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TBC FOR 2026/27 Postgraduate Work-In-Progress Seminar A weekly seminar for Philosophy postgraduates to present their in-progress work, followed by a well-spirited trip to the pub. Overview The WIP provides a risk-free and supportive space for postgraduates to present their work and receive feedback from other graduates and faculty. When: Every Thursday (5pm to 6:15pm) Where: TBC What: Presentation + Q&A Attendance optional but highly recommended. All postgraduates are welcome to present or attend -- whether MA, MPhil, PhD, Visitors, etc. Useful Info The WIP is a unique opportunity for graduates to develop their presenting and writing skills, take risks, test out ideas, and receive constructive feedback from peers. Presentation: 30 minutes Open Discussion / Q&A: 40 minutes Material: Work in progress (essay drafts, thesis sections, a substantial set of notes, ... ). Style: Flexible. Slides, handouts, or neither. Audience: No prior reading or background knowledge expected. All are encouraged to attend and present (including visiting postgraduates). Presentations need not be watertight or polished pieces at all. You are encouraged to present work at all stages of the writing process. "Should I present?" 1. If you are a postgraduate, then you should present. 2. You are a postgraduate. 3. Therefore, you should present. Term 1: TBC Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 NO WIP DUE TO READING WEEK Wk 7 Wk 8 Wk 9 Wk 10 Term 2 Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 NO WIP DUE TO READING WEEK Wk 7 Wk 8 Wk 9 Wk 10 Term 3 Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 NO WIP DUE TO READING WEEK Wk 7 Wk 8 Wk 9 Wk 10 Guidance for Presenters What can I present? Any kind of in-progress work (within reason). E.g. Drafts of assessed essays, thesis sections, writing samples, conference papers, project outline, ... Recommended Length Aim for 3,000 to 4,000 words. Anything closer to the 5,000-word mark will be hard to fit in the 30-minute presentation time. Presentation Structure Presenters have complete liberty with regards to how to structure their presentation: handout, slideshow, etc. Worth noting a common pitfall: spending too much time on background/exposition and not having enough time to present your main thesis and argument. A good rule of thumb: aim for 10 minutes of exposition, and 20 minutes for whatever parts you actually want feedback on. Submission Deadline Presenters should email title and abstract to the organisers by the Sunday before their presentation. E.g. If presenting Thursday Week 5, email us by the end of Sunday Week 4.		NEXT TALK TBC TBC ORGANISERS Tiago Rodrigues Lucas Menezes

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Knowledge and Understanding Seminar

4:15pm - 6:15pm, Thu, 04 Jun '20 Export as iCalendar

Location: By Zoom

Speaker: Richard Gipps (Oxford)

Title: 'On the Importance of Not Understanding the Patient'

础产蝉迟谤补肠迟鈥�: "One kind of everyday understanding that we seek has to do with making sense of what someone鈥檚 getting at or on about with her initially opaque words or actions. The retrieval of such meaning is a mainstay of everyday life and an ambition that psychology often brings with it to the clinical setting – even when the thought there under consideration is psychotic. It鈥檚 also presupposed by such efforts at understanding, causally, why the patient thinks as she does as invoke the notion of a mistake or illusion: we can鈥檛 understand why someone makes a particular mistake unless we already understand something of its content. (The understanding here is captured by suggestions like: 鈥榃ere I in her cognitive/perceptual/somatosensory/existential/environmental predicament, I鈥檇 come to that conclusion too鈥�).
In this paper I suggest that certain theories of thought disorder, passivity experience and delusion – theories which hope to understand the patient by retrieving his speaker鈥檚 meaning – radically fail. They do so because they trade on an alienated conception of ordinary mental life which is itself only sustained by illusions of sense; they attempt to reduce delusion to illusion; and they fail the patient by evading the fact of, rather than meeting him in the midst of, his brokenness.
Despite the impossibility of retrieving speaker鈥檚 meaning from truly psychotic discourse, this does not render unavailable other forms of understanding (symbolic/motivational, neurological, situational etc.) of the psychotic subject. Even so, if we鈥檙e to achieve, with the psychotic subject, that (moral) form of understanding which can be said to be shown someone, we must first learn to avoid the temptation of attributing speaker鈥檚 or agent鈥檚 meaning to his psychotic words and acts. To this end this paper outlines what I鈥檒l call an 鈥榓pophatic鈥� (as opposed to a 鈥榗ataphatic鈥�) psychopathology. This 鈥榓pophatic鈥� approach aims at understanding the patient not through positively understanding her words鈥� meaning but instead through understanding just why some of the things we鈥檙e most tempted to say of her fail her.&辩耻辞迟;鈥�

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TBC FOR 2026/27

Postgraduate Work-In-Progress Seminar

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Knowledge and Understanding Seminar