
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May |
What your language says about you | Dr Ryan Nefdt (Philosophy, UCT) |
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June |
Effective Animal Advocacy | Mr Andrew Fisher (Philosophy, UCT) |
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August |
What the Tortoise said to Kripke | Dr Romina Padro (Graduate Center, City University of New York) |
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September |
Justice in Transitional Context | Professor Colleen Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
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October |
Is it wrong to clone humans? | Professor Gregory Pence (University of Alabama, Birmingham) |
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2018 |
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February |
The Paradoxes of Confirmation |
Professor Murali Ramachandran (Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand) |
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March |
Trusting our senses and amplyfying our knowledge |
Dr Dean Chapman (Philosophy, UCT) |
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April |
Heritage or Lives? Balancing damage to buildings against harm to people |
Prof Derek Matravers (Open University, UK) |
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May |
The challenge of climate change to democracy |
Prof Dale Jamieson (New York University) |
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July |
What is courage? |
Professor Gopal Sreenivasan (Philosophy, Duke University, USA) |
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August |
Assisted Dying and Religion: The Sanctity of Living, Rather than Life. |
Mr Jacques Rousseau (UCT) |
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September |
Is Democracy Still a Good Idea? |
Dr Greg Fried (UCT) |
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October |
Would immortality be a curse? |
Mr Travis Rebello (UCT) |
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2019 |
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February |
Thoughts on racism and speciesism |
Wade Searle (UCT) |
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March |
How to be a Good Nihilist |
Vasti Roodt (Philosophy, University of Stellenbosch) |
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April |
Can we be sceptical about a priori knowledge? |
Sherif Salem (American University in Cairo) |
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May |
Thinking Through the Afterlife |
Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Pontifical University Antonianum, Paris Institute for Critical Thinking, and University of the Free State) |
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July |
Consciousness unbound: the ethics of neuroimaging in patients in a vegetative state |
Charles Weijer (Philosophy, Western University, Canada) |
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August |
The Philosophical Viewpoint of 21st Century Stoics |
Zak van Straaten (Former Professor of Philosophy, UCT) |
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September |
Plato's Apology of Socrates and the Delphic Oracle |
Clive Chandler (Professor of Classics, UCT) |
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October |
Is veganism racist? |
Gaby James (Philosophy, UCT) |