Current and Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
Contact Brian Talbot
September 13-15, 2024
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Past Conferences
2018-19
Contact: Raul Saucedo
Full schedule here
September 8-9 2018, Hellems 269
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34th Annual Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science (CHPS) Conference: Chance and Probability in Science
Contact: Heather Demarest
Full schedule here
October 12-14, 2018
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(co-sponsored by the Center for Values and Social Policy)
Contact: Alison Jaggar
October 18-20, 2018
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Michael Polanyi: A Post-Critical Approach to Truth, Rhetoric and Democracy
ÌýWednesday November 14th
4:00-6:00 pm in CASE W311
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4:00 pm:Ìý Walter Gulick, "Rhetoric and Truth in a Polanyian Perspective"
4:40 pm:Ìý Andrew Grosso, "Case Study: 'Post-Truth' &Ìý Moral Inversion in Soviet Russia"
5:20 pm: Charles Lowney,Ìý "Can Pluralist Democracy Survive 'Post-Truth' Culture?Ìý The Case for Basing Pluralism on 'progress-but-with-risk' Emergentism"
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Michael Polanyi, scientist and philosopher, author of The Tacit Dimension, Personal Knowledge, and Science, Faith and Society left his home in Budapest after WWI when the USSR came to control Hungary. He later fled Germany when Hitler came to power. Polanyi saw the emerging Totalitarian and Nazi states as in part motivated--ironically enough--by Enlightenment ideals. His work in theory of knowledge and emergentism act as a response to what went wrong in the 20th century and provides lessons for the 21st. Polanyi's philosophy has been described by Charles Taylor as a viable alternative out of the dilemmas of modernity. This workshop focuses on the application of Polanyi's ideas to the preservation of a free society, and examines the extent to which pluralism and rhetoric should be constrained by a search for singular truth.
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Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference (RMPC)
Information to follow
March 8-19, 2019
2017-18
- 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
Keynote Speakers: Eva Kittay (Stony Brook), Julia Driver (Washington University St. Louis), Chris Armstrong (Southampton, UK)
Contact: Alastair Norcross
August 9-12, 2018
Ìý - Morris Colloquium: The Self and its Realizations
Keynote Speaker: Rob Cummins
June 16-18, 2018
Ìý - Morris Colloquium: Medieval Philosophy
Contact: Robert Pasnau
April 5-7, 2018
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Participants: ÌýAlan Hajek (Australian National University); Branden Fitelson (Northeastern University); Julia Staffel (Washington University); Graham Oddie (University of Colorado).
Contact: Graham Oddie
Wednesday March 8th 2017
Ìý- Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference
CU-Boulder Graduate Philosophy Conference19th
Annual. Keynote speakers:
Spring 2017
2016-17
- 32nd Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
"Gravity: Its History and Philosophy"
Invited speakers:
Peter Saulson, Syracuse University, LIGO
Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota
Peter Bender, JILA, University of Colorado
October 28th-30th, 2016
March 11-12, 2016
- Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference
CU-Boulder Graduate Philosophy Conference
Spring 2016
- Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
9th Annual. Keynote speakers: Nomy Arpaly (Brown University), David Brink(UCSD), Lawrence Blum (UMass, Boston)
August 11-14, 2016Ìý
2015-16
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Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference
17th Annual. Keynote speakers: Sharon Street (New York University), Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland, College Park), Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)
April 17-18, 2015 -
Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference (RoME)
8th Annual. Keynote speakers: Richard J. Arneson (UCSD), Shelly Kagan (Yale), Nancy Sherman (Georgetown)
August 6-9, 2015
March 6-7, 2015
2014-15
August 6-7, 2014
Ìý- Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference (RoME)
7th Annual. Keynote speakers: George Sher (Rice), Elizabeth Spelman (Smith College), Richard J. Arneson (UCSD)
August 7-10, 2014
2013​-14
- The Morris Colloquium: Inclusion
Speakers: Peggy DesAutels (Dayton) and Susanna Goodin (Wyoming)
April 19, 2013
Ìý - Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference
15th Annual. Keynote speakers: Elizabeth Harman (Princeton),Ruth Chang (Rutgers), Ed Curley (University of Michigan)
April 5-6, 2013
Ìý - Society of Christian Philosophers Mountain-Pacific Region Conference
Speakers: Lara Buchak, Trent Dougherty, and Jeffrey Jordan
March 8-9, 2013
2012-13
- 28th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
September 14-16, 2012
Ìý - The Morris Colloquium: Immigration
Speakers: , , and
March 15-16, 2012
Ìý - Rocky Mountain Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
14th Annual. Keynote speakers: (Rutgers), (NYU), and (Wisconsin)
April 20-21, 2012
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Invited speakers: Susan Schneider, Joshua Greene (Stanton Prize Winner), Terry Horgan, Sharon Thompson-Schill, and Brian Scholl (President)
June 21-23, 2012
Ìý- The Fifth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
Keynote speakers: , , and one other to be announced.
