VLC Philosophy Lab
Current and past reading groups organised by academic year.
Current academic year
2025–2026
Introspection, Rationality and Self-Knowledge
A Postcognitivist Approach to Mind and Art
The Epistemology of Responsibility in Agency-Stultifying Situations
Rationality & Intersubjectivity
Representation, Function & Cognition
Political Epistemology and Political Philosophy of Language
Jared Warren’s Shadows of Syntax
Rethinking Metaphysics
Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry
Evidence in science
Previous years
Past Reading Groups
2024–2025
The Epistemology of Agency-Stultifying Situations
Truth and Nihilism
Philosophy of Film
Evidence and Mechanisms in Science
Mental Representation
Metaphysics of Modality
Political Epistemology and Political Philosophy of Language
Rationality and Intersubjectivity
Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry
Work-in-progress reading group
2023–2024
Expressivism, Fictionalism, and Eliminativism
Metaphysics of Modality
Rationality and Intersubjectivity
The Epistemology of Agency-Stultifying Situations
2022–2023
Philosophy of Action and Moral Psychology
Fiction and Fictionalism
Lying and Deception
2021–2022
Philosophy of Fiction
Modal Epistemology
VLC Philosophy Lab Reading Group (2021–22)
Aristotelian Mereology
The Philosophy of Film (2021–22)
Putnam on Realism, Mind and World
Scientific Models
2020–2021
VLC Philosophy Lab – Reading group
Contemporary Issues in Ontology
Ethics and the Complexities of Experience
Philosophy of Medicine
The Philosophy of Film
2019–2020
Ethics and the Complexities of Experience
Intellectual Vices
Indexicals and De Se Thoughts
Ethics without Ontology
The Philosophy of Film
2018–2019
Action and knowledge
Ethics and the complexities of experience
Lying and deception
Philosophy of film
Philosophy of Science
Semantics in Generative Grammar
Wittgenstein and the Philosophische Untersuchungen
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Part II, Section XI
Writing the Book of the World
2017–2018
Action and moral psychology
Ethics and the Complexities of Experience
Fiction theory
Metaphysical grounding
Norms, meaning and the a priori
Philosophy of film
Philosophy of Science