Conferences and Workshops

Current and Upcoming Conferences and Workshops


Contact Brian Talbot

September 13-15, 2024
 

Past Conferences

2018-19


Contact: Raul Saucedo
Full schedule here
September 8-9 2018, Hellems 269
 

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

 

(co-sponsored by the Center for Values and Social Policy)
Contact: Alison Jaggar
October 18-20, 2018

 

Michael Polanyi: A Post-Critical Approach to Truth, Rhetoric and Democracy

 Wednesday November 14th
4:00-6:00 pm in CASE W311
 
4:00 pm:  Walter Gulick, "Rhetoric and Truth in a Polanyian Perspective"
4:40 pm:  Andrew Grosso, "Case Study: 'Post-Truth' &  Moral Inversion in Soviet Russia"
5:20 pm: Charles Lowney,  "Can Pluralist Democracy Survive 'Post-Truth' Culture?  The Case for Basing Pluralism on 'progress-but-with-risk' Emergentism"
 
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.

 

Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference (RMPC)
Information to follow
March 8-19, 2019

2017-18

2016-17


  • "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

  • 9th Annual. Keynote speakers: Nomy Arpaly (Brown University), David Brink(UCSD), Lawrence Blum (UMass, Boston)
    August 11-14, 2016 

2015-16


  • 17th Annual. Keynote speakers: Sharon Street (New York University), Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland, College Park), Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)
    April 17-18, 2015


  • 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
     

  • 7th Annual. Keynote speakers: George Sher (Rice), Elizabeth Spelman (Smith College), Richard J. Arneson (UCSD)
    August 7-10, 2014

2013​-14


  • Speakers: Peggy DesAutels (Dayton) and Susanna Goodin (Wyoming)
    April 19, 2013
     

  • 15th Annual. Keynote speakers: Elizabeth Harman (Princeton),Ruth Chang (Rutgers), Ed Curley (University of Michigan)
    April 5-6, 2013
     

  • Speakers: Lara Buchak, Trent Dougherty, and Jeffrey Jordan
    March 8-9, 2013

2012-13


  • September 14-16, 2012
     

  • Speakers: , , and
    March 15-16, 2012
     
  • Rocky Mountain Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
    14th Annual. Keynote speakers: (Rutgers), (NYU), and (Wisconsin)
    April 20-21, 2012
     

  • Invited speakers: Susan Schneider, Joshua Greene (Stanton Prize Winner), Terry Horgan, Sharon Thompson-Schill, and Brian Scholl (President)
    June 21-23, 2012
     

  • Keynote speakers: , , and one other to be announced.
    August 9-12, 2012

2011-12



  • March 10-11, 2011​
     

  • 13th Annual. Keynote speakers: (Western Washington), (Princeton), and (Michigan).
    April 15-16, 2011
     

  • 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 on Monday, April 25 and a on Tuesday, April 26. Contact: Rob Rupert.
     

  • August 3, 2011
     

  • August 4-7, 2011
     

  • “History and Philosophy of Physics”
    September 23-25, 2011

2010-11


  • 12th Annual. Keynote speakers: (UC Santa Barbara) and (UC Irvine).
    April 9-11, 2010
     


  • April 19-20, 2010
     

  • June 28-30, 2010
     

  • August 5-8, 2010
     
  • “Field Science"
    Oct 22-24, 2010
     
  • Fall Faculty Symposium: Sex and Love
    Friday, December 3, 2010, 3:00–7:00pm, HUMN 150.
     

2009-10


  • Tuesday, March 17 - Saturday, March 21, 2009
     

  • March 13-14, 2009
     

  • Saturday, April 4, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
     

  • July 24-25, 2009
     

  • August 6-9, 2009
     

  • "Social Sciences"
    Keynote Speakers: (University of Washington), (York University).
    October 9-11, 2009
     
  • Fall Faculty Symposium: Intuition
    Speakers: Bob Hanna, Brad Monton, Mike Huemer, Brian Talbot
    Friday, December 4, 2009

2008-09


  • February 14-15, 2008​
     

  • March 7-8, 2008​
    April 4-5, 2008
     

  • August 8-10, 2008
     

  • "Experiment"
    Keynote Speakers: David Rudge (Western Michigan), George Smith (Tufts), and Allan Franklin (CU «Ƶ).
    October 10-12, 2008
     
  • Fall Faculty Symposium: Causation
    Speakers: Rob Rupert, David Barnett, Michael Huemer, Michael Tooley
    Friday, November 21, 3:00-8:00 p.m.
     

Fall 2007-08


  • "Development and Human Rights in a Globalizing World"
    Oct 5-6, 2007
     

  • "Modality in Science"
    Oct 12-13, 2007
     
  • 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.