The Philosophy Seminar Series is a lecture and workshop series run every semester by the Philosophy Graduate Student Association. Graduate students, faculty, and esteemed guests present every Friday.
Spring 2026
Feb 17 – Bridget Berdit, “‘Let Us Speak the Truth’: On Schopenhauer’s Ethical Ideal”
Feb 24 – Jacob Joyce, TBD
Mar 3 – Keaton Jahn, “Are There Proper Sensibles?: A Merleau-Pontian Exploration”
Mar 17 – Paolo Degiorgi, “Logic as First Philosophy”
Mar 31 – Sam Berrettini, “Skeptical Inquiry: Its Goals and Effects”
April 7 – Rosalie Looijaard, “On the Circularity Between Narrative and Experience”
April 21 – Pol Pardini Gisbert, TBD
April 24 – Caroline Wall, TBD
April 28 – Eliška Wichterlová, TBD
Fall 2025
Sept 26 – Fernando Nogueira Lopes, “Ambiguities of Nostalgia: Some Considerations on Love and Time”
Oct 10 – Alex Papanikolaou, “Heidegger and Meister Eckhart on Detachment”
Oct 17 – Daniel Star, “Promiscuity and Moral Realism” or “On why having a reason to eat a car doesn’t undermine moral realism”
Oct 24 – Alex Dickison, “The Hierarchy of the Senses”
Oct 31 – Daniel Munro, “Artificial Mystics and Ancient Minds: Conversational Pathways to Belief in the Supernatural”
Nov 7 – Zhiwei Min, “The World-horizon and the Phenomenological Project of Ultimate Grounding”
Nov 14 – Rosalie Looijaard, “Encountering the Other in Hermeneutics: Narrative as Differential Lens”
Nov 21 – Miguel Ohnesorge, “Why Earthquakes have a ‘size’ but cognitive abilities do not (yet)”
Spring 2025
Feb 5 – Sam Berrettini, “Beauty, Power, and Education: Socratic Pedagogy and the Tyrannical Soul in the Alcibiades I.”
Feb 19 – Kailyn Smith, “Theoretical Physics and Theories of Lament”
Feb 26 – Jacob Joyce, “A World Brimming with Angels: Medieval and Modern Angelology”
March 5 – Rose Levi, “Reciprocity ≠ Reciprocity”
March 19 – Eleanor Oser, topic TBD
March 26 – Alex Papanikolaou, “Role Playing Games and Goal Formation”
April 2 – Eliška Wichterlová, “In Defense of Fragmentalism: Phenomenological Considerations”
April 9 – Michaela McSweeney, “Grasping by Depicting”
April 23 – Alex Dickison, “Analogy, Aquinas, & Analytic Philosophy” (tentative)
Fall 2024
September 4: Jacob Joyce, “Expression and Analogy in Leibniz’s Metaphysics”
September 25: Caroline Wall, TBD
October 9: Cinzia Aruzza, “Foreigners and Civic Theoria in Plato’s Laws”
October 23: Ben Crowe, “Fichte’s Ethical Community”
October 30: Keaton Jahn, “On The Disclosure of Moral Values In The Arts: A Value-Realist Account”
November 6: Eleanor Oser: TBD
November 13: Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire, “Heidegger on Aristotle on Truth”
December 4: Leticia Castillo Brache, TBD
Spring 2024
Fall 2023
September 15: Daniel Dahlstrom, “Themes of Heidegger’s thinking, early and late.”
September 22: Jacob Joyce, “Conceiving the Mind: A Rationalist Theory of the Mental Faculties”
September 29: Jack Harris, “Reconsidering Autonomy Within The Four Principles of Bioethics”
October 6: Caroline Wall, “Nietzsche’s Views on War”
October 13: Amber Sheldon, “AI and Animal Ethics”
October 20: Leticia Castillo-Brache, “Parachute Science and the Legacy of Scientific Colonialism in Paleontology Today: Exploring Harmful Hidden Narratives.”
November 3: Casey Grippo, “The State and Individuation”
November 10: Paolo Degiorgi, “Category Mistakes and Time”
November 17: Fernando Lopes, “The End of Philosophy as the Beginning of Hope: Rorty on Romanticism and Love”
December 1: Victor Kumar, “The Evolution of LGBTQ Progress”
December 8: Marc Gasser-Wingate, “Aristotle on Human and Animal Experience.”
Spring 2023
March 17 – Faculty presentation: Daniel Star, “The Artistic Rights of Photographers”
April 7 – Eliška Wichterlová, “From the Dionysian Celebration to Fanaticism”
April 21 – Merve Tapinç, “Blameworthiness and Self-Ignorance”
April 28 – Faculty presentation: Juliet Floyd, “Wittgenstein on Religion as a Form of Life: From a ‘Jamesian Type’ to Remarks on Frazer”
Fall 2022
Spring 2022
Fall 2021
September 24 – Lewis Wang presents, “How Do We Assess Softer Learning Goals?” An Inclusive Teaching Workshop.
October 8 – Paul Katsafanas presents, “The Fanatic & The Last Man: On Nietzsche, Critical Reflection & Our Evaluative Commitments.”
October 15 – Casey Grippo presents, “The Relationship Between Disease & Symptoms.”
October 22 – Aja Watkins presents, “Writing Grant Applications.” A Graduate Workshop.
October 29 – Federica Bocchi presents, “Teaching An Inclusive Course.” An Inclusive Teaching Workshop.
November 12 – Matthew Brewer presents, “Academic Skepticism: An Overview.”
November 19 – Leticia Castillo Brache presents, “In the Wake of Climate Change: Policy & Climate Refugees.”
December 3 – Victor Kumar presents, “Evolution & Progress.”