Previous Colloquia
2024
Elizabeth Jackson
St. Louis University
Title: "A Defense of Epistemic Ties"
November 8th, 2024
Steven Nadler
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: "Spinoza on the Unity of Virtues"
October 4th, 2024
Charlotte Witt
University of New Hampshire
Title: "The Artisanal Model for Social Role Normativity"
April 19th, 2024
Craig Callender
University of California, San Diego
Title: "When Is It Okay to Ban Research (Funding)"
April 12th, 2024
David Weins
University of California, San Diego
Title: "The Modeling Mindset: Why Political Philosophers Should Think More Like Game Theorists "
March 1st, 2024
Jeff Speaks
University of Notre Dame
Title: "Do propositions represent? If so, how?"
January 26th, 2024
2023
ROBERT AUDI
University of Notre Dame
Title: "Is This God's Country? Religion and Democracy in America"
March 23rd, 2023
JESSICA MOSS
New York University
Title: "Aristotle on Degrees of Knowledge, Truth, and Being"
March 31st, 2023
JOSHUA KNOBE
Yale University
Title: "The Psychological Representation of Norms"
April 14th, 2023
LYDIA PATTON
Virginia Tech
Title: "The Dynamics of Scientific Theories: Structural Change and Multimodal Frameworks"
April 28th, 2023
2022
AGNES CALLARD
University of Chicago
Title: "The City of Idiots"
October 14th, 2022
MARCIA BARON
Indiana University
Title: "Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law"
October 21st, 2022
LAUREN OLIN
University of Missiouri
Title: "Housing Mirth"
December 2nd, 2022
2020
LARRY SHAPIROUniversity of Wisconsin
Title: "Rethinking the Unity of Science Hypothesis: Levels, Mechanisms, and Realization"
March 6th, 2020
ELIZABETH ANDERSON
University of Michigan
Title: "The Work Ethic: Its Origins, Legacy, and Future"
February 21st, 2020
KEITH R. KLUENDER
Purdue (Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences)
Title: "Shannon Information as a Framework for Pragmatic Empiricism"
February 14th, 2020
2019
BERTHA MANNINENArizona State
Title: "A Pro-Choice Response to New York’s Reproductive Health Act"
November 15th, 2019
SHIEVA KLEINSCHMIDT
University of Southern California
Title: "Decompositional Plenitude"
November 8th, 2019
STEPHEN DARWALL
Yale
Title: "Why Obligations Can't be Bipolar (Directed) All the Way Down"
October 11th, 2019
KAREN NG
Vanderbilt
Title: "An Organic Model of Schematism: A Post-Kantian Approach to Kant’s Theory of Judgment"
September 27th, 2019
KEVIN CORCORAN (Calvin College) and JOHN WALDROP (UC-Irvine)
Title: "On The Relation Between The Mental and The Physical"
September 13th, 2019
DISTINGUISHED WOMAN FACULTY VISITOR
MEGHAN SULLIVAN
University of Notre Dame
Title: "The Love Imperative – Ethical and Rational Arguments for Why You Should Love Absolutely Everyone"
April 19th, 2019
ANTON FORD
University of Chicago
Title: "Perception in Action and Practical Reasoning"
April 5th, 2019
DUANE DAVIS
UNC Asheville
Title: "The Art of Revolutionary Praxis: Ghosting a History without Shadows"
March 22nd, 2019
2018
ANNE PETERSON
University of Utah
Title: "Aristotelian Explanation and the Biological Homology Concept"
November 30th, 2018
JEANINE DILLER
University of Toledo
Title: "Being Perfect is Not Necessary for Being God"
November 9th, 2018
DOMENICO BERTOLONI MELI
Indiana University
Title: "Early Modern Mechanisms"
October 26th, 2018
JENANN ISMAEL
Columbia University
Title: "What Does 'It All' Mean? Questions About the Logic, Metaphysics, and Physics of Totality"
October 19th, 2018
JOHN HAWTHORNE
University of Southern California
Title: "The Surprise Exam"
September 28th, 2018
JEFF BELL
Southeastern Louisiana University
Title: “Reading Problems: Literacy and the Dynamics of Thinking”
April 4th, 2018
VANESSA DE HARVEN
University of Massachusetts
Title: “The Distinctness of the Three Distinct Goods in Republic II”
March 23rd, 2018
