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SPRING 2021 ONLINE EVENTS

Department Colloquium

Spring 2021 Colloquia will take place online (via Zoom) Wednesday afternoons, 4:00 – 6:00 pm, and will feature faculty members in UB’s Philosophy Department. If you are not a member of the UB Philosophy Department, and wish to attend one or more of the online colloquia, please contact David Braun, dbraun2@buffalo.edu.

  • February 17, Barry Smith (University at Buffalo) and Jobst Landgrebe (Cognotekt), “Defining Intelligence” The presentation recording is here.
  • March 3, 4:00 – 6:00 pm, Duane Long (University at Buffalo), “The Relation between Reason and Spirit in the Nicomachean Ethics VII.6”
  • April 14, 4:00 – 6:00 pm, David Braun (University at Buffalo), “Questions and Answers”

Romanell Center Events

  • What Should Be the Overarching Natural End (Goal) of Human Life?
    4/2/21
    April 23, 2021, Friday from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, join us online as Patrick Lee delivers the talk, "What Should Be the Overarching Natural End (Goal) of Human Life?". The event is part of the Spring 2021 Speaker Series hosted by the Romanell Center. For further information contact Jonathan Vajda, jvajda@buffalo.edu
  • Bioethics Collapses: The Problem of Coming to Own One’s Self
    3/10/21
    March 19, 2021, Friday from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, join us online as Stephen Kershnar delivers the talk, "Bioethics Collapses: The Problem of Coming to Own One’s Self". The event is part of the Spring 2021 Speaker Series hosted by the Romanell Center. For further information contact Jonathan Vajda, jvajda@buffalo.edu
  • A new approach to disease, risk, and boundaries based on emergent probability
    2/9/21
    February 19, 2021, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, join us online as Patrick Daly, MD, delivers the talk:  “A new approach to disease, risk, and boundaries based on emergent probability.” For further info contact David Hershenov, dh25@buffalo.edu  

Related Links

Romanell Center for Clinical Ethics and the Philosophy of Medicine
UB Academic Calendar
UB Events Calendar
National Center for Ontological Research
Cog Sci Colloquium
Our past event listings

PAST EVENTS

FALL 2020

Romanell Center Speaker Series

FALL 2019

August 29, 2019
Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park Hall 141 
Samantha Matherne (Harvard) 
"Edith Landmann-Kalischer’s Moderate Objectivism About Aesthetic Value"

September 12, 2019
Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park Hall 141
Keith Hankins (Chapman University)
"Social Choice and the Tradeoff Between Utilizing and Imputing Information"

October 3, 2019
Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park Hall 141
Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto University)

October 16, 2019 
Wednesday, 6:00 p.m. Knox Hall 20
Romanell Center Debate:
Should Physician-Assisted Suicide be Legal?

October 18 & 19, 2019, Conference
A Collection of Individuals
Capen Conference and Book Launch

October 24, 2019
Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park Hall 141 
Stephen Grimm (Fordham)

November 1, 2019
Friday, 2:00 p.m., Park 141 
Maurizio Ferraris 
"The Internet: A Political Approach"

November 7, 2019
Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park 141
Donald Baxter (UConn)

 

February 8, 2019, Lunchtime talk
Friday, 2 -1:30pm, 141 Park Hall
Chris Haufe,  (Case Western)
“The Priority of Promise.”

February 21, 2019, Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall    
Karen Frost-Arnold (Hobart & William Smith)
"Epistemic Justice and the Challenges of Online Moderation"

February 29, 2019
Department Colloquium
Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall
Andrea Borghini, Università degli Studi di Milano
“Outline of a Metaphysics of Dishes and Recipes”

March 8, 2019
Baldy Center Distinguished Speaker Series
Friday, 12:30 – 2:30pm, 509 O’Brien Hall
Christina Bicchieri, SJP Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
"Social Similarity and the Erosion of Social Norms.”
Co-sponsored with the Baldy Center and the Center for Global Health Equity


March 14, 2019, Macalster Bell
Department Colloquium
Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall 
“Photographs as Tools of Moral Persuasion”

March 29, 2019, Open House for Potential Grad Students
Friday 3:30pm – 5:30pm, 141 Park Hall
Lewis Powell, UB Philosophy
“Locke, The Abuses of Language, and the Construction of Public Language”  


April 4, 2019, Kwong-loi Shun (Berkeley)
Thursday, 4pm – 6pm
Co-sponsor: UB Confucius Institute
 

April 5, 2019, Bioethics Workshop
Niagara University, 1:30 – 6:15pm


April 11, 2019, Richard Bett
"Humor as Philosophical Subversion, Especially in the Skeptics”
Department Colloquium
Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall 


April 6, 2019, City of Good Neighbors Philosophy Conference
Saturday, 9am – 5pm, 141 Park Hall
Participants: Devonya Havis (Canisius); Nic Bommarito (UB); Leigh Duffy (Buff State); Brandon Absher (D’Youville); Steve Petersen (Niagara); and Mark Warren (Daemen). 

See April 6 Conference Program here.
See April 6 Conference Flyer here.


May 2, 2019, Donald C. Ainslie (Toronto)

“Leibniz and Hume on Rational Animals”
Department Colloquium
Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall

May 9, 2019, Department Review of Graduate Students
Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall

May 11, Romanell Workshop
International Workshop on Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
Saturday, 10:00am to 6:00am
141 Park Hall, North Campus

May 13, Application Deadline
Mary C. Whitman Scholarship
Undergraduate Award, up to $2,000.

 

SUMMER 2019

July 25-27, 2019
Romanell Summer Conference
John Martin Fischer Keynoter
See UBNow article: Philosopher to argue against an afterlife at Romanell Conference


July 31-Aug 2, 2019
10th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology 
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY 

 

SPRING 2020

March 5, 2020 Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park 141 
Hagop Sarkissian (CUNY Grad Center / Baruch College)
Works in X-Phi, moral psychology, and Chinese philosophy. This talk is co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute.

 

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