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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Philosophy & MBA Career Panel
DESCRIPTION:May 24\, 2023 | 6:00PM – 7:00PM PT\nZoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93664571311?pwd=NkZaRjN6aFp2Tm5BdkJKcUtVeEx4UT09\nRSVP HERE\n  \nAre you considering pursuing an MBA after earning your Philosophy degree? Join us for a virtual career panel and Q&A with UCLA Philosophy alumni who completed their MBAs and went on to become senior leads/directors at businesses like Google and Scotiabank. \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  \n\n\nAlison Carroll\, Executive and Internal Communications Lead\, Google AI / Google Research\nAlison is Executive and Internal Communications Lead\, Google AI / Google Research. UCLA was pivotal in shaping her life’s trajectory! After graduating with a double major in Philosophy and Chinese language\, Alison spent eight years working in Shanghai and Hong Kong\, doing business risk consulting\, PR consulting\, and as a program editor for The Economist across Asia. After juggling an executive MBA from Columbia and London Business School\, Alison moved back to California in 2015 (her happy place!) and has worked in various roles at Google since. She’s been doing AI communications at Google for the last four years. \n  \n  \n\nNick Yulico\, CFA\, Managing Director\, Head of U.S. REIT research\, Scotiabank\nNick has been a sell-side Wall Street equity analyst since 2008\, having previously worked at UBS and Macquarie. His stock analysis focus is publicly-traded REITs (real estate investment trusts). He is currently based in Scotiabank’s New York City office\, where he leads a team that covers ~40 stocks and provides investment advice and research reports to institutional investors (e.g. mutual funds\, hedge funds\, pension funds). From 2001-2008\, he worked as a financial/investigative journalist at various publications including TheStreet.com and The Oakland Tribune. He graduated with a BA in Philosophy from UCLA in 2001 and later completed an MBA degree from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is also a CFA charterholder. \n  \nRSVP here to get the Zoom link\n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-mba-panel/
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SUMMARY:Studies in Language\, Information\, Meaning\, and Expression (SLIME)
DESCRIPTION:May 19-20\, 2023\nKaplan Hall 193\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us for SLIME (Studies in Language\, Information\, Meaning\, and Expression)\, a workshop at UCLA on May 19-20\, 2023. All are welcome. \n  \nThe conference is pre-view. Each session is 100 minutes. The commentator will start the session with 15-20 min discussion. The speaker may reply for up to 15 minutes. The rest is Q+A. \n  \nThe most up-to-date schedule and information are available on the workshop website HERE. \n  \nRSVP HERE TO ATTEND\n  \n  \nSpeaker links: \n\nMárta Abrusán\nJudith Fan\nCarolina Flores\nGuillermo Del Pinal\nW. Starr​\nSeth Yalcin\n\n  \nPlease direct any inquiries to slime2organizers@gmail.com \n  \nFaculty organizers: Joshua Armstrong\, Sam Cumming\, and Gabriel Greenberg. Graduate student organizers: Jürgen Lipps & Alonso Molina. \n  \nSLIME is made possible through the generosity of the Kaplan-Panzer fund. \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/studies-in-language-information-meaning-and-expression-slime/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193
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SUMMARY:2022-23: Colloquium: Does Institutional Racism Presuppose Racist Ideology?
DESCRIPTION:May 12\, 2023 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT\nKaplan 193 (and Zoom)\nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98656610498?pwd=TkRXeUMvdDVkRDlPY1piQVVxZ2gydz09\n  \nJoin us on May 12\, 2023 for a colloquium with Alberto Urquidez\, St. Olaf College. The talk will take place in Kaplan Hall Room 193 from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM with a light reception on the Shostak Terrace in front of Murphy Hall to follow. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nDoes Institutional Racism Presuppose Racist Ideology?\n  \nWhat is racism? Standard definitions depict racism as a personal phenomenon thereby inviting questions about personal responsibility. A common definition analyzes racism as a cognitive phenomenon\, as in the belief that race R1 is superior to race R2. A nonstandard version of the cognitive approach centers widely held beliefs (rather than mere individual belief) and\, for purposes of moral assessment\, stresses social consequences (not mere cognitive contents). This approach is typically put in the service of explaining the persistence of racial inequality/injustice. Tommie Shelby defends a version of the nonstandard cognitive approach. For him\, racism is racist ideology. Roughly\, racist ideology consists in a widely held set of racial beliefs that misrepresent racial oppression and that function\, through this distortion\, to bring about or perpetuate unjust social relations. One alleged virtue of the nonstandard cognitivist approach is that it explains institutional racism. In this talk\, I will argue that at least one kind of institutional racism cannot be explained in terms of racist ideology. While I will not advocate rejecting Shelby’s analysis\, I will underscore the limitations of his analysis as a general theory of racism \n  \nAlberto G. Urquidez is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Olaf College. He will be an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University in Fall 2023. Urquidez works primarily on the nature of racism\, drawing on the tools of analytic philosophy in conjunction with interdisciplinary insights to understand racism in connection with various topics\, such as the problem of white identity politics\, moral responsibility for racial oppression\, and the relationship of individual racism to institutional racism. His aim is to develop an empirically-informed\, comprehensive\, structuralist analysis of racism as a system of racial oppression. He is the author of (Re-)Defining Racism: A Philosophical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). \n  \n\nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2022-23-colloquium-alberto-urquidez-st-olaf-college/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Startup Career Panel
