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Area of Specialisation > Philosophy of Mind

Academics

Sophie Allen

Supernumerary Fellow

Anita Avramides

Anita Avramides

Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy

Formerly Vice-Principal and Southover Manor Trust Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, St Hilda’s College and Reader in Philosophy of Mind, University of Oxford

Brian Ball

Associate Faculty Member

Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Umut Baysan

Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy

St. Anne's College

Louise Braddock

Associate Faculty Member

Patrick Butlin

Research Fellow

Future of Humanity Institute

Adam Caulton

Associate Professor

Clarendon University Lecturer and Tutor in Philosophy, Balliol College

William Child

Professor of Philosophy

Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, University College

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Vincent Conitzer

Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy, Head of Technical AI Engagement at the Institute for Ethics in AI

Joe Cunningham

Associate Faculty Member

Stipendiary Lecturer, Jesus College

Will Davies

Associate Professor

Gabriele Taylor Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Anne’s College

Martin Davies

Emeritus Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy, Corpus Christi College

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Alison Denham

Senior Research Fellow, St Anne's College

Emeritus Faculty Member

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Christopher Fowles

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College

Elizabeth Fricker

Emeritus Fellow, Magdalen College

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Alexander Geddes

Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind

Richard Gipps

Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall

Associate Faculty Member

Anil Gomes

Professor of Philosophy

Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Trinity College

Joseph Gough

British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Susanne Herrmann-Sinai

Associate Faculty Member

John Hyman

Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic

Philipp Koralus

Philipp Koralus

Fulford Clarendon Associate Professor in Philosophy of Mind

Fulford Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, St Catherine's College

James Laing

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

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Gail Leckie

Associate Faculty Member

College lecturer, Mansfield College

Neil Levy

Senior Research Fellow

Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

Michael Martin

Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy

Corpus Christi College

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Matthew Parrott

Associate Professor

Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Hilda’s College

Stephen Priest

Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy

Blackfriars Hall

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Howard Robinson

Research Fellow in Philosophy

Bradford Saad

Senior Research Fellow

Joseph Schear

Associate Professor

Official Student and Tutor in Philosophy, Christ Church

Nicholas Shea

Associate Faculty Member

Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, University of London

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Paul Skokowski

Associate Faculty Member

Professor, Symbolic Systems and Director, Center for the Explanation of Consciousness, Stanford University

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Piotr Szałek

Templeton Research Fellow

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Roger Teichmann

Lecturer in Philosophy

St Hilda's College

Carlos Núñez

Lecturer in Moral Philosophy, Mansfield College

James Wilk

Associate Lecturer in Philosophy

Stephen Williams

Emeritus Fellow, Worcester College

Graduate students

Harry Alanen

DPhil in Philosophy

Alasdair Craig

Lady Margaret Hall

Conferences

The Joint Session

The 2018 Joint Session

University of Oxford

Events

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Mind, Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School 2022

St Hilda's College

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Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School 2024: Mind, Value and Mental Health

This interactive two-day programme will include guest lectures and seminars, and will consist of presentations by seminar leaders and collaborative talks providing opportunities for substantial dialogue between philosophers, clinicians, and scientists.

St Hilda's College

Seminars

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 1, HT23)

Heather Logue (University of Leeds): An anti-sceptical metaphysics of perception

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 1, MT22)

Matthew Parrott | 'Self-Knowledge and the Capacity to Judge'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 1, TT22)

Adrian Al Smith | KCL | 'Imagination, Illusion, and Virtual Reality'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 1, TT23) - Cancelled

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 2, HT23)

Clare MacCumhaill (Durham University): 'Acting where I am not now stationed'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 2, MT22)

Bill Child: ‘Wittgenstein and Immunity to Error through Misidentification’

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 2, TT23)

David Collins: 'Shedding Light on Seeing Things Through Photographs: ‘Indirect’ or ‘Mediated’ Seeing and the Question of Photographic Transparency'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 3, HT23)

Roberto Casati (Institut Jean Nicod): 'The cognitive life of maps'

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 3, MT22)

Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford): 'The Psychology of Framing Effects and the Ethics of Ordinary Consent'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 3, TT22)

Matt Parrott | St Hilda’s College

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 3, TT23)

Milo Phillips-Brown and Nilanjan Das (Toronto): 'The anatomy of anankastic conditionals'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 4, HT23)

