Past Events

Past Events

MAP Diversity Reading Group

April 10th 5-6pm Democracy and Human Rights
Wilson 212/104

Epistemology Group

Stephen Finlay (University of Illinois)
Wilson 104

WIPS

Evan Sommers, WashU
Wilson 104

Cultivating Disagreement Teaching Symposium

Let’s help our students speak up and express disagreement!
Formal Lounge, Olin Women's Building

Dinner & Dialogue: Should Universities Allow Disruptive Protests?

Frank Lovett (Political Science) and Gregory Magarian (Law)
Danforth University Center 276

A New Defense of Old-School Conceptual Analysis

Stephen Finlay, Univ. of Illinois
McDonnel 162

Civil Society Brunch: Conservative and Progressive, American Style

Dan Haybron (Saint Louis University)
Knight Center 210

Dinner & Dialogue: Apologies and Reparations: Which Comes First?

Adrienne Davis (Law) and Thembelani Mbatha (African & African American Studies)
Danforth University Center 276

Colloquium

Derek Braverman, WashU
Wilson 214

Workshop in Philosophy and Social Change

Featuring Alex Madva, Dan Kelly, and Michael Brownstein

Nonacademic paths for PhDs in Philosophy

A Presentation by Greg Stoutenberg (Zoom)
Wilson 104 | Zoom Watch Party

Sympathy as Affective Self-Governance

Akshan deAlwis & Anne Margaret Baxley, WashU
Wilson 104

Civil Society Brunch: Somebody Should Do Something

Michael Brownstein (John Jay College of Criminal Justice), Daniel Kelly (Purdue University), and Alex Madva (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
Knight Center Room 210

Who's Afraid of Imprecise Sexes?

Marina DiMarco, WashU
Zoom

Herodotus and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ in the Nineteenth Century

Colloquium with Suzanne Marchand
Busch 18 (Lower level of Busch Hall)

MAP Diversity Reading Group

Wilson 212/104

Mind Group

Sarah Robins
Wilson 212

WIPS

Lemuel Tang
Wilson 104

Memory Traces and Engrams

Sarah Robins (Purdue)
McDonnell 162

MAP Diversity Reading Group

Wilson 212/104

Intimate Partner Violence and the State

Colloquium: Elizabeth Brake, Rice University
McDonnel 162

St. Louis Ancient Philosophy Workshop

Vivian Feldblyum (Auburn University)
McDonnell 212

Civil Society Brunch: The Politics of Futurity

Deva Woodly (Brown University)
Knight Center 210

Dinner & Dialogue: Should Animal Testing Be Phased Out?

Anne Baril (Philosophy) and Erik Herzog (Biology)
Danforth University Center, Room 276

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

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

Epistemology Group

Declan Smithies (Ohio State University)
Wilson 104

Colloquium: Declan Smithies

Declan Smithies (Ohio State University)
McDonnel 162

Epistemology Group

Megan Entwistle
Wilson 104

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

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

Mind Group

Nicholas Shea's Concepts at the Interface
Wilson 212

Epistemology Group

Ege Yumuşak (University of Pennsylvania)
Wilson 104

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