Lecture Series

The Department is delighted to host a variety of lectures and master classes each year, drawing prominent and creative philosophical thinkers to the Georgetown community.  Unless otherwise noted, the series will be held in New North 204.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Main Office at philosophy@georgetown.edu with any questions regarding the Lecture Series.

Due to COVID-19, the Fall 2020 lecture series has been cancelled. Spring 2021 TBD

Previous Years

AVNER BAZ
Tufts University

NAOMI SCHEMAN
U. of Minnesota

JENNIFER FREY
U. of South Carolina

ANTON FORD
U. of Chicago

MICHAEL ROSEN
Harvard University

AXEL HONNETH
Columbia/Princeton Institute for Advanced Study 2018-19

LISA GUENTHER
Queens University, Canada

RACHEL MCKINNON
College of Charleston 

MANUEL VARGAS
UCSD

RICKI BLISS
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Lehigh University

MICHELE MOODY-ADAMS
Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory 
Columbia University

LISA TESSMAN
Professor of Philosophy
SUNY Binghamton 

SALLY SEDGWICK
Professor of Philosophy
University of Illinois at Chicago
Mar. 16, 2018
3:00  -5:30 pm

JENNIFER WHITING
Professor of Philosophy
Univerity of Pittsburgh

ELIZABETH BARNES
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Virginia

ALEX VOORHOEVE
Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method 
London School of Economics
KIE and NIH Visiting Researcher
“Why Death Is Not Bad If You’re Supremely Self-Satisfied: A Defense of One of Epicurus’ Arguments.”

CLINTON TOLLEY
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of California San Diego

BEATRICE LONGEUNESSE
Silver Professor, Professor of Philosophy
NYU

KRISTIE DOTSON
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Michigan State University

DANIELLE MACBETH
T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy
Haverford College
“Logical Form, Mathematical Practice, and Frege’s Begriffsschrift” 

BRANDON HOGAN
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Howard University
“Hegelian Constitutivism”

ALISON PETERMAN
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Rochester
“Two Questions about Embodiment”

DAVID CHARLES
Professor of Philosophy
Yale University

VANESSA WILLS
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
George Washington University
“False Consciousness”

Cheshire Calhoun
Professor of Philosophy
Arizona State University
“Geographies of Meaningful Living”

Dean Moyar
Associate Professor of Philosophy
The Johns Hopkins University
“The Inferential Object: Hegel’s Deduction and Reduction of Consciousness”

Eric Campbell
Visiting Assistant Professor
McDonough School of Business and Department of Philosophy, Georgetown
“How To Be a Naturalistic Relativist About Normativity”

Rachana Kamtekar
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Arizona 
“Plato On Doing What You Want”

Amie Thomasson
Professor of Philosophy
University of Miami
“Norms and Necessity”

TOMMIE SHELBY
Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy
Harvard University
Title “Punishment, Condemnation, and Social Injustice”

ROBERT PIPPIN
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College
The University of Chicago
Title “The Significance of Self-Consciousness in Idealist Theories of Logic”

DAN KELLY
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Purdue University
Title “Responsibility from the Outside In: Shaping the Moral Ecology around Implicit Bias”

SALLY HASLANGER
Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title “Social Meaning and Moral Philosophy”

MARY DOMSKI
Associate Professor of Philosophy
The University of New Mexico
Title “Newton’s Experimental Philosophy: Deducing Truth from the Phenomena”

TOM MULHERIN
Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
‘Where Nature Will Speak to Them in Sacred Sounds’: Music and Transcendence in E.T.A. Hoffman

DANIEL WEISKOPF
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associated Faculty, Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University
“The Human Stain: Concepts, Anthropic Kinds, and Realism”

In addition to his lecture, Dan taught a Master Class: “The Reality of Cognitive Models.”

AGNES CALLARD
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Chicago
“The Importance of Being Ashamed”

KAREN STOHR
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
“Self-Deprecation”
Faculty Work-in-Progress Colloquium

CHARLOTTE WITT
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, University of New Hampshire
“The Argument for Gender Essentialism”