Unless otherwise indicated, we meet on Fridays, 10:30am-12:20pm, location TBD.
Fall 2016
Week 2: Friday, October 7: Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College), “Responsibility Without Wrongdoing or Blame”
Week 4: Friday, October 21: Amos Browne, “Normativism and Action-Explanation”
Week 6: Friday, November 4: Zack Loveless, “Virtue and Satisficing”
Week 7: Friday, November 11: Ben Laurence, “Agents of Change”
Week 8: Friday, November 18: Emilio Comay del Junco, “Racial Stigma”
Winter 2017
Week 3: Friday, January 20: Matthias Haase
Week 4: Friday, January 27: Amichai Amit
Week 6: Friday, February 10: TBD
Week 8: Friday, February 24: Pascal Brixel
Week 10: Friday, March 10: Meena Krishnamurthy (Michigan)
Spring 2017
Week 1: Friday, March 31: Agnes Callard
Week 2: Thursday, April 6, 3-5pm: L.A. Paul (UNC)
Week 4: Friday, April 21: Claire Kirwin
Week 7: Friday, May 12: Anastasia Berg
Week 9: Friday, May 26: Stephen White (Northwestern)
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Past Meetings:
Spring 2016 – all SQ meetings take place in Wieboldt 408 unless otherwise stated
Apr 1st, 10.30am-12.20pm: Anton Ford (UChicago), “The Province of Human Agency”
Apr 15th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Rory O’Connell (UChicago, grad student), “Thought As Movement”
Special Event: Apr 29th, ***3pm Saieh Hall 021*** Marcia Baron (Indiana University Bloomington) “Rethinking ‘One Thought Too Many'” (Keynote address for Chicagoland Graduate Philosophy Conference)
May 13th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Susan Wolf (UNC Chapel Hill)
May 20th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Claire Kirwin (UChicago, grad student) CANCELLED
Jun 3rd, 10.30am-12.20pm: Sharon Street (NYU)
Winter 2016 – all WQ meetings take place in Social Science Research Building, room 302
Jan 8th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Derrick Darby (University of Michigan), ‘The Fair Value of Voting Rights’
Jan 29th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Helga Varden (University of Illinois), ‘Giving Him a Second Chance: Talking with Kant on Sex’
Feb 5th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University), ‘The Inarticulate First Person’
Feb 19th (note revised date), 10.30am-12.20pm: Nethanel Lipshitz (UChicago, grad student), ‘Presenting a “Normative” Theory of Basic Equality’
Feb 26th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Francey Russell (UChicago, grad student), ‘Murkiness is the Rule: on Nomy Arpaly’s Account of Agent Self-Opacity’
Mar 11th,10.30am-12.20pm: Anastasia Artemyev Berg (UChicago, grad student), ‘Kant’s Moral Constitution as Aristotelian Energeia: the Deed outside Time’
Autumn 2015 – all AQ meetings take place in Social Sciences Research Building, room 401, unless otherwise specified
Oct 9th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Jessica Tizzard (UChicago grad student), ‘The Possibility of Kantian Frailty’
***Oct 22nd, 5.15-7.15pm, in Wieboldt 408***: Reshef Agam-Segal (Virginia Military Institute), ‘Clarifying Clarification: Wittgenstein on Moral Clarity’ (joint event with the Wittgenstein Workshop)
Oct 23rd, 10.30am-12.20pm: Dasha Polzik (UChicago, grad student) ‘Two Sources of Autonomy in Rousseau’
Oct 30th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Laurence Thomas (Syracuse), ‘Evolutionary Theory, Self-Command, and the Basic Moral Sentiments’
Nov 13th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Daniel Telech (UChicago, grad student), ‘Generously Guilty’
Nov 20th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Alexander Prescott-Couch (UChicago, Law and Philosophy Fellow), TBA
Spring 2015 – all meetings taking place in Social Science Research Building, room 401
April 3rd, 10.30am-12.20pm: Agnes Callard (UChicago) “Meeting The Self-Creation Requirement on Moral Responsibility” SS 401
April 24th April 17th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Amichai Amit (UChicago grad student), “Ethics and the meaning of ‘life'”, SS 401
May 1st, 10.30am-12.20pm: David Schweickart (Loyola University Chicago) “Sartre, Camus, and a Marxism for the 21st Century” SS 401
May 15th May 22nd, 10.30am-12.20pm: Jason Bridges (UChicago) “Two Kinds of Mental Causation” SS 401
May 29th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Santiago Mejia, “Self-Knowledge, Commitment, Ambivalence and Moral Development”, SS 401
May 22nd June 5th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Zachary Loveless (UChicago grad student) “Virtue and Acting on Principle” SS 401
Winter 2015
Jan 16th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Anthony Laden (UIC), “A sketch of a social picture of reasoning” SS401
Jan 30th, 10.30am-12.20pm: David Zapero (UChicago), “The Truth of Rigorism and the Origin of the Will”, SS401
Feb 27th Mar 6th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Pascal Brixel (UChicago grad student), “The Philosophical Insignificance of Intuitions about Moral Responsibility”, SS401
Mar 13th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Nishi Shah and Alexander George (Amherst), “Reading Austin Intentionally”, SS401
Mar 20th, 10.30am-12.20pm: Adam Etinson (UChicago), “The Moral vs. Political Debate About Human Rights: A Conceptual Exploration”, SS401
Autumn 2014
Oct 8th, 5-6.30pm: Marcus Willaschek workshop discussing his work on Kant’s Doctrine of Right (PPW / German Philosophy Workshop joint event). Cobb 107
Oct 10th, 10.30am-12.30pm: Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame), “Is Kant’s Formula of Autonomy itself ‘Autonomous’?” Cobb 102
Oct 24th, 10.30am-12.30pm: Nir Ben Moshe (Grad student, UChicago), “The Objectivity of Moral Judgment: David Hume’s and Adam Smith’s Moral Points of View” Cobb 102
Nov 14th, 10.30am-12.30pm: Tuomo Tiisala (Grad student, UChicago), “Autonomy, Not Practical Wisdom: Two Ideals of Moral Education” Cobb 102
Nov 21st, 10.30am-12.30pm: Amanda Greene (Law & Philosophy Fellow, UChicago), “Consent and Political Legitimacy” Cobb 102
Spring 2014
4/4 – Jason Bridges (Chicago) – “Necessitation and Practical Reason”
5/2 – Jonathan Lear (Chicago) – “The Peculiar Conversation: Revised Introduction to Freud (Second Edition)”
5/9 – Dasha Polzik (Chicago, graduate student) – “Moral Freedom From Within in Rousseau’s Emile”
5/30 – Luca Ferrero (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee) – “What is So Special About Agency? Inescapability Revisited ”
6/6 – Claire Kirwin (Chicago, graduate student) – “Going Wrong By One’s Own Lights: Why Metaethical Constructivism Doesn’t Work”
Winter 2014
1/24 – Sarah Conly (Bowdoin College & Chicago) – “One Child: Do We Have a Right to More?”