DESCRIPTION:May 10\, 2023 | 6:00PM – 7:00PM PT\nZoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96491280392?pwd=YjFTVi9LTEtEelpZOWQyZFZoblByQT09\nRSVP HERE\n  \nAre you considering entering the startup world after earning your Philosophy degree? Join us for a virtual career panel and Q&A with UCLA Philosophy alumni who have built exciting careers as founders\, CTOs\, and CEOs of tech startups!  \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  \n\nAlfred Fung\, CEO of FUN-GI\nAlfred is the Founder and CEO of FUN-GI\, the game design and publishing studio behind House Flip (a top home renovation simulation game in Apple’s App Store and Google Play). With his experience in free-to-play economics and user acquisition\, Alfred leads FUN-GI’s product\, art\, and marketing teams.  Prior to FUN-GI\, he served overseas for the United States Peace Corps and headed media and creative at M&C Saatchi. Alfred holds an MBA from USC and a BA in Philosophy from UCLA. \n  \n  \n\nDavid Titarenco\, Independent Software Engineer and CTO & Founder of CR Technologies\nDavid is a software engineer and a self-proclaimed startup addict who’s founded several ventures in the past decade. He is the CTO and Founder of CR Technologies\, a gaming studio focused on bridging the gap between Web2 and Web3. David co-wrote Introducing Meteor and edited Dart for Absolute Beginners. He occasionally contributes to projects like Google Go and the Java Kilim microthreading library. He loves esports and used to play Counter-Strike professionally—his teams competed in CAL\, CEVO\, the CPL\, and the CGS combine. A few years ago\, he built Game:ref\, which was featured on PCGamer\, Polygon\, Vice\, RedBull eSports\, and Tom’s Hardware. David studied Philosophy and Mathematical Logic at UCLA. \n  \nRSVP here to get the Zoom link\n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-startup-execs-founders-panel/
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SUMMARY:2022-23: Colloquium: Hume on Economic Inequality
DESCRIPTION:May 8\, 2023 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT\nKaplan 193 and Zoom\nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99674975385\n  \nOn May 8\, 2023\, the Philosophy Dept. History Occasional Colloquium will host a talk by and discussion with Professor Margaret Schabas (UBC) on “Hume and Economic Inequality.” The talk will take place in Kaplan Hall Room 193 from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.  \nHere is the Zoom link if you would like to join virtually: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99674975385 \nRSVP HERE\n  \nHume and Economic Inequality\n  \nIn his essay “Of the Original Contract\,” Hume endorsed the longstanding belief in “how nearly equal all men are in their bodily force\, and even in their mental powers and faculties\, till cultivated by education.” Although not an egalitarian\, Hume\, I will argue\, sought to reduce economic inequality of income though not necessarily of wealth. Two central goals of his economic philosophy were to raise the standard of living of the lower classes and to expand the so-called “middle station.” Above all\, Hume opposed the “utility of poverty” doctrine as a hindrance to economic growth. His position was motivated by utilitarian ends: a more prosperous laboring class would result in a happier nation\, not only because of the larger basket of goods in the household but also because citizens would tend to become more law-abiding and thus promote political stability. As Hume observed\, “a too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state.” Finally\, Hume sought to enrich poorer nations and thereby reduce economic inequality between nations\, primarily as a means to foster peace. \n  \nProfessor Schabas (FRSC) works primarily in the History and Philosophy of Science\, with a focus on Economics.  Her first book\, A World Ruled by Number (Princeton\, 1990) addressed the transformation of economics into a mathematical science; her second book\, The Natural Origins of Economics (Chicago\, 2005) addressed the concept of the economy since the early modern period; her third and most recent book is on Hume’s economics (A Philosopher’s Economist Chicago\, 2020).  She has also co-edited a book on Hume’s economics and another entitled Oeconomies in the Age of Newton. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2022-23-colloquium-hume-on-economic-inequality/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193
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SUMMARY:Meditations Journal Conference
DESCRIPTION:May 5\, 2023 | 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM\nDodd Hall 399\n  \nPlease join us on Friday\, May 5th\, 2023 from 4pm – 8pm in Dodd 399 for the 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 were undergraduate students who dedicated several months to this philosophical project. This conference was an exciting opportunity to honor their hard work and hear them present their original ideas. Additionally\, we look forward to again hosting a keynote speaker who will present an original work on an exciting topic. \n  \nPresentations will run from 4pm – 5:30pm followed by a catered dinner from Sunnin Lebanese Cafe. If you have any questions\, please reach out to meditations.philosophy.journal@gmail.com. \n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/meditations-journal-conference/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T160000
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SUMMARY:Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Colloquium: Against Philosophy\, Against Inquiry
DESCRIPTION:April 28th\, 2023 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT\nKaplan Hall 193 (and Zoom)\nHosted by Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) at UCLA\nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94960209231?pwd=Q3lLbnRzNXZPRkgxZ3FnOFFEbHVEZz09\n  \nJoin us on April 28th\, 2023 for a colloquium with Dr. Johnathan Flowers\, California State University\, Northridge. The talk will take place in Kaplan Hall Room 193 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nNote: ASL interpreters will be available for the duration of the talk. \n  \nAgainst Philosophy\, Against Inquiry\n  \nThis talk will position the current practice of inquiry in philosophy\, colloquially described as “just asking questions\,” as enabling the maintenance of structures of oppression through the ways in which it refuses to grapple with the social\, political\, and cultural realities from which it emerges. This failure allows for the laundering of ableism and transphobia through scholarship that aims to “just ask questions” not just about the nature of gender identity and disability\, but about the very humanity of trans and disabled persons. Finally\, this talk will describe how the conflation of “just asking questions” with contemporary practices of inquiry in philosophy also serve to position objections to this practice of inquiry as “anti-philosophy\,” or opposed to the very nature of philosophy and academia itself. \n  \nJohnathan Flowers is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University\, Northridge. Flowers’s research areas include African American intellectual history\, Japanese Aesthetics\, American Pragmatism\, Philosophy of Disability\, and Philosophy of Technology. Flowers also works in the areas of Science and Technology Studies and Comics Studies\, where he applies insights from American Pragmatism\, Philosophy of Race\, and Disability Studies to current issues in human/computer interaction\, artificial intelligence and machine learning\, and representations of identity in popular culture. His book\, Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism\, is due out in April. