Past Events
PNP Workshop on Decision-Making
The social gene: The elements of selection, transmission, and evolution
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with David Queller, Washington University in St. Louis
William H. Gass Symposium: International Writing
Linquistics Colloquium, Claudia Pons Moll, University of Barcelona
"Prosodically-Driven Morpheme non-Realization: Evidence from Catalan and Other Languages
Philosophy Colloquium, Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore
"From Moral Twin Earth to Pleasure in Eden"
PNP Colloquium, Natalia Washington
"Culturally Unbound: Psychopathology, Diversity, and Human Nature"
PNP Colloquium, Sarah Malanowski
TBA
Philosophy Colloquium, Allan Hazlett, New Mexico
"Testimony, Understanding, and Art Criticism"
Philosophy Colloquium, Christoph Kelp, KU Leuven
Title: Inquiry and the Transmission of Knowledge
Philosophy and Neuroscience Series. Joe McCaffrey
"Are We Looking at a Network? Mixtures and Functional Inference in Resting State fMRI"
Philosophy Colloquium, Errol Lord, University of Pennsylvanna
Title: How to Learn about Aesthetics and Morality through Acquaintance and Deference
Philosophy Colloquium, Nathan Ballantyne, Fordham University
Title: Novices and Expert Disagreement
Philosophy Colloquium, Brian Talbot, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: Repugnant Accuracy
Philosophy and Neuroscience Series, Felipe De Brigard, PhD, Philosopher and Cognitive Psychologist at Duke University
"Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Modal Cognition"
Philosophy and Neuroscience Series, Leah Krubitzer, PhD, Neuroscientist at UC Davis
Cortical Plasticity Within and Across Lifetimes: Contributions to the Cortical Phenotype"
Philosophy Colloquium, Anna Christensen
Title: TBA
Philosophy Colloquium, Mark Povich
Title: TBA
Linguistics Colloquium, Tessa Bent, Indiana University
Title: Children’s perception of nonnative accents and regional dialects
Colloquium - Tim Crane - Central European University
Title: Unconscious Intentionality
Colloquium - Kati Farkas - Central European University
Title: Objectual knowledge and acquaintance
Colloquium - Adrian Currie - Cambridge
Title: Chasing Biproducts
Office of Neuroscience Research Conference - The Developing Brain: New Directions in Science, Policy, and Law
Anne-Michelle Tessier, University of Michigan, The Henry and Theresa Biggs Lecture in Linguistics
Title: Stages, Changes, Revisions and Re-Organizations in Child Phonology
Moral Psychology Lab Meeting
Speaker: Allan Hazlett
Moral Psychology Lab Meeting
Speaker: David Rose
Linguistics Colloquium: Matt Goldrick, Northwestern University
Title: Dynamics of cognition: Implications for the processing and structure of phonological knowledge
Jack Kloppenburg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
HPSM Brown Bag - Thomas S. Hall Lecture, Title: Freeing the Seed, Finding the Forgotten: Open Source Plant Genetics, Freelance Breeders, and the Future of Food
Colloquium - Becko Copenhaver - Lewis & Clark College
Title: Berkeley on Perceptual Development and Perceptual Learning
Moral Psychology Lab Meeting
Speaker: Jeremy Henry
The North American Kant Society
Junior Women Workshop
Delusions Across Cultures
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Dominic Murphy, University of Sydney
Colloquium - Kate Manne - Cornell
Title: Disabusing Her: How Misogyny Turns on Gaslighting
WORKSHOP "Prejudice: Intersecting Methods and Perspectives"
Linguistics Colloquium: Ryan Bennett, University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Recursive prosodic words in Kaqchikel (Mayan)
Colloquium - Manuel Vargas - UC, San Diego
Title: The Philosophy of Accidentality.
Moral Psychology Lab Meeting
Speaker: Anne Baril
Colloquium - Ian Tully - Washington University in St. Louis
Title: Why Good People Should Be Unhappy
Moral Psychology Lab Meeting - Julia Driver, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: Schadenfreude
Is Cancer Due to Bad Luck?
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Anya Plutynski, Washington University in St. Louis
Moral Psychology Lab Meeting - Nick Schuster, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "The Skill Model: A Dilemma for Virtue Ethics"
WIPS - Caroline Stone, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Prerequisite to What?: Construct Validity in Comparative Psychology"
Colloquium - Eric Brown, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Meno's Progress, or How to Love Wisdom"
WIPS - Casey O'Callaghan, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Senses and Capacities"
WiPhi - Happy Hour
Moral Psychology Lab Meeting
Speaker: Stephen Stich, Rutgers University
WIPS - Maria Altepeter, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Revising Non-Doxastic Propositional Faith: From Desire to Acquiescence"
Colloquium - Wayne Wu, Carnegie Mellon
Title: "Introspection and the Empirical (Neuropsychological) Case for Unconscious Vision"
WIPS - James Gulledge, Washington University in St. Louis
Brett Hyde, Washington University
Title: Rhythm in Natural Language
WIPS - Christiane Merritt, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Is Implicit Bias a Cognitive Kind?"
