Week of Events
Monday, May 11, 2026
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May 11, 2026 -Medieval Logic Seminar: Marsilius of Inghen: Appellation
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May 11, 2026 -Unity Seminar
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May 11, 2026 -Unity Seminar [Talk: Tahko]
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May 11, 2026 -WIKI Seminar
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May 11, 2026 -WIKI: No Seminar
Unity Seminar [Talk: Tahko]
Invited Speaker: Tahko (in-person) “Natural Kind Fundamentalism” ABSTRACT: This paper defends Natural Kind Fundamentalism (NKF), the view that the ontological category of natural kind is fundamental. I develop a primitivist account of categorial fundamentality based on the Complete Categorial Basis (CCB) criterion, which requires that fundamental categories form a complete and minimal system irreducible to…
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
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May 13, 2026 -Metaphysics & Logic Seminar
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May 13, 2026 -Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Greg Restall, “The Logic of Paradox as a Substructural Logic”
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May 13, 2026 -Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
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May 13, 2026 -Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Greg Restall, “The Logic of Paradox as a Substructural Logic”
Graham Priest鈥檚 simple three-valued logic LP has many curious properties. It has the same valid formulas as classical logic, but differs from classical logic when it comes to valid聽sequents. The valid sequents do not uniquely characterise the logic: it is possible to have more than one different LP-鈥渘egation鈥, each of which satisfies all the LP-requirements,…
Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
Reading:Next Wednesday, 13 May, the MPRG will meet for a special session with this year鈥檚 Knox Lecturer, Professor聽Tommie Shelby (Harvard). We will discuss Shelby鈥檚 paper, 鈥楬ow Racial Stereotypes Wrong: A Political Ethics of Belief鈥. Location: Edgecliffe 104
Thursday, May 14, 2026
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May 14, 2026 -ECT Seminar
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May 14, 2026 -ECT Seminar: Lilith Mace (Glasgow)
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May 14, 2026 -ECT Seminar
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May 14, 2026 -2026 Knox Lecture – Tommie Shelby (Harvard University)
2026 Knox Lecture – Tommie Shelby (Harvard University)
Title: Solidarity, Politics, and Intellectual Life Abstract:聽This lecture will examine what role intellectuals from oppressed groups should play in the struggle for their group’s liberation. It draws on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois and Richard Wright鈥攃anonical figures in the Black Radical tradition鈥攖o ask whether such intellectuals should subordinate their interest in art…
Friday, May 15, 2026
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May 15, 2026 -2026 Knox Workshop- Tommie Shelby (Harvard University)
2026 Knox Workshop- Tommie Shelby (Harvard University)
Location: tbc BEAR IN MIND THE TIME IS ONLY INDICATIVE. A DEFINITIVE TIME WILL BE CONFIRMED CLOSER TO THE DATE
Saturday, May 16, 2026
No events on this day.
Sunday, May 17, 2026
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