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