VT Philosophy MA Research Showcase (October 22, 24)
Angela Sun (Washington and Lee): “The role of anti-snitching norms” (November 1)
Nathan Adams (Virginia): “Realist(ic) political obligation” (January 31)
Jim Klagge Retirement Conference (March 8)
Robert Smithson (UNC Wilmington) “On coming to resemble a picture: a Murdochian analysis of large language models” (March 21)
Insa Lawler (UNC Greensboro): “Equilibrism and the argument from disagreement” (April 18)
Megan Hyska (Northwestern): “On organization and cooptation” (May 2)
Metaphysics in the Blue Ridge (June 5-7)
2023-24
Daniel Drucker (UT Austin): “How comparing and not comparing compare” (September 15)
Lukas Meyer (Graz): “Supersession and compensation” (October 5)
VT Philosophy MA Research Showcase (October 10)
Thimo Heisenberg (Rice): “Hegel on childless marriage” (October 20)
Dee Payton (Virginia): “Gender and personhood” (November 10)
Rosalind Chaplin (UNC Chapel Hill): “Shame and partial concern for character” (February 16)
Michael Pelczar (National University of Singapore): “Requiem for Hal” (March 15)
Burian-McNabb Lecture (co-sponsored with Society, Technology, and Society): Janet Browne (Harvard): “Those finches again: the story of an evolutionary icon” (April 12)
C. Thi Nguyen (Utah): “What the algorithm misses: how data and metrics shape our values” (April 26)
Colin Chamberlain (University College London): “Staying alive: Malebranche on mechanism, action, and the preservation of life” (May 3)
2022-23
Well Being and the Good Life Workshop (sponsored by the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) (August 4)
Daniel Munoz (UNC Chapel Hill): “Against police abolition” (September 2)
The Statistics Wars and their Casualties (sponsored by the Foundation for the Study of Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science (E.R.R.O.R.S); the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics; VT Department of Philosophy): September 22-23; December 1, 8; virtual)
VT Philosophy MA Research Showcase (October 4, 6)
Michaela McSweeney (Boston University): “Understanding, experience, and standpoint” (October 11)
Camil Golub (Rutgers): “The good, the bad, and the meaningful” (October 28)
James Klagge (Virginia Tech): “Is Wittgenstein still an analytic philosopher?” (November 4)
Andea Woody (Washington) “Descriptive and prescriptive: reflecting on molecular concepts” (December 2)
Burian-McNabb Lecture (co-sponsored with Society, Technology, and Society): Jane Maienschein (School of Life Sciences, Arizona State): “Thinking about regeneration: why do we think we want it?” (January 26)
Ross Cameron (Virginia): “Infinite regress, explanation, and plenitude” (January 27)
Elanor Taylor (Johns Hopkins): “A problem for social essentialism” (March 17)
2021-22
VT Philosophy MA Research Showcase (September 17-19)
Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan): “Can meaningless statements be approximately true? On relaxing the semanic component of scientific realism” (October 15)
Kevin Richardson (Duke): “The metaphysics of gender is (relatively) substantial” (October 29)
Rebecca Stangl (Virginia): “Moral exemplars and human virtue” (Novermber 5)
Michael Townsen Hicks (Birmingham): “An inference problem for potentiality” (December 3)
Avery Archer (George Washington): “What is angosticism?” (January 28)
VT Humanities Week Keynote Lecture: Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU): “Living well: the humanities as a preparation for life” (February 10)
Andrew Lee (Oslo): “Degrees of consciousness” (February 18)
Lindsay Brainard (Alabama): “What is creativity?” (March 4)
The Center for Humanities Faculty Research Associate Colloquia Series: Philip Yaure (Virginia Tech): “Seizing citizenship: Fredrick Douglass' abolitionist republicanism” (March 31)
PPE Research Panel: Decision Theory, Behavioral Phenomena, and Network Economics (sponsored by the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics): Dan Hoek, Matthew Kovach, and Sudipta Sarangi (April 13)
Burian-McNabb Lecture (co-sponsored with Society, Technology, and Society): Alan Love (Minnesota): “New perspectives on biological teleology: concepts and controversies” (April 22)
