Event Archive


Wed Nov 8, 2023
Alumni House
4:10–6:15 PM
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU)
Self-Consciousness and ‘I’ – Anscombe and Sartre in Dialogue
Thu Nov 9, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU)
Conflicting logics of the mind: Lessons from Kant and Freud
Thu Nov 16, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Graduate Research Colloquium
Guillaume Massas (UC Berkeley)
Galileo’s Paradox and a Fork in the Road Not Taken
Fri Nov 17, 2023
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Bryan Garsten (Yale University)
Fri Nov 17, 2023
Evans 60
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Alexander Kechris (Caltech)
The compact action realization problem
Mon Nov 20, 2023
12–1 PM
Work in Progress Talk
Ezra Rubenstein
Thu Nov 30, 2023
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Graduate Research Colloquium
Joseph Kassman-Tod (UC Berkeley)
Aesthetic Humility as ‘Remembrance’: A Critical Virtue
Fri Dec 1, 2023
12:15–2:30 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Murad Idris (University of Michigan)
Re-Orienting Luther: Soldiers, Missionaries, and Second-Comings
Fri Dec 8, 2023
Evans 60
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
John Wright (UC Berkeley)
Nonlocal games, MIP* = RE, and the Connes Embedding Problem
Fri Jan 19, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Ruth Chang (Oxford)
Does AI Design Rest on a Mistake?
Fri Jan 19, 2024
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Lenore Blum (Berkeley)
A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness and Artificial General Intelligence
Mon Jan 22, 2024
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Allison Piñeros-Glasscock
To Benefit or Succeed: A Tension in Stoic Ethics
Tue Jan 23, 2024
Howison Library
6–7:30 PM
Undergraduate Philosophy Event
Ruth Chang
A puzzle concerning human agency
Thu Jan 25, 2024
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Lea Schroeder
A puzzle about sight in Plato’s Timaeus
Fri Jan 26, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Jessika Riskin (History of Science, Stanford)
Intelligence vs Reductionism
Mon Jan 29, 2024
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Sam Meister
What Is the Purpose of Aristotle’s Theology?
Wed Jan 31, 2024
Berkeley Way West, Room 8034
10 AM–3 PM
Conference
Ashish Goel, Paul Gölz, Wesley Holliday, Zoi Terzopoulou
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Computational Social Choice
Thu Feb 1, 2024
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Marko Malink
The Metaphysical Basis of Aristotle’s Logic
Fri Feb 2, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Melanie Mitchell (Cognitive Science, Santa Fe Institute)
The Debate Over Understanding in AI’s Large Language Models
Fri Feb 2, 2024
Evans 60
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Paulo Mancosu and Guillaume Massas (Berkeley)
Totality, Regularity and Cardinality in Probability Theory
Mon Feb 5, 2024
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
James Allen
Aristotle on the relation between Dialectic & Philosophy
Wed Feb 7, 2024
Philosophy 234
6–8 PM
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science
Matthew Mandelkern (NYU)
The Logic of Sequences
Thu Feb 8, 2024
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Rachel Barney
The Ethics and Politics of Plato’s Noble Lie
Fri Feb 9, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Alison Gopnik (Psychology, Berkeley)
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)
Fri Feb 16, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Josh Tenenbaum & Laura Schulz (Cognitive Science, MIT)
Principles of Intelligence
Fri Feb 16, 2024
Evans 60
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Jing Zhang (University of Toronto)
The strengths and weaknesses of the second uncountable cardinal
Fri Feb 23, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Michael Tomasello (Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke)
How to Build a Normative Creature
Fri Mar 1, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Yoshua Bengio (Cognitive Science, Montréal)
Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States
Fri Mar 1, 2024
Evans 60
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Mariana Vicaría (UCLA)
Model theory of valued fields
Thu Mar 7, 2024
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
John Carriero
Spinoza and Our Ontological Demotion
Fri Mar 8, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Sydney Levine (Psychology, Allen Institute)
Resource-Rational Contractualism: A Triple Theory of Moral Cognition
Mon Mar 11, 2024
Howison Library
4–6:15 PM
Townsend Visitor
Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University)
Time: The Arrow Most Difficult to Comprehend
Tue Mar 12, 2024
Howison Library
4–6:15 PM
Townsend Visitor
Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University)
Agency: Laplace Meets Gödel
Thu Mar 14, 2024
Howison Library
4–6:15 PM
Townsend Visitor
Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University)
Quantum Mechanics: A Participatory Universe in a Realist Mode
Fri Mar 15, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Deborah Hellman & Lily Hu (Virginia Law & Yale Philosophy)
Algorithmic Fairness
Fri Mar 15, 2024
Howison Library
4–6:15 PM
Townsend Visitor
Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University)
General Discussion
Fri Mar 15, 2024
Evans 60
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Tom Benhamou (Rutgers)
Commutativity of cofinal types of ultrafilters
Fri Mar 22, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Richard Tuck (Government, Harvard)
Hobbes and Weber on the Jury
Tue Mar 26, 2024
