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Spring Colloquia Topics and Speakers

 

April 4-5, 2025
Philosophy For a Changing World: Theorizing in the Age of Information Technology

Coordinators: Lorenzo Manuali, Alison Weinberger, Sophia Wushanley
Kathleen A. Creel (Northeastern)
Don Fallis (Northeastern)
Hanti Lin (UC Davis)
Salomé Viljoen (Michigan)

 

March 8-9, 2024
The Many Flavors of Metaphysics!

Coordinators: Gillian Gray, Gabrielle Kerbel, Cameron McCulloch, Mica Rapstine
Shamik Dasgupta (UC Berkeley)
Dee Payton (Virginia)
Gideon Rosen (Princeton)
Erica Shumener (Syracuse) 
Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth)

 

March 10-11, 2023
Salience and its Consequences

Coordinators: Aaron Glasser, Joshua Petersen, Margot Witte, Yixuan Wu
Eugene Chislenko (Temple)
​TBD
​Jessie Munton (Cambridge)
​Susanna Siegel (Harvard)

 

March 18-19, 2022
Political Epistemology: Knowledge, Information, and Society

Coordinators: Cameron McCulloch, Josh Petersen, Elise Woodard, and Sophia Wushanley
Alex Guerrero (Rutgers)
Michael Hannon (Nottingham)
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern)
Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)

 

March 5-6, 2021
Between I and We: Structures, Individuals, and Power

Coordinators: Mercedes Corredor and Rebecca Harrison
Ann Cahill (Elon)
Samia Hesni (Boston University)
Rachel Ann McKinney (Suffolk University)
George Yancy (Emory)

 

March 27-28, 2020
postponed to 2021

 

February 8-9, 2019     
Epistemology—Norms & Values

Coordinators: Cameron McCulloch, Calum McNamara, and Elise Woodard
Jennifer Carr (UC San Diego)
Jane Friedman (New York University)
Clayton Littlejohn (King's College London)
Alex Worsnip (UNC)

 

February 9-10, 2018     
Science, Values and The Public

Coordinators: Mercedes Corredor and Eduardo Martinez
Heather Douglas (U. Waterloo/MSU)
Dan M. Kahan (Yale)
Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana U.)
Quayshawn Spencer (U. Penn)

 

March 17-18, 2017     
Theory, Practice and the Contemporary Experience of Gender

Coordinators: Zoe Johnson-King, Caroline Perry, Kevin Craven, Annette Bryson, & Cat Saint-Croix
Mari Mikkola (Humboldt University)
Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia)
Robin Dembroff (Princeton)
Charlotte Witt (New Hampshire) 
Asta Sveinsdottier (San Francisco State)

 

February 19-20, 2016
Epistemic vs. Practical Normativity

Coordinators: Anna Edmonds and Daniel Drucker
Nomy Arpaly (Brown)
Selim Berker (Harvard)
Miriam Schoenfield (UT Austin)
Ralph Wedgwood (USC)

 

March 13-14, 2015
Theory of Meaning: Mathematics or Psychology?

Coordinators: Patrick Shirreff, Boris Babic, Daniel Drucker & Cat Saint-Croix
Elisabeth Camp
Jeff King
Florian Schwarz
Zoltan Gendler Szabo

 

March 14-15, 2014
Exploring the Subpersonal: Agency, Cognition, and Rationality

Coordinators: Sara Aronowitz, Mara Bollard, Sydney Keough & Robin Zheng
Peter Carruthers
Frances Egan
Neil Levy
Charles Mills
Angela Smith

 

March 22-23, 2013
Methodology in Metaphysics


Coordinators: Rohan Sud and Patrick Shirreff
Kristopher McDaniel
David Manley
Karen Bennett
Daniel Nolan

 

March 30-31, 2012
The Aesthetic & The Ethical    

Coordinators: Bryan Parkhurst and Nils-Hennes Stear
Noel Carroll
Paul Taylor
Anne Eaton
Matthew Kieran

