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Philosophy in 15 Minutes

Gerrard Hall

Join us for an evening of food and drink, and “15 Minutes of Philosophy“ with presentations by Alan Nelson, Lindsay Brainard, and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord. Come for the food… stay for the Philosophy! The evening will be catered with a buffet … Read more

Speaker Series: Shamik Dasgupta (UC Berkeley)

213 Caldwell Hall

Shamik Dasgupta will present, “Realism and the Absence of Value”. Much recent metaphysics is built around notions such as naturalness, fundamentality, grounding, dependence, essence, and others besides. I will argue that this kind of metaphysics should be rejected because it … Read more

Speaker Series: Sarah Paul (Wisconsin)

213 Caldwell Hall

Sarah Paul will present her paper, "Grit". Click here to download a copy of the paper. Abstract: Many of our most important goals require months or even years of effort to achieve, and some never get achieved at all.  As … Read more