Colloquium sponsored by the Department of African & African-American Studies and The Linguistics Program - John Baugh
Title: "Linguistics, Life and Death"
Colloquium - Deanna Barch, Washington University
Title: Human Connectome Project(s): Past, present and future
Securing the Empirical Value of Measurement Results
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Kent Staley, St. Louis University
Colloquium - Meghan Sullivan, University of Notre Dame
Title: "Discounting the Past"
WIPS - Allan Hazlett, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Why do We Value Common Knowledge?"
Colloquium - Jonathan Weisberg, University of Toronto
Title: The Paradoxes of Acceptance
WiPhi - Spring Break Boot Camp
WIPS - David Rose, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: Reliability at the Core
SLAPSA X: 10th Annual St. Louis Area Philosophy of Science Association Meeting
WIPS - Katie Rapier, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Borderline Personality Disorder: The Moral Superheroes Normative Ethics Needs"
Linguistics Colloquium: Jamie Reilly, Temple University
Title:Phonological & Semantic Distinctiveness of English Abstract and Concrete Words
Colloquium - Kit Wellman, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "The Space Between Justice and Legitimacy"
David Bordwell's talk Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
PNP Co-sponsored event
WIPS - Lindsay Brainard, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Reverse Engineering: How to Move Forward in Epistemically Bleak Contexts"
David Bordwell's talk on Art historian E. H. Gombrich's Art and Illusion
PNP Co-sponsored event
Colloquium - Ron Mallon, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Construction, Culture, and Responsibility"
Moral Psychology Lab Meeting - Anya Plutynski, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Is there a unified theory of cancer?"
Colloquium - Christiane Merritt, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "I Know I Am, But What Are We?: Relational Autonomy and Responsibility for Implicit Bias"
WIPS - Anne Baril, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "The Relationship Between Virtue and Value"
Colloquium - Sarah Moss, University of Michigan
Title: Full Belief and Loose Speech
WIPS - Ben Henke, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "A Defense of the Continuum Hypothesis"
How to Explain How-possibly: Lessons from Computer Simulation
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Lindsay Brainard, Washington University in St. Louis
Colloquium - Anne Margaret Baxley, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: Kant’s Account of Happiness as Conditionally Good: Abstracting from Happiness When Happiness and Morality Conflict
WIPS - Kate Schmidt, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Epistemic Respect and Epistemic Injustice"
Time and Relatedness in Microbes and Humans
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Jonathan Birch, London School of Economics and Political Science
WiPhi - Dinner & Book Trade
SLACRR - St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality, 20-22 May
Keynote: Mark van Roojen, Nebraska
Jonathan Beere, Humboldt University, Berlin
Title: TBA
WiPhi - Appetizers and Drinks
Workshop in Ethics, October 11-13, 2018
Speakers: Miranda Fricker, CUNY; Barry Maguire, Stanford Univ; Kate Schmidt, Washington Univ; Rima Basu, Claremont McKenna College; Nomy Arpaly, Brown Univ; Keshav Singh, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Daniel Wodak, Virginia Tech
Borderline Personality Disorder: The Moral Superheroes Virtue Ethics Needs
Katie Rapier, Washington University
WiPhi - Professional Development Lunch
Fitting the Mind to the Brain: Deliberations on Cognitive Ontology
A Competence Framework for Artificial Intelligence Research
Lisa Miracchi, University of Pennsylvania
Knowledge, Participation, and Understanding
Kate Schmidt, Washington University
An Emerging Paradigm for Generalizing Medical Inference Beyond Definitive Diagnoses
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Dennis Barbour, Washington University
Women in Philosophy Dinner
WIPS
Caleb Pickard, University of Colorado Boulder
Exploring by Believing
Sara Aronowitz, Princeton University
Living with Others: Conscience, Coercion, and Freedom
Hosted by The Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
The Concept of a Person
John Schwenkler, Florida State University
Bayesian Perception: A Critical Analysis
Nico Orlandi, University of California, Santa Cruz
WIPS
Katie Rapier, Washington University in St. Louis
Perceptual Pluralism
Jake Quilty-Dunn, Oxford University
WIPS - How to Endorse Conciliationism
Will Fleisher, Washington University in St. Louis
Kierkegaard Reading Group
Dr. Russ Hamer, Illinois State University
WIPS - The Self-Defeating Cycle of Identification: A Critique of Coherentist Autonomy
Maria Doulatova, Washington University in St. Louis
Non-Academic Jobs for Philosophers
A discussion of non-academic careers for philosophy PhDs, including a Q&A with alumni of Washington University's PhD programs in philosophy.
How Statistics Changed Natural Selection
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with André Ariew, University of Missouri, Columbia
Exiled Scholars
A one day event featuring exile literature and details about exiled scholars who taught at Washington University in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Hosted by the German Department.
