# Department Events ## Upcoming Events [### History of Philosophy Workshop: Patrick Connolly (Johns Hopkins) ](/event/history-philosophy-workshop-patrick-connolly-johns-hopkins?occ_id=0)September 11, 2026 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT | Robbins Library, Emerson 211 In Person event [### Colloquium Lecture: Tom Parr (University of Warwick) ](/event/colloquium-lecture-tom-parr-university-warwick-0?occ_id=0)September 25, 2026 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT | Emerson Hall 305 In Person event [### Colloquium Lecture: Kathleen Creel (Northeastern University) ](/event/colloquium-lecture-kathleen-creel-northeastern-university?occ_id=0)October 30, 2026 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT | Emerson Hall 305 In Person event [### Colloquium Lecture: Alex Worsnip (University of North Carolina) ](/event/colloquium-lecture-alex-worsnip-university-north-carolina?occ_id=0)November 20, 2026 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EST | Emerson Hall 305 In Person event ## Past Events [### \[UPDATED TIME\] Whitehead Lectures: Michele Moody-Adams (Columbia University), "Political Philosophy and the ‘Empire of Affect’" ](/event/updated-time-whitehead-lectures-michele-moody-adams-columbia-university-political-philosophy?occ_id=0)Apr. 23 - Apr 24, 2026 | All day | Emerson Hall 210 In Person **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” event [### History of Philosophy Workshop: Victor Caston (University of Michigan), "Idealism and Greek Philosophy: Appearance and Reality in Aristotle & Alexander of Aphrodisias" ](/event/history-philosophy-workshop-victor-caston-university-michigan-idealism-and-greek-philosophy?occ_id=0)April 17, 2026 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT | Emerson Hall 305 In Person *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... event [### Colloquium Lecture: Katie Elliott (Brandeis University), "The Principal Principle: What is it? Who cares?" ](/event/colloquium-lecture-katie-elliott-brandeis-university-principal-principle-what-it-who-cares?occ_id=0)March 27, 2026 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT | Emerson Hall 305 In Person *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... event [### Causation, Mind, Perception: Essays on Mary Shepherd - Edited Volume Workshop ](/maryshepherd?occ_id=0)Mar. 5 - Mar 7, 2026 | All day | Robbins Library, Emerson 211 In Person 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... event [### Colloquium Lecture: Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University), "Public Kindnesses and Valuing Persons as Persons" ](/event/colloquium-lecture-cheshire-calhoun-arizona-state-university-public-kindnesses-and-valuing?occ_id=0)February 20, 2026 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EST | Emerson Hall 305 In Person Abstract: There’s an upsurge in cultural attention to kindnesses to strangers and mere acquaintances. Are there reasons other than, or in addition to, the reasons favoring general beneficence and personal relationship kindnesses, that face-to-face... event [### Colloquium Lecture: Gillian Russell (Australian National University), "Logic for Virtual Worlds" ](/event/colloquium-lecture-gillian-russell-australian-national-university-logic-virtual-worlds?occ_id=0)January 30, 2026 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EST | Emerson Hall 305 In Person Abstract: In the second half of "Two Dogmas", Quine argued that there could be empirical grounds to revise logic---at least in principle. Since then the most popular proposal for what those empirical grounds might be has involved quantum mechanics. Still... event [### Metaphysics and Theology Workshop ](/event/metaphysics?occ_id=0)Dec. 5 - Dec 6, 2025 | 8:30AM - 12:30PM EST | Robbins Library, Emerson 211 In Person 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... event [### Colloquium Lecture: Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia), "Moral-Epistemic Dilemmas: The Case of Gender in Medical Diagnosis" ](/event/colloquium-lecture-elizabeth-barnes-university-virginia-moral-epistemic-dilemmas-case-gender?occ_id=0)November 21, 2025 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EST | Emerson Hall 210 In Person 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... event [### History of Philosophy Workshop: Anat Schechtman (University of Texas at Austin), “Leibniz (and Aquinas) on Qualitative Infinity” ](/event/history-philosophy-workshop-anat-schechtman-university-texas-austin-leibniz-and-aquinas?occ_id=0)November 12, 2025 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EST | Robbins Library, Emerson 211 In Person Abstract: Leibniz holds that God is the ens perfectissimum, an absolutely perfect being, who possesses all perfections to the highest degree. He also holds that perfections are simple, positive, maximal, and metaphysically prior to imperfections. It... event [### Colloquium Lecture: Quill Kukla (Georgetown University), "Centering Gender Euphoria" ](/event/colloquium-lecture-quill-kukla-georgetown-university-centering-gender-euphoria?occ_id=0)October 31, 2025 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT | Emerson Hall 210 In Person 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... event [### Exploring The Moral Universe ](/moraluniverse?occ_id=0)Oct. 24 - Oct 25, 2025 | 9:00AM - 6:15PM EDT | Thompson Room 110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street In Person 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*. event [### History of Philosophy Workshop: Colin Chamberlain (University College London), "After the Fall: Malebranche on the Law of the Body" ](/event/history-philosophy-workshop-colin-chamberlain-university-college-london-after-fall?occ_id=0)October 11, 2025 | 10:00AM - 12:00PM EDT | Robbins Library, Emerson 211 In Person Abstract: Malebranche claims that the Fall changes the mind’s relationship to the body from union to dependence . He often describes this change in normative terms: the Fall deprives the mind of its authority to rule the body and puts the body in charge... event [### Colloquium Lecture: Colin Chamberlain (University College London), "A Different Shade of Realism: Margaret Cavendish’s Materialism about Colour" ](/event/colloquium-lecture-colin-chamberlain-university-college-london-different-shade-realism?occ_id=0)October 10, 2025 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT | Emerson Hall 210 In Person Abstract: Margaret Cavendish is a realist about colour. She holds that grass is green even when no one is around to see it and, more generally, that the colours of bodies are independent of the experiences they elicit in perceivers. At the same time... event [### Colloquium Lecture: Bart Streumer (University of Groningen), "How Berkeley Can Go Quasi and Lose His Mind-Dependence" ](/event/colloquium-lecture-bart-streumer-university-groningen-how-berkeley-can-go-quasi-and-lose-his?occ_id=0)September 19, 2025 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT | Emerson Hall 210 In Person Abstract: Berkeley defends idealism partly by taking ordinary objects such as tables and stones to consist of ideas. Materialists reject this account of ordinary objects. I argue that Berkeley can undermine this rejection by making quasi-realist moves of... event [### Harvard Review of Philosophy Colloquium Lecture: José Medina (Northwestern University), "Resisting Under Conditions of Oppression: Silencing, Protest, and Epistemic Activism" ](/event/harvard-review-philosophy-colloquium-lecture-jose-medina-northwestern-university-resisting?occ_id=0)September 18, 2025 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT | Emerson Hall 305 In Person Abstract: In this talk I will discuss some of the communicative and epistemic challenges that oppressed groups face when they try to resist their oppression. I will focus on stigmatized social groups, such as queer communities, which are subject to... event [### History Workshop, Work-In-Progress Seminar: Michael Boch, "Kant's Pure Rational Sciences within the Deformalization of Early Modern Logic" ](/event/history-workshop-work-progress-seminar-michael-boch-kants-pure-rational-sciences-within?occ_id=0)May 19, 2025 | 1:30PM - 2:30PM EDT | Robbins Library, Emerson 211 In Person Abstract: Kant's place in the history of logic is controversial today. Historians of formal logic (Kneale and Kneale, Bochenski) dispute Kant's importance for the history of logic and even deny him the status of a logician. In recent years, however, there... event [### Whitehead Lectures: Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins/Witwatersrand), "Human Free Agency: A Sketch" ](/event/whitehead-lectures-lucy-allais-johns-hopkinswitwatersrand?occ_id=0)May. 1 - May 2, 2025 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT | Emerson Hall 210 In Person Abstract: My aim in these lectures is to present parts of the account of human free agency that I am currently working on. The idea of the bigger project is to sketch an account of human free agency that brings together its metaphysical, rational/moral... event [### History Workshop, Work-In-Progress Seminar: John Harpham, “From Freedom to Slavery in Early-Modern Political Thought” ](/event/history-workshop-work-progress-seminar-john-harpham-freedom-slavery-early-modern-political?occ_id=0)April 28, 2025 | 1:30PM - 2:30PM EDT | Robbins Library, Emerson 211 In Person Abstract: In early-modern Europe, two traditions of slavery survived from the culture of the classical world. The first one of these traditions was drawn from the Politics of Aristotle, which held that some persons were fitted by nature to be ruled as... event [### Harvard/MIT Conference ](/event/harvardmit-conference?occ_id=0)April 12, 2025 | All day | Emerson Hall 210 In Person event [### CANCELED Colloquium Lecture: Katie Elliott (Brandeis University) ](/event/colloquium-lecture-katie-elliott-brandeis-university?occ_id=0)April 11, 2025 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT In Person event - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [4](?page=3 "Go to page 4") - [5](?page=4 "Go to page 5") - [6](?page=5 "Go to page 6") - [7](?page=6 "Go to page 7") - [8](?page=7 "Go to page 8") - [9](?page=8 "Go to page 9") - [ Last page 17 ](?page=16 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")