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SUMMARY:Biological Naturalism about Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Please see below for updated schedule as of 11/5/26.\n  \nPlease join us for the “Biological Naturalism about Consciousness\,” a conference at UCLA from Thursday-Friday\, November 5-6\, 2026 in Royce Hall 306. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nAbout the conference\nCan non-biological systems be conscious? If not\, why not? These questions have taken on new weight as AI systems become increasingly sophisticated\, not least because our answers bear on which entities might matter morally. \n  \nThis conference focuses on biological naturalism: the family of views holding that certain biological properties are required for consciousness. Biological naturalism is often positioned as the principal alternative to functionalism. But compared to its rival\, biological naturalism remains underdeveloped as a positive research program—its central commitments are still being clarified\, its empirical predictions are still being articulated\, and the range of strategies for defending it are only now being explored systematically. (For discussion\, see this survey.) \n  \nOur aim is to bring together researchers who want to make progress toward developing a positive version of biological naturalism. \n  \nSpeakers\n\nPeter Godfrey-Smith (University of Sydney)\nNed Block (NYU)\nRosa Cao (Stanford)\nJonathan Birch (LSE)\nMatthias Michel (MIT)\nChristian de Weerd (Cambridge)\nEric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) & Jeremy Pober (University of Antwerp)\nCarolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced)\nJake Spinella (UIC)\nDaria Zakharova (LSE)\nDerek Shiller (Eleos)\n\n  \nOrganizers: Josh Armstrong (UCLA)\, Hayley Clatterbuck (UCLA and Rethink Priorities)\, and Bob Fischer (Texas State University and Rethink Priorities) \n  \nWorkshop Program\n  \nThursday\, November 5\n*Please note: Ned Block can no longer present due to illness.  \n9:00 – 10:00: Jonathan Birch\, “What can brain emulations tell us about consciousness?” \n10:15 – 11:15: Jake Spinella\, “Grounding\, Functionalism\, and Biological Naturalism” \n11:30 – 12:30: Matthias Michel\, “A Bayesian Argument for Computational Functionalism” \n12:30 – 2:00: Lunch \n2:00 – 3:00: Rosa Cao\, “Integration\, Decoding\, and Embodiment” \n3:15 – 4:15: Christian de Weerd\, “Does consciousness require biology? An explanationist perspective” \n  \nFriday\, November 6\n9:00 – 10:00: Daria Zakharova\, “The self-model function of biological agency” \n10:15 – 11:15: Peter Godfrey-Smith\, “Biological Naturalism and Biological Chauvinism” \n11:30 – 12:30: Derek Shiller\, “Word and (Biological) Consciousness” \n12:30 – 2:00: Lunch \n2:00 – 3:00: Eric Schwitzgebel & Jeremy Pober\, “Substrate Flexibility\, Copernicanism\, and Biological Naturalism” \n3:15 – 4:15: Carolyn Dicey Jennings\, “Relationalism as a Theory of Biological Consciousness” \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/biological-naturalism-about-consciousness/
LOCATION:Royce Hall – Room 306
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:"Public Kindnesses and Valuing Persons as Persons" - Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 30\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nDodd Hall 175\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us for a colloquium with Cheshire Calhoun\, Arizona State University. \n  \nPublic Kindnesses and Valuing Persons as Persons\n  \nThere’s an upsurge in cultural attention to kindnesses to strangers and mere acquaintances. Are there reasons other than\, or in addition to\, the reasons favoring general beneficence and personal relationship kindnesses\, that face-to-face kindnesses to strangers and acquaintances matter? I explore their connection with valuing\, treating\, and attitudinally recognizing persons as persons. Rather than taking “valuing persons as persons” to be an exclusively moral notion\, I suggest that to value persons as persons is to value them under three distinct descriptors: as bearers of moral personhood\, as irreplaceable individuals who are the particular persons they are\, and as individuals with whom we are in society. The first two notions are familiar from the literature on recognition-respect and on personal love. I introduce the last to illuminate the way everyday\, mundane social interactions between strangers and acquaintances communicate a distinctive form of recognizing our value as persons; I suggest that the companion valuing attitude is friendly non-indifference; I conclude with some comments on greetings and chattings. \n  \nCheshire Calhoun is Professor of Philosophy Emerit at Arizona State University. She works in normative ethics and moral psychology. Her most recent books are A Social Practice Account of Responsible Persons (Open Press TIU) and Doing Valuable Time: The Present\, the Future\, and Meaningful Living (OUP). She is series editor for Oxford University Press’s Studies in Feminist Philosophy and co-editor of a new Oxford series on Positive Moral Philosophy. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Science in 2020. \n  \nThis event will take place in person only. There will be a light reception following the talk. \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-cheshire-calhoun-arizona-state-university/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 175
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Legal Theory Workshop: Thomas Adams\, University of Oxford
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 29\, 2026\n4:30 – 6:00 PM\nLaw Faculty Library\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us for a Legal Theory Workshop with Thomas Adams\, Oxford University. \n  \nThe Legal Theory Workshop series\, which is offered regularly throughout the year\, brings prominent speakers from other universities. Students are encouraged to attend. \n  \nAll upcoming sessions are linked here: Legal Theory Workshop schedule \n  \nQuestions? Email Ben Austin austin@law.ucla.edu. \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE\n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/legal-theory-workshop-thomas-adams-university-of-oxford/
LOCATION:UCLA School of Law – Faculty Library
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SUMMARY:"Abduction First\, Kinds Second: Mary Shepherd’s Reply to Hume’s Inductive Skepticism" - Jeffrey K. McDonough (Harvard University)
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 22\, 2026\n12:00 – 2:00 PM\nDodd Hall 321\n  \nPlease join the UCLA Modern Philosophy Roundtable for “Abduction First\, Kinds Second: Mary Shepherd’s Reply to Hume’s Inductive Skepticism\,” a talk by Jeffrey K. McDonough (Harvard University). \n  \nAbduction First\, Kinds Second: Mary Shepherd’s Reply to Hume’s Inductive Skepticism\n  \nThis essay defends an “Abduction-First” interpretation of Mary Shepherd’s response to Hume’s inductive skepticism. On recent “Kinds First” interpretations\, Shepherd’s defense of ampliative reasoning presupposes justified beliefs about ordinary and scientific kinds. I argue instead that it rests on two principles. Her Identification Principle directs us to identify samples by investigating their causes and effects; understood abductively\, this investigation yields fallible evidence of kind membership. Her Causal Likeness Principle then bridges the gap between a sample’s observed and unobserved properties. Although Shepherd derives her Causal Likeness Principle from a necessary\, a priori\, deterministic metaphysical principle\, her epistemology only requires a more defensible contingent\, a posteriori\, probabilistic version. Finally\, I argue that Shepherd assigns roles to both stipulation and discovery in our thinking about kinds and that her abductive epistemology explains how we may acquire evidence for the existence of kinds themselves. On the reading offered\, justified beliefs about kinds are products\, not presuppositions\, of Shepherd’s defense of ampliative reasoning. Abduction underpins our knowledge of kinds\, not the other way around. \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/abduction-first-kinds-second-mary-shepherds-reply-to-humes-inductive-skepticism-jeffrey-k-mcdonough-harvard-university/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 321
