Event Archive
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Thu Nov 30, 2023 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Joseph Kassman-Tod (UC Berkeley) Aesthetic Humility as ‘Remembrance’: A Critical Virtue |
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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 |
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Fri Dec 8, 2023 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium John Wright (UC Berkeley) Nonlocal games, MIP* = RE, and the Connes Embedding Problem |
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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? |
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Fri Jan 19, 2024 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Lenore Blum (Berkeley) A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness and Artificial General Intelligence |
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Mon Jan 22, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Allison Piñeros-Glasscock To Benefit or Succeed: A Tension in Stoic Ethics |
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Tue Jan 23, 2024 Howison Library 6–7:30 PM |
Undergraduate Philosophy Event Ruth Chang A puzzle concerning human agency |
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Thu Jan 25, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Lea Schroeder A puzzle about sight in Plato’s Timaeus |
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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 |
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Mon Jan 29, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Sam Meister What Is the Purpose of Aristotle’s Theology? |
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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 |
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Thu Feb 1, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Marko Malink The Metaphysical Basis of Aristotle’s Logic |
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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 |
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Fri Feb 2, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Paulo Mancosu and Guillaume Massas (Berkeley) Totality, Regularity and Cardinality in Probability Theory |
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Mon Feb 5, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium James Allen Aristotle on the relation between Dialectic & Philosophy |
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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 |
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Thu Feb 8, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Rachel Barney The Ethics and Politics of Plato’s Noble Lie |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Fri Mar 1, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Mariana Vicaría (UCLA) Model theory of valued fields |
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Thu Mar 7, 2024 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium John Carriero Spinoza and Our Ontological Demotion |
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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 |
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Mon Mar 11, 2024 Howison Library 4–6:15 PM |
Townsend Visitor Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University) Time: The Arrow Most Difficult to Comprehend |
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Tue Mar 12, 2024 Howison Library 4–6:15 PM |
Townsend Visitor Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University) Agency: Laplace Meets Gödel |
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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 |
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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 |
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Fri Mar 15, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Tom Benhamou (Rutgers) Commutativity of cofinal types of ultrafilters |
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Fri Mar 15, 2024 Howison Library 4–6:15 PM |
Townsend Visitor Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University) General Discussion |
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Fri Mar 22, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Richard Tuck (Government, Harvard) Hobbes and Weber on the Jury |
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Tue Mar 26, 2024 Dennes Room (Philosophy 234) 9 AM–5 PM |
Departmental Events Workshop on Rationality and Reality |
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Wed Apr 3, 2024 Philosophy 301 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Geoff Lee |
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Fri Apr 5, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Terrence Deacon (Anthropology, Berkeley) On Human (Symbolic) Nature: How the Word Became Flesh |
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Fri Apr 12, 2024 Law Building 141 12:15–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Jan Engelmann (Psychology, Berkeley) Social Interaction Explains the Development of Uniquely Human Cognition |
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Fri Apr 12, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Martin Zeman (UC Irvine) Games with filters, strong ideals, and iterated club shooting |
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Mon Apr 15, 2024 Philosophy 301 1:15–2:15 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Snow Zhang |
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Thu Apr 18, 2024 Warren Room, Berkeley Law 4–6 PM |
Kadish Lecture David Garland (NYU Law and Sociology) A Theory of American Penal Exceptionalism |
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Fri Apr 19, 2024 60 Evans 4:10–5 PM |
Logic Colloquium Giovanni Sambin (Università di Padova) Positive Topology. A New Practice in Constructive Mathematics |
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Wed Apr 24, 2024 Toll Room, Alumni House 4–6:15 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Rachel Barney, Adam Gopnik, Rachana Kamtekar The Authority of Craft, Lecture I–The End of Craft |
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Thu Apr 25, 2024 Dennes Room (Philosophy 234) 2–4 PM Note special time |
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Sergei Artemov (CUNY Graduate Center) Two Models of Provability |
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Thu Apr 25, 2024 Toll Room, Alumni House 4–6:15 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Rachel Barney, Alexander Nehamas, Christine Korsgaard The Authority of Craft, Lecture II–Craft, Métier, Utopia |
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Fri Apr 26, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Sergei Artemov The Provability of Consistency |
