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Upcoming Events

Fall 2023-Spring 2024

Jonathan Rapping (John Marshall School of Law)
Forging a More Humane Vision of Justice
Sponsored by the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership
Sept 28, Rockwell Pavillion
4:00-6:00 PM

Anita Hill
Elizabeth D. Rockwell Distinguished Lecture 
Believing: The First Step to Change
Sponsored by the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership
October 5, Rockwell Pavillion
6:00-7:00 PM

Cosmologies of Care Conference:
A Conference Exploring Diverse New Perspectives on Care Ethics
Sponsored by the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership
October 7-8

Helen Hattab (UH)
Lecture at University of St. Thomas
Scholastic Methods in Relation to Analysis and Synthesis in Descartes' Philosophy
October 13
Sullivan Hall
1:30 PM

Robert Tierney (UH)
Vengeance and Retribution
Oct 24, Old Science Bldg S115
3:00-5:00 PM

Melissa Murray (NYU)
Richard Gelwich Endowed Lecture
Dobbs and Democracy
Sponsored by the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership
November 1, Rockwell Pavilion
6:00-7:00 PM

LATAM Bridges in the Epistemology of Religion
Capstone Conference
November 10-11, Student Center - Senate Chamber 204
Flyer - Please RSVP using QR code on Flyer

Gunnar Björnsson (University of Stockholm)
Title TBA
Nov 13, Location TBA
4:30-7:30 PM

Rice-UH Philosophy Graduate Conference
Theme:  Mind, Value, and Moral Psychology
Keynote speaker: John Doris (Cornell)
Nov 17-18
Full schedule

Andrew Werner (UH)
Hegel's Externalist Epistemology and Empirical Knowledge
Nov 28, Old Science Building S115
3:00-5:00 PM

Tori McGreer (Princeton)
Why do we punish?  Confronting the myth of folk retributivism
Feb 26, Honors Commons
4:00 PM

Fall 2022-Spring 2023

Daniel Heider (University of South Bohemia)
The Production of Intelligible Likeness in Second Scholasticism: Suárez, McCaghwell, and Mastri/Belluto
August 26, 3:00 PM
AH 202

Michael McKenna (Arizona)
October 21, 3:00-5:00
Location TBA 

UH Philosophy Homecoming Conference
March 25, 2023
UH Student Center, 2nd Floor
Midtown Room 262
Conference for UH Alumni
Keynote speaker: Elanor Taylor (Johns Hopkins)
UH Alumni Speakers: Boomer Trujillo (UT El Paso), Arianna Peruzzi (Michigan), Barrett Emerick (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
Event Poster
Please RSVP here

Previous Events

Fall 2021-Spring 2022

Michael McKenna (Arizona)
Rescheduled for 2022-2023

Joshua DiPaolo (Cal State, Fullerton)
Untangling the Extremism Web: What is Radicalization?
Feb 25, 3:00-5:00
CBB 124

David Enoch (Hebrew University)
There is No Such Thing as Doxastic Wrongdoing
March 7, 3:00-5:00
S116

Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Wade Munroe (Michigan)
Is Mathematical Cognition A Priori?
October 11, 3:00-5:00
AH 106

Gwen Bradford (Rice)
October 18

Samuel Scheffler (NYU)
Procreation, Immigration, and the Future of Humanity
Elizabeth Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library
November 15, 3:30-4:45
Hosted by the Ethics Center

Rafael Ventura (Bilkent)
November 25

T.M. Scanlon (Harvard)
Hosted by the Ethics Center
March 20 **CANCELLED**

Lisa Miracchi (Penn)
March 27 **CANCELLED**

Past speaker archive