{"id":72,"date":"2024-03-06T16:17:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T16:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/philosophy\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2026-02-24T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T18:41:15","slug":"events-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/philosophy\/events-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the Berry Fund.\u00a0 All colloquia are free and open to the public. For Spring 2026, talks will take place from 3:30<\/span> – 5:30pm on Mondays. Reception to follow until 6:30 p.m. Please see flyer below for locations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spring 2026<\/h2>\n

February 16<\/strong><\/p>\n

Selim Berker, of Harvard University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Knowledge Isn’t Partially Grounded in Truth”<\/span><\/p>\n

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March 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Schroeder of University of Southern California<\/p>\n

“Might Laws Be Interpretive Works in Progress”<\/span><\/p>\n

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March 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jamie Drier of Brown University<\/p>\n

“Virtue and Consequence”<\/span><\/p>\n

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March 30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meena Krishnamurty of Queens University<\/p>\n

“The Essential Features of Caste: Ambedkar, Du Bois, and Race in America<\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fall 2025<\/span><\/h2>\n

September 15\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Krista Thomason, Department Chair of Philosophy and Associate Professor of Swarthmore College.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Angry at the World”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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September 22<\/strong><\/p>\n

Noel Carroll, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Film, and Media Cultures at The City University of New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Art, Cognition, and Morality”<\/p>\n

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October 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zoe Jenkin, Assistant Professor with specialties in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Psychology at Rutgers University.<\/p>\n

“A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing”<\/p>\n

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November 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emanuele Costa, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University.<\/span><\/p>\n

Book Presentation,\u00a0“The Structure of Spinoza’s World”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spring 2025<\/span><\/h2>\n

February 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brian Leiter, Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values, Affiliated Faculty, Department of Philosophy, The University of Chicago Law School<\/span><\/p>\n

March 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Cu<\/span><\/p>\n

llen Professor of Medical Ethics in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine<\/span><\/p>\n

Marc<\/strong>h 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Gordon<\/span>, Amabel <\/span>B. James Professor of History, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Germ<\/span>anic Languages and <\/span>Lit<\/span>eratu<\/span>res, an<\/span>d <\/span>Faculty Affiliate in <\/span>the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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March<\/strong>\u00a02<\/strong>4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ted Poston<\/span>, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the McCollough Institute for Pre-Medical Scholars the University of Alabama.<\/span><\/p>\n

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March 27th and 28th<\/strong><\/p>\n

Philosophy After Murdoch Workshop | Sarratt 325\/7<\/p>\n

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Friday, March 28th : <\/span><\/p>\n

9:15am \u2013 Opening Remarks by Matthew Congdon (Vanderbilt) and Mark Hopwood (Sewanee)<\/span><\/p>\n

9:30am\u201311:00am \u2013 Talbot Brewer (Virginia): \u201cEros and Ethos<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

11:15am\u201312:45pm \u2013 Justin Broackes (Brown): \u201cPlato, Freud and Murdoch: What exactly is the Reality that Human Beings (so we are told) find it hard to face up to?<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2:30pm\u20134:00pm \u2013 Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (UC Dublin): \u201cChoicelessness as a Moral Goa<\/em>l\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4:15pm\u20135:45pm \u2013 Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern): \u201cPictures of Ourselves: Iris Murdoch on Freedom\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Reception in Sarratt Courtyard<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saturday, March 29th :<\/p>\n

9:30am\u201311:00am \u2013 Mark Hopwood (Sewanee): \u201cMoral philosophy as hermeneutical inquiry<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

11:15am\u201312:45pm \u2013 Francey Russell (Columbia): \u201cSelf opacity from a humanistic point of view\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2:30pm\u20134:00pm \u2013 Nandi Theunissen (Rice): \u201cIris Murdoch’s Perfectionism\u201d<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

4:15pm\u20135:45pm \u2013 Anil Gomes (Oxford): \u201cThe Constructive Task of a Philosophy of Mind<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

March 28th<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt Bioethics Conference | Reception in Buttrick 123 at 4:30pm<\/p>\n

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Fall 2024<\/h2>\n

September 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona)
\n\u201cKindnesses\u201d<\/p>\n

October 28<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shaun Nichols (Cornell)
\n\u201cNot for Me: On the External Function of Guilt\u201d<\/p>\n

November 18<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karen Stohr (Georgetown)
\n\u201cHow to Value Yourself: Self-Respect and the Setting of Ends\u201d<\/p>\n

December 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lucia Schwarz (Tulane)
\nTBA *Occasional Talk*<\/p>\n

Spring 2024<\/h2>\n

February 8<\/strong>
\nSally Haslanger (MIT)
\n\u201cCritical Social Theory: Combining Theory and Practice\u201d
\n*4:15 p.m., Alumni Hall room 202<\/p>\n

February 12<\/strong>
\nAlice Crary (The New School for Social Research)
\n\u201cObjectivity\u2019s Politics\u201d<\/p>\n

March 4<\/strong>
\nDaniel James (Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden)
\n\u201cBlack History is World History\u201d<\/p>\n

March 18<\/strong>
\nKatharina Stevens (University of Lethbridge)
\n\u201cAn Ideal Theory Problem for Single-Set Theories of Argumentation and the Role of Ethics in Solving It\u201d<\/p>\n

March 28<\/strong>
\nElizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
\n\u201cChallenges to Creating an Egalitarian Society\u201d
\n*7 p.m. Wilson Hall room 126, Reception at 5 p.m. in Wilson Hall Lobby<\/p>\n

April 8<\/strong>
\nDerrick Darby (Rutgers)
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Fall 2023<\/h2>\n

August 28<\/strong>
\nLaura Specker-Sullivan (Fordham University)
\n\u201cClimates of Distrust\u201d<\/p>\n

September 11<\/strong>
\nKarolina Hubner (Cornell University)
\n\u201cSpinoza on Truth\u201d<\/p>\n

September 25<\/strong>
\nDavid Estlund (Brown University)
\n\u201cMoral Culprits and the Wrong of Social Injustice\u201d<\/p>\n

October 30<\/strong>
\nMatt Congdon (Vanderbilt University)
\nFirst Book Session: Moral Articulation<\/p>\n

November 6<\/strong>
\nRegina Rini (York University, Canada)
\n\u201cDefining the Ideologies of the Digital Century\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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