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SUMMARY:Colloquium: "Kant’s Awakenings" - Desmond Hogan\, Princeton University
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 9\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nLaw Building\, Room 1447\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on Friday\, October 9\, 2026\, for a colloquium with Desmond Hogan\, Princeton University. The talk will take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM with a reception to follow at the Shapiro Law Courtyard. \n  \nKant’s Awakenings\n  \nIn a famous biographical reflection on the origin of his epochal Critique of Pure Reason\, Kant writes that Hume’s analysis of causation “first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy” (Prolegomena 4:260). We encounter strikingly similar language in Kant’s explanation elsewhere that his Critique arose out of a discovery of an antinomy of pure reason centered on “unavoidable” contradictions in realist theories of space and time: “This was what first woke me from the dogmatic slumber and drove me to the critique of reason in order to solve the scandal of the apparent contradiction of reason with itself” (Correspondence 12:258; Prolegomena 4:338). Notwithstanding efforts to join the dots between these two “awakenings\,” it remains the overwhelming consensus of experts that they must describe unrelated motivations and events. I argue here that Kant’s awakenings are intimately related\, and this relation vindicates his further assertion that “the origin of the critical philosophy is morality\, with respect to the imputability of action” (Ak. 20:335). \n  \nDesmond Hogan is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He began his studies in his hometown of Galway in the beautiful west of Ireland and received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His research interests include metaphysics\, philosophy of science\, ethics\, and aesthetics\, with a focus on the modern period and nineteenth century. \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-desmond-hogan-princeton-university/
LOCATION:UCLA Law Building\, Room 1447
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Philosophy of Language Association Conference
DESCRIPTION:Sat-Sun\, September 26-27\, 2026\nDodd Hall 167\nLEARN MORE\n  \nThe Fifth Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Language Association will take place at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, on September 26 – 27\, 2026. The goal of the conference\, and of the association\, is to provide a venue for philosophers of language to discuss new work in all areas of the field. \n  \nKeynote speakers: Robin Jeshion (USC) and Adam Sennet (UC Davis) \n  \nThe organizers: Sam Cumming\, Guillermo Del Pinal\, Eliot Michaelson\, Alex Radulescu\, Katherine Ritchie\, Una Stojnić\, Emanuel Viebahn\, Julia Zakkou. \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/5th-annual-philosophy-of-language-association-conference/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 167
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260923T120000
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SUMMARY:2026-27 Philosophy Department Open House
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 23\, 2026\n12:00 – 2:00 PM\nShostak Terrace\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us on Wednesday\, September 23\, 2026 from 12:00 – 2:00 PM for the Philosophy Department’s Annual Open House. It will take place at the Shostak Terrace (in front of Murphy Hall\, across from the School of Law). This event is open to current and incoming students. \n  \nEnjoy pizza and refreshments as you meet philosophy faculty\, staff\, and graduate students and learn more about the philosophy department in an informal setting. Students interested in learning more about the philosophy major/minor\, philosophy student clubs/organizations\, and philosophy courses in general are encouraged to attend! \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2026-27-philosophy-department-open-house/
LOCATION:Shostak Terrace
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260920
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SUMMARY:SLIME 5 (Studies in Language\, Information\, Meaning and Expression)
DESCRIPTION:September 18-19\, 2026\nRoyce Hall 314\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us for SLIME 5 (Studies in Language\, Information\, Meaning and Expression)\, a workshop at UCLA from September 18-19\, 2026. \n  \nThe conference is “pre-view”: recorded talks will be available ahead of time.  Discussion is led by a commentator (20 min)\, followed by replies from the speaker (20 min) and Q+A (60 min). We ask that all attendees view or read the talks prior to the day when they are being discussed. \n  \nThe most up-to-date schedule and information will be available on the workshop website HERE. \n  \nSpeakers\n\nKristin Andrews\, York Research Chair in Animal Minds and Professor of Philosophy\, York University\nCatherine Crockford\, Director of Research\, Institut des Sciences Cognitives (CNRS)\, Lyon\, and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology\, Leipzig\nKathryn Davidson\, Professor of Linguistics\, Harvard University\nRichard Moore\, Professor of Philosophy\, University of Warwick\nCristina Moya\, Associate Professor of Anthropology\, University of California\, Davis\nShane Steinert-Threlkeld\, Associate Professor of Linguistics\, University of Washington\n\n  \nCommentators\n\nKenny Galbraith\, Doctoral student\, Philosophy\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nColin Allen\, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\nKevin Lande\, Associate Professor and York Research Chair in Philosophy of Representation\, York University\nShannon Spaulding\, Professor of Philosophy\, Oklahoma State University\nHayley Clatterbuck\, Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy\, University of California\, Los Angeles; Senior Researcher\, Rethink Priorities\nKate Stanton\, Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, University of Pittsburgh\n\n  \nFaculty organizers: Joshua Armstrong\, Sam Cumming\, and Gabriel Greenberg \nEvents coordinator: Ashna Madni \n  \nWorkshop Program\n\nComing soon! \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/slime-5-studies-in-language-information-meaning-and-expression/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260613T160000
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SUMMARY:Department of Philosophy Commencement 2026
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 13\, 2026\nRoyce Hall\n4:00 PM: Ceremony\n5:00 PM: Reception\n\n  \nCongratulations\, class of 2026! We look forward to celebrating with you at our departmental commencement event in June. \n  \nVisit our Commencement 2026 page for details!
