2024-2025 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.

Fall 2024 Talks

Sept 13 - Nicholas Fillion, Simon Fraser University: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

Sept 20 - Yoshiki Kobasigawa, University of Calgary: What I think I've Learned from Children and Nietzsche about the Value of Teaching Philosophy

Oct 4 - Andrea Sullivan-Clarke, Indiana University: Paradigms of Crisis: Colonial Representations of Humans as a Phenomenon in Planetary Metaphysics

Oct 11 - Yumiko Inukai, University of Massachusetts, Boston: The Constructed Self is Real: Hume through the lens of Buddhist Thought

Nov 1 - Marc Ereshefsky, University of Calgary: Scientific Metaphysics and Values

Nov 29 - Brad Inwood, Yale University: Doing the right thing: from Socrates to Cicero and beyond

Nov 30 -: Robert Wardy, University of Arizona: Socrates' Delphic Mission

2023-2024 Talks

Sept 22, 2023 - Janet Kourany, University of Notre Dame

Sept 29, 2023 - James Sterba, University of Notre Dame

Oct 13, 2023 - Ryoa Chung, Université de Montréal

Oct 20, 2023 - Tracy Llanera, University of Connecticut

Nov 3, 2023 - Patrick Gerard, University of Auckland

Nov 6, 2023 - David M. Shribman, Pulitzer Prize Winner

Nov 7, 2023 – David M. Shribman, Pulitzer Prize Winner

Dec 1, 2023 - Patricia Blanchette, University of Notre Dame

Jan 19, 2024 - Angela Bryant, University of Calgary

Jan 26, 2024 - Aaron Garrett, Boston University

Feb 2, 2024 - Arthur Sullivan, Memorial University

Feb 9, 2024 - Xuefeng Wen, University of Calgary, Sun Yat Sen University

Mar 1, 2024 - Alfred Mele, Florida State University

Mar 15, 2024 - Alison McConwell, UMass Lowell & Jay Odenbach, Lewis & Clark College