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2022-23-colloquium-dr-jonathan-flowers/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Attorney Career Panel
DESCRIPTION:April 26\, 2023 | 6:00PM – 7:00PM PT\nZoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92957039342?pwd=eVZzWWpFTmVvbU5LMzRQSzJ3K2RKdz09\nRSVP HERE\n  \nAre you considering a career as an attorney after earning your Philosophy degree? Join us for a virtual career panel discussion and Q&A with UCLA Philosophy alumni who now work as attorneys! \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  \n\nEmily Gerrick\, Civil Rights & Consumer Protection Attorney at Gerstein Harrow LLP\nEmily is a plaintiff-side civil rights and consumer protection attorney at a small firm called Gerstein Harrow. Emily’s docket includes cases challenging police brutality\, labor law violations\, whistleblower retaliation and employment discrimination\, first amendment violations\, and wrongful detention. Before joining Gerstein Harrow in 2022\, she was a senior attorney and policy director at the Texas Fair Defense Project\, where she worked on high-impact cases challenging unconstitutional bail and detention practices. She has also drafted and successfully advocated for major legislation that helped hundreds of thousands of people affected by court debt\, driver’s license suspensions\, and marijuana criminalization. Emily graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in philosophy in 2011 and from Yale Law School in 2014. \n  \n  \nRSVP here to get the Zoom link\n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-attorney-career-panel/
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SUMMARY:2022-23 Colloquium: The Reasons We Cannot Share
DESCRIPTION:April 21\, 2023 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT\nRoyce Hall 243 (and Zoom)\nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98234276234?pwd=ZkpiMFNCSjFvSVNoK1FpWFBJWjkzQT09\n  \nJoin us on April 21\, 2023 for a colloquium with Kyla Ebels Duggan\, Northwestern University. The talk will take place in Royce Hall Room 243 from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM with a reception on the 3rd floor Royce Patio to follow. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nThe Reasons We Cannot Share\n  \nAccording to political liberals\, a pluralist society should leave each person free to pursue their own conception of the good\, but individuals should bracket these values when engaging in political reasoning with one another.  When reasoning about the basic institutions and fundamental laws that govern the society\, each person should appeal only to so-called public reasons.  Public reasons are considerations that everyone (or at least all reasonable people) can see as reasons\, reasons that we can all share. \n  \nIn the first several sections of the paper\, I explore the ways in which we can and cannot give one another reasons and share reasons that we have.  I compare and contrast the possibilities with respect to reasons for believing\, reasons for valuing\, and reasons for acting.  I then use these distinctions to support the claim that the liberal ideal for relating to others does not require\, and in fact cannot be realized by\, limiting our political reasoning to appeals to shared reasons.  Instead\, I’ll suggest\, it requires regarding others as giving us new reasons to act by valuing and choosing what they do.  When I regard you this way\, I act on reasons that are necessarily different from those on which you act—reasons that we cannot share. \n  \nKyla Ebels-Duggan is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.  She specializes in moral and political philosophy and their history\, working in a broadly Kantian tradition. Her work has appeared in Ethics\, The Philosophical Quarterly\, Philosophical Studies and Philosophers’ Imprint.  She is completing a book on valuing attitudes and starting a book on Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy. \n  \n\nRSVP HERE
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2022-23-colloquium-kyla-ebels-duggan-northwestern-university/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 243
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:USC-UCLA Graduate Conference in Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:April 15\, 2023 | 9:45AM – 6:00PM\nUSC\, Mudd Hall 101\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. For more information\, please visit the Conference Home Page. \nThis year\, the conference will be held at USC on April 15\, 2023. Click here to learn more. \nConference Program \nLet us know you’re going by filling out this RSVP form.
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/usc-ucla-graduate-conference-in-philosophy/
LOCATION:The University of Southern California\, Mudd Hall of Philosophy\, Room 101
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Careers in the Legal Field