Perceptual Learning and Reason-Responsiveness
Zoe Jenkin, Harvard University
WiPhi - Social at Three Kings
WIPS - Hylomorphic Atomism
Graham Renz, Washington University in St. Louis
What social epistemology could learn from philosophy of science
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Helen Longino, Stanford University
All-Years Graduate Academic Jobs Information Session
An introduction to the academic job market for philosophy PhD students at all levels, with emphasis on long-term preparation.
Living without Memory: Consent in Amnesia
Carl Craver, Washington University in St. Louis
WIPS - Why are the Laws so Useful?
Chris Dorst, Washington University in St. Louis
Modal Angst
John Heil, Washington University in St. Louis
A Definition and Defense of Psychological Construct Validity
Caroline Stone, Washington University in St. Louis
WiPhi - Professional Development
WIPS - Thoughts, Judgments, and Epistemic Acts
Nic Koziolek, Washington University in St. Louis
WIPS - Acquiring a Concept of Visual Experience
Austin Andrews, Washington University in St. Louis
Credence, Circumstantial Evidence, and (Alternative) Facts in Aristotle's Natural Sciences
Mariska Leunissen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Is Character Consistent? A Neurobiological Evaluation of Temperance
Maria Altepeter, Washington University in St. Louis
Race as Political and Cultural: Du Bois' Dusk of Dawn
Chike Jeffers, Dahlhouse University
Against the Representational Theory of Mind
James Gulledge, Washington University in St. Louis
Seeming to Remember
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Sarah Robins, University of Kansas
SLAPSA: St. Louis Area Philosophy of Science Association Meeting
WiPhi - End of the Year Social
Moral Psychology Research Group - Moral Development: What We Know
Valerie Tiberius, University of Minnesota; Kiley Hamlin, University of British Columbia; Melissa Koenig, University of Minnesota; Joshua Rottman, Franklin and Marshall College
Philosophy Undergraduate Open House
Join us to learn about the undergraduate degree in philosophy.
PNP Undergraduate Open House
Join us to learn about the undergraduate Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program in the Department of Philosophy.
WIPS - What is Complexity? Cancer as a Case Study
Anya Plutynski, Washington University in St. Louis
WIPS - Transformative Theories of Rationality: A Critique
Nic Koziolek, Washington University in St. Louis
Neuroscience & Society Colloquium/Landau Lecture - "Emerging Neurotechnologies: From Research to Clinical Application"
Dr. Helen Mayberg, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
CANCELLED WIPS - Experimental Artifacts and Scientific Realism
Carl Craver, Washington University in St. Louis
Neural Language Technology in An Under-resourced Setting
Kevin Scannell, St. Louis University
Lunch and Discussion with Kevin Scannell
Kevin Scannell, Professor in Mathematics and Statistics at Saint Louis University.
WIPS - The Moral Psychology of Vice
Nick Schuster, Washington University in St. Louis
WIPS - Beyond Agency or Adaptive Preferences: A Different Model of "Hard Cases" for Feminism
Ron Mallon, Washington University in St. Louis
Central States Philosophical Association 2019 Meeting.
Lying and Deception: A Happy Marriage
Ishani Maitra, University of Michigan
Evil Together: The Social Dimensions of Kantian Vice
Karen Stohr, Georgetown University
Why the Process Turn?
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Mazviita Chirimuuta, University of Pittsburgh
WIPS - E.J. Lowe and the Ontology of the Divine
Graham Renz, Washington University in St. Louis
Complex Harmony: Rethinking the Virtue-Continence Distinction.
Nick Schuster, Washington University in St. Louis
WIPS - Virtuously Lacking Moral Understanding: An Argument for Moral Testimony Optimism.
Maria Altepeter, Washington University in St. Louis
WIPS - What's Synthetic Biology Got to Do with it? How Engineered Possibilities have Explanatory Value
Janella Baxter, Washington University in St. Louis
Properties; instantiation and recurrence
Anna Marmodoro, Durham University
Graduate Program Applications Open
Deadline December 31, 2019 for fall admission
Helen Stenner Memorial Essay Prize Competition
Deadline January 15, 2020
New award amount - $1,000
Colloquium
WIPS - On Russellian Monism and Mental Causation
Auke Montessori, Washington University in St. Louis
Colloquium
WIPS - A historical theory of believing for reasons
Nic Koziolek, Washington University in St. Louis
Colloquium
Colloquium
Colloquium
Colloquium
Colloquium
WIPS - Responsibility and Cultural Ignorance
Cameron Evans, Washington University in St. Louis
Colloquium
Colloquium
Midwest Memory Mayhem
A One-Day Integrative Workshop for Scientists and Philosophers
WIPS - Two Senses of ‘Perception’
Ben Henke, Washington University in St. Louis
The distinctiveness of disease explanation
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Lauren Ross, University of California, Irvine
Mind Group - Rob Rupert, University of Colorado, Boulder
Mind Group - Chandra Sripada, University of Michigan
Mind Group - Fiery Cushman, Harvard
The need for speed: Epistemic norms and niche construction in the evolutionary development of PET technology
Rick Shang, Washington University in St. Louis
Mind Group - Hongbo Yu, UC, Santa Barbara
Mind Group - Julia Haas, Rhodes College
WIPS - When is it Safe to Edit the Human Germline?
