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SUMMARY:Modern French Thought and the History of Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:October 17-18\, 2025\nKaplan Hall 348\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us for Modern French Thought and the History of Philosophy\, a workshop at UCLA from October 17-18\, 2025. \n  \nThis conference is presented by the UCLA Philosophy Department\, with support from the Comparative Literature Department\, and organized by Professor Eleanor Kaufman (Comparative Literature\, English\, and ELTS) and Professor Calvin Normore (Philosophy). \n  \nFeatured speakers include Joe Hughes (University of Melbourne)\, Steven Mailloux (University of California\, Irvine and Loyola Marymount University)\, Davide Panagia (University of California\, Los Angeles)\, Jacob Schmutz (University of Louvain) and Alan Schrift (Grinnell College). \n  \nWorkshop Program\n  \n\nFriday\, October 17th\n4:00 PM:  Opening reception and welcome \n4:30 PM: Alan Schrift\, Grinnell College: “The Institutionalization of History of Philosophy in Recent French Thought” – Introduced and moderated by Eleanor Kaufman \n6:00 PM: After talk reception for all participants and guests \n  \nSaturday\, October 18th\n10:30 AM: Jacob Schmutz (Zoom)\, University of Louvain: “Is Metaphysics Dangerous for the Republic? The Debate for a Unique Course of Philosophy in Enlightenment France” – Introduced and moderated by Calvin Normore \n12:00 PM: Conference lunch\, attendees welcome \n1:00 PM: Steven Mailloux\, University of California\, Irvine and Loyola Marymount University: “Jesuitical Philosophy in Paris: Ignatian Spirituality and Political Theology in the Twentieth Century” – Introduced and moderated by Austin Webster \n2:30 PM: Davide Panagia\, University of California\, Los Angeles: “Mimesis\, the explication de texte\, and State Thinking” – Introduced and moderated by Grant Hussong \n4:00 PM: Joe Hughes\, University of Melbourne: “Jean Hyppolite: Philosophy\, Non-Philo-sophy\, and the History of Philosophy” – Introduced and moderated by Jessica Marian \n5:30 PM: Closing reception for all participants and guests \n  \nFor more information\, visit the event website hosted by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature 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/modern-french-thought-and-the-history-of-philosophy/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:Philosophy First-Gen Welcome Party
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 29\, 2025\n5:30 – 7:00 PM\nRoyce Hall 306\nRSVP HERE\n  \nCome and meet other first-generation Philosophy students\, faculty\, and staff! Food and beverages will be served. \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/philosophy-first-gen-welcome-party/
LOCATION:Royce Hall – Room 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250924T120000
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SUMMARY:2025-26 Philosophy Department Open House
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 24\, 2025\n12:00 – 2:00 PM\nHershey Hall Salon (Room 158) & Courtyard\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us on Wednesday\, September 24\, 2025 from 12:00 – 2:00 PM for the Philosophy Department’s Annual Open House. It will take place at the Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) & Courtyard. 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  \nDirections to Hershey Hall: head toward the Terasaki Life Sciences Building\, go down the steps or the nearby ramp and through the building’s underpass\, and you’ll see the entrance to Mira Hershey Hall on your left. Look for the signs that direct you to “Philosophy Department Open House.” \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/2025-26-philosophy-department-open-house/
LOCATION:Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158)
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SUMMARY:SLIME 4 (Studies in Language\, Information\, Meaning and Expression)
DESCRIPTION:September 19-20\, 2025\nRoyce Hall 314\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us for SLIME 4 (Studies in Language\, Information\, Meaning and Expression)\, a workshop at UCLA from September 19-20\, 2025. \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\nAlan Fiske\, UCLA Anthropology\nAllison (Ari) Koslow\, UC Irvine Philosophy\nEllen Lau\, University of Maryland Linguistics\nKaren Lewis\, Barnard/Columbia Philosophy\nThi Nguyen\, University of Utah Philosophy\, & Ethan Nowak\, Stanford Philosophy\nMatthew Stone\, Rutgers Computer Science\n\n  \nCommentators\n\nEric Acton\, Eastern Michigan English Language & Literature\nIdan Asher Blank\, UCLA Psychology\nRosa Cao\, Stanford Philosophy\nDaniel Harris\, Hunter College Philosophy/CUNY Graduate Center\nRachel Rudolph\, UC San Diego Philosophy\nEvan Westra\, Purdue Philosophy\n\n  \nFaculty organizers: Joshua Armstrong\, Sam Cumming\, and Gabriel Greenberg \nEvents coordinator: Ashna Madni \n  \nWorkshop Program\n\nFriday\, September 19th\n10:00 AM – 11:40 AM: Matthew Stone & Una Stojnic\, “Meaning in Chatbots: A Critical Approach” / Commentator: Rosa Cao \n11:40 AM – 1:00 PM: Lunch \n1:00 PM – 2:40 PM: Alan Fiske\, “Representations of Social Relationships: Modes of Thought\, Means of Coordination” / Commentator: Evan Westra \n3:00 PM – 4:40 PM: Karen Lewis\, “Gamified Language Games” / Commentator: Dan Harris \n  \nSaturday\, September 20th\n10:00 AM – 11:40 AM: Ellen Lau\, “New directions for neurobiology of semantics: mental particulars and long-term knowledge” / Commentator: Idan Asher Blank \n11:40 AM – 1:00 PM: Lunch \n1:00 PM – 2:40 PM: Ari Koslow\, “What conceptual amelioration is good for” / Commentator: Rachel Rudolph \n3:00 PM – 4:40 PM: Thi Nguyen & Ethan Nowak\, “Slang is better” / Commentator: Eric Acton \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-4-studies-in-language-information-meaning-and-expression/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:New Directions in Philosophy of Social Science