Distinguished Woman Faculty Visitor
JESSICA WILSONUniversity of Toronto
Title: "On Characterizing the Fundamental"
March 9th, 2018
KEVIN HARRELSON
Ball State University
Title: "Intention and Empathy"
February 16th, 2018
2017
MYRON PENNER, Trinity Western University& AMANDA J. NICHOLS, Oklahoma Christian University
Title: “Resisting the Pessimistic Induction: Selective Scientific Realism and Truth-Transfer in Theories of Molecular Structure”
December 1st, 2017
ELIZABETH HARMAN
Princeton University
Title: “There is No Moral Ought and No Prudential Ought”
November 10th, 2017
CHRISTOPH COX
Hampshire College
Title: "Sound, Time, and Duration"
October 13th, 2017
ROBERT PIPPIN
University of Chicago
Title: “Hegel on Life as a Logical Category”
September 20th, 2017
KEVIN VALLIER
Bowling Green State University
Title: “Second-Personal Political Authority”
April 21st, 2016
Distinguished Woman Faculty Visitor
KAREN BENNETTCornell University
Title: "Part and Whole Revisited”
March 24th, 2016
ANDREW MOON
University of Notre Dame
Title: “Inconsistent Evidentialist Theses”
January 27th, 2016
2016
ERIK WIELENBERGDePauw University
Title: "Plantingian Theism and the Free Will Defense"
November 11th, 2016
ELEONORE STUMP
St. Louis University
Title: "The Openness of God: Eternity and Free Will"
October 14th, 2016
KYLA EBELS-DUGGAN
Northwestern University
Title: "Inarticulacy and Reasonable Commitments"
September 23rd, 2016
CHRISTOPHER SHIELDS
University of Notre Dame
Title: "A Series of Goods"
February 4th, 2016
2015
HELGA VARDENUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title: "A Kantian Theory of Sexuality"
December 3rd, 2015
PETER CARRUTHERS
University of Maryland
Title: "The Conscious Mind as Marionette"
November 19th, 2015
KYLE STANFORD
University of California Irvine
Title: “Uniformitarianism, The Maddy/Wilson Principle, and a Middle Path Forward in the Scientific Realism Debate”
October 9th, 2015
LENNY CLAPP
Northern Illinois University
Title: "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Faultless Disagreement"
September 24th, 2015
MATHIAS FRISCH
University of Maryland
Title: "Causal Reasoning in Physics"
March 5th, 2015
2014
CARRIE ICHIKAWA JENKINSUniversity of British Columbia
Title: "What is Romantic Love? An Incomplete Map of the Metaphysics"
November 20th, 2014
SUSAN WOLF
University of North Carolina
Title: "Character and Responsibility"
Date: October 10th, 2014
ANDREAS DE BLOCK
University of Leuven
Title: "Homophobia and Essentialism: A Philosophical Evaluation of Recent Psychological Research on Homonegativity"
October 6th, 2014
CHRISTOPHER PINCOCK
The Ohio State University
Title: "Inference to the Best Explanation: A Modest Proposal"
September 11th, 2014
PAUL REDDING
University of Sydney
Title: "A Kantian Account of Modality without the Concept-Intuition Distinction? Problems Facing Brandom's 'Modal Kant-Sellars Thesis'”
April 24th, 2014
JOHN COOPER
Princeton University
Title: "Aristotelian Responsibility"
April 11th, 2014
L.A. PAUL
University of North Carolina
Title: "Transformative Experience"
March 6th, 2014
THOMAS POGGE
Yale University
Title: "Responsibility for Injustice"
February 27th, 2014
JOHN HARE
Yale University
Title: "Three Arguments for the Dependence of Morality upon Religion"
January 31st, 2014
2013
ANDREW GREGORYUniversity College London
Title: “Thomas Kuhn on Ancient Science”
November 7th, 2013
SARAH BUSS
University of Michigan
Title: "Personal Ideals, Rational Agency, and Moral Requirements"
October 17th, 2013
STEPHEN STICH
Rutgers University
Title: "Experimental Philosophy and the Bankruptcy of the Great Tradition"
April 12th, 2013
RACHEL ZUCKERT
Northwestern University
Title: "Kant's Hidden Antinomy of Practical Reason"
February 28th, 2013
RUSSELL JONES
Harvard University
Title: "Akrasia, Stability, and Epistemic Value in Plato?"
