Wake Forest University Department of Philosophy

09/30/2021

The department is currently participating in this year's Hit the Bricks fundraiser for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund . You can monitor our progress here. (Scroll down to the Faculty/Staff division. We currently aren't last!) And if you'd like to donate, a link is in the comments!

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11/06/2019

Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College) will be with us tomorrow (Thursday, November 7). Her talk is entitled “Are Psychopaths Autonomous Agents?” (Abstract below in comments.) Please join us at 5 PM in Tribble B316!

02/14/2019

Join us today at 5 PM in Tribble B316 as our spring colloquium series gets underway. Heather Battalay (University of Connecticut) will be here giving a talk entitled, "Can Closed-mindedness be an Intellectual Virtue?" Abstract is below in comments. Hope to see you there!

11/14/2018

A pre-Thanksgiving colloquium tomorrow (Thursday) at 5 PM! Sara Protasi will be with us from the University of Puget Sound. Her talk will be entitled: “Class Envy or Righteous Indignation? Emotional Responses to Socioeconomic Inequality.” (Abstract posted below in the comments.) Join us in Tribble B316.

09/20/2018

Our colloquium series kicks off today at 5 PM in Tribble B316. Erin Tarver will be with us from Emory giving a talk entitled "The Moral Equivalent of Football." You can check out the abstract as well as the schedule for the rest of the semester here: http://college.wfu.edu/philosophy/talks/

03/15/2018

Jonathan Jacobs (Saint Louis University) will be with us this afternoon in Tribble B316 at 5 PM. His talk is entitled: “Those Who Heard Said it Thundered: A Silent God or a Silenced God?” An abstract and schedule for future talks are available here: http://college.wfu.edu/philosophy/talks/

02/15/2018

Dimitris Apostolopoulos (Notre Dame) is with us today. He's giving a talk entitled "From Kant to Hegel: Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenological Explanation." Please join us at 5 PM in Tribble B316!

02/08/2018

Rachel Cristy (Princeton) will be giving a talk this afternoon on Nietzsche's view of the relationship between philosophy and science. 5 PM in Tribble B316. Abstract is here: http://college.wfu.edu/philosophy/talks/

11/30/2017

Anja Jauernig (NYU) will close out our fall colloquium series this afternoon with a talk entitled “Levels of Reality or How to be an Idealist and a Realist at the Same Time.” Please consider joining us at 5 PM in Tribble B316!

11/02/2017

Angela Potochnik (Cincinnati) will be speaking today at 5 PM in Tribble B316. The title of her talk is “Idealization and the Aims of Science.” Please join us! Abstract is available at http://college.wfu.edu/philosophy/talks/

10/26/2017

Our 2017-18 speaker series starts this afternoon! John Bowlin (Princeton Theological Seminary) will be giving a talk entitled: “Human Dignity and Freedom from Domination: a Thomistic Sketch.” Please join us at 5 PM in Tribble B316.

02/14/2017

Our first talk of the spring semester will be this Thursday at 5:30 PM (note the later than usual start time). Michelle Mason will be with us from the University of Minnesota speaking on "Reactive Attitudes as Modes of Valuing Virtue." (An abstract is included in the comments below.) Please join us in Tribble B316.