DESCRIPTION:August 1-2\, 2025\nRoyce Hall 306\nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nPlease join us on August 1-2\, 2025 in Royce Hall 306 for a workshop on New Directions in Philosophy of Social Science. \n  \nIn recent years\, the philosophy of social science has undergone significant transformations\, spurred by advances in interdisciplinary research\, the growing complexity of social phenomena\, and evolving methodologies. This conference seeks to explore these emerging frontiers and chart new directions for the philosophy of social science. By bringing together a diverse group of leading scholars in the field\, we aim to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and cultivate innovative approaches to understanding the nature\, methods\, and aims of social inquiry. \n  \n\nConference Program\nClick to view talk abstracts. \n\n  \nFriday\, August 1st\n9:00 – 9:30 AM: Coffee & Light Breakfast \n9:30 – 10:15 AM: Kareem Khalifa\, UCLA: “Philosophy of Social Science: Setting the Agenda” \n10:15 – 11:30 AM: Ron Mallon\, Washington University in St. Louis: “The Resilience of Social Forms” \n11:30 – 11:45 AM: Break \n11:45 AM – 1:00 PM: Cailin O’Connor\, UC Irvine: “When is a Science not Really a Science?” \n1:00 – 2:00 PM: Lunch \n2:00 – 3:15 PM: Jennifer Jhun\, Duke University: “Revisiting the Question of Reduction in Economics” \n3:15 – 3:30 PM: Break \n3:30 – 4:45 PM: Paul A. Roth\, UC Santa Cruz: “Curbing Narrative Anxiety: Analytical Philosophy of History and the Norming of Narrative” \n  \nSaturday\, August 2nd\n9:30 – 10:00 AM: Coffee & Light Breakfast \n10:00 – 11:15 AM: Jonathan Y. Tsou\, University of Texas at Dallas: “Cross-Cultural Human Kinds and the Naturalness of Social Categories” \n11:15 – 11:30 AM: Break \n11:30 AM – 12:45 PM: David Henderson\, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: “Doing the Same Thing? Beating around the Bush.” \n12:45 – 2:00 PM: Lunch \n2:00 – 3:15 PM: Mark Risjord\, Emory University: “Closing the Gap of Inductive Risk: An Argument for Inquisitive Impartiality” \n3:15 – 3:30 PM: Break \n3:30 – 4:45 PM: Armin Schulz\, University of Kansas: “Agency: The Case for an Eliminative Pluralism” \n  \nDownload Conference Program\n  \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/new-directions-in-philosophy-of-social-science/
LOCATION:Royce Hall – Room 306
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:Department of Philosophy Commencement 2025
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 14\, 2025\nRoyce Hall\n2:00-2:45 PM: Pre-Ceremony Reception\n3:30 PM: Ceremony\n\n  \nCongratulations\, class of 2025! We look forward to celebrating with you at our departmental commencement event in June. \n  \nVisit our Commencement 2025 page for details!
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/department-of-philosophy-commencement-2025/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250602T170000
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SUMMARY:Study Break with the Philosophy Department
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, June 2\, 2025\n5:00 – 7:00PM\nDodd Hall 399\nRSVP HERE\n  \nTake a study break and relax with the Philosophy Department while you enjoy some pizza and refreshments in Dodd 399! \n  \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-with-the-philosophy-department-8/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T160000
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SUMMARY:"Power and Romantic Relationships" - Lucy McDonald (King's College - London)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 30\, 2025\n4:00 – 6:00PM\nDodd Hall 161\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on May 30\, 2025 for a colloquium with Lucy McDonald\, King’s College – London. The talk will take place from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. \n  \nPower and Romantic Relationships\n  \nRomantic relationships with significant power imbalances are often considered defective. Charlotte Brontë seems to share such intuitions; in Jane Eyre\, the romantic relationship between the novel’s eponymous heroine and Edward Rochester is initially hampered by its power asymmetries\, and only flourishes when the power imbalance is attenuated. Only when partners enjoy something like an equality of power\, Brontë suggests\, can a relationship achieve its full potential. \n  \nIn this talk\, I ask whether Brontë is right that romantic relationships must aim at equality of power. I will taxonomise the different kinds of power relations involved in romantic relationships\, and I will consider a range of arguments for why romantic relationships involving power imbalances might be morally objectionable\, or at the very least morally hazardous. \n  \nLucy McDonald is a lecturer in philosophy at King’s College London. She works in ethics\, feminist philosophy\, and philosophy of language. \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/2024-25-colloquium-lucy-mcdonald-kings-college-london/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Meditations Journal Conference 2025
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 23\, 2025\n3:00 – 8:00 PM\nDodd Hall 399\n  \nPlease join us on Friday\, May 23\, 2025 at 3:00 PM in Dodd Hall 399 for the 2025 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\n  \n3:00 – 3:15 PM: Conference Begins\n3:15 – 4:00 PM: William Hassett on Moderate Pragmatism / Q&A\n4:00 – 4:45 PM: Andrew De La Cruz on Aristotle’s Account of Intellect / Q&A\n4:45 – 5:00 PM: Intermission\n5:00 – 5:45 PM: Steve Nam on Knowing v. Deriving in Kant’s Second Critique / Q&A\n5:45 – 6:30 PM: Yiannos Krizopoulos on Sophisticated Consequentialism / Q&A\n6:30 – 8:00 PM: Catered Reception \n  \n  \nIf you have any questions\, please reach out to meditations.philosophy.journal@gmail.com. \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/meditations-journal-conference-2025/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T180000
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Q&A with the Hosts
