Events
Fall 2017
November 3, 2017
Symposium on Chinese Philosophy
Friday, 8:30am to 5:00pm
107 Capen Hall, UB North Campus
The Confucius Institute and the Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo are pleased to announce a Symposium on Chinese Philosophy in Memory of Jiyuan Yu on Friday, November 3, 2017. The event is free and open to the public.
Symposium Speakers:
Timothy Connolly, East Stroudsburg University
Yong Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yi Jiang, Beijing Normal University
Richard Kim, Saint Louis University
JeeLoo Liu, California State University, Fullerton
Kang Ouyang, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology
Yi Wang, Sichuan International Studies University
Jinmei Yuan, Creighton University
UB Philosophy Organizers:
James Beebe
Nicolas Bommarito
Jorge J. E. Gracia
Neil E. Williams
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X-PHI 2017 Conference with Tania Lombrozo, UC Berkeley
Romanell Conference 2017: Personal Identity and Our Origins
July 28 & 29, 2017
The theme of the 2017 Romanell Conference on Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine is "Personal Identity and Our Origins." Join us as we welcome three distinguished keynote speakers:
- Don Marquis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, is author of the seminal paper "Why Abortion Is Immoral."
- Marya Schechtman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, is a leading defender of the narrative view of personal identity as seen in her recent book Staying Alive: Personal Identity, Practical Concerns, and the Unity of a Life.
- John Lizza, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Kutztown University, has published widely on the relationship between metaphysics (especially personal identity) and bioethics.
As in past years, the conference will also feature current graduate students, UB Philosophy alums, as well as philosophy faculty members of UB and other institutions in Western New York.
PROGRAM: Romanell Conference 2017, poster by Antonette Nolan
2017 Conference: Blameless Buffalo?
Spring 2017 Events at a Glance
FEBRUARY 2017
February 3, Celebration of the Life and Legacy
of Jiyuan
Yu
Event hosted by Professor Neil E. Williams, Chair, UB CAS
Department of Philosophy, and Professor Stephen C. Dunnett, UB Vice
Provost for International Education and Chair,
Confucius Institute, Board of Advisors
3:00 pm, Center for the Arts, Screening Room and Atrium
Reception
February 3, Friday, 12 Noon, 141 Park Hall
Brown Box Lecture
Tim
Connolly (East Stroudsburg University)
February 10, Friday, 12 Noon, 141 Park
Hall
Brown Box Lecture, Andrew Pfeuffer (University at Buffalo)
February 16, Thursday, 4:00 p.m, 141 Park Hall
Departmental
Colloquium
Tuomas Tahko (University of Helsinki)
"Where Do You Get Your Protein? (Or: Biochemical
Realization)"
February 17, Friday, 12 Noon, 141 Park Hall
Brown Box Lecture, Shane Hemmer (University at
Buffalo)
February 23, Thursday 4:00 p.m., 141 Park Hall
Departmental
Colloquium
Joshua
Knobe (Yale University)
February 24, Friday12 Noon, 141 Park Hall
Brown Box Lecture, Botan Dolun (University at Buffalo)
MARCH 2017
March 2, Thursday, 4:00 p.m., 141 Park Hall, UB North
Campus
Buffalo
Logic Colloquium,
Matt
LaVine (SUNY Potsdam) "The History of Logic (and Ethics)"
March 3, Friday, 12 Noon, 141 Park Hall
Brown Box Lecture, Paul Poenicke (University at Buffalo)
March 9, Thursday, 4:00 p.m., 141 Park Hall, UB North Campus
Buffalo
Logic Colloquium
Julian Cole, Buffalo State College
"Institutions and Abstract Objects"
March 10, Friday, 12 Noon, 141 Park Hall
Brown Box Lecture, Hun Chung (Rochester)
APRIL
April 18, 19 20; UB North Campus
George F.
