Year: 2025
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Philosophy Colloquium: Rima Basu
Thursday, April 23rd, 2026, 3:15 – Speaker Rima Basu will give a talk followed by a Q&A
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Philosophy Colloquium: Daniela Dover
Thursday, April 2nd, 2026, 3:15 – Speaker Daniela Dover will give a talk followed by a Q&A
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Philosophy Colloquium: Amelia Wirts
Thursday, March 12th, 2026, 3:15 – Speaker Amelia Wirts will give a talk followed by a Q&A
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Philosophy Colloquium: Zoe Drayson
Thursday, February 19th, 2026, 3:15 – Speaker Zoe Drayson will give a talk followed by a Q&A
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Fall Grad Forum
Tuesday, October 14th – 3:15-5:00 – Philosophy Graduate Students and Faculty are invited to the Fall Grad Forum.
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Philosophy Colloquium: Geoff Lee
Thursday, November 13th, 2025, 3:15 – Speaker Geoff Lee will give a talk titled “AI Consciousness, Anthropocentrism and Pluralism” followed by a Q&A Abstract: In the current debate about AI consciousness, philosophers tend to agree that the potential for AI consciousness raises profound moral questions – for example, some philosophers think that we may imminently…
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Philosophy Colloquium: Lowry Pressly
Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 3:15 – Speaker Lowry Pressly will give a talk titled Talk to a Human . . . Speak to a Human [. . .] On AI Agents as Partners in Democratic Deliberation, followed by a Q&A. Abstract: There is a rapidly developing normative literature concerning the potential effects of artificial intelligence…
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Nico Orlandi awarded DAAD international guest professorship
Nico Orlandi has been awarded a DAAD international guest professorship at Ruhr University Bochum. Professor Orlandi will teach courses and collaborate on research with Professor Tobias Schlicht in Spring quarter 2026. Congratulations, Nico!
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MAP x Philosophical Slug Society Mixer
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 4:30-6pm, Humanities 2 Room 259 Join us Wednesday 10/8 from 4:30-6pm in Humanities 2 Room 259 for a fun social mixer to learn more about our 🎉 exciting upcoming events 🎉 for the year and how to get more involved with Minorities and Philosophy and the Philosophical Slug Society! More information…
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E. Hande Tuna Named Quinn Fellow at NHC
We are delighted to announce that Emine Hande Tuna has been awarded a prestigious fellowship at the National Humanities Center for the 2025–26 academic year. Selected from a highly competitive pool of 588 applicants, she will join a cohort of 32 distinguished scholars as part of the Center’s forty-eighth class of resident fellows. Professor Tuna has been…
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E. Hande Tuna, “Bias Reduction as an Aesthetic Norm”
In this 2024 paper in Philosophical Topics, Professor Tuna suggests that bias reduction should be a norm of aesthetic engagement.
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Abraham Stone, “Concrete creationism about fictional things”
In this forthcoming paper in Inquiry, Professor Stone argues for the view that fictional entities like Sherlock Homes are concrete things created by authors.