Recent Events

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
Tue Dec 9, 2025 301 Philosophy Hall 11 AM–12 PM	Work in Progress Talk Mike Martin (UC Berkeley) Elusive Objectivity
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”
Thu Dec 4, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Miriam Schoenfield (UT Austin) Boltzmann Brains and Center Indifference
Fri Nov 21, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Douglas Blue (University of Pittsburgh) Steel’s program and Nairian models
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
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
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?
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
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
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
Thu Oct 30, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Milan Mossé Modeling Discrimination with Causal Abstraction
Fri Oct 24, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Krzysztof Mierzewski (Carnegie Mellon University) TBD
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
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
Fri Oct 10, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM	Logic Colloquium James Walsh (New York University) TBD
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
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
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
Fri Sep 26, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Natasha Dobrinen (University of Notre Dame) TBD
Fri Sep 26, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory David Cole (Georgetown) TBA
Thu Sep 25, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Peter Godfrey-Smith (University of Sydney) Expression, Tolerance, and Autonomy
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
Fri Sep 19, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Sarah Song (Berkeley Law) TBA
Fri Sep 12, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame) TBD
Fri Sep 12, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Jacob Mchangama (Vanderbilt) TBA
Fri Sep 5, 2025 Room 141 Law Building 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, Berkeley Law) TBA
Wed Sep 3, 2025 Social Science 291 4–5:30 PM	Departmental Events Nicholas Southwood (ANU) Political Theory Workshop: Feasibility beyond ‘ought’ implies ‘can’
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
Sat May 17, 2025 Faculty Glade at the Faculty Club 4:30–6:30 PM	Departmental Events Philosophy Department Graduation
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
Mon May 5, 2025 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM	Work in Progress Talk Wes Holliday Work in Progress Talk
Sat May 3, 2025–Sun May 4, 2025 Howison Library 9 AM–3 PM	Conference Berkeley-London Conference
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mon Apr 21, 2025 301 Philosophy Hall 12–1 PM	Work in Progress Talk Verónica Gómez Sánchez Work in Progress Talk
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
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
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
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*
Fri Apr 11, 2025 60 Evans Hall 4:10 PM	Logic Colloquium Francesca Zaffora Blando (CMU)
Fri Apr 11, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Discussion
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?
Thu Apr 10, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Lecture III: Genealogy as Critique
Tue Apr 8, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Lecture II: Genealogy and the Epistemic Question
Mon Apr 7, 2025 Howison Library, Philosophy Hall 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) Lecture I: Genealogy and the Ancients
Sat Apr 5, 2025 Heyns Room, Faculty Club 1–3 PM	Sather Lecture Emily Gowers (Classics, Cambridge) Various Trees
Fri Apr 4, 2025 4:10 PM	Logic Colloquium Ronnie Chen (University of Michigan)
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
Thu Apr 3, 2025 Howison Library 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium J. Reid Miller (Haverford College) Sexual Endowments: Rethinking Inheritance and Belonging
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)