Colloquia and Conferences

Each year the philosophy department at UW-Madison hosts several colloquia, conferences, and workshops. This year’s events and those of past years are listed below.

If you would like to be added to the UW Philosophy events email list, please email the Philosophy Dept. Administrator

2023-2024

October 20th: Sara Aronowitz (Toronto)  Details
November 3rd: Derk Pereboom (Cornell)   Details
December 1st: Cat Saint-Croix (Minnesota)
March 15th: Elizabeth Harman (Princeton)
April 26th: L. A. Paul (Yale)

2022-2023

October 7: Uriah Kriegel (Rice)
October 28: Jane Friedman (NYU)
November 18: Paul Audi (Rochester)
March 10: Agnes Callard (Chicago)
March 31: Antonia Peacocke (Stanford)
April 14: Alva Noë (UC-Berkeley)

2021-2022

September 24: Alison Peterman (University of Rochester)
October 8: Colin McLear (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
October 22: Helen Longino (Stanford University)
November 5: C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah)
April 1: Nina Emery (Mount Holyoke College)
April 8: Ray Briggs (Stanford)
April 22: Alyssa Ney (UC Davis)
May 6: Agnes Callard (University of Chicago)

2020-2021 (All Online)

September 11: Desiree Lim (Penn State)
September 25-27: Madison Metaethics Workshop
October 2: Serene Khader (CUNY)
October 9: Quayshawn Spencer (UPenn)
November 20: Agustín Rayo (MIT)
December 11: Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh)
Feb 12: Paolo Santorio (Maryland)
March 12: Declan Smithies (Ohio State)
March 24: UW Philosophers at Work, Paul Kelleher
April 9: Patricia Marechal (Northwestern)
April 23: Alison Wylie (UBC)

2019-2020

September 13-15: Madison Metaethics Workshop
September 27: Ted Sider (Rutgers)
October 18: Rusty Jones (Oklahoma)
November 1: Susan Wolf (UNC-Chapel Hill)
November 15: Kieran Setiya (MIT)
January 24: Naomi Zack (Lehman College, CUNY)
February 24:  Anne Eaton (Illinois-Chicago)
March 13: Nomy Arpaly (Brown)

2018-2019

Shamik Dasgupta (Berkeley)
Madison Metaethics Workshop
Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M)
Charles Siewert (Rice)
North American Kant Society meeting
Richard Dees (Rochester)
Dilip Ninan (Tufts)
Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern)
Jenann Ismael (Columbia)
Lucy Allais (UCSD/Witwaterstrand)

2017-2018

Madison Metaethics Workshop
Matthew Boyle (Chicago)
Midwest Annual Workshop in Metaphysics
Mihnea Capraru (Nazarbayev University)
Susan James (Birbeck)
Elliot Paul (Barnard/Columbia)
Caspar Hare (MIT)
Nancy Cartwright (UCSD/Durham)
Tommie Shelby (Harvard)
Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers)
Louis DeRosset (Vermont)
John Dunne (UW-Madison)
Elizabeth Harman (Princeton)

2016-2017

Hartry Field (NYU)
Corinne Gartner (Wellesley)
John Campbell (Berkeley)
Sally Haslanger (MIT)
Tamar Schapiro (MIT)
Jonathan Cohen (UCSD)
Deborah Brown (Queensland)

2015-2016

Sarah Moss (Michigan)
Belief, Rationality, and Action over Time conference
Neuroscience and Public Philosophy talk: Adina Roskies (Dartmouth)
Stephen Neale (CUNY)
Kant on Knowledge and Cognition conference
David Hilbert (UIC)
Kate Manne (Cornell)
Louise Antony (Umass Amherst)
David Brink (UCSD)
Conference: Descartes’s Treatise on Man, Philosophical, Scientific and Art Historical Perspectives
Gideon Rosen (Princeton)
Peter Vranas (UW-Madison)

2014-2015

Tim Maudlin (NYU)
David Enoch (Hebrew University)
Lisa Downing (Ohio State)
Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA)
T.M. Scanlon (Harvard)
Tim Crane (Cambridge)
Gabriel Richardson Lear (Chicago)
Sharon Street (NYU)

2013-2014

Madison Metaethics Workshop
Kit Wellman (Washington)
Lara Buchak (Berkeley)
Rachana Kamtekar (Arizona)
Christopher Hitchcock (Caltech)
Michael Huemer (Colorado-Boulder)
Formal Epistemology Workshop
Haven Center talk: Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan)
Margaret Walker (Marquette)
Susan Sauve Meyer (Penn)
Philosophy of Biology at Madison Workshop

2012-2013

Brie Gertler (Virginia)
Madison Metaethics Workshop
Michael Bratman (Stanford)
David Christensen (Brown)
Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers)
James Woodward (Pittsburgh)
Luca Ferrero (UW-Milwaukee)
John Martin Fischer (UC-Riverside)

2011-2012

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke)
Madison Metaethics Workshop
Diana Meyers (Connecticut)
John Doris (Washington University, Saint Louis)
The Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Blain Neufeld (UW-Milwaukee)
Anat Schechtman (Chicago)
Karen Bennett (Cornell)
Bernhard Nickel (Harvard)