Past Events
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September 4, 2023 Philosophy Colloquium: "There Are Divinities in Liberal Market Societies Too," Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma) November 7, 2023 Philosophy Open House November 17, 2023
Philosophy Colloquium: "Co-opting Artificial Achievement," Nate Sharadin (University of Hong Kong) December 4, 2023 Philosophy Lunchtime Colloquium: "Understanding Quantum Mechanics," Mario Hubert (American University of Cairo) February 19, 2024 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Research Seminar: "Can We Forfeit Our Territorial Rights?" Margaret Moore (Queen's University) February 19, 2024 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Resdience Lecture: "Territory and Self-Determination," Margaret Moore (Queen's University) February 21, 2024 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Research Seminar: "Rectifying Historical Territorial Injustices," Margaret Moore (Queen's University) April 3, 2024 Philosophy Open House April 22, 2024 Philosophy Lunchtime Colloquium: "The Soul's Retreat from Death," Matt Walker (Yale-NUS) -
November 2, 2022 Philosophy Open House November 3, 2022
Philosophy Lunchtime Colloquium: "Indescribable As Existent or Non-Existent: Phenomenal Experience in Advaita Vedānta," Dimitry Shevchenko (Ashoka University) November 7, 2022 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Research Seminar: "Reflections on the Definition of Terrorism," Quassim Cassam (University of Warwick) November 9, 2022 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Research Seminar: "Philosophical Virtues," Quassim Cassam (University of Warwick) November 9, 2022 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Lecture: "Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis," Quassim Cassam (University of Warwick) November 28, 2022 Philosophy Colloquium: "Backward Causation in Buddhist Philosophy," Eli Franco (Universität Leipzig)
April 3, 2023 Philosophy Open House April 10, 2023 Philosophy Colloquium: "Against Agent Regret," Daniel Weltman (Ashoka University) May 4, 2023 Philosophy Lunchtime Colloquium: "Weber's Law as a Challenge to Phenomenal Diaphaneity," Assaf Weksler (University of Haifa) -
November 8, 2021 Philosophy Colloquium: "Against Plural Instantiation," Phillip Meadows (UAEU) December 8, 2021
Philosophy Colloquium: "Kant on the Nature of Logical and Moral Laws," Daniele Mezzadri (UAEU) March 1, 2022 Philosophy Colloquium: "Moral Agency and the Question of Human Nature," Oren Hanner (NYU Abu Dhabi) March 4, 2022 Philosophy Colloquium: "The Moral Psychology of Anger in Early China and Ancient Greece," Alba Curry (University of California, Riverside) March 8, 2022 Philosophy Colloquium: "Can Kwame Kyekye's Moderate Communitarianism Take the Individual Seriously?" Olúfémi Táíwò (Cornell University)
March 11, 2022 Philosophy Colloquium: "Transitional Legitimacy," Jonathan Kwan (Santa Clara University) -
September 29, 2020 Philosophy Colloquium: "What Is Morality?" Kieran Setiya (MIT) October 13, 2020
Philosophy Colloquium: "The Illogical Logic of Science," Michael Strevens (NYU) November 3, 2020 Philosophy Colloquium: "Grounding for Explanatory Idealists," David Mark Kovacs (Tel Aviv University) November 17, 2020 Philosophy Open House December 8, 2020 Philosophy Colloquium: "What Are We Doing When We Laught at Failure?" Lucy O'Brien (University College London) -
October 6, 2019 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Pragmatic Encroachment and the Knowledge-Threshold," Simon Langford (UAEU) November 4, 2019
Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Lecture: "Conceptual Analysis and Its Limits," Karen Bennett (Rutgers University) November 5, 2019 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Making Things Up," Karen Bennett (Rutgers University November 6, 2019 Philosophy Open House November 7, 2019 Philosophy Research Seminar: "Going Underground," Karen Bennett (Rutgers University) November 14, 2019 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Reliabilists Should Still Fear the Demon," Brent Madison (UAEU) February 9–11, 2020 Workshop: "Normativity and Reasoning," convened by Sarah Paul and Matthew Silverstein (NYU Abu Dhabi) -