Janella Baxter, Washington University in St. Louis
Orientation for New PhD Students
Mind Group
Jake Quilty-Dunn, Washington University in St. Louis
Explanations of Money and the Role of History in Social Ontology
Graham Hubbs, University of Idaho
Mind Group
LAB
Philosophy MTE Orientation
Ethics and Epistemology Group
Rachel Fraser, Exeter College, University of Oxford
Mind Group
Becko Copenhaver, Washington University in St. Louis
All Years Academic Jobs Info Session
Mind Group
James Gulledge, Washington University in St. Louis
Biological Essentialism, HPC Kinds, and the Projectability of Human Categories
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Jonathan Tsou, Iowa State
Mind Group
LAB
Ethics and Epistemology Group
Sarah Paul, NYU-Abu Dhabi
Early Years Graduate Happy Hour
Minorities and Philosophy: Documentary and Discussion
Mind Group
Kathrin Glüer, Stockholm University
An Argument for Legal Restrictions on Misinformation
WIPS with Boyd Millar, Washington University in St. Louis
Q&A - Value Capture
Ethics and Epistemology Group with Thi Ngyuen, University of Utah
Memory Group
Topic: Memory and Metacognition
Mind Group
Boyd Millar, Washington University in St. Louis
A War on Science? The Death of Expertise? Rethinking Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Maya Goldenberg, University of Guelph
Q&A - A Tale of Two Injustices: Epistemic Injustice in Philosophy
Ethics and Epistemology Group with Emmalon Davis, University of Michigan
Skills for Diverse Careers
Mind Group
Mohan Matthen, University of Toronto
Perceptual Experience as the Sensed and Judged
WIPS with James Gulledge, Washington University in St. Louis
Ethics and Epistemology Group
John Bengson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mind Group
LAB
Encapsulated Failures
WIPS with Zoe Jenkin, Washington University in St. Louis
Ethics and Epistemology Group
Lorraine Besser, Middlebury College
Mind Group
Zoe Drayson, University of California, Davis
Just How Messy is the World?
WIPS with Janella Baxter, Washington University in St. Louis
Free Will, Neuroscience, and Social Kind Eliminativism
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Manuel Vargas, University of California, San Diego
Memory Group
Topic: Thinking Morally
Structural Ignorance and Responsibility
Colloquium with Cameron Evans, Washington University in St. Louis
Group Motivation
Ethics and Epistemology Group with Jessica Brown, University of St. Andrews
Mind Group
LAB
Mental time travel, transparency, and the distinctiveness of episodic memory
WIPS with André Sant'Anna, Washington University in St. Louis
Later Years Graduate Happy Hour
Two Types of Exemplar
Ethics and Epistemology Group with Michael Brady, University of Glasgow
Why the conceptual dispute about empathy still matters (and some thoughts on how to move forward)
WIPS with Riana Betzler, Washington University in St. Louis
Are Algorithms Value-Free? Feminist Theoretical Virtues in Machine Learning
Ethics and Epistemology Group with Gabbrielle Johnson, Claremont McKenna College
Mind Group
Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp
Unconscious Rationalization, or: How (Not) to Think about Awfulness and Death
WIPS with Jake Quilty-Dunn, Washington University in St. Louis
Memory Group
Topic TBD
Graduate Applications Open
Applications open until December 31st 2020 for our Philosophy and PNP PhD programs
Mind Group
LAB
Policing White Supremacy
Workshop for Politics, Ethics, and Society (WPES)
David Cunningham, Department of Sociology
Mind Group
E.J. Green, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ethics and Epistemology Group
Karen Frost-Arnold, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Rethinking Objectivity in Psychiatry: Unmuting Patients in Epistemic Practices
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Serife Tekin, University of Texas, San Antonio
Mind Group
LAB
The Function of Functional Division
WIPS with Ben Henke, Washington University in St. Louis
Stoic Anti-Slavery
Workshop for Politics, Ethics, and Society (WPES)
Eric Brown, Department of Philosophy
Mind Group
LAB
Becoming One’s Own Moral Compass: A Second Component of Moral Understanding
WIPS with Maria Altepeter, Washington University in St. Louis
Consciousness and Welfare Subjectivity
Ethics and Epistemology Group with Gwen Bradford, Rice University
Mind Group
Keota Fields, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Proleptic Blame and Blame for Attitudes
Workshop for Politics, Ethics, and Society (WPES)
Allan Hazlett, Department of Philosophy
Mind Group
LAB
Causes, conditions, comparative trials: Agricultural experimentation around 1800
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Jutta Schickore, Indiana University, Bloomington
Reclaiming Empathy
WIPS with Riana Betzler, Washington University in St. Louis
On Suspending Properly
Ethics and Epistemology Group with Errol Lord, University of Pennsylvania
Minorities and Philosophy Movie Night
View and discuss the documentary "Black Is the Color" (2017) by Jacques Goldstein
A New Kind of Politics?