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 19\, 2025\n6:00 – 7:00 PM\nDodd 399 & Zoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nInterested in hosting Being in the World? Want to learn more about philosophy and publishing opportunities on campus? Join us for an informal Q&A with current hosts as we share our experiences working in the philosophy department. \n  \nWhether you’re curious about Being in the World or more undergraduate opportunities in philosophy and humanities— please stop by to learn more and connect with fellow philosophy undergrads! \n  \nMeet the Speakers\n  \n\nMandy Tang\nUCLA ’25\, B.A. Philosophy and Accounting\, Aleph Humanities Journal\nOther on-campus work Mandy has been involved in includes being Assistant Editor-in-Chief for Aleph\, the UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, Volume 22 (2024–2025). She is also a writer for the UCLA Business Law and Investing Society Undergraduate Law Review\, Volumes III & IV. Additionally\, Mandy presented at the 2023 Undergraduate Research Week on her project in Buddhist studies. This year\, she will also be co-hosting the Aleph Journal Author/Editor Roundtable Discussion during the upcoming research week! After graduation\, Mandy will pursue law and finance in Hong Kong. \n  \n\nLucy Liu\nUCLA ’25\, B.A. Philosophy and Political Science\, Philosophy Writing Center\nIn addition to co-hosting\, Lucy works at the Undergraduate Philosophy Writing Center\, where she’s had the opportunity to learn from hundreds of students about their theses. She is an editor on Meditations\, the undergraduate philosophy journal\, and has worked as a freelance editor and admissions consultant for six years. Her philosophical interests include ethics\, political theory\, and the practical applications of philosophy in law and everyday decision-making. At UCLA\, she organized projects related to the caregiving crisis\, criminal justice\, and healthcare. Outside of campus\, she conducted research on defense\, diplomacy\, and immigration policy at the Stimson Center\, an international relations think tank. Lucy plans to pursue a career in law focused on children’s rights\, education policy\, and social work. Next year\, she will be working either as a legal assistant or as a policy consultant for an international semiconductor company. \n  \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-qa-with-the-hosts/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399
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SUMMARY:"Maneuvering Agency" - Alisa Bierria (UCLA Gender Studies)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 16\, 2025\n4:00 – 6:00PM\nRoyce Hall 306\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on May 16\, 2025 in Royce Hall 306 for a colloquium with Alisa Bierria\, UCLA Gender Studies. The talk will take place from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. \n  \nManeuvering Agency\n  \nResearchers have documented patterns in which black women who have experienced sexual or domestic violence are not believed\, perceived\, or supported as survivors. Indeed\, police\, prosecutors\, and other state actors that regulate “crime” and “criminals” often provoke\, exacerbate\, and regulate violence for black survivors\, rationalizing the criminalization of black survivors through manipulating discourses about their agency. In this talk\, I describe several forms of “agency maneuvers” through a discussion about the politics of intention and how action/reaction is rationalized. I will also propose methodological approaches for theorizing agency given this analysis. \n  \nAlisa Bierria is a black feminist philosopher and an assistant professor in the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA. Her forthcoming book\, Inconceivable Agency: Race\, Gender Violence\, & the Carceral Imagination\, proposes a pluralistic\, qualitative philosophical framework for agency that can account for action taken within a matrix of violence. Through focusing on insights from black survivors’ lives\, experiences\, and visions of freedom\, she argues that we must not only ask “how much” agency are subjects allowed within conditions of subjugation\, but also what kinds of agency are projected onto subjects\, and what kinds of agency are formed through acting with the intent to survive. \n  \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/2024-25-colloquium-alisa-bierria-ucla-gender-studies/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:"Evidential Support First\, Probability Second" - Shyam Nair (Arizona State University)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 9\, 2025\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nRoyce Hall 314\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on May 9\, 2025 in Royce 314 for a colloquium with Shyam Nair\, Arizona State University. The talk will take place from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. \n  \nEvidential Support First\, Probability Second\n  \n\n\nIs E evidence for H? Is E better evidence for H than E’ is for H’? These questions have been studied by approaches that make use of probabilities. They (i) provide an account of what Pr is intended to represent and (ii) on this understanding of Pr\, claim that E is evidence for H iff Pr(H|E) > Pr(E). Though there are many differences among the approaches\, they are all reductive accounts of evidential support: what it is for E to be evidence for H is understood in terms of whatever the theory says Pr represents where Pr itself is not a representation of evidential support. This talk is about how to accept that E is evidence for H iff Pr(H|E) > Pr(H) while rejecting reductivism and about why this matters. \n\n\n  \nShyam Nair is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. He is primarily interested in ethics\, epistemology\, and logic. His research concerns issues at the intersection of these fields. \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/2024-25-colloquium-shyam-nair-arizona-state-university/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250505T180000
