April 10, 2026 5:00 pm MAP Diversity Reading Group April 10th 5-6pm Democracy and Human Rights Wilson 212/104
April 09, 2026 5:00 pm Dinner & Dialogue: Should Universities Allow Disruptive Protests? Frank Lovett (Political Science) and Gregory Magarian (Law) Danforth University Center 276
April 09, 2026 4:00 pm A New Defense of Old-School Conceptual Analysis Stephen Finlay, Univ. of Illinois McDonnel 162
April 03, 2026 10:00 am Civil Society Brunch: Conservative and Progressive, American Style Dan Haybron (Saint Louis University) Knight Center 210
April 02, 2026 5:00 pm Dinner & Dialogue: Apologies and Reparations: Which Comes First? Adrienne Davis (Law) and Thembelani Mbatha (African & African American Studies) Danforth University Center 276
March 27, 2026 3:00 pm Workshop in Philosophy and Social Change Featuring Alex Madva, Dan Kelly, and Michael Brownstein
March 27, 2026 1:30 pm Nonacademic paths for PhDs in Philosophy A Presentation by Greg Stoutenberg (Zoom) Wilson 104 | Zoom Watch Party
March 27, 2026 12:00 pm Sympathy as Affective Self-Governance Akshan deAlwis & Anne Margaret Baxley, WashU Wilson 104
March 27, 2026 10:00 am Civil Society Brunch: Somebody Should Do Something Michael Brownstein (John Jay College of Criminal Justice), Daniel Kelly (Purdue University), and Alex Madva (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) Knight Center Room 210
March 05, 2026 4:00 pm Intimate Partner Violence and the State Colloquium: Elizabeth Brake, Rice University McDonnel 162
February 27, 2026 10:00 am Civil Society Brunch: The Politics of Futurity Deva Woodly (Brown University) Knight Center 210
February 19, 2026 5:00 pm Dinner & Dialogue: Should Animal Testing Be Phased Out? Anne Baril (Philosophy) and Erik Herzog (Biology) Danforth University Center, Room 276
February 05, 2026 4:00 pm "Machiavelli, Hamilton and Constant on Democratic Despotism" Eric Schliesser McDonnell 162
January 29, 2026 4:00 pm It’s Good to Be Loved: Experientialism and the Problem of Chatbots Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota) McDonnel 162
January 22, 2026 4:00 pm Nozick, Self-Ownership, and the Problem of Self-Enslavement Daniel Layman, Davidson College McDonnell 162
November 13, 2025 4:00 pm Colloquium: Declan Smithies Declan Smithies (Ohio State University) McDonnel 162
November 07, 2025 10:00 am Civil Society Brunch: Sex, Gender, and Sports Zack Bowersox (Political Science), Marina DiMarco (Philosophy), Ophelia Vedder (Political Science), and Lucy Vollbrecht (Philosophy) Knight Center Room 220
October 31, 2025 12:00 pm Probing errors in explainable AI: Adversarial attacks and inferential defenses David Watson, KCL Wilson 104
October 24, 2025 10:00 am Civil Society Brunch: Democracy without Elections? Alex Guerrero (Rutgers University) Knight Center Room 200
October 16, 2025 4:00 pm Brown bear, brown bear, what do you tree? Discordance in linguistic phylogenetics Carlos Santana (University of Pennsylvania) McDonnel 162
October 13, 2025 3:00 pm Fall 2025 Major-Minor Fair Each fall, the College holds a Major-Minor Fair, where students can talk to faculty members and get more information on many majors and minors at one time and in one place. WashU Athletic Complex
October 03, 2025 12:00 pm WIPS: Is the population doctrine consistent with transcriptomic circuit mapping? Casey O'Callaghan & Michael Barksai Wilson 104
October 02, 2025 4:00 pm Theories of Causation, Newton, and Locke's Argument for God's Existence Patrick Connolly (Johns Hopkins University) McDonnel 162
October 01, 2025 5:00 pm Dinner & Dialogue: Talking about Touchy Topics Tiffany Robertson (Touchy Topics Tuesday) and Ron Mallon (WashU Philosophy/PNP) Danforth University Center 234
September 25, 2025 4:00 pm Intellectualisms in Republic I-II Rusty Jones (University of Oklahoma) McDonnell 162
August 15, 2025 1:00 pm Markus Werning of Bochum The problem of mnemic justification: How can episodic memories provide genuine (internalist) epistemic justification for factual beliefs? Wilson 104
May 01 to May 03, 2025 2025 SPAN First Annual Meeting Sponsored by The Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program
April 18, 2025 4:00 pm MAP Diversity Reading Group Minorities and Philosophy Diversity Reading Group Wilson 212