Conferences and Workshops
The UC Davis Department of Philosophy hosts intellectually stimulating, thought-provoking colloquia, workshops, and discussions throughout the academic year.
American Association of Mexican Philosophers 13th Annual Conference
University of California, Davis June 1-2, 2024
Organizer: Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval
Saturday, June 1st
8:00am – 8:50am Breakfast
8:50am – 9:00am Opening Remarks
Morning Sessions: 9:00am – 12:30pm
9:00am – 10:00am Martín Abreu Zavaleta (University of Syracuse)
“Vagueness and Abundance”
Commentator: José Antonio Navarro Talavera (UMass, Amherst) 10:00am – 11:00am
Melisa Vivanco (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley)
“A Grounding Mathematical Model”
Commentator: Francisco Martínez-Aviña (University of California, Davis) 11:00am – 11:30am Coffee Break
11:30am – 12:30pm Keynote: Manuel Vargas (University of California, San Diego)
“Adaptive Agency”
Commentator: Hannah Tierney (University of California, Davis)
12:30pm – 2:00pm Lunch Break
Early Afternoon Sessions: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
2:00pm – 3:00pm Rogelio Alonso Laguna García (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
“Bonfil Batalla andthe Deep Mexico: A Contemporary Dialogue with the Imaginary Mexico”
Commentator: Sergio Gallegos (John Jay College – CUNY)
3:00pm – 4:00pm Itsue Nakaya Pérez (CUNY, Graduate Center)
“A Self Where All Selves Fit”
Commentator: Leonel Alvarez Ceja (University of California, Los Angeles)
4:00pm – 4:30pm Coffee Break
Late Afternoon Sessions: 4:30pm – 6:30pm
4:30pm – 5:30pm Ana Patricia Melchor Organista (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
“Potential and Limitsof an Account of Human Nature in Well-Being Theories”
Commentator: Sandra Cai Chen (Pennsylvania State University)
5:30pm – 6:30pm Cintia Martínez (University of Oregon)
“Patriarchy and Productive Labor in Latin American Violence”
Commentator: TBA
6:30pm Drinks & Dinner
Sunday, June 2nd
8:00am – 9:00am Breakfast Morning Sessions: 9:00am – 12:30pm
9:00am – 10:00am Ana Vieyra Ramirez (Emory University)
“Hegel’s Account of Truth in the Idea”
Commentator: Enrique Chávez-Arvizo (John Jay College – CUNY)
10:00am – 11:00am Marcela García Romero (Loyola Marymount University)
“Metaontology in Schelling’s Last Philosophy”
Commentator: TBA
11:00am – 11:30am Coffee Break
11:30am – 12:30pm Abraham Sapién (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
“Cultural Pluralism inAnalytic Philosophy”
Commentator: Carlos Mariscal (University of Nevada, Reno)
12:30pm – 2:00pm Lunch Break
Afternoon Sessions: 2:00pm – 5:30pm
2:00pm – 3:00pm Carlos Montemayor (San Francisco State University), presenting joint work with Adriana Renero (CUNY, Graduate Center)
“Introspection Working in Tandem with Attention and Memory”
Commentator: TBA
3:00pm – 4:00pm Carla Merino-Rajme (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
“Experiencing the Passage of Time”
Commentator: Carlos Montemayor (San Francisco State University)
4:00pm – 4:30pm Coffee Break
4:30pm – 5:30pm Daniel Muñoz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) “Values as Vectors”
Commentator: TBA
5:30pm – 6:00pm Election of AAMP President and 14th/2025 Conference Venue
Chair: Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval
6:00pm Drinks & Dinner
Workshops and Discussion Groups
Workshops take place in the Philosophy Library on Friday afternoons throughout the year. The workshop series offers students, faculty and periodic visitors an opportunity to present and discuss their work in progress before an appreciative audience of their peers.
Three discussion groups for faculty and graduate students meet weekly — one in ethics; one in philosophy of biology; and one in logic, language, epistemology, and philosophy of mathematics. Members of the department also are involved in the cognitive science discussion group.
Conferences
The Philosophy Department occasionally holds philosophy conferences in which visiting speakers present their research. These conferences attract participants and audience members from many different institutions as well as from UC Davis. Annual conferences include DEX (Davis Philosophy Conference) and the Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Philosophy Conference.