Conferences
Upcoming Conferences
2024
Author Meets Critics: A Symposium on J.P. Messina's Private Censorship
March 30, 2024
Midwest Memory Mayhem Conference
April 6, 2024
Previous Conferences
Below is a representative list of conferences the Department of Philosophy has hosted here on campus in West Lafayette, IN, over the past decade. These conferences covered various areas within academic philosophy, topics, and themes. They also included a range of guests and speakers, from graduate students to international scholars. Links to the conference program or website are included where available.
2023
Author Meets Critics: A Symposium on Jamin Asay's Truthmaking
November 18, 2023
Dr. William McBride's Retirement Conference
September 9, 2023
2022
Social agency, political power, and legal boundaries in Classical German Philosophy
September 30th-October 1st, 2022
Author Meets Critics: A Symposium on Michael Bergmann's Radical Skepticism & Epistemic Intuition
April 23rd, 2022
Celebrating Leonard Harris
April 16th, 2022
2021
Post-Kantian Bioethics ConferenceApril 16th-17th, 2021
2020
An Ancient Philosopher Retires: A Conference in Celebration of Patricia Curd's RetirementApril 26th-27th, 2019
Hegel and the Unity of Science
February 24th-25th, 2020
2019
Inclusive Philosophies Conference, Hosted by Graduate Women in Philosophy
March 29-30th, 2019
2018
Dimensions of Normativity: Kant on Morality, Legality and HumanityFebruary 19th-21st, 2018
2017
Indiana Philosophical Association Fall 2017 MeetingNovember 10th-11th, 2017
Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)
"Deleuze, Politics, Economics" Conference
September 6th, 2017
Inclusive Philosophies Conference, Hosted by Graduate Women in Philosophy
April 21st-22nd, 2017
2016
Art, Aesthetics, and Philosophy International ConferenceSeptember 30th-Oct 1st, 2016
William L. Rowe Memorial Conference
July 26th-27th, 2016
2015
The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze International ConferenceNovember 13th-14th, 2015
2014
Faith and Reason: Themes from Swinburne
September 25th-27th, 2014
Logic, Mathematics, and Philosophy International Conference
September 19th-20th, 2014
2013
Philosophy Born of Struggle ConferenceOctober 25th-26th, 2013
2012
Between Deleuze and Foucault
November 30th-December 1st, 2012
Truth, Thought, and Technology: The 5th Biennial Purdue Philosophy & Literature Conference
October 19th-20th, 2012
Challenges to Religious and Moral Belief: Disagreement and Evolution
September 6th-8th, 2012
The Annual Spring Workshop of the Moral Psychology Research Group
April 2012
2011
Philosophical Dialogue Between Africa and the AmericasApril 18th-20th, 2011