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Law School Applications Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 5\, 2025\n6:00 – 7:00 PM\nDodd Hall 247\nRSVP HERE\n  \nInterested in pursuing Law School after earning your Philosophy degree? Join us for an in-person career panel with recent UCLA Philosophy alumni who are current or incoming Law students as they share tips and advice on the application process. \n  \nCome hungry–we will have empanadas! (Vegan and gluten-free options will be provided) \n  \nThis event is hosted by Being in the World. \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nMeet the Speakers\n  \n\nEtai Dayani\n2L Student at UCLA School of Law\, UCLA Philosophy\, Class of 2023\nEtai graduated from UCLA with a BA in Philosophy in 2023 and is currently a second-year JD student at UCLA School of Law. His interests are in corporate and real estate law\, and this upcoming summer\, Etai will be working at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in their corporate group. \n\n  \n  \n\nKatherine Smith\nAttorney Support at Latham & Watkins\, UCLA Philosophy\, Class of 2024\nKatherine “Kat” Smith is an Attorney Support Assistant at Latham & Watkins’ Orange County Office\, where she has progressed from supporting new associates to assisting partners. She contributes to the Pro Bono Committee\, the OC Community Engagement Team\, and firm affinity groups. While working full-time\, Kat is a 2025 UCLA Law Fellow preparing for law school applications and volunteers with the Celiac Disease Foundation to support their advocacy efforts. She graduated from UCLA in 2024 with BAs in Philosophy and English. During her time at UCLA\, Kat was involved in PLTS\, Phi Alpha Delta\, the Sailing Team\, and the Daily Bruin. Her legal interests include disability and education policy\, as well as the philosophy of law. \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-law-school-applications-workshop/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 247
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: PhD Application Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 28\, 2025\n6:00 – 7:00 PM PDT\nZoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nConsidering pursuing a PhD after earning your Philosophy degree? Join us for a virtual career panel with recent UCLA Philosophy alumni Elvie Lin\, incoming PhD student in Philosophy at MIT\, and Esther Ma\, PhD student in Philosophy at University of Michigan\, as they share tips and advice on the PhD application process. \n  \nIf you’re interested in getting guidance from two recent UCLA Philosophy graduates on how to successfully navigate PhD applications\, you won’t want to miss this session! \n\n  \n  \nMeet the Speakers\n\n  \n\nElvie (Xiaobin) Lin\nIncoming PhD student in Philosophy at MIT\nElvie graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.S. in mathematics in 2024. She will go on to MIT to pursue a PhD in Philosophy this September. \n  \n  \n\nEsther Ma\nPhD student in Philosophy at University of Michigan\nEsther is a first-year PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. Her main interests in philosophy are in political philosophy\, ethics\, and decision theory. She attended Pasadena City College\, and then transferred to UCLA and graduated with a B.A. in philosophy in 2023. \n  \n  \nRegister here for the Zoom link!\n  \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-phd-application-workshop/
LOCATION:On Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250414T180000
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Careers in Business & Marketing
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 14\, 2025\n6:00 – 7:00 PM PDT\nZoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nCurious about pursing a career in business or marketing after earning your Philosophy degree? \n  \nJoin us for a virtual career panel with UCLA Philosophy alumni Cecelia Hernandez Rojas\, Credit Risk Officer at Citigroup Corporate Bank\, and Cameron McDiarmid\, Customer Marketing Manager at FanDuel\, as they discuss their careers in business/finance and marketing\, respectively. \n  \nYou’ll have a chance to ask any questions you may have about pursuing similar careers. \n  \nIf you’re interested in learning about the different types of careers you can have in business\, finance\, or marketing after earning your philosophy degree\, you won’t want to miss this session! \n\n  \n  \nMeet the Speakers\n\n  \n\nCameron McDiarmid\nCustomer Marketing Manager\, FanDuel\nCameron McDiarmid is a Customer Marketing Manager at FanDuel\, where he focuses on customer retention strategy and engagement in the legal sports betting space. He began his career in the startup world before transitioning to the online gaming industry. A 2017 UCLA Philosophy graduate\, Cameron now works at the intersection of customer strategy and experience. He’s based in Los Angeles and has lived in Southern California since graduating. Outside of work\, he’s a dedicated triathlete. \n  \n  \n\nCecelia Hernandez Rojas\nCredit Risk Officer\, Citigroup Corporate Bank\nCecilia was born in Mexico City and grew up in Los Angeles\, California. She graduated from UCLA’s Philosophy department and went on to work with Miami Dade County Public Schools as an 8th grade Science Teacher and Instructional Coach\, through Teach For America. She served five of Miami’s socioeconomically challenged\, predominantly Black and Hispanic schools throughout five years. Though she was part of UCLA School of Law’s Outreach Program—The Law Fellows Program—while she was an undergrad at UCLA\, she opted to pursue graduate studies in business administration following her employment in Education. After she completed her MBA with concentrations in Finance and Accounting at New York University\, she launched her career in financial services within Citigroup’s Human Resources Associate Rotational program. She received exposure to areas like Recruiting\, Compensation and HR Business Partnership—leading her to pivot into Citigroup’s Corporate Bank to be closer to the firm’s core business activities. Within the Corporate Bank—Citi’s corporate lending division—she worked within Capital Management\, assessing returns on credit the bank lent to corporate clients\, followed by working on internal projects within Credit Risk\, and is now transitioning to credit analysis within Risk. Cecilia lives in New York\, adores beaches\, and is passionate about personal finance and first generation accomplishments. She cherishes her time in Philosophy as one of the most special and formative times in her adolescence. \n  \n  \nRegister here for the Zoom link!\n  \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-business-and-marketing/
LOCATION:On Zoom