Dennes Room (Philosophy 234)
9 AM–5 PM
Departmental Events
Workshop on Rationality and Reality
Wed Apr 3, 2024
Philosophy 301
12–1 PM
Work in Progress Talk
Geoff Lee
Fri Apr 5, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Terrence Deacon (Anthropology, Berkeley)
On Human (Symbolic) Nature: How the Word Became Flesh
Fri Apr 12, 2024
Law Building 141
12:15–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Jan Engelmann (Psychology, Berkeley)
Social Interaction Explains the Development of Uniquely Human Cognition
Fri Apr 12, 2024
Evans 60
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Martin Zeman (UC Irvine)
Games with filters, strong ideals, and iterated club shooting
Mon Apr 15, 2024
Philosophy 301
1:15–2:15 PM
Work in Progress Talk
Snow Zhang
Thu Apr 18, 2024
Warren Room, Berkeley Law
4–6 PM
Kadish Lecture
David Garland (NYU Law and Sociology)
A Theory of American Penal Exceptionalism
Fri Apr 19, 2024
60 Evans
4:10–5 PM
Logic Colloquium
Giovanni Sambin (Università di Padova)
Positive Topology. A New Practice in Constructive Mathematics
Wed Apr 24, 2024
Toll Room, Alumni House
4–6:15 PM
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Rachel Barney, Adam Gopnik, Rachana Kamtekar
The Authority of Craft, Lecture I–The End of Craft
Thu Apr 25, 2024
Dennes Room (Philosophy 234)
2–4 PM
Note special time
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science
Sergei Artemov (CUNY Graduate Center)
Two Models of Provability
Thu Apr 25, 2024
Toll Room, Alumni House
4–6:15 PM
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Rachel Barney, Alexander Nehamas, Christine Korsgaard
The Authority of Craft, Lecture II–Craft, Métier, Utopia
Fri Apr 26, 2024
Evans 60
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Sergei Artemov
The Provability of Consistency
Fri Apr 26, 2024
Toll Room, Alumni House
4–6:15 PM
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Rachel Barney, Adam Gopnik, Rachana Kamtekar, Alexander Nehamas, and Christine Korsgaard
The Authority of Craft, Seminar and Discussion with the Commentators
Sat May 11, 2024
Faculty Glade at the Faculty Club
4–6 PM
Departmental Events
Philosophy Department Graduation
Thu May 16, 2024–Fri May 17, 2024
Howison Library
8 AM–6 PM
Conference
Sara Aronowitz, Jennifer Carr, Thomas Icard, Michael Rescorla, David Thorstad, Francesca Zaffora Blando
Berkeley Bounded Rationality Workshop
Fri Aug 30, 2024
141 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Peter Koellner (Philosophy, Harvard)
Disagreement in Mathematics: From the Small Finite to the Higher Infinite
Fri Sep 6, 2024
141 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Edward Hall (Philosophy, Harvard)
Collaborative Disagreement
Fri Sep 13, 2024
141 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Lilliana Mason (Political Science, Johns Hopkins)
Pluralism Polarization: The Deepest Partisan Divide is Over Pluralistic Democracy
Fri Sep 13, 2024
Evans 60
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Forte Shinko (Berkeley Math)
Hyperfiniteness for graphs of slow intermediate growth
Fri Sep 20, 2024
141 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Peter Galison (History of Science, Harvard)
Governing Epistemology: Knowledge in Large-Scale Experiments
Fri Sep 20, 2024
Evans 60
4–6 PM
Logic Colloquium
Theodore Slaman (Berkeley Math)
Extending Borel’s Conjecture from Measure to Dimension
Wed Sep 25, 2024
234 Philosophy Hall
6–7:30 PM
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science
Michael Mendler and Luke Burke (Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg)
The Došen Square under construction: A tale of four modalities
Fri Sep 27, 2024
141 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
John MacFarlane (Philosophy, Berkeley)
Disagreement and Meaning
Fri Oct 4, 2024
141 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Leif Nelson (Berkeley Haas)
Fri Oct 4, 2024
60 Evans Hall
4:10 PM
Logic Colloquium
Elliot Glazer (Epoch AI)
Versatility of random reals
Wed Oct 9, 2024
Evans Hall 60
3–5 PM
Neyman Seminar
Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech)
Severity as a Basic Concept in Philosophy of Statistics
Wed Oct 9, 2024
Alumni House, Toll Room
4–6 PM
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor (UNC Chapel Hill)
Character and Agency
Thu Oct 10, 2024
Stroud Room
2–3:30 PM
Meaning Sciences Club
Seth Yalcin
Counterepistemic Knowledge
Thu Oct 10, 2024
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor (UNC Chapel Hill)
Freedom for Humans
Fri Oct 11, 2024–Sun Oct 13, 2024
UC Berkeley Campus
Conference
Computability and Mathematical Definability
Fri Oct 11, 2024
141 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Mike Martin (Philosophy, Berkeley)
Hume, sentiments, and no-fault disagreement
Fri Oct 18, 2024
141 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
David Enoch (Philosophy of Law, Oxford)
Fri Oct 18, 2024
60 Evans Hall
4:10 PM
Logic Colloquium
Andrew Bacon (USC)
Wed Oct 23, 2024
Alumni House, Toll Room
4:10 PM
Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia)
The Search for Paradise
Thu Oct 24, 2024
Howison Library
4–6 PM
Philosophy Colloquium
Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside)
Taking Love Public: On James Baldwin and Love’s Political Possibilities
Fri Oct 25, 2024
141 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Jennifer Lackey (Philosophy, Northwester)
Stories That Wrong and Stories That Repair
Fri Nov 1, 2024
141 Law Building
12–2 PM
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Genevieve Lakier (Law, Chicago)
Fri Nov 1, 2024
60 Evans Hall
4:10 PM
Logic Colloquium
Felix Weilacher (UC Berkeley)
Shannon’s Theorem and the Unbalanced Matching Problem in the Measurable Context