Upcoming Events
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Recent Events
Ethics Cafe: Reparations
November 17, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
Reparations have been debated for decades as a form of compensation for systemic racism, historical trauma, and racialized violence. At this Ethics Café, we will discuss the ethical issues raised by the question of reparations for Black descendants of enslaved people in the US. In particular, we will ask how we, as a society, cope with and understand the racial injustices of the past.
Colloquium Talk: Robert Smithson
November 13, 2020 @ 4:00 pm
In the hope of providing a fully explanatory, monistic metaphysics, philosophers have recently defended two versions of idealism: microidealism and cosmic idealism. But neither view seems to provide a genuine explanatory advantage over materialism. Instead, I will consider the prospects of macroidealism: the view that physical truths metaphysically depend on truths about the phenomenal experiences of macroscopic subjects.
Food and Talk 2020
Oct 29, 2020 - 6:00 pm-October 29, 2020 @ 8:00 pm
“A Philosophical Forum on Racial Justice” Dr. Tom Auxter and Dr. Arina Pismenny discuss the roots and the current manifestations of systemic racism exacerbated by the pandemic, reflecting on the Black Lives Matter movement, and ways to combat racism in our own backyards. The event is open to all undergraduates, and will take place over […]
Southeastern Epistemology Conference
Oct 23, 2020 - 8:30 am-October 24, 2020 @ 5:30 pm
Philosophers from across the Southeastern United States will be coming together for a two-day virtual epistemology conference, organized by Dr. Rodrigo Borges. The event is free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance by contacting dept@phil.ufl.edu.
Colloquium Talk: Louise Antony
September 25, 2020 @ 4:00 pm
Jerry Fodor argued that concept acquisition can neither be a psychological nor “rational-causal” process, but must be a “brute-causal” process. But this gives rise to the notorious Doorknob Problem: it makes a mystery of why experience with things would be a way of acquiring concepts of them at all. Resolving this problem requires recognizing a third type of causal process.
ETHICS CAFE on: Wealth Inequality
Apr 15, 2020 - 7:00 pm-April 15, 2020 @ 8:30 pm
NOTE: This event was cancelled due to the pandemic. 7:00-8:30 in The Thomas Center (302 NE 6th Ave) Wrestle with hard questions in a friendly, civil setting. No previous training is necessary. Ethics Cafes is organized by UF Intersections on Ethics in the Public Sphere.
ETHICS CAFE on: Reparations
Apr 7, 2020 - 8:00 am-April 7, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
NOTE: This event was cancelled due to the pandemic. Wrestle with hard questions in a friendly, civil setting. No previous training is necessary. Ethics Cafes is organized by UF Intersections on Ethics in the Public Sphere.
ETHICS CAFE on: Gender Violence
Mar 17, 2020 - 3:00 pm-March 17, 2020 @ 4:30 pm
Wrestle with hard questions in a friendly, civil setting. No previous training is necessary. Ethics Cafes is organized by UF Intersections on Ethics in the Public Sphere.
Distributive Justice and Autonomous Vehicles
Feb 21, 2020 - 4:00 pm-February 21, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
Dr. Nick Evans (UMass-Lowell) Research into the ethics of autonomous vehicles focuses, almost exclusively, on whether decisions by individual cars conform to, reflect, or promote certain values. Less discussed is whether, or how, autonomous vehicles ought to be developed and deployed from the perspective of distributive justice. Here, I argue that autonomous vehicles—as an object of […]
ETHICS CAFE on: Free Speech on Campus
Feb 4, 2020 - 3:00 pm-February 4, 2020 @ 4:30 pm
Wrestle with hard questions in a friendly, civil setting. No previous training is necessary. Ethics Cafes is organized by UF Intersections on Ethics in the Public Sphere.
Philosophy in the News
- Reframing Covid-19 Beyond the Medical
When we think about COVID-19 as a medical issue first and foremost, what are we missing? This week we explore the ways in which legal, economic, cultural and ethical perspectives on COVID-19 could be just as important as the medical - and could be even more helpful in getting us to the point where we're less vulnerable to pandemics in general. @ Philosopher's Zone
- A Unified Theory of Bullsh*t and Pseudoscience
Extending Frankfurt's popular analysis of bullsh*t to get a useful account also of pseudoscience. @ Theoria
- Ethical Vaccine Allocation
Once effective COVID-19 vaccines are developed, they will be scarce. This presents the question of how to distribute them fairly. @ Science Magazine
- Citizenship and Justice
What is the most just way for a nation to determine who may enter and whom to grant citizenship? @ Philosophy Talk
- Your Ticket to Mars
How our ambitions in space require deep altruism. Do we have what it takes? @ SciWorthy