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SUMMARY:"Markets in Cultural Artefacts" - Cécile Fabre (All Souls College\, Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 11\, 2025\n4:00 – 6:00PM\nLaw Building\, Room 1447\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on April 11\, 2025 in the Law Building\, Room 1447\, for a colloquium with Cécile Fabre\, All Souls College\, Oxford. The talk will take place from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. \n  \nMarkets in Cultural Artefacts\n  \nCultural artefacts such as paintings\, antiquities\, sculptures\, manuscripts and old musical instruments are routinely bought and sold on open markets. The literature on the moral limits of markets is virtually silent on this kind of markets. One can see why: selling and buying votes\, kidneys\, sex\, and military service seems much more problematic than selling and buy art. Nevertheless\, the relationship between markets and cultural artefacts is not straightforward. Some of those objects are commonly described as priceless notwithstanding the fact that they clearly have a price. Moreover\, some of the practices linked to markets in cultural artefacts elicit moral condemnation: first and foremost\, looting\, but also licitly buying a work of art yet only as an investment and locking it up in a vault never to show it to the public\, and selling artefacts onto global markets with little regard to the adverse impact this may have on the communities to whose culture they are central. This paper provides a qualified moral defence of markets in cultural artefacts. It makes a preliminary case for the defence: it argues that\, as a first cut\, such transactions are morally justified; indeed\, its parties have the right so to transact with one another. It then tackles two objections\, responses to which help refine the case. As we shall see\, markets in cultural artefacts are global markets\, in part characterised by power imbalances between the Global North and Global South. In the light of those concerns\, I mount a defense of an interesting kind of limits on global markets\, to wit\, export restrictions. \n  \nCécile Fabre is Senior Research Fellow in Politics at All Souls College\, Oxford. She holds degrees from La Sorbonne\, the University of York\, and the University of Oxford. Her research interests include theories of distributive justice\, the rights we have over our own body\, and the ethics of foreign policy. Her books include Cosmopolitan War (OUP 2012)\, Cosmopolitan Peace (OUP 2016)\, Economic Statecraft (Harvard UP 2018)\, and Spying Through a Glass Darkly (OUP 2022). Her current project is on the ethics of preserving cultural heritage. She is a member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the British Academy. \n  \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/2024-25-colloquium-cecile-fabre-all-souls-college-oxford/
LOCATION:UCLA Law Building\, Room 1447
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Applying to Graduate School
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 7\, 2025\n5:00 – 6:00 PM\nDodd Hall 399\nRSVP HERE\n  \nAre you applying to grad school for philosophy? If so\, join us for a discussion on graduate school in philosophy with Professor Kareem Khalifa. \n  \nAnyone interested in pursuing philosophy graduate studies is invited to attend! Pizza will be served! 🍕 \n  \n  \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/workshop-applying-to-graduate-school/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:USC-UCLA Graduate Conference in Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 5\, 2025\nUSC\, University Park Campus\, SGM 101\n  \nJoin us for the 2025 USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy happening on Saturday\, April 5\, 2025 at USC! \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\nConference Program\nDownload Conference Program PDF \n  \n\n  \nFor any questions\, please contact the conference organizers at <uscucla.conference@gmail.com>
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/usc-ucla-graduate-conference-in-philosophy-2025/
LOCATION:USC
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SUMMARY:MAP Colloquium: "Structural Racism Within Reason" - Alisa Bierria (UCLA Gender Studies)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 4\, 2025\n4:00 – 6:00PM\nRoyce Hall 314\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin MAP at UCLA on April 4\, 2025 for a colloquium with Alisa Bierria\, UCLA Gender Studies. The talk will take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in Royce Hall 314. \n  \nAll are welcome to attend. Dinner will be served at a reception following the talk in Royce 314. \n  \nIf you aren’t able to attend in person\, here are the Zoom details to join remotely: \n  \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/92522400425?pwd=8PhOzZN9B08IaVfiaLfTQ0rd9dlcOa.1 \nMeeting ID: 925 2240 0425 \nPasscode: 722015 \n  \n  \nStructural Racism Within Reason\n  \nThis talk examines the politics of intention through an analysis of structural racism. Alisa Bierria will discuss two key black feminist critiques of reason — Patricia Hill Collins’ discussion of “controlling images” (2000) and Michelle Cliff’s concept of the “mythic mind” (1982) — to propose “controlling intentions” as a framework to explore how structural racism produces fictive intentions. She argues that these intentions are constructed to rationalize the criminalization of survival and then justify that outcome as common sense. As an example\, she analyzes how Marissa Alexander’s intentions and intentional actions were replaced by controlling intentions in her 2011 Stand Your Ground hearing to illustrate how reason provides a vehicle through which structural violence becomes naturalized within the law. \n  \n  \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/map-colloquium-structural-racism-within-reason-alisa-bierria-ucla-gender-studies/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:HPASS: "One Kind of Adaptationism" - Rose Novick\, University of Washington