Patrick Butlin (Oxford): 'Functions, content and understanding in language models'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 4, MT22)

Zijian Zhu: 'The View from Nowhere and the View from Nowhen'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 4, TT22)

Anil Gomes | Trinity College | 'Strawson and Metacritique'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 4, TT23)

Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh): 'The Davos Debate over AI'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 5, HT23)

Chris Mole (UBC): ‘The Metaphysics of the Computational Theory of the Mind’

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 5, MT22)

J. Corns (Glasgow): 'Promiscuous Kinds and Individual Minds'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 5, TT22)

Michelle Liu | Hertfordshire/Monash | 'Mental Imagery & Co-Predication'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 5, TT23)

Rachel Fraser: Narrative Understanding

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 6, HT23)

Anita Avramides (Oxford): 'Knowing and Acknowledging Others'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 6, HT24)

Victor Verdejo (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain): 'On how to know what I am doing'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 6, MT22)

Catharine Abell: 'Art and Medium'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 6, TT23)

Natalia Waights-Hickman: 'Virtues and the taxonomy of knowledge'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 7, HT23)

Michael Martin (Oxford): 'Illumination Fading'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 7, MT22)

CANCELLED: Bill Brewer (KCL), 'The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Conscious Perception'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 7, TT23)

Rory Madden (UCL): 'If there’s no self, how come you exist?'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 8, HT19)

Kevin Lande | Antwerp/York | TBC

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 8, HT23)

Thomas Raleigh (University of Luxembourg): 'On being debased'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 8, HT24)

Paul Skokowski (Stanford University): 'Detecting Qualia'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 8, MT22)

Maja Spener (Birmingham): 'Introspective Kinds'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 8, TT22)

Alex Kerr | Antwerp/Princeton | 'Following your heart'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 8, TT23)

Milena Bartholain: 'The Discrimination Definition of the Internalism/Externalism Debate about Mind'

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar (Friday - Week 9, TT22)

Howard Robinson | CEU/Blackfriars | ‘Why There Cannot be a Materialist Theory of Thought’

Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 1, HT20)

Susanna Siegel | Harvard | Are there norms of attention?

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 1, TT21)

Guy Longworth | Warwick | John Cook Wilson on the Indefinability of Knowledge

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 2, TT19)

John Morrison | Columbia | 'Perceptual Structuralism: Toads and Bees'

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 3, HT21)

Justin D’Ambrosio | ANU | Perceptual Consciousness and Intensional Transitive Verbs

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 3, MT20)

Naomi Eilan | Warwick | Other I's, Communication, and the Second Person

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 3, TT21)

Rachel Goodman | Illinois | Singularism vs. Descriptivism?

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 4, MT19)

Henry Taylor | Birmingham | Naïve realism without disjunctivism: kinds, polymorphism and the argument from hallucination

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 4, TT19)

Ori Beck | Cambridge | TBC

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 5, HT21)

Roberta Locatelli | Tübingen | Naïve Realism and the Relationality of Phenomenal Character

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 5, HT22)

Alfredo Vernazzani | Bochum

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 5, MT20)

Frédérique de Vignemont | Institut Jean-Nicod | Can we see the future?

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 6, HT20)

Paul Snowdon | UCL | Theories of belief; some sceptical reflections

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 6, MT19)

Alexander Geddes | Southampton | Personal Identity and the Preservation of Mind

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 6, TT19)

Umrao Sethi | CUNY-Lehman | 'Mind-Dependence in Berkeley and the Problem of Perception'

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 7, MT20)

David Suarez | Toronto | Disjunctivism and Self-Awareness in Martin and Merleau-Ponty

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 7, TT21)

Antonia Peacocke | Stanford | Practical Concepts and Practical Knowledge

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 8, HT21)

Matt Soteriou | KCL | Perspectives in Memory, Imagination and Dream

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 8, HT22)

Craig French | Nottingham | Naïve Realism, Perspective, and Size Perception

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 8, TT19)

Helen Steward | Leeds | 'Free Will and External Reality'

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 8, TT21)

Hanna Pickard | Johns Hopkins | CANCELLED

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Friday - Week 9, TT21)

