Philosophy

Dr. Jaime Ahlberg (UF Philosophy) & Jillian Hernandez (UF Gender Studies) When high-profile artists are accused of sexual misconduct, how should the art world respond. Inspired by CENTURY's Chuck Close photograph of...... Lorna Simpson, and John Berger’s provocative claim that 'looking is a political act,' we explore the ethics of promoting work by high-profile artists embroiled in the …

Dr. Hugh Benson (Univ Oklahoma) A common crux in Republic scholarship surrounds a passage found near the end of Plato's image of the Cave in which Socrates instructs...... Glaucon to apply this image to what was said before. How — the problem goes — are we to apply (προσαπτε'ον) the image of the Cave to what has been …

Topic: Climate Change 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.

The 64th annual meeting of the FPA takes place November 1st & 2nd on the UF Campus. Dr. Leslie Francis (Utah) Keynote Speaker

24th Annual Food & Talk event! Join us for dinner and discussion on a topic of broad philosophical interest Professors Jaime Ahlberg and Jon Rick will open the discussion with remarks on the ethics of appreciating the art of immoral artists.

Topic: Free College 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.  

Dr. Christopher Lebron (Johns Hopkins) Racial injustice has remained a stubborn feature of American society. One reason for its persistence is that everyday Americans fail to understand...... the problem of racial injustice as a lived experience. In his talk, Dr. Lebron will explore the uses of moral imagination to expand white Americans' awareness of racial inequality …

Students participants in UF Intersections on Ethics in the Public Sphere will present posters reflecting their group research and analysis of the ethical dimensions of contemporary public issues. Poster topics will include gender equity, sustainability, food, immigration, race, education reform, and religious pluralism. Come to explore how we can tackle complex issues and learn more about the …

The United Nations celebrates the "enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought." World Philosophy Day 2019 is dedicated to "highlighting the importance of philosophy in different regional contexts -- regional contributions to global debates on contemporary challenges that support social transformations -- stimulating global collaboration to address major challenges such as migration, …

Michael Bukoski (FSU) People are often uncertain about what they morally ought to do, sometimes because they are uncertain about relevant moral facts or principles....... Moral uncertaintists argue that moral uncertainty of this sort makes a difference to what one morally ought to do; for example, perhaps someone who believes that raising and killing animals for …

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.

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 …

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.    

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

This talk will give a broad coverage of central concepts and principles involved in automated causal inference and emerging approaches to causal discovery. After reviewing some central concepts, I will present the constraint-based approach to causal discovery, which relies on conditional independence relationships in the data, and discuss the assumptions underlying its validity. I will then focus on causal discovery based on structural equation models, in which a key issue is the identifiability of the causal structure implied by appropriately defined structural equation models. Finally, I list a number of open questions in the field of causal discovery and inference.

The Intersections Group on Ethics in the Public Sphere has organized an upcoming Virtual Ethics Café on Consent that will be held on March 4, 2021 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. Ethics Cafés provide an organized forum for wrestling with difficult issues in a friendly, civil setting. Bring an open mind, a willingness to listen and share, and a desire to learn with and from the members of your community.

Dr. Duncan Purves and Dr. Jeremy Davis are organizing a workshop on ethical issues arising in connection with the use of AI in criminal justice.

How has COVID-19 affected all education levels? Hear perspectives from educators, parents, administrators, students, and community advocates who will discuss hardships, losses, successes, and everything in between! We welcome students of all ages, parents, educators, and community members to join us. There will be short presentations by the panelists, followed by a moderated discussion.

Come join us for a night of socially-distanced discussion on the ethical issues raised by gentrification in the Gainesville community. This event is free and open to members of the UF and Gainesville communities.

Recent work on Humean approaches to laws of nature has attempted to situate our understanding of the laws within an explicitly pragmatic context. This two-day virtual conference brings together some of the leading thinkers in the field to discuss Humeanism and its "Pragmatic Turn".

Dr. Avery Archer (George Washington University) will be giving the first UF Philosophy Colloquium Talk of the Fall 2021 semester, titled "What is Agnosticism?"

Philosophers from across the southeastern United States will be coming together for a two-day epistemology conference at UF, organized by Dr. Rodrigo Borges. The event will take place in the University Auditorium.

Dr. Michael Cholbi will give a Colloquium Talk to the Philosophy Department on November 17, titled "Grieving Our Way Back to Meaningfulness."