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 TalksÌý
Friday, September 17
John Schwenkler, Florida State UniversityÌýÌý
Steering Clear of Trouble
4:00Ìýpm, Lathrop 207
Thursday, October 21
Filippo Casati, Lehigh UniversityÌýÌýÌýÌý
Cavell on Logic
4:15Ìýpm, Lawrence 105
Thursday, November 4
Andy Egan,Ìý Rutgers UniversityÌý
Why Ethics is All About Me
4:00 pm,Ìý Lawrence 105
Past Talks and Events
Thursday, AprilÌý22
Philosophy Honors Students PresentationÌý
5:15Ìý±è³¾, (must have a Colgate account)
Wednesday, AprilÌý21Ìý
Philosophy Honors Students PresentationÌý
5:15Ìý±è³¾, (must have a Colgate account)
Wednesday, MarchÌý16
Erich Hatala-Mattes, Wellesley College
When Good Artists Do Bad ThingsÌý
Audi Lecture
Arts and Humanities Colloquium
Thursday, October 1
Brandon Conley,Ìý
How to be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist About Disease
5:15Ìý±è³¾, (must have a Colgate account)
Thursday, October 22
Aaron Wolf,Ìý
Reasons and Possible Motivators
5:15Ìý±è³¾, (must have a Colgate account)
Thursday, November 19
David Dudrick,Ìý
Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence and the Arc of the Moral Universe
5:15Ìý±è³¾, (must have a Colgate account)
Thursday, December 3
Edward Witherspoon
On Secrecy and Skepticism
5:15Ìý±è³¾, (must have a Colgate account)
Thursday, February 6
Michael Brownstein, John Jay College CUNY
Political Tribalism and Climate Change
4:15Ìýpm, 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, AmherstÌýCollege
Happiness in Ancient Indian Philosophy
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall
Event Canceled-Wednesday, March 25
Krisanna Scheiter, Union CollegeÌý
Honor, Worth, and Justified Revenge in AristotleÌý
4:15Ìýpm, 105 Lawrence Hall
Event is Postponed to a Later DateÌý
Conference: Heidegger on Logic
Filippo Casati, Lehigh University
Logic of Modality and Modality of LogicÌý
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 MetaphysicsÌý
Stephen Käufer, Franklin and Marshall College
Heidegger on Understanding Unthematically
Denis McManus, University of Southhampton
Heidegger, Wittengenstein and the Disappearing "We"
Richard Polt, Xavier UniversityÌý
Heidegger's Productive LogicÌý
Edward Witherspoon, PÕ¾ÊÓƵÌý
Wittgenstein and Heidegger on the Authority of Life
Kate Withy, Georgetown UniversityÌý
A Ground Without Why: Being and the Principle of Sufficient ReasonÌý
Organizer: Edward Witherspoon, ColgateÌý
Event Canceled-Thursday, April 9
Joseph Moore, Amherst College
But is it Music?
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall
Event Canceled-Wednesday, AprilÌý23
Christiana Olfert, TuftsÌýUniversity
Does Knowledge Rule Out False Beliefs? A Platonic Answer
4:15 pm, 105 Lawrence Hall
CNY Humanities Corridor Workshop
Plato and Platonism
Saturday, September 14Ìý2019
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Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell University
Plato on Intelligent Agents
11:00 am Benton HallÌý213
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Rachael Singpurwalla, Maryland
Law in Plato's Political ThoughtÌýÌý
1:30Ìýpm Benton HallÌý213
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Whitney Schwab, UMBC
Non-Perceptual Kataleptic Impressions in Stoicism
3:30 pm Benton HallÌý213
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Organizer: Jacob Klein, PÕ¾ÊÓƵÌý
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Thursday, September 26
Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California
Relationship Pathologies
Audi Lecture
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
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Thursday, October 10
Joel Schlosser, Bryan Mawr College
Asceticism contra Nietzsche: Refusing Mere Existence
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
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Thursday, October 24
Justin Garson, Hunter College
What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
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Tuesday, October 29
Maura Tumulty, PÕ¾ÊÓƵ
Alien Experience: Hating How, Not What, We Perceive
Arts and Humanities Colloquium
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
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Thursday, November 7
Eric Wiland, University of Missouri - St. Louis
What is Group Well-Being
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
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Wednesday, November 20
Julia Markovits, Cornell University
The Partial Relativism of Praise and BlameÌý
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
Tuesday, 19 February 2019Ìý
Edward Witherspoon, PÕ¾ÊÓƵ
Wittgenstein versus Zombies: An Investigation of our Mental Concepts
Arts and Humanities ColloquiumÌý
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
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Thursday, 21ÌýMarchÌý2019Ìý
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
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Thursday, 28 March 2019
Samantha Matherne, Harvard University
Kant on Imagination as the Faculty of Presentation
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
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Thursday, 11 April 2019
Elisabeth Camp, Rutgers University
Just Kidding: Sarcasm, Jokes and Willful Deniability in Speech
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
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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
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Tuesday, 2 October 2018
David McCabe, PÕ¾ÊÓƵ
Kant was a Racist. Now What?
Colgate Arts and Humanities Colloquium
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
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Thursday, 1 November 2018
Michelle Kosch, Cornell University
Effort, Inability and Faith in Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
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Wednesday, 7 November 2018
Luvell Anderson, Syracuse University
Roasting Ethics
4:15 pm Lawrence 105
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Thursday, 29 November 2018
Hannah Ginsborg, University of California Berkeley
Wittgenstein on Going On
4:15 pm Lawrence 105