October 28, 2018 Philosophy Open House November 8, 2018 Philosophy Talk: "Hume's Robust Theory of Practical Reason," Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) November 15, 2018 Philosophy Talk: "Dispensing with the Agent-Relative," Alan Thomas (University of York) November 18, 2018 Philosophy Lunchtime Talk: "Limits of Autonomy and Self-Constitution," Tuomo Tiisala (NYU Abu Dhabi) November 25, 2018 Philosophy Talk: "Skepticism Meets Dogmatism: Evidence and the Correction of Doubts in Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding," Don Garrett (NYU) December 11, 2018 Philosophy Talk: "Free Will and Luck: Compatibilism vs. Incompatibilism," Alfred Mele (Florida State University)
January 13–15, 2019 Workshop: "Normativity and Reasoning," convened by Matthew Silverstein (NYU Abu Dhabi) January 14–16, 2019
Workshop: "Foundations of Meaning: Pictures, Perception, and Consciousness," convened by Gabriel Rabin (NYU Abu Dhabi) January 27, 2019 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Gardens of Philosophy: 'Philosophy' in Japan, China, and Egypt" Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (NYU) February 17, 2019 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Peer Disagreement and Knowing If You're Right," N. Gabriel Martin (Lebanese American University) March 3, 2019 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Übermensch or Untermensch: A Phenomenological Critique of Heidegger’s 'Overman'," Sheridan Hough (College of Charleston) March 6, 2019 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Lecture: "The Self: Discovered, or Made?" Sheridan Hough (College of Charleston)
March 12, 2019 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Lecture: "Virtues of Self-Knowledge," Christian Coseru (College of Charleston)
March 13, 2019 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "'Vivid-for-me-ness': Consciousness and the Problem of Nonconceptual Content," Christian Coseru (College of Charleston) April 2, 2019 Philosophy Open House May 5, 2019 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Acts of Identity: A Political Theory of Biography," William Stahl (NYU Abu Dhabi) -
November 8, 2017 Philosophy Open House December 10–11, 2017
Workshop: "Al-Ghazālī: The Major (Mature) Works," convened by Taneli Kukkonen (NYU Abu Dhabi)
December 18–19, 2017
Workshop: "Virtues of Attention: Global Philosophical Perspectives," convened by Jonardon Ganeri (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Jake Davis (NYU Abu Dhabi) February 19–21, 2018
Workshop: "Normativity and Reasoning," convened by Matthew Silverstein (NYU Abu Dhabi) March 15, 2018 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Against Practically Rational Belief," Stewart Cohen (University of Arizona)
March 18, 2018 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Temperance: Metaphysics and Moral Psychology," Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina) March 22, 2018 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Physics Is a Kind of Metaphysics," Marco Giovanelli (University of Tübingen)
March 22–23, 2018
Conference: "Virtues of Attention: Global Philosophical Perspectives," convened by Jonardon Ganeri (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Jake Davis (NYU Abu Dhabi) April 10, 2018 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Preference Capture," L. A. Paul (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of St. Andrews) April 10, 2018 Philosophy Open House April 12, 2018 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Lecture: "Transformative Experience," L. A. Paul (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of St. Andrews)
April 19, 2018 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "The Spread Mind: A Mind-Object Identity Theory," Riccardo Manzotti (IULM University of Milan)
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October 30, 2016 Philosophy Open House January 17–19, 2017
Workshop: "Normativity and Reasoning," convened by Matthew Silverstein (NYU Abu Dhabi) February 9, 2017 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Exploding the Vehicle," Kranti Saran (Ashoka University) February 16, 2017 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "From Semi-Abstract Argumentation to Logical Consequence," Esther Corsi (University of Vienna) February 23, 2017 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Platonists on Starting Points of Reasoning," Pauliina Remes (Uppsala University)