DESCRIPTION:April 12\, 2023 | 6:00PM – 7:00PM PT\nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94852021315?pwd=cFBreTBhcndZNnA3TkRoVzRWbVV4dz09\nRSVP HERE\n  \nAre you considering a career in the legal field but want to explore options beyond being an attorney? Join us for a virtual career panel discussion and Q&A with three UCLA Philosophy alumni who now work in the legal field–one as a paralegal\, one as a law research librarian\, and one as an organized crime unit intern & LSAT tutor! \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\nTirui Tina Getekian\, Paralegal\, Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office\nI work for the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office\, which makes me a public defender. I am a part of a defense team that deals with all sorts of criminal charges in Los Angeles\, helping to represent clients who cannot otherwise afford attorneys. My favorite part of the job is getting to know the people I work with\, specifically\, and what I believe is the most important for philosophy majors\, is that you get to see how the circumstances people are born into impact the choices that they make later on in life in a most “deterministic” way. My job is a real-life exploration of ethics and free will. \nMy background in philosophy also manifests through yoga\, as I am a practitioner and certified instructor. I do not teach for pay\, but there are opportunities to volunteer-teach yoga at jails and prisons\, a project I am currently looking into (Yay!). My friends need coping mechanisms for dealing with stress (as do I). And\, I write. I get curious\, and I explore many different paths\, but they said “mini” autobiography… \n  \n\nHolly Gale\, Research Librarian\, Davis Wright Tremaine\n\nHolly Gale is a Research Librarian at Davis Wright Tremaine. After obtaining her degree in Philosophy in 2003 from UCLA\, she went on to complete her Masters in Library and Information Science at University of Washington. She has since worked in academia\, law firms and for the judiciary as a Law Librarian. She truly enjoys being a librarian and the opportunities for growth\, constant learning\, and the work life balance it has provided. \n  \n  \n\nConner O’Brien\, Organized Crime Unit Intern\, Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office\, & LSAT Tutor\nConner O’Brien earned his Bachelor’s Degree in philosophy from UCLA in 2021 after successfully transferring from Los Angeles Pierce College. Conner received the UCLA Philosophy Department’s Kalish Prize and then accepted the department’s role of Section Leader for the following school year. The following year Conner began working at the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office first in the healthcare fraud unit\, then organized crime. Since receiving a 177 on the LSAT\, he has been tutoring for the LSAT part-time. He has also been accepted to many law schools for the fall of 2023 including Stanford\, Georgetown\, and UCLA Law. \n  \n  \nRSVP here to get the Zoom link\n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-careers-in-the-legal-field/
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SUMMARY:Reinventing Woman's Nature: Early Modern Feminism and Its Roots
DESCRIPTION:Day 1: Thursday\, Mar 30 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm\, Royce 306\nDay 2: Friday\, Mar 31 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm\, Royce 306\nDay 3: Saturday\, Apr 1 @ 9:00 am – 3:30 pm\, Royce 306\n  \nRegister to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \n  \nChallenges to inferiorizing conceptions of women’s nature that grew in prominence in the 16th and 17th centuries should be seen not just as applications of changing philosophical conceptions of nature under the rise of mechanical philosophy\, but as helping to shape those reconceptualizations. Through their polemical writings in defence of women\, their rejection of histories written by men that excluded or skewed the contributions of women\, in their own philosophical treatises and correspondence with male philosophers\, feminists\, including some feminist men\, helped to shape a conception of human nature and virtue that exalted both women and men equally. These texts contain not just critiques of misogynistic theorising about the natures and vices of women aimed at raising the consciousness of women and challenging the authority of men\, but deliberate proposals for rethinking social structures—the structure of communities\, the family\, and women’s political status and role in the State. Of note is the way in which feminists of the period recognised\, therefore\, that theorising about human nature could not succeed in isolation from a reimagining of the kind of social structures in which it was possible for all humans\, men and women included\, to flourish. An examination of what makes a thing human could not\, in other words\, be separated from the question of what it would take to make men and women equal. \nThis conference is interested in exploring these connections between theorising about women’s nature and theorising about the kind of society that promotes sexual equality. It covers the contributions of feminists from English\, French\, and Italian traditions\, as well as the philosophical transitions that inspired them—Humanism\, Cartesianism\, and shifts in virtue theory\, including challenges to masculinist assumptions about heroic virtues and dignity. The conference will in this way shed light on the extent to which feminist theorising in the period contained an agenda for social change\, and thus to its place in the history of feminism as a social movement. \n  \n\n\n\n\n	Thursday\, March 30\, 2023\n\n\n	3:30 PM – 5:00 PMMartina Reuter (University of Jyväskylä)\n“Complex Relations: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Olympe de Gouges on the Sexes” (Keynote)Abstract\n\n\n	5:00 PM – 6:30 PMReception\n\n\n	Friday\, March 31\, 2023\n\n\n	9:00 AM – 10:15 AMAllauren Forbes (McMaster University)\n“Speech\, Silence\, and Gendered Space: Women’s Epistemic Nature in Cavendish’s Plays”Abstract\n\n\n	10:15 AM – 10:45 AMBreak\n\n\n	10:45 AM – 12:00 PMMarcy Lascano (University of Kansas)\n“The Feminist Ontologies of Cavendish and ConwayAbstract\n\n\n	12:00 PM – 1:15 PMEmanuele Costa (Vanderbilt University)\n“Anne Conway and the Feminine: Between Receptacle and Embodied Thought”Abstract\n\n\n	1:15 PM – 2:00 PMLunch Break\n\n\n	2:00 PM – 3:15 PMJacqueline Broad (Monash University)\n“A Weapon in their Hands: Bathsua Makin’s Arguments for Women’s Education”Abstract\n\n\n	3:15 PM – 3:45 PMBreak\n\n\n	3:45 PM – 5:00 PMMarguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)\n“Whose Worth? All Women\, or Some Women?”Abstract\n\n\n	Saturday\, April 1\, 2023\n\n\n	9:00 AM – 10:15 AMDiane Zetlin (University of Queensland)\n“Equality and Inequality: Glory and Honour”Abstract\n\n\n	10:15 AM – 10:45 AMBreak\n\n\n	10:45 AM – 12:00 PMCharlotte Sabourin (Douglas College)\n“Germaine de Staël’s Second Thoughts on Rousseau”Abstract\n\n\n	12:00 PM – 1:15 PMLisa Shapiro (McGill University)\n“Gabrielle Suchon on ‘persons of the sex'”Abstract\n\n\n	1:15 PM – 2:00 PMLunch Break\n\n\n	2:00 PM – 3:15 PMDeborah Brown (University of Queensland)\n“Anxiety and the Fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth”Abstract\n\n\n\n\n  \nSponsors:\nUCLA Department of Philosophy \nUCLA Centre for Early Global Studies \nBrian P. Copenhaver Chair in Philosophy \nAustralian Research Council \n  \nRegister to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nRegistration is desirable for catering purposes.
