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
- Talk: "Good Without God?" (conversation with David Reidy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at UT)
- 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