Department Events
Past Events
Lunch in the Library
March 20, 2024
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11:30AM - 1:30PM EDT
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
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History of Philosophy Workshop: Mariana Beatriz Noé (Harvard University), "Plato's Non-ideal Theory"
March 7, 2024
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
In Person
Please click here for the abstract.
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Colloquium Lecture: Katherine Brading (Duke University), "How physics flew the philosophers’ nest"
March 1, 2024
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST
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Emerson 210
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Abstract: Here is a familiar story. Up until the early 17 th century, physics was a part of philosophy. Then the Scientific Revolution happened – including Newton’s Principia of 1687 -- and after this physics was a separate discipline. This story has been...
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History of Philosophy Workshop: Katherine Brading (Duke University) and Jeff McDonough (Harvard University), “Emilie Du Châtelet: Time and Time Again”
February 29, 2024
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
In Person
Please click here for more information, including a suggested reading.
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Lunch in the Library
February 22, 2024
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11:30AM - 1:30PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
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We invite our concentrators, graduate students, department visitors, and faculty to stop by for lunch in Robbins Library. Catering from Sugar & Spice.
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History of Philosophy Workshop: Bridget Brasher (MIT), "Nothing or Something? A Nothing-bearing Something? Void in Classical Antiquity"
February 6, 2024
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
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Undergraduate Pizza Study Break
December 6, 2023
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
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Harvard University Minorities and Philosophy Colloquium Lecture: Emmalon Davis (University of Michigan), "Building (Conceptual) Bridges: Nonideal Theory, Philosophical Whitopias, and the Critical Cartography of Mills' The Racial Contract"
December 1, 2023
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST
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Emerson 305
In Person
Abstract: This chapter revisits the metaphilosophical critique offered in Charles Mills’ The Racial Contract. My analysis will focus on explicating Mills’ characterization of the “Racial Contract”—and nonideal theory more broadly—as a conceptual bridge. I...
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Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop: Gideon Manning (Cedars Sinai Hospital), “Descartes, Images, and the Iconography of Actions"
November 28, 2023
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST
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Colloquium Lecture: Shamik Dasgupta (UC Berkeley), "Objectivity as a Normative Notion (Twice Over)"
November 17, 2023
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST
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Abstract: I will argue that objectivity is a normative notion. By this I don’t mean that objectivity has normative qualities such as being valuable or worth striving for. That may be true, but it’s not the claim defended here. Rather, the claim is that...
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Colloquium Lecture: Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington), "Climate Change, Intergenerational Tyranny and Solar Geoengineering"
November 10, 2023
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST
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Emerson 305
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Diversifying Philosophy 101: A Teaching Practicum
November 4, 2023
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8:45AM - 4:00PM EDT
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Boston University, College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215
In Person
Diversifying Philosophy 101 is a day-long teaching practicum for those interested in making their introductory philosophy curricula more inclusive and more representative. Five expert instructors will deliver presentations on philosophical figures from...
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Colloquium Lecture: Paulina Sliwa (University of Vienna), "An Anatomy of Apology"
November 3, 2023
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Emerson 305
In Person
Abstract: Apologies are a central feature of our moral lives. When we have been wronged, we often hope for nothing more than an apology. And when we are the ones to have wronged someone, we often feel compelled to apologise. Insofar as moral philosophy...
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Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop: Eric Watkins (UCSD), "Kant’s Criticism of Metaphysics"
October 27, 2023
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
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Lunch in the Library
October 19, 2023
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11:30AM - 2:00PM EDT
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
In Person
We invite our concentrators, graduate students, department visitors, and faculty to stop by for lunch in Robbins Library.
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Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop: Jean-Pascal Anfray (ENS Paris), “Dispositions and Forces: Descartes on Powers in the Material World”
October 17, 2023
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
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Sophomore Open House
October 16, 2023
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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
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An informal gathering to discuss Philosophy as a concentration.
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Colloquium Lecture: Carol Rovane (Columbia), "Skepticism and Naturalism — and Relativism?"
October 13, 2023
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Emerson 305
In Person
Abstract: In Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties, Strawson makes clear that his making central the idea of relativization to a perspective does not rule out adopting a realist attitude towards what we know from different perspectives. He is less...
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Sea of Perception: An Exhibition Featuring the Art of Becky Moon
October 10, 2023
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5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
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Leibniz Society of North America Annual Conference
Sep. 29 - Oct 1, 2023
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12:00PM - 3:15PM EDT
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Baker Center Thompson Room (110)
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Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America Barker Center Thompson Room (110) 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Friday, September 29 12:00 – 1:15: Optional visit to Harvard Art...
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