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/reinventing-womans-nature-early-modern-feminism-and-its-roots/
LOCATION:Royce Hall – Room 306
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SUMMARY:2022-23 Colloquium: Strong Determinism
DESCRIPTION:March 17\, 2023 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM\nDodd 121\n  \nJoin us on March 17th\, 2023 for a colloquium with Eddy Keming Chen\, UC San Diego. The talk will take place in Dodd 121 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nA strongly deterministic theory of physics is one that permits exactly one possible history of the universe. In the words of Penrose (1989)\, “it is not just a matter of the future being determined by the past; the entire history of the universe is fixed\, according to some precise mathematical scheme\, for all time.” Such an extraordinary feature may appear unattainable in any realistic theory of physics. In this talk\, I show how it can be achieved in a universe like ours. First\, I propose a definition of strong determinism and explain how it differs from standard determinism and super-determinism. Next\, I discuss its attractions\, implications\, and some toy examples. The possibility of strong determinism has interesting consequences for explanation\, causation\, prediction\, and modality. Finally\, I show that Everettian quantum mechanics\, with a new version of the Past Hypothesis\, provides an easy route to strong determinism. On the new theory that I call the Everettian Wentaculus\, the quantum state of the multiverse is a fundamental mixed state with exactly one possible history. As a consequence of physical laws\, the history of the multiverse could not have been different. \nYou are encouraged but not required to read the preprint before attending the talk: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02886.pdf \n  \n​Eddy Keming Chen is an assistant professor in philosophy at the University of California\, San Diego (UCSD). He works at the intersection of philosophy of physics\, philosophy of science\, and metaphysics. He also has interests in philosophy of mind\, decision theory\, formal epistemology\, philosophy of mathematics\, philosophy of religion\, and Chinese philosophy. He is an associate editor of the journal Foundations of Physics\, a fellow of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics\, an affiliated faculty member of the UCSD Chinese studies program\, and a member of the interdisciplinary project “Life on the Edge.” He has written about time’s arrow\, laws of nature\, quantum ontology\, physical space\, scientific explanations\, infinitary decision theory\, and temporal self-location. In several recent papers\, he has been developing a new account of time’s arrow in a quantum universe\, called the “Wentaculus.” One of these papers\, published in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science\, was awarded the Popper Prize for “ambitious\, novel contribution to major issues in the foundations of physics” and judged to be the best paper in its 2021 volume. His work on the vagueness of physical laws has been published in The Philosophical Review and featured as a cover story in New Scientist. One of his side interests is using films to popularize philosophical and scientific ideas. Currently\, he is co-writing a screenplay about a time-travel romance. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2022-23-colloquium-strong-determinism/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 121
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Careers in Academia
DESCRIPTION:March 14\, 2023 | 6:00PM – 7:00PM PT\nZoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93202698666?pwd=Vmk1ai9BK081ZTFKV3lidGxKb2tLQT09\n  \nConsidering a career in academia after earning your Philosophy degree? Join us for a virtual career panel discussion and Q&A with UCLA Philosophy alumni who are now working as professors at institutions such as the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA\, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock\, and UC Santa Cruz! \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 in academia. \n  \nRSVP below to get the calendar invite\n  \nMeet the Speakers\n  \n\nAshley Feinsinger\, Adjunct Assistant Professor\, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA\n\nDr. Ashley Feinsinger is faculty in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Her research pursues questions at the intersection of ethics\, philosophy of language\, and neuroscience\, and she has published on a range of topics\, including medicalization and the ethics of non-therapeutic research with implanted devices. Funded by the NIH BRAIN Initiative\, her neuroethics lab engages with patient-participants in basic neuroscience research to understand motivations for enrollment and interpretations of risk and benefit. Through comparing patient values with those of researchers and the public\, her lab addresses conceptual questions about exploitation and trust\, as well as practical questions about patient engagement and consent. \nDr. Feinsinger received her undergraduate degrees in philosophy and linguistics and her PhD in philosophy from UCLA.  Additionally\, she completed the Advanced Training in Health Care Ethics Certification from the University of Washington and the Medical Education Fellowship in Curriculum Innovation from DGSOM.  She is also the Ethics Theme Chair for the medical school curriculum and co-chair of the bioethics selective for first and second year medical students. \nFor more information\, visit her lab website: https://www.feinsingerlab.com \n  \n  \n\nJordan Wallace-Wolf\, Assistant Professor at Bowen School of Law\, University of Arkansas\, Little Rock\nJordan graduated from UCLA school of law in 2017 and earned a Ph.D. from the UCLA philosophy department in 2020. Afterward\, he was a fellow at the UCLA law school until 2022\, when he accepted a job at the University of Arkansas’s Bowen school of law. His research focuses on law and morality\, with a focus on drawing the distinction between what is private and public. Pursuing this broad research question has led him to consider whether thoughts are the permissible target of legal sanctions\, and whether we have a privacy interest in our movements through public space. \n  \n  \n\nJanette Dinishak\, Associate Professor of Philosophy\, UC Santa Cruz\nJanette Dinishak is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Center for Public Philosophy at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include the philosophy of psychology and psychiatry\, Ludwig Wittgenstein\, and the ethics and epistemology of other minds. She has published papers on autism\, the pathologization and de-pathologization of human differences\, Wittgenstein\, and Gestalt psychology. \n  \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”60″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-careers-in-academia/
LOCATION:On Zoom
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SUMMARY:Study Break with the Philosophy Department
DESCRIPTION:March 13\, 2023 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM\nDodd Hall 399\n  \nTake a study break and relax with the Philosophy Department while you enjoy some pizza and refreshments in Dodd 399! \n  \n[gravityform id=”61″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/study-break-with-the-philosophy-department-winter-quarter-2023/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T160000
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SUMMARY:2022-23 Colloquium: Being Called
