Events
Philosophy Events
Academic Year 2025-2026
Events are open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and to others by invitation. If you're interested in attending, please contact the Philosophy Program.
| January 30, 2026 | Philosophy Colloquium: "What Clinical Documentation Reveals About LLMs," Joshua (Gus) Skorburg (University of Guelph) | 10:00–11:30am |
| February 9, 2026 | Philosophy Lunchtime Colloquium: "Regime Legitimacy in an Ideologically Divisive World," Joseph Chan (Academica Sinica) | 12:45–2:15pm |
| March 30, 2026 | Philosophy Lunchtime Colloquium: "TBD," Alice Huang (Western University) | 12:45–2:15pm |
Distinguished Philosophers-in-Residence
For eight years, the Distinguished Philosophers-in-Residence series was one of the Philosophy Program's signature projects. Each year, we brought a different distinguished senior philosopher to NYU Abu Dhabi for a weeklong visit, during which the philosopher-in-residence met with students, attended one or more classes, delivered a public lecture, and participated in a series of faculty seminars on issues related to his or her work.
Our final Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence was Margaret Moore, Professor of Philosophy and Political Studies and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity at Queen's University. Professor Moore visited in February of 2024.
The series is currently on hold, so that the Philosophy Program can focus on bringing more individual speakers to visit NYU Abu Dhabi and give talks each semester.
Past Distinguished Philosophers-in-Residence
| 2023–24 | Margaret Moore, Professor of Philosophy and Political Studies and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity at Queen's University (February 19–23, 2024) |
| 2022–23 | Quassim Cassam, Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University (November 7–11, 2022) |
| 2019–20 | Karen Bennett, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University (November 3–7, 2019) |
| 2018–19 | Sheridan Hough and Christian Coseru, Professors of Philosophy at the College of Charleston (March 3–14, 2019) |
| 2017–18 | L. A. Paul, Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Professorial Fellow at St. Andrews University in Scotland (April 8–12, 2018) |
| 2016–17 | Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (February 26–March 2, 2017) |
| 2015–16 | Julia Annas, Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona (November 8–11, 2015) |
| 2014–15 | P. Kyle Stanford, Professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine (December 15–18, 2014) |
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