Events from the 01 January 2025 - 31 December 2025 Reset
CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm online via Zoom (until further notice).
27 February 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Philosophy Department (PO004) and on Zoom
06 March 2025
13 March 2025
This workshop will explore the extent to which qualitative research methods can enhance philosophical works and vice versa, with a particular focus on applied normative philosophy. We aim to contribute to growing efforts to bridge the gap between abstract normative theorising and empirically-informed research that engages with real people in the real world.
27 March 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
the Institute of Advanced Studies - Cousin‘s hall The participation in the workshop is limited to due to restrictions of the space.
Joyce Havstad (Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah; Fellow at the University of Hannover) visits Durham and gives a lecture on Trustworthiness of Science: Social Credibility and a Call for Social Responsibility.
08 May 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Elvet Riverside ER278
Professor Nancy Cartwright (Durham University), Professor Eileen Munro (London School of Economics) and John Pemberton give a seminar based on their upcoming book.
22 May 2025
Professor Nancy Cartwright first presented her lecture “In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming” as an Inaugural Mary Hesse Lecture in Cambridge on 24 Oct 2024.
29 May 2025
This workshop is a follow-up to work done during 2021-23 on John Templeton Foundation grant, ‘The Successes and Failures of Science Through the Lens of Intellectual Humility: Perspectives from the History and Philosophy of Science’.
26 June 2025
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Department of Philosophy PO005