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/department-of-philosophy-commencement-2026/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260601T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260601T190000
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SUMMARY:Study Break hosted by Being in the World
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, June 1\, 2026\n5:00 – 7:00 PM\nDodd Hall 321\nRSVP HERE\n  \nTake a study break\, eat pizza\, and come share your post-grad or summer plans with other philosophy students! \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/study-break-hosted-by-being-in-the-world/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 321
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260529T160000
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SUMMARY:Meditations Journal Conference 2026
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 29\, 2026\n4:00 – 7:00 PM\nDodd Hall 321\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us on Friday\, May 29\, 2026\, for the 2026 Meditations Journal Conference. \n  \nIn 2014\, the Philosophy Club at UCLA proudly hosted its first conference on behalf of Meditations: The Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy at UCLA. All participating authors and editors of the journal are undergraduate students who have dedicated several months to this philosophical project. This conference is an exciting opportunity to honor their hard work and hear them present their original ideas. \n  \nConference Program\n4:00 PM: Sasha Smelyanskiy on “Dying Now and Later: The Phenomenology of Anticipatory Grief” \n5:00 PM: Jackson Pippert on “The Genesis of Desire: From Mimetic Theory to an Aesthetic Account” \n6:00 PM: Catered Reception & Open Discussion \n\nIf you have any questions\, please reach out to meditations.philosophy.journal@gmail.com. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/meditations-journal-conference-2026/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 321
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260522T160000
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SUMMARY:"Ethics Part 2: The Nature and Origin of Mind\," by John Carriero (UCLA/UC Berkeley)
DESCRIPTION:May 22\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nDodd Hall 321\n  \nPlease join the UCLA Modern Philosophy Roundtable this Friday\, May 22nd\, from 4-6pm for “Ethics Part 2: The Nature and Origin of Mind\,” a talk by John Carriero\, Professor Emeritus\, UCLA\, and Visiting Professor Emeritus\, UC Berkeley. \n  \nNote: This event is a pre-read. Please contact khubner@humnet.ucla.edu for a copy of the paper. \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/ethics-part-2-the-nature-and-origin-of-mind-by-john-carriero-ucla-uc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 321
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260523
DTSTAMP:20260520T201603Z
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SUMMARY:MAP at UCLA Symposium: Philosophy from the Margins
DESCRIPTION:May 21-22\, 2026\nDodd Hall 399\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on May 21-22\, 2026\, for the MAP at UCLA Symposium: Philosophy from the Margins. This two-day event features both graduate and undergraduate students. Thursday’s presentations will be followed by a catered reception. \nDownload conference program and abstracts HERE. \n\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/map-at-ucla-symposium-philosophy-from-the-margins/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260518T200000
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Careers in Entertainment
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 18\, 2026\n7:00 – 8:00 PM\nDodd Hall 321\nRSVP HERE\n\n  \nCurious about how you can go about pursuing a career in entertainment after earning your philosophy degree? Join us for an in-person career panel with UCLA Philosophy alumni who have successful careers in the entertainment industry! \n  \nKrystyn Lambert\, an acclaimed mentalist and intuitive reader\, and Killian Huntley\, a VFX Producer\, will discuss their careers and answer any questions you might have about pursuing similar paths. \n  \nFound out what our alumni are doing now and how they got there. Walk away with real-world advice for how to approach your post-grad career. \n  \nCome hungry–there will be pizza!  \n\n  \n  \nMeet the Speakers\n\n  \n\nKrystyn Lambert\, Acclaimed Mentalist and Intuitive Reader\nKrystyn Lambert is an acclaimed mentalist and intuitive reader based in Los Angeles. With a reputation as “one of the best mystery entertainers in the world” (Penguin Magic) she has carved a niche between the realms of metaphysics and performance. Krystyn’s journey began at the renowned Magic Castle in Hollywood where she has honed her skills since 2003. She holds a degree in philosophy from UCLA\, and teaches three unique courses on magic and philosophy at Pierce College. She also brings her expertise to Genii Magazine\, the leading trade publication for magic professionals\, as a regular columnist. For over two decades\, Krystyn has captivated audiences at esteemed venues such as the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in West Hollywood\, Speakeasy Magick in New York\, the Chicago Magic Lounge\, and Criss Angel’s Las Vegas show and national tours. Further\, her prowess has reached broader circles through her lectures on the philosophy of magic for respected institutions including the US State Department\, TEDx\, the Wende Museum\, UCLA Department of Philosophy\, OTIS College of Art and Design\, and Temple University. \n  \n  \n\nKillian Huntley\, VFX Producer\, Enable.la\nI fell into Philosophy\, and I’m glad I did. Being accepted to UCLA was my main goal\, so I cross-referenced each major’s accepted rate versus the amount of classes needed at community college to have the best chance at entering. However\, what started as a stat\, grew to a passion for Philosophy. While at UCLA\, I was also a part of the Surf Club and Cheer Team. After college\, I worked my way through the entertainment industry in VFX. Notable companies including\, Marvel\, Universal\, and Paramount. Due to the ever changing industry\, my focus has shifted to working in environmental hazard testing. \n  \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-careers-in-entertainment/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 321
