‘A Coming Out of Ourselves’: Knowing Our Place in Racial Justice
November 14, 2019
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 […]
ETHICS CAFES: Talk About What’s On Your Mind
November 7, 2019
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.
Beauty and Its Beasts: The Ethics of Appreciating the Art of Immoral Artists
November 7, 2019
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.
Florida Philosophical Association Conference
Nov 1, 2019 - 12:00 am-November 2, 2019
The 64th annual meeting of the FPA takes place November 1st & 2nd on the UF Campus. Dr. Leslie Francis (Utah) Keynote Speaker
ETHICS CAFES: Talk About What’s On Your Mind
October 28, 2019
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.
Dialectic in the Cave
September 13, 2019
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 […]
Too Close: The Ethics of Displaying Art in the Era of #MeToo
September 8, 2019
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 […]
Philosophy and Habit Workshop
Jun 7, 2019 - 12:00 am-June 8, 2019
Two days and ten speakers on the matter of habit. Free and open to the public.
Big Data Policing
April 10, 2019
Dr. Duncan Purves (UF) I am interested in the way that the promise of greater efficiency from AI-assisted decision-making can distract our attention away from pertinent ethical concerns like fairness and discrimination. There is a great deal of focus on the fact that the tech “works,” and diminished concern for whether it works in a way […]
5th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
April 6, 2019
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Andrea Westlund (FSU) This event is hosted by the UF Undergraduate Philosophy Society. Free and open to the public.