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.

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

January 26: Merve Tapinç, “Epistemic Aspirations and Unalienated Self-Knowledge”
February 2: Daniel Star & Joel Van Fossen (Hosei University), “Aesthetic Appreciation, Aesthetic Judgments, and Love”
February 9: Paul Katsafanas, “Devotion, Faith, and Grit”
February 16: Matt Brewer, “When Can Absence of Evidence Be Evidence of Absence?”
February 23: Jacob Joyce, “Nicholas of Cusa’s Trinitarian Participatory Ontology”
March 8: Jack Harris, “Autonomy in Algorithms?: A Case Study in Medical Decision Making”
March 22: Dan Méndez, “Sebastian Rödl’s Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism”
April 5: Kristian Sheeley, “Virtue and Asceticism in Plato”
April 12: Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire, “Alêtheia in Aristotle and Gadamer”
April 19: Paolo Degiorgi, “Analytic Philosophy and Idealism”
April 26: C. Allen Speight, “The Philosophical Challenge of Early Art”

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

February 17: Caroline Wall, “The Eye Demands Beauty: Aesthetics and Philanthropy in the Late 18th Century”
February 24: Matilde Carrera, “A Name is Forever: Implications of Past Taxonomical Attributions in Paleontology”

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

September 23: Daniel Dahlstrom, “Appropriation and Being: Issues in Heidegger’s Later Thinking”
October 21: Miguel Ohnesorge, “The Epistemic Privilege of Measurement: Motivating a Functionalist Account”
October 28: Pol Pardini Gispert, “Fanaticism, Moral Residue, and Absolute Values”
November 4: Casey Grippo, “Blameless Conspiratorial Thinking”
November 18: Paul Katsafanas, “The Puzzle of Commitment”
December 2: Sally Sedgwick, “Consolations of World History: Kant versus Hegel”
December 9: Jack Harris, “Assessing the Tools of Narrative Ethics”

Spring 2022

February 4: Rachell Powell, “Social Norms & Superorganisms”
March 4: Name Pronunciation Workshop, facilitated by Lewis Wang
March 18: Michaela McSweeney, “Social Structural Objects”
March 25: Matilde Carrera, “Discursive Injustice: The Hearer’s Accountability in Speech Acts”
April 1: Aja Watkins, “Experiential Learning” Teaching Workshop
April 8: Caroline Wall, “The Realm of Our Invention: On the Role of Parody in Nietzsche’s Thought”
April 29: Jack Harris, “Procreative Beneficence”
May 6: Marc Gasser-Wingate, “Perception & Reason in Aristotle’s Epistemology”

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.”