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SUMMARY:Colloquium: “Why Do Mantras Move Us?” - Elisabeth Camp\, Rutgers University
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 15\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nDodd Hall 175\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on Friday\, May 15\, 2026\, for a colloquium with Elisabeth Camp\, Rutgers University. The talk will take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in Dodd Hall 175 with a reception to follow. \n  \nWhy Do Mantras Move Us?\n  \nWhy do mantras like ‘Boys will be boys’\, ‘Minds are computers’\, and ‘It is what it is’ bear repeating? On their face\, their ubiquitous role in our individual and collective lives is puzzling\, since they so often flirt with vacuity: “syllables for the sake of syllables\, a waste of cognition and breath\,” as Frank Bruni puts it. And yet they can be powerful heuristics for handling situations that threaten to overwhelm us with informational complexity or emotional intensity. I propose that mantras like these function as frames: they encapsulate regulative principles for interpreting their topics by harnessing otherwise disparate thoughts\, images and feelings into an integrated\, intuitive perspective. More specifically\, they exhort us to regulate our attention by focusing on what really matters\, according to a presupposed perspective. Mantras’ schematic evocativeness makes them useful tools for scaffolding interpretive stability across fine-grained variations in assumptions\, attitudes\, and contexts. But they also leave those who don’t ‘get the gist’ out in the interpretive cold. Moreover\, as they are re-deployed across contexts\, mantras tend to lose their intuitive anchoring in rich implicit assumptions\, becoming rigid and empty – just as their critics allege. \n  \nElisabeth Camp is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. She is the author of over forty articles in philosophy of language\, mind\, and aesthetics\, as well as the editor of a volume on philosophical implications of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Her research focuses on thoughts and utterances that don’t fit a standard model of minds as rule-governed engines for compiling and transforming information and of language as a medium for expressing propositions to share information. Recent publications have addressed nicknames\, social labels\, and sociolinguistic style; stories\, insinuation\, and the heresy of paraphrase; and maps\, concepts\, and structural representations. \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-elisabeth-camp-rutgers-university/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 175
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Richard Wollheim's Moral Psychology
DESCRIPTION:May 13\, 2026\nMoore Hall 3340\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us on Wednesday\, May 13\, 2026 in Moore Hall\, Room 3340\, for a workshop on Richard Wollheim’s Moral Psychology. \n  \nSpeakers\nLucy O’Brien\, University College London\nElisabeth Camp\, Rutgers University\nPaolo Babbiotti\, University of Turin\nJürgen Lipps\, UCLA \n  \n  \nWorkshop Program\n9:00 – 9:30 AM: Introductions and opening remarks\, Vida Yao\, UCLA\nAnd an introduction to Wollheim’s life and philosophy\, Paolo Babbioti\, University of Turin \n9:30 – 11:00 AM: Paolo Babbioti (University of Turin)\, “Psychoanalysis and Value in Richard Wollheim” \n11:00 – 11:15 AM: Break \n11:15 AM – 12:45 PM: Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University)\, “Expression\, Projection\, and Iconicity: Fitting Form with Minimal Depth Psychology” \n12:45 – 1:45 PM: Lunch for all speakers and registrants \n1:45 – 3:15 PM: Jürgen Lipps (UCLA)\, “Identification and Character” \n3:15 – 3:30 PM: Coffee break \n3:30 – 5:00 PM: Lucy O’Brien (University College London)\, “‘To live the life of a person’: Wollheim\, Self-Concern\, Other-Concern\, and Concern for Wellbeing” \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/richard-wollheims-moral-psychology/
LOCATION:Moore Hall 3340 (Reading Room)
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:Colloquium: "Reflection on One’s Interpersonal Self-Consciousness" Lucy O’Brien\, University College London
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 8\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nDodd Hall 170\nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nJoin us on Friday\, May 8\, 2026 for a colloquium with Lucy O’Brien\, University College London. The talk will take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in Dodd Hall\, Room 170\, with a reception to follow. \n  \nReflection on One’s Interpersonal Self-Consciousness\n  \nOther people can make us feel self-conscious\, embarrassed\, ashamed\, and proud. In this talk I want to consider how to think about a subject’s reflective relation to their own interpersonal self-consciousness. A self-conscious subject is tasked with both (i) the practical management of their interpersonal self-consciousness\, and (i) normative appraisals of their interpersonal self-consciousness. I will suggest that the latter concern can be thought of in the context of a general problem of rational deference. I suggest that our self-appraisals should be understood as allowing for a kind of rational opacity\, and ambivalence. A subject normatively engaging with her self-conscious life\, and who understands that her self-appraisals are beholden to the appraisals of others\, will realise that her sense of her own value is not only up to her. \n  \nLucy O’Brien is Richard Wollheim Professor of Philosophy at UCL. Her research interests lie in the philosophy of mind and action\, with a particular focus on various forms of self-consciousness\, and self-knowledge. She is writing a book on interpersonal self-consciousness following receipt of a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship. She has published papers in a range of journals and collections\, she is the author of Self-Knowing Agents (OUP\, 2007) and co-editor\, with Matthew Soteriou\, of Mental Actions (OUP\, 2009). She was awarded a Humboldt Forschungspreis in 2021 and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024. She was co-editor\, with A. W. Moore\, of the journal MIND from 2015-2025. She has been Chair of the Royal Institute of Philosophy since 2020. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-lucy-obrien-university-college-london/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 170
