2023-2024 Speakers Series

The Philosophy Department’s Speakers Series presents public lectures – September through April annually – by visiting speakers and faculty on a wide variety of philosophical topics.

Winter 2024 Talks

Jan 19 - Amanda Bryant (University of Calgary): Girl Meets World: Finding the Philosophy in Policy

Jan 26 - Aaron Garrett (Boston University): Gew-gaws, and trinkets: Adam Smith (and Cugoano) on slavery

Feb 2 - Arthur Sullivan (Memorial University):On the Guises of Irony

Feb 9 - Xuefeng Wen (University of Calgary/ Sun-Yat Sen University):Three begets everything: What is an inference and when is it valid?

Mar 1 - Alfred Mele (Florida State University): Libertarianism, Decision-making, and a Point of No Return 

Mar 15 - Alison McConwell (UMass Lowell): Social Values in a Scientific World View: Sentiments & Celebrity in the Work for Evolution’s Modern Synthesis & Jay Odenbach (Lewis and Clark University): Threading the Needle: Eliminative Pluralism Meets Conservation Practice

April 1 - Tyler Brunet (University of Exeter): Constructive Neutral Evolution: Higher-Level Cases and Future Directions