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.
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2025-2026
June 16-27: Bayesian Boot Camp Details
2024-2025
September 25: Clayton Littlejohn (Australian Catholic University) Details
October 18: Verónica Gómez Sánchez (University of California-Berkeley) Details
November 1: Julia Jorati (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) Details
November 13: Viacheslav Zahorodniuk (Ciplijauskaité Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities) Details
November 22: Daniel Muñoz (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Details
April 11: Cailin O’Connor (University of California-Irvine) Details
April 25: Harvey Lederman (University of Texas) Details
2023-2024
October 20: Sara Aronowitz (Toronto) Details
November 3: Derk Pereboom (Cornell) Details
December 1: Cat Saint-Croix (Minnesota)
March 15: Elizabeth Harman (Princeton)
April 26: 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)