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Careers in Ethics & Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 4\, 2026\n7:00 – 8:00 PM PST\nZoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nCurious how your degree in philosophy can help you pursue a career at the intersection of ethics and health/medicine? Join us for a virtual career panel with UCLA Philosophy alumni who have built successful careers focused on these fields! \n  \nAlison Fitch is a privacy compliance program manager at GoodRx with a background in research ethics\, and Ashley Feinsinger is a UCLA assistant professor of neurosurgery and the PI at a neuroethics research lab. They’ll discuss their careers and answer any questions you might have about pursuing similar paths. \n  \nFind out what our alumni are doing now and how they got there. Walk away with real-world advice for how to approach your post-grad career. \n  \nRSVP here to get the Zoom link\n  \n  \nMeet the Speakers\n  \n\nAlison Fitch\nPrivacy Compliance Program Manager\, GoodRx\nCurrently a Privacy Compliance Program Manager at GoodRx\, Alison began her career at a law firm before moving into research ethics and privacy at 23andMe. A Philosophy graduate of UCLA’s Class of 2018\, she’s spent her career at the intersection of philosophy\, law\, and data privacy\, translating ethical best practices and regulatory requirements into compliance programs. Based in San Francisco\, she recharges with yoga\, ballet\, and walking her dog through her favorite spots in the city. \n  \n  \n\nAshley Feinsinger\nAssistant Professor of Neurosurgery\, UCLA\nAshley Feinsinger\, PhD\, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA\, and affiliated faculty in the Center for Social Medicine and the Brain Research Institute. She received her PhD and MA in philosophy from UCLA\, specializing in philosophy of language. Currently\, her research examines the relevance of various philosophical concepts for ethical neuroscience research\, including lived-experience\, benefit\, and trust in basic research and neural device development. This work can be found in Neuron\, Nature Human Behavior\, Hastings Center Report\, AJOB Neuroscience\, Neurosurgery\, Journal of Medical Ethics\, and Neuroethics. She is also the Ethics Theme Chair for medical education at DGSOM and Co-Director the UCLA-CDU Dana Center for Neuroscience and Society. \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE\n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-careers-in-ethics-medicine/
LOCATION:On Zoom
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SUMMARY:Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry: Kate Manne on Sensitivity and Survival
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 30\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nRoyce Hall 314\nMORE INFO\n  \nThe Inaugural Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry\nPresented by the UCLA College Division of Humanities\nThe Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry is a biennial lecture dedicated to exploring cross-cutting topics and ideas in humanistic research and examining how humanistic inquiry connects to the most pressing questions of the day. \n  \nAbout our inaugural speaker\nKate Manne is a professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. She specializes in moral\, social and feminist philosophy\, and has written three books: DOWN GIRL: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford University Press\, 2018)\, ENTITLED: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Crown\, 2020) and UNSHRINKING: How to Face Fatphobia (Crown\, 2024). In addition to her academic work\, she regularly writes opinion pieces and essays for a wider audience\, including in outlets such as The New York Times\, The Cut\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, The Nation and Time. She writes a Substack newsletter\, More to Hate\, exploring misogyny\, fatphobia and their intersection. \n  \nAbout Professor Manne’s lecture\nSensitivity and Survival\nAccusations of oversensitivity are nowadays very common. Are they typically warranted? Is there in fact a scourge of snowflakes? \n  \nIn this lecture\, Kate Manne will distinguish three things that are commonly meant by “oversensitivity”: over-identification of instances\, over-extension of the relevant concepts and over-reactions to the relevant harms or forms of injustice\, such as sexism\, misogyny and racism. Her talk will draw on two rich humanistic traditions: feminist epistemology and non-ideal theory. \n  \nWhile acknowledging that oversensitivity of all three kinds can and does occur\, Manne will highlight and explore the comparatively under-emphasized converse dangers: the under-identification of instances\, the under-extension of concepts\, and under-reactions or the undermining of warranted reactions\, respectively. In view of this\, she concludes that what is called oversensitivity is often simply sensitivity: a normatively valuable and justified way of reacting to harms and injustices that often go under the radar in society as we know it. \n  \nEvent cosponsors\nThank you to our cosponsors: UCLA Department of Philosophy\, UCLA Department of Gender Studies\, UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center\, and UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/deans-lecture-in-humanistic-inquiry-kate-manne/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314
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SUMMARY:Spinoza on Mind: A Manuscript Workshop
DESCRIPTION:April 25-26\, 2026\nRoyce Hall 306\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us on Saturday-Sunday\, April 25-26\, 2026 in Royce Hall 306 for a manuscript workshop on Spinoza on Mind by Karolina Hübner! \n  \nPresented by: UCLA Modern Philosophy Roundtable \nTitle: A Manuscript Workshop: Spinoza on Mind by Karolina Hübner (UCLA) \nDates: Saturday-Sunday\, April 25-26\, 2026 \nLocation: UCLA\, Royce Hall\, Room 306 \n  \nComments by:  \nMichael Della Rocca (Yale) \nSam Newlands (Notre Dame) \nKristin Primus (Berkeley) \nTad Schmaltz (Michigan) \nStephan Schmid (Hamburg) \n  \nFor the manuscript precis and workshop details please email khubner@humnet.ucla.edu. \n  \nWorkshop Program\nDownload PDF program \nSaturday\, April 25\n10:00 – 10:30 AM: Coffee & light breakfast \n10:30 – 10:35 AM: Justin Steinberg (Cornell/UCLA): Welcome \n10:35 – 11:15 AM: Karolina Hübner (UCLA): Manuscript overview \n11:45 AM – 12:45 PM: Michael Della Rocca (Yale): Expression and intelligibility \n12:45 – 1:45 PM: Lunch for participants \n1:45 – 2:45 PM: Stephan Schmid (Hamburg): The theory of ideas \n3:15 – 4:15 PM: Kristin Primus (UC Berkeley): Arguments for a thinking substance \n4:15 – 5:00 PM: General Discussion \n  \nSunday April 26\n9:30 – 10:00 AM: Coffee & light breakfast \n10:00 – 11:00 AM: Sam Newlands (Notre Dame): Idealism and substance as an infinite thinking cause \n11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Tad Schmaltz (Michigan): Infinite intellect\, idea Dei\, and mental parts \n12:30 – 1:00 PM: General Discussion \n1:00 – 2:00 PM: Lunch for participants \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE\n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/spinoza-on-mind-manuscript-workshop/
