BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Philosophy - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:/philosophy X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Philosophy REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20270314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20271107T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260306T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260306T180000 DTSTAMP:20260417T115213 CREATED:20260213T171017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T170044Z UID:10000016-1772812800-1772820000@uwm.edu SUMMARY:The Logic of Social Control and Transformation in Plato’s Republic: John Proios DESCRIPTION:John Proios\, University of Chicago\nDate: March 6th 2026\nLocation: MIT 361\nTalk starts at 4:00 PM \nWhat preserves the character of a society? Conversely\, what makes one kind of society change into another kind? Plato addresses both of these questions in the Republic. The purpose of this talk is to distinguish and elaborate two principles in Plato’s analysis: social domination and social education. Social domination is the control (by a social group or individual) of the vital institutions: political offices\, economic practices\, and cultural art\, among others. Education\, by contrast\, is the shaping of individual psychologies in accordance with these vital institutions: teaching people\, in other words\, to be the kinds of people who participate in the institutions without meaningful resistance. I show how these principles emerge as distinct but related variables in Socrates’ analysis of the four degenerate kinds of city in Republic VIII as well in his earlier discussions of the just or beautiful city and in his critique of democratic Athens. This interpretation puts us in a position to resolve or recontextualize a number of issues about the political and social theories of the Republic\, such as the causes of civic decline and the role of poetry in social constitution. URL:/philosophy/event/philosophy-colloquium-john-proisos/ LOCATION:MIT 361\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquia X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260312T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260312T190000 DTSTAMP:20260417T115213 CREATED:20260310T201549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T201549Z UID:10000020-1773342000-1773342000@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Raven Reveries Talk DESCRIPTION:Philosophy As a Way of Life\nMarch 12\n7:00 PM\nMerrill Hall 131 \nWe 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. Joanne returned to college after she retired from a five-decade corporate career and obtained her BA from 51 at the age of 72. In her blog “By This Still Hearth – Age With Purpose”\, Joanne explores the intersections between her personal experience\, spirituality and philosophy. \nRead more about JoAnne.  URL:/philosophy/event/raven-reveries-talk/ LOCATION:Merrill Hall 131 X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260313T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260313T173000 DTSTAMP:20260417T115213 CREATED:20260213T171142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T165907Z UID:10000017-1773415800-1773423000@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Alix Cohen DESCRIPTION:Match 13\, Alix Cohen\, Notre Dame\nTitle of the talk: Kant’s ethical pluralism\nLocation: CRT 175\nTalk starts at 3:30 PM URL:/philosophy/event/philosophy-colloquium-alix-cohen/ LOCATION:Curtin Hall 175\, 3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquia X-TRIBE-STATUS: GEO:43.0764846;-87.8786552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Curtin Hall 175 3243 N Downer Ave Milwaukee WI 53211 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=3243 N Downer Ave:geo:-87.8786552,43.0764846 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260410T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260410T173000 DTSTAMP:20260417T115213 CREATED:20260213T171505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T200307Z UID:10000019-1775835000-1775842200@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Hannah Kim DESCRIPTION:Nonfiction Is Not (Just) to Be Believed\nPhilosophers 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). This paper argues that this assumption about nonfiction is unsatisfying. Focusing on memoir and art criticism\, I show that central nonfiction genres are not governed primarily by norms of belief. If nonfiction is not unified by an expectation or invitation to believe\, then the make-believe/belief contrast cannot mark the boundary between fiction and nonfiction. We therefore need a more nuanced account of what\, if anything\, unifies nonfiction\, if only to provide a more stable foundation for theorizing about fiction.\n\nApril 10\, Brin Talk\, Hannah Kim\, University of Arizona.\nLocation: CRT 175\nTalk starts at 3:30 PM URL:/philosophy/event/philosophy-colloquium-hannah-kim/ LOCATION:Curtin Hall 175\, 3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquia X-TRIBE-STATUS: GEO:43.0764846;-87.8786552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Curtin Hall 175 3243 N Downer Ave Milwaukee WI 53211 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=3243 N Downer Ave:geo:-87.8786552,43.0764846 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T115213 CREATED:20260310T201800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T201825Z UID:10000021-1778198400-1778198400@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Antonia Lolordo DESCRIPTION:May 8 \nTime and place: TBD \nAntonia Lolordo\, University of Virginia \n  URL:/philosophy/event/colloquium-antonia-lolordo/ CATEGORIES:Colloquia X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR