Trinity College Dublin Philosophy Colloquium

Secession: Crafting Borders and Environmental Responsibility

Alba Montes Sánchez (UCC)

Three Forms of Pride

Jennifer Hawkins (Duke)

TBC

Kristen Irwin (Loyola University Chicago)

What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Toleration?: A Baylean Account

Showkat Ali (TCD)

Jesse Spafford (TCD)

‘Explanation, Justification, and Egalitarianism’

‘Progress without convergence’

‘Attitudes to risk are complicated’

In-Person – Thomas Davies Theatre, Trinity - Title TBA

'Before the Creation of Time in Plato's Timaeus'

David Albert (Columbia University)

'The Problem of the Direction of Time'

Donnchadh O'Conaill (Fribourg)

'The Problems of Universals'

Achille Varzi (Columbia)

'Ontology: Material vs. Formal'

No Colloquium due to Bank Holiday

Vasilis Politis (TCD)

'Why cannot essences, or Forms, be perceived by the senses?'

'Knowing by Another’s Understanding: an early modern debate about knowledge, testimony, and faith'

“What does chemistry bring to the table? – Sketches of a philosophy of chemistry”

Johnny Lyons (Trinity College Dublin)

‘The “history” of political philosophy’

Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter)

‘Newton’s metaphysics in practice’

Kristina Musholt (Leipzig University) 

‘On the normative dimension of folk psychology’

Agnieszka Rostalska (Ghent University)

‘What makes one an authority? Nyāya's reference to current epistemology of testimony'

Philip Ehrlich (University of Ohio)

‘Cantorian and non-Cantorian theories of finite, infinite, and infinitesimal numbers and the unification thereof’

Justin Vlasits (Tuebingen University)

‘Aristotle on the hunt for essence’