DESCRIPTION:March 14\, 2025 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM\nDodd Hall 275 & Zoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on Friday\, March 14\, 2025 in Dodd Hall 275 for a talk by Rose Novick\, University of Washington\, as part of the History\, Philosophy\, and Science of Science (HPASS) speaker series. \n  \nOne Kind of Adaptationism\n  \nThere is only one kind of adaptationism: explanatory adaptationism. Explanatory adaptationism claims that adaptation is the “big question” in evolutionary biology\, and natural selection is the “big answer”. In recent decades\, philosophers of biology have largely come to agree\, first\, that explanatory adaptationism is only one kind of adaptationism among many (at the high end\, seven) and\, second\, that these kinds are logically independent and so can\, in principle\, be accepted or rejected in any combination. On the surface\, this is true. Beneath the surface\, it is not. When the arguments supporting various forms of allegedly non-explanatory adaptationism are interrogated closely\, each turns out to essentially rely on explanatory adaptationism. The different kinds of adaptationism should be recognized as different ways of understanding the import of explanatory adaptationism. In the end\, every adaptationist is an explanatory adaptationist. \n  \n\nRSVP HERE\n\n  \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/hpass-one-kind-of-adaptationism-rose-novick-university-of-washington/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 275
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250310T170000
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SUMMARY:Study Break with the Philosophy Department
DESCRIPTION:March 10\, 2025 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM\nDodd Hall 399\nRSVP HERE\n  \nTake a study break and relax with the Philosophy Department while you enjoy some pizza and refreshments in Dodd 399! \n  \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-with-the-philosophy-department-7/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250303T180000
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SUMMARY:Finance & Entrepreneurship Career Workshop with UCLA Philosophy Alum Mark Goldfarb
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 3\, 2025\n6:00 – 7:30 PM\nDodd Hall 247\nRSVP HERE\n  \nConsidering a career in finance or entrepreneurship after earning your philosophy degree? Join us for an interactive workshop with UCLA Philosophy alum Mark Goldfarb. \n  \nHaving spent 25 years at Morgan Stanley as a Senior Vice President before founding Goldfarb Financial Management\, Mark will discuss how his philosophical background has influenced his approach to finance and business strategy. Students can ask questions\, build connections\, and learn tips for how to apply philosophy training to a career in business. \n  \nCome hungry–there will be food! \n  \nThis event is hosted by Being in the World. \n  \nMeet the Speaker\n  \n\nMark Goldfarb\, Founder\, Goldfarb Financial Management\nMark Goldfarb is a distinguished financial professional and entrepreneur with a strong academic foundation in philosophy. He graduated from UCLA in 1987 with a degree in Philosophy\, which has informed his thoughtful and strategic approach to finance. Mark is the founder of Goldfarb Financial Management\, a family office based in Beverly Hills. Prior to establishing his own firm\, he enjoyed a successful 25-year tenure at Morgan Stanley\, serving as Senior Vice President from 1994 to 2019. \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/finance-entrepreneurship-career-workshop-with-ucla-philosophy-alum-mark-goldfarb/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 247
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T170000
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SUMMARY:HPASS: "A Molyneux Problem for Automated Science" - Kathleen Creel\, Northeastern University
DESCRIPTION:February 26\, 2025 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM\nDodd Hall 248 & Zoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on Wednesday\, February 26\, 2025 in Dodd Hall 248 for a talk by Kathleen Creel\, Northeastern University\, as part of the History\, Philosophy\, and Science of Science (HPASS) speaker series. \n  \nA Molyneux Problem for Automated Science\n\n  \nAutomated science is the attempt to use a combination of machine learning and robotics to perform experiments\, build new models\, postulate new laws\, and design new experiments on the basis of what is observed to be the result of previous experiments. The comparison between the learning problems faced by automated machine learning and the learning problems faced by human scientists sheds light on a subtle measurement problem which I will call the Molyneux Problem for Science.  The Molyneux problem asks whether a newly sighted person could recognize objects previously known by touch. I generalize the Molyneux problem to all forms of data and characterize the problem as a special form of scientific learning. The Molyneux Problem for Science exists whenever identity must be recognized across perceptual modalities or data streams of different types without the aid of causal or correlational information.  After distinguishing the scientific Molyneux problem from inverse problems and problems of causal discovery\, I will use the case of early radio telescopy to demonstrate that scientific Molyneux problems arise in traditional sciences. Finally\, I argue that Molyneux problems for science will vex automated science especially\, but that automated science has solutions unavailable to the Molyneux learner. \n  \n  \n\nRSVP HERE\n\n  \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/hpass-kathleen-creel-northeastern-university/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 248
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Philosophy Student Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:February 24\, 2025 | 6-7PM\nDodd Hall 399\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us for a roundtable discussion with fellow undergraduate philosophy students to discuss post-grad plans\, career pathways\, grad school options\, and course recommendations. This is an opportunity to connect with your philosophy peers in a casual setting to discuss possible future career pathways. \n  \nFeel free to bring your resume if you’d like to participate in peer resume reviews where you can get feedback and advice. \n  \nPizza will be served! 🍕 \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-student-roundtable/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250218T160000
