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Philosophy Department Colloquium Series

2026

  • Ashoka Philosophy Conference 2026:
    • 14 March: Merve Tap谋n莽听(51茶馆): “Know Thyself, but Do You Care?”
    • 13 March:听Nevia Dolcini听(University of Macau): “Self-Deception as Rationalized Cognitive Dissonance”
    • 12 March:听Benjamin Winokur听(University of Macau): “Attitude Authority in the Age of AI”
  • 28 January: Monima Chadha (University of Oxford, Monash University): “The Limits of Self-Constitution.” Wednesday 28 January 1:30 PM AC04 LR008

2025

2023-4

  • 14 October 2024: Dhruv Raj Nagar (Emory University), “The Syntax of Selflessness: Impersonal Agents & Agentless Persons in Sanskritic Philosophy of Action” Monday October 14th 1:30 PM AC04 LR303
  • 27 May 2024:听Adrian K. Yee听(Lingnan University, Hong Kong Catastrophic Risk Centre), “The Limits of Machine Learning Models of Misinformation” Monday May 27th 2 PM AC04 LR409
  • 26 April 2024: Ben Winokur (University of Macau), “Extended Mentality and Ascriptive Authority”
  • 19 April 2024:听Nishad Patnaik (IIIT Delhi), Book Discussion on听听(Co-Sponsored with the Sociology & Anthropology Department)
  • 27 March 2024: Anca Gheaus (Central European University), “The Best Available Parent Revisited”
  • 20 March 2024: Scott Dixon (Lawrence University), “Maximizing the Good on a Relational Conception of Good and Evil: A Reply to Mackie”
  • 9 December 2023, 1:30 PM, AC04 005:(Columbia University): Value and Agency (In Person)
  • 15 November 2023, 1:30pm:(IITBHU Varanasi): Ny膩ya Logic, Fallacies and a Problem (In Person)
  • 20 October 2023, 1:30pm, AC04 009: (Pennsylvania State University): “I act”, therefore I am free: The rise and fall of Kant鈥檚 Cogito Argument for Transcendental Freedom (In Person)
  • 29 September 2023, 6:30pm: (Lancaster University): Anger and Moral Argument: Draupad墨 and Yudhi峁ａ弓hira in Conversation (Zoom)
  • 28 April 2023, 7pm: Maria Heim (Amherst College): Studying Emotions In — and According to — Classical Indian Texts
  • 27 April 2023, 1:30pm: Eric Johannesson (Ashoka): What鈥檚 Wrong with听ad hoc听Theory Modifications?
  • 12 April 2023, 1:30pm: Benjamin Winokur (Ashoka): How to Commit to Commissive Self-Knowledge
  • 17 March 2023, 1:30pm: A. Raghuramaraju (IIT Tirupati): The Predicament and Challenges of accessing the Past in the Indian National Movement
  • 13 March 2023, 1:30pm: Alex Watson (Ashoka): Indian Arguments for and Against the Existence of a Self
  • 8 February 2023, 1:30pm: Tammo Lossau (Ashoka):听Is Our Epistemic Standard Dissolving?
  • 25 January 2023, 1:30pm: Michael T. W.听 Much听(University of Vienna): Dharmak墨rti鈥榮 Philosophy of Language

2022

  • May 13, 2022, Meena Krishnamurthy (Queens University), 6:30 pm.: “Martin Luther King on Fear and Fearlessness”
  • April 7, 2022, Hrishikesh Joshi听(Queens University), 6:30 pm.: “The Epistemic Significance of Social Pressure”
  • Feb 24, 2022, Amber Carpenter听(Yale- NUS College), 6 pm.: “Epistemic Ideals and Moral Transformation”
  • Feb 10, 2022, Mayank Bora (University of North Bengal), 6 pm.: “Epistemic Transparency and Fregean Identity”
  • Jan 27, 2022, Matti Eklund (Uppsala University), 6 pm.: “Alien Structure: Language and Reality”

