Lectures and Events

Yolonda Wilson
Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics: Race, Health, and Justice, 2024
June 28, 2024
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Laura Ruetsche to Present 2023 O'Hara Lecture in Philosophy of Physics
March 28, 2023
George Yancy
Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics on Race, Health and Justice
April 26, 2022
George Yancy
Register for the Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics on “Race, Health and Justice" on April 15, 2022
March 24, 2022
Ethics of Immigration March 17-18-2022, with photos of Keynote Speakers
José Jorge Mendoza and Amelia Wirts featured at Ethics of Immigration Enforcement Symposium at Rock Ethics Institute
March 15, 2022
Dale Jamieson
Register for the Annual Ethics Lecture: Climate, Carbon, and What Really Matters – Dale Jamieson, NYU, March 3, 2022
February 16, 2022
Logo for borderland series
José Jorge Mendoza featured on Borderland: An Interview Series on Immigration Ethics
October 29, 2021
Stephen Gardiner
Stephen Gardiner gives the Alan Saunders Lecture
October 1, 2021
Line of police cars
Amelia Wirts on police and systematic oppression in the United States
September 2, 2021
Stephen Gardiner
Stephen Gardiner: "Climate Crisis & Institutional Denialism"
July 12, 2021
Katherine Brading
O’Hara Lecture in Philosophy of Physics - How Physics Flew The Philosophers’ Nest
June 16, 2021
Zoom gallery screen capture of the 2021 graduates
Graduation Celebration 2021
June 14, 2021
José Mendoza
APA Undergraduate Webinar: Underrepresented Perspectives on Pursuing Academic Philosophy
June 8, 2021
Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr.
Announcing our Alumni Graduation Speaker: Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr. (UW Philosophy B.A. 1994)
May 25, 2021
Dr. Cornel West
Dr. Cornel West presents Critical Thinking and the Cultivation of Your True Self
May 6, 2021
Stephen Gardiner
Stephen Gardiner gave the Annual Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Lecture
May 5, 2021
Poster for Lecture - all copy is listed below
Register for O’Hara Philosophy of Physics Lecture - How Physics Flew The Philosophers’ Nest - Katherine Brading, May 20, 2021
April 30, 2021
Dr. Cornel West
Critical Thinking and the Cultivation of Your True Self with Dr. Cornel West
April 13, 2021
Screen capture of Zoom Ethics Bowl Class
Washington State High School Ethics Bowl held virtually
April 8, 2021
William Talbott
William Talbott gave keynote address at PLATO WA
March 23, 2021
Book cover - A Sense of Brutality (photo of bullet holes in glass)
Author Meets Critics - Carlos Alberto Sánchez
March 11, 2021
Professor Ruth Faden
Register for "Social Injustice and COVID-19 Vaccines", Professor Ruth Faden, January 29, 3:30 p.m.
January 7, 2021
Photo of career panel on zoom
Alumni Career Panel
November 5, 2020
Poster with speakers and titles
Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics - Emotion and Empathy [VIRTUAL]
September 8, 2020
Screenshot of career panelist in Zoom
Alumni Career Panel
May 19, 2020
Image of Plant covered scales
Ben Rabinowitz Workshop on Environmental Ethics: Climate Justice & Responsibility
February 13, 2020
David Wallace talking with students post-lecture
O'Hara Lecture in Philosophy of Physics: Emergence and Naturalness
December 16, 2019
Photo of Panel: Julio Covarrubias, Jane Lee, and India Orneals
Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics: Race, Health and Justice
December 3, 2019
Cheshire Calhoun
Professor Cheshire Calhoun’s talk, “Responsibilities and Taking on Responsibility” 
November 21, 2019
Emergence and Naturalness Lecture Poster
Register for O'Hara Philosophy of Physics Lecture "Emergence and Naturalness" - Professor David Wallace, November 21, 2019
October 28, 2019
Cheshire Clahoun
"Responsibilities and Taking on Responsibility" - Professor Cheshire Calhoun, November 1, 2019
October 21, 2019
Human Rights
Normative Innovation, Human Rights & Democracy: Concepts and Strategies for a New Global Agenda International Conference
October 14, 2019
Andrew March
The Caliphate of Man: The Invention of Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought - May 16th at 12 pm
May 7, 2019
Julio Covarrubias
Julio Covarrubias speaks at TEDxUofW 2018-2019
May 3, 2019
Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser, "What Should Socialism Mean in the 21st Century?" - May 8th, 7pm
May 1, 2019
Alumni Panel flyer- all information in the text
Alumni Career Panel, May 3rd
April 24, 2019
Katherine Branding
POSTPONED UNTIL 2019-2020  "How Physics Flew The Philosophers' Nest" - Professor Katherine Brading
April 4, 2019
Spinoza
Spinoza on Freedom and the Highest Good: Workshop on Ethics, Part V
October 23, 2018
Exploring Spacetime
Register for "Explaining Spacetime" - Professor Nick Huggett, November 7, 2018
October 8, 2018
Philosophy + Games
Philosophy+Games at Dawg Daze
September 20, 2018
Nick Hanauer
Nick Hanauer's Address at 2018 Philosophy Graduation Reception [with video]
July 16, 2018
Gerler Symposium on Race and Equity in Philosophy for Children at the University of Washington.
Gerler Symposium on Race & Equity in Philosophy for Children [with videos]
June 27, 2018
Philosophy Graduation 2018
Graduation Reception 2018
June 12, 2018
Professor Charles Mills
Charles W. Mills on Liberalism and Racial Justice: Video
May 30, 2018
Gerler Symposium on Race & Equity in Philosophy for Children
Register for the Gerler Symposium on Race & Equity in Philosophy for Children
April 23, 2018
Life Support Poster
Register for Medical Ethics Symposium - Life Support: The Role of Family, Friends and Community in Health and Healthcare 
March 21, 2018
Ethics Bowl 2018
Fifth Annual Washington State High School Ethics Bowl
February 22, 2018
Probability Workshop poster
Register for the Philosophy of Probability Workshop
February 13, 2018
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Epistemology for the Real World: Navigating in an Archipelago of Alt-Epistemology and Alt-Truth Conference - Videos
February 1, 2018
Émilie Du Châtelet, portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Pacific Northwest – Western Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, March 2 – 4, 2018
January 17, 2018