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2020-2021

  • Dr. Sarah Robins (University of Kansas)
    The Memory Trace in Philosophy and Neuroscience
    Friday, March 19, 3:00 p.m. (Zoom)

2018-2019

  • Jesse Prinz (City University of New York)
    A Conversation on Embodied Cognition
    Wednesday, May 1, 2019, 3:30 p.m. at Raynor Library, Room 330B
  • Guy Dove (University of Louisville)
    A Conversation on Embodied Cognition
    Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 3:30 p.m. at Raynor Library, Room 330B

  • Q&A Session about the INCG program
    Tuesday, March 19, 2019,  6 p.m. at Straz Hall Basement, Room 002A
  • Catherine Stinson (Mowat Centre, University of Toronto)
    "Mechanisms in psychology: Ripping nature at its seams"
    Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, 2:30 p.m. at Raynor Library, Room 320A
  • Quayshawn Spencer (University of Pennsylvania)
    "What 'Biological Racial Realism' Should Mean"
    Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, 2:30 p.m. at Raynor Library, Room 320A
  • Julia Bursten (University of Kentucky)
    "Smaller than a Breadbox: Scale and Natural Kinds"
    Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, 5:30 p.m. at Marquette Hall, Room 102
  • Ingo Brigandt (University of Alberta)
    "Species Pluralism Does Not Imply Specied Eliminativsm"
    Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, 5:30 p.m. at Marquette Hall, Room 102
  • Joyce Havstad (Oakland University)
    "Messy Chemical Kids"
    Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, 5:30 p.m. at Marquette Hall, Room 102
  • Kathryn Tabb (Columbia University)
    "Philosophy of Psychiatry after Diagnostic Kinds"
    Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, 5:30 p.m. at Marquette Hall, Room 102
  • Thomas Reydon (Leibniz Universität, Hannover)
    "Scientific Kinds"
    Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, 5:30 p.m. at Marquette Hall, Room 102

2017-2018

  • Joseph McCaffrey (Washington University in St. Louis)
    "Concepts in the Brain: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and Categorization"
    Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 12:30 p.m. at Raynor Library, Room 320A
  • Ethics of Big Data Symposium
    Friday, April 27, 2018, 8 a.m. to noon at Northwestern Mutual 800 E. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202
    The symposium is organized by faculty from the departments of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science and Philosophy.
  • MU Philosophy Graduate Conference: Philosophy of Emotions
    Saturday, March 24, 2018, 9:30 a.m.  to 5:30 p.m. at Marquette Hall, Room 105
    The conference is sponsored by the Marquette University Graduate School, the Friends of Philosophy Fund, and the Marquette Philosophy Department.
  • Jacqueline Sullivan (University of Western Ontario)
    "Construct stabilization and the unity of the mind-brain sciences"
    Thursday, March 8, 2018, 12:30 p.m. at Raynor Library, Room 320A
  • Eric Hochstein (University of Victoria)
    "When does 'folk psychology' count as folk psychological?"
    Thursday, February 22, 2018, 12:30 p.m. at Raynor Library, Room 320A

2016-2017

  • Jacqueline Sullivan (University of Western Ontario) (View talk)
    "Cognitive Ontologies and Coordinated Pluralism"
    Thursday, March 9, 2017, 3:30 p.m. at Raynor Library Beaumier Suites.
    The talk is co-sponsored by the Cognitive Science Innovation Fund, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Psychology and the Office of Diversity.
  • Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv University) (View talk)
    "Cultural Epigenetics"
    Friday, Feb. 24 2017, 3 p.m. at Raynor Library Beaumier Suites.
    The talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Biological Sciences, the Office of Research and Innovation, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Ron Mallon (Washington University in St. Louis)
    "The Reemergence of Minimal Identities"
    Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, 3 p.m. at Marquette Hall, Room 105.
    The talk is co-sponsored by the Cognitive Science Strategic Innovation Fund, the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Psychology.
  • Alan Love (University of Minnesota)
    "Physics, Genetics, and Investigative Reasoning in Developmental Biology: Blurring Epistemic and Pragmatic Justifications of Knowledge-How"
    Friday, Nov. 18, 2016, 3 p.m. at Raynor Library Beaumier Suites.
    The talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Biological Sciences.