August 9-12, 2012
2011-12
- The Morris Colloquium
March 10-11, 2011​
Ìý - Rocky Mountain Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
13th Annual. Keynote speakers: (Western Washington), (Princeton), and (Michigan).
April 15-16, 2011
Ìý - Cox Family Fellow Visit
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome Professor (Australian National University) as a , funded through the University of Colorado's . Professor Chalmers will be on campus during the week of April 25, 2011. He will give a colloquium talk on Monday, April 25 and a public lecture on Tuesday, April 26. Contact: Rob Rupert.
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August 3, 2011
Ìý- The Fourth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
August 4-7, 2011
Ìý - The 27th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
“History and Philosophy of Physicsâ€
September 23-25, 2011
2010-11
- Rocky Mountain Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
12th Annual. Keynote speakers: (UC Santa Barbara) and (UC Irvine).
April 9-11, 2010
Ìý - The Morris Colloquium
David Benatar
April 19-20, 2010
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June 28-30, 2010
Ìý- The Third Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
August 5-8, 2010
Ìý - “Field Science"
Oct 22-24, 2010
Ìý - Fall Faculty Symposium: Sex and Love
Friday, December 3, 2010, 3:00–7:00pm, HUMN 150.
Ìý - 26th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
2009-10
- 2009 Colorado Conference on Dependence
Tuesday, March 17 - Saturday, March 21, 2009
Ìý - Rocky Mountain Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
March 13-14, 2009
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Saturday, April 4, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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July 24-25, 2009
Ìý- The Second Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
August 6-9, 2009
Ìý - 25th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
"Social Sciences"
Keynote Speakers: (University of Washington), (York University).
October 9-11, 2009
Ìý - Fall Faculty Symposium: Intuition
Speakers: Bob Hanna, Brad Monton, Mike Huemer, Brian Talbot
Friday, December 4, 2009
2008-09
- Symposium on Research on Prisoners and other Vulnerable Populations
February 14-15, 2008​
Ìý - The Morris Colloquium
March 7-8, 2008​
April 4-5, 2008
Ìý - The First Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
August 8-10, 2008
Ìý - 24rd Regional Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
"Experiment"
Keynote Speakers: David Rudge (Western Michigan), George Smith (Tufts), and Allan Franklin (Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder).
October 10-12, 2008
Ìý - Fall Faculty Symposium: Causation
Speakers: Rob Rupert, David Barnett, Michael Huemer, Michael Tooley
Friday, November 21, 3:00-8:00 p.m.
Ìý - Rocky Mountain Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
Fall 2007-08
- The Morris Colloquium
"Development and Human Rights in a Globalizing World"
Oct 5-6, 2007
Ìý - 23rd Regional Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
"Modality in Science"
Oct 12-13, 2007
Ìý - Fall Faculty Symposium: Abortion
Speakers: David Boonin, Alastair Norcross, Chris Heathwood, Michael Tooley, Alison Jaggar
Friday, November 30, 2007, 3:00-8:00 p.m.