Reading groups

Reading groups are regularly formed in response to the specific research interests and needs of both staff and postgraduate students.
Please, do not hesitate to contact the lead for further information.

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Reading group organizers are asked to book accessible rooms for their meetings. In the department, these are seminar rooms B23 and B09

If you are holding your reading group outside the department, we would ask you to consider accessibility needs when choosing a location. 

If you want to join a reading group and have concerns or questions about accessibility, please contact the below mentioned reading-group organizer.

Current Reading Groups

Meetings

Contact

Ethics Friday, 10-11:30 pm, B23

Charlie Potter - CRPotter1@sheffield.ac.uk

Metaphysics Friday, 1-2 pm, B23 Bo Meinertsen - b.meinertsen@sheffield.ac.uk
Feminist Philosophy Monday, 1-2pm, B23

Rae Fielding - rfielding1@sheffield.ac.uk 

Plato Monday, 3-4:30 pm, B09 James Welch - jlwelch1@sheffield.ac.u
Wittgenstein Tuesday, 2-3:30 pm, B09 Ethan Clack - EMClack1@sheffield.ac.uk 

Details of more groups will be added here when they are announced.

Reading groups are regularly formed in response to the specific research interests and needs of both staff and postgraduate students.

Past groups

2018-19

Autumn 2018 Reading Groups

Meetings

Contact

Metaphysics Monday 4pm Will Morgan
Feminism Monday 11am Jenny Saul
Phenomenology Thursday 4pm Tim Moxham
Philosophy of Language TBA Patrick Connolly
Consciousness TBA Damiano La Manna
Critical Philosophy of Race Tuesday 3pm Nadia Mehdi
Philosophy of Cognitive Science Thursday 1pm Yifan Mei
German Idealism Thursday 1pm Anthony Eagan
Kukla and Lance Yo! and Lo! TBA Kayleigh Doherty
Applied Epistemology Monday 4pm, fortnightly from 12 November

Spring 2019 Reading Groups

Meetings

Contact

脕sta鈥檚 鈥楥ategories We Live By' TBA Matthew Cull
Applied Epistemology Monday 4pm, fortnightly from 21 January Jack Herbert
Pylyshyn TBA Andrea Blomqvist
German Idealism Monday 12pm James Lewis
Feminism Tuesday 11am Jenny Saul
Philosophy of Psychiatry Tuesday 5pm Viktoriia Kononova
Race Thursday 12pm Kayleigh Doherty
Existentialism Monday 4pm Barney Riggs
Philosophy of Action Thursday 1pm Will Hornett
2019-20

Autumn 2019 Reading Groups

Meetings

Contact

Moral Philosophy/Intersubjectivity TBA Kayleigh Doherty
Continental Philosophy Thurs 4pm Barney Riggs
Feminism TBA Matthew Cull
Philosophy of Language TBA Patrick Connolly
Philosophy of Action Weds 12pm Will Hornett
Metaphysics TBA Will Morgan
Moral Philosophy Thurs 1pm Kayleigh Doherty
Philosophy of Race Weds 10am Kayleigh Doherty
2020-21

Autumn 2020 Reading Groups

Meetings

Contact

Critical Philosophy of Race Monday 1pm Henry Roe 
Feminism Thursday 2pm Anna Klieber & Thyra Juana Lea Elsasser
Continental Philosophy Tuesday 4pm Barney Riggs 
Social Epistemology Thursday 2pm  Kayleigh Doherty
Ethics Friday 12pm  Kayleigh Doherty
Metaphysics Friday 5pm Will Morgan
Climate Change Ethics TBA Carien Smith

Spring 2021 Reading Groups

Meetings

Contact

Critical Philosophy of Race Monday 1pm Henry Roe 
Feminism Philosophy Thursday 2pm Anna Klieber
Vice and Virtue Epistemology Tuesday 4pm Barney Riggs 
Metaphysics Friday 11am Henry Roe
Climate Change Ethics Thursday 11am Carien Smith
2021-22

Autumn 2021-Spring 2022 Reading Groups

Meetings

Contact

Feminist Philosophy 

Tuesday, 12pm,
Room: B23

Imogen P Fell and George A Surtees
Critical Philosophy of Race Tuesday, 5pm Tareeq O Jalloh
Ethics Wednesday, 4pm,
Room: B09
James Brown
Metaphysics Thursday, 2pm,
Room: B09
Radivoj Stupar
Vice and Virtue Epistemology Friday, 11pm

Henry Roe 

Aristotle Online Please contact Leonard J Weiss to request details and link to join
 
2022-23
Autumn 2022 Reading Groups Meetings Contact

Expressivism Reading Group.

Meetings to address questions like:
What is it to 'express' an attitude?
What is the relationship between expression and meaning?
What are the differences between different versions of 'expressivism' (especially differences between expressivist views in metaethics and recent versions of expressivism in philosophy of language and linguistics)?
What is the role that attitude expression plays in testimony?

First Meeting, Friday 13th October, 12 pm, B23 Henry Schiller

History of Modern Philosophy

Please, find reading list 

Meetings to discuss chapters or extracts of works from the history of modern philosophy from Descartes onwards. Material is to be read beforehand, and suggestions for readings from attendees are welcome. 

Fortnightly, Wednesday, 1-2 pm, B09 Josh Hibbert and David Bevan

Environmental Justice Reading Group

This group will meet weekly during the autumn semester of 2022. Please see  for the list of texts that we will be reading each week.

Thursdays 4-5pm Megan Blomfield

Implicit Bias Reading Group

An informal fortnight meeting to discuss some of the recent literature on what implicit bias is, interventions, etc.

Fortnightly - B09 Ben Jenkins

Moral psychology. Shaun Nichols Rational Rules (OUP, 2021)

How are moral rules acquired? Shaun Nichols (2021) puts forward a neo-empiricist account according to which moral learning can be explained in terms of domain-general statistical learning. The book is essential read for anybody interested in cognitive science, ethics, and experimental philosophy. 

Wednesday, 2-3 pm, B09 Luca Barlassina
Autumn 2020 Reading Groups Meetings Contact

Expressivism Reading Group.

Meetings to address questions like:
What is it to 'express' an attitude?
What is the relationship between expression and meaning?
What are the differences between different versions of 'expressivism' (especially differences between expressivist views in metaethics and recent versions of expressivism in philosophy of language and linguistics)?
What is the role that attitude expression plays in testimony?

First Meeting, Friday 13th October, 12 pm, B23 Henry Schiller

History of Modern Philosophy

Please, find reading list 

Meetings to discuss chapters or extracts of works from the history of modern philosophy from Descartes onwards. Material is to be read beforehand, and suggestions for readings from attendees are welcome. 

Fortnightly, Wednesday, 1-2 pm, B09 Josh Hibbert and David Bevan

Environmental Justice Reading Group

This group will meet weekly during the autumn semester of 2022. Please see  for the list of texts that we will be reading each week.

Thursdays 4-5pm Megan Blomfield

Implicit Bias Reading Group

An informal fortnight meeting to discuss some of the recent literature on what implicit bias is, interventions, etc.

Fortnightly - B09 Ben Jenkins

Moral psychology. Shaun Nichols Rational Rules (OUP, 2021)

How are moral rules acquired? Shaun Nichols (2021) puts forward a neo-empiricist account according to which moral learning can be explained in terms of domain-general statistical learning. The book is essential read for anybody interested in cognitive science, ethics, and experimental philosophy. 

Wednesday, 2-3 pm, B09 Luca Barlassina
     

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