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Calendar of events in 2025

Here is a list of events in 2025, divided by academic talks, events for schools, and public engagement events.


Talks and lectures

30 January: Agency and Justice in Mental Health (with Rose McCabe) at the Agency, Mental Health and Responsibility Conference, Uppsala, Sweden.

6 February: Epistemic Justice, Agency, and Youth Mental Health (with Rose McCabe) at the PHaR Being and Feeling Understood conference, Aston University, UK.

4 March: Spiritual or pathological? Resilient beliefs, agency and identity (with Aneela Khan) at the Women in Philosophy seminar, University of Birmingham, UK.

10-12 March: Is it a mistake to attribute responsibility or blame to people seeking support during a mental health crisis? (with Rose McCabe) at the Big Mistake! Big! Huge! Graduate Conference, University of Milan, Italy.

19 May: Are beliefs in conspiracy theories pathological? Seminario de Diversidad Cognitiva, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico.

11-12 June: Expertise and epistemic injustice (with the Agency-in-Practice group) at the Who knows what in mental healthcare? conference, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

25-27 August: Between Ethics and Epistemology: Epistemic Innocence and Epistemic Injustice, 7th Urbino Summer School in Epistemology, University of Urbino Carlo Bo – Department of Pure and Applied Sciences. Urbino, Italy.


Poster of Summer School in Urbino


27-29 August: Who is responsible and for what? Keynote talk in Moral Philosophy, Minds and Worlds, 16th Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Turin, Italy.


School visits

7 February: Delusional Beliefs and Agency. Talk at the Philosophy and Psychology Conference, Lady Eleanor Holles School, Middlesex, UK.

28 February: Philosothon! King Edward VI High School for Girls, West Midlands, UK.

30 April: The Philosophy and Psychology of Conspiracy Theories. Masterclass, University of Birmingham.

8 May: Applied Ethics Conference, University of Birmingham, UK.


Poster of the Philosophy in the Classroom webinar


The #PhilosophyMatters Webinars

17 March: Philosophy and Conspiracy Theories with Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, Nele Van der Mossaeler, U-Wen Low, and Joe Pierre (link to youtube video of the webinar).

19 March: Philosophy Everywhere with Michael Rush, Helen Beebee, Paul Knights, and Bonny Astor (link to youtube video of the webinar).

25 March: Philosophy in the Classroom with Henry Taylor, Laura D'Olimpio, and Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (link to youtube video of the webinar).

26 March: Philosophy and Mental Health with the EPIC project partners (link to youtube video of the webinar).


The #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Webinar

15 May: Unusual experiences and beliefs with EPIC project partner Belvederi Murri and EPIC friend Fiona Malpass (link to youtube video of the webinar).


Winterbourne House and Garden


The Philosophy Garden workshop series at Winterbourne

11 February: Laura D'Olimpio on "Can nature be art?"

11 March: Chiara Brozzo on "Are perfumes art?"

8 April: Merten Reglitz on "Is internet access a human right?"

13 May: Kathleen Murphy-Hollies on "Is it unfair to dismiss someone's perspective?"

10 June: Jeremy Williams on "How should we handle disagreement in politics?"


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