February 14th, 2013
ALEX ROSENBERG
Duke University
Title: "From Rational Choice to Reflexivity: Learning from Sen, Keynes, Hayek, Soros, and Most of All, from Darwin"
January 31st, 2013
GEORGE HARVEY
Indiana University Southeast
Title: "Virtue and Pre-Political Life in Plato's Laws III-IV"
January 17th, 2013
2012
RUTH CHANGRutgers University
Title: “Grounding Practical Normativity: Going Hybrid”
December 4th, 2012
CANDACE VOGLER
University of Chicago
Title: "Anscombe's Complaint"
November 1st, 2012
WILLIAM STEPHENS
Creighton University
Title: "Bugbear and Open Door Policy: Epictetus on Why Stoics Don't Fear Death"
October 11th, 2012
TERENCE CUNEO
University of Vermont
Title: "Noncausal Moral Explanations"
October 4th, 2012
JASON HILL
DePaul University
Title: "Towards a Cosmopolitan and Political Conception of Friendship"
September 13th, 2012
STEWART COHEN
University of Arizona
Title: "Self-Undermining Inference Rules"
August 31st, 2012
ROY SORENSEN
Washington University
Title: "Lying with Arguments"
August 30th, 2012
ROBERT KANE
University of Texas at Austin
Title: "Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom"
April 10th, 2012
TOM FLINT
University of Notre Dame
Title: "Freedom, Foreknowledge, and Keeping Dialectically Kosher"
April 5th, 2012
JOHN MARTIN FISCHER
University of California at Riverside
Title: "Responsibility and Autonomy: The Problem of Mission Creep"
March 20th, 2012
ELLIOT SOBER
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "Instrumentalism: Old-School and New-Fangled"
February 24th, 2012
NIKOLAJ NOTTELMANN
University of Southern Denmark
Title: "Disagreement, Belief Revision, and Inference to the Best Explanation"
February 9th, 2012
2011
K. RAMAKRISHNA RAOAndhra University
Title: "The Mahatma: The Man and His Message"
Novermber 29th, 2011
RUSS SHAFER-LANDAU
University of Wisconsin
Title: "Genealogical Critiques of Moral Realism"
November 17th, 2011
PHIL DOWE
University of Queensland
Title: "Time Travel and Free Will"
November 10th, 2011
ELIZABETH FOREMAN
Saint Louis University
Title: "What's Wrong With Speciesism?"
September 8th, 2011
RICHARD GALVIN
Texas Christian University
Title: "The Practical Contradiction Interpretation Reconsidered"
April 21st, 2011
ANDREW CHIGNELL
Cornell University
Title: "Kant on Moral Miracles"
April 14th, 2011
STEVE WYKSTRA
Calvin College
Title: "(Why) Is(n't) Inductive Evidence Insensitive?"
April 7th, 2011
NICK HUGGETT
University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: "Why Do We Only Remember the Past"
March 3th, 2011
SUSAN BROWER-TOLAND
Saint Louis University
Title: "Medieval Theories of Consciousness: Ockham and Chatton on Higher-Order Perception"
January 27th, 2011
2010
PHIL DOWEUniversity of Queensland
Title: "Levels, Causation and Overdetermination
November 4th, 2010
CHRISTOPHER KELP
University of Leuven
Title: "Not Without Justification"
October 7th, 2010
ANDREW KOPPELMAN
Northwestern University
Title: "Religious Neutrality in American Law"
September 23rd, 2010
CAROLINA SARTORIO
University of Arizona
Title: "Forking Paths: Rethinking Dual Control"
April 22nd, 2010
JOHN DORIS
Washington University
Title: "A Natural History of the Self"
April 15th, 2010
MARK MURPHY
Georgetown University
Title: "Moral Law"
March 25th, 2010
DENNIS DES CHENE
Washington University
Title: "Versions of Substance in the Seventeenth Century"
March 4th, 2010
CHIEN-KUO (MICHAEL) MI
Soochow University
Title: "Saving Quine's Truth in His Semantic Ascent"
February 23rd, 2010
2009
ELEONORE STUMPSt. Louis University
Title: "Modes of Knowing: Autism, Fiction, and Second-person Perspectives"
November 12th, 2009
TOM BEAUCHAMP
Title: "From Morality to Common Morality"
Georgetown University