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SUMMARY:"Velleity Without Wishful Thinking: Aquinas and the Weakness of Will" - Andrea Aldo Robiglio (University of Louvain/KU Leuven)
DESCRIPTION:February 18\, 2025 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM\nDodd Hall 275\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on February 18\, 2025 in Dodd Hall 275 for a talk by Andrea Aldo Robiglio\, University of Louvain/KU Leuven. The talk will take place from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. \n  \nIf you are unable to attend in person\, here is the Zoom info to attend remotely: \n  \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94157070976?pwd=NYZZ6qBbrx3Bh0uiW60VPnGjSrVe4I.1 \nMeeting ID: 941 5707 0976\nPasscode: 396012 \n  \n  \nVelleity Without Wishful Thinking: Aquinas and the Weakness of Will\n  \nAndrea Aldo Robiglio\nProfessor of the History of Philosophy \nUniversity of Louvain/ KU Leuven \nVan Dyck Chair\, 2023-2024 \n  \nThe late medieval understanding of the human mind as a system of internal acts and dispositions—where multiple acts could coexist within the same faculty—marks a significant development in pre-modern philosophy. This nuanced conceptualization revises ancient accounts of the mind and introduces a more intricate vision of the Self. Within this framework\, medieval debates on incontinence (incontinentia) resonate with Aristotle’s exploration of weakness of will (akrasia) in Nicomachean Ethics\, Book VII. However\, 13th-century thinkers also introduced a novel concept\, velleity (velleitas)\, to describe a distinctive internal conflict: the possibility of choosing what is impossible to realize or achieve\, a choice that nonetheless carries moral significance. This innovation departs from Aristotle by recognizing the moral significance of choices involving the impossible. Over time\, the original meaning of velleity—as a vital aspect of moral action\, with positive connotations in thinkers like Aquinas—was largely diminished. Later philosophers\, such as Suárez\, Malebranche\, and Leibniz\, reduced it to wishful thinking; Locke associated it with uneasiness\, and Schopenhauer and Nietzsche dismissed it as mere vanity or fleeting feeling. Revisiting the original conception of velleity thus offers a compelling opportunity to recover its overlooked philosophical and moral significance. \n  \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \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/velleity-without-wishful-thinking-aquinas-and-the-weakness-of-will-andrea-robiglio-university-of-louvain-ku-leuven/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 275
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Careers in Academia
DESCRIPTION:February 10\, 2025 | 6-7 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 now have careers as professors of philosophy at CSU Northridge and Claremont McKenna College! \n  \n Kristina Meshelski (CSU Northridge) and Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College) will discuss the paths they took to get where they are now\, give tips and advice\, and answer any specific questions you may have regarding a career as a professor of philosophy. If you’re interested in pursuing a career in academia\, you won’t want to miss this session! \n  \nMeet the Speakers\n\n  \n\nAmy Kind\nRussell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy\nClaremont McKenna College\nAmy Kind is Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont\, California\, where she also serves as Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.  She has authored numerous articles and book chapters on imagination\, consciousness\, and other topics in the philosophy of mind.  She has also authored several textbooks\, Persons and Personal Identity (Polity 2016) and Philosophy of Mind: The Basics (Routledge 2020)\, as well as a monograph on Imagination and Creative Thinking (Cambridge 2022).  She has edited or co-edited several volumes\, most recently Epistemic Uses of Imagination (Routledge 2021).  At CMC\, she teaches classes on philosophy of mind\, metaphysics\, imagination\, and logic. \n  \n  \n\nKristina Meshelski\nProfessor and Department Chair\, Philosophy\nCalifornia State University\, Northridge\n\nKristina Meshelski received her BA from UCLA in 2003\, and her PhD from University of Virginia in 2011. She specializes in Social and Political Philosophy. She has published on Spinoza\, John Rawls\, affirmative action\, nonideal theory\, procedural justice\, and housing policy. She is currently thinking about housing\, territory\, and property rights. \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-academia-2/
LOCATION:On Zoom
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SUMMARY:"Contractualism and Intuitionism" - T. M. Scanlon (Harvard University)
DESCRIPTION:February 7\, 2025 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM\nRoyce Hall 314\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on February 7\, 2025 in Royce Hall 314 for a colloquium with T. M. Scanlon\, Harvard University. The talk will take place from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. \n  \n  \nContractualism and Intuitionism\n  \nA reexamination of the contractualist theory of right and wrong put forward in What We Owe to Each Other and subsequent papers\, considering the reasons for finding the view appealing as well as important problems with it\, including overdemandingness\, the charge of circularity\, and the wholesale exclusion of interpersonal aggregation. A new account of aggregation is proposed. \n  \nT. M. Scanlon is Alford Professor of Natural Religion\, Moral Philosophy\, and Civil Polity\, emeritus at Harvard University. He has written on many topics in moral and political philosophy\, including the nature of morality\, moral responsibility\, rights\, and equality. His books include What We Owe to Each Other (Harvard\, 1998) and\, most recently\, Why Does Inequality Matter? (Oxford\, 2018). Morality and Responsibility\, a collection of his essays\, will be published by Polity Press in early 2025. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \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/2024-25-colloquium-t-m-scanlon-harvard-university/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Room 314