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Fri Apr 26, 2024 Toll Room, Alumni House 4–6:15 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Rachel Barney, Adam Gopnik, Rachana Kamtekar, Alexander Nehamas, and Christine Korsgaard The Authority of Craft, Seminar and Discussion with the Commentators |
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Sat May 11, 2024 Faculty Glade at the Faculty Club 4–6 PM |
Departmental Events Philosophy Department Graduation |
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Thu May 16, 2024–Fri May 17, 2024 Howison Library 8 AM–6 PM |
Conference Sara Aronowitz, Jennifer Carr, Thomas Icard, Michael Rescorla, David Thorstad, Francesca Zaffora Blando Berkeley Bounded Rationality Workshop |
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Fri Aug 30, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Peter Koellner (Philosophy, Harvard) Disagreement in Mathematics: From the Small Finite to the Higher Infinite |
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Fri Sep 6, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Edward Hall (Philosophy, Harvard) Collaborative Disagreement |
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Fri Sep 13, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Lilliana Mason (Political Science, Johns Hopkins) Pluralism Polarization: The Deepest Partisan Divide is Over Pluralistic Democracy |
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Fri Sep 13, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Forte Shinko (Berkeley Math) Hyperfiniteness for graphs of slow intermediate growth |
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Fri Sep 20, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Peter Galison (History of Science, Harvard) Governing Epistemology: Knowledge in Large-Scale Experiments |
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Fri Sep 20, 2024 Evans 60 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Theodore Slaman (Berkeley Math) Extending Borel’s Conjecture from Measure to Dimension |
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Wed Sep 25, 2024 234 Philosophy Hall 6–7:30 PM |
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Michael Mendler and Luke Burke (Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg) The Došen Square under construction: A tale of four modalities |
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Fri Sep 27, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory John MacFarlane (Philosophy, Berkeley) Disagreement and Meaning |
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Fri Oct 4, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Leif Nelson (Berkeley Haas) |
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Fri Oct 4, 2024 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Elliot Glazer (Epoch AI) Versatility of random reals |
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Wed Oct 9, 2024 Evans Hall 60 3–5 PM |
Neyman Seminar Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech) Severity as a Basic Concept in Philosophy of Statistics |
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Wed Oct 9, 2024 Alumni House, Toll Room 4–6 PM |
Howison Lectures in Philosophy Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor (UNC Chapel Hill) Character and Agency |
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Thu Oct 10, 2024 Stroud Room 2–3:30 PM |
Meaning Sciences Club Seth Yalcin Counterepistemic Knowledge |
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Thu Oct 10, 2024 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor (UNC Chapel Hill) Freedom for Humans |
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Fri Oct 11, 2024–Sun Oct 13, 2024 UC Berkeley Campus |
Conference Computability and Mathematical Definability |
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Fri Oct 11, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Mike Martin (Philosophy, Berkeley) Hume, sentiments, and no-fault disagreement |
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Fri Oct 18, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory David Enoch (Philosophy of Law, Oxford) |
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Fri Oct 18, 2024 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Andrew Bacon (USC) |
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Wed Oct 23, 2024 Alumni House, Toll Room 4:10 PM |
Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia) The Search for Paradise |
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Thu Oct 24, 2024 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside) Taking Love Public: On James Baldwin and Love’s Political Possibilities |
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Fri Oct 25, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Jennifer Lackey (Philosophy, Northwester) Stories That Wrong and Stories That Repair |
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Fri Nov 1, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Genevieve Lakier (Law, Chicago) |
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Fri Nov 1, 2024 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Felix Weilacher (UC Berkeley) Shannon’s Theorem and the Unbalanced Matching Problem in the Measurable Context |
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Thu Nov 7, 2024 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Carolyn Dicey Jennings (University of California, Merced) Work In Progress Talk: Collective Attention |
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Fri Nov 8, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Lara Buchak (Philosophy, Princeton) |
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Thu Nov 14, 2024 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Evan Thompson (University of British Columbia) When Death Comes |
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Fri Nov 15, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Daniel Viehoff (Philosophy, UC Berkeley) Authority and Control |
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Fri Nov 15, 2024 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Eyal Kaplan (UC Berkeley) The potentialist principle |
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Mon Nov 18, 2024 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Ezra Rubenstein Work In Progress Talk: Conjunction as Identity |
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Mon Nov 18, 2024 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Elek Lane Deadnaming, Taboo, and Linguistic Authority |
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Thu Nov 21, 2024 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Edward Schwartz Beyond Language: Slurs and Social Norms |
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Fri Nov 22, 2024 141 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Deanna Kuhn (Psychology, Columbia) What Can Discourse Do? |