Calendar of Events

The Department of Philosophy at The University of Tennessee regularly sponsors visiting speakers, symposia, workshops and conferences. For a list of philosophers who have visited the Department in association with one or another of these undertakings in recent years, click here.

All Events are Free and Open to the Public.

Fall 2009

• Matt Deaton
  Workshop: "How to Lead a Discussion"
  Date: August 28
  Time: 3:30P
  Place: TBA
  
  
• Jason Fishel
  Workshop: "Hazardous Ground: An Analysis of the Success and Failure of the Social Promises of Photovoltaic Energy and Sustainability"
  Date: September 11
  Time: TBA
  Place: TBA
  
  
• Clerk Shaw
  Talk: "Wisdom, Courage, and Natural Virtue in the Protagoras and Laches"
  Date: September 18
  Time: TBA
  Place: TBA
  
  
• E. J. Coffman
  Talk: "Does Knowledge Secure Warrant to Assert?"
  Date: September 28
  Time: 3:30P
  Place: TBA
  
  
• Kieran Setiya
  Talk: TBA
  Date: October 2
  Time: RBA
  Place: TBA
  
  
• Nicholas Wolterstorff
  Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology Emeritus
  Yale University
  • Talk: "Good Without God?" (conversation with David Reidy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at UT)
    Date: October 8, 2009
    Time: 7:00P
    Place: Clarence Brown Theatre
  • Talk: "Is Generosity Ever Unjust?"
    Date: October 9, 2009
    Time: 3:30P
    Place: Law School Lecture Hall, Room 135
    
    
• John Nolt
  Workshop: "TBA"
  Date: October 23
  Time: TBA
  Place: TBA
  
  
• Jacob Affolter
  Workshop: "TBA"
  Date: October 30
  Time: TBA
  Place: TBA
  
  
• Meeting of the TPA (Tennessee Philosophical Association)
  Date: November 6
  Time: TBA
  Place: TBA
  
  
• Adam Kadlac
  TBA
  Date: November 13
  Time: TBA
  Place: TBA
  
  
• David Palmer
  Workshop: "TBA"
  Date: November 20
  Time: TBA
  Place: TBA
  
  
• Jonathan Dancy
  Professor of Philosophy
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Date:November 30 - December 2, 2009
  Time: TBA
  Place: TBA