Past Events
Spring 2023
NAU First Annual High School Ethics Bowl
February 11, 2023
Fall 2022
When is Someone Owed an Explanation? Explanatory and Algorithmic Epistemic Injustice
Andrew Spear, Grand Valley State University
November 10, 2022
One Man’s Trash is No One’s Treasure: An Existential Analysis of Nostalgia and Plastic
Mickey Haist, Northern Arizona University
October 13, 2022
Speculation on the Philosophical Underpinnings of Lady Mary Shepherd’s (1777-1847) Argument Against the Idealisms of Berkeley and Hume: Revisiting Descartes and Hobbes
Kurt Smith, Northern Arizona University
September 29, 2022
Spring 2020
Colloquium: Aspiration, Conviction, and Serene Joy: Faith and Reason in Indian Buddhist Literature on the Path
William Edelglass, Marlboro College
February 27, 2020
Colloquium: A Pragmatic Response to Lewis Carroll’s Tortoise: A Diagrammatic Approach to Doubts About the Validity of the Laws of Logic
Jeffrey Downard, Northern Arizona University
February 13, 2020
Fall 2019
Conference: Cosmopolitanism in Theory and Practice Philosophy, Politics, History
Co-sponsored by the Center for International Education
October 18th 2019
Bracht Branham, Emory University. “Varieties of Cosmopolitanism”
Julie Piering, Northern Arizona University, “Kind-ness in Stoic Cosmopolitanism”
Keynote Presentation: Valéry Laurand, Université Bordeaux – Montaigne “The Riddle of Philonian Cosmopolitanism”
Keynote Presentation: Björn Krondorfer, Northern Arizona University, “Cosmopolitanism, Enclaves of Sameness, and the Power of
Unsettling Empathy”
Colloquium: Art and Authority: Or Who Should Paint the Death of Emmett Till?
Katie Tullmann, Northern Arizona University
November 21, 2019
Colloquium: Commentary on Marcus Aurelius 10.33
Valery Laurand, Universite Bordeaux-Montaigne
The Richard Wood Distinguished Lecture in Classical Studies
This event was Co-sponsored by the Center for International Education
October 15, 2019
Colloquium: Aristotle, Empedocles, and the Unity of All Things
Michael Shaw, Professor of Philosophy, Utah Valley University
October 3, 2019
Spring 2019
Colloquium: The “Great Phantom”: Merleau-Ponty on Habitus, Freedom, and Political Transformation
Laura McMahon, Department of Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University
April 11, 2019
Colloquium: What to Do? Some Thoughts on Virtue and Reasoning Practically
Denise Vigani, Department of Philosophy, Seton Hall University
April 4, 2019
Colloquium: Morphological Content and Chromatic Illumination in Belief Fixation
Terry Horgan, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona
February 14, 2019
Fall 2018
Colloquium: Explaining the Binding Force of Moral Norms
Aaron Rizzieri, Coconino Community College
November 29, 2018
Colloquium: Radio Lives: Sartre and the Problems of Identity and Communication in the Age of Technology
Kirsten Jacobson, Department of Philosophy, University of Maine
November 8, 2018
The Wood Distinguished Lecture Series: Responsibilities and Taking on Responsibility
Cheshire Calhoun, Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University
October 18, 2018
Spring 2018
Colloquium: Self, Will, and Responsibility: Insights from Augustine and the Manichaeans
Jason BeDuhn, Professor of Comparative Religious Studies, Northern Arizona University.
April 26th, 2018
Colloquium: The Experience of Being Good: Pleasure in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Eve Rabinoff, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota-Duluth.
April 5th, 2018
Colloquium: A Sketch of the Significance of Kuhn’s Structure
Stephen Lenhart, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Northern Arizona University.
May 3rd, 2018
Colloquium: The Texture of Anxiety: Phenomenology and the Dynamics of Emotion
Emiliano Diaz, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Purchase College, State University of New York.
March 29th, 2018
Colloquium: Plato’s Conception of Propositions
Blake Hestir, Professor of Philosophy, Texas Christian University.
March 8th, 2018