Past Colloquia

Every year the department hosts a major colloquium that brings to together philosophers from all over the country, and often other countries, to present papers on a topic of mutual interest.

Following is a list of all the colloquia the department has held, and the title and topic where available.

William Bechtel (UC San Diego); John Bickle (Mississippi State & UMMC); Cédric Brun (Bordeaux-Montaigne); Carl Craver (Wash U); Zoe Drayson (UC Davis); Markus Eronen (Groningen); Jacqueline Sullivan (Western); Kari Theurer (Trinity College)

Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University); Mary F. (Molly) Scudder (Purdue University); Wendy Salkin (Stanford University); Derrick Darby (Rutgers University) and Eduardo Martinez (University of Cincinnati); Jennifer Morton (University of Pennsylvania) 

Cameron Buckner (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Houston); Kathleen Creel (Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Center for Ethics in Society and Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence); Eva Dyer (Assistant Professor, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University); Ahmed Elgammal (Professor of Computer Science, Rutgers University); Subbarao Kambhampati (Professor of Computer Science, Arizona State University); S. Matthew Liao (Director of the Center for Bioethics, NYU; Affiliated Professor, Department of Philosophy, NYU); Zachary Lipton (Assistant Professor of Machine Learning and Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University); Mariya Toneva (Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University) 

Quill Kukla; Elena C. Cuffari; Peter Hershock; Fred Cummins; Abeba Birhane; Rein Raud; Tom Froese; Tetsushi Nonaka; Shogo Tanaka; Tetsuya Kono   

Anya Plutynski (Washington University); Sarah M. Roe (Southern Connecticut State University); Subrena Smith (University of New Hampshire); Melinda B. Fagan (University of Utah); Sean A. Valles (Michigan State University) 

Anthony Chemero (University of Cincinnati); Valerie Hardcastle (University of Cincinnati); Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College); Albert Newen (Ruhr University Bochum); Lawrence Shapiro (University of Wisconsin); Shannon Spaulding (Oklahoma State University); Robert Wilson (University of Alberta) 

Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati); Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University); Heidi Maibom (University of Cincinnati); Remy Debes (University of Memphis) 

Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland); Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin); Peter Langland-Hassan and Christopher Gauker (University of Cincinnati); Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh); Casey O’Callaghan (Rice University); Anna Papafragou (University of Delaware); Agustín Vicente (University of the Basque Country) and Fernando Martínez-Manrique (University of Granada); Kritika Yegnashankaran (Bard College) 

Helen Longino (Stanford University); John Beatty (University of British Columbia); Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo); Kevin Elliott (University of South Carolina); Janet Kourany (University of Notre Dame); Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University); Sandra Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh); Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto); George Reisch (independent scholar). Papers published in a special issue of Erkenntnis in 2014.  

Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana University); Zvi Biener (University of Cincinnati); Dennis Des Chene (Washington University in St. Louis); Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard University); Justin Smith (Concordia University); Charles Wolfe (University of Ghent); John Bickle (Mississippi State University)

Owen Flanagan (Duke University); Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts); Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut); Penelope Maddy (University of California); David Papineau (King's College London); L. A. Paul (University of North Carolina); Thomas Polger (University of Cincinnati); Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin)

Jeff Speaks (University of Notre Dame); Kristin Andrews (York University); Jason Bridges (University of Chicago); Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland;) Ronald Loeffler (Grand Valley State University); Elizabeth Camp (University of Pennsylvania); Michael Rescorla (University of California, Santa Barbara); José Bermudez (Washington University) 

Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham); Mark Rollins(Washington University); Bence Nanay (Syracuse University); John Kulvicki (Dartmouth College); Amy Coplan (California State University at Fullerton); Jesse Prinz (CUNY Graduate School); Cynthia Freeland (University of Houston); Noel Carroll (CUNY Graduate School)

Paul Churchland (University of California, San Diego); Pete Mandik (William Paterson University of New Jersey); Jacqueline A. Sullivan (University of Alabama, Birmingham); Patricia Churchland (University of California, San Diego and Salk Institute); William Casebeer (United States Air Force and NATO Military Headquarters); Adina Roskies (Dartmouth College); Peggy DesAutels (University of Dayton)

Robert Bernasconi (Memphis), Lundy Braun (Brown), Philip Kitcher (Columbia), Catherine Lee (Rutgers), Barbara Koenig (Minnesota), Keith Ferdinand (Emory), Charles Rotimi (Howard), Luisa Borrell (Columbia), Marcus Feldman (Stanford), Troy Duster (NYU), Ranajit Chakraborty (Cincinnati

James Woodward (CalTech), Michael Strevens (NYU), Carl Craver (Washington University, St. Louis), William Bechtel (UCSD), Nancy Cartwright (LSE, UCSD)

Marcia Baron (Indiana University), Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania), Thomas Hill, Jr. (University of North Carolina), Rosalind Hursthouse (University of Auckland), Richard Kraut (Northwestern), Anselm Mueller (University of Trier), Nancy Sherman (Georgetown), Michael Slote (University of Miami).

