Upcoming Events
Past Events
2018
May 23rd: Reading group with Sally Haslanger (MIT) on her paper "Culture and Critique" (2017)
May 15th: MAP U3A Talk: Simon Hewitt, 'Marx'
May 15th: MAP Social & AGM
Apr 16th: MAP U3A Talk: Joe Saunders, 'Kant on Agency'
Mar 22nd: MAP in Schools: Adina Covaci, 'Aristotle's Virtue Ethics', Allerton High School
Mar 19th: MAP in Schools: Christina Nick, 'Physicalism', Allerton High School
Jan 15th: MAP U3A Talk: Natasha McKeever, 'What, if any, are the reasons for love?'
2017
Dec 14th: MAP in Schools: Marc Cole & John Parry, 'Epistemology: Descartes', Allerton High School
Dec 11th: Working lunch with Carrie Jenkins (UBC), discussing 2 chapters from her book, What Love Is And What It Could Be
Dec 7-8th: Philosophy for Children (P4C) training
Nov 27th: MAP in Schools: Adina Covaci & Alison Toop, 'Moral Philosophy', Allerton High School
Nov 24th: MAP in collaboration with Lea-Cecile Salje (Leeds), UG event 'Celebrating Diversity in Philosophy'
Nov 23rd: MAP in Schools: Christina Nick, 'Why Do Philosophy', Allerton High School
Nov 20th: Reading group to discuss Nora Berenstain's (2016) 'Epistemic Exploitation' paper
Oct 30th: MAP welcome event: debate&talk screening on our new theme, 'MAPping Controversies in Academia'
Oct 16th: MAP U3A Talk: Tadhg Ó Laoghaire, 'Global Poverty & Just War'
July 17th: MAP U3A Talk: John Parry, 'Personal Identity & The Weirdness of Branching People'
June 19th: MAP U3A Talk: George Stamets, 'Free Will'
May 15th: MAP U3A Talk: Marc Wilcox, 'Animal Rights'
May 9th: CONFERENCE: Philosophical Perspectives on Disability: A Postgraduate Conference
March 23rd: MAP in Schools: Gary Mullen & John Parry, 'Religious Language', Allerton High School
March 21st: Working lunch with Kengo Miyazono (Hiroshima University) on his paper 'Implicit Biases and Pushmi-Pullyu Representations'
March 20th: MAP U3A Talk: Alison Toop, 'Trolley Problems' (assisted by John Parry)
March 17th: Reading Group to discuss Judith Butler's (1988) 'Performative Acts & Gender Constitution'
March 10th: Reading group with Anne Eaton (UIC) on her 2016 paper 'Taste in Bodies and Fat Oppression' in Irvin, S. (ed.), Body Aesthetics (OUP)
March 9th: MAP in Schools: Emily Paul & Marc Cole, 'The Existence of God & Problem of Evil', Allerton High School
February 23rd: MAP in Schools: Adina Covaci & Alice Murphy, 'Nature of Knowledge', Allerton High School
February 20th: MAP U3A Talk: Christina Nick, 'Defusing the Ticking Bomb?' (assisted by John Parry)
February 15th: Reading group with undergraduate students, Sally Haslanger (2000), "Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be? ", Noûs 34: 31-55
January 10th: MAP in Schools: Christina Nick, 'Why Do Philosophy?', Allerton High School
2016
December 5th: Reading Group: David Shoemaker (2009) “Responsibility and Disability”
November 1st: Reading Group: E. F. Kittay (2005) "At the Margins of Moral Personhood"
September 28th: MAP Film Screening, “Land of Silence and Darkness”
May 18th: Meeting with Rae Langton (Cambridge), chapters 14 ('Sexual Solipsism') and 15 ('Love and Solipsism') from her 2009 book, Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification
April 25th: Reading Group: Jeff McMahan (2005) “Causing Disabled People to Exist and Causing People to Be Disabled”
March 9th: Meeting with Paul Taylor (Penn State), chapters 1 & 3 from his 2016 book, Black is Beautiful
February 15th: Reading Group: Elizabeth Barnes (2009) “Disability, Minority, and Difference”
2015
November 24th: Social and AGM
November 15th: Reading Group: final chapter of Charles Mills’ The Racial Contract
October 15th-16th: CONFERENCE: Implicit Bias 2015
October 14th: Implicit Bias Training (Run by MAP@Leeds officers for UGs and PGs on the eve of their first conference)
May 18th: Meeting with Charles Mills, to discuss his book The Racial Contract
April 27th: WORKSHOP: Helen Morley (Leeds) talk on ‘Positive Implicit Bias’
March 16th: Reading Group: Jennifer McKitrick 'A Dispositional Account of Gender'
March 2nd: Reading Group: Charles Mills’ The Racial Contract (Introduced by Sam Liao)
February 16th: WORKSHOP: Nicole Hall (Edinburgh) talk on ‘Sexiness and Implicit Bias’ and Heather Logue (Leeds) talk ‘The Metaphysics of Gender’
February 2nd: Reading Group: Kristie Dotson’s ‘How is this Paper Philosophy?
