Night Owls Spring 2020 Schedule

For the Spring Quarter 2020, Night Owls will be moving online! Below is a list of speakers who are scheduled to be in conversation with Agnes Callard (Philosophy, UChicago) this spring quarter. All events will be held online on Thursday Nights at 5:00-8:00 p.m. (Central Standard Time).

  • Patrick Jagoda (English, Cinema and Media Studies, UChicago), Life Online: Community or Isolation? (April 9)
  • Steve White (Philosophy, Northwestern), The End of the World? (April 16)
  • Daniel Diermeier (Harris School, UChicago), Why Do Universities Matter? (April 23)
  • Kevin Hector (Divinity School, UChicago), God (April 30)
  • Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (Harris School, UChicago), The Perils of Quantification (May 7)
  • Brian Frye (University of Kentucky Law School), A Defense of Plagiarism (May 14)
  • Abe, Macabee, and Izzy (University of Chicago Laboratory School Students), What Does It Mean to Be a Child? (May 21)
  • Chris Kennedy (Linguistics, UChicago), Is Language a Game? (May 28)
  • Daniel Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies, UChicago), Why Movies Matter (June 4)

I'm a third-year PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Chicago. My interests are Kant and the philosophy of mind on the one hand, and ethics, psychoanalysis and existentialism on the other.
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