Postgraduate "Work In Progress" Seminar
Postgraduate Work-In-Progress SeminarA weekly seminar for Philosophy postgraduates to present their in-progress work, followed by a well-spirited trip to the pub. OverviewThe WIP provides a risk-free and supportive space for postgraduates to present their work and receive feedback from other graduates and faculty.
Attendance optional but highly recommended. All postgraduates are welcome to present or attend -- whether MA, MPhil, PhD, Visitors, etc. Useful InfoThe WIP is a unique opportunity for graduates to develop their presenting and writing skills, take risks, test out ideas, and receive constructive feedback from peers.
Presentations need not be watertight or polished pieces at all. You are encouraged to present work at all stages of the writing process. Should you present?Are you a postgraduate? Then yes, you should present. |
NEXT TALKRozemin Keshvani (PhD) Kant Thursday 25/06/2026 5pm - 6:15pm S1.50 ORGANISERS |
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WMA mini-workshop on memory
James Openshaw
Remembering objects
Experiential remembering—the sort characterised by sensory and affective mental imagery through which it seems that things were once a certain way in one's past—is often thought to consist in the 鈥榚pisodic鈥� recall of events. One might wonder whether this assimilation of experiential recall to event recall overlooks distinctive ways in which we sometimes recall ordinary, persisting objects. We often do recall objects by recalling an event in which we encountered them. But are there acts of recall which are distinctively objectual in that they are not about objects in this mediated way (i.e., by way of being about events in which they featured)? In this talk, I鈥檒l argue that we sometimes do experientially recall objects without thereby experientially recalling events in which we encountered them. And I鈥檒l explore some of the implications this has for understanding, e.g., the role of imagery and the distinction between remembering and imagining.
Tom Crowther
First-person Memory and the First-person Perspective
In this talk I'll raise some questions about things that J. David Velleman says in some of his work about first-person memory, the first-person perspective, and the notion of endurance through time. I will try to motivate an alternative way of explaining the phenomena that are Velleman's targets. If time allows, I will also try to draw out some of the consequences of this alternative explanation for debates about the nature of endurance as a distinctive mode of persistence through time.