Ian Phillips | Johns Hopkins | Are We All Animals? Animalism, Conjoined Twins and the Diversity of Human Life

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Thursday - Week 1, TT20)

Christopher Peacocke | Columbia University | Thursday 30th April 2020

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Visiting Speakers Seminar (Thursday - Week 6, TT20)

Ali Boyle | Cambridge | Classification in Comparative Cognitive Science

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Mind Work in Progress Seminar Week 1 MT17

Lecture Room Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Mind Work in Progress Seminar Week 3 MT17

Lecture Room Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Mind Work in Progress Seminar Week 5 MT17

Lecture Room Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Mind Work in Progress Seminar Week 7 MT17

Lecture Room Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 1, HT22)

Mike Martin | The Lure of Illusion

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 1, TT19)

Joulia Smortchkova | Oxford | 'First impressions and mind misreading'

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 2, HT20)

Jake Quilty-Dunn | Oxford | Unconscious Rationalization, or: How (Not) to Think about Awfulness and Death

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 2, HT21)

Lucy Campbell | Warwick | Perception, Perceptual Knowledge, and Perceptual Self-Knowledge

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 2, HT22)

Alex Moran | Grounding Physicalism and the Knowledge Argument

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 2, MT19)

Marc Artiga | Valencia | Radical Liberal Representationalism

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 2, MT20)

Umut Baysan | The causal argument for Russellian panpsychism

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 2, MT21)

Nicholas Shea | Computationally Useful Processing Organisation

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 2, TT20)

Alex Moran | Oxford | TBC

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 3, HT19)

Dominic Alford-Duguid | Oxford | 'On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure'

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 3, TT19)

Umut Baysan | Oxford | 'The non-mental life of some groups'

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 4, HT20)

Will Davies | Oxford | A Relational Theory of Colour Constancy

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 4, HT21)

Patrick Butlin | Model-based Reinforcement Learning and Action for Reasons

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 4, HT22)

Buki Fatona | An Anachronistic Analysis of St. Augustine’s Asymmetric Conception of Time Perception

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 4, MT20)

Dominic Alford-Duguid | Whence come properties before the mind?

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 4, TT21)

Alex Moran | Knowing the Qualitative (rescheduled)

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 5, HT19)

Anne Jacobson | ‘Reading and the Clark-Chalmers extended mind’

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 5, MT18)

Joulia Smortchkova | ‘Representational Kinds’

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 5, MT19)

Anil Gomes & Matthew Parrott | Oxford | On Being Internally the Same

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 5, TT19)

Ben Sorgiovanni | Oxford | ‘Past-Tense Self-Knowledge’

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 6, HT21)

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 6, HT22)

Federico Bongiorno | Delusions, Explanations, and the Predictive Mind

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 6, MT20)

Will Davies | Seen the Light?

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 6, TT21)

Maya Krishnan | A Kantian criticism of modal rationalism

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 7, HT19)

Mike Martin | Oxford | 'Embedded Information'

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 7, MT18)

Matthew Parrott | Birmingham | ‘Delusional Predictions and Explanations’

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 7, TT19)

Nicholas Shea | Oxford | 'The Role of Non-Conceptual Metacognition in Reasoning'

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 8, HT20)

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 8, MT19)

Nicholas Shea | Oxford | Drawing on the Meaning of a Concept

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Friday - Week 8, MT21)

Alex Moran | CANCELLED

Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Thursday - Week 2, TT20)

Alex Moran | Oxford | 'Causative Disjunctivism'

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Thursday - Week 4, TT20)

Laurenz Casser | Texas | 'Pain is modular'

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Thursday - Week 8, TT20)

Dominic Alford-Duguid | Oxford | 'Whence come properties before the mind?' - POSTPONED until further notice

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Week 1, MT18)

Jake Quilty-Dunn, ‘Is iconic memory iconic?’

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Work-in-Progress Group (Week 3, MT18)

Sam Clarke | 'Perception is Analogue: the common format hypothesis revisited'

Workshops

Brain and Mind Seminar

Brain and Mind Workshop

Mark Walton | Oxford | 'Risk Taking and The Brain'

Jacqueline du Pre Building, St Hilda's College

Pages

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind Seminar

Publications

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Kant and the Philosophy of Mind: Perception, Reason, and the Self

Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson