Philosophy

Events

2018 Student Philosophy Conference

Friday, April 20, 2018 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

The University Library

The 2018 Student Philosophy Conference will take place on April 20, 2018! At our annual student conference, students present their philosophical ideas in exchange with faculty and other members of the campus community. Light lunch and refreshments are provided. 

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Michael Burroughs Philosophy Talk

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm

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Michael Burroughs of Cal State University Bakersfield will give a talk on March 7th from 4-6 in Sierra Tower 503. Prof. Burroughs is Director of the Kegley Ethics Institute at CSU-Bakersfield and Vice President of the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization,  a national nonprofit organization that supports dialogical and philosophical education opportunities in preschool to grade 12 classrooms. His research focuses on practical ethics, continental philosophy, and philosophy of education. Read more

Shelley Wilcox Philosophy Talk, "In Defense of Sanctuary Policies"

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm

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Shelley Wilcox of San Francisco State University will give a talk entitled "In Defense of Sanctuary Policies" on February 21 from 4-6 in Sierra Tower 503. Professor Wilcox's research lies at the intersections of social and political philosophy, applied ethics, and feminist philosophy, with a special interest in immigration, global justice, and urban environmental ethics. She is currently writing a series of articles on immigration justice and a book manuscript on urban environmental ethics.
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Daniela Dover Philosophy Presentation

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - 4:00am to 6:00am

The University Library

Daniela Dover (UCLA) will give a presentation entitled "Interpersonal Inquiry" on October 25, 2017 from 4-6pm in Sierra Tower 503.This event is free and open to all faculty and students. Below you will find an abstract of her presentation.

“How should we go about trying to understand one another? I’ll approach this question from an ethical point of view, arguing that conversations in which both parties aim to understand one another go best when participants adopt an attitude that I call “taking one another seriously,” in which neither participant treats either her own self-understanding, or her understanding of the other, as having privileged authority. This requires participants to abandon their claims to what Rahel Jaeggi calls “interpretive sovereignty”—the ethical demand that others treat me as my own best interpreter. I go on to ask what this shift might mean for our thinking about love and about the nature of the self.” Read more

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