Recent Events
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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 |
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Sat May 3, 2025–Sun May 4, 2025 Howison Library 9 AM–3 PM |
Conference Berkeley-London Conference |
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Fri May 2, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Omer Ben-Neria (UCLA) On the strength of ultrafilters on ordinals above choiceless large cardinals |
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Fri Apr 25, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Michelle Schwarze (Political Theory, Wisconsin) After Liberal Utopia: Judith Shklar on Injustice and Political Reform |
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Fri Apr 25, 2025–Sat Apr 26, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 8:30 AM–6 PM |
Conference Between Philosophy and History: A Symposium in Honor of Hans Sluga |
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Thu Apr 24, 2025 Toll Room, Alumni House 4:10–6:15 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Annabel Brett (Cambridge University) The Times of Possibility Seminar and Discussion with Commentators |
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Wed Apr 23, 2025 Toll Room, Alumni House 4:10–6:15 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Annabel Brett (Cambridge University) The Times of Possibility Lecture II |
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Tue Apr 22, 2025 Toll Room, Alumni House 4:10–6:15 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Annabel Brett (Cambridge University) The Times of Possibility Lecture I |
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Mon Apr 21, 2025 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Verónica Gómez Sánchez Work in Progress Talk |
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Fri Apr 18, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Samuel Moyn (Law & History, Yale) From One Crisis of Liberalism to Another |
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Thu Apr 17, 2025 Room 60, Evans Hall 4–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University) Dedekind’s Theory of Ideals and Modern Algebraic Abstraction |
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Wed Apr 16, 2025 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall 4–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University) Dirichlet’s Theorem on Primes in an Arithmetic Progression and the Treatment of Functions as Objects |
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Mon Apr 14, 2025 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall 4–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University) Euclid’s Elements and Diagrammatic Reasoning in Geometry |
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Fri Apr 11, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Francesca Zaffora Blando (CMU) |
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Fri Apr 11, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Discussion |
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Fri Apr 11, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Sophie Smith (Political Theory, Oxford) Should (Political) Philosophers Care about History? |
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Thu Apr 10, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Lecture III: Genealogy as Critique |
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Tue Apr 8, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Lecture II: Genealogy and the Epistemic Question |
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Mon Apr 7, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Lecture I: Genealogy and the Ancients |
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Sat Apr 5, 2025 Heyns Room, Faculty Club 1–3 PM |
Sather Lecture Emily Gowers (Classics, Cambridge) Various Trees |
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Fri Apr 4, 2025 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Ronnie Chen (University of Michigan) |
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Fri Apr 4, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Linda Zerilli (Political Theory, Chicago) Toward a Critical Freedom-Centered Feminist Historiography |
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Thu Apr 3, 2025 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium J. Reid Miller (Haverford College) Sexual Endowments: Rethinking Inheritance and Belonging |
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Wed Apr 2, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM |
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Harvey Lederman (UT Austin) |
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Sat Mar 22, 2025 Heyns Room, Faculty Club 1 PM |
Sather Lecture Greg Woolf (ISAW) A Distant Tyrant: Emperor, Empire, Impotence |
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Fri Mar 21, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory James Orr (Religion, Cambridge) TBA |
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Thu Mar 20, 2025 Howison 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Daniel Greco (Yale) Knowledge from Fiction? |
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Tue Mar 18, 2025 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Josefine Klingspor, John Carrierio, Sam Newlands, Russ Leo Why read Spinoza’s Ethics? (Panel Discussion) |
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Sat Mar 15, 2025 Heyns Room, Faculty Club 1–3 PM |
Sather Lecture Josiah Ober (Classics, Stanford) Cleverness Revisited: Why wicked and excellent people are called deinoi (Aristotle NE 1144a21-22) |
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Sat Mar 15, 2025–Sun Mar 16, 2025 |
Conference Berkeley Metaphysics Workshop |
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Fri Mar 14, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Eddy Keming Chen (UC San Diego) Exchangeability and Algorithmic Randomness: A New Proof of the Principal Principle |
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Fri Mar 14, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Patrick Deneen (Political Theory, Notre Dame) Cold War Right Liberalism: The Case of Leo Strauss and the Straussians |
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Thu Mar 13, 2025 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Shamik Dasgupta Work in Progress Talk |
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Tue Mar 11, 2025 Stroud Room (Phil Hall 3rd floor) 2–3:30 PM |
Meaning Sciences Club Alexander Dinges (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) On Norms of Assertion and Common Ground |
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Fri Mar 7, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Steven Hahn (History, NYU) Illiberal America and the Invention of the Liberal Tradition |
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Thu Mar 6, 2025 Room 12, Law Building 4–6 PM |
Kadish Lecture David Enoch (Oxford & Hebrew University of Jerusalem) A (Somewhat) Unified Theory of Flawed Consent |
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Fri Feb 28, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Keidrick Roy (Political Theory, Harvard) Black Patriot Liberalism |
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Thu Feb 27, 2025 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth) Yea to Truth (Or: The Functions of Truth Talk) |
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Sat Feb 22, 2025 Heyns Room, Faculty Club 1–3 PM |
Sather Lecture Victoria Wohl (Classics, University of Toronto) Intelligent Air |
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Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Simon Huttegger (UC Irvine) |
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Fri Feb 21, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Ricarda Hammer (Sociology, UC Berkeley) Atlantic Reconstruction |
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Fri Feb 14, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Gaia Belardinelli (Stanford) |
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Fri Feb 14, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Anna Stilz (Political Theory, UC Berkeley) Lenin’s Theory of Self-Determination |
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Fri Feb 7, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Hanoch Dagan (Law, UC Berkeley) Freedom of Contract |
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Thu Feb 6, 2025 Howison Library 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Una Stojnić (Princeton) Inflammatory Language |
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Fri Jan 31, 2025 370 Dwinelle Hall 5–7 PM |
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Agnes Callard (University of Chicago) Is There Any Such Thing As Socratic Irony? |
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Fri Jan 31, 2025 1015 Evans Hall (Note the change!) 4:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Alexi Block Gorman (Ohio State University) Expansions of ℝ and ℕ by k-automatic sets: Choose-your-own-adventure! |
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Fri Jan 31, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Helena Rosenblatt (History, CUNY) Liberal Political Economy on the Eve of the French Revolution: Jacques and Suzanne Necker, Critics of Laissez-Faire |
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Thu Jan 30, 2025 Maud Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall) 5–7 PM |
Townsend Center for the Humanities Agnes Callard (University of Chicago) The Case For A Philosophical Life |
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Fri Jan 24, 2025 Room 170 Law Building 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Stephen Macedo (Political Theory, Princeton) In Covid’s Wake: How We Failed Liberalism |