4th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
April 14, 2018
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Shelly Park (UCF) This event is hosted by the UF Undergraduate Philosophy Society
Understanding Austin’s Way with Skepticism
April 13, 2018
Dr. Mark Kaplan (Indiana) J.L. Austin is famous for having written as if what we say while doing epistemology needs to accord faithfully with what we would say in ordinary circumstances. Most would say, “infamous”. Not long after Austin’s death, there formed a durable consensus that Austin’s “ordinary language” approach to epistemological problems was fundamentally misguided […]
SEG: 12th Annual Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference
Apr 6, 2018 - 12:00 am-April 7, 2018
Keynote Speaker: Dr. RICHARD BOYD (Cornell). This event is hosted by the UF Graduate Philosophy Society.
41st Annual Ancient Philosophy Workshop
Feb 23, 2018 - 12:00 am-February 24, 2018
Keynote Speaker: Dr. KATJA VOGT (Columbia). This event is sponsored by the UF Dept of Philosophy, the Dept of Classics and the UF Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere.
Undergraduate Conference on Minorities in Philosophy
December 2, 2017
This event is hosted by the UF Society of Women in Philosophy.
Emergence and the Characterization of the Fundamental
December 1, 2017
Dr. Jessica Wilson (U Toronto) Other things being equal, a characterization of what it is to be fundamental should accommodate the in-principle possibility of strong, metaphysical emergence. In this talk, I’ll argue that such accommodation pushes against independence-based characterizations of the fundamental, according to which what it is to be fundamental is to be un-grounded or un-built, and […]
World Philosophy Day
November 16, 2017
Join the United Nations in celebrating World Philosophy Day! Established to foster philosophical analysis and raise public awareness of the importance of philosophy and the need for free, critical and responsible philosophical reflection.
Florida Philosophical Association Meeting
Nov 3, 2017 - 12:00 am-November 4, 2017
63rd annual FPA philosophy conference. Forty-seven philosophers speak on a wide variety of topics. Hosted by College of Central Florida in Ocala.
Expertise: Who Should I Believe?
November 2, 2017
Thinking for yourself and trusting experts Dinner and discussion with Drs Stewart Duncan & Duncan Purves
Artificial Intelligence: Transcending the Brain?
October 20, 2017
Dr. Susan Schneider (U Connecticut) We are in the midst of an AI revolution. Artificial intelligence is projected eventually to render us obsolete in the workplace, and even, according to some, eventually outthink us. The age of AI presents philosophers with many issues to mull over: can there truly be conscious AIs? Will there really be human-level […]