Event Archive
Mon Mar 20, 2023 Social Sciences 129 4–6 PM |
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley Nicholaos Jones Contemplating Indra’s Net: Metaphysics for Interdependence in Huayan Buddhism |
Mon Mar 20, 2023 TBA 4–6 PM |
Reception for prospective graduate students |
Tue Mar 21, 2023 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk John Campbell |
Wed Mar 22, 2023 470 Stephens 4:10–5:30 PM |
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Theodore M. Porter (UCLA Department of History) Unacknowledged Sites of Science Gain Dignity as Data |
Thu Mar 23, 2023 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Thi Nguyen Value Capture |
Fri Mar 24, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Khaled Abou El Fadl (Law, UCLA) The Aborted Spring and Islamic Exceptionalism |
Fri Mar 31, 2023 60 Evans 4:10–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Ralf Schindler (WWU Münster) The definability of the nonstationary ideal |
Mon Apr 3, 2023 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk John MacFarlane |
Mon Apr 3, 2023 Social Science Building Room 129 4–6 PM |
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley Dalitso Ruwe The Colonial System Unveiled: Towards New Perspectives of Studying Slavery in Africana Philosophy |
Fri Apr 7, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Nelson Tebbe (Law, Cornell University) Reestablishing Religion |
Fri Apr 7, 2023 4:10–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Zeynep Soysal (University of Rochester) The Metalinguistic Construal of Mathematical Propositions |
Mon Apr 10, 2023 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Ursula Coope Aristotle’s distinction between movement and activity: ancient criticisms, modern distortions |
Tue Apr 11, 2023 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Ursula Coope Aristotle on movement and the present |
Wed Apr 12, 2023 4:10–6 PM |
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Paul Skokowski (Stanford) Superpositions and beliefs about superpositions |
Thu Apr 13, 2023 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Ursula Coope Movement as incomplete: benefits and challenges for an Aristotelian account |
Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Ronit Stahl (History, UC Berkeley) Strings Attached? Government Funding and Religious Hospitals |
Fri Apr 14, 2023 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Ursula Coope Discussion |
Mon Apr 17, 2023 Social Science Building Room 129 4–6 PM |
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley Helen De Cruz How to be authentic (or not) – ancient Daoism and French existentialism in dialogue |
Wed Apr 19, 2023–Fri Apr 21, 2023 |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Philippe Descola |
Fri Apr 21, 2023 141 Law Building 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Ayelet Shachar (University of Toronto) TBA |
Fri Apr 21, 2023 Dennes Room, Philosophy 234 3–5 PM |
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Jessica Gelber (University of Toronto) Necessity from an Assumption |
Fri Apr 21, 2023 60 Evans 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Noah Schweber (Proof School) Ceers (on omega and above) |
Mon Apr 24, 2023 Room 3, Physics 4:10–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Richard Shore (Cornell University) Reverse Mathematics: A Multiverse |
Wed Apr 26, 2023 Room 60, Evans Hall 4:10–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Richard Shore (Cornell University) Reverse Mathematics: A Global View |
Fri Apr 28, 2023 Dennes Room, Philosophy 234 3–5 PM |
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Allan Silverman (Ohio State University) Reason and the Good in Plato’s Republic |
Thu May 4, 2023 223 Philosophy Hall 10 AM–5 PM |
Conference The Promise and Problems of Political Realism |
Fri May 5, 2023 223 Philosophy Hall 10 AM–5 PM |
Conference The Promise and Problems of Political Realism |
Sat May 13, 2023 Faculty Glade 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Department Graduation |
Fri May 19, 2023–Sat May 20, 2023 Howison Library 9 AM–5 PM |
Conference Berkeley London Conference |
Fri Sep 1, 2023 141 Law Building 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Stephen Darwall (Philosophy, Yale University) The Beginnings of Analytic Metaethics and the Analytic/Continental Divide |
Fri Sep 1, 2023 60 Evans 4:10–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Snow Xueyin Zhang (UC Berkeley) Imaging and Conditionalization Revisited |
Fri Sep 1, 2023 7205 Dwinelle Hall (AGRS Conference Room) 5–7 PM |
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Eric Sanday (University of Kentucky) Tyrant and Statesman: Knowledge and Accountability in Plato’s Political Philosophy |
Fri Sep 8, 2023 Newton Room, Sutardja Dai Hall 10–11 AM |
Semiautonomous Seminar Wesley Holliday (UC Berkeley) Philosophical and computational perspectives on preference aggregation |
Fri Sep 8, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Andreja Novakovic (Philosophy, UC Berkeley) Hegel’s Answer to the ‘Academy’ Question: Is it Permissible to Deceive a People? |
Thu Sep 14, 2023 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Justin Khoo (MIT) Judging for Ourselves |
Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Dhananjay Jagannathan (Philosophy, Columbia University) Defending Aristotelian Justice |
Fri Sep 15, 2023 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Scott Mutchnik (University of Illinois Chicago) Perspectives on NSOP3 |
Fri Sep 22, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Daniel Lee (Political Science, UC Berkeley) The Grotian Rights Revolution |
Tue Sep 26, 2023 Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall 4–6 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values David Whorton (Tugboat Institute) Underappreciated Evergreen Companies: Capitalism at Its Best |
Fri Sep 29, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory William Clare Roberts (Political Science, McGill University) Ideology and Social Opacity: Destutt de Tracy, Marx, and the Fate of Enlightenment |
Fri Sep 29, 2023 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Antonina Kolokolova (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Reasoning about Complexity |
Tue Oct 3, 2023 7205 Dwinelle Hall 5–7 PM |
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Satoshi Ohigara (Tohoku University) Vague for Reasons: The Argument in Plato, Philebus 28c6-31a4 |
Wed Oct 4, 2023 Philosophy 234 6–8 PM Note special time |
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Stephan Hartmann (LMU Munich) Bayesian Coherentism |