2/5 – Ariel Zylberman (McGill) – “The Juridical Epigenesis of Reason: Life, Second-personal Dignity, and Human Rights” * Joint Session with the Human Rights Workshop*
2/7 – Nancy Sherman (Georgetown) – “Moral Recovery After War: The Role of Hope”
2/14 – Nethanel Lipshitz (Chicago, graduate student) – “Formal Equality and Fundamental Equality”
3/7 – Dhananjay Jagannathan (Chicago, graduate student) – “Having the End in View: Why We Need Universal Principles in Deliberation and Practical Reasoning”
Fall 2013
10/18 – Charles Mills (Northwestern) – “Decolonizing Western Political Philosophy” *Irregular Week*
11/8 – Mark Schroeder (USC) – “The Price of Supervenience”
11/15 – Kate Abramson (Indiana University) – “Virtues, Natural Abilities, and Aspects of Mental Health: Lessons from Hume” *Irregular Week*
11/22 – Stephen Shortt (Chicago, graduate student) – “The Disappearing Other: The Vacancy of Darwall’s Second-Person Standpoint”
12/6 & 12/7 – Philosophy Graduate Research Conference featuring three past speakers at the PPW: David Holiday, Mark Hopwood, Joe Jubenow (Chicago, graduate students)
Spring 2013
4/10 (16:30-18:00, Social Sciences 224) – Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) – “What (if Anything) Is Wrong with Capitalism? Three Paths of the Critique of Capitalism” *Joint Session with the Human Rights Workshop*
4/19 – Tim Scanlon (Harvard) – “Metaphysical Objections to Normative Truth”
4/26 – Zack Loveless (Chicago, graduate student) – “‘Consequentialism’ in and after “Modern Moral Philosophy””
5/10 – Jason Bridges (Chicago) – “The Ecology of Reasons”
5/24 – John Bengson (University of Wisconsin at Madison) – “Practical Perception”
6/7 – Jonny Thakkar (Chicago, graduate student) – “Plato As Critical Theorist: Craftsmanship and Moneymaking in Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Michael Mann”
Winter 2013
1/18 – Nir Ben Moshe (Chicago, graduate student) – “How to Solve “The Moral Problem”: Why Humeans should not Aspire to be Kantians”
2/1 – Jennifer Johnson (Chicago, graduate student) – “Striving and Unity in Aristotelian Virtue”
2/15 – Sarah Buss (University of Michigan) – “The Possibility of Action as the Impossibility of Certain Forms of Self-alienation”
3/1 – Elijah Millgram (University of Utah) – “Millian Metaethics”
3/8 – Justin Coates (Chicago, Law and Philosophy Fellow) – “Freedom and Resentment in the Key of Kant”
3/15 – Alyssa Luboff (Chicago, graduate student) – “Three Kinds of Universal”
Fall 2012
10/12 – Sally Sedgwick (UIC) – “Freedom and Necessity in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and Philosophy of History”
10/26 – Santiago Mejia (Chicago, graduate student) – “On Why Self-Knowledge is Important for Iris Murdoch’s Project”
11/9 – Martin Gustafsson (Abo Akademi University) – “Anscombe’s Bird, Wittgenstein’s Cat: Intention, Expression and Convention”
11/16 – Joe Lubenow (Chicago, graduate student) – “Rawls as a Rights Theorist”
11/30 – Ben Laurence (Chicago) – “The Priority of Ideal Theory”
Spring 2012
4/6 – David Holiday (Chicago, graduate student) – ”Unthinkable, Unconscionable, Impossible: The Morality of Incapacity”
4/20 – Benjamin McKean (Chicago) – ”Justice and Social Order in the Political Realisms of Raymond Geuss and Bernard Williams”
5/4 – Russ Shafer-Landau (Wisconsin-Madison) – ”How Do the Origins of Our Moral Beliefs Affect their Credibility?”
