Colloquia, Conferences & Workshops

The campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia, conferences and workshops. 

Winter 2022

• February 3: Shawn Wang, UC San Diego
• February 8: Carolina Flores, Rutgers
• February 10: Dee Payton, Howard University
• February 15: Hannah Read, Wake Forest University
• February 18: Rachel Achs, Oxford
• February 22: Ege Yumusak, Harvard
• February 24: Greyson Abid, UC Berkeley
• March 1: Elise Woodard, University of Michigan

Fall 2021

• Oct 21: Timothy Brown, University of Washington
• Nov 18: Kevin Cahill, University of Berger
• Dec 2: Rei Terada, UC Irvine

Fall 2020

• Oct 22: Talia Betcher, California State, Los Angeles
• Nov 5: James Garrison, Baldwin Wallace University

Spring 2020

• May 12: Eric Schliesser, University of Amsterdam

Winter 2020

• Jan 30: Joseph Rouse, Wesleyen University

Fall 2019

• Oct 17: José Medina, Northwestern University
• Nov 7: Myisha Cherry, UC Riverside

Spring 2019

• Apr 11: Barry Lam, Vassar College
• May 9: Fatema Amijee, Simon Fraser University
• May 14: E. Hande Tuna, Brown University
• May 16: Theodore George, Texas A & M
• May 30: C Thi Nguyen, Utah Valley University

Winter 2019

• Feb 12: Vida Yao, Rice University
• Feb 14: Robbie Kubala, Comulbia University
• Feb 19: Rachel Cristy, University of Toronto
• Feb 21: Gabbrielle Johnson, UCLA
• Feb 26: Rima Basu, Claremont McKenna College

Fall 2018

• Oct 11: Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California
• Nov 6: Casey O'Callaghan, Washington University, St. Louis
• Nov 29: David Donley, UC Santa Cruz doctoral candidate

Spring 2018

• May 3: Ori Simchen, University of British Columbia
• May 10: Gene Witmer, University of Florida

Winter 2018

• Jan 18: Ram Neta, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Feb 15: Ed Casey, Stony Brook University

Fall 2017

• Jonathan Cohen, UC San Diego: Many Molyneux Questions
• Nov 30: Linda Kealey, UC Santa Cruz doctoral candidate

Spring 2017

• Maudemarie Clark, UC Riverside: Nietzsche's Nihilism

Winter 2017

• Susanna Schellenberg, Rutgers: Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity
• Audun Dahl, UC Santa Cruz (Psychology): The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning

Fall 2016

• David Landy, San Francisco State University: Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix to Hume's Treatise

Spring 2016

• Gayle Salamon, Princeton University: Gender Essentialism and Eidetic Inquiry
• Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University: Implicit Moral Attitudes
• Paul Lee : The Greeks had a word for it: thumos
• Jonathan Ellis: UC Santa Cruz: Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light

Winter 2016

• Noa Latham, University of Calgary: Meditation and Self-Control

Fall 2015

• Imogen Dickie, University of Toronto: Proper Names: Transition to the End Game
• Casey O'Callaghan, Washington University in St. Louis: The Multisensory Character of Perception

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Spring 2015

• Samantha Matherne, UC Santa Cruz: Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Physics
• Shelley Wilcox, San Francisco State: Immigration Justice in Nonideal Circumstances

Winter 2015

• Eric Schwitzgebel, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors
• Paul Roth, UC Santa Cruz: Reviving Philosophy of History
• Abe Stone, UC Santa Cruz: Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?
• Rebecca Kukla, Georgetown: The Sedimentation of Bias in Medical Institutions
• Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero, Unversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico: Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations 
• Felipe De Brigard, Duke: The Explanatory Indispensability of Memory Traces

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Spring 2014

• Ned Block, NYU: Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious
• Mikkel Willum Johansen, University of Copenhagen: Material and Social Conditions for the Development of Mathematics

Winter 2014

• Becko Copenhaver, Lewis & Clark College: Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision

Fall 2013

• Otávio Bueno, University of Miami: Seeing with a Microscope
• Seth Yalcin, UC Berkeley: Epistemic Modality De Re
• Ric Otte, UC Santa Cruz: Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Evil
• Kyle Robertson, UC Santa Cruz: Humility as Virtue

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Spring 2013

• Jorge Hankamer, UC Santa Cruz: Definiteness (in Danish) How the morphology of Definiteness interacts with the Syntax and Semantics of Nominal Phrases
• Carlos Sanchez, SJSU: A truth that matters: Alain Badiou after Ortega y Gasset
• Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore: Desire's Explanations

Winter 2013

• Jonathan Kaplan, Oregon State University: Turning Social Categories into Biological Realities: 'Race' made biological
• Daniel Guevara, UC Santa Cruz: Has Traditional Ethical Theory Been Made Defunct by Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory 

Fall 2012

• Rasmus Winther, UC Santa Cruz: "Free to Universalize or Bound by Culture? Philosophy in a Multicultural Context" Conference
• Roger White, MIT: "What's so Bad about Bootstrapping?"
• Scott Gilbert, Biology, Swarthmore College: "We are all lichens: How symbiosis research has reconstituted a new realm of individuality"

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Spring 2012

• Maeve Cooke, University College Dublin, Ireland: Social Freedom
• Warren Sack, Digital Arts & New Media, UCSC: Narrative Intelligence
• Abe Stone, UC Santa Cruz: Workshop in Phenomenology

Winter 2012

• Daniel Guevara (Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz), Claudio Campagna (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz), Ronnie Lipschutz (Politics, UC Santa Cruz), Daniel Press (Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz): Conservation in No Man's Land

Fall 2011

• Daniel Guevara, UC Santa Cruz: Kant Conference

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Spring 2011

• Colin Koopman, University of Oregon: Pleasure and Parrhesia in Foucault's Self-Transformative Ethics
• Paul Horwich, NYU: Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy
• Hans Sluga, UC Berkeley: From Normative Theory to Diagnostic Practice
• Kevin Cahill, University of Bergen, Norway: Some Reflections on the Dreyfus-McDowell Debate
• Jose Ruiz, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain: On Two Types of Evidence of Something Necessary
• Eugen Zelnack, Catholic University, Ruzomberok, Slovakia: Who Should Characterize the Nature of History?

Winter 2011

• John MacFarlane, UC Berkeley: A Puzzle About Modal Necessity 

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Spring 2010

• Justin Tiwald, San Francisco State University: The Confucian Stance on the Practice of Rights-Claiming
• Sally Sedgwick, University of Illinois at Chicago: Reason and History: Kant versus Hegel
• Peter Hylton, University of Illinois at Chicago: Ideas of a Logically Perfect Language in Analytic Philosophy
• Thomas Ricketts, University of Pittsburgh: Inference, Semantics, and Formal Rigor in Frege
• Adam Sennet, University of California, Davis: Defining Unarticulated Constituents
• Krista Lawlor, Stanford University: Assurance as Action: Themes from Austin and a suggestion from Wittgenstein's "On Certainty"

Winter 2010

• Elaine Landry, University of California, Davis: Recollection in Plato's "Meno": Method, Myth or Necessary Hypothesis?
• David Carr, Emory University: On the Concept of Experience

Fall 2009

• Doug Hutchinson, University of Toronto: Socrates in prison, again: a second 'Second Apology' in P.Köln205
• Alyssa Ney, University of Rochester: Mass, Charge, and the Rest
• Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir, San Francisco State University: Human Kinds as Conferred Kinds
• Kirk Sanders, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana: Further reflections on Socrates' trial (and guilt), with special reference to Xenophon as a source