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:"Sweet Spots in Modal Metaphysics" - Stephen Yablo (MIT)
DESCRIPTION:January 24\, 2025 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM PT\nZoom\nRSVP HERE\n\n  \nJoin us on January 24\, 2025 for a virtual colloquium with Stephen Yablo\, MIT. The talk will take place from 4:00PM – 6:00PM PT on Zoom. \n  \nSweet Spots in Modal Metaphysics\n  \n\n\n\nDe re modal plenitude holds that all transworld modal profiles are exemplified. Where this table sits\, there are a bazillion other things categorically indiscernible from it but taking different paths through logical space. Five metaphysical puzzles are (re)examined through plenitudinarian spectacles. They’re to do with identity over time (the Ship of Theseus puzzle)\, identity across worlds (Chisholm’s paradox)\, how coincidents come by their different profiles (the grounding problem)\, things’ curious tendency to be found at their “modal sweet spot\,” bang in the middle of their zone of tolerance (the centrality problem)\, and how properties definitive of a thing can be losable (the problem of contingent non-accidents). Plenitudinarianism is presented less as a panacea than a theoretical option not to be overlooked. \n  \nStephen Yablo works in metaphysics\, epistemology\, philosophical logic\, and the philosophy of language and math. Older papers are collected in Thoughts and Things (Oxford\, 2009-10). Aboutness (Princeton\, 2014) develops a truthmaker-based theory of sentential subject matter\, and casts about for applications. He gave the Hempel Lectures at Princeton (2008)\, the Lockes at Oxford (2012)\, and the Whitehead Lectures at Harvard (2016). Recent work (some in progress/regress) includes “The Bandersnatches of Dubuque\,” “Leverage: A Model of Cognitive Significance\,” “Relevance without Minimality\,” “Fine-Grained Evidence\,” and “Tangled up in Grue.” \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/2023-24-colloquium-stephen-yablo-mit/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:HPASS: "On the Constitutive Aims of Science" - Josh Hunt\, Syracuse University
DESCRIPTION:January 8\, 2025 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM\nZoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \n***Due to the current Palisades fire\, this talk will take place over Zoom only.***  \n  \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/96707253505?pwd=78HXYt9Sq6rI3LBPlE8ZpHIcIVM7LV.1 \nMeeting ID: 967 0725 3505\nPasscode: 026407 \n  \nJoin us on Wednesday\, January 8\, 2025 over Zoom for a talk by Josh Hunt\, Syracuse University\, as part of the History\, Philosophy\, and Science of Science (HPASS) speaker series. \n  \nOn the Constitutive Aims of Science\n  \nI recast the debate between scientific realists and antirealists as a dispute over the constitutive aims of science. Drawing on accounts of epistemic normativity\, I propose a general method for identifying the constitutive aims of an activity\, understood as minimal criteria for success. Applying this method\, I argue that the constitutive aim of science is to solve problems concerning physical phenomena\, leading in the limit to an aim I call “ideal planning adequacy.” For non-logically omniscient agents like us\, planning adequacy requires determining a theory’s inferential structure\, i.e. what suffices or is needed to apply the theory. Clarifying a theory’s inferential structure requires considering its various formulations\, thereby making theory reformulation a constitutive aim of science. By remaining neutral on what it takes to solve a scientific problem—be it truth\, empirical adequacy\, understanding\, etc.—I provide  a framework that both realists and antirealists can endorse. \n  \n\nRSVP HERE\n\n  \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/hpass-talk-josh-hunt-syracuse-university/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:HPASS: "Truth\, Approximate Truth\, and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction" - Foad Dizadji-Bahmani\, Cal State LA
DESCRIPTION:December 4\, 2024 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM\nDodd Hall 247 & Zoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on Wednesday\, December 4\, 2024 in Dodd Hall 247 for a talk by Foad Dizadji-Bahmani\, Cal State LA\, as part of the History\, Philosophy\, and Science of Science (HPASS) speaker series. \n  \nTruth\, Approximate Truth\, and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction\n  \nThe scientific realism debate is a longstanding one in the philosophy of science. One of the most important arguments in the anti-realist’s armory is the Pessimistic Meta-Induction (PMI). As is well known\, PMI purportedly shows that the history of science undermines realism. PMI has two guises: an inductive argument for the conclusion that current scientific theories are not true (PMIi) or a reductio ad absurdum against the idea that one can take the empirical and predictive success of a theory as reason to think that it is true (PMIr). I argue that once attention is paid to the logical difference between truth (which is categorical) and approximate truth (which is a matter of degree) it can be shown that the argument\, in each guise\, is fallacious. Specifically\, heeding this distinction\, it can be shown\, first\, that PMIi is either conceptually incoherent or self-defeating\, and second that PMIr is not sound. These results do not\, in and of themselves\, vindicate scientific realism. In order to do so\, the realist must\, inter alia\, further develop and defend the notion of approximate truth by recourse to which her position is formulated. In the last part of the paper\, I give an outline of a proposal to that end. \n  \n  \n\nRSVP HERE\n\n  \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/hpass-talk-foad-dizadji-bahmani-cal-state-la/
LOCATION:Dodd 247\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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