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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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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
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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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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/
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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/
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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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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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SUMMARY:Study Break with the Philosophy Department
DESCRIPTION:December 2\, 2024 | 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-6/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399
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SUMMARY:"Bias: Some Surprising Truths" - Thomas Kelly\, Princeton University
DESCRIPTION:November 22\, 2024 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM\nDodd Hall 167 & Zoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on November 22\, 2024 for a colloquium with Thomas Kelly\, Princeton University. The talk will take place in Dodd Hall 167 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. \n  \nBias: Some Surprising Truths\n  \nIn this talk\, I’ll argue for three claims about bias that many people find deeply counterintuitive if not obviously false: (i) Externalism about bias: a person can count as biased because of their social environment\, even if all of their internal cognitive processes are functioning impeccably; (ii) Rationality requires bias: in some cases\, rationality can require a person to be biased\, in a pejorative sense of ‘bias\,’ and the only way to escape being biased is to be irrational; (iii) Introspection is necessarily unreliable: the empirically well-documented fact that introspection is a highly unreliable way to tell whether we’re biased isn’t a contingent fact about our psychologies.  Rather\, it’s something that holds of necessity: even God could not have made us highly reliable detectors of our own biases by way of introspection \n  \n\nThomas Kelly is a Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University\, where he has taught since 2004.  Prior to coming to Princeton\, he was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University\, where he received his PhD\, writing a dissertation under the supervision of Robert Nozick\, Derek Parfit\, and James Pryor. He works primarily in epistemology and has addressed topics such as the significance of disagreement\, the nature of evidence\, and the relationship between theoretical and practical rationality. His book Bias: A Philosophical Study appeared from Oxford University Press in 2023. \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/2024-25-colloquium-thomas-kelly-princeton-university/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 167
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:HPASS: "Against Self-Location" - Emily Adlam\, Chapman University
DESCRIPTION:November 20\, 2024 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM\nDodd Hall 247 & Zoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on Wednesday\, November 20\, 2024 in Dodd Hall 247 for a talk by Emily Adlam\, Chapman University\, as part of the History\, Philosophy\, and Science of Science (HPASS) speaker series. \n  \nAgainst Self-Location\n  \nIn this talk\, I will make a distinction between pure self-locating credences and superficially self-locating credences\, and then argue that there is never any rationally compelling way to assign pure self-locating credences. I will first argue that from a practical point of view\, pure self-locating credences simply encode our pragmatic goals\, and thus pragmatic rationality does not dictate how they must be set. I will then use considerations motivated by Bertrand’s paradox to argue that the indifference principle and other popular constraints on self-locating credences fail to be a priori principles of epistemic rationality\, and critique some approaches to deriving self-locating credences based on analogies to non-self-locating cases. Finally\, I will consider the implications of this conclusion for various applications of self-locating probabilities in scientific contexts\, arguing that it may undermine certain kinds of reasoning about multiverses\, the simulation hypothesis\, Boltzmann brains and vast-world scenarios. \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-against-self-location-emily-adlam-chapman-university/
LOCATION:Dodd 247\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:"Faith and World" - Anil Gomes\, Trinity College\, Oxford
DESCRIPTION:October 18\, 2024 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM\nKaplan Hall 193 & Zoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94936079769?pwd=e0mp6PeBX17pVNnQaJN3LomWqsYZB6.1 \nMeeting ID: 949 3607 9769\nPasscode: 161718 \n  \nJoin us on October 18\, 2024 for a colloquium with Anil Gomes\, Oxford – Trinity College. The talk will take place in Kaplan Hall 193 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. \n  \nFaith and World\n  \nWhat connection\, if any\, is there between being self-conscious and being related to an objective world? Answers to this question thread through early modern discussions of the mind and then again\, transmuted and transformed\, across different twentieth-century traditions. My aim today is to clarify the question and set out some of the routes by means of which philosophers have attempted to establish a connection. The intent is to make salient two points: first\, the relevance to the question of Lichtenberg’s enigmatic remarks on the ‘I think’\, and second\, the role that faith and practice play in answering it. \n  \nAnil Gomes is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College\, Oxford\, and a Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford. He has written on a range of topics in the philosophy of mind\, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant\, and the work of Iris Murdoch. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n\n\n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2024-25-colloquium-anil-gomes-oxford-trinity-college/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193
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SUMMARY:Philosophy First-Gen Welcome Party
DESCRIPTION:September 30\, 2024 | 5:30PM – 7:00PM\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  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/philosophy-first-gen-party/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306
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SUMMARY:2024-25 Philosophy Department Open House
