David Shoemaker is a professor of philosophy at Tulane University. He works on agency and responsibility, identity and ethics, and moral psychology. His Responsibility from the Margins is forthcoming (Oxford University Press). His Knowledge, Nature, and Norms: An Introduction to … Read more
Professor Susan Wolf, whose Meaning in Life and Why It Matters was selected by Princeton University as the pre-read book for all incoming students, is the Edna Koury Professor of Philosophy and a past President of the American Philosophical Association. … Read more
"What Teachers Owe Students" David Schmidtz, Kendrick Professor at the University of Arizona, works in political philosophy and teaches in Philosophy and in Economics. He will be the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar at UNC February 18-19. Pizza will … Read more
Sarah Moss will give a presentation as part of our annual Speaker Series. Sarah's work is focused on questions connecting language and epistemology: what semantic theories accommodate intuitive norms governing credences in counterfactuals, how updating de se credences resembles communicating … Read more
Matt Kotzen will give a talk to the department titled, "Conditional Oughts".
Sean Carroll will give a talk as part of our annual Speaker Series. "Quantum Field Theory and the Limits of Knowledge" Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is the successful paradigm underlying modern theoretical physics, including the "Core Theory" of the Standard … Read more
This event is open to all; pizza will be provided!
Professor Ruth Chang will give a paper as part of our annual Speaker Series. When Ruth Chang graduated from college, she was presented with a choice: Should she pursue a career in philosophy, or a career in law? Soon after finishing Harvard … Read more
A.W. Eaton is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois. She received her Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in both philosophy and art history in 2003. She works on topics in feminism, aesthetics and philosophy of art, value … Read more
