Event Archive
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Fri May 9, 2025 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Johan van Benthem (Stanford University) Mathematical Logic Meets Philosophy: Tracing the role of Beth Definability and Craig Interpolation up to today |
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Sat May 17, 2025 Faculty Glade at the Faculty Club 4:30–6:30 PM |
Departmental Events Philosophy Department Graduation |
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Fri Aug 29, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Eugene Volokh (Hoover Institution) Protest Torts and Public Pressure Torts |
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Wed Sep 3, 2025 Social Science 291 4–5:30 PM |
Departmental Events Nicholas Southwood (ANU) Political Theory Workshop: Feasibility beyond ‘ought’ implies ‘can’ |
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Fri Sep 5, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, Berkeley Law) TBA |
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Fri Sep 12, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Jacob Mchangama (Vanderbilt) TBA |
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Fri Sep 12, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame) TBD |
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Fri Sep 19, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Sarah Song (Berkeley Law) TBA |
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Wed Sep 24, 2025 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall 4–6 PM |
Howison Lectures in Philosophy Peter Godfrey-Smith (University of Sydney) Evolution and Animal Minds |
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Thu Sep 25, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Peter Godfrey-Smith (University of Sydney) Expression, Tolerance, and Autonomy |
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Fri Sep 26, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory David Cole (Georgetown) TBA |
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Fri Sep 26, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Natasha Dobrinen (University of Notre Dame) TBD |
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Wed Oct 1, 2025 SSB 791 4–5:30 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Seana Shiffrin (UCLA) The Priority of Public Property |
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Fri Oct 3, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Seana Shiffrin (UCLA) Jumping to Conclusions: Free Speech and Imputed Speech |
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Fri Oct 10, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Rae Langton (Cambridge) Directive and Empowering Rules for Free Speech |
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Fri Oct 10, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium James Walsh (New York University) TBD |
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Fri Oct 17, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Mary Anne Franks (GW Law) First They Came For the Students: Campus Protest in the Crosshairs of Authoritarianism |
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Fri Oct 24, 2025 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Daphne Keller (Stanford) Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users |
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Fri Oct 24, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Krzysztof Mierzewski (Carnegie Mellon University) TBD |
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Thu Oct 30, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Milan Mossé Modeling Discrimination with Causal Abstraction |
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Fri Oct 31, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Benjamin Eidelson (Harvard) Weak and Strong Neutrality |
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Fri Nov 7, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Erin Miller (USC) The Culture of Ideas: A Renewed Epistemic Justification of Free Speech |
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Sun Nov 9, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Maria Soskova (University of Wisconsin-Madison) The jump and the skip in the enumeration degrees |
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Fri Nov 14, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12:15 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Lea Ypi (LSE) What is Political Progress? |
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Thu Nov 20, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Madeleine Levac Pretence, Singular Thought, and the Boundaries of the Mental |
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Fri Nov 21, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Adrienne Stone (Melbourne Law) Academic Freedom: Three Hard Questions |
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Fri Nov 21, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Douglas Blue (University of Pittsburgh) Steel’s program and Nairian models |
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Thu Dec 4, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Miriam Schoenfield (UT Austin) Boltzmann Brains and Center Indifference |
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Fri Dec 5, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Obrad Kasum (UCLA) On the minimum model of AD_R + “Theta is regular” |
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Tue Dec 9, 2025 301 Philosophy Hall 11 AM–12 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Mike Martin (UC Berkeley) Elusive Objectivity |
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Thu Dec 11, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Scott Cowan Reflection at the End of Art: Danto, Kant, and the Transformation of Appearance |
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Thu Jan 22, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Yoav Schaefer Salomon Maimon on the Unity of the Intellect in Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed |
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Fri Jan 23, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Felipe Jimenez (USC Law) The Institution of Contract |
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Mon Jan 26, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Yehuda Halper Will the Wise Man Boast of Al-Fārābī? Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Introduction of Intellect into Medieval Hebrew Philosophy |
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Thu Jan 29, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Karin Nisenbaum Kant and Rosenzweig on the Path from Morality to Religion |
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Fri Jan 30, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Sabine Tsuruda (U. Toronto Law) Workers’ Freedom of Association |
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Mon Feb 2, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Lucas Oro Hershtein The Shape of Thought: Modelling the Intelligible through Estimation (wahm) in Ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī |
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Fri Feb 6, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Wendy Salkin (Stanford Law) Writers Are Not Congressmen |
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Thu Feb 12, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Amy Levine Finitude as Interpretive Dependence in Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety |
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Fri Feb 13, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Pinchas Huberman (Berkeley Law) The Coverage of Ordinary First Amendment Standards |
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Fri Feb 13, 2026 60 Evans Hall 4:10–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Dominik Adolf (Harbin Institute of Technology) The great determinacy translation project |