LOCATION:Royce Hall – Room 306
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:"The Distribution of Doubt" - Eleanor Gordon-Smith (University of Southern California)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 24\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nDodd Hall 321\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on Friday\, April 24\, 2026 for a lecture by Eleanor Gordon-Smith (University of Southern California). This event is hosted by Women in Philosophy. The talk will take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in Dodd 321 with a small reception to follow. \n  \nThe Distribution of Doubt\n  \nIn this talk I connect two seemingly disparate questions. First\, how suspicious should each of us be of our fellow members of public life? On the one hand\, it is important for us to find out about malfeasance where it exists; this seems to recommend a lot of scrutiny. On the other hand\, many of our most important political and social projects fare better when we do not subject each other to strong suspicion; collective projects often fare better under trust or hope or faith than under suspicion. Second question: what justifies the special privileges journalists seem to hold\, e.g.\, to violate duties of confidentiality in the service of their discoveries? \n  \nThe question of how suspicious we should be of one another in public life has frequently been understood as a question of which attitude we all should take. The effort to justify journalistic privileges has frequently been treated as an extension of rights to free speech. Against both tendencies\, I argue for a division of skepticism\, in which just some of us take on an attitude I call ‘paranoid investigating’ towards others in public life. Second\, I argue that seeing journalists in the role of dedicated paranoid investigators supplies new and fruitful justification for their privileges. The ethics of interpersonal attitudes and the ethics of the press can both be advanced by this model\, on which questions of attitudes in public life are not just individual epistemology or moral psychology at scale. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/the-distribution-of-doubt-eleanor-gordon-smith-usc/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 321
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Careers in Academia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 20\, 2026\n7:00 – 8:00 PM PST\nZoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nConsidering a career in academia after earning your Philosophy degree? Join us for a virtual career panel with UCLA Philosophy alumni who have built meaningful careers as professors and scholars within the field of philosophy! \n  \nJesse Summers and Jonathon Klyng will discuss their careers as professors of philosophy and answer any questions you might have about pursuing similar paths. \n  \nFind out what our alumni are doing now and how they got there. Walk away with real-world advice for how to approach your post-grad career. \n  \nRSVP here to get the Zoom link\n  \n  \nMeet the Speakers\n  \n\nJesse Summers\, Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy\, Duke University; Associate Director\, Purpose Project\nJesse Summers teaches philosophy and ethics at Duke University where he has been since 2013. His dissertation from UCLA was on the topic of addiction\, he has one book on the subject of moral OCD\, and he works generally in the areas of ethics and moral psychology. \n  \n  \n\nJonathon Klyng\, Professor of Philosophy and Distance Education Coordinator\, Los Angeles Harbor College \nJonathon is a professor of Philosophy and Distance Education Coordinator at Los Angeles Harbor College\, where he led the transition from in-person to online during Covid. After completing his undergraduate studies in philosophy\, he earned an MA in Philosophy and CSU Los Angeles and an EdD from UCLA. \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE\n  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-careers-in-academia-3/
LOCATION:On Zoom
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SUMMARY:2026 USC-UCLA Graduate Conference in Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 18\, 2026\nUCLA\, Royce Hall 314\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us for the 2026 USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy happening on Saturday\, April 18\, 2026 at UCLA\, Royce Hall\, Room 314! \n  \nThe USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference began in 2006. Each year\, the graduate students of the University of Southern California and the University of California\, Los Angeles solicit high-quality papers in all areas of philosophy from graduate students studying at other departments to be presented at the annual conference. \n  \nThis year’s keynote address will be given by Julia Staffel (University of Colorado\, Boulder)\, whose talk is titled\, “The Planning Fallacy and the Agent’s Perspective.” \n  \nConference Program\nDownload PDF \nGraduate Student Talks: 25 minutes for talk\, 5 minutes for commentary\, 5 minutes for a reply\, 15 minutes for Q&A \n  \n10:00 – 10:55: “Innocent Apologies\,” Ilya Shemmer (New York University) \n11:00 – 11:55: “On inquiring lovingly: A Murdochian account\,” Lepei Liu (University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities) \n12:00 – 1:20: Lunch (provided) \n1:30 – 2:25: “What My Future Beliefs Should Be About\,” Konstantinos M. Konstantinou (Stanford University) \n2:30 – 3:25: “The Epistemic Rationality of Grit\,” Jingzhi Chen (McGill University) \n4:00 – 5:50: Keynote Address given by Julia Staffel (Boulder): “The Planning Fallacy and