DESCRIPTION:March 10\, 2023 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM\nDodd 121\n  \nJoin us on March 10th\, 2023 for a colloquium with Una Stojnić\, Princeton University. The talk will take place in Dodd 121 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception in Dodd 399 to follow. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nIn the context of attempting to explain predicative uses of names—most contemporary theorists\, post Naming and Necessity—whether Millians or Descriptivists—invoke the relation of being called; ‘There are two Annas in my class’ semantically expresses or pragmatically conveys that there are two individuals called ‘Anna’ (or alternatively\, two individuals called Anna) in my class.  What has gone unnoticed is that invoking this relation incurs metaphysical commitments about name individuation that are staggering\, requiring positing indefinitely many ambiguous lexical items\, that are unlike any familiar type of lexical items. \n  \nUna Stojnić is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University. Prior to joining Princeton\, she was an assistant professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University\, which she joined after receiving her PhD in Philosophy and Certificate in Cognitive Science from Rutgers University. She was also a Bersoff assistant professor/faculty fellow in Philosophy at NYU and a research fellow in philosophy at the School of Philosophy at ANU. Una’s main research focus is on the philosophical\, linguistic\, and psychological aspects of human communication and linguistic capacities. She also works in philosophical logic and its intersection with natural languages. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2022-23-colloquium-being-called/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 121
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:2022-23 Colloquium: Examining Social Norms in Animal Cultures
DESCRIPTION:March 3\, 2023 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM\nDodd 121\n  \nJoin us on March 3rd\, 2023 for a colloquium with Kristin Andrews\, York University. The talk will take place in Dodd 121 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception on the Shostak Terrace (in front of Murphy Hall) to follow. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n\nSocial norms—rules governing which behaviors are deemed appropriate or inappropriate within a given community—are typically taken to be uniquely human. Recently\, this position has been challenged. The view that norms are human unique stems from commitments regarding the psychological capacities required for having them\, and skepticism that animals possess these prerequisites. However\, among norm cognition researchers there is little agreement about the cognitive architecture that underpins social norms in humans. To make progress on the question\, there needs to be a point of agreement–an operationalized account of social norms. Drawing on Westra and Andrews’ (2022) account of a normative regularity–a socially maintained pattern of behavioral conformity within a community–I present three potential cases in primates and discuss the sort of evidence that would be needed to conclude that they qualify as normative regularities. I consider two objections: that social norms involve following rules with deontic content (and animals don’t do that)\, and that having social norms requires punishing non-compliant actors (and animals don’t do that). I conclude with some practical and theoretical implications. \n  \nKristin Andrews is York Research Chair in Animal Minds and Professor of Philosophy at York University\, and she was elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015. Her research is at the intersection of philosophy\, social cognition\, moral cognition\, and animal cognition. She is the author of several books\, including most recently How to Study Animal Minds (Cambridge 2020)—an argument for rethinking methods in comparative psychology; and The Animal Mind second edition (Routledge 2020) – a survey of how empirical work on animal minds can help to inform debates in the philosophy of mind.  In recent years\, she has contributed to policy discussions of the status of great apes in US law and digital research infrastructure for animal behavior in Canada. Andrews serves on the Board of Directors for The Borneo Orangutan Society Canada\, which has the mission to promote conservation of orangutans and their habitat and to educate the public. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2022-23-colloquium-examining-social-norms-in-animal-cultures/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 121
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Law Career Panel
DESCRIPTION:February 28\, 2023 | 6:00PM – 7:30PM\nRoyce 306\n  \nConsidering a career in law after earning your Philosophy degree? Join us for a panel discussion and reception with UCLA Philosophy alumni who have built successful careers in the field of law! \n  \nFind out what our alumni are doing now and the steps they took to get there. Walk away with real-world advice for how to approach your post-grad career. \n  \nStay for the reception at 7:00PM where you can chat with our panelists over pizza 🍕! (Vegan and gluten-free options will be available) \n  \nRSVP below to save your spot.\n  \nCan’t make it to the session in person? Register anyway to receive a Zoom link to join remotely. \n  \nMeet the Speakers\nEmin Akopyan\, Vice President and Counsel\, MUFG Union Bank\, N.A.\n\n\nEmin graduated from UCLA with a BA in Philosophy in 2007 and went on to receive his JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 2011.  Following graduation\, Emin practiced law as a commercial real estate attorney at Duval & Stanchenfeld LLP and Gibson\, Dunn & Crutcher LLP\, in New York City and Los Angeles\, respectively.  Emin is currently in-house counsel at MUFG Union Bank. He lives in Sherman Oaks with his wife and two young sons. \n\n  \nMariam Karson\, Associate General Counsel\, Meta\nA new media and technology attorney who loves working at the intersection of where content and emerging technologies meet. \n  \n  \n\n\n  \nMatt Weitz\, General Counsel\, Manhattan West Asset Management\nMatt Weitz is General Counsel at Manhattan West Asset Management where he oversees the company’s legal affairs. Mr. Weitz has extensive experience in Media and Entertainment\, Gaming and Hospitality\, Real Estate\, M&A\, and Regulatory Law. Among his achievements\, he represented Meruelo Media before the FCC in a first-of-its-kind purchase and sale of television spectrum\, negotiated the financing and relocation of Magic Mike Live Las Vegas to the SAHARA Las Vegas\, and served as legal counsel for global concert tours of U2\, Sting\, Justin Timberlake\, and Phil Collins. \nMr. Weitz previously served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel for the Meruelo Group\, a family-owned asset management company\, where he oversaw legal matters for its Media and Entertainment\, Gaming and Hospitality\, and Real Estate divisions as well as intellectual property matters for the entire portfolio. He also served as Senior Director of Legal Affairs for Global Touring at Live Nation Entertainment\, as a law clerk for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office\, and as a judicial extern in Los Angeles Superior Court. Mr. Weitz also had his own private practice representing professional players\, coaches\, and companies in the Esports sector. \nA Los Angeles native\, Mr. Weitz graduated with a B.A. from UCLA and Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”55″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-law-career-panel/
LOCATION:Royce Hall – Room 306
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SUMMARY:Kepler and Descartes on Nature and Its Representation