Workshop for Politics, Ethics, and Society (WPES)
Amy Gais, Department of Political Science
Mind Group
LAB
Ethics and Epistemology Group
Olivia Bailey, University of California, Berkeley
Prospective Students' Virtual Visit
Welcome to WashU!
Are Perceptual Experiences Just Representations?
Mind Group with Heather Logue, University of Leeds
What is God’s Power?
WIPS with Graham Renz, Washington University in St. Louis
Workshop for Politics, Ethics, and Society (WPES)
Workshop for Politics, Ethics, and Society (WPES)
Paige McGinley, Department of Performing Arts
Mind Group
LAB
Ethics and Epistemology Group
Daniel Greco, Yale University
HPSM
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Megan Delehanty, University of Calgary
Perceiving Events
Colloquium with Emily Prychitko, Washington University in St. Louis
Mind Group
LAB
Ethics and Epistemology Group
Lu Teng, NYU-Shanghai
Fiction and Cultivation of Imagination
Mind Group with Amy Kind, Claremont McKenna College
From the New Soviet Person to the Soviet People
Workshop for Politics, Ethics, and Society (WPES)
Anna Whittington, Mellon Postdoc
Non-Academic Jobs for Philosophers
A discussion of non-academic careers for philosophy PhDs, including a Q&A with alumni of Washington University's PhD programs in philosophy.
The Tension Between the Agential and the Epistemic Roles of Emotion in Moral Deliberation
Colloquium with Maria Doulatova, Washington University in St. Louis
Mind Group
LAB
What is Wrong with Lying without the Intent to Deceive?
WIPS with Allan Hazlett, Washington University in St. Louis
All Years Academic Jobs Info Session
Experimental organisms, neuron regeneration, and the curious case of the lamprey in the history of the neurosciences, 1870s-present
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Colloquium with Kathryn Maxson, Princeton University
A Fresh Look at the Two Visual Streams: Or How to Stop Worrying about Zombies
Colloquium with Ben Henke, Washington University in St. Louis
Perceptual Epistemology without Perceptual Atomism
Mind Group with Jessie Munton, University of Cambridge
Memory Group
Mind Group
Mind Group
Mind Group
Memory Group
"On Domination"
"Hypocrisy in a Fragile World"
"A Focus on Persistence for Cultural Evolution"
Memory Group
"Synthetic Chemical Biology - In Pursuit of the Chemical Constraints of Life"
Pannill Camp (Performing Arts), "Montesquieu's Dramaturgy of Societal Action"
Xiayou Ke, "Trustworthiness of Affective States and Norms of Inquiry"
Memory Group
Matt Rickard, "Comedy Three Ways"
Boyd Millar, "Perceiving Secondary Qualities"
Posters for Teaching and Research
Limitations and Cautions for the Interpretation of Genome Wide Association Studies and Polygenic Scores: Lessons from Lewontin
Jonathan Kaplan, Oregon State University
Memory Group
Jennifer Saul (University of Waterloo), "Saying the Quiet Part Loud: How Figleaves Facilitate the Rise of Blatant Racism and Falsehood"
Choosing a Dissertation Topic
Henry Schiller, "Informational Chauvinism"
Andrea Katz (Law), “The Administrator-in-Chief: Myers v. US and the Progressive Presidency”
The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences
Jake Quilty-Dunn, Nic Porot, and Eric Mandelbaum
Memory Group
Mind Group
Adam Pautz (Brown University)
Fannie Bialek (Religion & Politics), "The Happiness of Promise"
Memory Group
An adverbialist approach to the perception-cognition distinction
Casey O'Callaghan
Knowing That as Knowing How: A Neurocognitive Account
Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Towards an Ameliorative Account of Psychiatric Disorder
Miriam Solomon, Temple University
Kierkegaard: Life, Death, and Beyond Opening Reception
Becky Moon
A Case Against a Case for the Neo-Aristotelian Thesis
Graham Renz
The Epistemic-Moral Dilemma in Racialized Societies
Joshua Mugg (Park University)
Reconsidering Reparations
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Georgetown University)
What Should Species Be?
Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis & Clark College)
Research Presentation
Maria Doulatova (Phd, PNP, 2021)
Emotions as Multisensory Perceptions
Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis & Clark College)
A hybrid model of event comprehension predicts human activity at human scale
Matt Bezdek and Tan Nguyen
Thinking and Knowing
Nic Koziolek
Aaron T. Beck's Chart of Virtues
Rachael Rosner
Writing Journal Articles
The Epistemology of Truth-Value Gaps
Allan Hazlett
Knowing Well-Being
Eric Wiland (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Risk or Retribution: How Citizens Respond to Terrorism
Carly Wayne (Political Science)
Locating Black Racial Science
Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton University)
IBE, Bayesianism, and the Confirmation of Mathematical Conjectures
Marc Lange (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Graduate Study in Philosophy
Rational Relief
Henry Schiller and Casey O'Callaghan
Whiteness Visible
Deva Woodly (The New School)
Knowledge, Memory, and Luck
Boyd Millar
Why is the Boring Bad?
