Recent Events

Fri May 19, 2023–Sat May 20, 2023
Howison Library
9 AM–5 PM
Conference
Berkeley London Conference
Sat May 13, 2023
Faculty Glade
4–6 PM
Philosophy Department Graduation
Fri May 5, 2023
223 Philosophy Hall
10 AM–5 PM
Conference
The Promise and Problems of Political Realism
Thu May 4, 2023
223 Philosophy Hall
10 AM–5 PM
Conference
The Promise and Problems of Political Realism
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
Wed Apr 26, 2023
Room 60, Evans Hall
4:10–5 PM
Alfred Tarski Lectures
Richard Shore (Cornell University)
Reverse Mathematics: A Global View
Mon Apr 24, 2023
Room 3, Physics
4:10–5 PM
Alfred Tarski Lectures
Richard Shore (Cornell University)
Reverse Mathematics: A Multiverse
Fri Apr 21, 2023
60 Evans
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Noah Schweber (Proof School)
Ceers (on omega and above)
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
141 Law Building
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Ayelet Shachar (University of Toronto)
TBA
Wed Apr 19, 2023–Fri Apr 21, 2023
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Philippe Descola
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
Fri Apr 14, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Townsend Visitor
Ursula Coope
Discussion
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
Thu Apr 13, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Townsend Visitor
Ursula Coope
Movement as incomplete: benefits and challenges for an Aristotelian account
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
Tue Apr 11, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Townsend Visitor
Ursula Coope
Aristotle on movement and the present
Mon Apr 10, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Townsend Visitor
Ursula Coope
Aristotle’s distinction between movement and activity: ancient criticisms, modern distortions
Fri Apr 7, 2023
4:10–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Zeynep Soysal (University of Rochester)
The Metalinguistic Construal of Mathematical Propositions
Fri Apr 7, 2023
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Nelson Tebbe (Law, Cornell University)
Reestablishing Religion
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
Mon Apr 3, 2023
12–1 PM
Work in Progress Talk
John MacFarlane
Fri Mar 31, 2023
60 Evans
4:10–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Ralf Schindler (WWU Münster)
The definability of the nonstationary ideal
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
Thu Mar 23, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Thi Nguyen
Value Capture
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
Tue Mar 21, 2023
12–1 PM
Work in Progress Talk
John Campbell
Mon Mar 20, 2023
TBA
4–6 PM
Reception for prospective graduate students
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
Fri Mar 17, 2023
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
David Hollinger (History, UC Berkeley)
Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular
Wed Mar 15, 2023
234 Moses
4:10–6 PM
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science
Ivano Caponigro (UCSD Linguistics)
Logic and Grammar: Richard Montague’s Turn towards Natural Language
Mon Mar 13, 2023
Social Science Building Room 129
4–6 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Allison Aitken
Turtles all the Way Down? Madhyamaka Buddhist Anti-foundationalism
Fri Mar 10, 2023
60 Evans Hall
4:10–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Elaine Landry (UC Davis)
As-If Mathematics were True
Fri Mar 10, 2023
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Michele Margolis (University of Pennsylvania)
Sensitive Snowflakes? Understanding Perceived Discrimination Against Christians
Thu Mar 9, 2023
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Ezra Rubenstein
Towards a Neo-Classical Account of Probability
Mon Mar 6, 2023
12–1 PM
Work in Progress Talk
Olivia Bailey
Fri Mar 3, 2023
141 Law Building
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Elizabeth Sepper (Law, University of Texas)
Government’s Religious Hospitals
Fri Feb 24, 2023
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Michael McConnell (Law, Stanford University)
Disestablishment in the States
Fri Feb 17, 2023
141 Law Building
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Thomas Pink (Philosophy, King's College London)
Natural Law and the Nature of Law
Wed Feb 15, 2023
Howison Library
11 AM–1 PM
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Emily Perry (UC Berkeley)
What Made the Apple Fall? Aristotle on the Efficient Cause of Elemental Locomotion
Fri Feb 10, 2023
141 Law Building
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green State University)
Is Catholic Integralism Just? Assessing Religious Postliberal Alternatives to Liberalism
Thu Feb 9, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Daniel Viehoff (NYU)
TBA
Mon Feb 6, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Daniel Sharp (LMU Munich)
Fri Feb 3, 2023
141 Law Building
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Intisar Rabb (Law and History, Harvard)
Metacanons: Comparative Textualism
Thu Feb 2, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Graduate Research Colloquium
Sven Neth
Random Emeralds
Fri Jan 27, 2023
141 Law Building
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Melissa Lane (Politics, Princeton University)
Plato on Rule and Office: The Value and Limits of Proceduralism
Thu Jan 26, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Brookes Brown (Clemson University & Wharton School)
TBD
Mon Jan 23, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Juliana Bidadanure (Stanford University)
TBA
Fri Jan 20, 2023
141 Law Building
12:15–2:15 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Alan Patten (Politics, Princeton University)
Religious Liberty in the Time of Pandemic
Thu Dec 15, 2022
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Graduate Research Colloquium
Michael Arsenault
Aristotle on Misperception
Thu Dec 8, 2022
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Graduate Research Colloquium
Patrick Ryan
Cosmic Topology, Conventionality, and the Constitutive A Priori
Tue Dec 6, 2022–Wed Dec 7, 2022
Howison Library
Conference
Workshop on Probability and Meaning
Fri Dec 2, 2022
60 Evans Hall
4:10–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley)
How many points are in a line segment? From Grosseteste to numerosities.