January 19th: Start of Year Social: the Chemic Tavern, with a spoken word performance from John Baldari
2014
November 28th: Application to become a MAP chapter accepted
November 19th: Training: Postgraduate Implicit Bias Training from Ian Kidd; MAP AGM
November 4th: Initial meeting: discussed MAP chapter application, and read Jennifer Saul’s ‘Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Women in Philosophy’
May 23rd: Reading group with Sally Haslanger (MIT) on her paper "Culture and Critique" (2017)
May 15th: MAP U3A Talk: Simon Hewitt, 'Marx'
May 15th: MAP Social & AGM
Apr 16th: MAP U3A Talk: Joe Saunders, 'Kant on Agency'
Mar 22nd: MAP in Schools: Adina Covaci, 'Aristotle's Virtue Ethics', Allerton High School
Mar 19th: MAP in Schools: Christina Nick, 'Physicalism', Allerton High School
Jan 15th: MAP U3A Talk: Natasha McKeever, 'What, if any, are the reasons for love?'
2017
Dec 14th: MAP in Schools: Marc Cole & John Parry, 'Epistemology: Descartes', Allerton High School
Dec 11th: Working lunch with Carrie Jenkins (UBC), discussing 2 chapters from her book, What Love Is And What It Could Be
Dec 7-8th: Philosophy for Children (P4C) training
Nov 27th: MAP in Schools: Adina Covaci & Alison Toop, 'Moral Philosophy', Allerton High School
Nov 24th: MAP in collaboration with Lea-Cecile Salje (Leeds), UG event 'Celebrating Diversity in Philosophy'
Nov 23rd: MAP in Schools: Christina Nick, 'Why Do Philosophy', Allerton High School
Nov 20th: Reading group to discuss Nora Berenstain's (2016) 'Epistemic Exploitation' paper
Oct 30th: MAP welcome event: debate&talk screening on our new theme, 'MAPping Controversies in Academia'
Oct 16th: MAP U3A Talk: Tadhg Ó Laoghaire, 'Global Poverty & Just War'
July 17th: MAP U3A Talk: John Parry, 'Personal Identity & The Weirdness of Branching People'
June 19th: MAP U3A Talk: George Stamets, 'Free Will'
May 15th: MAP U3A Talk: Marc Wilcox, 'Animal Rights'
May 9th: CONFERENCE: Philosophical Perspectives on Disability: A Postgraduate Conference
March 23rd: MAP in Schools: Gary Mullen & John Parry, 'Religious Language', Allerton High School
March 21st: Working lunch with Kengo Miyazono (Hiroshima University) on his paper 'Implicit Biases and Pushmi-Pullyu Representations'
March 20th: MAP U3A Talk: Alison Toop, 'Trolley Problems' (assisted by John Parry)
March 17th: Reading Group to discuss Judith Butler's (1988) 'Performative Acts & Gender Constitution'
March 10th: Reading group with Anne Eaton (UIC) on her 2016 paper 'Taste in Bodies and Fat Oppression' in Irvin, S. (ed.), Body Aesthetics (OUP)
March 9th: MAP in Schools: Emily Paul & Marc Cole, 'The Existence of God & Problem of Evil', Allerton High School
February 23rd: MAP in Schools: Adina Covaci & Alice Murphy, 'Nature of Knowledge', Allerton High School
February 20th: MAP U3A Talk: Christina Nick, 'Defusing the Ticking Bomb?' (assisted by John Parry)
February 15th: Reading group with undergraduate students, Sally Haslanger (2000), "Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be? ", Noûs 34: 31-55
January 10th: MAP in Schools: Christina Nick, 'Why Do Philosophy?', Allerton High School
2016
December 5th: Reading Group: David Shoemaker (2009) “Responsibility and Disability”
November 1st: Reading Group: E. F. Kittay (2005) "At the Margins of Moral Personhood"
September 28th: MAP Film Screening, “Land of Silence and Darkness”
May 18th: Meeting with Rae Langton (Cambridge), chapters 14 ('Sexual Solipsism') and 15 ('Love and Solipsism') from her 2009 book, Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification
April 25th: Reading Group: Jeff McMahan (2005) “Causing Disabled People to Exist and Causing People to Be Disabled”
March 9th: Meeting with Paul Taylor (Penn State), chapters 1 & 3 from his 2016 book, Black is Beautiful
February 15th: Reading Group: Elizabeth Barnes (2009) “Disability, Minority, and Difference”
2015
November 24th: Social and AGM
November 15th: Reading Group: final chapter of Charles Mills’ The Racial Contract
October 15th-16th: CONFERENCE: Implicit Bias 2015
October 14th: Implicit Bias Training (Run by MAP@Leeds officers for UGs and PGs on the eve of their first conference)
May 18th: Meeting with Charles Mills, to discuss his book The Racial Contract
April 27th: WORKSHOP: Helen Morley (Leeds) talk on ‘Positive Implicit Bias’
March 16th: Reading Group: Jennifer McKitrick 'A Dispositional Account of Gender'
March 2nd: Reading Group: Charles Mills’ The Racial Contract (Introduced by Sam Liao)
February 16th: WORKSHOP: Nicole Hall (Edinburgh) talk on ‘Sexiness and Implicit Bias’ and Heather Logue (Leeds) talk ‘The Metaphysics of Gender’
February 2nd: Reading Group: Kristie Dotson’s ‘How is this Paper Philosophy?
January 19th: Start of Year Social: the Chemic Tavern, with a spoken word performance from John Baldari
2014
November 28th: Application to become a MAP chapter accepted
November 19th: Training: Postgraduate Implicit Bias Training from Ian Kidd; MAP AGM
November 4th: Initial meeting: discussed MAP chapter application, and read Jennifer Saul’s ‘Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Women in Philosophy’