February 27, 2026 1:30 pm St. Louis Ancient Philosophy Workshop Vivian Feldblyum (Auburn University) McDonnell 212
February 27, 2026 10:00 am Civil Society Brunch: The Politics of Futurity Deva Woodly (Brown University) Knight Center 210
February 19, 2026 5:00 pm Dinner & Dialogue: Should Animal Testing Be Phased Out? Anne Baril (Philosophy) and Erik Herzog (Biology) Danforth University Center, Room 276
February 05, 2026 4:00 pm "Machiavelli, Hamilton and Constant on Democratic Despotism" Eric Schliesser McDonnell 162
January 29, 2026 4:00 pm It’s Good to Be Loved: Experientialism and the Problem of Chatbots Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota) McDonnel 162
January 22, 2026 4:00 pm Nozick, Self-Ownership, and the Problem of Self-Enslavement Daniel Layman, Davidson College McDonnell 162
November 21, 2025 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
November 13, 2025 4:00 pm Colloquium: Declan Smithies Declan Smithies (Ohio State University) McDonnel 162
November 07, 2025 10:00 am 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
November 05, 2025 5:00 pm Dinner & Dialogue: Is Christianity Worth Believing In? John Inazu (WashU Law) and Chad Flanders (SLU Law) McMillan Hall Cafe
October 31, 2025 12:00 pm Probing errors in explainable AI: Adversarial attacks and inferential defenses David Watson, KCL Wilson 104
October 24, 2025 10:00 am Civil Society Brunch: Democracy without Elections? Alex Guerrero (Rutgers University) Knight Center Room 200
October 16, 2025 4:00 pm Brown bear, brown bear, what do you tree? Discordance in linguistic phylogenetics Carlos Santana (University of Pennsylvania) McDonnel 162
October 03, 2025 12:00 pm WIPS: Is the population doctrine consistent with transcriptomic circuit mapping? Casey O'Callaghan & Michael Barksai Wilson 104
October 02, 2025 4:00 pm Theories of Causation, Newton, and Locke's Argument for God's Existence Patrick Connolly (Johns Hopkins University) McDonnel 162
October 01, 2025 5:00 pm Dinner & Dialogue: Talking about Touchy Topics Tiffany Robertson (Touchy Topics Tuesday) and Ron Mallon (WashU Philosophy/PNP) Danforth University Center 234
September 25, 2025 4:00 pm Intellectualisms in Republic I-II Rusty Jones (University of Oklahoma) McDonnell 162
August 15, 2025 1:00 pm Markus Werning of Bochum The problem of mnemic justification: How can episodic memories provide genuine (internalist) epistemic justification for factual beliefs? Wilson 104
May 01 to May 03, 2025 2025 SPAN First Annual Meeting Sponsored by The Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program
April 25, 2025 4:00 pm MAP Diversity Reading Group Minorities and Philosophy Diversity Reading Group Wilson 212
April 24 to April 25, 2025 New Directions in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence A two-day conference at WashU
April 18, 2025 4:00 pm MAP Diversity Reading Group Minorities and Philosophy Diversity Reading Group Wilson 212
April 11, 2025 4:00 pm MAP Diversity Reading Group Minorities and Philosophy Diversity Reading Group Wilson 212
April 10, 2025 4:00 pm Colloquium: "The Explanatory Nature of Constraints" Lauren Ross (University of California, Irvine) Umrath 140
April 04, 2025 3:00 pm "What Is (and Is Not) Racist in Our Healthcare System" Ian Peebles (Arizona State University) Cupples II 203
April 04, 2025 1:30 pm Ancient Philosophy Workshop with David Kaufman Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics Ridgley 107 and Umrath Conference Room 224
April 03, 2025 4:00 pm Colloquium: “Spinoza on the Unity of the Virtues” Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Umrath 140
March 28, 2025 2:00 pm Epistemology Group: “Responding to the Arbitrariness Objection Without Sacrificing Accuracy” Graham Curtiss-Rowlands Wilson 104
March 28, 2025 1:30 pm Ancient Philosophy Workshop with Sosseh Assaturian Sosseh Assaturian, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington DUC 240 and Umrath Conference Room 224
March 21, 2025 2:00 pm Epistemology Group: "Is Evidentialism Consistent with Epistemic Reasons for Actions?" Chih Yun Yin (WashU) Wilson 104
March 21 to March 22, 2025 Technology & Society: An Interdisciplinary Conference on AI & Finance A two-day conference at WashU
March 20, 2025 4:00 pm Colloquium: "A Molyneux Problem for Automated Science" Katie Creel (Northeastern University) Umrath 140
March 07, 2025 4:00 pm MAP Diversity Reading Group Minorities and Philosophy Diversity Reading Group Wilson 212
February 28, 2025 10:00 am Civil Society Brunch: "The Liberal Arts and The Myth of Thinking for Yourself" Simon Feldman (Connecticut College) Knight Center 220