Lorraine Besser (Middlebury College)
The Domestic Lawgiver: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Feminist Machiavellian Refounding
Lorainne Krall (Wabash College)
Prospective Graduate Students' Visit
Visit for students admitted to the Philosophy and PNP PhD programs.
Direct Realism about Remembering Dreams
Becko Copenhaver
The True and The Helpful: Lessons from Psychotherapy
Sahanika Ratnayake (University of Cambridge)
Just Feeling: Natural Law and the Nature of Emotions
Jessica Rosenfeld (English)
Annual Henry and Theresa Biggs Lecture: Genericity and (In)Definiteness: A Cross-linguistic Perspective
Dr. Veneeta Dayal, Yale University
Plato on Goods, from Socrates to Glaucon and back
Eric Brown
The Biggs Family Residency in Classics: Dr. Roger Bagnall
{Cancelled} Colloquium
James Harris (University of St. Andrews)
All Years Academic Jobs Info Session
What Is at Stake in the Permissivism Debate?
Miriam Schoenfield (University of Texas-Austin)
WIPS: "Sex/Gender Metaphysics and Identity."
Jordan Shaw
WPES
Zakiya Luna (Sociology)
Colloquium
James Gulledge
Rational Desire
A mini-workshop with Daniel Drucker (University of Texas-Austin), Henry Schiller, and Allan Hazlett.
Women in Philosophy Art Show
What Is a Speaker Owed? Or: The Ethics and Epistemology of #BelieveWomen
Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University)
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality
Epistemic Norms as Social Norms
Workshop with Laura Frances Callahan, Peter Graham, Daniel Star, Deborah Tollefsen, Manuel Vargas, and Natalia Washington.
The Social Virtue of Questioning
Lani Watson (University of Oxford)
How To Make Emotions Trustworthy
Xiaoyu Ke
WIPS
Featuring Professor Becko Copenhaver "Memory: the Acquaintance View"
Mind Group
Featuring Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia)
Colloquium
Kevin Kadowaki (University of California, Irvine)
Epistemology Group: "Doxastic Harm"
Featuring Anne Baril
Colloquium
James Harris (University of St. Andrews)
Mind Group
Featuring Wayne Wu (Carnegie Mellon University)
HPSM
Jacob Stegenga (University of Cambridge)
Colloquium
Jacob Stegenga (University of Cambridge)
Colloquium
Emmalon Davis (University of Michigan)
Mind Group
Featuring Simon Fitzpatrick (John Carroll University)
WIPS
Zoe Jenkin
Epistemology Group: "'Should Have Known' and Epistemic Deontology"
Matt McGrath
Workshop in Politics, Ethics, And Society
William Bell, Philosophy
"Defensive Injuries and the Prorating of Punishment"
Epistemology Group: "Partisan Epistemology and Misplaced Trust"
Boyd Millar
Colloquium
Nandi Theunissen (University of Pittsburgh)
WIPS
Carl Craver “Episodic Memory, Regret, and other Self-Evaluative Emotions.”
Ancient Philosophy Workshop
William Altman
Epistemology Group: "Collaborative Inquiry and Other Social-Epistemic Activities"
Katherine Sweet (University of Notre Dame)
Colloquium
William Altman
Colloquium
Sarah Paul (NYU-Abu Dhabi)
WIPS
Casey O'Callaghan
Colloquium
Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY Graduate Center)
Mind Group
Richard J. McNally (Harvard)
WIPS
Auke Montessori
Epistemology Group: "I-Thoughts and Self-Awareness"
Robert Howell (Southern Methodist University)
Alison Bechdel - Washington University International Humanities Prize
Lecture and reception for cartoonist-memoirist and MacArthur “Genius” Alison Bechdel, author of “Fun Home” and winner of the 2022 Washington University International Humanities Prize
Colloquium
Monique Wonderly (University of California San Diego)
Mind Group
Heather Logue (Leeds)
Mind Group
Robert Davies (The University of York)
WIPS
Gabriel Siegel
Graduate Studies in Arts & Sciences Open House
Join us to see what Arts and Sciences has to offer!
