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? |