Upcoming Events
For past events, please see the Events Archive.
Dr. Leonard N. Moore, “Name, Image, and Blackness: Race and College Football”
Feb 15, 2024 - 4:00 pm-February 15 @ 5:30 pm
Dr. Moore (UT Austin) will look at the racial dynamics of college football in the South in light of recent developments like the transfer portal, conference realignment, and the Supreme Court decision outlawing affirmative action in college admissions. This lecture will make you look at college football from a totally different perspective.
Recent Events
Colloquium Talk: Igal Kvart
Nov 21, 2023 - 12:00 pm-November 21, 2023 @ 1:30 pm
Dr. Kvart will give a second colloquium talk concerning some philosophical implications of Steering Thrust Pragmatics in the Philosophy Department Library.
Colloquium Talk: Igal Kvart
Nov 17, 2023 - 4:00 pm-November 17, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
Dr. Kvart will give a colloquium talk titled "Steering-Thrust Pragmatics and a Pragmatic Perspective on Assertion" in the Philosophy Department Library.
Food & Talk: “What is Indoctrination?”
Nov 9, 2023 - 6:00 pm-November 9, 2023 @ 8:00 pm
What is indoctrination? Come join us for a discussion of this question (and pizza!) at our annual Food and Talk event on November 9. It is free and open to all UF undergraduates.
Colloquium Talk: Paul C. Taylor
Oct 13, 2023 - 4:00 pm-October 13, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
Dr. Taylor will give a colloquium talk titled "Uneasy Sanctuaries: Unthinking Race-Thinking" in the Friends of Music Room.
Dr. Paul C. Taylor: “Dark Futures – A Philosophical Archaeology of Hope”
Oct 12, 2023 - 4:30 pm-October 12, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
Dr. Paul C. Taylor (UCLA) will give the second talk in our Philosophy, Race, and Justice Speaker Series.
Dr. Naomi Zack: “Affirmative Action is Dead, Long Live Affirmative Action”
Sep 29, 2023 - 4:00 pm-September 29, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
Dr. Naomi Zack (Lehman College, CUNY) will give the first talk in our Philosophy, Race, and Justice Speaker Series.
Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Why a New Philosophical Anthropology?”
Sep 21, 2023 - 4:00 pm-September 21, 2023 @ 6:00 pm
Dr. Chakrabarty (University of Chicago) will seek to explain why making a distinction between the globe and the planet as humanist categories calls for a new philosophical anthropology. This talk is part of the Scales of Belonging speakers series sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere.
Panel: Ethics and Governance of AI
Sep 6, 2023 - 12:50 pm-September 6, 2023 @ 2:30 pm
UF Philosophy's Dr. Amber Ross will participate in an expert panel about AI issues related to Ethics, Health Disparities, Data Privacy, and Governance through an international lens.
Building Ethics in AI at UF
Apr 28, 2023 - 9:30 am-April 28, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
What does a commitment to ethical AI mean for researchers and teachers at the University of Florida? To begin to answer this question, a panel of UF experts will lead audience members through discussions about core AI values and what it might mean to incorporate those values into AI research and teaching.
2023 South Eastern Graduate Philosophy Conference
Apr 27, 2023 - 12:00 am-April 28, 2023
The 2023 South Eastern Graduate Philosophy Conference (SEGPC) will be held on April 27-28, with Sarah McGrath (Princeton) delivering the keynote address and Lyndal Grant (UF) delivering the capstone.
Recent Department Publications
- Shadi Heidarifar, “From Gender Segregation to Epistemic Segregation: A Case Study of the School System in Iran.” Journal of Philosophy of Education. October 23, 2023
Shadi Heidarifar argues that there is a bidirectional relationship between gender-based social norms and gender-segregated education policies that excludes girls from knowledge production within the Iranian school system.
- Chris Dorst, “Does the Best System Need the Past Hypothesis?” Philosophy of Science. October 23, 2023
Chris Dorst argues that Pragmatic Humeanism undercuts the motivation for treating a low-entropy initial boundary condition of the universe (the "Past Hypothesis") as a law of nature.
- Arina Pismenny, “Pansexuality: A Closer Look at Sexual Orientation.” Philosophies. July 18, 2023
Arina Pismenny uses the example of pansexuality to argue that our sexual orientation categories ought to be revised for both epistemic and normative reasons.
- James Simpson, “Why Dreaming Worlds aren’t Nearby Possible Worlds.” Philosophical Quarterly. April 10, 2023
James Simpson argues that dreaming worlds are not nearby possible worlds, suggesting that such possibilities cannot be used as legitimate grounds for skepticism.
- Chris Dorst and Kevin Dorst, “Splitting the (In)Difference: Why Fine-Tuning Supports Design.” Thought. October 23, 2022
Chris Dorst and Kevin Dorst argue that the fine-tuning of fundamental constants provides subtle reasons to support the hypothesis that the universe was designed, at least for agents like us who are not ideally rational.
- John Biro, “Two notes on Composition.” Metaphysica. October 17, 2022
John Biro argues that we should include composite objects in our ontology on the basis of their necessity in certain causal explanations. He goes on to argue that composition is not identity.
- Amber Ross, “AI and the expert; a blueprint for the ethical use of opaque AI.” AI and Society. September 19, 2022
Amber Ross argues that the epistemic relation between layperson and expert can serve as a blueprint for evaluating under what conditions it would be ethical to accept opacity in AI decision making.
- Arina Pismenny and Berit Brogaard (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Love. Rowman & Littlefield. April 26, 2022
Arina Pismenny and Berit Brogaard's edited volume explores the moral dimensions of love through the lenses of political philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
- Duncan Purves, “Fairness in Algorithmic Policing.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association. March 23, 2022
Duncan Purves argues that there are two overlooked normative factors that are essential to a full assessment of the moral permissibility of predictive policing: fairness in the social distribution of the benefits and burdens of policing as well as the distinctive role of consent in determining fair distribution.
- Jeremy Davis, Duncan Purves, Juan Gilbert, and Schuyler Sturm, “Five ethical challenges for data-driven policing.” AI and Ethics. March 23, 2022
Jeremy Davis, Duncan Purves, Juan Gilbert, and Schuyler Sturm's recent paper synthesizes scholarship from several academic disciplines to identify and analyze five major ethical challenges facing data-driven policing.