Past Events

Past Events

MAP Diversity Reading Group

Wilson 212/104

WIPS

Matheus Diesel Werberich
Wilson 104

"Machiavelli, Hamilton and Constant on Democratic Despotism" 

Eric Schliesser
McDonnell 162

Epistemology Group

Eric Brown
Wilson 104

It’s Good to Be Loved: Experientialism and the Problem of Chatbots

Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota)
McDonnel 162

MAP Diversity Reading Group

Wilson 212/104

Nozick, Self-Ownership, and the Problem of Self-Enslavement

Daniel Layman, Davidson College
McDonnell 162

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

WIPS

Mike Titelbaum
Wilson 104

Workshop: Deference and Technology

Robert Howell (Rice University), Maria Waggoner (Purdue University), Luis Rosa (WashU), Graham Curtiss-Rowlands (WashU), Allan Hazlett (WashU)
Somers Family Hall 251

Feminist Reading Group

Epistemology Group

Declan Smithies (Ohio State University)
Wilson 104

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

Colloquium: Declan Smithies

Declan Smithies (Ohio State University)
McDonnel 162

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

Epistemology Group

Megan Entwistle
Wilson 104

Civil Society Brunch: Sex, Gender, and Sports

Zack Bowersox (Political Science), Marina DiMarco (Philosophy), Ophelia Vedder (Political Science), and Lucy Vollbrecht (Philosophy)
Knight Center Room 220

Dinner & Dialogue: Is Christianity Worth Believing In?

John Inazu (WashU Law) and Chad Flanders (SLU Law)
McMillan Hall Cafe

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

Probing errors in explainable AI: Adversarial attacks and inferential defenses

David Watson, KCL
Wilson 104

Feminist Reading Group

Wilson 212

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

Civil Society Brunch: Democracy without Elections?

Alex Guerrero (Rutgers University)
Knight Center Room 200

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

Brown bear, brown bear, what do you tree? Discordance in linguistic phylogenetics

Carlos Santana (University of Pennsylvania)
McDonnel 162

Major-Minor Fair

WashU Athletic Complex

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

WIPS: Is the population doctrine consistent with transcriptomic circuit mapping?

Casey O'Callaghan & Michael Barksai
Wilson 104

Theories of Causation, Newton, and Locke's Argument for God's Existence

Patrick Connolly (Johns Hopkins University)
McDonnel 162

Dinner & Dialogue: Talking about Touchy Topics

Tiffany Robertson (Touchy Topics Tuesday) and Ron Mallon (WashU Philosophy/PNP)
Danforth University Center 234

Epistemology Group

Ege Yumuşak (University of Pennsylvania)
Wilson 104

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

Intellectualisms in Republic I-II

Rusty Jones (University of Oklahoma)
McDonnell 162

Feminist Reading Group

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

WIPS: Evan Sommers

The Neural Vehicles of Intuition
Wilson 104

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

WIPS: Belief Is a Hallmark of Knowledge

Daniel Immerman (Google)

AI Industry Jobs for Philosophers

Daniel Immerman (Google)
Wilson 104

Epistemology Group

Umrao Sethi (Brandeis University)

Markus Werning of Bochum

The problem of mnemic justification: How can episodic memories provide genuine (internalist) epistemic justification for factual beliefs?
Wilson 104

2025 Summer Philosophy Academy

A one-week course for high school students

Epistemology Group

Isabel Cortens (SLU)
Wilson 104

2025 SPAN First Annual Meeting

Sponsored by The Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program

MAP Diversity Reading Group

Minorities and Philosophy Diversity Reading Group
Wilson 212

WIPS

Matthew Kerns
Wilson 104

New Directions in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

A two-day conference at WashU

Epistemology Group: "On Being Known"

Akshan deAlwis
Wilson 104

MAP Diversity Reading Group

Minorities and Philosophy Diversity Reading Group
Wilson 212

Mind Group

Evan Summers
Wilson 104

MAP Diversity Reading Group

Minorities and Philosophy Diversity Reading Group
Wilson 212

Epistemology Group

Lidal Dror (Princeton University)
Wilson 104

WIPS

James Shearer
Wilson 104

Mind Group

Simone Gozzano, Universita degli Studi dell'Aguila
Zoom

Colloquium: "The Explanatory Nature of Constraints"

Lauren Ross (University of California, Irvine)
Umrath 140

"What Is (and Is Not) Racist in Our Healthcare System"

Ian Peebles (Arizona State University)
Cupples II 203

Ancient Philosophy Workshop with David Kaufman

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics
Ridgley 107 and Umrath Conference Room 224

PET Pedagogy

Ian Peebles (Arizona State University)
Wilson 104

Colloquium: “Spinoza on the Unity of the Virtues”

Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Umrath 140

Epistemology Group: “Responding to the Arbitrariness Objection Without Sacrificing Accuracy”

Graham Curtiss-Rowlands
Wilson 104

Ancient Philosophy Workshop with Sosseh Assaturian

Sosseh Assaturian, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington
DUC 240 and Umrath Conference Room 224

WIPS

Lesley Walker
Wilson 104

Colloquium: "Rational Perceivers"

Evan Sommers (WashU)
Umrath 140

Epistemology Group: "Is Evidentialism Consistent with Epistemic Reasons for Actions?"

Chih Yun Yin (WashU)
Wilson 104

WIPS

Ivan Cotumaccio
Wilson 104

Technology & Society: An Interdisciplinary Conference on AI & Finance

A two-day conference at WashU

Colloquium: "A Molyneux Problem for Automated Science"

Katie Creel (Northeastern University)
Umrath 140

PET Pedagogy

Katie Creel (Northeastern University)
Wilson 104

Mind Group

Gabriel Siegel, WashU
Zoom

WIPS

Matthew Kern
Wilson 104

MAP Diversity Reading Group

Minorities and Philosophy Diversity Reading Group
Wilson 212

Mind Group

Gabe Greenberg (University of California, Los Angeles)

Civil Society Brunch: "The Liberal Arts and The Myth of Thinking for Yourself"

Simon Feldman (Connecticut College)
Knight Center 220

Colloquium: "Iconicity and Mental Representation"

Gabe Greenberg (University of California, Los Angeles)
Umrath 140

Lost Plot Never Foils -A Philosophy Art Expo

Artist Townsend Baird
Wilson Hall

MAP Diversity Reading Group

Minorities and Philosophy Diversity Reading Group
Wilson 212

Epistemology Group: "How Doubt Spreads in a Rational Mind"

Luis Rosa (WashU)
Wilson 104

WIPS

Rebecca Copenhaver
Wilson 104

PET Pedagogy

Mike Barkasi (Neuroscience)
Wilson 104