Past Events

Thursday, 4/23: 5pm - 7pm

Lecture I: “Wonder and Awe as Pillars of Political Life” 

Friday, 4/24: 5pm - 7pm

Lecture II: “Poetry, Prophecy, and Political  Philosophy”

Abstract: Myles Burnyeat famously claimed that idealism is “one of the very few major philosophical positions which did not receive its first formulation in antiquity” and so Bishop Berkeley was wrong to find his own views in Plato and Aristotle. But this...

Abstract: The “Principal Principle” is David Lewis’s attempt to characterize the epistemic role of objective chance.  Despite being my very favorite topic in philosophy, the principle is no longer frequently discussed.  One problem is that key terms in...

Thursday, March 5: 10am - 4:30pm

Friday, March 6 & Saturday, March 7: 9am - 4:45pm

Speakers: 

Miren Boehm (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Deborah Boyle (College of Charleston)
Louise Daoust (Eckerd College)
Claire Etchegaray (University Paris Nanterre)
Manu...

Speakers: Julia Borcherding (Cambridge University), Therese Cory (University of Notre Dame), Sam Newlands (University of Notre Dame), Dominik Perler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oxford University), Stephan Schmid...

Abstract: In this paper, I describe what I call ‘moral-epistemic dilemmas’. The central features of such cases are: (i) an agent is obligated to take a view (i.e. they cannot simply refrain from drawing a conclusion); (ii) the view the agent takes is...

Abstract: The concept of gender dysphoria, typically understood as an experienced mismatch between one’s ‘inner’ gender identity and one’s body, has been central to defining and ‘diagnosing’ transness. As a result, trans lives are understood as...