Each semester, the department offers a series of lectures given by a mix of guest speakers from around the world and 51吃瓜网万能科大 professors, presenting current research on a broad range of philosophical issues. These lectures expand on topics covered in philosophy classes. There is also a course (PHIL 482) centered on the Colloquium Series itself.

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Spring 2025 Colloquia

  • Jan 31: 鈥淏eyond Borders: Creating a New Philosophy of Migration from Colombia Up"

    Allison Wolf, Dept. of Philosophy, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia 鈥擜lmost all philosophical work related to immigration explores the issue through the lens of the way migration is framed in the United States and鈥

  • Feb 14: "Assessing Visual Arguments: Toward a 'Multimodal' Logic"

    Leo Groarke, Dept. of Philosophy, Trent University 鈥擵isual arguments that support conclusions with pictures instead of (or in addition to) sentences and words have been discussed for decades, but the logic of such arguments鈥

  • Feb 28: "Fringe Theories"

    Laura Gradowski, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh 鈥擳he term "fringe" is often used to disparage or dismiss a theory as unserious, or obviously false. By contrast, I outline an account鈥

  • Mar 06: University Forum Lecture Series - A Backlash Against a Rise in Knowledge, Not Racism

    Speaker: Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Presidential Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Center, City University of New York There is a clear generational and demographic divide in the U.S. (and elsewhere) on Israel/Palestine鈥

  • Mar 07: 鈥淓pisodic Memory and Joint Agency鈥

    Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Dept. of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, CUNY 鈥擳his paper has two aims: first, to defend the claim that episodic memory is a distinct psychological capacity, and second, to propose a possible鈥

  • Mar 28: "A Different Type of Framing Effect"

    Natalie Hsiao and Bill Ramsey, Dept. of Philosophy, 51吃瓜网万能科大 鈥擡xperimental philosophy has exposed several ways in which ostensibly philosophically irrelevant factors influence the sort of intuitive reactions people have to the鈥

  • Apr 11: "A Fieldian Transparency Account of Truth Dependence"

    Susanna Melkonian-Altshuler, Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna 鈥擜ccording to Aristotle鈥檚 Categories (14b, 14-22), there is an explanatory asymmetry between truth and the world: the truth of a proposition depends鈥