Department Events
Philosophy Friday Seminar Series
Every Friday 3-4:30pm
MU Hall 105, open to the public
Check out the spring '22 schedule
The 2022 meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America was held in person at Marquette on March 24-27. The conference theme is "Metaphysical Traditions in Dialogue" and will feature the keynote address “Always Becoming: Mexica Metaphysics at the Time of the Conquest” delivered by James Maffie (University of Maryland).
Philosophy Open House
3/25/22 1-3 pm
Marquette Hall Commons, MH 111
Students learned about majoring in Philosophy, the Fall 2022 PHIL courses, the Philosophy Honor Society, thePhilosophy Club, and more!
2022 Graduate Philosophy Conference
The Philosophy of Care and Caring
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Agnieszka Jaworska
Univ. of California, Riverside
April 8, 2022, Virtual Conference
Abstracts due by 2/27/2022
2021-2022 Philosophy Lectures and Events
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Philosophy and Organized Labor in Academia
PhD candidate Sarah Kizuk will be a webinar panelist for “Philosophy and Organized Labor in Academia.” The event was Wed. 3/2 at 12 pm CST highlighting the importance of academic labor organization, the challenges and successes in the panelists’ experience, and ways in which philosophers have useful skills on academic labor.
Showcasing the Humanities: Philosophy and State Violence
Jessica Wolfendale, Chair of Philosophy
Thurs. 2/3, 5 pm
Haggerty Museum of Art
More details on the full spring 22 series
The Philosophy Graduate Student Association hosted Trivia Night on October 29th in the Eisenberg Room, Sensenbrenner Hall. The night was filled with trivia, costumes, dinner and drinks.
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The Philosophy Department hosted Dr. Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a talk on Ideology in Practice: What Does Ideology Do? Oct. 8, 2021: 3 pm - 4:30 pm, AMU 227
The Marquette University Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Nathaniel Taylor, PhD candidate
Categories, Essence, and Modi Essendi:
Avicenna at the Heart of Aquinas’s Metaphysics
Oct. 21, 2021, 1 pm (CST)
contact: Owen.Goldin@marquette.edu
The Empathetic Autistic: A Phenomenological Look at the Feminine Experience
Scarlett Dana Fritz’s dissertation and public defense will take place October 21st at 4pm in the Raynor Memorial Library (3rd Floor). The dissertation committee is Sebastian Luft, John Jones, and Thomas Abrams (external reader, Queen’s University, Canada).
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Back to School Bike Ride & Picnic
Sat., August 28, 2021
Event details
2020 Archives Philosophy Lectures and Events
Arnold Brooks, University of Chicago
The Marquette University Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy hosted The Structure of Change in Aristotle’s Physics 6.4-6
Monday January 2021, 3:30 pm
The Structure of Change in Aristotle’s Physics
Social Ontology and Objective Spirit Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
Virtual Friday Seminar Series Fall 2020
Virtual seminars every Friday of the semester
3-4 pm
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Dr. Ericka Tucker, Associate Professor of Philosophy will speak
Friday, 10/23/20 12-1 pm
In partnership with the Center for Peacemaking and the Black Student Council, this program will engage in a meaningful discussion about activism, organizing, and education and consider ways to engage in social responsibility and change.
Sponsored by Loyola University Chicago and Marquette University
Saturday, 10/24/2020 9am-5:30pm
To register, refer to the program agenda.
The 5th Latinx Philosophy Conference took place virtually on October 30-31, 2020. The event was organized by Marquette Philosophy’s Javiera Perez Gomez with keynote address by Philosophy’s Stephanie Rivera Berruz from 1-2:15 pm CST.
November 2021 Philosophy Newsletter
October 2021 Philosophy Newsletter
2019 Archives Philosophy Lectures and Events
- Colloquium Series, Kelly Dean Jolley
Friday, February 8 | 3:00 P.M.
Marquette Hall, Room 105
- Conference: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Brandom
Friday and Saturday, February 22-23
For more information contact BrandomAtMU@gmail.com.
- Aquinas Lecture, Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh) "Heroism and Magnanimity: The Post-Modern Form of Self-Conscious Agency"
Sunday, February 24 | 3:00 P.M.
- Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group Graduate Student Conference
Friday and Saturday, March 22-23
More more information, contact Dr. Richard Taylor.
- Aquinas and the Arabs International Working Group, Raynor Library
Friday, March 29 | 12:00 - 2:30 P.M.
Prof. Steven Harvey (Bar Ilan University, Isral) and Dr. Katja Krause, (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Germany), "Uniting Cultures Through the Division of Knowledge"
- International Research Roundtable with Katja Krause, David Twetten, Richard Taylor
4:00 - 5:30 P.M.
Live in Raynor Library and via Skype for Business
- International AAIGW Seminar on al-Ghazali, Avicenna, Averroes
Saturday, March 30 | 10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Raynor 320a
- Prof. Stephen Ogden, The Catholic University of America, title TBA
Friday, April 12 | 3:30 - 5:30 P.M.
- International Research Roundtable with Katja Krause, David Twetten, Richard Taylor
2:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Live in Raynor Library and via Skype for Business
- Tucker, Ericka. “On Natural Sociability," North American Spinoza Society, Pacific APA, Vancouver, B.C.
- 4th Latinx Philosophy & SMAP Conference
May 2 - May 4