the Agent’s Perspective” \nDinner (for invited speakers and conference organizers) will be held at 6:30 after the conference. \n  \nFor any questions\, please contact uscucla.conference@gmail.com \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/usc-ucla-graduate-conference-2026/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:Colloquium: "Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression" - A.W. Eaton (University of Illinois\, Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 17\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nRoyce Hall 314\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on Friday\, April 17\, 2026 for a colloquium with A.W. Eaton\, University of Illinois\, Chicago. The talk will take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in Royce 314 with a reception to follow. \n  \nBeyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression\n  \nPhilosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures\, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language – one sees this in feminist work on pornography – or worse\, to ignore pictures altogether when the topic at hand least typically pictorial or typically has a significant pictorial dimension – one sees this in Jason Stanley’s work on propaganda. Against this linguisticism\, I argue that central and influential forms of oppressive “speech” are in fact pictorial and that to understand how they do their oppressive work\, we must approach pictures as pictures rather than as forms of spoken or written language. In this paper\, I first examine one glaring case of linguisticism\, then say something about what I think is going on here\, and finally briefly examine examples of oppressive pictures and give the outlines of an explanation of how they do their oppressive work. \n  \nPlease note that I will be discussing pictures that glorify and eroticize rape\, and pictures that mock\, shame\, and demean Black persons. I will also mention pictures of lynchings. I will briefly show some of these pictures\, though not the lynching pictures. I will not leave any pictures up for long because they are triggering or otherwise injurious for many of us. That\, after all\, is part of the point of this paper. I will do my best to give warning before I show or mention these pictures. \n  \nA.W. Eaton is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean at University of Illinois Chicago (sometimes known as “Chicago Circle”). She received her PhD in both philosophy and art history from The University of Chicago. She has published on topics such as the relationship between aesthetic and ethical value\, pornography\, erotic art\, fatness\, feminist aesthetics\, aesthetics and race\, and artistic representations of rape. She is currently developing a pragmatic account of pictures and working on various topics related to aesthetic injustice. Eaton has been a Laurence Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Human Values; Senior Research Fellow at Lichtenberg Kolleg\, University of Göttingen; and the Brady Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor\, Northwestern University. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/beyond-speech-pictures-and-oppression-a-w-eaton-university-of-illinois-chicago/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:"Evolutionary Theory and the Unification of Life Sciences in the 21st Century" - Eva Jablonka\, Prof. Emerita\, Tel Aviv University
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 13\, 2026\n12:00 – 1:30 PM\nHaines Hall 352\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on April 13\, 2026 at 12:00 – 1:30 PM in Haines Hall 352 for a talk with Eva Jablonka\, hosted by the UCLA Department of Anthropology. This lecture is part of the Frank Marlowe Memorial Lecture Series\, in the Center for Behavior\, Evolution and Culture. \n  \nThere will be a reception to launch the exhibition of artwork by Jablonka’s collaborator\, Anna Zeligowski\, with food and drinks at 5:30 – 7:00 PM in Dodd Hall 321. \n  \nEvolutionary Theory and the Unification of Life Sciences in the 21st Century\n  \nI argue that the changes in our current view of evolutionary theory are leading to a new unification of life-sciences\, which is occurring\, seemingly paradoxically\, within the context of their increased specialization and fracturing.  Unlike the modern evolutionary synthesis of the 20th century (the MS) which claimed that selection is the only direction-giving process in evolution\, the current synthesis incorporates not only new biological domains but also processes that were excluded by the MS. I consider two aspects of this unification: the first is the synthesis between development and heredity\, which involves enrichment of both notions and is leading to important changes in our view of evolution\, discussed within the framework of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES). The second aspect is the study of mental processes stemming from research into the evolutionary origins and effects of consciousness. I argue that these developments enable the construction of a unifying evolutionary framework for the expanding domain of 21st century life sciences\, which is becoming based on broader and richer views of heredity\, adaptation and cognition. \n  \nEva Jablonka is Professor emerita\, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas\, Tel-Aviv University. At present\, she is a visiting fellow in the Simons Center for Systems Biology in the IAS\, Princeton. \n  \nVisit the Anthropology event page for more info: https://bec.ucla.edu/event/eva-jablonka-prof-emeritus-tel-aviv-univ/ \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/evolutionary-theory-eva-jablonka/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 352
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SUMMARY:"The Evolution of Animal Consciousness" - Eva Jablonka\, Prof. Emerita\, Tel Aviv University
