Philosophy Colloquium Series 2024-25
"Not On Your Genes?"
Speaker: Daisy Underhill (UC Davis)
Sept 18, 2024, 4:00-5:30 pm, ARTS 228
Not On Your Genes. Amplified Inductive Risk of Epigenetic Inheritance Trauma.
The research agenda of epigenetic inheritance of trauma (EIT) has the potential to speak to broad social and political interests, making it a perceived case of socially responsible science. Ironically, however, this perception and connection to social and political interests may also undermine the ability of EIT researchers to conduct socially responsible research due to the amplification of EIT’s inductive risk.
2023-2024
Speaker: Renee Rushing (Florida State University)
"Fitting Diminishment of Anger: A Permissivist Account"
Speaker: Quinn White (Harvard University)
"Forgiveness: Personal and Political"
Speaker: Ramiel Tamras (UC Davis)
"Not Permissible, Not Impermissible"
Speaker: Natasha Haddal (UC Davis)
"Pluralistic Approaches and Biological Sex"
Speaker: Chanwoo Lee (UC Davis)
"Conceptions of a Foundation in Mathematics"
Speaker: Wai-hung Wong (Chico State)
“How to Read the Eternal Recurrence as a Thought Experiment”
2022-2023
Speaker: Derek Lam (CSU Sacramento)
"Not Being Sure of Myself"
Speaker: Patrick Skeels (UC Davis)
"Context, Consistency, and Contradiction"
Speaker: Jordan Bell (UC Davis)
"Conceptual Engineering and Singular Thought"
Speaker: Joseph Chan (Princeton University)
"The Moral Limits of Violence in Political Resistance"
Speaker: Danielle J. Williams (UC Davis)
"Implementation, Individuation, and Triviality in Computational Theories"
2014-2015
Speaker: Bruce Fink
"Lacan on Love: A Commentary on Lacan's Reading of Plato's Symposium"
Speaker: David Robinson Simon
"Meatonomics"
Speaker: James Bahoh (Duquesne University)
"On the Nature of Philosophical Problems in Heidegger, Lautman, and Deleuze"
2013-2014
Speakers: Prof. John Donohue (Stanford Law School) & Attorney Donald E.J. Kilmer, Jr.
"Guns in America: A Debate"
2012-2013
Speaker: Michael Epperson (California State University, Sacramento)
"The Mutual Implication of Objects and Relations in Quantum Mechanics: How Potentiality and Contextuality Are Ontologically Significant in Modern Physics"
Speaker: Mark Balaguer (California State University, Los Angeles)
"Anti-Metaphysicalism and Temporal Ontology"
Speaker: Speaker: Peter Fosl (Transylvania University)
"Hume's Progressive Appeal to Custom"
2011-2012
Speaker: Cody Gilmore (UC Davis)
"Holes: What They're Not"
Speaker: Quayshawn Spencer (University of San Francisco)
"How to Be a Biological Racial Realist"
Speaker: Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA)
"Can You Believe at Will?"
Speaker: Alexis Burgess (Stanford University)
"Standing in the way of a Science of Meaning: Mainstream Semantics + Deflationary Truth"
Speaker: Mohammed Abed (California State University, Los Angeles)
"Genocide as a Process of Social Group Destruction"
2010-2011
Speaker: Davit Pitt (California State University, Los Angeles)
"How to Distinguish a Statue from a Lump"
Speaker: Ted Sider (New York University)
"Is Metaphysics about the Real World"
Speaker: Janet D. Stemwedel (San Jose State University)
"Sifting Sound Science from Snake-oil: In search of demarcation criteria for science as actually practiced"