Colloquium
Gabbrielle Johnson (Claremont McKenna College)
Mind Group
Gabby Johnson (Claremonth McKenna)
WIPS
Heng Ying
Epistemology Group: "The Proliferation of Bullshit: Why We Need a Belief Norm on Inquiry"
Rima Basu (Claremont McKenna College)
Colloquium
Rima Basu (Claremont McKenna College)
Colloquium
Dr. Henry Schiller, The University of Sheffield
Colloquium
Dr. Angel Pinillos, Arizona State University
WIPS
More Information To Come
Mind Group
Jack Lyons (Glasgow)
HPSM
CANCELED
Mind Group
Nicholas Shea (Oxford)
Colloquium
Dr. Wayne Wu, Carnegie Mellon University
Mind Group
Paul Pietroski (Rutgers)
Reading Group
Dr. Iris Murdoch
Epistemology Group
Dr. Jeremy Fantl (Calgary)
Colloquium
Dr. Justin Snedegar, University of St. Andrews
Mind Group
Christopher Hill (Brown)
Reading Group
Dr. Iris Murdoch
Reading Group
Dr. Iris Murdoch
Colloquium
Graham Renz, Washington University of St. Louis
Mind Group
Katherine Ritchie (Irvine)
Reading Group
Dr. Iris Murdoch
Prospective Graduate Students' Visit
Colloquium
Kit Wellman, Washington University of St. Louis
Mind Group
E.J Green (MIT)
WIPS
Symposium: Ron Mallon, Casey O'Callaghan, Anya Plutynski
Epistemology Group
Dr. Allan Hazlett (Washington University of St. Louis)
Reading Group
Dr. Iris Murdoch
IN-BETWEEN
Pan-Asian Mental Health Conference
‘Explanation and expertise in a fragile world’
Robert Northcott, University of London
"Value of Measurement and Measurement of Value"
Dr. Anna Alexandrova, University of Cambridge
Mind Group
Rachel Goodman (UIC)
WIPS
Nick Schuster: A Deontological Model of Moral Skill
Epistemology Group
Dr. Joe Salerno (St. Louis University)
Nature of Memory Philosophy Art Show
The Biggs Family Residency in Classics: Dr. Victor Caston
Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies, University of Michigan
Mind Group
Aidan Gray (UIC)
Musical Representation and Music Perception
Lemuel Tang will present "Musical Representation and Music Perception."
Epistemology Group
Dr. Eric Wiland (UMSL)
More Alike than Unlike: From Neurodiversity to Cognitive Continuity
Dr. Josh May
Towards a Relational Stance
Dr. Sukaina Hirji, University of Pennsylvania
Shared Social Trauma: An Analysis & Defense
Judith Carlisle & Carl Craver
Reading Group
Dr. Iris Murdoch
Explanatory and Non-explanatory Proofs in Mathematics
Mark Colyvan (University of Sydney and the Ludwig-Maximilians University)
Epistemology Group
Dr. Nic Koziolek (Washington University of St. Louis)
TEMPO Conference
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality
Sponsored by St. Louis University, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Washington University in St. Louis
Representation in Cognitive Science by Nicholas Shea Mind Group
Representation in Cognitive Science by Nicholas Shea Mind Group
WIPS
Derek Braverman
CANCELLED COLLOQUIUM
Professor Sam Zukoff
All (Genuine) Mental Disorders Involve Systematic Misrepresentation of Value: Mental Illness from a Neuroeconomic Point of View
Dr. Chandra Sripada
Mind Group
Michaela McSweeney (Zoom)
Applying to Teaching Positions
Lori Watson
Sex Eliminativism
Dr. Marina DiMarco
Representation in Cognitive Science by Nicholas Shea Mind Group
Suppositional Attitudes and the Reliability of Heuristics for Assessing Conditionals
Joe Salerno (Saint Louis University)
The computational self: location in space, time, and possibility
L.A. Paul (Yale, Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
Workshop on Sensitivity to Value
Friday & Saturday Oct 6-7, 2023
Midwest Epistemology Workshop
The workshop returns to St. Louis for 2023
What Do Egalitarians Really Want?
Anges Callard
Mind Group
Ned Block (Zoom)
Transparency, Opacity, and the Value of Epistemology
Blake Roeber (University of Notre Dame)
Representation in Cognitive Science by Nicholas Shea Mind Group
Abstract relational concepts and the Language of Thought Hypothesis
Shruti Santosh
Moral Stance-Independence.
Terence Cuneo (University of Vermont)
Mind Group
Armin Schulz (Zoom)
WIPS
Mike Barkasi
How should lines of inquiry unfold?
Susanna Siegel, University of Harvard
Mind Group
Shaun Gallagher (Zoom)
WIPS
Carl Craver
PNP Working Group:The Prospects and Challenges of Measuring Morality
Jessie Sun (WashU Psychological and Brain Science)
Representation in Cognitive Science by Nicholas Shea Mind Group
Marr’s levels are not levels of abstraction
Danielle Williams, WashU
WIPS
Alex Wentzell
PNP Working Group
The relation between head movement and periphrasis
Karlos Arregi (U Chicago)
Mind Group
Wayne Wu (Carnegie Mellon University)
How People Think
Tyler Brooke Wilson (NYU)
Seeing Through the Illusion of Transparency: The Opacity of Emotion and Perception
Sarah Arnaud (Clemson)
Mind & Perception Group
Shea Chapter 6
Mind & Perception Group
Shea Chapter 7
Epistemology Group
Billy Dunaway (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
How Emotions Fade-And Why It Matters
Grace Helton (Princeton)
New Perspectives Talk: Hung Liu's Re-presentations of Historical Photographs
Wanting Brought to an End
Henry Schiller (University of Sheffield)
Mind & Perception Group
Shea Chapter 8
Causal Proportionality as a Cognitive Budgeting Process
David Kinney, (Yale)
Q&A With Nicholas Shea "Representation in Cognitive Science"
Autonomous Progressive Activity
Anne Baril, WashU
Are Medical Mechanisms Relevant for Medical Ethics?