Fri Oct 6, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Olivia Bailey (Philosophy, UC Berkeley) Adam Smith and Sophie de Grouchy on Sympathy, Economic Inequality, and the Corruption of Moral Sentiments |
Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Susanne Sreedhar (Boston University) Thomas Hobbes on Sex Difference and Gender Equality |
Fri Oct 13, 2023 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute) War Time Proofs and Futuristic Programs |
Thu Oct 19, 2023 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Thomas Icard (Stanford University) What are cognitive costs? |
Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Melvin Rogers (Brown University) The Darkened Light of Faith: An Introduction |
Fri Oct 27, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Shannon Stimson (Government, Georgetown University) ‘A New Instrument of Government’: Sir William Petty and the Fiscal Constitution of Restoration England |
Fri Nov 3, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Eric Nelson (Government, Harvard University) |
Fri Nov 3, 2023 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Meng-Che "Turbo" Ho (California State University Northridge) Word problems of groups as ceers |
Wed Nov 8, 2023 Alumni House 4:10–6:15 PM |
Howison Lectures in Philosophy Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU) Self-Consciousness and ‘I’ – Anscombe and Sartre in Dialogue |
Thu Nov 9, 2023 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU) Conflicting logics of the mind: Lessons from Kant and Freud |
Thu Nov 16, 2023 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Guillaume Massas (UC Berkeley) Galileo’s Paradox and a Fork in the Road Not Taken |
Fri Nov 17, 2023 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Bryan Garsten (Yale University) |
Fri Nov 17, 2023 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Alexander Kechris (Caltech) The compact action realization problem |
Mon Nov 20, 2023 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Ezra Rubenstein |
Thu Nov 30, 2023 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Joseph Kassman-Tod (UC Berkeley) Aesthetic Humility as ‘Remembrance’: A Critical Virtue |
Fri Dec 1, 2023 12:15–2:30 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Murad Idris (University of Michigan) Re-Orienting Luther: Soldiers, Missionaries, and Second-Comings |
Fri Dec 8, 2023 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium John Wright (UC Berkeley) Nonlocal games, MIP* = RE, and the Connes Embedding Problem |
Fri Jan 19, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Ruth Chang (Oxford) Does AI Design Rest on a Mistake? |
Fri Jan 19, 2024 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Lenore Blum (Berkeley) A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness and Artificial General Intelligence |
Mon Jan 22, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Allison Piñeros-Glasscock To Benefit or Succeed: A Tension in Stoic Ethics |
Tue Jan 23, 2024 Howison Library 6–7:30 PM |
Undergraduate Philosophy Event Ruth Chang A puzzle concerning human agency |
Thu Jan 25, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Lea Schroeder A puzzle about sight in Plato’s Timaeus |
Fri Jan 26, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Jessika Riskin (History of Science, Stanford) Intelligence vs Reductionism |
Mon Jan 29, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Sam Meister What Is the Purpose of Aristotle’s Theology? |
Wed Jan 31, 2024 Berkeley Way West, Room 8034 10 AM–3 PM |
Conference Ashish Goel, Paul Gölz, Wesley Holliday, Zoi Terzopoulou Interdisciplinary Workshop on Computational Social Choice |
Thu Feb 1, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Marko Malink The Metaphysical Basis of Aristotle’s Logic |
Fri Feb 2, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Melanie Mitchell (Cognitive Science, Santa Fe Institute) The Debate Over Understanding in AI’s Large Language Models |
Fri Feb 2, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Paulo Mancosu and Guillaume Massas (Berkeley) Totality, Regularity and Cardinality in Probability Theory |
Mon Feb 5, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium James Allen Aristotle on the relation between Dialectic & Philosophy |
Wed Feb 7, 2024 Philosophy 234 6–8 PM |
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Matthew Mandelkern (NYU) The Logic of Sequences |
Thu Feb 8, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Rachel Barney The Ethics and Politics of Plato’s Noble Lie |
Fri Feb 9, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Alison Gopnik (Psychology, Berkeley) Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet) |
Fri Feb 16, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Josh Tenenbaum & Laura Schulz (Cognitive Science, MIT) Principles of Intelligence |
Fri Feb 16, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Jing Zhang (University of Toronto) The strengths and weaknesses of the second uncountable cardinal |
Fri Feb 23, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Michael Tomasello (Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke) How to Build a Normative Creature |
Fri Mar 1, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Yoshua Bengio (Cognitive Science, Montréal) Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States |
Fri Mar 1, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Mariana Vicaría (UCLA) Model theory of valued fields |
Thu Mar 7, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium John Carriero Spinoza and Our Ontological Demotion |
Fri Mar 8, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Sydney Levine (Psychology, Allen Institute) Resource-Rational Contractualism: A Triple Theory of Moral Cognition |
Mon Mar 11, 2024 Howison Library 4–6:15 PM |
Townsend Visitor Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University) Time: The Arrow Most Difficult to Comprehend |
Tue Mar 12, 2024 Howison Library 4–6:15 PM |
Townsend Visitor Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University) Agency: Laplace Meets Gödel |
Thu Mar 14, 2024 Howison Library 4–6:15 PM |
Townsend Visitor Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University) Quantum Mechanics: A Participatory Universe in a Realist Mode |
Fri Mar 15, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Deborah Hellman & Lily Hu (Virginia Law & Yale Philosophy) Algorithmic Fairness |
Fri Mar 15, 2024 Howison Library 4–6:15 PM |
Townsend Visitor Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University) General Discussion |
Fri Mar 15, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Tom Benhamou (Rutgers) Commutativity of cofinal types of ultrafilters |