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Tyler Hanck ’13 of University of Illinois at Chicago delivers lecture during fall series.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Each semester, the Philosophy Department sponsors a series of lectures by philosophers from colleges and universities around the country and world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025-26 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 2, 2025
RJ Leland, University of Manitoba<\/strong>
“Discrimination and Hierarchy”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Bixin Guo, Macalester College<\/strong>
“The Direction of Time: Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 9, 2026
Meena Krishnamurthy, Queen’s University<\/strong>
“From Shattered Dreams to Dreams in the Making:
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Transforming Disappointment Through Hope Into Determination”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024-25 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 3, 2024
Marcello diBello, Arizona State University<\/strong>
“Causal Equal Protection as Algorithmic Fairness”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 6, 2025
Hope Sample, Carleton College
<\/strong>“Matter as a Potentiality for Joy and Perfection”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 17, 2025
Rebecca Harrison, Vassar College
<\/strong>“Merleau-Ponty\u2019s Human World: Culture and Perceptual Experience”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023-24 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Michael Bennett McNulty, University of Minnesota<\/strong>
“Kant<\/span>\u2019s Aethereal Hammer: When Everything Looks Like a Nail”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Logan Stapleton, Carnegie Mellon University
<\/strong>“Racial Disparities in Human-AI Decisions in the Child Welfare System”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, December 7, 2023
Robin Dembroff, Yale University
<\/strong>“Erecting Real Men”
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Dwight Lewis, University of Minnesota
<\/strong>“Anton Wilhelm Amo: Disrupting Dominance”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022-23 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 27, 2022
Sam O. Imbo, Hamline University<\/strong>
“Africana Contributions to World Philosophy”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, November 18, 2022
Tamara Fakhoury, University of Minnesota<\/strong>
“Non-Normative Behavior and the Virtue of Rebelliousness”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 20, 2023
Troy Jollimore, California State University – Chico<\/strong>
“Love and Belief”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021-22 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, November 4, 2021
Cat St. Croix, University of Minnesota<\/strong>
“Rumination and Wronging: The Role of Attention in Epistemic Morality”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 31, 2022
Greg P. Wong-Taylor, Stanford University<\/strong>
“Kant’s Idealist Conception of Objectivity”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020-21 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 15, 2021
Henry West Speaker<\/em>
Nicolas Delon, New College of Florida<\/strong>
“Letting Animal Agents Off the Hook”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019-20 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, September 19, 2019
Katia Vavova, Mount Holyoke College<\/strong>
“Moral Responsibility Without Blame”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, October 18th, 2019
Paddy Blanchette, University of Notre Dame<\/strong>
“Logic and Geometry: Why Logical Claims Aren’t Always What They Seem to Be”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018-19 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, September 20, 2018
Tyler Hanck, University of Illinois at Chicago<\/strong>
“The Idea of Substance in Locke and Descartes”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Gary Gabor, Hamline University<\/strong>
“Harmonizing Plato and Aristotle: In Search of the Identity of an Ancient Author”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Carlos N\u00fa\u00f1ez, University of Vienna<\/strong>
“I intend that everyone enjoy this talk”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, February 21st, 2019
Henry West Speaker<\/em>
Michael Fuerstein, St. Olaf College<\/strong>
“What is the Lesson of Donald Trump for Democratic Theory?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 11th, 2019
Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee<\/strong>
“Who is Hylas? Understanding the Argument Expressed in Berkeley’s Three Dialogues”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 25th, 2019
Silvia De Toffoli, Princeton University<\/strong>
“Mathematical Justification in Practice”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017-18 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 5, 2017
Jason Decker, Carleton College<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, November 9, 2017
Robert DiSalle, University of Western Ontario<\/strong>
“Laws and Necessities: On the Ineffective Reasonableness of Mathematics”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, February 22, 2018
Jessica Gordon-Roth, University of Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 8, 2018
Debra Satz, Stanford University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 5, 2018
Justin Smith, University of Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 19, 2018
Jerry Gaus, University of Arizona<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016-17 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, September 8, 2016
\u201cNietzsche\u2019s Humean (All-Too-Humean) Theory of Motivation\u201d<\/a>
Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, September 29, 2016
\u201cTwo Types of Indeterminacy\u201d<\/a>
David Taylor, University of Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 10, 2016
\u201cMagnitudes of the Soul: Kant on the Scientific Status of Empirical Psychology\u201d<\/a>
Michael McNulty, University of Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, November 17, 2016
World Philosophy Day<\/a>–<\/strong>“It’s Chomping All the Way Down: Eating, Guts and Fundamental Philosophical Categories”<\/a>
Lisa Heldke, Gustavus Adolphus College<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 2, 2017
Ishani Maitra, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 23, 2017
