Philosophy and Art

Dr Julia Weckend

Speaker

Julia has taught philosophy at the Universities of Reading and Southampton before joining Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education. She regularly teaches weekly classes as well as courses for Oxford University Summer School for Adults and Oxford Experience. Her academic research focuses on issues in metaphysics and epistemology. She has published papers and edited two volumes in the history of philosophy, and she is a co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Leibniz’s Philosophy (2023).

Dr Mette Leonard Høeg

Speaker

Mette Leonard Høeg is a Carlsberg Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in English from King's College London, is author of Uncertainty and Undecidability in Twentieth-Century Literature and Literary Theory (Routledge, 2022) and editor of and contributor to Literary Theories of Uncertainty (Bloomsbury, 2021). Her current research is in consciousness studies and ethics with a focus on ego-dissolution, anti-essentialist notions of self and anti-anthropocentrism in literature and fictional narrative. She also works as a literature and film critic and is the literary editor of the Danish news media Frihedsbrevet.

Dr Dan O'Brien

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Dan O’Brien is a Reader and Subject Co-ordinator for Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University. He is the book reviews editor for Hume Studies, epistemology editor for The Philosophers Magazine and founder and convenor of the Oxford Hume Forum. He is the author of Hume on Testimony (Routledge, 2022), An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (Polity, 2nd edition, 2016); editor of Hume on the Self and Personal Identity (Palgrave, 2022) and Gardening: Philosophy for Everyone (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010); co-author of Hume’s Critique of Religion: Sick Men’s Dreams (Springer, 2013) and Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Reader’s Guide (Continuum, 2006); and co-editor of Teleology and Modernity (Routledge, 2019) and The Bloomsbury Companion to Hume (2015).

Dr Warren Buckland

Speaker

Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University. His research interests include film theory, narratology and contemporary American cinema. He is author/editor several books, including Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling (2020); Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions (2012); Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies (ed., 2009); Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema (ed., 2009); and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film (2000).