Speaker Series

Unless otherwise noted, all events are held in the Everest Lounge, starting at 4:30 p.m.

Some of the talks may be held via zoom. For more precise information, please check the information below for each scheduled talk to determine the modality and/or contact the Department close to the day of the talk.

David Friedell, Philosophy Department Chair (518) 388-6831; philchair@union.edu or friedeld@union.edu

Leahanna Pelish, Administrative Assistant
(518) 388-6376; pelishl@union.edu

The Philosophy Department’s Speaker Series is sponsored by the Ichabod S. Spencer Foundation. Every fall and winter term, the series brings major figures in the field to campus to discuss new work. All events are open to the public, and philosophy students can take a course, New Directions in Philosophy, that focuses on the work discussed in the Speaker Series.

Open Texture and Mathematics: The Cases of Polyedra and Computability

Stewart Shapiro, Ohio State University

Falling Short of Equality: Revisiting the Argument for Recollection in Phaedo 72e-77a

Sarale Ben Asher, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Thinking with AI

Victor Kumar, Boston University

Location: Phi Beta Kappa Room Schaffer Library 204

The Miraculous as the Marvelous:

Mary Shephard on Extraordinary Occurrences as Empirical Evidence

Louise Daoust, Eckerd College

On the Metaphysics of Voting

Salim Berker, Harvard University

TBA

Imogen Dickie, University of Toronto

Descartes on Animal Minds

Alison Simmons, Harvard University

The Political Philosophy of Fayez Sayegh

John Harfouch, University of Alabama in Huntsville