Upcoming Events

Thu Jan 30, 2025
Maud Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)
5–7 PM
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Agnes Callard (University of Chicago)
The Case For A Philosophical Life
Fri Jan 31, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Helena Rosenblatt (History, CUNY)
Liberal Political Economy on the Eve of the French Revolution: Jacques and Suzanne Necker, Critics of Laissez-Faire
Fri Jan 31, 2025
1015 Evans Hall (Note the change!)
4:10 PM
Logic Colloquium
Alexi Block Gorman (Ohio State University)
Expansions of ℝ and ℕ by k-automatic sets: Choose-your-own-adventure!
Fri Jan 31, 2025
370 Dwinelle Hall
5–7 PM
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Agnes Callard (University of Chicago)
Is There Any Such Thing As Socratic Irony?
Thu Feb 6, 2025
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Una Stojnić (Princeton)
Fri Feb 7, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Hanoch Dagan (Law, UC Berkeley)
Freedom of Contract
Fri Feb 14, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Anna Stilz (Political Theory, UC Berkeley)
TBA
Fri Feb 14, 2025
60 Evans Hall
4:10 PM
Logic Colloquium
Gaia Belardinelli (Stanford)
Fri Feb 21, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Ricarda Hammer (Sociology, UC Berkeley)
Atlantic Reconstruction
Fri Feb 21, 2025
4:10 PM
Logic Colloquium
Simon Huttegger (UC Irvine)
Sat Feb 22, 2025
Heyns Room, Faculty Club
1–3 PM
Sather Lecture
Victoria Wohl (Classics, University of Toronto)
Intelligent Air
Thu Feb 27, 2025
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth)
Fri Feb 28, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Keidrick Roy (Political Theory, Harvard)
Black Patriot Liberalism
Fri Mar 7, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Steven Hahn (History, NYU)
TBA
Fri Mar 14, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Patrick Deneen (Political Theory, Notre Dame)
TBA
Fri Mar 14, 2025
60 Evans Hall
4:10 PM
Logic Colloquium
Eddy Keming Chen (UC Davis)
Exchangeability and Algorithmic Randomness: A New Proof of the Principal Principle
Sat Mar 15, 2025–Sun Mar 16, 2025
Conference
Berkeley Metaphysics Workshop
Sat Mar 15, 2025
Heyns Room, Faculty Club
1–3 PM
Sather Lecture
Josiah Ober (Classics, Stanford)
Cleverness Revisited: Why wicked and excellent people are called deinoi (Aristotle NE 1144a21-22)
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
Fri Mar 28, 2025
60 Evans Hall
4:10 PM
Logic Colloquium
TBD
Thu Apr 3, 2025
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
J. Reid Miller (Haverford College)
TBD
Fri Apr 4, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Linda Zerilli (Political Theory, Chicago)
TBA
Fri Apr 4, 2025
4:10 PM
Logic Colloquium
Ronnie Chen (University of Michigan)
Sat Apr 5, 2025
Heyns Room, Faculty Club
1–3 PM
Sather Lecture
Emily Gowers (Classics, Cambridge)
Various Trees
Mon Apr 7, 2025–Fri Apr 11, 2025
Townsend Visitor
Amia Srinivasan (Oxford)
Fri Apr 11, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Sophie Smith (Political Theory, Oxford)
TBA
Fri Apr 11, 2025
60 Evans Hall
4:10 PM
Logic Colloquium
Francesca Zaffora Blando (CMU)
Mon Apr 14, 2025
TBA
4–5:30 PM
Alfred Tarski Lectures
Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University)
TBA
Wed Apr 16, 2025
4–5:30 PM
Alfred Tarski Lectures
Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University)
TBA
Thu Apr 17, 2025
4–5:30 PM
Alfred Tarski Lectures
Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University)
TBA
Fri Apr 18, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Samuel Moyn (Law & History, Yale)
TBA
Fri Apr 25, 2025
Room 170 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Michelle Schwarze (Political Theory, Wisconsin)
TBA
Fri May 2, 2025
60 Evans Hall
4:10 PM
Logic Colloquium
Omer Ben-Neria (UCLA)
Sat May 17, 2025
Faculty Glade at the Faculty Club
Departmental Events
Philosophy Department Graduation
Mon Apr 13, 2026–Fri Apr 17, 2026
4–6 PM
Townsend Visitor
Professor Ray Briggs (University of Chicago)

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