Philosophy Hall at night, viewed from Sproul Plaza

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Upcoming Workshop 2025-03-05

The Berkeley Metaphysics Workshop will be held on March 15th-16th. We are excited to welcome eight fantastic philosophers who will be presenting new works-in-progress:

Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt (Center for Advanced Studies, Berlin) Katie Elliott (Brandeis) Alex Jackson (Boise State) Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia) Isaac Wilhelm (National University of Singapore) Sam Elgin (UC San Diego) Erica Shumener (Syracuse) David Builes (Princeton)

A link to the schedule with abstracts and more information is here .

Events this week

Tue Mar 18, 2025
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Josefine Klingspor, John Carrierio, Sam Newlands, Russ Leo
Why read Spinoza’s Ethics? (Panel Discussion)
Thu Mar 20, 2025
Howison
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Daniel Greco (Yale)
Knowledge from Fiction?
Fri Mar 21, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
James Orr (Religion, Cambridge)
TBA
Sat Mar 22, 2025
Heyns Room, Faculty Club
1 PM
Sather Lecture
Greg Woolf (ISAW)
A Distant Tyrant: Emperor, Empire, Impotence