DESCRIPTION:February 27\, 2023 | 11:30AM – 2:00PM\nRoyce 306\n  \nJoin us on Monday\, February 27\, 2023 for lunch and a lecture by Brian Baigrie\, University of Toronto. \nSandwiches will be served at 11:30AM and the talk will begin at 12:00PM. \n  \nRSVP below to save your spot!\n  \nIf you can’t make it to the talk in person\, here is the link to join remotely: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93382136321?pwd=OWh0bFVJcWQzUkRyQXl3SGpxWFJYZz09 \n  \n\nIn his Ad Vitellionem paralipomena (Additions to Witelo\, 1604)\, Johannes Kepler advanced the remarkable thesis that the act of seeing involves the painting of an inverted picture on the retina\, comparable to the picture that appears on the back of the camera obscura. Kepler’s discovery of the retinal image has been well-documented by historians of the science of optics\, but its impact during the 17th century on the emergence of the mechanical philosophy and a growing recognition of the need for a novel of framework to conceptualize the relationship between nature and its representation is less well-known. This talk will present the central elements of Kepler’s new theory of vision in an attempt to shed light on aspects of its influence on the 17th century twin revolutions in science and philosophy. \n  \nBrian Baigrie is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor at The Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology\, and cross-appointed to the Institute for Health Policy\, Management & Evaluation (Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Toronto.   His ongoing research (both historical and philosophical) is focussed on evidential reasoning. \n  \n[gravityform id=”58″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/kepler-and-descartes-on-nature-and-its-representation/
LOCATION:Royce Hall – Room 306
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:2022-23 Colloquium: Spinoza on truth
DESCRIPTION:February 24\, 2023 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM\nDodd 121\n  \nJoin us on February 24\, 2023 for a colloquium with Karolina Hübner\, Cornell University. The talk will take place in Dodd 121 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception in Dodd 399 to follow. \nRSVP HERE\n  \n\nSurprisingly little has been written about Spinoza’s theory of truth\, and there is no general consensus about how he should be understood. After a period during which he was most often portrayed as a coherence theorist\, today he is usually thought to advance a correspondence theory of truth. In this talk I propose a new account of how Spinoza understands the nature of truth – one that makes a more unified and comprehensive sense  of Spinoza’s doctrines and texts. More specifically\, I propose that Spinoza endorses a version of the identity theory of truth. Very roughly\, on identity theories\, the nature of truth consists in the identity of the truthbearer with the truthmaker. I argue that Spinoza holds an identity conception of truth insofar as\, on his view\, true “ideas” are identical with the “things” they are about. More precisely\, a true Spinozistic idea of a thing is that thing itself\, albeit existing in a distinct – purely mental – manner. This conception of truth\, I show\, grows directly out of Spinoza’s general theory of representation – his theory of what it is for any idea to be about or of something in the first place. On my reading\, Spinoza’s theory of truth also turns out to be inseparable from certain ontological commitments – in particular\, a commitment to a pluralism of ways of having being. Arguably\, then\, the identity conception of truth stands or falls with much of the rest of Spinoza’s metaphysical and epistemological edifice. \n  \nKarolina Hübner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Sage School of Philosophy\, Cornell University. Her work on the metaphysics\, epistemology\, and philosophy of mind in the early modern period has appeared in such journals as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research\, the Philosophical Quarterly\, the Journal of the History of Philosophy and Philosophers’ Imprint. Until 2019\, she was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her 2022 article in the Journal of the History of Philosophy\, “Representation and Mind-Body Identity in Spinoza’s Philosophy\,” is the winner of the JHP’s prize for the best article of 2022. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming Spinoza Cambridge Lexicon\, and the editor of Human (Oxford Philosophical Concepts series). She is currently working on a monograph on Spinoza’s metaphysics of thought. \nRSVP HERE\n 
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2022-23-colloquium-karolina-hubner-cornell-university/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 121
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Careers in Tech
DESCRIPTION:February 14\, 2023 | 6:00PM – 7:00PM PT\nZoom\n  \nCurious how you could use your Philosophy degree to build a successful career in the tech world? Join us for a virtual career panel discussion and Q&A with UCLA Philosophy alumni who have careers in tech! \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 below to get the Zoom link.\n  \nMeet the Speakers\nMike DeCarlo\, Product Manager and Operations Director\n\nMike graduated with a BA in Philosophy from UCLA in 2009 and has worked in software since 2010. Starting at Facebook (now Meta) in a policy enforcement role\, he quickly learned the power of data in asking and answering valuable business questions. Most recently he has applied his analytical skills to developing data/business intelligence software as a service (SaaS) and standardizing processes around the software product lifecycle. Mike lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two kids. \n  \n\nElena Pogosova\, Senior Account Director – Retail & Consumer Goods\, Salesforce\n Elena Pogosova graduated from UCLA in 2019 with B.A. in Philosophy and minors in Russian Language & Entrepreneurship. Upon her graduation\, she kick-started her career in tech sales as a business development representative at Oracle. Currently\, Elena works as an Account Director at Salesforce as part of the Retail & Consumer Goods group. Additionally\, Elena mentors individuals interested in professional development and works on projects related to corporate diversity & inclusion. When not in meetings\, you can find her traveling\, trying out new foods\, and reviewing new movies/TV shows. \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer \n  \n[gravityform id=”50″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-careers-in-tech/
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Careers in Health & Medicine
DESCRIPTION:January 31\, 2023 | 6:00PM – 7:00PM PT\nZoom\n  \nCurious how you could use your Philosophy degree to build a successful career in health and medicine? Join us for a virtual career panel discussion and Q&A with UCLA Philosophy alumni who have careers in healthcare! \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 below to get the Zoom link.\n  \nMeet the Speakers\nHaig Goenjian\, MD\, Psychiatrist & Principal Investigator\, Collaborative Neuroscience Network\n Haig Goenjian is a psychiatrist and a Principal Investigator (PI) who works in a multitude of settings\, primarily research. He graduated with a BA in Philosophy from UCLA in 2005\, received his Medical Degree from Tulane University in 2011\, and completed psychiatric residency at Harbor UCLA in 2016. His current work as a PI entails conducting clinical trials on a vast array of psychiatric treatments. He also does both inpatient and outpatient work. Whether it is from understanding the history of the term Anxiety coined by Kierkegaard to the use of phenomenology derived from Husserl\, philosophy has greatly enhanced his profession. \n  \n\nAni Khodaverdian\, Master’s Student\, Clinical Psychology\, Pepperdine University\n Ani Khodaverdian is a licensed attorney in California\, a current Master’s student of Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University\, and an artist and founder/owner of Telojan.com (Instagram: @telojantelo). She is an activist who advocates for marginalized groups in her community (especially women and LGBTQIA+) and is passionate about spreading awareness about mental health and encouraging people to destigmatize going to therapy. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from UCLA in 2012. \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer \n\n  \n[gravityform id=”49″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-careers-in-health-and-medicine/
