Southeast Graduate Student Conference
Mar 29, 2019 - 12:00 am-March 30, 2019
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Chris Heathwood (U Colorado) 13th Annual Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference. SEGPC is a national philosophy conference organized annually by the Graduate Student Philosophy Society of the University of Florida.
Promise and Problems in Emerging Technology
Feb 28, 2019 - 12:00 am-March 1, 2019
Shaping the Societal Impact of Artificial Intelligence Machine learning and artificial intelligence have emerged as an indispensable tool in virtually every major institution. But each application of artificial intelligence carries with it distinct opportunities and challenges. Promise and Problems in Emerging Technology seeks to address these challenges by bringing together international and regional experts investigating […]
How to Get Certain Knowledge from Fallible Justification
February 15, 2019
Dr. Peter Klein (Rutgers) Sometimes fallible justification can yield certain knowledge. This talk aims to show that one sort of view about knowledge (defeasible infinitism)…… is able to explain this phenomenon whereas various other epistemic theories cannot. We will spend some time getting clear on what makes a belief certain and what makes a justification fallible.
We Need Non-Factive Metaphysical Explanation
November 30, 2018
Dr. Mike Bertrand (Auburn) I argue that metaphysicians need a non-factive notion of potential metaphysical explanation in order to make sense of explanationist arguments, arguments in which a view is motivated by its superior ability to explain. I offer an account of non-factive metaphysical explanation drawing on existing applications of structural equation models to metaphysical grounding.
World Philosophy Day
November 15, 2018
The United Nations celebrates the ‘enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought’. “UNESCO leads World Philosophy Day – but does not own it. It belongs to everyone, everywhere, who cares about philosophy.”
Social Media: NETWORKING OR NOT WORKING?
November 8, 2018
23rd Annual Food & Talk event! Join us for food and discussion on a topic of broad philosophical interest. Professors Rodrigo Borges and Amber Ross will open the discussion with remarks on one of the most life-changing and fraught technologies of our time. Food & Talk is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and devoted to our undergraduate […]
Florida Philosophical Association Conference
Nov 2, 2018 - 12:00 am-November 3, 2018
The 64th annual meeting of the FPA takes place November 2nd & 3rd in Pensacola, FL. Two days, forty philosophy talks. This event is hosted by Pensacola State College and sponsored by the Florida Philosophical Association.
What Was Kant’s Critical Philosophy Critical Of?
October 26, 2018
Dr. Catherine Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center/Univ of York) Immanuel Kant is universally regarded as a philosopher of freedom in both pure and applied moral philosophy. His ‘critical philosophy’ is often said to have reconciled human freedom with Newtonian science. It is also believed to articulate a sharp moral distinction between persons — who ought not be used […]
Ethics and Education in the Age of Accountability
October 24, 2018
Dr. Jaime Ahlberg (Philosophy, UF) “Disability as Difference: Implications for Educational Justice” Elizabeth Currin (Education, UF) “Storied Stance: An Oral History of Long-Term Teacher Researchers in the Age of Accountability” This event is hosted and sponsored by the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
Applying Moral Caution
September 21, 2018
Dr. Jon Matheson (UNF) This talk will explore an issue concerning the moral status of alternative actions — a kind of asymmetry of knowledge that sometimes arises…… and has significant ramifications for what it is morally permissible to do. We will see how this issue in fact arises in the cases of vegetarianism, abortion, and charitable […]