Fall 2019 Colloquia Series
Professor Peter Graham, University of California, Riverside
“Testimonial Warrant: Entitlement or Justification”
When: Friday, November 1, 3:30pm
Where: Mitchell 361
Free and open to the public
“Agency in an Immaterial World” by Distinguished Professor Emerita Margaret Atherton
Fall 2019 Colloquia Series
Distinguished Professor Emerita Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
“Agency in an Immaterial World”
When: Friday, November 8, 3:30pm
Where: Location: Curtin 175
Free and open to the public
“Locke on Secondary Qualities: A Defense” by Professor Michael Jacovides
Fall 2019 Colloquia Series
Professor Michael Jacovides, Purdue University
“Locke on Secondary Qualities: A Defense”
When: Friday, November 15, 3:30pm
Where: Mitchell Hall 361
Free and open to the public
Richard Peltz Memorial Award for Excellence in Philosophy Scholarship Ceremony
This year’s Richard Peltz Memorial Award for Excellence in Philosophy essay scholarship ceremony took place in Curtin Hall, Room 607 on May 10th. Associate Dean Jasmine Alinder presented each student with a $500 scholarship for their respective essays:
Graduate Student John Muller, “Philosophy without Title: Hume’s Skeptical Principles in the Treatise”
Undergraduate Philosophy Major Sydney Maxwell, “Nicotine and Akrasia: How Aristotle can help us understand the moderen day smoker”
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Philosophy Conference in Honor of Margaret Atherton and Robert Schwartz
The 51猎奇 Philosophy Department is hosting a conference in honor of Margaret Atherton and Robert Schwartz on Saturday, April 27th from 9:00 am – 5:30 pm. There will be a reception at 5:30 pm.
Topics and Speakers include:
Ways of Knowing and their Interactions: A New Orientation in Epistemology
Prof. Gunther Abel
Technical University, Berlin
Locke on Desire, the Good and the Will: Two Manuscripts
Prof. Richard Glauser
University of Neuchatel
Qualities and Consciousness
Prof. David Rosenthal
City University of New York
Locke and the Scope of Sensitive Knowledge
Prof. Kenneth Winkler
Yale University
Generously supported by the Brin Philosophy Enhancement Fund
Colloquia, Spring 2019
Join us for the Department of Philosophy鈥檚 Spring Colloquia!
More information coming soon.
Free and open to the public
Friday, February 1, 3:30pm
R J Leland, University of Manitoba
Location: MIT 361
Friday, February 8, 3:30pm
Chris Tillman, University of Manitoba
Location: MIT 361
Friday, March 8, 3:30pm
Meghan Sullivan, University of Notre Dame
Location: MIT 361
Friday, April 12, 3:30pm
Ericka Tucker, Marquette University
Location: MIT 361
Friday, May 3, 3:30pm
Nataliya Palatnik, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Location: MIT 361
The Berkeley Workshop
Friday, Oct 19 – Sunday, Oct 21
Come join us for The Berkeley Workshop.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Curtin Hall 175
3243 N Downer Ave
The workshop begins with a 2018 Fall Colloquium Series lecture.
Friday, October 19, 2018 at 3:30 pm
Samuel Rickless, UC-San Diego
鈥淏erkeley鈥檚 Criticism of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson鈥�
Location: Curtin Hall 175
Order of Program
Samuel Rickless 鈥� Keynote Speaker 鈥� UCSD
Kenneth Pearce, TCD
Keota Fields, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Manuel Fasko, University of Zurich
Michael Jacovides 鈥� Purdue University
Scott Harkema 鈥� Ohio State University
Ed Slowik, Winona State University
Geoffrey Gorham, Macalester
Benjamin Hill, Western
Seth Bordner, University of Alabama
Sophie Cote, New York University
Melissa Frankel, Carleton University
Lisa Downing, Ohio State University
Graham Clay, Notre Dame
Michael Rauschenbach, Notre Dame
Erica Tucker, Marquette University
Takaharu Oda, TCD
Jennifer Keefe, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Peter West, TCD
Chloe Armstrong, Lawrence University
For more information, email philosophy@uwm.edu or call 414-229-4719.
Philosophers by the Lake
Lawrence Nolan, “Descartes and Malebranche on Spatial Perception”
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
5:00 pm
Location TBA
Professor Lawrence Nolan is a Department of Philosophy faculty member at California State University, Long Beach. He specializes in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Medieval Philosophy.
Colloquia, Fall 2018
Join us for the Department of Philosophy’s Fall Colloquia.
Free and open to the public.
Friday, September 28th, 3:30pm
Fred Neuhouser, Columbia University
鈥淩ousseau on the Artificiality of Social Institutions鈥�
Location: Mitchell Hall 361
Friday, October 12th, 3:30 pm
Grant Rozeboom, St. Norbert College
鈥淔ear and Resentment鈥�
Location: Mitchell Hall 361
Friday, October 19th, 3:30 pm
Samuel Rickless, UC-San Diego
鈥淏erkeley鈥檚 Criticism of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson鈥�
Location: Curtin Hall 175
Friday, November 9th, 3:30 pm
Russ Shafer-Landau, UW-Madison
鈥淚ntuition and Action鈥�
Location: Mitchell Hall 361
Friday, November 16th, 3:30 pm
Tito Magri, Rome
鈥淧assions, Person, and Imagination鈥�
Location: Mitchell Hall 361
51猎奇 Associate Professor Blain Neufeld argues that adults and children have a right to free time in the LSE’s The Forum
Associate Professor Blain Neufeld argues that adults and children have a right to free time in a recent essay in the London School of Economics and Political Science’s The Forum.