Fall 2026
October 8, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Craig Callender, University of California, San Diego
Title, Time, & Location TBA
October 22, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Meradjuddin Khan Oidermaa, Stockholm University
Title, Time, & Location TBA
November 13, 2026 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Quinn White, Harvard University
Title, Time, & Location TBA
Spring 2027
February 26, 2027 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Victor Kumar, Boston University
Title, Time, & Location TBA
April 2 - April 4, 2027 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Imagination Conference
Title, Time, & Location TBA
April 15, 2027 (held at Pomona College)
Sontag Lecture
Manuel Vargas, University of California, San Deigo
"An Unusual Zoroastrianism Solution to the Problem of Evil"
Title, Time, & Location TBA
Past Events
January 23, 2026 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Daniel Muñoz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Epistemic Supererogation and the Right to Believe"
4:15pm, Kravis 164
January 29, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Meilin Chinn, Santa Clara University
"Musical Thinking"
4:15pm, Pearsons 101
February 8, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Philosophy conference honoring Dion Scott-Kakures, Scripps College
Participants include: Paul Hurley, Claremont McKenna College; Michael McKenna, University of Arizona; Al Mele, Florida State University; and Yuval Avnur (Scripps College).
10am-12:15pm and 2pm-4:45pm, Hampton Room
February 12, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago
"Zhuangzi"
4:30pm, Hampton Dining Room
February 17, 2026 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell University
"Plato on Wanting and Liking"
4:15pm, Kravis 102
February 26, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Daniel Nolan, University of California, Santa Cruz
"An Unusual Zoroastrianism Solution to the Problem of Evil"
4:30pm, Vita Nova 100
February 27, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Daniel Nolan, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Impossible Fictional Characters"
4:30pm, Vita Nova 100
March 5, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Sontag Lecture
Talia Mae Bettcher, California State University, Los Angeles
“Transgender in the Time of Trump”
4:15pm, Pearsons 101 (speak will be on video; audience will be live only)
March 12, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Rosanna Picascia, Swarthmore College
"In Defense of the Real: Nyaya against Buddhist Skepticism"
4:30pm, Hampton Dining Room
April 3, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Peter Adamson, University of Munich
"Ibn Sina (Avicenna) on God"
10:00am, Zoom (contact fbalbuena@scrippscollege.edu)
April 9, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Coleen Macnamara, University of California, Riverside
"Praiseworthiness and Required Action"
4:15pm, Pearsons 202
April 11, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Seminar: The Alchemy of Mixing Mathematics
Presented by the Claremont Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics
9:00am-3:30pm, Argue Auditorium
April 13, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Merlan Lecture
Samuel Scheffler, New York University
"Toward a New Population Ethics"
4:30pm, Humanities Auditorium
April 16, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Alexus McLeod Indiana University, Bloomington
"Confucianism of the Early Han"
4:30pm, Clark Humanities Museum
May 1, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Monima Chadha, Oxford University
"The Limits of Self-Constitution"
10:00am, Zoom (contact fbalbuena@scrippscollege.edu)
May 12-13, 2026
Midwest Studies in Philosophy Workshop on Being
Founder's Room, Honnold-Mudd Library