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

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

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!