Department Events
Upcoming Events
Colloquium Lecture: Kathleen Creel (University of Michigan), "Against the Platonic Representation Hypothesis"
Colloquium Lecture: Alex Worsnip (University of North Carolina)
Colloquium Lecture: Vida Yao (UCLA)
History of Philosophy Workshop: Janum Sethi (University of Michigan)
Colloquium Lecture: Nick Riggle (University of San Diego)
History of Philosophy Workshop: Emily Kress (Brown University)
Colloquium Lecture: Barbara Herman (UCLA)
Whitehead Lectures: David Chalmers (New York University)
Past Events
History of Philosophy Workshop: Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham University), "Sentimental Education: Adam Smith and the Value of Literature"
Abstract: In the final (1790) edition of his Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith adds a striking reading recommendation to his discussion of how we learn the hard lessons of morality, claiming that literary authors—he mentions Racine and Voltaire...
Book Release: Céline Leboeuf, "The Tyranny of Thinness"
Céline Leboeuf (A.B. '07, Ph.D. '16) is an associate professor of philosophy and affiliate faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Florida International University. Her current research discusses the ways in which social identities such as...
CANCELED History of Philosophy Workshop: Sean Greenberg, "Prolegomena to a Future Systematic Interpretation of Malebranche"
We’re sorry to announce that this Friday’s History of Philosophy Workshop with Sean Greenberg has been canceled. We’ll share information about any future date when available.
Colloquium Lecture: Tom Parr (University of Warwick), "Markets, Firms, and the Gender Pay Gap"
Abstract: Assuming that the gender pay gap is unjust, what are the corresponding responsibilities of firms, in particular, to eliminate their own gender pay gap? In this presentation, I challenge the extremely popular, and seemingly modest, claim that...
History of Philosophy Workshop: Patrick Connolly (Johns Hopkins University), "Newton’s Matter Theory: Between Mechanism and Hylomorphism"
History of Philosophy Workshop: Noa Shein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "What's Up with 2P2?"
[UPDATED TIME] Whitehead Lectures: Michele Moody-Adams (Columbia University), "Political Philosophy and the ‘Empire of Affect’"
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”
History of Philosophy Workshop: Victor Caston (University of Michigan), "Idealism and Greek Philosophy: Appearance and Reality in Aristotle & Alexander of Aphrodisias"
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...
Colloquium Lecture: Katie Elliott (Brandeis University), "The Principal Principle: What is it? Who cares?"
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...
Causation, Mind, Perception: Essays on Mary Shepherd - Edited Volume Workshop
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...
Colloquium Lecture: Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University), "Public Kindnesses and Valuing Persons as Persons"
Colloquium Lecture: Gillian Russell (Australian National University), "Logic for Virtual Worlds"
Metaphysics and Theology Workshop
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...
Colloquium Lecture: Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia), "Moral-Epistemic Dilemmas: The Case of Gender in Medical Diagnosis"
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...
History of Philosophy Workshop: Anat Schechtman (University of Texas at Austin), “Leibniz (and Aquinas) on Qualitative Infinity”
Colloquium Lecture: Quill Kukla (Georgetown University), "Centering Gender Euphoria"
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...
Exploring The Moral Universe
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a venue for discussion of and critical engagement with the ideas in John Bengson, Terence Cuneo, and Russ Shafer-Landau's recent agenda-setting book, The Moral Universe.