Reading Groups & Workshops

Other events and groups in philosophy:

• • Kant Reading Group: Meets weekly. Just finished working through second critique; working through Metaphysics of Morals now. Contact: Professor Herman or Jürgen Lipps
  • Aristotle Reading Group: Meets weekly. Working through Nichomachean ethics. Contact: Professor Lawrence or Jung Suk Lee.
  • Descartes Reading Group: Meets weekly. Working through Meditations. Contact: Professor Carriero or Youle Guo.
  • Women in Philosophy Group: Social group plus reading group; reading some Murdoch recently. Contact: Alex Pealez.
  • Brownbag Series: three times quarterly, work by department members presented in hour long format over lunch (30 min for presentation, 30 min for Q&A). Contact: Professor Khalifa
  • Ethics Workshop: Graduate students who have completed the Proposition and who are working in ethics and value theory (very broadly construed) present their work in progress.  Also open to post-docs and visiting faculty. Contact: Professor Hieronymi. https://philosophy.ucla.edu/graduate/workshops/
  • Philosophy of Language Reading Group: Variable topics. Contact: James Xinyu Gu.
  • MAP: This quarter reading Black philosophers in various areas (Alisa Bierria, Kristie Dotson), turning next quarter to some non-western philosophy. There’s a talk on April 19 on Police and Abolition (zoom option available). Contact: Courtney Minor. https://philosophy.ucla.edu/graduate/minorities-and-philosophy/
  • Albritton Society: https://philosophy.ucla.edu/graduate/albritton-society/
  • UCLA-USC Conference: https://philosophy.ucla.edu/graduate/uscucla-conference/
  • History, Philosophy, and Science of Science Workshop Series: Talks by philosophers of science in Southern California and passing through. Organized by Professors Khalifa, Roush, Scerri (chemistry), and Teplow (neurology). Recent speakers: Jim Woodward, Lauren Ross, Thomas Pradeu, Judea Pearl, Sander Greenland, and Craig Callender.

Other workshops, colloquia that philosophers attend or are involved in:

• Legal Theory Workshop: https://law.ucla.edu/academics/centers/law-philosophy-program/legal-theory-workshop
• Linguistics Colloquium: https://linguistics.ucla.edu/
• Logic Colloquium: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/colloquium.php
• Linguistics Syn-Sem Seminar: Workshop on current work in syntax and semantics and related areas in linguistics. Wednesdays 12-1:30 in Campbell 2122. Contact: Professor Rett (linguistics).