Past Events

Colloquium Series Fall 2024

Fiction without Mimesis: A comparative philosophy of fiction – Dr. Hannah Kim, University of Arizona

Resolving the Paradox of Dehumanization: The Multiple Concepts Approach – Dr. Ben Philips, Arizona State University

Colloquium Series Spring 2024

Love Thy “Enemy” Neighbor – Jennifer Wargin, Northern Arizona University

Trans Health in Dark Times – Tamsin Kimoto, Washington University of St. Louis

2nd Annual High School Ethics Bowl

January 27, 2024, on NAU Campus- Honors College

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Colloquium Series Fall 2023

Caring Is Sharing: Some Considerations on Plato’s Conception of Justice in the Republic – Jörg Hardy, Free University Berlin

Ruling with Knowledge vs. Ruling with the Laws: The Role of Law in Plato’s Best City in the Statesman – Jiseob Yoon, Princeton University

2023 West Coast Plato Workshop

Flagstaff Mountain Campus, AZ – June 24-25, 2023

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Colloquium Series Spring 2023

“I Was Framed!” The Ethics of Emphasis Framing in Political Discourse – Jennifer Wargin, Northern Arizona University

Truth as a Democratic Value – Michael Lynch, University of Connecticut

The Black Feminist Imagination as Liberatory Praxis on the EDM Dance Floor – Jasmine Henry, University of Pennsylvania

1st Annual High School Ethics Bowl

February 11, 2023, on NAU Flagstaff Mountain Campus- Honors College

Colloquium Series Fall 2022

When is Someone Owed an Explanation? Explanatory and Algorithmic Epistemic Injustice – Andrew Spear, Grand Valley State University

One Man’s Trash is No One’s Treasure: An Existential Analysis of Nostalgia and Plastic – Mickey Haist, Northern Arizona University

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

Colloquium Series Spring 2020

Aspiration, Conviction, and Serene Joy: Faith and Reason in Indian Buddhist Literature on the Path – William Edelglass, Marlboro College

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

Conference: Cosmopolitanism in Theory and Practice Philosophy, Politics, History

Co-sponsored by the Center for International Education

Varieties of Cosmopolitanism – Bracht Branham, Emory University
Kind-ness in Stoic Cosmopolitanism – Julie Piering, Northern Arizona University
The Riddle of Philonian Cosmopolitanism (Keynote Presentation) – Valéry Laurand, Université Bordeaux – Montaigne
Cosmopolitanism, Enclaves of Sameness, and the Power of Unsettling Empathy (Keynote Presentation) – Björn Krondorfer, Northern Arizona University

Colloquium Series Fall 2019

Art and Authority: Or Who Should Paint the Death of Emmett Till? – Katie Tullmann, Northern Arizona University

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

Aristotle, Empedocles, and the Unity of All Things – Michael Shaw, Utah Valley University

Colloquium Series Spring 2019

The “Great Phantom”: Merleau-Ponty on Habitus, Freedom, and Political Transformation – Laura McMahon, Eastern Michigan University

What to Do? Some Thoughts on Virtue and Reasoning Practically – Denise Vigani, Seton Hall University

Morphological Content and Chromatic Illumination in Belief Fixation – Terry Horgan, University of Arizona

Colloquium Series Fall 2018

Explaining the Binding Force of Moral Norms – Aaron Rizzieri, Coconino Community College

Radio Lives: Sartre and the Problems of Identity and Communication in the Age of Technology – Kirsten Jacobson,  University of Maine

The Wood Distinguished Lecture Series

Responsibilities and Taking on Responsibility – Cheshire Calhoun, Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University

Colloquium Series Spring 2018

Self, Will, and Responsibility: Insights from Augustine and the Manichaeans – Jason BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University

The Experience of Being Good: Pleasure in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics – Eve Rabinoff, University of Minnesota-Duluth

A Sketch of the Significance of Kuhn’s Structure – Stephen Lenhart, Northern Arizona University

The Texture of Anxiety: Phenomenology and the Dynamics of Emotion – Emiliano Diaz, Purchase College, State University of New York

Plato’s Conception of Propositions – Blake Hestir, Texas Christian University