Spring 2021
All Meetings will be held via Zoom.
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Friday February 19, 2021
Elijah Millgram, University of Utah
Title: "Who Was Nietzsche's 'Good European'? A Reading of Beyond Good and Evil"
3:30-5:00 P.M.
Zoom link
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Friday March 19, 2021
Uriah Kriegel, Rice University
Title: "Consciousness and the Good Life"
3:30-5:00 P.M.
Zoom link
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Friday April 16, 2021
Donnie Barnett, University of Tennessee
Title: "Self-Knowledge and Relevant Alternatives Epistemology"
3:30-5:00 P.M.
Zoom link
Fall 2020
All Meetings will be held via Zoom.
- Friday September 11, 2020
Jessie Munton, Cambridge University
Title: "Prejudice as the Misattribution of Salience"
4:30-6:00 P.M.
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Friday September 25, 2020
Robert Talisse, Vanderbilt University
"The Problem of Polarization"
4:30-6:00 P.M. -
Friday November 20, 2020
Garriy Shteynberg
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Department of Psychology
Title: "Rethinking the Group"
3:30-5:00 P.M.
Spring 2020
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Friday, February 7, 2020
Max Robitzsch, University of Tennessee
Title: "Epicurus on the Nature of Law and Justice"
1210 McClung Tower -
Friday February 21, 2020
Stavroula Glezakos, Wake Forest University
Title: "What the Body Knows"
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room 2229 Dunford Hall 2nd Floor, 3:30-5:00 P.M. -
Thursday April 16, 2020
Robert Talisse, Vanderbilt University
Title: "The Problem of Polarization" Canceled
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room 2229 Dunford Hall 2nd Floor, 12:30 to 2:00 P.M.
Fall 2019
- Thursday, September 19, 2019
Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University
"Wendell Berry's Difficult Hope"
UT Humanities Center Seminar Room 2229 Dunford Hall 2nd Floor, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
- Friday, October 11, 2019
Yuanyuan Liu, University of Tennessee
"Control over Intentional Omissions"
1210 McClung Tower
- Friday October 25, 2019
Caroline Mobley, University of Tennessee
Title: "The History-Based View of Moral Responsibility for Emotions"
Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSS) Room 58, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
Spring 2019
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Friday, February 8, 2019
Jonathan Peterson, Loyola University, New Orleans
Title: "Privatizing Criminal Punishment"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M. -
Friday, March 1, 2019
Mariam Thalos, University of Tennessee
Title: "Visionary Syllogisms"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
Fall 2018
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Friday, September 28, 2018
Monte Johnson, University of California at San Diego
"The Maxims of Democritus of Abdera, On Tranquility"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
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Friday, October 12, 2018
Naomi Rinehold, University of Tennessee
"Benefit and Moral Deference"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
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Friday, October 19, 2018
Jordan Baker, University of Tennessee
"Causalism and the Problem of Causal Deviance"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M. - Friday, November 30, 2018
Christine Tappolet, University of Montreal
“How Are Emotions and the Self Related?”
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
Spring 2018
- Friday, March 2, 2018
Jon Garthoff, University of Tennessee
"Against the Construction of Animal Ethical Standing"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
- Friday, April 6, 2018
Carlotta Pavese, Duke University
Title: "On the Very Idea of Practical Representation"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall (1st floor), 3:30-5:00 P.M.
- Friday, April 13, 2018
Alex Richardson, University of Tennessee
Title: "Toward a Capability-Based Account of Intergenerational Justice"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E308 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
- Friday, April 27, 2018
Jacob Klein, Colgate University
Title: "Original Sins: The Older Stoics on Mistakes and Moral Progress"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
Fall 2017
- Friday, September 15, 2017
Marlin Sommers, University of Tennessee
"What Do You Know? The Primacy of Knowing Objects"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E308 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:30 P.M.
- Friday, October 20, 2017
Karen Stohr, Georgetown University
"The Moral Boundaries of Mockery: How to Think About Saturday Night Live"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E308 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:30 P.M.
- Friday, November 17, 2017
Michael Ball-Blakely, University of Tennessee
"Coercion, Cooperation, and Determinative Practices: A Rawlsian Conception of the Site of Justice"
Humanities Center Seminar Room E308 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:30 P.M.
Spring 2017
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Friday, February 10, 2017
"Fairness and the Doctrine of Double Effect"
Albert Hu, University of Tennessee,
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:30 P.M. - Friday, March 24, 2017
"Socrates and Coherent Desire"
Clerk Shaw, University of Tennessee
Humanities Center Seminar Room E308 Melrose Hall (3rd Floor), 3:30-5:30 P.M.
- Friday, March 31, 2017
"Grounding the Domains of Reasons"
Stephanie Leary, Indiana University
Humanities Center Seminar Room E308 Melrose Hall (3rd Floor), 3:30-5:30 P.M.
Fall 2016
- Friday, October 14, 2016
"From the Principle of Sufficient Reason to Essentialism: Two Leibnizian Arguments"
Josh Watson, University of Tennessee
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:30 P.M.
- Friday, November 4, 2016
"Affective Experience, Reasons for Action, and Desire"
Declan Smithies, Ohio State University
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:30 P.M.
Fall 2015
- Friday October 2, 2015
"On the Nonexistence of Practical Withholding"
Dr. Avery Archer
HSS 110, 3:30-5:00 P.M. - Friday, November 13, 2015
Dr. David Reidy
Humanities Center Seminar Room F203 Melrose Hall (2nd floor), 3:30-5:00 P.M.
Spring 2015
- Friday, February 27, 2015
"Putting the Fact of Reason Argument in Context"
Dr. Samuel Duncan
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M. - Saturday, March 7, 2015
"The Canonical Method"
Dr. Sigrun Svavarsdottir (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University)
1210 McClung Tower, 1:00-3:00 P.M. - Thursday, March 26, 2015
"Ignorance and Investigation"
Dr. Katja Vogt (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University)
1210 McClung Tower, 3:30-5:00 P.M. - Friday, April 10, 2015
"Agency and Moral Ethology"
Dr. Kristina Gehrman
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
Fall 2014
- Friday, September 19, 2014
"Haji on the Direct Argument"
Dr. Roger Turner
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M. - Friday, September 26, 2014
"Fair Difference of Opportunity"
Dr. Adam Cureton
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M. - Friday, October 24, 2014
"Animal Punishment"
Dr. Jon Garthoff
Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall, 3:30-5:00 P.M.