Faculty Conferences & Workshops

Conference in Honor of Fred Neuhouser, Professor of Philosophy and Viola Manderfeld Professor of German
October 25–26, 2024

Conference in Honor of Patricia Kitcher, Roberta and William Campbell Professor Emerita of the Humanities
November 8–9, 2024

Danto at 100 – What Comes Next?
November 15, 2024
Workshop Organizers: Lydia Goehr and Francey Russell

Kitcherfest In honor of John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Philip Kitcher
Monday, November 14th & Tuesday, November 15th
716 Philosophy Hall

Spring 2016

Exploring the Philosophy of Émilie Du Châtelet
Center for Science and Society
Heyman Center for the Humanities
Columbia University
1-3 June 2016

Reconciling Nominalism and Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, April 22–23, 2016

Journal of Philosophy Conference to Honor Charles Parsons’s Distinguished Service as Editor
Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 4:10pm-7:10pm
716 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus

Locke Workshop
The CUNY Graduate Center
April 7-9, 2016

Fall 2015

Alliance Conference: Reconciling Nominalism and Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Dept. of Philosophy, Columbia Univ. & IHPST Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Paris, IHPST, November 27-28, 2015

Spring 2014

Conference on Metaphysics
April 25-27 2014
Columbia University

Fall 2013

Pyrrho: Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius
A Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
October 18/19 2013, Common Room of the Heyman Center, Columbia University

Spring 2013

Doxa in Aristotle

A Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
April 26/27 2013, Philosophy Hall 716, Columbia University

Fall 2011

Progic 2011
The Progic conference series is intended to promote interactions between probability and logic. The fifth installment of the series will be held at Columbia University in New York on September 10th and 11th of 2011. While several of the earlier Progic meetings included a special focus, Progic 2011 will honor Haim Gaifman's contributions to the intersection of probability and logic. Progic 2011 will consist of 11 talks. The following distinguished speakers have been confirmed:

Fall 2010

October 28th-30th: The Philosophy of Creativity Conference
What is creativity? How does it happen? How is it that creativity is manifest in discovery as well as invention, in science as well as art? In what ways might an audience participate in creating a work of art? What role does creativity play in the construction of the self?

Spring 2010

April 17th 2010: The SIPTA Workshop on Uncertainty The Society for Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) 
A workshop on uncertainty that will be held at Columbia on April 17th. The workshop will feature invited talks by Jim Joyce (Michigan) and Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon), as well as several contributed papers.

April 15^th & 16^th 2010: The 2010 Synthese Conference on Epistemology and Economics
The Department of Philosophy at Columbia University will be hosting the Synthese Conference on Epistemology and Economics will take place on April 15th and 16th. It will feature invited papers by Alexandru Baltag (Oxford), Cristina Bicchieri (Penn), Adam Brandenburger (NYU), Christian List (LSE), and Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund), as well as several contributed papers.

February 6th, 2010: Desiring the Good in Plato
A one-day conference in 716 Philosophy Hall, organized by Katja Maria Vogt.
Speakers: Matthew Evans (NYU), Melissa Lane (Princeton), Dimitri El Murr (Paris 1), and Iakovos Vasiliou (CUNY).
Commentators: Taylor Carman, Wolfgang Mann, Christiana Olfert, Melissa Schwartzberg.

"Desiring the Good in Plato" is a year-long research project, jointly conducted by Dimitri El Murr (Paris 1) and Katja Maria Vogt (Columbia). The project is funded by the Columbia-Paris Alliance Program. The project involves a second conference in Paris, April 16th and 17th, organized by Dimitri El Murr.

Fall 2009

October 16th, 2009: The Dewey Workshop
The Dewey Workshop is jointly organized by the Columbia-Barnard Philosophy Department and the Philosophy of Education program at Teacher's College.  It will take place on October 16th, and will run all day.  

October 2nd & 3rd, 2009 Women, Philosophy, and History: Conference Celebrating Eileen O'Neill and her Work
This conference will continue the groundbreaking work of Eileen O'Neill (Barnard, 1975) by examining the standard narrative of the history of philosophy from a feminist perspective.