LOCATION:On Zoom
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Business & Communications Career Panel
DESCRIPTION:January 17\, 2023 | 6:00PM\nRoyce 306\n  \nCurious how you could use your Philosophy degree to build a successful career in business or communications? Join us for a career panel discussion and Q&A with UCLA Philosophy alumni followed by a reception with food! \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  \nStay for the reception at 7:00PM where you can enjoy delicious food & beverages and chat with our panelists! \n  \nRSVP below to save your spot.\n  \nCan’t make it to the session in person? Register anyway to receive the Zoom link to join remotely. \n  \nMeet the Speakers\nPeter Yi\, Management Consultant\, West Monroe\nPeter graduated from UCLA Philosophy in 2003 and is currently serving as a Management Consultant at West Monroe Partners. His professional experience includes nearly 20 years of IT and Technology consulting working with Fortune 500 clients (including Walmart #1).  During the past 10 years\, Peter has taken his experience to help build and lead teams into a modern\, digital workforce. Outside of his professional role\, Peter is a happily married husband to his wife of 15+ years and enjoys spending time raising their 9 yr old daughter. \n  \nFaith Oftadeh\, Design & Communications Manager\, Office of Space Technology\, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory\nFaith graduated with a BA in Philosophy from UCLA in 2008 and thereafter\, received an MFA in Media Design Practices from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. Her graduate thesis was focused on designing infrastructure for Mars colonization that induced culture\, ritual and addressed the full spectrum of psychological human need versus designing for mere survival. She developed her thesis while working as an academic researcher at the NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory under the Mars Sample Return mission from 2014-2016. She was recently appointed as the Director of Communications for the Office of Technology\, Infusion and Strategy which is managed by JPL’s chief technologist and has been at JPL for nine years. \n  \n\nChristopher DeSá\, Managing Director\, Kroll\nChris graduated with a BA in Philosophy from UCLA in 2001 and went on to receive a Master’s of Philosophy with distinction from the University of Oxford\, and a J.D. with honors from the University of Texas at Austin (where he was a member of the Texas Law Review). He is a managing director in Kroll’s Environmental\, Social and Governance (ESG) Advisory practice where he serves as a trusted advisor to clients on ESG and sustainability-related matters. He also assists private equity funds and companies with pre-acquisition ESG screening\, due diligence and risk assessments as well as post-acquisition remediation plans. Chris offers particular expertise helping clients to ensure the integrity\, consistency and transparency of their ESG data and climate-related disclosures under evolving U.S. and international ESG regulations and norms. \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer \n\n  \n[gravityform id=”44″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/being-in-the-world-business-career-panel-011723/
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SUMMARY:Philosophy First-Gen Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:Dear Students\,\nCome join us and meet our first generation faculty and peers\, and enjoy some lunch and hot chocolate!\n\n\nPlease RSVP here!
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/philosophy-first-gen-holiday-party/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221128T170000
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SUMMARY:Study Break with the Philosophy Department
DESCRIPTION:Dear Students\,\nWe invite you to take a study break with the philosophy department and enjoy some pizza and refreshments!\n  \n\n\n  \nPlease RSVP here!
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/study-break-with-the-philosophy-department/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221021T160000
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SUMMARY:2022-23 Colloquium: Deductive Inference and Mental Action
DESCRIPTION:What is deductive inference? The question has been intensively addressed in discussions tracing back at least to Frege and to Lewis Carroll. A good answer needs to recognize two new elements: one from the domain of contents or propositions\, and one from the realm of mental action. A good answer also has to explain the connection between these two elements. I argue that the new contents cannot be explained using extant materials from natural deduction or axiomatic systems; that the goal of logic should be characterized in terms of the new elements; and that properly deployed\, these two new elements can be used to elucidate the role of knowing-that and knowing-how in deductive inference. The new elements also play a role in an account of justification more generally. \nChristopher Peacocke is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He taught at Oxford for many years\, eventually as Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy\, before moving to New York in 2000. He has taught at Berkeley\, UCLA\, NYU\, and University College London. He writes on the philosophy of mind\, on the relations between metaphysics and epistemology\, and is also currently writing on the perception of music. \nEvent Flyer \n\nSign up for our Colloquium Mailing List\n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2022-23-colloquium-christopher-peacocke-columbia-university/
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SUMMARY:Truthmaker Semantics: What it is and what it does
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URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/truthmaker-semantics-what-it-is-and-what-it-does/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T160000
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SUMMARY:2022-23 Philosophy Department Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Philosophy Department will be hosting its annual Open House on Wednesday\, September 21st from 4:00pm – 6:00pm. This event location is at the Shapiro Courtyard (between Dodd Hall & the Law School) and all are welcome. This is a great opportunity to meet Philosophy faculty & graduate students and learn more about the Philosophy department in an informal setting. Students interested in learning more about the Philosophy major/minor or just learning more about Philosophy courses are encouraged to attend. \nRSVP Here
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/philosophy-department-open-house-2022/
LOCATION:Shapiro Courtyard
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220520T180000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium: C. Thi Nguyen\, University of Utah - CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:Games and Value Capture\nC. Thi Nguyen\, University of Utah Department of Philosophy\nMay 20\, 2022 – CANCELLED
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-c-thi-nguyen-university-of-utah/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Robert Stalnaker\, Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at MIT
DESCRIPTION:“Conversational Strategy”\nRobert Stalnaker\, Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at MIT.\nThursday\, May 12 at 4:00 PM\nKorn Convocation Hall\, Anderson School of Business
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/visit-distinguished-lecturer-robert-stalnaker-mit/
LOCATION:TBA
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