 

March 11-12, 2011   
Laws of Nature and Counterfactuals 
   

Coordinator: Daniel Peterson
Ned Hall
Marc Lange
Tim Maudlin

 

March 12-13, 2010    
Normative Reasons

Coordinators: Steve Campbell, Steve Nayak-Young, and Sven Nyholm 
Thomas Scanlon, Jr.
Michael Smith
Sharon Street

 

March 20-21, 2009     
Explaining Phenomenal Consciousness

Coordinators: Neil Mehta and Giacomo Mollo
Joseph Levine
David Papineau
David Rosenthal

 

March 14-15, 2008     
Philosophical Methods

Coordinator: Alexandra Plakias
John Doris
Frank Jackson
Jesse Prinz

 

February 9-10, 2007   
National and International Distributive Justice

Coordinator: Eleni Manis
Jennifer Rubenstein
Debra Satz
Thomas Pogge

March 17-18, 2006     
The Metaphysics of Science

Coordinators: Joshua Brown, Kevin Coffey & Ivan Mayerhofer
Michael Dickson
Penelope Maddy
Paul Teller

 

April 8-9, 2005     
Topics in Action Theory and Moral Psychology

Coordinator: Soraya Gollop
Nomy Arpaly 
Michael Bratman 
Sarah Buss 

 

April 2-3, 2004     
Topics in Naturalized Epistemology

Coordinator: Carole Lee
Richard Feldman 
Peter Graham 
Paul Thagard

 

March 14-15, 2003     
Moral Responsibility

Coordinator: Alex Hughes
Gideon Rosen 
Gary Watson
Gideon Yaffe 

 

March 15-16, 2002     
Perspectives on Libertarianism

Robert Gressis, Coordinator
Michael Otsuka 
A. John Simmons 
David Schmidtz     

 

March 16-17, 2001     
Two Dogmas: A 50-Year Retrospective

Stephen Petersen, Coordinator
Paul Boghossian                   
Gilbert Harman                     
Christopher Peacocke         

 

March 31 - April 1, 2000   
Analytic Feminism

Robert Gressis, Evan Kirchoff, & Sam Ruhmkorff,  Coordinators
Louise Antony                 
Ann E. Cudd      
Adele Mercier 

 

April 9-10, 1999     
Philosophy of Religion

Jeanine Diller & Peter Vranas,  Coordinators
Robert Adams 
William Alston 
Philip Quinn 

 

March 13-14, 1998     
The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Commonsense Psychology

Krista Lawlor,  Coordinator
Lynne Rudder Baker  
Jennifer Hornsby 
Brian Mclaughlin 

 

March 21-22, 1997     
Justification and Naturalism

Richard Schoonhoven, Coordinator
Alvin Goldman  
Jaegwon Kim 
Hilary Kornblith 

 

March 15-16, 1996     
Science, Scientists and The Philosophy of Science

Greg Sax,  Coordinator
John Dupre  
Miriam Solomon                    
Mark Wilson  

 

March 17-18, 1995    
Political Liberalism

Christina Frohock, Coordinator
Nancy Fraser  
David Gauthier 
John Rawls

 

March 25-26, 1994     
Rationality

James Woodbridge, Coordinator
Tamara Horowitz    
Brian Skyrms
Robert Stalnaker   

 

March 12-13, 1993     
Consciousness

Jeff Kasser, Coordinator
Gilbert Harman
David Rosenthal   
Robert Van Gulick  

 

March 27-28, 1992     
Hume and Subjectivism

Justin D'Arms, Coordinator
Annette Baier  
Mark Johnston 
David Wiggins 

 

March 22-23, 1991
Moral Psychology

William Frankena
Christine Korsgaard  
Michael Stocker

 

April 6-7, 1990 
Laws of Nature

John Earman  
Gideon Rosen  
Stephen Schiffer