5/18 – Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia) – title tbc
6/1 – Julie Cooper (University of Chicago, Dept of Political Science) – “A Diasporic Critique of Diasporism”
Winter 2012
1/13 – Rafeeq Hasan (Chicago, graduate student) – “Self-Respect, Solidarity, and the Demands of Justice”
1/20 – David Estlund (Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy and Lombardo Family Professor of Humanities at Brown University) – title tbc
1/27 – Will Small (Chicago, graduate student) – “Success and Failure in Action”
2/10 – Joe Lubenow (Chicago, graduate student; joint session w/ Human Rights workshop) – “Raz and the Interest Theory of Rights”
2/24 – Mark Hopwood (Chicago, graduate student) – tbc
3/9 – Anton Ford (Chicago): “The Province of Human Agency”
Fall 2011
10/7 – Lisa Hicks (University of Chicago, graduate student) – ‘The Kernel of Man: Schopenhauerian Echoes in Nietzsche’s Account of the Self’
10/21 – Jose Torralba (University of Navarra, visiting scholar at the University of Chicago) – ‘Brute Facts and the Intentionality of Action’
11/4 – Nate Zuckerman (University of Chicago, graduate student) – title tbc
11/18 – Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza Università di Roma) – ‘Reshaping Ethics After Wittgenstein’
12/2 – Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University) – title tbc
Spring 2011
Weds 3/30 (1st week) – Micah Lott (graduate student; special recruitment week workshop – meets in Wiebolt 408)
Fri 4/8 (2nd week) – David Sussman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Fri 5/6 (6th week) – Anselm Mueller (emeritus, University of Trier) *Rescheduled for Friday May 13th*
Fri 5/13 (7th week) – Robert Adams (UNC Chapel Hill) *Canceled*
Fri 6/3 (10th week) – Will Small (graduate student)
All meetings are 10.30am – 12.20pm, and meet in Rosenwald 405 unless otherwise stated.
Winter 2011
Jan 14th – Jennifer Lockhart (Chicago, graduate student): “A Jewel that Shines by its Own Light: The Good Will and Moral Luck”
Jan 28th – Rafeeq Hasan (Chicago, graduate student): “Politics, Property, and Personhood: Rousseau Contra Kant”
Feb 18th – Agnes Callard (Chicago): “Remoralizing Weakness of Will”
Mar 4th – Dasha Polzik (Chicago, graduate student): title tbc
Mar 11th – David Sussman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): title tbc
Fall 2010
10/8 – A.J. Julius (UCLA) – “To Do With Others”
10/15 – Micah Lott (Chicago) – “Human Economy and Global Justice”
10/29 – **CANCELED** Charles Todd (Chicago) – “Two Kinds of Defect”
11/12 – Erica Holberg (Chicago) – “Common Sense and the Experience of Pleasure in Aristotle, Kant, and Sidgwick”
11/19 – Paul Weithman (Notre Dame) – “Legitimacy and the Project of Political Liberalism”
12/3 – Ryan Long (Chicago) – title tbc
Spring 2010
Mar 31st – Will Small (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Intention and Cognition” – Cobb 116
NOTE: This workshop will be held on Wednesday evening from 4.30pm – 6.20pm
Apr 9th – Ryan Long (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Fixing Egalitarian Appeals to Responsibility” – Classics 405
Apr 16th – Niko Kolodny (Berkeley) – Classics 405
May 7th – Rafeeq Hasan (Chicago, Graduate Student) – Classics 405
May 28th – Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore) – Classics 405
June 4th – Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) – Classics 405
Winter 2010
Jan 15th – Micah Lott (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Moral Virtue as Knowledge of Human Form” – Classics 405
Jan 29th – Jonathan Garthoff (Northwestern): “Mimicking Korsgaard” (Joint session with Modern Philosophy Workshop) – Classics 405
Feb 5th – Kristen Boyce (Chicago, Graduate Student): “The Thinking Body:
Philosophy, Dance and Modernism” – Classics 405
Feb 12th – Joe Lubenow (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Gewirth and Marginal Agents” – Classics 405
Feb 26th – Charles Todd (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Skepticism about the Good” – Classics 405
Fall 2009
Oct 16th – Erica Holberg (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Apparent Pleasures and the Human Good in the Nicomachean Ethics” – Classics 405
Oct 23rd – Jonathan Lear (Chicago): “Becoming Human Is Not That Easy” – Rosenwald 015
Oct 30th – Jay Elliott (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Tight Corners and the Need for Virtues” – Classics 405
Nov 20th – Richard Kraut (Northwestern): “Against Absolute Goodness” – Rosenwald 015
Dec 4th – Jenn Lockhart (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Kierkegaard’s Indirect Communication as Ethical Teaching” – Classics 405