Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures

As part of the North-East centre of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the Department hosts regular Institute lectures, alternating with the University of Sunderland. Previous speakers have included Christine Korsgaard, Bas van Fraassen, Stephen Stich, Allan Gibbard, Simon Blackburn, David Papineau, John Skorupski, Stephen Clark, Ronald Hepburn, Peter van Inwagen, John Heil, Jonathan Dancy and Susan Hurley.

Royal Institute of Philosophy Events (2011-12)

12th October 2011 Alan Chalmers (South Australia)
Intermediate Causes and Explanations:  The Key to Understanding the Scientific Revolution
This lecture will be held in the Birley Room which is located in Hatfield College.
Refreshments will be served from 5pm to 5:30pm with commencement at 5:30pm.

19th October 2011 Mary Midgley (Newcastle)
Death and the Human Animal
This lecture will be held in the Henry Dyson Room, the College of St Hild and St Bede.
Refreshments will be served from 5pm to 5:30pm with commencement at 5:30pm.

30th November 2011 Philip Kitcher (Columbia)
Dissent
This lecture will be held in the Birley Room, Hatfield College. 
Refreshments will be served from 5pm with the talk commencing at 5:30pm

14th December 2011 Roger Crisp (Oxford)
Supererogation and Virtue
This lecture will be held in the Joachim Room, the College of St Hild and St Bede. 
Refreshments will be served from 5pm with the talk commencing at 5:30pm. 

29th February 2012 Howard Hotson (Oxford)
‘Hugh Trevor-Roper’s “Three Foreigners” Revisited: Vulgar Baconianism,
Central Europe and the Origins of the Royal Society’.
This lecture will be held in the Pennington Suite, Grey College. 
Refreshments will be served from 5pm with the talk commencing at 5:30pm