Fall Semester 2018
September 2
Dogwood Room, IMU, 8:30am-5pm
Workshop on Inclusive Pedagogy in Philosophy
American Association of Philosophy Teachers
September 12
Themester Talk, 5-6:30pm
President’s Hall in Franklin Hall
“Ethics and Our Treatment of Animals”
Peter Singer, Princeton
October 19
“Locke on Knowledge, Propositions, and Particles"
Shelley Weinberg, UIUC
November 16-17
Indiana Philosophical Association, IMU Tree Suites
“Glad it Happened: Ethical Depth and the Sense of a Continuing Self”
Keynote Address: Marya Schechtman, UI Chicago Circle
December 7
Department Luncheon, 11:30 am-1:30 pm
Coronation Room, IMU Tudor Room
“Perception and Probability”
Steven Gross, Johns Hopkins
Miriam Schoenfeld, University of Texas, Austin
Spring Semester 2019
January 11
“Aristotle on Practical Wisdom” (
Jozef Müller, UC Riverside
January 14
1118 Global & International Studies
“Ontological Expressivism”
Vera Flocke, NYU
January 18
“Aristotle’s Priorities in the Metaphysics”
Katherine Meadows, MIT
January 21
1118 Global & International Studies
“Rational Polarization”
Kevin Dorst, MIT
January 25
Nelson Lecture
Federal Room in the IMU
“Representing, Reasoning, and Understanding Cause in Human and Other Animals”
Liz Camp, Rutgers University
January 28
1118 Global & International Studies
“Paradoxical Desires”
Ethan Jerzak, UC Berkeley
February 1
“Aristotle’s Response to Chrysippus’ Dog: Aristotle on Non-Human Animal Thought”
Joseph Karbowski, Pittsburgh
February 13
Dogwood Room, IMU, 2:30-4pm
“Self-consciousness after split-brain surgery”
Elizabeth Schechter, Washington University, St. Louis
March 1
“Cosmopolitans and Unmet Friends”
Eric Brown, Washington University, St. Louis
March 4
003 Ballantine, 12-1:30pm
“Skill and Strategic Control”
Ellen Fridland, King's College London
March 8
“The Weight of Expectations”
Rima Basu, Claremont McKenna College
March 22
“What You Think Matters”
Lisa Miracchi, University of Pennsylvania
March 29
“Saving Lives and Statistical Deaths”
Rahul Kumar, Queens-Ontario
March 29-30
Welcome Weekend
April 5
“The Duty to Object”
Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern
April 12
Nelson Fellowship Symposium
IMU State Room West/East, 4-7pm
“Transparency”
Daniel Linsenbart, Indiana University
“Quine's Methodology”
Andrew Smith, Indiana University
April 26
Department Awards
IMU University Club President’s Room, 3pm-4:30 pm
May 3
Department of Philosophy Graduation Luncheon
IMU Tudor Room, 11:30-1:30 pm
The College of Arts