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Thu Feb 19, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Haley Brennan Are Two Selves Too Many Selves? A Puzzle about the Relation Between Selves in Kant |
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Fri Feb 20, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Greg Conti (Princeton) TBA |
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Mon Feb 23, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Christopher Fowles Nietzsche on Perspectivism |
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Thu Feb 26, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Sabina Bremner Kant’s Conception of Purposive Freedom |
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Fri Feb 27, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Oded Naaman (Hebrew University) Morality and Necessity at War |
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Fri Mar 6, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Kate Vrendenburgh (LSE) Moral Understanding, Opacity, and Worker Freedom |
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Fri Mar 6, 2026 60 Evans Hall 4:10–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Anton Bernshteyn (UCLA) Borel Local Lemma for graphs of slow growth |
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Wed Mar 11, 2026 Alumni House, Toll Room 4:10–6 PM |
Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul Mark Johnston (Princeton) Is this your only life? |
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Thu Mar 12, 2026 370 Dwinelle Hall 5–7 PM |
Departmental Events Christian Coseru (College of Charleston) Disputed Ground: Paradox and Ineffability at the Limits of Thought - Annual Numata Lecture in Buddhist Philosophy |
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Fri Mar 13, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Lily Hu (Yale) Discrimination, Causation, and Detecting Normative Phenomena |
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Fri Mar 13, 2026 60 Evans Hall 4:10–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Anand Pillay (Notre Dame) |
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Tue Mar 17, 2026 340 Stephens Hall 5–7 PM |
Conference Peter Adamson (LMU Munich) The Anatomy of Avicenna’s Philosophy: the Logic of Existence and the Flying Man |
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Wed Mar 18, 2026 11 AM–12 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Seth Yalcin Common Knowledge First |
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Thu Mar 19, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Cian Dorr (NYU) Structure-sensitive attitude reports without structured propositions |
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Fri Mar 20, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Renée Jørgensen (Michigan) Stereotyping, Statistical Discrimination and Wrongs of Disrespect |
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Fri Mar 20, 2026 60 Evans Hall 4:10–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Toby Meadows (UCI) Found in translation: at the limit of the Hudetz program |
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Sat Mar 21, 2026 340 Stephens 9 AM–6 PM |
Conference Asad Q. Ahmed (UC Berkeley), Peter Adamson (LMU München), Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse), Kristin Primus (UC Berkeley), Jonathan Jacobs (St. Louis University) Grounding in the History of Philosophy I |
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Thu Mar 26, 2026–Fri Mar 27, 2026 Center for Middle Eastern Studies 9 AM–6 PM |
Conference Asad Q. Ahmed; Peter Adamson; Husayn Ibrahim; Evan Grennon; John Ropoulos; Hacan Genc; Umar Sheikh Tahir; Zain Alattar; Shiraz Ali; Nada Abdelsalaam Islamic Philosophy in the Margins |
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Mon Mar 30, 2026 The Dennes Room, Philosophy Hall 2–3:30 PM |
Meaning Sciences Club Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA) Productivity in Iconic and Symbolic Semantics |
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Thu Apr 2, 2026 The Goldberg Room, Berkeley Law 4–6 PM |
Kadish Lecture Daniel Markovits (Yale Law School) The Good Life After the Age of Growth |
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Fri Apr 3, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Annette Zimmermann (Wisconsin) Sanction the Broligarchs |
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Fri Apr 10, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Crescente Molina (Rutgers Law) Normative Powers and Permissive Right |
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Mon Apr 13, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Ray Briggs (University of Chicago) Toward an Ethics of Body Modification |
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Tue Apr 14, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Ray Briggs (University of Chicago) What Do Tattoos Mean? |
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Thu Apr 16, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Ray Briggs (University of Chicago) Why (Not) Get a Tattoo? |
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Fri Apr 17, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Natasha Piano (UCLA) Schumpeter’s Dare: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in the 21st Century |
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Fri Apr 17, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Ray Briggs (University of Chicago) Q&A |
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Fri Apr 17, 2026 60 Evans Hall 4:10–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Thomas Barrett (UCSB) Invariance and Definability in General Relativity |
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Wed Apr 22, 2026 Courtyard 4–6 PM |
Undergraduate Reception / Berkeley Connect Study Break Undergraduate Spring Reception |
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Wed Apr 22, 2026 234 Philosophy Hall 6–7:30 PM |
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Johan van Benthem (Stanford University) Incompleteness for modal logics: What is at stake? |
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Fri Apr 24, 2026 Room 132 Law Building 12:10–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Linda Eggert (Oxford/Stanford) Wrongs and Accidents: The Doctrine of Deontic Priority |
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Mon Apr 27, 2026 4:10–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Grigor Sargsyan (Polish Academy of Science) Gödel’s Program |
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Wed Apr 29, 2026 4:10–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Grigor Sargsyan ( Polish Academy of Science) The Nairian Models Perspective |
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Thu Apr 30, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Sharon Street (NYU) If Eternalism is True, Where am I? Integrating the View from Here and Now with the View from Nowhere and Nowhen |
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Thu Apr 30, 2026 Eugene Jarvis Auditorium, Grimes Engineering Center 5:30–7 PM |
Hitchcock Lectures Jules Gill-Peterson (Johns Hopkins University) The Constitutional Right to Transition: Reconstruction and the Political History of Transphobia |
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Fri May 1, 2026–Sat May 2, 2026 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall |
Conference History of Philosophy Society conference |
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Fri May 1, 2026 4:10–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Grigor Sargsyan (Polish Academy of Science) Inner Models and the Powerset Operation |
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Mon May 4, 2026 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall 4:10–6:15 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge) What is decision? |
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Tue May 5, 2026 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall 4:10–6:15 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge) The Decision in history |