Research seminars, lectures, and reading groups

Organiser: PPLS School Operations 

The Edinburgh speaker series is a flagship series of research presentations, hosted by the Philosophy department. The seminars are a chance to connect with colleagues across all research areas and hear from some of the world's leading contemporary philosophers. 

Frequency: Once per semester, usually on Wednesday afternoons 2:00pm to 3:30pm 

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Presentations by Edinburgh Philosophy faculty. 

Format: In person 
Open to: Anyone 

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Organiser: Takeshi Morisato 
Frequency of meetings: Once or twice per semester.  
Open to: Anyone 
 

Connected to the Edinburgh University Press, “Thinking World Philosophies” book series. Almost all lectures (except copyrighted ones) are available on our department YouTube channel.

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Edinburgh philosophy events Facebook group

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Organiser: Stacie Friend 
Frequency of meetings: Three to five per term: Three hybrid (one per university), others online, plus a workshop in the summer. 
Format: Lecture series. Hybrid format 
Open to: Anyone 

Website for programme info/mailing list:

Scottish aesthetics forum

To join: Contact Stacie Friend at stacie.friend@ed.ac.uk

Organiser: Jen Marusic 
Frequency: Roughly a couple times a semester, usually on Friday afternoons 
Format: Mostly informal talks 
Open to: Anyone 

To join: Contact Jen Marusic at jennifer.marusic@ed.ac.uk

Organisers: Damian Caluori, Inna Kupreeva 
Frequency of meetings: Weekly 
Format: On Teams. We’re reading the texts in Greek, translate them and have a detailed group discussion of the prepared passages. Knowledge of Greek is helpful but not required. People who have no Greek will be able to follow the arguments and participate in discussion. 
Open to: Faculty, visiting scholars and PG students 

To join: Contact Damian Caluori at dcaluori@exseed.ed.ac.uk or Inna Kupreeva at inna.kupreeva@ed.ac.uk

Organiser: Charis M Wolf 

Specific to the philosophies that underpin East Asian Medicines (which is nearly all of them). 

Frequency: Biweekly. 
Format: Online, through google meet 

Texts will alternate from Chinese, Japanese, and possibly Korean sources, inclusive of the East Asian philosophies and scientific theories that have influenced the historical development of the medicine. 

To find out more / join: 

East Asian philosophies and medicine reading group  

Organiser: James Morrisey 

The Edinburgh minorities and philosophy (MAP) chapter organises the James McCune Smith reading group. The reading group aims to discover, explore and critically engage with writings by academics from underrepresented groups, or/and on topics that have been side-lined or neglected. 

Open to: Anyone 

To join: Email James Morrissey at james.Morrissey@ed.ac.uk

Organiser: Wataru Uegaki 
Frequency of meetings: Four to five times per semester 
Format: Lecture series hosting people from other universities who work on language from across philosophy, psychology, and linguistics 
Open to: Anyone

To join: Email Wataru Uegaki at w.uegaki@ed.ac.uk

Organiser: Tillman Vierkant 
Frequency of meetings: Fortnightly 
Format: In person visiting speaker seminar focused on topics at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science
Open to: Anyone 

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Organiser: Guy Fletcher 
Frequency of meetings: Approximately five times per semester
Format: Small group, in person, discussion of pre-read papers 
Open to: Faculty (inc. postdocs and visitors) and PhD students 

To join: Email Guy Fletcher at guy.fletcher@ed.ac.uk

Organiser: Fedor Benevich 
Frequency of meetings: Weekly during the semester 
Open to: Anyone 

Discussing primary texts from different philosophical traditions of the Islamic world. This interdisciplinary reading group brings together academic staff and students from Philosophy, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, and Divinity. We read and discuss works of falsafa and kalām from the classical and post-classical periods of Islamic philosophy, for instance, Avicenna, Averroes, al-Fārābī, al Ghazālī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, al-Suhrawardī etc. 

To join: Email Fedor Benevich at fedor.benevich@ed.ac.uk