These talks are made possible by the generous support of the Jerome Balmuth Fund and the Marion Hoeflich Memorial Endowment for Advancements in Philosophy.
Fall 2021 Talks
Friday, September 17
John Schwenkler, Florida State University
Steering Clear of Trouble
4:00 pm, Lathrop 207
Thursday, October 21
Filippo Casati, Lehigh University
Cavell on Logic
4:15 pm, Lawrence 105
Thursday, November 4
Andy Egan, Rutgers University
Why Ethics is All About Me
4:00 pm, Lawrence 105
Past Talks and Events
Thursday, April 22
Philosophy Honors Students Presentation
5:15 pm, Virtual Zoom Link (must have a Colgate account)
Wednesday, April 21
Philosophy Honors Students Presentation
5:15 pm, Virtual Zoom Link (must have a Colgate account)
Wednesday, March 16
Erich Hatala-Mattes, Wellesley College
When Good Artists Do Bad Things
Audi Lecture
Arts and Humanities Colloquium
Thursday, October 1
Brandon Conley,
How to be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist About Disease
5:15 pm, Virtual Zoom Link (must have a Colgate account)
Thursday, October 22
Aaron Wolf,
Reasons and Possible Motivators
5:15 pm, Virtual Zoom Link (must have a Colgate account)
Thursday, November 19
David Dudrick,
Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence and the Arc of the Moral Universe
5:15 pm, Virtual Zoom Link (must have a Colgate account)
Thursday, December 3
Edward Witherspoon
On Secrecy and Skepticism
5:15 pm, Virtual Zoom Link (must have a Colgate account)
Thursday, February 6
Michael Brownstein, John Jay College CUNY
Political Tribalism and Climate Change
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall
Thursday, February 20
Jonny Thakkar, Swarthmore College
Plato as Critical Theorist
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall
Thursday, March 5
Maria Heim, Amherst College
Happiness in Ancient Indian Philosophy
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall
Event Canceled-Wednesday, March 25
Krisanna Scheiter, Union College
Honor, Worth, and Justified Revenge in Aristotle
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall
Event is Postponed to a Later Date
Conference: Heidegger on Logic
Filippo Casati, Lehigh University
Logic of Modality and Modality of Logic
David Cerbone, West Virginia University
Can There Be Surprises on Ontology? Illogical Thought and the Understanding of Being
Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Boston University
Identity, Logic, and Metaphysics
Stephen Käufer, Franklin and Marshall College
Heidegger on Understanding Unthematically
Denis McManus, University of Southhampton
Heidegger, Wittengenstein and the Disappearing "We"
Richard Polt, Xavier University
Heidegger's Productive Logic
Edward Witherspoon, Colgate University
Wittgenstein and Heidegger on the Authority of Life
Kate Withy, Georgetown University
A Ground Without Why: Being and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Organizer: Edward Witherspoon, Colgate
Event Canceled-Thursday, April 9
Joseph Moore, Amherst College
But is it Music?
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall
Event Canceled-Wednesday, April 23
Christiana Olfert, Tufts University
Does Knowledge Rule Out False Beliefs? A Platonic Answer
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall
CNY Humanities Corridor Workshop
Plato and Platonism
Saturday, September 14 2019
Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell University
Plato on Intelligent Agents
11:00 am Benton Hall 213
Rachael Singpurwalla, Maryland
Law in Plato's Political Thought
1:30 pm Benton Hall 213
Whitney Schwab, UMBC
Non-Perceptual Kataleptic Impressions in Stoicism
3:30 pm Benton Hall 213
Organizer: Jacob Klein, Colgate University
Thursday, September 26
Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California
Relationship Pathologies
Audi Lecture
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Thursday, October 10
Joel Schlosser, Bryan Mawr College
Asceticism contra Nietzsche: Refusing Mere Existence
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Thursday, October 24
Justin Garson, Hunter College
What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Tuesday, October 29
Maura Tumulty, Colgate University
Alien Experience: Hating How, Not What, We Perceive
Arts and Humanities Colloquium
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Thursday, November 7
Eric Wiland, University of Missouri - St. Louis
What is Group Well-Being
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Wednesday, November 20
Julia Markovits, Cornell University
The Partial Relativism of Praise and Blame
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Edward Witherspoon, Colgate University
Wittgenstein versus Zombies: An Investigation of our Mental Concepts
Arts and Humanities Colloquium
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Thursday, 21 March 2019
Peter Adamson, Ludwig–Maximilians–Universität München
Philosophy Without Borders: Transmission of Ideas between Europe, India, Africa, and the Islamic World
Hartshorne Memorial Lecture
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Thursday, 28 March 2019
Samantha Matherne, Harvard University
Kant on Imagination as the Faculty of Presentation
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Elisabeth Camp, Rutgers University
Just Kidding: Sarcasm, Jokes and Willful Deniability in Speech
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Thursday, 25 April 2019
Barry Lam, Vassar College
Crime and Epistemology in the Age of AI: Lessons from the Ground
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
David McCabe, Colgate University
Kant was a Racist. Now What?
Colgate Arts and Humanities Colloquium
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Michelle Kosch, Cornell University
Effort, Inability and Faith in Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Wednesday, 7 November 2018
Luvell Anderson, Syracuse University
Roasting Ethics
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Hannah Ginsborg, University of California Berkeley
Wittgenstein on Going On
4:15 pm Lawrence 105