Terence Horgan (Arizona), Joseph Levine (OSU), Lawrence Shapiro (Wisconsin), Louise Antony (OSU), Robert Van Gulick (Syracuse), Mark Lance (Georgetown), Allan Gibbard (University of Michigan), Melissa Barry (Williams College).

Frans de Waal (Emory), Colin Allen (Texas A&M), Marc Bekoff (Colorado), Paul Griffiths (Pittsburgh), Brian Keeley (Pitzer), Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana), Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (Georgia State). Papers published as a special issue of Biology and Philosophy, C. Allen and R. Skipper (ed.), in 2005.

Michael Glanzberg (MIT), Mitchell Green (UVA), Jeffrey King (UC Davis), Peter Ludlow (SUNY Stony Brook), Marga Reimer (Arizona), Mandy Simons (CMU), Jason Stanley (UMich), Zoltan Gendler Szabo (Cornell)

Paul Churchland (UCSD), James Shapiro (Microbiology, U.Chicago), Michael Dietrich (Biology, Dartmouth), C. Kenneth Waters (U. Minn), Patricia Goldman-Rakic (Neurobiology, Yale), Kenneth Schaffner (George Washington), Robert McCauley (Emory)

Charles Griswold (Boston U.), Charles Kahn (U. Pennsylvania), Allan Silverman (Ohio State), and others

Ignacio Angelelli (University of Texas), Nino Cocchiarella (University of Indiana), Peter King (Ohio State), Gyulia Klima (Notre Dame), Ian Müller (University of Chicago), Calvin Normore (UCLA), Terence Parsons (University of California, Irvine), Stephen Read (Univesity of St. Andrews), Christian Thiel (Erlangen), Paul Thom (Melbourne), Michael White (Arizona State)

Ellery Eels (University of Wisconsin), James Joyce (University of Michigan), Gerd Gigerenzer (Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research), Mark Kaplan (University of Wisconsin), Isaac Levi (Columbia University), Edward McClennan (Bowling Green University)

Marilyn Frye (Michigan State), Maria Lugones (Binghamton), Sarah Hoagland (Northeastern Illinois), Sarah Schulman (Lesbian Avengers), Nadine Smith (Human Rights Task Force of Florida)

Julia Annas (Arizona), Wayne Sumner (Toronto), Tom Hurka (Calgary), Steve White (Texas), Philip Mitsis (NYU), David Hahm (Ohio State). Papers published as Eudaimonia and Well-Being, L. Jost and R. Shiner (ed.), APP. 

Crispin Wright (St. Andrews, Scotland), Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh), Jon Barwise (Indiana), Neil Tennant (Ohio State), Mark Lance (Georgetown), Marian David (Notre Dame), Michael Hand (Texas A&M) 

Kendall Walton (Michigan), Jerrold Levinson (Maryland), Stephen Davies (Auckland), Diana Raffman (Ohio State), Kathleen Higgins (Texas), Anthony Newcomb (Berkeley), Fred Maus (UVA), Charles Fisk (Wellesley), Alicyn Warren (Columbia), Leo Treitler (CUNY), Marion Guck (Washington U.)

Richard Lewontin (Harvard), Niles Eldredge (American Museum of Natural History), Stuart Kauffman (Santa Fe Institute), Robert Brandon (Duke), William Wimsatt (Chicago), Peter Taylor (Cornell), Richard Burian (VPI), Jane Maienschein (Arizona State), Sandra Mitchel (UC San Diego), Rudolph Raff (Indiana)

Tyler Burge (UCLA), Frederick Schmitt (Illinois), Lynne Rudder Baker (Massachusetts), Mark Crimmins (Cornell), Bernard Kobes (Arizona State), Willem de Vries (New Hampshire)

Don Garrett (Utah), Philip Cummins (Iowa), Wade Robison (Rochester IT), Corliss Swain (St. Olaf), Saul Traiger (Occidental), David Owen (Arizona), Elizabeth Radcliffe (Santa Clara), Charlotte Brown (Illinois Wesleyan), Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (North Carolina).

Details about colloquia #1-28 are lost to history.