Colloquia

Gillian Russell
Gillian Russell (UNC Chapel Hill) September 21, 2017: TBA… Read More

September 21, 2017
Dan Korman
Dan Korman (University of Illinois) February 17, 2017: “Debunking Arguments in Metaethics and Metaphysics”… Read More

February 17, 2017
Justin Sytsma
Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington) October 14, 2016: “Actual Causation and Compositionality”… Read More

October 14, 2016
Jeanine Grenberg
Jeanine Grenberg (St. Olaf) September 30th, 2016: “The Practical, Cognitive Import of Feeling: A Phenomenological Account “… Read More

September 30, 2016
Anthony Rudd
Anthony Rudd (St. Olaf) September 29, 2016: “Painting and Presence”… Read More

September 29, 2016
Richard McCarty
Richard McCarty (Mercyhurst University) April 7, 2016: “Christian Sexual Ethics at the End of Days: Promiscuous Possibilities”… Read More

April 7, 2016
Samuel Fleischacker
Samuel Fleischacker (University of Illinois at Chicago) March 24, 2016: “What is Peoplehood?”… Read More

March 24, 2016
Farid Masrour
Farid Masrour (University of Wisconsin-Madison) January 15, 2016: “On the Possibility of Hallucinations”… Read More

January 15, 2016
Alyssa Ney
Alyssa Ney (University of California, Davis) December 4, 2015: “The Metaphysics of Mental Disorders”… Read More

December 4, 2015
Iowa Philosophical Society
Iowa Philosophical Society Conference, hosted by Iowa State University November 7, 2015 Keynote speaker: Elizabeth Radcliffe (The College of William and Mary), “Self-Regulating Passions”… Read More

November 2, 2015
Sandy Goldberg
The 2015-16 Philosopher in Residence is Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern University) October 8, 2015: “The Asymmetry Thesis and the Doctrine of Normative… Read More

October 2, 2015
Ethics of Debt
This conference will create a unique forum for discussing the ethics of debt by bringing together scholars from across the disciplines. September 25-26, 2015. Read More

April 20, 2015
Karl Schafer
The 2014-15 Philosopher in Residence is Karl Schafer (University of Pittsburgh) April 16, 2015: “Evolutionary Debunking, Explanatory Structure, and the Appeal… Read More

April 20, 2015
Iowa Philosophical Society
Iowa Philosophical Society Conference, hosted by Iowa State University November 15, 2014 Keynote speaker: Roy Sorensen (Washington University in St. Louis), “Other-centric Reasoning”… Read More

November 15, 2014
Jessica Wilson
Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) November 7, 2014: “Are There Indeterminate States of Affairs?”… Read More

November 7, 2014
James Broucek
James Broucek (Iowa State University) October 23, 2014: “Thinking About Religion Before ‘Religion'”… Read More

October 23, 2014
Robert Cargill
Robert Cargill (University of Iowa) October 21, 2014: “Archaeology and the Digital Humanities: Recent Advances and the Future of the Field”… Read More

October 21, 2014
Emily Kelahan
Emily Kelahan (Illinois Wesleyan) October 3, 2014: “Another Look at Hume’s Natural History of Religion“… Read More

October 3, 2014
Mark van Roojen
Mark van Roojen (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) March 7, 2014: “Moral Intuitionism, Experiments and Skeptical Arguments”… Read More

March 7, 2014