News & events

Philosophy colloquia occur on Fridays at 2:30pm in CLE A317 or are held via Zoom. 

Note: please email uvicphil@uvic.ca to be added to the Philosophy Colloquium mailing list so you may receive notifications about upcoming talks and Zoom meeting information.

No colloquium events are scheduled at this time. Stay tuned for information about the upcoming Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 colloquium series!

Spring 2022

28 January — Jorge Sanchez Perez — "Is the Huarochirí Manuscript a Source of Indigenous Philosophy?
Reconceptualizing the Idea of Philosophical Sources" — Simon Fraser University

11 March — Talia Mae Bettcher — "The Person One Has: A Trans Philosophical Account" — California State University, Los Angeles

18 March — Madeleine Ransom — "Aesthetic Perception and the Puzzle of Training" — UBC Okanagan

8 April — Nick Riggle — “Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing” — University of San Diego

21-22 April — Ásta— San Francisco State University

Lansdowne Lecture: "Social Construction" 

Philosophy Colloquium: Critical Social Ontology: Metaphysics, social science, and liberatory politics

29 April — Eva Man — "Evolution of Art and Moral Concerns in New China: From Mao Zedong’s Yenan Talks to Xi Jinping’s Speech on Artistic Practice" — Hong Kong Baptist University

Fall 2021

24 September — Ray Jennings — "A Dereliction of Data" — Simon Fraser University

1 October — Madeleine Ransom — "Do high-level properties make a difference to perceptual phenomenology?" — University of British Columbia, Okanagan

15 October — Josh Wilburn — "Feminizing the City: Plato on Women, Masculinity, and Politics" — Wayne State University  

22 October — Devon Cass — "Two Concepts of Equality" — Australian National University

Spring 2021

5 February — Nora Boyd — "Empirical Evidence and Its Accumulation Across Millenia" — Siena College

26 February — Natalia Washington — "Taxonomy is Taxidermy" — University of Utah

5 March — Joseph McCaffrey — "Does the Brain Respect Basic Emotion Theory?" — University of Nebraska, Omaha

12 March — Japa Pallikkathayil — "What May I Use?" — University of Pittsburg

19 March — Kit Fine — "The Concept of Gender" — New York University

26 March — Ryan Preston-Roedder — "Love and Social Justice" — Occidental College

Fall 2020

25 September — Lauren Olin — "Mistaking Identities" — University of Missouri-St. Louis

2 October — Brian Talbot — "The Importance of Mundane Beliefs" — University of Colorado Boulder

16 October — Julia Staffel — "Eyeballing the Evidence" — University of Colorado Boulder

20 November — Justin Clarke-Doane — "Russell's Regressive Method in Mathematics and Philosophy" —Columbia University

Spring 2020

January 17th: Scott Edgar, Saint Mary's University, "The Function of History in Hermann Cohen's Critique of Knowledge"

January 24th: Margaret Scharle, Reed College, "The Teleology of Divine Imitation in Aristotle"

January 31st: Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Victoria Colloquium: "South Asians and West Africans at the Inns of Court: Empire and Expulsion circa 1900"

February 7th: David Friedell, University of British Columbia, "Why Can't I change Bruckner's Eighth Symphony?"

February 27th: Raymond Tallis, Landsdowne Lecture: "Are We (Just) Animals?"

February 28th: Raymond Tallis, Philosophy Colloquium: "Myth-Information"

March 6th: Richard Bellamy, University College London, Victoria Colloquium: "When is Democracy Constitutional? On the Relations between Political, Populist and Popular Constitutionalism"

March 27th: Debra Thompson, University of Oregon, Victoria Colloquium [CANCELLED]

Fall 2019

September 6th: Kerry McKenzie, University of California, San Diego, Philosophy Colloquium: No work for a theory of grounding?  — A naturalist's take.

September 20th: Liam Shields, University of Manchester, Philosophy Colloquium: Children as Public Goods: at what cost? 

September 27th: Devin Shaw, Douglas College, Philosophy Colloquium: Existentialism is an Antifascism: The Ethics of Ambiguity and Combating White Supremacy. 

October 4th: Jill Fellows, Douglas College, Philosophy Colloquium; Alex Livingston, Cornell University, Victoria Colloquium

October 18th: Chelsea Rosenthal, Simon Fraser University, Philosophy Colloquium: Rights in an Uncertain World

October 25th: Troy Cross, Reed College & Brian Haas, University of Southern California, Philosophy Colloquium: Two Concepts of Ground

November 1st: Gordon Christie, University of British Columbia, Victoria Colloquium

November 15th: Michel-Antoine Xhignesse, Capilano University, Philosophy Colloquium: What makes a kind an art-kind?

