The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Miren Boehm has been awarded a Fellowship at the Center for 21st Studies for 2018-19.
New Department of Philosophy Assistant Professors
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that we will be joined by two new Assistant Professors of Philosophy fall 2018: Rachel Goodman (PhD, University of Chicago), Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and Peter van Elswyk (ABD, Rutgers University), Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Linguistics.
Colloquia, Spring 2018
Join us for the Philosophy Spring Colloquia on March 9, March 30, April 13, and May 4
Friday, March 9th, 3:30pm
Tom Holden,聽UCSB
“Hobbes on Love and Fear of God”
Location: 175 Curtin Hall
Friday, March 30th, 3:30pm
Amy Kind,聽Claremont McKenna College
“What the Imagination Teaches”
Location: 175 Curtin Hall
Friday, April 13th, 3:30pm
Jonny Cottrell,聽Wayne State University
“Hume’s Negative Conclusion about Probable Reasoning”
Location: 118 Curtin Hall
Friday, May 4th, 3:30pm
Marya Schechtman,聽UIC
“The Way We Were: Episodic Memory and Personal Identity”
Location: 118 Curtin Hall
Freedom of Expression & Civil Discourse
When Free Speech Collides with Impermissible Speech: A Civil Discourse
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017
51猎奇 Student Union Ballroom
10:30 am 鈭� noon
uwm.edu/freedom-expression
The Freedom of Expression and Civil Discourse Series is designed to provide students, faculty and staff with information on their right to free speech on campus as well as the rights of invited speakers. It will also serve as a platform to assist in finding productive, nonviolent ways to respond to speech and expressions with which they disagree without infringing on the free speech rights of others.
Download the Freedom Speech flyer
Panelists:
- Clarence Page, Moderator
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chicago Tribune - Chris Ott
Executive director, ACLU oF Wisconsin - Rick Esenberg
President and general counsel, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty - Dr. Blain Neufeld
Associate professor and coordinator of the Certificate in Ethics, Values, and Society, 51猎奇 Department of Philosphy - Dr. Michele Bria
Chief executive officer, Journey House of Milwaukee - Plus, three invited Student Panelists.
Colloquia, Fall 2017
Join us for the Philosophy Fall Colloquia on Sep. 15, Sep. 22, Oct. 20, and Nov. 17
Friday, Sept 15, 3:30pm
Ted Sider, Rutgers
鈥淓quivalence from a Metaphysical Point of View鈥�
Location: 175 Curtin Hall
Friday, Sept 22, 3:30pm
Geoff Sayre McCord, University of North Carolina
鈥淥n a Better Theory of Morality and a Theory of a Better Morality鈥�
Location: 175 Curtin Hall
Friday, Oct 20, 3:30pm
Shieva Kleinschmidt, University of Southern California
“Fusion First”
Location: 175 Curtin Hall
Friday, Nov 17, 3:30pm
Martha Bolton, Rutgers
鈥淢ary Shepherd on Justification of Belief in the External World鈥�
Location: 175 Curtin Hall
Atherton delivers Dewey Lecture
Margaret Atherton has delivered the Dewey Lecture at the Central Division Meeting of the APA early this month. Please see a report on the lecture by clicking on the link below.
The invitation honors, according to the Dewey Foundation’s description, “a prominent and senior American philosopher,” and invites the philosopher in her lecture “to reflect, broadly and in an autobiographical spirit, on philosophy in America.” There are three Dewey Lectures each year, one at each of the Divisional meetings, and the three lectures are published in the APA Proceedings and Addresses. Dewey lectures sometimes contain reflections , from the point of view of the distinguished philosopher, on changes in philosophical education, or on important influences in the philosopher’s own development, or on diversity in the profession.
Colloquia, Spring 2017
Join us for the Philosophy Spring Colloquia on February 15, April 7, and May 5.
Wednesday, February 15, 1:00pm
Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research
鈥淐risis of Care? Social Contradictions of Neoliberal Capitalism鈥�
Location: 51猎奇 Libraries 4th Floor Conference Center
In Conjunction with 51猎奇 Women鈥檚 & Gender Studies and sponsored by KumKum Sangari, Vilas Professor of Humanities
Event Flyer
Friday, April 7, 3:30pm
Michael McKenna, University of Arizona
鈥淧unishment and the Value of Deserved Suffering鈥�
Location: 175 Curtin Hall
Friday, May 5, 3:30pm
Daniel Nolan, University of Notre Dame
鈥淭heoretical Conservatism in Metaphysics鈥�
Location: 175 Curtin Hall
Blain Neufeld receives 2016 51猎奇 Foundation Research Award
Blain Neufeld has been honored with a 2016 51猎奇 Foundation Research Award.
Colloquia, Fall 2016
Join us for the Philosophy Fall Colloquia! October 7, October 28, November 11, and December 2.
Friday, October 7, 3:30pm
Dan Jacobson, University of Michigan
鈥淲hither Sentimentalism? On Fear, the Fearsome and the Dangerous鈥�
Location: 124 Curtin Hall
Friday, October 28, 3:30pm
Lisa Downing, Ohio State University
鈥淪ensible Qualities and Secondary Qualities in Berkeley’s First Dialogue鈥�
Location: 124 Curtin Hall
Friday, November 11, 3:30pm
Simon Blackburn, UNC, Chapel Hill
鈥淔eelings and Judgments鈥�
Location: 124 Curtin Hall
Friday, December 2, 3:30pm
Michael Williams, Johns Hopkins University
鈥淲ittgenstein on Certainty鈥�
Location: 124 Curtin Hall
New Undergraduate Certificate
51猎奇 Department of Philosophy now offers a new certificate program: The Certificate in Ethics, Values, and Society (CEVS). It is an academic program for undergraduates to explore questions about ethics, politics, and social justice across topics and subject areas.
More about the Certificate in Ethics, Values, and Society (CEVS).