Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

26/10/2026: David Liggins on The Richness and Strangeness of Higher-Order Metaphysics

About David Liggins is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester. Ontology is at the centre of his research interests. In 2024 he published a monogra

12/10/2026: Fatema Amijee on When Can Inquiry Come to an End?

About Fatema Amijee is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Much of her research concerns, in one form or another, the principle of s

28/09/2026: Alexander Bird on Inaugural Address: Against Empiricism

About Alexander Bird is the Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He teaches and researches in philosophy

19/01/2026: Lewis Ross, Are Philosophers Absurd? Progress, Testimony & Dividing Labour

About Lewis Ross is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He is also the Director of LS

16/02/2026: Colin Chamberlain: After the Fall: Malebranche on the Law of the Body

About Colin Chamberlain is Associate Professor of philosophy at University College London. He was previously an Associate Professor at Temple University. He is currently

13/10/2025: Sophie Horowitz on Plans, Learning, and Deferring

ABSTRACT It is currently fashionable to talk about “synchronic conditionalization” – and more generally, synchronic or time-slice versions of norms that are normally un

27/10/2025: Joe Saunders on What's Wrong with the Master: A Critical Analysis of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic

ABSTRACT In his influential master-slave dialectic, Hegel looks to demonstrate that being a master is self-defeating. The master seeks absolute independence and genuine

29/09/2025: Lucy O'Brien: Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds

ABSTRACT What enables me to know that others exist? Natalie Duddington (PAS 1918-1919) offers two distinctive, and underexplored, insights into the question. She focusse

10/03/2025: Pauline Kleingeld on Kant and the Methods of Moral Philosophy

ABOUT Pauline Kleingeld is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Earlier she taught at Leiden University and at Washington University in St. Louis. Sh

28/04/2025: Léa Salje on "Artspeak"

ABOUT Léa Salje is an associate professor at the University of Leeds. She joined Leeds in 2015 on a postdoc, and has been there ever since. Before that she did a PhD at

13/05/2024: Eric Schliesser on Synthetic Philosophy: a restatement

ABOUT Eric Schliesser is professor of Political Science, with a focus on Political Theory, at the University of Amsterdam. He was previously affiliated with Syracuse Un

11/11/2024: Christopher Cowie on Optimism In the Search for Extraterrestrial Life: A Philosophical Perspective

ABOUT Christopher Cowie is Associate Professor at the University of Durham. He was previously Junior Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and has held visi

30/09/2024: Fabienne Peters on Inaugural Address: Relational Moral Demands

ABSTRACT To act rightly is to act in accordance with moral demands. But what grounds moral demands? Much contemporary moral philosophy tends to take a non-relational app

10/02/2025: Nadine Elzein on Abilities, Goals, & Justifications

ABSTRACT Many of our practices presuppose moral responsibility. Arguably, agents can only be morally responsible if they are able to act otherwise than they do. Compatib

13/01/2024: Monima Chadha on "Can We Construct Persons?"

ABSTRACT Christine Korsgaard famously argued that even if we accept the metaphysical theory that there are no selves or persons, the practical standpoint requires us to

Peter Momtchiloff on Thirty Years at OUP

In this podcast, Aristotelian Society officers Dr Jess Leech and Dr Ellie Robson talk to Peter Momtchiloff - commissioning editor for philosophy at Oxford University Pres

20/06/22: Samuel Scheffler on Partiality, Deference, and Engagement

The partiality we display, insofar as we form and sustain personal attachments, is not normatively fundamental. It is a byproduct of the deference and responsiveness that

6/05/22: Michael Della Rocca on Moral Criticism and the Metaphysics of Bluff

At a climactic—and, indeed, incendiary—moment in Bernard Williams’ classic essay, “Internal and External Reasons,” Williams says that those who advance moral criticisms b

30/05/22: Miriam Schoenfield on Deferring to Doubt

When we doubt a belief, we examine how things look from a perspective in which that belief is set aside. Sometimes we care about what that perspective recommends and, as

23/05/22: Alexander Mourelatos on 'Parmenides of Elea and Xenophanes of Colophon: the Conceptually Deeper Connections'

In the interpretation of Parmenides of Elea, there is a certain vulgate, one widely represented in general histories of philosophy and indeed assumed by philosophers broa