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Upcoming Events

Check out our upcoming events! The Department of Philosophy often hosts events of interest to our students and the greater community, and we highly encourage everyone to attend! Below, you'll find all of the relevant details.

We don't have any current upcoming events, but be sure to check back soon!

Natural kinds event poster

Natural Kinds: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives

Oct 27th at 1:00 p.m. | Babara Weitz Community Engagement Center, Room 209

Come watch a series of talks by Dr. John Proios, Dr. Zina Ward, and our keynote speaker Dr. Muhammad Ali Khalidi on natural kinds in science!

Previous Events

Below you'll find a list of our previous events and recordings where available.

  • October 27, 2023 — Natural Kinds: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives
  • February 24, 2023 — Applying Qualitative Hedonism to Non-Human Animals
  • April 22, 2022 — Modular Minds and Chimp Mentality* [ Watch ]
  • April 22, 2022 — Having a Disposition and Making a Contribution* [ Watch ]
  • February 22, 2022 — Difference: A Canonical Problem
  • October 22, 2021 — The Memory Trace in Philosophy and Neuroscience* [ Watch ]
  • October 22, 2021 — Analog Computation and Representation* [ Watch ]
  • October 8, 2021 — Modeling the Imagination with Deep Neural Networks* [ Watch ]
  • April 29, 2021 — Putting Parents on a Pedestal: Testimony, Admiration, and Reproductive Decision-Making [ Watch ]
  • March 25, 2021 — Fair Enough? Measuring the Fairness of Healthcare Triage Policies [ Watch ]
  • February 25, 2021 — Should Health Professions Students Receive Priority Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine? [ Watch ]
  • January 28, 2021 — The Ethics of Enrolling Minors in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials [ Watch ]

Event Archives

Below you'll find a record of older events. Event pages and videos have unfortunately been lost to the digital sands of time.

  • March 7, 2016 — "A Sentimentalist Theory of Practical Reasons," Michael Slote (University of Miami)
  • March 19, 2015 — "Are There No Fictional Truths? Probability, Seriality, and Fictional Objectivity," Roy Cook (University of Minnesota)
  • March 13, 2015 — "Reductionisms in Hermeneutics," Vittorio Höslem (University of Notre Dame)
  • February 23, 2015 — "A Semiotic Interpretation of Jeong Yagyong's Philosophy of Yijing," In Bang (Kyungpook National University in Korea)
  • January 22, 2015 — "The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism: When Not to Believe Your Very Best Theories," Troy Cross (Reed College)
  • September 12, 2014 — "Doxasticism: Belief and the Information-responsiveness of Mind," Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)
  • April 7, 2014 — "Religion Through the Lens of Philosophy," Howard Wettstein, Professor of Philosophy (University of California - Riverside)
  • June 4, 2013 — "Content with Attitude: Expressivism and the Language of Thought," Derek Shiller (Princeton University)
  • May 20 - 22, 2013 — International Conference on the Work of Saul Kripke, Mammel Hall, UNO's Aksarben Campus. Keynote Address by Saul Kripke
  • February 1, 2013 — "What Bowties Teach Us about Biological Explanation and HIV," Nicholaos J. Jones, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
  • January 31, 2013 — "Hermeneutics and Causation in Huayan Buddhism," Nicholaos J. Jones, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
  • October 15, 2012 — "How Many Headaches is Your Life Worth?" Paul Kelleher, Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • September 14, 2012 — "Could There Be a Complete Explanation of Everything?" Tim O'Connor, Professor of Philosophy (Indiana University Bloomington)
  • September 14, 2012 — Philosophy Seminar: Tim O'Connor, Professor of Philosophy (Indiana University Bloomington)
  • March 13, 2012 — "Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Skepticism, and Agency," John Doris, Professor (Washington University in St. Louis)
  • February 27, 2012 — Critical Reasoning Series: "IQ vs RQ: What is Rationality? Thoughts on Stanovich's Tri-Process Theory," Cathal Woods, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Virginia Wesleyan College)
  • February 24, 2012 — Philosophy Colloquium: "Traditional" Citizenship and the "Modern" Polis in Aristotle's Politics," Cathal Woods, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Virginia Wesleyan College)
  • January 27, 2012 — Philosophy Colloquium, Lisa Shabel, Associate Professor of Philosophy (The Ohio State University)
  • October 21, 2011 — Colloquium: "Prospects for a Naturalistic Intuitionism," Robert Audi, Professor of Philosophy (Notre Dame University)
  • October 21, 2011 — Colloquium: "The Mojing: On the Conception of Rationality in Ancient China," Chaehyun Chong, Professor of Philosophy (Sogang University, South Korea)
  • October 20, 2011 — Colloquium: "The Mojing: On the Conception of Rationality in Ancient China," Chaehyun Chong, Professor of Philosophy (Sogang University, South Korea)
  • September 23, 2011 — Colloquium: "Aquinas on Human Personhood and Death," Jeffrey Brower, Professor of Philosophy (Purdue University)
  • September 23, 2011 — Faculty/Majors Workshop: "Aristotelean Eudurantism: A New Solution to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics," Jeffrey Brower, Professor of Philosophy (Purdue University)
  • March 4, 2011 — Ryan Nichols (Cal State Fullerton & University of Notre Dame) "The Origins of the Problem of Evil & The Cognitive Science of Religion"
  • January 25, 2011 — Saul Kripke (CUNY, Graduate Center) "The First Person"
*Philosophy of Brains, Minds, and Machines Symposium

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