Melissa Rees, Siena College
Talk: "Can Values-Based Practice Cure Psychiatry?"
Amanda Evans (WashU)
Civil Society Brunch: "Making Rulers Our Equals"
Claudio López-Guerra (University of Richmond)
WIPS
Matthew Kern
Looking ahead to the Academic Job Market
For PhD students at any stage interested in learning about the academic job market
Linguistics Colloquia
Sylvia Schreiner, George Mason University
WIPS
Sarah Robins (Purdue University)
St. Louis Philosophy of Science Association
Climate Change and the Philosophy of Science &
The Physical Signature of Computation: Authors Meet Critics
The Biggs Family Residency in Classics: Dr. Francesco De Angelis
Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Linguistics Colloquia
Fernando Llanos Lucas, UT Austin
Dinner & Dialogue: "The Perimeters of Protest"
Fannie Bialek (Religion and Politics) and Kit Wellman (Philosophy)
Epistemology Group: "A Puzzle about Inquiry"
Gabby Zhang
Dinner & Dialogue: "Whose Land is This Land: Land Rights and Indigeneity”
Steven Gunn (Law) and Frank Lovett (Political Science)
Responsibility For Perception
Adrienne Prettyman, Bryn Mawr College
Prospective Graduate Students' Visit
Civil Society Brunch: "What Are Elections for and How Can We Make Them Better?"
Emilee Chapman (Stanford University)
Mind & Perception Group
Tyler Brooke-Wilson Zoom
Colloquium: "On Domination and Subordination"
Lori Watson (WashU)
Colloquium
Ron Mallon (WashU)
Dinner & Dialogue: “Riches and Rags: Is Inequality Wrong?”
Nic Koziolek and Kit Wellman
Colloquium: "The Possibility of Respect: Towards An Ethics of Difference"
Remy Debes, The University of Memphis
Epistemology Group: "The Reasoning View and the Problem of Weak Reasons"
Akshan deAlwis
John Inazu Book Release: "Learning to Disagree"
A panel discussion featuring Professor Inazu, Jennifer Duncan, Penina Acayo Laker, and Frank Lovett
Dinner & Dialogue: “Open Borders and the Right to Exclude"
Zachary Bowersox (Political Science) and Akshan deAlwis (Philosophy)
Graduate Student Lunch
Lunch, information about campus resources, professional development, and Q&A with graduating "seniors"
Mind Group: "The Algorithm"
Hilke Shellmann (New York University)
Human Revelations Art Exhibit
Bei Qi
Dinner & Dialogue: “Sensible Censorship: What Secrets Should the Government Keep?”
Justin Fox (WashU, Political Science) and William H. Harwood (Missouri State University, Philosophy)
Mill’s Limits
John Corvino, Wayne State University
A New Model of Memory: Representational Success and Representational Change
Rebecca Copenhaver, WashU
Linguistics Colloquia
Amanda Rysling, UCSC
Colloquium: "Vestibular Perception and Its Contents"
Gabe Siegel
Epistemology Group
Matt McGrath
The Black Prisoners of Stateville: Race, Research, and Reckoning at the Dawn of Precision Medicine
James Tabery, University of Utah
Civil Society Initiative Open House
Learn about the faculty and student research supported by the Civil Society Initiative
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality 2024
Speakers will include Michael Titelbaum (Wisconsin) and Caroline Arruda (Tulane)
Summer Philosophy Academy
A one-week intensive course for high school students
Colloquium
Briana Toole (Claremont McKenna College)
Epistemology Group
Briana Toole (Claremont McKenna College)
Colloquium
Megan Entwistle (WashU)
PET Pedagogy
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Computer Science and Engineering)
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference
Colloquium
Claudia Passos Ferreira (New York University)
Civil Society Brunch
Jeff Spinner-Halev (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Colloquium
Tom Kelly (Princeton University)
Civil Society Brunch
Tom Kelly (Princeton University)
Epistemology Group
Alex Cunningham (WashU)
Colloquium
Colin Klein (Australian National University)
PET Pedagogy
Colin Klein (Australian National University)
Epistemology Group
Liz Jackson (SLU)
Colloquium
Lucy Vollbrecht (WashU)
PET Pedagogy
Marianna Ganapini (Union College)
Epistemology Group
Marianna Ganapini (Union College)
Civil Society Brunch
Simon Feldman (Connecticut College)
Colloquium
Evan Sommers (WashU)
Civil Society Brunch
Lilliana Mason (Johns Hopkins University)