October 29th, 2009
MARILYN FISCHER
University of Dayton
Title: "Interpreting a Murder with Addams and Mead"
September 17th, 2009
VICTOR CASTON
University of Michigan
Title: "The Veil of Perception"
March 26th, 2009
PETER RAILTON
University of Michigan
Title: "Rationality in Belief and Desire"
March 5th, 2009
TIMOTHY O'CONNOR
Indiana University
Title: "Human Freedom and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior"
February 12th, 2009
2008
CHARLES TALIAFERROSt. Olaf College
Title: "The Virtues of Philosophy of Mind: Revisiting the So-called Naturalistic Fallacy"
November 13th, 2008
ALLEN WOOD
Indiana University
Title: "Kant and the Right to Lie"
October 17th, 2008
IRWIN TESSMAN
Purdue University (Biology Emeritus)
Title: "Evolution of Moral Behavior by Natural Selection"
October 2nd, 2008
JONATHAN LEAR
University of Chicago
Title: "Irony and Ethics"
September 25th, 2008
JOHN GRECO
St. Louis University
Title: "Epistemic Normativity"
September 11th, 2008
BRANDON LOOK
University of Kentucky
Title: "The Possibility of Nothingness: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives"
April 3rd, 2008
JOHN HEIL
Washington University
Title: “Relations"
February 28th, 2008
STEWART COHEN
Arizona State University
Title: "Knowledge Ascriptions and Semantic Blindness"
February 14th, 2008
2007
JOHN MARTIN FISCHERTitle: "Molinism"
TIBERIU POPA
Title: "Aristotle's Mind-Dependence Theory of Time"
ROBERT SINNERBRINK
Title: "Misrecognition as Moral Injury: Remarks on Honneth and Bernstein"
WENDY PARKER
Title: "Ensembles, Robustness and Adequacy: Predicting Future Climate with Collections of Incompatible Models"
PHIL DOWE
Title: "Localism and Possible Causation"
ION COPOERU
Title: "Does Morality Matter in Your Professional Life? Moral Actions and Ethical Reflections in a Post-Totalitarian Society"
JENNIFER LACKEY
Northern Illinois University
Title: "Trust and Testimony"
SAMUEL FLEISCHACKER
Universiy of Illinois at Chicago
Title: "What Exactly is a 'Right' to Welfare?"
2006
DAVID BRADSHAWUniversity of Kentucky
Title: "The Concept of Divine Energies"
PETER VAN INWAGEN
University of Notre Dame
Title: "The End is Nigh: An Adventure in Rational Eschatology"
ANDREW CUTROFELLO
Loyola University
Title: "Kant's Resistance to Sturm und Drang Enthusiasm for Hamlet"
PETER KEMP
Danish Pedagogical University, Coopenhagen
Title: "The Cosmopolitan Foundations of International Law"
BRIAN LEFTOW
University of Oxford (Oriel College)
Title: "God, Vagueness and Logical Truth"
JEAN-LUC
University of Chicago Divinity School
Title: "Saturation and Counter-Experience"
RICHARD SWINBURNE
University of Oxford (Oriel College)
Title: "God and Morality"
2005
SCOTT MACDONALD
Cornell University
Title: "Prudence: Aquinas on the Foundations of Virtue"
HUD HUDSON
Western Washington University
Title: "Extended Simples"
BARBARA HERMAN
University of California at Los Angeles
Title: "Reasoning to Obligation"
RICHARD SHUSTERMAN
Temple University
Title: "In Search of Aesthetic Experience"
MICHAEL MURRAY
Franklin and Marshall College
Title: "Theism and Animal Suffering"
2004
JACQUELINE MARIÑAPurdue University
Title: "The Refutation of Idealism"
ROBERT BRANDOM
University of Pittsburgh
Title: "The Structure of Desire and Recognition: Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution"
JURGAN HABERMAS
J-W Goethe University
Title: "The Kantian Project of Cosmopolitan Law"
STEPHEN DARWELL
University of Michigan
Title: "Second-Personal Reasons and the Dignity of Persons"
ALVIN PLANTINGA
University of Notre Dame
Title: "Against Materialism"
STEPHEN NEALE
Rutgers University
Title: "Linguistic Pragmatism"
GISELA STRIKER
Harvard University
Title: "Plato and the Ontology of Aristotle's Categories"