UPCOMING EVENTS FOR THE 2023-2024 ACADEMIC YEAR

 

Colloquia

The Philosophy Department presents a number of colloquia throughout the academic year. Speakers are drawn from international as well as American universities. Many of them are from campuses in the region, including UC Davis, where our visiting faculty customarily give a talk to the Department. The links to the left give names, dates, and titles of past colloquia since 1995. The Web pages covering the years from 1998 on also contain digital photographs of nearly all of the speakers.

Colloquia Schedule - 2023-24

All talks will be held at 1:10pm in the department library unless noted

 

Scott Jenkins  – Oct 13th

Dustin Stokes  – Oct 20th

Kai Wehmeier  – Oct 27th

Hayley Clatterbuck — Nov 3rd

Erich Reck - Nov 17th

Neil Sinhababu - Jan 12th

Laura Ferracioli - Jan 29th (Monday)

Robert Howell — Feb 16th

Alexander Korucek —  March 1st

Sara Aronowitz  – March 15th

Al Hajek - March 25th

Erin Kelly — April 12th

Maria Norgaard — April 26th

Laura Ruetsche – May 3rd

Yuri Balashov -- May 10th

Manuel Vargas  – May 31st

Upcoming Conferences: 

  • Space, Time, Location Conference Part II on May 17-20th, 2024

  • Organized by Antony Eagle (University of Adelaide), Cody Gilmore (University of California, Davis) & Shieva Kleinschmidt (University of Southern California)

    For more information, please click here.

  • The 13th Annual Conference Meeting of the American Association of Mexican Philosophers on June 1st and 2nd, 2024
  • Check out the conference schedule here.
  • Barrall Family Lecture with Bas van Fraassen on October 25th, 2024
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Discussion Groups

Discussion groups meet weekly in various topics. These groups provide an outlet for graduate students to suggest and discuss selected readings specific to their research interests, present their work and receive valuable feedback, and rehearse for presentations. 

DaGERS - Davis Area Group in Ethics and Related Subjects

Bio Lab - Davis Group for Philosophy of Biology

MENTaL - Mind, Epistemology, Neuroscience, Thought, and Language

Llemmma - Language, logic, epistemology, mind, mathematics

Awards Ceremony

Each year at the end of Spring Quarter, the Philosophy Department holds an awards ceremony, in which are awarded Departmental Citations for outstanding work by undergraduates, and the Michael V. Wedin Teaching Award to graduate students who have distinguished themselves as teaching assistants.

Graduate Student Philosophical Society

The Graduate Student Philosophical Society organizes an annual conference in collaboration with the graduate students in philosophy at UC Berkeley and Stanford. The conferences rotate between the three universities. 

Philosophy Club

The undergraduate Philosophy Club meets weekly to discuss philosophical topics.  The schedule and location of meetings can be found at the club's web site, here.