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These talks are made possible by the generous support of the Jerome Balmuth Fund and the Marion Hoeflich Memorial Endowment for Advancements in Philosophy.

Fall 2021 Talks 

Friday, September 17

John Schwenkler, Florida State University  
Steering Clear of Trouble
4:00 pm, Lathrop 207

Thursday, October 21

Filippo Casati, Lehigh University    
Cavell on Logic
4:15 pm, Lawrence 105

Thursday, November 4

Andy Egan,  Rutgers University 
Why Ethics is All ºÚÁÏÍø Me
4:00 pm,  Lawrence 105

Past Talks and Events

Thursday, April 22

Philosophy Honors Students Presentation 
5:15 pm, (must have a ºÚÁÏÍø account)

Wednesday, April 21 

Philosophy Honors Students Presentation 
5:15 pm, (must have a ºÚÁÏÍø account)

Wednesday, March 16

Erich Hatala-Mattes, Wellesley College
When Good Artists Do Bad Things 
Audi Lecture
Arts and Humanities Colloquium

Thursday, October 1

Brandon Conley, 
How to be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist ºÚÁÏÍø Disease
5:15 pm, (must have a ºÚÁÏÍø account)

Thursday, October 22

Aaron Wolf, 
Reasons and Possible Motivators
5:15 pm, (must have a ºÚÁÏÍø account)

Thursday, November 19

David Dudrick, 
Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence and the Arc of the Moral Universe
5:15 pm, (must have a ºÚÁÏÍø account)

Thursday, December 3

Edward Witherspoon
On Secrecy and Skepticism
5:15 pm, (must have a ºÚÁÏÍø account)

Thursday, February 6

Michael Brownstein, John Jay College CUNY
Political Tribalism and Climate Change
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall

Thursday, February 20

Jonny Thakkar, Swarthmore College
Plato as Critical Theorist
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall

Thursday, March 5

Maria Heim, Amherst College
Happiness in Ancient Indian Philosophy
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall

Event Canceled-Wednesday, March 25

Krisanna Scheiter, Union College 
Honor, Worth, and Justified Revenge in Aristotle 
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall

Event is Postponed to a Later Date 

Conference: Heidegger on Logic

Filippo Casati, Lehigh University
Logic of Modality and Modality of Logic 

David Cerbone, West Virginia University
Can There Be Surprises on Ontology? Illogical Thought and the Understanding of Being

Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Boston University
Identity, Logic, and Metaphysics 

Stephen Käufer, Franklin and Marshall College
Heidegger on Understanding Unthematically

Denis McManus, University of Southhampton
Heidegger, Wittengenstein and the Disappearing "We"

Richard Polt, Xavier University 
Heidegger's Productive Logic 

Edward Witherspoon, ºÚÁÏÍø 
Wittgenstein and Heidegger on the Authority of Life

Kate Withy, Georgetown University 
A Ground Without Why: Being and the Principle of Sufficient Reason 

Organizer: Edward Witherspoon, ºÚÁÏÍø 

Event Canceled-Thursday, April 9

Joseph Moore, Amherst College
But is it Music?
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall

Event Canceled-Wednesday, April 23

Christiana Olfert, Tufts University
Does Knowledge Rule Out False Beliefs? A Platonic Answer
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall

CNY Humanities Corridor Workshop

Plato and Platonism

Saturday, September 14 2019

 

Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell University

Plato on Intelligent Agents

11:00 am Benton Hall 213

 

Rachael Singpurwalla, Maryland

Law in Plato's Political Thought  

1:30 pm Benton Hall 213

 

Whitney Schwab, UMBC

Non-Perceptual Kataleptic Impressions in Stoicism

3:30 pm Benton Hall 213

 

Organizer: Jacob Klein, ºÚÁÏÍø 

 

Thursday, September 26

Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California

Relationship Pathologies

Audi Lecture

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Thursday, October 10

Joel Schlosser, Bryan Mawr College

Asceticism contra Nietzsche: Refusing Mere Existence

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Thursday, October 24

Justin Garson, Hunter College

What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Tuesday, October 29

Maura Tumulty, ºÚÁÏÍø

Alien Experience: Hating How, Not What, We Perceive

Arts and Humanities Colloquium

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Thursday, November 7

Eric Wiland, University of Missouri - St. Louis

What is Group Well-Being

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Wednesday, November 20

Julia Markovits, Cornell University

The Partial Relativism of Praise and Blame 

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

Tuesday, 19 February 2019 

Edward Witherspoon, ºÚÁÏÍø

Wittgenstein versus Zombies: An Investigation of our Mental Concepts

Arts and Humanities Colloquium 

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Thursday, 21 March 2019 

Peter Adamson, Ludwig–Maximilians–Universität München

Philosophy Without Borders: Transmission of Ideas between Europe, India, Africa, and the Islamic World

Hartshorne Memorial Lecture

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Thursday, 28 March 2019

Samantha Matherne, Harvard University

Kant on Imagination as the Faculty of Presentation

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Thursday, 11 April 2019

Elisabeth Camp, Rutgers University

Just Kidding: Sarcasm, Jokes and Willful Deniability in Speech

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Thursday, 25 April 2019

Barry Lam, Vassar College

Crime and Epistemology in the Age of AI: Lessons from the Ground

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Tuesday, 2 October 2018

David McCabe, ºÚÁÏÍø

Kant was a Racist. Now What?

ºÚÁÏÍø Arts and Humanities Colloquium

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Thursday, 1 November 2018

Michelle Kosch, Cornell University

Effort, Inability and Faith in Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Wednesday, 7 November 2018

Luvell Anderson, Syracuse University

Roasting Ethics

4:15 pm Lawrence 105

 

Thursday, 29 November 2018

Hannah Ginsborg, University of California Berkeley

Wittgenstein on Going On

4:15 pm Lawrence 105