Hourani Lecture Series
Julia Driver
(Washington University in St. Louis)
April 27, Thursday, 4:00 pm, 141 Park Hall, UB North
Campus
Buffalo
Logic Colloquium
John Corcoran (University at Buffalo)
"Sentence, Proposition, Judgment, Statement, and Fact: Speaking
about the Written English Used in Logic"
April 28, Friday, 4:30 pm, and 7:00 pm
The Romanell Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine Center
presents:
Dr. Patrick Lee, John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Professor of
Bioethics
Director, Institute of Bioethics, Franciscan University of
Steubenville
"Rational Nature as the Basis of Being a Subject of
Rights"
Lecture, 4:30-6:00 pm, Park Hall 141
“Distinguishing between What is Intended and Foreseen Side
Effects”
Workshop, 7:00-10:00 pm, Location TBA
For more information contact: David B. Hershenov, dh25@buffalo.edu
Paul Kurtz Memorial Lecture 2017 with Massimo Pigliucci
"Skepticism and Epistemic Virtue: Shouldn't skeptics know what they are talking about, when they are talking about it?"
March 30, 4:00 to 6:00 pm in 107 O’Brian Hall, UB North Campus
Short Bio: Prof. Pigliucci has a PhD in Evolutionary
Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Philosophy
from the University of Tennessee. He currently is the K.D. Irani
Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His
research interests include the philosophy of biology, the
relationship between science and philosophy, the nature of
pseudoscience, and the practical philosophy of Stoicism.
Prof. Pigliucci has been elected fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science “for fundamental studies of
genotype by environmental interactions and for public defense of
evolutionary biology from pseudoscientific attack.”
In the area of public outreach, Prof. Pigliucci has published in
national and international outlets such as the New York Times,
Philosophy Now and The Philosopher’s Magazine, among others.
He is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a
Contributing Editor to Skeptical Inquirer. Pigliucci publishes two
blogs: Plato’s Footnote (platofootnote.org), on general
philosophy, and How to Be a Stoic (howtobeastoic.org), on his
personal exploration of Stoicism as practical philosophy.
At last count, Prof. Pigliucci has published 146 technical papers
in science and philosophy. He is also the author or editor of 10
technical and public outreach books, most recently of Philosophy of
Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem (University of
Chicago Press), co-edited with Maarten Boudry. Other books include
Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a
More Meaningful Life (Basic Books) and Nonsense on Stilts: How to
Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press).
Massimo Pigliucci
This title will be released on May 9, 2017.
Fall 2016 Events
Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference 2016 with Helen De Cruz, Oxford Brookes University
Summer 2016 Events
PANTC* 2016 Conference on Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine
July 28, Thursday, 11:00am to 6:00pm
July 29, Friday, 9:30am to 6:00pm
4:40pm: David
Boonin
Keynote Speaker, "Posthumous Harm"
July 30, Saturday, 9:00am to 7:00pm
3:15pm: Elselijn
Kingma
Keynote Speaker, "The Metaphysics of
Pregnancy"
5:30pm: Barry
Smith
"The Metaphysics of the Embryo"
PANTC* 2016 Program Poster
PANTC 2016, poster by Antonette Nolan, Stellar Graphics
Video: PANTC* 2016 "The Metaphysics of the Embryo"
"The Metaphysics of the Embryo" by Barry Smith, published on YouTube, Aug 7, 2016; Response to talk by Elselijn Kingma on "The Metaphysics of Pregnancy" presented in Buffalo on July 30, 2016.
Conference 2016: BLAMELESS BUFFALO? Free Will and Moral Responsibility
June 18, 2016, Park Hall, 280, UB North Campus, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
10:00-11:00. Keynote Address: Steve Kershnar. “Internalism and Moral Responsibility: Cutting responsibility down to size
11:15-12:15. Plenary Address I: David Hershenov. "Is Health the key to Autonomy?"
12:15-1:15 Lunch Break
1:15-2:15 Award Winning Graduate Student Essay: Rob Kelly, "Manipulation and Compatibilism: Why Appealing to Health Is Not the Cure."
2:30- 3:30 Award Winning Graduate Student Essay. David Limbaugh. “Could we Perform Evil Actions When We Never Would? An Essay on God, Agency, and Dispositional Modality”
3:45-4:45. Best International Submission: Yishai Cohen. "A Manipulation Argument for Deliberation Incompatibilism".
5:00-6:00 Plenary Address II: John Keller. “The Mother of All Design Arguments”
For more information contact dh25@buffalo.edu
Poster by Ben Lawrence