Fri Dec 2, 2022
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Shterna Friedman (Political Theory, Berkeley)
Thu Dec 1, 2022
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Graduate Research Colloquium
Sven Neth
Random Emeralds (postponed to a later date TBD)
Tue Nov 29, 2022
Dwinelle 279
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Allison Aitken
“Turtles all the Way Down? Madhyamaka Buddhist Anti-foundationalism”
Tue Nov 22, 2022
Dwinelle 279
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Shay Welch
Indigenous Dance and Democracy
Fri Nov 18, 2022
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Rowan Mellor (University of Toronto)
Joint Ought
Thu Nov 17, 2022
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Briana Toole
Trojan Horse Speech and Coded Discourse
Wed Nov 16, 2022
online
12–1 PM
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Asad Ahmed (UC Berkeley, )
Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia
Tue Nov 15, 2022
Dwinelle 279
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Teodros Kiros
The Rationality of the Human Heart: The Philosophy of Zera Yacob
Mon Nov 14, 2022
Dennes Room
4–5:30 PM
Nick Wiltsher (Uppsala University)
Aesthetic selves as objects of interpersonal understanding
Thu Nov 10, 2022
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Graduate Research Colloquium
Mathias Boehm
What We Learn from Indicatives
Tue Nov 8, 2022
Dwinelle 279
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Jin Y. Park
Women and Buddhist Philosophy: The Case of Kim Iryŏp
Fri Nov 4, 2022
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Khiara Bridges (Law, Berkeley)
Thu Nov 3, 2022
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Shelly Kagan
Death, Deprivation, and Rational Regret
Wed Nov 2, 2022
Kadish Lecture
Philippe van Parijs
Tue Nov 1, 2022
Dwinelle 279
5 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Keya Maitra
Buddhism and Gender
Fri Oct 28, 2022
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
David Estlund (Philosophy, Brown)
Tue Oct 25, 2022
Dwinelle 279
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Clinton Tolley
Talk TBD on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Fri Oct 21, 2022
Dwinelle 279
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
William Paris
What was Black Power?: James Boggs and the Making of Rights
Fri Oct 21, 2022
60 Evans Hall
4:10–5 PM
Logic Colloquium
Wes Holliday (UC Berkeley)
Subsystems of classical logic and their semantics based on graphs
Fri Oct 21, 2022
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Wendy Salkin (Philosophy, Stanford)
Thu Oct 20, 2022
234 Moses
4:10–6 PM
Cancelled!
Meaning Sciences Club
Judith Degen (Stanford University, Linguistics)
On the role of gradient referential utility and incrementality in cross-linguistic referring expression production
Tue Oct 18, 2022
Dwinelle 279
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
David Wong
Zhuangzi on Who Should Lead (Within our Selves and Within Society)
Mon Oct 17, 2022–Wed Oct 19, 2022
4–6 PM
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Charles Beitz
Fri Oct 14, 2022
Zoom
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Michael Marmot (UCL)
Tue Oct 11, 2022
Dwinelle 279
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Carlos Sanchez
TBA
Fri Oct 7, 2022
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Lucas Stanczyk (Philosophy, Harvard)
Thu Oct 6, 2022
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Dilip Ninan (Tufts)
Assertion and the Passage of Time
Tue Oct 4, 2022
Dwinelle 279
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Eric Schwitzgebel
The Value of Self-Contradiction in Zhuangzi
Fri Sep 30, 2022
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Juliana Bidadanure (Philosophy & Political Science, Stanford)
Tue Sep 27, 2022
Dwinelle 255
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Andrea Sullivan-Clarke
Strategic Ignorance, is it Indigenous?
Tue Sep 27, 2022
Law 136
10 AM–12 PM
Matthias Armgardt (University of Hamburg)
Leibniz’s Legal Philosophy in Comparison with Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, and Pufendorf
Fri Sep 23, 2022
60 Evans Hall
4:10–5 PM
Logic Colloquium
Branden Fitelson (Northeastern University)
Probabilities of Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities – Revisited
Fri Sep 23, 2022
Room 141, Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Renée Jorgensen (Philosophy Michigan)
Tue Sep 20, 2022
Dwinelle 255
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Patrick Anderson
The Phallus and the Ogre V: Eldridge Cleaver and the Methodological Basis for a New Africana Philosophy
Tue Sep 13, 2022
5–7 PM
Cosmopolitan Philosophy at Berkeley
Ethan Mills
Vasubandhu’s Twenty Verses: Skepticism Idealism? Both? Neither?