Fall 2025
September 26, 2025 (held at Pitzer College)
Carlos Montemayor, San Francisco State University
"Cultivating Attention in the Era of AI"
2:45–4 pm, Avery 201
October 9, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Laura Callahan, University of Notre Dame
"Epistemic Emulation"
4:15pm, Humanities 201
October 23, 2025 (held at Pomona College)
Shieva Kleinschmidt, University of Southern California
"Decompositional Multitude and Multilocation"
4:15pm, Pearsons 101
Canceled: November 13, 2025 (held at Pomona College)Meilin Chinn, Santa Clara University"Musical Thinking"4:15pm, Pearsons 101
November 14-15, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Virtual Reality as Metaphor Workshop (schedule)
Hampton Room (on the second floor of Malott)
November 21, 2025 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Caroline Bowman, Barnard College
"Hegelian Autonomy and lnternalized Oppression"
Kravis 164, 4:15pm
November 21, 2025 (held at Pitzer College)
Carolyn Dicey Jennings, University of California, Merced
"Attention, Technology, and Social Unity"
2:45–4 pm, Avery 201
Spring 2026
January 23, 2026 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Daniel Muñoz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title & Location TBA
4:15pm
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).
February 12, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago
"Zhuangzi"
Time, & Location TBA
February 17, 2026 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell University
Title, Time, & Location TBA
February 26, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Daniel Nolan, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Zoroastrianism"
Time, & Location TBA
February 27, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Daniel Nolan, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Impossible Fictional Characters"
Time, & Location TBA
March 5, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Sontag Lecture
Talia Mae Bettcher, California State University, Los Angeles
4:15pm, Pearsons 101
March 12, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Rosanna Picascia, Swarthmore College
"Indian Non-Buddhism"
Time, & Location TBA
April 3, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Peter Adamson, University of Munich
"Arabic Philosophy"
Time, & Location TBA
April 9, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Coleen Macnamara, University of California, Riverside
Title TBA
4:15pm, Pearsons 202
April 13, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Merlan Lecture
Samuel Scheffler, New York University
Title, Time, & Location TBA
April 16, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Alexus McLeod Indiana University, Bloomington
"Chinese Confucianism"
Time, & Location TBA
May 1, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Monima Chadha, Oxford University
"Indian Buddhism"
Time, & Location TBA
Fall 2026
October 22, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Meradjuddin Khan Oidermaa, Stockholm University
Title, Time, & Location TBA
Past Events
February 7, 2025 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Nina Emery, Mount Holyoke College
"Explanation As a Guide to What There Is and What It’s Like"
4:15pm, Kravis 164
February 13, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Merlan Lecture
Shelly Kagan, Yale University
"Death, Deprivation, and Rational Regret"
4:30pm, Humanities Auditorium
February 20, 2025 (held at Pomona College)
Sontag Lecture
Zoë Johnson King, Harvard University
"Aretaic Injustice"
4:15pm, Pearsons 101
March 7, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Bias in a Social Context Workshop
Participants include: Ángel Pinillos, Arizona State University; Gabbrielle Johnson, Claremont McKenna College; Cailin O’Connor, UC Irvine; Alex Madva, Cal Poly Pomona
9:30am-12:30pm & 1:45pm-5:00pm, Hampton Room
March 27, 2025 (held at Pomona College)
Ryan Wasserman, Western Washington University
"The New Problem of Freedom and Foreknowledge"
4:15pm, Pearsons 202
April 4, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Workshop on Deference
Participants include: Alex Worsnip, University of North Carolina; Elise Woodard, King’s College; Heather Battaly, University of Connecticut; Michael Hannon, University of Nottingham
9:30am-5pm, Vita Nova 100
April 22, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Rachel Fraser, University of Oxford
"Perspectival Testimony"
4:30pm, Balch Auditorium
April 24-25, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Conspiracy Theories
Participants include: Brian Keeley, Pitzer College; Elise Wang, California State Fullerton; Eli Alshanetsky, Temple University; Sinan Dogramaci, University of Texas; Miriam McCormick, University of Richmond
Vita Nova 100
April 26-27, 2025 (held at Pomona College)
Critical Humor Studies in Times of Crises: aesthetics, approaches, applications
Participatns include: Bambi Haggins, UC Irvine; Cynthia Willett, Emory University; Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Santa Clara University; Luvell Anderson, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
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May 6, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Elís Miller Larson, Brown University
"Closed-mindedness as a Defensible Fortess of Mind"
4:30pm, Humanities Auditorium