The Absent Cause: Postcolonial Thought and the Atlantic Archive

13th March 2025, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
  • Speaker: Professor Simon Gikandi, Princeton University
  • Location: Old Library, All Souls College
  • Part of the Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminars

Dr Grace Turner

Chief Archaeologist and Research Officer, The Antiquities, Monuments & Museum Corporation, Nassau, The Bahamas
BA Elmira College, MA Rutgers, MA The Ohio State University, MA Texas A&M, PhD William & Mary
CaribOx Visiting Fellow, Trinity Term 2025

The John Locke Lectures 2025: From a Point of View

How should we build the point of view that we take on the world—the point of view that includes our beliefs, our values, and perhaps also our attitudes to risk? And, once it is built, how should it evolve, how should we act in the light of it, and what normative weight do our actions have when they are based on a point of view built in a particular way? Those are the questions that motivate these lectures, but before we can answer them, we must ask what populates the foundations of epistemic, practical, and moral normativity.

Events in this series

The John Locke Lectures 2025, Lecture 6: On the units of moral concern: persons, selves, and ethics

4th June 2025, 5:00 pm

Location: Philosophy Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Speaker: Professor Richard Pettigrew, University of Bristol

The John Locke Lectures 2025, Lecture 5: Forming preferences and changing the moral facts: consent, coercion, and shaping values

28th May 2025, 5:00 pm

Location: Philosophy Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Speaker: Professor Richard Pettigrew, University of Bristol

The John Locke Lectures 2025, Lecture 4: On Choosing how to Choose: the search for self-recommending theories of decision

21st May 2025, 5:00 pm

Location: Philosophy Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Speaker: Professor Richard Pettigrew, University of Bristol

The John Locke Lectures 2025, Lecture 3: Changing our point of view: evidence, inquiry, and doxastic crises

14th May 2025, 5:00 pm

Location: Philosophy Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Speaker: Professor Richard Pettigrew, University of Bristol

The John Locke Lectures 2025, Lecture 2: On Uncertainty: priors, credal hinges, and epistemic risk

7th May 2025, 5:00 pm

Location: The HB Allen Centre, Keble College

Speaker: Professor Richard Pettigrew, University of Bristol

The John Locke Lectures 2025, Lecture 1: Nothing but the truth: accuracy, epistemic value, and epistemic rationality

30th April 2025, 5:00 pm

Location: The HB Allen Centre, Keble College

This lecture is followed by a drinks reception

Speaker: Professor Richard Pettigrew, University of Bristol

Open Evening for students who are women, non-binary and/or trans

5th March 2025, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: The Hall, All Souls

Every autumn, All Souls holds an exam, from which it seeks to elect successful candidates as new Fellows. This Open Evening is an opportunity for students who are women, non-binary, and/or trans to learn more about the examination process and the experience of being a Fellow.

 

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