James Conant is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, with research interests in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, German idealism, and the history of analytic philosophy.
Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach currently holds the chair of "Diversifying Philosophies" at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on world philosophies
Join the PCU and its three invited speakers for the 2022 Bioethics Symposium, "The Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy of Abortion and Other Matters of Life and Death." Speakers are Donald C. Ainslie, Steven Coyne, and Wayne Sumner.
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Rory harder titled "Updates beyond Semantics and Pragmatics."
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Eliran Haziza titled "Are the Norms of Inquiry Epistemic?"
Alex Worsnip (UNC) currently pursues philosophical interests in the theory of rationality and epistemology (especially political epistemology).
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Seyed Yarandi titled "Doxastic Wronging and Commendatory Reasons."
Claude Romano, an associate professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and a professorial fellow at Australian Catholic University, works in contemporary philosophy, especially philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenology.
Metaphysically emergent phenomena synchronically depend on, yet are also to some extent autonomous from, complex lower-level physical goings-on. Jessica Wilson will speak about two forms of emergence, weak and strong, and argue for free will as a strongly emergent phenomenon.
The period 100 BCE to 200 CE saw some of the most far-reaching innovations in Western philosophical history, including a striking efflorescence of philosophy in the Mediterranean, especially in the east; old systems were revitalized through discussion and debate with new (including Christianity).
Matti Eklund has been Chair Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Uppsala University in Sweden since 2013. His work concentrates primarily on metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic.
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Melissa Rees titled "Uninformed Consent."