February 28, 2017 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Dialectic in Alexander of Aphrodisias' On Fate and On Providence," Peter Adamson (LMU Munich) March 2, 2017 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Lecture: "Al-Rāzī on Time and Space," Peter Adamson (LMU Munich)
March 30, 2017 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Scientific Realism Meets Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics," Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds) April 6, 2017 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Plotinus on the Sensible World," Pavlos Kalligas (University of Athens) April 27, 2017 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Evil and the (Dis)unity of the Subject in Kant," Lucy Allais (University of the Witwatersrand and University of California, San Diego) April 28–29, 2017
Workshop: "Mathematics and Philosophy of Physics," convened by Kevin Coffey (NYU Abu Dhabi), Federico Camia (NYU Abu Dhabi), and Matthew Kleban (NYU) May 4, 2017 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Grit," Sarah Paul (University of Wisconsin) May 11, 2017 Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar: "Making Silence Speak: Al-Ghazālī, the Ancient Virtues, and the Quandaries of Interpretation," Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
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September 29, 2015 Lecture: "Henry of Ghent on Self-Interest," Mikko Yrjönsuuri (University of Jyväskylä) October 8, 2015 Lecture: "Al-Ghazālī on Ethics," Taneli Kukkonen (NYU Abu Dhabi) November 3, 2015 Lecture: "The One Who Fails to Act: The Non-Subject in Early Kalām," David Bennett (University of Gothenburg)
November 10, 2015 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Lecture: "Plato on Utopia and the Ideal Society," Julia Annas (University of Arizona) January 24–26, 2016
Workshop: "Normativity and Reasoning," convened by Matthew Silverstein (NYU Abu Dhabi) January 25, 2016 Lecture: "Aesthetic Responsibility," Susan Wolf (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) February 8, 2016 Lecture: "Explanatory Pluralism," C. Mantzavinos (University of Athens) February 19–20, 2016 Workshop: "Normativity," convened by Gabriel Rabin (NYU Abu Dhabi)
February 21, 2016 Lecture: "Why Reputation Matters," Gloria Origgi (Ecole Normale Supérieure) March 28, 2016 Philosophy Open House
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October 1, 2014 Lecture: "Adam Smith and David Hume on Sympathy," Hans Muller (American University of Beirut) October 14, 2014 Philosophy Open House November 25, 2014 Lecture: "Charity and Causation," Marianne Talbot (Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford)
December 16, 2014 Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence Lecture: "The Difference between Ice Cream and Nazis: Evolution, Cooperation, and the Function of Moral Externalism," P. Kyle Stanford (University of California, Irvine) January 18–20, 2015
Workshop: "Normativity and Reasoning," convened by Matthew Silverstein (NYU Abu Dhabi) January 18, 2015 Lecture: "Cultures of Conviction," Katia Vavova (Mt. Holyoke College) February 4, 2015 Lecture: "From Degrees of Belief to Belief: Lessons from Judgment-Aggregation Theory," Christian List (London School of Economics) March 17, 2015 Lecture: "Dialectics between Suspicion and Trust," Ray Brassier (American University of Beirut)
March 29, 2015 Lecture: "Objectivity: How Much Can We Have?" Gordon Belot (University of Michigan) April 9, 2015 Philosophy Open House
April 16–17, 2015
Conference: "Justification and the Mental," convened by Jonardon Ganeri (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Gabriel Rabin (NYU Abu Dhabi) -
January 19–21, 2014
Workshop: "Normativity and Reasoning," convened by Matthew Silverstein (NYU Abu Dhabi) January 19, 2014 Lecture: "Understanding Ethics," Matthew Silverstein (NYU Abu Dhabi) February 2, 2014 Film: Hannah Arendt, with introduction and discussion led by Harold Sjursen April 22, 2014 Philosophy Open House
April 29, 2014 Lecture: "Benefiting from Injustice: In Search of an Underlying Principle," Bashshar Haydar (American University of Beirut) May 14, 2014 Discussion: "Why Be Moral in Business?" David Dick (University of Calgary)