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 10\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nRoyce Hall 306\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on April 10\, 2026 for a talk with Eva Jablonka\, hosted by the UCLA Department of Philosophy. The talk will take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in Royce 306. \n  \nThe Evolution of Animal Consciousness\n  \nThe study of animal consciousness is becoming a respectable domain of study\, which has implications for neuroscience\, evolutionary biology and ethics. In this lecture I discuss the theoretical commitments of different naturalistic approaches to animal consciousness and point to markers of consciousness.  I suggest that an approach focusing on cognitive capacities in humans that were shown by contrastive experiments (comparing conscious and non-conscious perception) to require consciousness is a good starting point for the search for consciousness markers in non-human animals. However\, the choice of contrastive experiments that are deemed relevant for animals is theory-dependent. I present an evolutionary approach suggesting that consciousness is the outcome of the evolution of a complex form of associative learning (unlimited associative learning\, UAL)\, and that the cognitive architecture that evolved to enable this kind of learning is the architecture of minimal consciousness. This theory provides a framework for observational and experimental studies in animals and has many testable predictions. I end by discussing the implications of the evolutionary approach for consciousness studies and for research in evolutionary biology. \n  \nEva Jablonka is Professor emerita\, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas\, Tel-Aviv University. At present\, she is a visiting fellow in the Simons Center for Systems Biology in the IAS\, Princeton. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/animal-consciousness-eva-jablonka/
LOCATION:Royce Hall – Room 306
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SUMMARY:Legal Theory Workshop: Ashwini Vasanthakumar\, Queen’s University
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 9\, 2026\n3:20 – 5:20 PM\nLaw Room 1314\n  \nJoin us for a Legal Theory Workshop with Ashwini Vasanthakumar\, Queen’s University. \n  \nThe Legal Theory Workshop series\, which is offered regularly throughout the year\, brings prominent speakers from other universities. Students are encouraged to attend. \n  \nAll upcoming sessions are linked here:  Legal Theory Workshop schedule \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE\n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/legal-theory-workshop-ashwini-vasanthakumar-queens-university/
LOCATION:UCLA Law Building\, Room 1314
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Careers in Management and Finance
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 6\, 2026\n7:00 – 8:00 PM PST\nZoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nConsidering a career in management or finance after earning your Philosophy degree? Join us for a virtual career panel discussion and Q&A with a UCLA Philosophy alumnus who has built a successful career at the intersection of these fields! \n  \nRebekah Chauvie\, Strategic Leader in Project Management at Gibson Dunn\, will discuss her career and answer any questions you might have about pursuing a similar path. \n  \nFind out what our alumni are doing now and how they got there. Walk away with real-world advice for how to approach your post-grad career. \n  \nRSVP here to get the Zoom link\n  \n  \nMeet the Speaker\n  \n\nRebekah Chauvie\, Strategic Leader in Project Management\, Gibson Dunn\nRebekah Chauvie is a Los Angeles-based project management leader currently serving as Project Manager – Finance at Gibson Dunn\, where she oversees end-to-end delivery of complex integration and digital transformation initiatives. With over six years of experience leading cross-functional teams\, she specializes in API development\, process optimization\, and bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders. \nRebekah holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy from California State University\, Long Beach\, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from UCLA. She is currently pursuing a Project Management Certificate through UCLA Extension. \n\n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE\n  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-careers-in-management-and-finance/
LOCATION:On Zoom
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SUMMARY:Legal Theory Workshop: Lily Hu\, Yale University
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 19\, 2026\n3:20 – 5:20 PM\nLaw Room 1314\n  \nJoin us for a Legal Theory Workshop with Lily Hu\, Yale University.  \n  \nThe Legal Theory Workshop series\, which is offered regularly throughout the year\, brings prominent speakers from other universities. Students are encouraged to attend. \n  \nAll upcoming sessions are linked here:  Legal Theory Workshop schedule \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE\n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/legal-theory-workshop-lily-hu-yale-university/
LOCATION:UCLA School of Law – Room 1314
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SUMMARY:The Aristotle Bash 2026
DESCRIPTION:March 13-15\, 2026\nRoyce Hall 314 & Dodd Hall 247\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us from Friday to Sunday\, March 13-15\, for The Aristotle Bash! \n  \nConference Program\nDownload PDF \nFriday\, March 13\, 2026 | Royce Hall 314\n4:00 – 6:00 PM – Colloquium: Voula Tsouna (UCSB) – “Is there such a thing as defective goodness? Virtue and the faulty polities and characters in Plato’s Republic 8-9”6:00 – 7:00 PM – Reception with food \n  \nSaturday\, March 14\, 2026 | Dodd Hall 24710:30 – 11:00 AM – Coffee & light breakfast\n11:00 AM -12:30 PM – Gabor Betegh (Cambridge) (Presenting via Zoom) – “Plato on Forgetting and Re-Understanding”12:30 – 2:00 PM – Lunch2:00 – 3:30 PM – Merrick Anderson (USC) – “The Opening of Laws Book 3”3:45 – 5:45 PM – Workshop*: “Passages from Republic Books 8-9.578c” led by Voula Tsouna (UCSB) and Gavin Lawrence (UCLA)5:45 – 6:15 PM – Light reception \n *Please bring texts. We will let you know some particular passages and issues to focus on. \n  \nSunday\, March 15\, 2026 | Dodd Hall 2479:00 – 9:30 AM – Coffee & light breakfast\n9:30 – 11:00 AM – Christopher Shields (UCSD) – “Acting\, Well\, Metaphorically” 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM – Sean Kelsey (Chicago) – “Forms of understanding in Aristotle’s De Anima”1:00 – 2:00 PM – Lunch \n  \nWith the participation of Richard McKirahan (Pomona)\, Monte Johnson (UCSD)\, and David Blank (UCLA) \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/aristotle-bash/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314 & Dodd Hall 247
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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