2021

  • Dec 2, 2021,听Janum Sethi (University of Michigan), 6 p.m.: “Kant on Prejudice”
  • Nov 16, 2021,听Alex Watson听(Ashoka), 6 p.m.: “Jayanta on Whether Recognition Refutes Momentariness”
  • Oct 21, 2021,听Justin Broackes听(Brown University), 6 p.m.: “Locke, Boyle and Essences”
  • Oct 1, 2021,听Josh Schechter听(Brown University), 6 p.m.: “The Theoretical Significance of the A Priori/A Posteriori Distinction”
  • Mar 30, 2021,听Daniel Guillery听(University of Warwick), 6:10 p.m.: “Gentrification and the injustice of marginalising sociocultural neighbourhood change” [=Philosophy and PPE lecture]
  • Feb 26, 2021,听Bob Fischer听(Texas State University), 6:10 p.m.: “One Cheer for Cheating”
  • Feb 12, 2021,听Anjan Chakravartty听(University of Miami), 6:30 p.m.: “Public Understandings of Science and the Common Good”
  • Jan 29, 2021,听Jordan MacKenzie听(Virginia Tech), 6:10 p.m.: “Self-Deception as a Moral Failure”

2020

  • Dec 9, 2020,听Kian Mintz-Woo听(University College Cork), 6:10 p.m.: “Progress Without Convergence”
  • Nov 27, 2020,听Alex Watson听(Ashoka), 1:30 p.m.: “Do objects of perception present themselves as momentary or persisting? Jayanta versus Ravigupta”
  • Nov 10, 2020,听Raja Rosenhagen听(Ashoka), 6:10 p.m.:听“Intrepid Internalism, or: How not to Fear Evil Demons”
  • Nov 02, 2020,听Scott Hill听(University of Colorado Boulder), 7 p.m.: “The Causal Impotence Problem is a Newcomb Problem”
  • Oct 20, 2020,听Michael Ruse听(Florida State University), 4:30 p.m.:听“Does Charles Darwin鈥檚 theory of evolution through natural selection spell the death of God?”听
  • Sep 30, 2020,听Nilanjan Bhowmick听(Delhi University), 1:30听p.m.: “Persistence and Persons”
  • 20 Mar, 2020,听Michael Ruse听(Florida State University), 1:30 p.m.:听TBA听[Covid-postponed until further notice]
  • 18 Mar, 2020,听Raja Rosenhagen听(Ashoka), 1:30 p.m.: “Predictive Coding, Cognitive Penetration, and Reformed Empiricism”听[Covid-postponed until further notice]
  • 16 Mar, 2020,听Kabir Singh Bakshi听(Ashoka), 1:40 p.m. (UG Thesis Presentation / Conference prep):听“Grounding Time Asymmetry” [Covid-postponed until further notice]
  • 4 Mar, 2020,听Blake Hestir听(Texas Christian University), 1:30 p.m.: “Plato on the Metaphysics of the Spoken Word” [Covid-cancelled]
  • 4 Mar, 2020,听Niko Strobach听(WWU M眉nster, Germany), 1:30 p.m.: “A German Fairy Tale as a Key to Wittgenstein鈥檚 Tractatus”
  • 19 Feb 2020,听Alex Haitos听(51茶馆), 1:30 p.m.: “The Importance of the Idea of Appropriation in William James’s Radical Empiricism”
  • 12 Feb, 2020,听Akshath Jitendranath听(VU Amsterdam), 1:30 p.m.: “Hard Choices: Neither Parity, Nor Incommensurability, Nor Incomparability”
  • 11 Feb, 2020,听Juliana Lima听(Ashoka), 6:10 p.m.: “Group Action and Indexical Beliefs”
  • 30 Jan, 2020, Micha毛l F艙ssel听(脡cole polytechnique),听1:30 p.m.: “Night and Democracy”
  • 29 Jan 2020,听Arudra Burra听(IIT Delhi Philosophy), 1:30 p.m.: “Fairness, Convention, and the Morality of Misrepresentation in Business and Professional Contexts”
  • 22 Jan 2020,听Pragati Sahni听(Delhi University), 1:30 p.m.: “The Status of Plants: A Brief Exploration of Early Buddhism and Jainism”

