John Proios, University of Chicago Date: March 6th 2026 Location: MIT 361 Talk starts at 4:00 PM What preserves the character of a society? Conversely, what makes one kind of society change into another kind? Plato addresses both of these …
Philosophy As a Way of Life March 12 7:00 PM Merrill Hall 131 We will have a conversation with JoAnne Potter on philosophy as a way of life and how philosophy can help us to live and age with purpose. …
Match 13, Alix Cohen, Notre Dame Title of the talk: Kant’s ethical pluralism Location: CRT 175 Talk starts at 3:30 PM
Nonfiction Is Not (Just) to Be Believed Philosophers of fiction routinely rely on an unexamined contrast class: nonfiction. The dominant assumption is that nonfiction is discourse meant to be believed (while fiction is discourse meant to be imagined or make-believed). …
Antonia Lolordo, University of Virginia Personal Identity and Bodily Ownership in Locke Lolordo argues that Locke faces a problem about bodily ownership and that he has an account of bodily ownership on which there is a strong parallel between bodily …
Steven Wall, University of Arizona, and David Sobel, Syracuse University Well-being and its Worth Philosophical discussions of well-being aspire to a certain measure of comprehensiveness. Imagine someone saying that well-being is strictly a function of the pleasure and pain in our …
For more information on Angela Coventry, visit https://www.pdx.edu/philosophy/profile/angela-coventry
Philosophy Colloquium: Sarah Stroud, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill For more information on Sarah Stroud, visit https://philosophy.unc.edu/people/sarah-stroud/
Anthony Taylor, University of Fribourg For more information on Anthony Taylor, visit https://www.unifr.ch/directory/en/people/363858/2ddf4 TITLE TBA