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 2010

• Jacob Affolter
  Department of Philosophy
  University of Tennessee
  Talk: "Is Strong Moral Cosmopolitanism Intuitive?"
  Date: September 17, 2010
  Time: 3:30 pm
  Place: HSS 104
  
  
• John Fitzpatrick
  Department of Philosophy
  University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
  Talk: "Utilitarianism and Human Rights"
  Date: September 24, 2010
  Time: 3:30 pm
  Place: HSS 104
  
  
• John Hardwig
  Department of Philosophy
  University of Tennessee
  Talk: "Hope, Lotteries, and Organ Allocation"
  Date: October 1, 2010
  Time: 3:30 pm
  Place: HSS 104
  
  
• Allen Thompson
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  Clemson University
  Talk: Climate Change, Virtue, and the Challenge of Adapting Humanity
  Date: October 18, 2010
  Time: 3:30 pm
  Place: University Center 221
  
  
• Stephen Gardiner
  Associate Professor of Philosophy
  University of Washington, Seattle
  Talk: Climate Policy in A Perfect Moral Storm
  Date: Novemberl 8, 2010
  Time: 7:00 pm
  Place: Toyota Auditorium, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
  
  
• Christian Miller
  Associate Professor of Philosophy and Zachary T. Smith Faculty Fellow
  Wake Forest University
  Talk: "Developing a New Theory of Character"
  Date: Friday, November 19
  Time: 3:30 - 5:00 pm
  Place: Shiloh Room, University Center