2019

  • 11 Dec 2019,听Tom Parr听(University of Warwick), 1:30 p.m.: “Militant Vegetarianism”
  • 20 Nov 2019,听Shishir Saxena听(Ahmedabad University), 1:30 p.m.: “Conflicting Prescriptions and Prohibitions: The Deontic Logic of M墨m膩峁僺膩”
  • 13 Nov 2019,听Anil Gupta听(University of Pittsburgh), 1:30 p.m.: “Foundationalism and Empirical Reason”
  • 6 Nov 2019,听Elay Shech听(Auburn University, US), 1:30 p.m.:听“Is there a viable anti-realist, selectionist explanation of the success of science?” [cancelled due to hazardous weather conditions]
  • 30 Oct,听Gagan Deep Kaur, (Int. Centre For Inter. Res. in Human Studies (ICIRHS), Laurentian University): 1:20 p.m.: “Cognitive Impact of Code-based Design Representation in a Native Handicrafts Practice”
  • 16 Oct 2019,听Purushottama Bilimoria听(Graduate Theological Union), 1:30 p.m.: “The Last of the Indian Liberals and Silver Tongue of the Empire: Rt Hon V S Srinivasa Sastri: biosophical sketches”
  • 8 May 2019,听Martin O’Neill听(York University, UK): “Social Justice, Democratic Socialism, and Collective Capital Institutions: Rawlsian Justice in an Age of Inequality”
  • 2 May 2019,听Adwait Parker听(Stanford): “Asymmetry of Intuition and Kant鈥檚 Theory of Physical Space”
  • 1 May 2019,听Alex Watson听(Ashoka), “Some Buddhist Arguments for Consciousness as the Fundamental Reality”
  • 29 April 2019,听Jayanti Jha听(Ashoka), “A Theory of Promising”,听ASP听Capstone Thesis Presentation
  • 29 April 2019,听Ajay Verma听(JNU), “Theorizing Mental States in Classical Indian Philosophy”
  • 25 April 2019,听Rhea Narayan Kuthoore听(Ashoka): “What a Coincidence!!!”,听ASP听Capstone Thesis Presentation
  • 24 April 2019,听Reetika Kalita听(Ashoka), “”Nihilism in the Abuse of History: Finding Nietzsche in听The Uses and听Disadvantages of History for Life”,听MLS听Capstone Thesis Presentation
  • 24 April听2019,听Nishant Kauntia听(Ashoka), “Nietzsche On The Role of Aesthetics in Coping with Nihilistic Despair”,听ASP听Capstone Thesis Presentation
  • 24 April 2019,听Anirban Mukherjee听(North Bengal University): “Authenticity and the Social Self”
  • 23 April 2019,听Vikas Srivastava听(Ashoka), “Does Truth Lie in Love?”,听MLS听Capstone Thesis Presentation
  • 23 April 2019,听Martin Lin听(Rutgers): “Spinoza’s Faith”
  • 22 April 2019,听Neal Harris听(Sussex): “Towards a deeper social critique: social pathology diagnosis from Rousseau to Honneth”
  • 17 April 2019:听Anuk Arudpragasam听(Columbia): “William James on the Suffering of Others”
  • 10 April 2019,听Apaar Kumar听(Ahmedabad University): “Kant on the Feeling of Existence: Considerations from Tetens and Feder”
  • 4 April 2019,听Eric Snyder听(Smith College): “A New Puzzle Concerning the Acquisition of Number Concepts”
  • 3 April 2019,听Kate Stanton听(Yale): “‘You Junkwagon!’ The Semantics of ‘You听蠁’听Expressives”
  • 2 April 2019,听Monima Chadha听(Monash, Australia): “Depersonalisation and the Experience of Self: A Buddhist Analysis”
  • 23 March 2019:听PhilCon
    • Bryan van Norden听(Yale-NUS): “Learning from Chinese Philosophy”
    • Rhea Malik听(Jindal Global University): “From Kant to Critical Legal Studies: The Role of Ontology in Dignity”
    • Sharmishthaa Atreja听(Delhi University): “Unpacking Disability”
    • Elias Koenig听(Freie Universit盲t Berlin/Yale-NUS): “Of Hearts and Kings. The Body Politic and Metaphor in Al-Farabi’s听Perfect State”
    • Shashi Motilal听(Delhi University): “Alliances Beyond and Within the Human Realm: A Wakeup Call for Global “Well-being””
  • 27 February 2019,听Elise Coquereau-Saouma听(University of Vienna): “On the Advantage of Being Ignorant: Seeking Knowledge in Dialogue”
  • 26 February 2019,听Mattia Salvini听(Mahidol, Thailand),听“膧c膩rya J帽膩na艣r墨mitra: the whole of Buddhist Philosophy in one verse”
  • 19 February 2019,听Tarun Menon听(TISS Mumbai): “Demystifying Emergence”
  • 14 February 2019,听Clancy Martin听(Ashoka): “Philosophy of Love”
  • 12 February 2019,听Bijoy Boruah (IIT Ropar): “From Interface to Cyberspace: The Metaphysics of Augmented Reality”
  • 6 February 2019,听HS Prasad听(Delhi University): “Sailing Against the Current: The Buddha, Buddhism and Methodology”

