Recent Events
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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 24, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Krzysztof Mierzewski (Carnegie Mellon University) TBD |
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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 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 10, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium James Walsh (New York University) TBD |
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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 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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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 Sep 26, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Natasha Dobrinen (University of Notre Dame) TBD |
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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 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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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 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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Mon May 5, 2025 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Wes Holliday Work in Progress Talk |