Steve Nadler, University of Wisconsin, Madison<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 6, 2017
Larry Hickman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015-16 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, September 17, 2015
Mary Domski, University of New Mexico<\/strong>
“Truth and Falsehood in Descarte’s Physics”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, November 19, 2015
World Philosophy Day<\/strong>
Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin – Madison<\/strong>
“Why All Schools are Public”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, November 23, 2015
Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota<\/strong>
“Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Samuel Fletcher, University of Minnesota<\/strong>
“On the Alleged Imcommensurability of Netwtonian and Relativistic Mass”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 31, 2016
Peter Distelzweig, University of St. Thomas<\/strong>
“<\/a>Descartes on Somatic Health (and Psychosomatic Well-Being)”<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 7, 2016
Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona<\/strong>
“The Tension Between the Nature and the Norm of Voluntary Exchange” <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, April 11, 2016
Emily Thomas, University of Groningen<\/strong>
\u201cSamuel Clarke’s Morean Space and Time Absolutism\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014-15 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, September 18, 2014
Roy Cook, University of Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 30, 2014
Joseph Neisser, Grinnell College<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, November 20, 2014
World Philosophy Day
Emily McRae, University of Oklahoma<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013-14 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, September 26, 2013
Henry West Speaker<\/em>
Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Eric Schliesser, University of Ghent, Belgium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 27, 2014
Cheshire Calhoun, Arizona State University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 24, 2014
David Wong, Duke University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012-13 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, December 6, 2012
Shannon Vallor, Santa Clara University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 14, 2013
Henry West Speaker<\/em>
David Kaplan, UCLA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 25, 2013
Scott Pratt, University of Oregon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011-12 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, September 15, 2011
Daniel Garber, Princeton University<\/strong>
“Divine Laws, Divine Decrees, and the Order of Nature”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 20, 2011
Justin Jeffrey, University of St. Thomas<\/strong>
“Normative Transference”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010-11 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, September 16, 2010
Dr. Tristram McPherson, University of Minnesota Duluth<\/strong>
“Moral Attitudes for Expressivists: Solving the Specification Problem”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Henry West Speaker<\/em>
Dale Jamieson, New York University<\/strong>
“The Invention of Practical Ethics”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009-10 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 1, 2009
Katherine Brading, University of Notre Dame<\/strong>
\u201cEpistemic Structural Realism and Poincar\u00e9’s Philosophy of Science\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Henry West, Macalester College<\/strong>
“Value Realism and Moral Constructivism”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 4, 2010
Emily Esch, College of Saint Benedict and St. John’s University<\/strong>
“Making Sense of Our Selves”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 25, 2010
Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 8, 2010
Adam Briggle, University of North Texas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The Annual Engel-Morgan-Jardetzky Lecture<\/em>
Michael Meaney, McGill University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008-09 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Julian C. Cole, Buffalo State College<\/strong>
“Mathematics: Plentiful Province or Dependent Dominion?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, November 8, 2008
Minnesota Philosophical Society 2008 Annual Meeting<\/em>
Eugene Garver, St. John’s University<\/strong>
Keynote Presentation: “Philosophers, Readers, Writers”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, February 12, 2009
Valerie Tiberius, University of Minnesota<\/strong>
“Wisdom and Work”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Henry West Speaker<\/em>
Howard Zinn<\/a>, historian, playwright, and social activist, will present a lecture entitled “The Holy Wars” at 5:00 PM in the Hill Ballroom (Kagin Commons). He will examine the Revolutionary War,  the Civil War, and World War II in trying to answer the question “Is there such a thing as a just war?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007-08 Philosophy Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, September 20, 2007
Stephen Stich, Rutgers University<\/strong>
“Experimental Philosophy: the Persistence of Moral Disagreement”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Allen Buchanan, Duke University<\/strong>
“Human Nature: Enhancement”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, November 15, 2007
The Annual Engel-Morgan-Jardetzky Lecture<\/em>
James Hughes, Trinity College<\/strong>
“Manimals, Cyborgs, and Gattaca: the Biopolitics of Human Enhancement Technologies”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, February 11, 2008
Henry West Retirement Celebration: 50 Years of Teaching<\/em>
David Lyons, Boston University<\/strong>
“Race and the Rule of Law”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, February 18, 2008
Alan Fuchs, College of William & Mary<\/strong>
“Mill’s One Very Simple Principle of Liberty”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, March 6, 2008
Karen Warren, Macalester College<\/strong>
“Why does Traditional Philosophy need Feminism?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
The Annual Engel-Morgan-Jardetzky Lecture<\/em>
Daniel Dennett, Tufts University<\/strong>
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