2018

  • 11 December 2018,听Cameron听Kirk-Giannini听(Rutgers): “Slurs are Directives”
  • 17 May 2018,听Danny Weltman听(UC San Diego): “A Cosmopolitan Theory听of Accession”
  • 25 April 2018,听Alex Watson听(Ashoka), “How Can the Self Perceive Itself? Four M墨m膩峁僺膩 Answers”
  • 19 April 2018,听Kyle Fruh听(Stanford University):听“Against Climate Refugees”
  • 18 April 2018,听Mathura Samaram听(ASP听Student, Ashoka),听Thesis Progress Presentation: “Modal-Temporal Worm Theory”
  • 18 April 2018,听Jishnu Ghose听(ASP Student, Ashoka),听Thesis Progress Presentation: “Focusing on Attention”
  • 11 April 2018,听Aaron Mascarenhas听(MLS Student, Ashoka),听Thesis Progress Presentation: “Should We Abandon Nazi-Era Eponyms for Diseases?”
  • 4 April 2018,听Megha Devraj听(ASP Student, Ashoka),听Thesis Progress Presentation: “Wittgenstein’s Use Theory and the Chinese Room”
  • 3 April 2018,听Rachana Kamtekar听(Cornell University):听“Aristotle contra Plato on the Voluntariness of Vice”
  • 21 March 2018,听Nirmalya Guha听(Manipal University): “Absence, Its Cognition听and听Ontology: An Indian Perspective”
  • 7 March 2018,听Kranti Saran听(Ashoka):听“The Moral Significance of Introspection”
  • 28 February 2018,听Malcom Keating听(Yale-NUS College): “Metaphor or Delusion? Kum膩rila Bha峁弓a on Figurative Language”
  • 21 February 2018,听Roy Perrett听(Ashoka): “Can I Doubt that I Exist?”
  • 14 February 2018,听Aditi Chaturvedi听(Ashoka): “Harmony and Isonomy: Two Models of Order in Pre-Platonic Philosophy”
  • 7 February 2018,听Amy Gordon听(Ashoka): “The Importance of Being Angry: Towards a ‘Political Emotion'”
  • 31 January 2018,听Clancy Martin听(University of Missouri, Kansas City,听51茶馆): “Indifference and Urgency”

2017

  • 19 April 2017,听Mark Fedyk听(Mount Allison University, 51茶馆): “How to Make Moral Psychology (Slightly) More Realistic鈥�
  • 4 April 2017,听Kit Patrick听(University of Bristol): 鈥淯nification as an Epistemic Virtue鈥�
  • 22 March 2017,听Anil Gupta听(University of Pittsburg): 鈥淩ussell on Our Knowledge of the External World鈥�
  • 20 March 2017,听Christopher Hill听(Brown University): 鈥淧erceptual Relativity鈥�
  • 15 February 2017,听Sir Richard Sorabji听(University of Oxford): 鈥淭he Discovery of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Speech for All鈥� and 鈥淔reedom of Speech and Opening Ears: Sometimes Divergent Forms of Speech?

2015-6

  • 16 June 2016,听Clancy Martin听(University of Missouri, Kansas City): “How You Become What You Are: Nietzsche on Selfhood”
  • 16 May 2016,听Aditi Chaturvedi听(University of Pennsylvania): 鈥淗armonia in Plato鈥檚 Psychology鈥�
  • 26 April 2016,听Roy Perrett听(51茶馆): 鈥淢emory, Doubt and the Self鈥�
  • 22 March 2016,听Tyke Nunez听(University of Pittsburg): 鈥淜ant on the Constitution of Causal Experience鈥�
  • 21 March 2016,听Kathryn Lindeman听(Saint Louis University): 鈥淟egal Metanormativity; Lessons for and from Constitutivist Accounts in the Philosophy of Law鈥�
  • 3 February 2016,听Lucas Thorpe听(Bo臒azi莽i University):听鈥淜nowledge Doesn鈥檛 Entail Belief鈥�
  • 19 January 2016,听Martin Lin: 鈥淭he Mind-Body Problem and Early Modern Philosophy鈥�
  • 18 November 2015,听Arindam Chakrabarti: 鈥淐ould Consciousness Just Be a Convenient Fiction?鈥�
  • 14 October 2015,听Arudra Burra听(IIT Delhi): 鈥淐ivil Liberties and Political Ideology鈥�
  • 20 April 2015,听Scott Dixon听(UC Davis): 鈥淲hat is Grounding and Why Do We Need It?鈥�
  • 25 March 2015,听Martin Glazier听(NYU): “Explanation, Actualist Possibility, and听Tomorrow鈥檚听Sea Battle”
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