Between August 2011 and February 2012 Professor Chappell will be on AHRC-funded research leave for his project Making Good Decisions (£40,883), though this should not affect his research-related engagements.
11 October 2012
University of Durham Senior Seminar
5-7 October 2012
Keynote address, Biennial conference of the Catholic Institute of Sydney: “The effable and the ineffable”
28 July - 3 August 2012
OU Summer School, Bath
11-14 July 2012
Plenary paper at Minds and Brains conference, Oxford: “The physical world and the real world”
20-21 June 2012
Plenary paper at Contemporary Aristotelian Studies conference, London Metropolitan University, London: “Delivering the goods”
14 April 2012
OU Ethics Centre Day Conference on Happiness
17 March 2012
Oxford OU Day School: Arguments and God's existence
29 February 2012
Gerrard's Cross Philosophy Group: Aristotle's Ethics
22 February 2012
Exeter Theology and Religious Studies Dept. Seminar: “Contemplation in Plato and Murdoch”
31 January 2012
Resonance FM, Radio interview on “Socrates”
December 14 2011
Heythrop College, London, Philosophy of Religion seminar
December 2 2011
Royal Institute of Philosophy, "Glory in sport"
December 1 2011
Barnes Philosophy Group, "Free will as an acquired skill"
November 17 2011
Stirling senior philosophy seminar, "Varieties of knowledge"
November 14 2011
Oxford Moral Philosophy seminar, "Varieties of knowledge in ethics"
October 28 2011
Edinburgh Philosophy seminar, "Varieties of knowledge"
October 19-21 2011
Plenary speaker at VIth Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia y Religion, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
August 22-27 2011
University of Reykjavik, Philosophy Summer School
May 27-29 2011
“Philosophy under the olives”: keynote conference speaker, Cilento, Campania
May 7 2011
“Arguing with Plato”, Open University Regional Centre presentation to students, Edinburgh
April 19 2011
Senior Seminar, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
April 9-10 2011
Plenary speaker, moral theory workshop, University of Kent
February 23 2011
Chair, Digital Humanities Seminar, Walton Hall
February 20 2011
Sermon at College Eucharist, Magdalen College, Oxford (on “turning the other cheek”)
February 19 2011
Dessert talk, “Gentleness as a political virtue”, Magdalen College, Oxford
February 19 2011
Plenary speaker at Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford, Day Conference on Double Effect Reasoning
February 4-6 2011
Delegate at conference, “New perspectives on virtue”, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet, Munich
September 23-25 2010
Humboldt University Berlin Speaking at "Intuitions in Ethics" conference
July 3-4 2010
University of Edinburgh
Organising "Intuition, Theory and Anti-Theory in Ethics": International Conference
2 May 2010
All Souls' Church Invergowrie, Dundee
Chairman at election hustings for the Perth and North Perthshire constituency with all parliamentary candidates.
April 20 2010
University of Warwick
Panel discussion of Andrew Williams' play "A Dog With A Tail At Both Ends"
March 15 2010
University of Birmingham Royal Institute of Philosophy series "Glory"
February 23 2010
Diocese of Brechin clergy training day, Dundee "Thinking things through"
February 15-19 2010
University of Oslo graduate seminar group "Making Good Decisions: moral theory and other methods of ethics"
February 6 2010
Edinburgh Greek Reading Group "Reading Plato's Laws"
January 28 2010
Open University Business School Alumni Group, Geneva "Making Good Decisions"
January 26 2010
Glasgow University Senior Seminar "Aristotelian practical truth"
January 15 2010
Athenaeum Philosophical Theology group "Glory"
11-15 November 2009
VIIth International Plato Symposium, Prague: Plato's Sophist
Paper in gestation
September 16 2009
"Hearing God: Euthyphro's 'dilemma' and Socrates' daimonion"
August 19 2009
"Rational belief, reasonable belief, and evidentialism", paper at Reasonable Disagreement conference, Free University, Amsterdam August 20 "From evidentialism to virtue responsiblism", paper by Guy Axtell (delivered on his behalf) at Reasonable Disagreement conference, Free University, Amsterdam
June 2-6 2009
Epistemic virtue and value conference, Bled, Slovenia
Draft paper: “On not proportioning one's belief to the evidence” [Word file, 25 KB]
March 2 2009
B Club, Cambridge
Paper in gestation
September 22 2008
University of Abertay Public Issues Debates
“Against the motion: This house believes there should be no limits on freedom of speech” [Word file, 43 KB]
September 19 2008
Medical ethics talk, Northampton General Hospital Grand Round 2008
“Who counts as a person?” [Word file, 162 KB]
July 27 2008
Talk at All Souls' Episcopal Church, Invergowrie
“Predestination” [Word file, 43 KB]
July 17-18 2008
Death Conference, York University
“Immortality and identity: response to Mikel Burley” [Word file, 73 KB]
July 11-13 2008
Joint Session, Aberdeen University
“Why moral theory is boring and corrupt” [Word file, 171 KB]
November 30 2007
Health First, Annual World Aids Day conference, HMS Belfast (London Bridge): "HIV and Human Deficiencies". Follow this link to read "Looking straight through you: ethical reflections on AIDS and the invisibility of suffering" [Word file, 47 KB]