Tim Fuller (Virginia Tech): “Can we stop representing race? Should we?” (April 29)
2020-21
Regina Rini (York): “Moral disagreement is special” (September 21)
Devin Curry (West Virginia): “Psychometric g as a bridge model of intelligence” (October 30)
David Chalmers (NYU): “Sentience and moral status” (February 19)
Nora Berenstain (Tennessee, Knoxville): “Modality and structural oppression” (March 5)
2019-20
Michael Moehler (Virginia Tech): “Diversity, stability, and contractarian moral theory” (September 27)
Tom Dougherty (UNC Chapel Hill): “External constraints on consent” (October 25)
Katherina Kinzel (University of Vienna): “Hermeneutics and Neo-Kantianism: Heinrich Rickert and Ernst Cassirer on historical understanding and cultural meaning” (November 8)
2018-19
Marjorie Grene Lecture: Katherine Brading (Duke): “Emilie Du Châtelet and the foundations of physical science” (September 28)
VT Graduate Philosophy Conference: Philosophy of Race, Gender, and Social Groups (October 19–20)
Minorites and Philosophy (MAP) Speaker: Derrick Darby (Michigan): “Why white liberals won’t back black reparations” (November 9)
Robin Dembroff (Yale) “Reimagining trans” (February 22)
Renee Bolinger (Australian National University): “Explaining evidential asymmetries” (April 5)
Matthias Armgardt (Konstanz): “Causation in the law, overdetermination, and normative ideal worlds” (May 16)
Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Statistics (July 28–August 11)
2017-18
Quayshawn Spencer (Pennsylvania): “A radical solution to the race problem” (September 8)
Marjorie Grene Lecture: Roberta Millstein (UC Davis): “Types of experiments and causal process tracing: what happened on the Kaibab Plateau in the 1920s?” (September 15)
Vanessa Wills (George Washington University), “Race, ethics, and policing in the context of injustice” (October 27)
VT Graduate Philosophy Conference: Realism and the Real World (November 10–11)
Louis DeRosset (Vermont): “Skepticism about grounding” (November 13)
Andrea Pitts (UNC Charlotte): “Countermemory and critical historiography: resistant imaginaries in Latin American feminist philosophy” (November 17)
Gillian Russell (UNC Chapel Hill), “Speech acts and speaking up” (March 2)
Ross Cameron (Virginia): “Ontological commitment and second-order logic” (March 16)
Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech): “Statistical inference as severe testing: how to get beyond the statistics wars” (April 6)
Whitney Schwab (Maryland, Baltimore County): “Towards the Forms” (April 20)
Workshop in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Aristotle on the “for the sake of” (April 21)
2016-17
VT Graduate Philosophy Conference: Puzzles and Paradoxes (October 28–29)
Sam Cowling (Denison): “How to Benacerraf a Goodman-Lewis” (December 2)
Sarah McGrath (Princeton): “Moral perception and its rivals” (January 27)
Elizabeth Barnes (Virginia): “Disability and the concept of health” (February 17)
Duncan Richter (Virginia Military Institute): “The ethics of communication” (March 3)
Marija Jankovic (Davidson College): “Knowledge and linguistic communication” (March 17)
Josh Schechter (Brown): “The epistemology of basic deductive rules” (March 31)
Early Career Metaphysics Workshop (April 7–8)
Walter Ott (Virginia): “Content, not character: disentangling secondary qualities from phenomenal character” (April 19)
2015-16
VT Graduate Philosophy Conference: Topics in Contemporary Metaphysics (November 6–7)
Daniel Kraemer, “Natural probabilistic information” (January 30)
Andrew Alwood (Virginia Commonwealth University): “Personal well-being” (April 10)
Ioan Muntean (Notre Dame & UNC Asheville): “Artificial moral cognition” (April 17)
Philosophy of Mind Workshop (April 24–25)
Bryce Huebner (Georgetown): “Mechanical processes and normative cognition” (May 1)
Anne Margaret Baxley (Washington University St. Louis): “Kant’s account of happiness as conditionally valuable” (May 8)
2014-15
Allan Franklin (UC Boulder) “What makes a good experiment?” (October 3)
David Faraci (Georgetown): “A hard look at moral perception” (October 17)
