The Practical Philosophy Workshop meets on Mondays from 10:30am-12:20pm in Social Sciences Research Building, Room 302, unless otherwise noted.
Winter 2025:
January 13: Jeremy Fix (Oxford) “The Generality of Normative Thought”
February 3: Kristen De Man (UChicago) TBD
February 17: Micah Lott (Boston College, Notre Dame) TBD
March 3: Kate Petroff (UChicago) TBD
Fall 2024:
October 7: John Muller (UChicago), “Unsettledness and the ‘Simple Soul’”
October 21: Pascal Brixel (Northwestern), “Coercion, Coercive Offers, and Questionable Incentives.”
November 4: William Grant Ray (Visiting student, UChicago), “Parents and Peers: A Kantian Theory of Moral Development”
November 11: John Proios (UChicago), “Putting the Soul in Chains: Toward a Platonic Theory of Ideology”
Spring 2024:
March 29: Anton Ford (UChicago), “The Objectification of Agency”
***** This workshop will be held jointly with the German Philosophy Workshop and will take place in Wieboldt Hall, Room 408, from 3-5:20.
April 8: Gus Law (UChicago), “The Intellectual Connection between Intentional Action and Its Agent”
April 22: Melina Garibovic (UChicago), ‘The Problem of Other-Awareness”
April 29: Harmonie Loritz (UChicago), “A Puzzle about Emotional Maturity”
May 13: Richard Kim (Loyola University Chicago), “Suffering and the Good Life”
May 20: Ben Conroy (UChicago), Title TBD
Winter 2024:
January 8: Duygu Tunc (UChicago), “Individual and Collective Epistemic Virtue in Science: Learning from the Credibility Crisis”
January 22: Greg Brown (UChicago), “The Teleological Conception of Practical Reason
February 5: Mikayla Kelley (UChicago), “The Normative Function of Intentional Action”
February 19: Kate Petroff (UChicago), “Making Human Beings”
Fall 2023:
October 16: John Muller (UChicago), “Settledness and the Disability Theorist”
October 23: Laurenz Ramsauer (UChicago), “The Efficacy Puzzle”
November 3: Jed Lewinsohn (Pittsburgh, UChicago Law), “The ‘Natural Intelligibility’ of Normative Powers”
***** This workshop will be held jointly with the German Philosophy Workshop and will take place in Wieboldt Hall, Room 408 from 3-5:20pm.
November 13: Kristen De Man (UChicago), “The Value of Human Life”
November 27: Claire Kirwin (Northwestern), “”Realism, Disagreement, and Moral Knowledge”