November 22nd: Colleen Murphy, University of Illinois, Victoria Colloquium

Spring 2019

January 11th, Zoey Lavallee, CUNY, Philosophy Colloquium: "Toward a Theory of Craving"

January 18th, Dean Spade, Seattle University, Victoria Colloquium: "Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival"

January 25th, Dr. Carl Craver, Washington University in St. Louis, Philosophy Colloquium: "The Ontic Conception and Idealization"

February 8th, Dr. Kyle Whyte, Michigan State University, Victoria Colloquium: "It's Too Late for Indigenous Justice: Problems with Urgency in Climate Change Advocacy"

March 8th, Melvin Rogers, Brown University, Victoria Colloquium: "Being a Slave of the Community: Race, Domination, and Republicanism" 

March 26th, Dr. Eva Kit Wah Man, Hong Kong Baptist University, Philosophy Colloquium: Revelations and Limitations of Feminist Philosophy and Comparative Studies

March 29th, Dr. Shen-yi Liao, University of Puget Sound, Philosophy Colloquium

Fall 2018

September 14th, Dr. David Scott, University of Victoria, Philosophy Colloquium: "Chécartes: Descartes as Twentieth-Century Metaphysical Freedom Fighter."

September 28th, Dr. Ron Bontekoe, University of Hawaii, Philosophy Colloquium: "Metaethical Implications of Taking Darwin Seriously"

October 1st, Dr. Lori Gruen, Wesleyan University, Victora Colloquium

October 4th, Dr. Gideon Rosen, Princeton University, Lansdowne Speaker: "Managing Moral Outrage, or How Philosophy Can Change Your (Emotional) Life"

October 12th, Dr. Gina Rini, York University, Philosophy Colloquium: "Moral Disagreement is Special"

October 26th, Dr. Deva Woodly, New School, Victoria Colloquium

November 9th. Dr. Mark Antaki, McGill University, Victoria Colloquium

November 16th, Dr. Fatema Amijee, Simon Fraser University, Philosophy Colloquium: "Relativized Fundamentality"

November 23rd, Dr. Thomas Land, University of Victoria, Philosophy Colloquium: "Epistemic Agency and the Self-Knowledge of Reason: On the Contemporary Relevance of Kant’s Method of Faculty Analysis"

November 30th, Dr. Carina Fourie, University of Washington, Philosophy Colloquium: "Discrimination, Emotion, and Health Inequities"

Spring 2018

January 19th, Dr. Julen Etxabe, University Helsinki, Victoria Colloquium: "Dialogism in the Courts: What’s in it for Law, Human Rights, and Democracy?"

February 2nd, Dr. Joel Bakan, University of British Columbia, Victoria Colloquium

February 9th, Dr. Tim Kenyon, University of Waterloo, Philosophy Colloquium: "Phenomena and theory in the epistemology of testimony"

February 23rd, Dr. Alison Wylie, University of British Columbia, Philosophy Colloquium: "Radiocarbon Dating and Robustness Reasoning in Archaeology"

March 2nd, Dr. Conor Mayo-Wilson, University of Washington, Philosophy Colloquium: "Eliciting Group Beliefs"

March 9th, Dr. Marie-Eve Morin, University of Alberta, Philosophy Colloquium: "Flesh and Écart in Maurice Merleau-Ponty et Jean-Luc Nancy"

March 16th, Dr. Gina Rini, York University, CANCELLED Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition, Philosophy Colloquium: "Moral Disagreement is Special"

March 23rd, Dr. Chris Lebron, Johns Hopkins, CANCELLED Victoria Colloquium: "The Duty To Imagine - Afrofuturism vs White Identity Narrative"

Fall 2017

September 15th: Dr. David Scott, UVic, Philosophy Colloquium: "Descartes on Thought: Evolution of a Misinterpretation"

September 22nd: Dr. Leslie Green, Queen's University, Victoria Colloquium: "The Normativity of Law: What is the Problem?"

September 29th: Dr. Tom Donaldson, Simon Fraser University, Philosophy Colloquium: "On the Nature of Mathematical Truth (or: truthmaker theory meets easy ontology)"

October 13th: Dr. Orit Kamir, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Victoria Colloquium: "Escape from Dignity: The Honour Politics of Jihad, Social Media Shaming, and Trump."

October 27th: Dr. Michael Griffin, University of British Columbia, Philosophy Colloquium: "Plato’s Republic as Psychology and Dissuasion from Politics"

November 3rd: Dr. Barbara Arneil, University of British Columbia, Victoria Colloquium: "Domestic Colonies and Colonialism vs Imperialism in Western Political Thought and Practice"