DESCRIPTION:September 25\, 2024 | 12pm – 2pm\nShostak Terrace (in front of Murphy Hall)\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us on Wednesday\, September 25\, 2024 from 12pm – 2pm for the Philosophy Department’s Annual Open House. It will take place at the Shostak Terrace\, which is located in front of Murphy Hall\, across from Dodd Hall and the Law School. 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\, or just Philosophy courses in general\, are encouraged to attend! \n  \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/2024-25-philosophy-department-open-house/
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SUMMARY:SLIME 3 (Studies in Linguistics\, Information\, Meaning\, and Expression)
DESCRIPTION:September 20-21\, 2024\nRoyce Hall 306\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us for SLIME 3 (Studies in Linguistics\, Information\, Meaning\, and Expression)\, a workshop at UCLA on September 20-21\, 2024. 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 will be available on the workshop website HERE. \n  \nSpeakers\n  \nSamia Hesni\, Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, Boston University ​ \nRobert Hawkins\, ​Assistant Professor of Psychology\, UW-Madison \nRobert Henderson\, Associate Professor of Linguistics\, University of Arizona \nAndrea Beltrama\, Temporary Assistant Professor\, Linguistics and Cognitive Science\, University of Delaware \nCailin O’Connor\, Professor\, Logic and Philosophy of Science\, UC Irvine \nKartik Chandra\, PhD student\, MIT CSAIL \n  \n  \nCommentators\n  \nAyana Samuel\, ​Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, York University \nGabe Dupre\, Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, UC Davis \nJessica Rett\, Professor of Linguistics\, UC Los Angeles \nAllison Nguyen\, ​Assistant Professor\, Psychology\, Illinois State University \nSahar Heydari Fard\, Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, Ohio State University \nGabriel Greenberg\, Associate Professor of Philosophy\, UC Los Angeles \n  \nFaculty organizers: Joshua Armstrong\, Sam Cumming\, and Gabriel Greenberg. \n  \nSLIME is made possible through the generosity of the Kaplan-Panzer fund. \n  \n  \nRSVP HERE \n  \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/slime-3-studies-in-language-information-meaning-and-expression/
LOCATION:Royce Hall – Room 306
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240610T130000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Thomas Icard (Stanford University): "Resource Rationality and Cognitive Costs"
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: This event has been canceled.\n\nJune 10\, 2024 | 1:00PM – 3:00PM\nDodd Hall 399\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on June 10\, 2024 for a talk by Thomas Icard (Stanford University). The talk is called\, “Resource Rationality and Cognitive Costs.” It will take place in Dodd Hall 399 (and via Zoom) from 1:00PM – 3:00PM. \n  \nIf you are not able to join us in person\, here is a Zoom link to join remotely: \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94825315773?pwd=NWt2bmhJR1RKOGJHRTFocGVvYkszUT09 \nMeeting ID: 948 2531 5773 \nPasscode: 350657 \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/thomas-icard-stanford-university-resource-rationality-and-cognitive-costs/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall – Room 399
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240605T190000
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SUMMARY:Being in the World: Careers in Health & Research
DESCRIPTION:June 5\, 2024 | 6:00PM – 7:00PM PT\nZoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nConsidering a career in health or research after earning your Philosophy degree? \n  \nJoin us for a virtual career panel with the below UCLA Philosophy alumni working in these fields:  \n\nAlly Peabody Smith\, PhD (Postdoctoral Researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine)\nBranden Bio\, PhD (Postdoctoral Associate at The Naval Research Laboratory)\nLindsey d’Arnaud\, MD (Resident Physician at the Indiana University School of Medicine)\n\n  \nYou’ll have a chance to ask any questions you may have about pursuing similar careers. \n  \nIf you’re curious about the different types of careers you can have in health or research after earning your philosophy degree\, you won’t want to miss this session! \n  \n  \nRSVP here to get the Zoom link\n  \n  \nMeet the Speakers\n\n  \n\nAlly Peabody Smith\, PhD\nPostdoctoral Researcher\, David Geffen School of Medicine\, Department of Medicine\, UCLA\nAlly Peabody Smith is a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine in the Department of Medicine\, where she works with The Feinsinger Lab on topics pertaining to human subjects research in neuroscience. Her independent research encompasses philosophy of disability\, ethics\, and philosophy of science. Current projects include a book manuscript\, “Love without Language”\, which proposes a novel\, extensionally adequate grounds for moral status; a qualitative project on non-linguistic means of communication deployed between non-speaking persons and their intimates; proposals on the value of philosophical methodologies in emerging precision healthcare frameworks; and an ongoing analysis of how virtue ethical frameworks might improve deficiencies of goodwill in medicine\, which currently involves the development of a pilot medical school ethics curriculum. Beginning in August 2024\, she will be an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University’s College of Health. \n  \n\n\n  \n\nBranden Bio\, PhD\nNational Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory\nBranden Bio is a third year postdoc currently looking at industry research scientist or data scientist roles for his next position. He completed his PhD in 2021 at Princeton where he studied cognitive psychology and neuroscience. At UCLA he double majored in philosophy and psychology\, especially appreciating the areas where they overlapped. His work explores the scientific side of philosophy of mind\, including but not limited to consciousness\, perceiving other minds\, and epistemic reasoning. He currently lives in Washington\, DC which he enjoys but he misses the boba and mexican food from LA. \n  \n\n  \n\nLindsey d’Arnaud\, MD\nResident Physician\, Psychiatry\, Indiana University School of Medicine\nDr. d’Arnaud was born and raised in Long Beach\, CA. She attended Los Alamitos High\, then completed her freshman year at Long Beach City College before transferring to UCLA her sophomore year\, where she majored in philosophy. She earned her medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine\, where she is currently completing her residency in psychiatry. \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-careers-in-health-research/
LOCATION:On Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240603T170000
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SUMMARY:Study Break with the Philosophy Department
DESCRIPTION:June 3\, 2024 | 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  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”32″ title=”true”]
URL:https://philosophy.ucla.edu/event/study-break-with-the-philosophy-department-5/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399
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