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The 2018 Concerned Philosophers for Peace Conference , co-sponsored by the CVSP, will be held on the Boulder campus October 18-20, with a keynote by Alison Jaggar .

October 9 5:00-6:30 PM HUMN 250

Alex Worsnip (UNC Chapel Hill) will be our CVSP Visiting Fellow this fall, here from October 1-20. He describes his interests as follows: "The general project I'm working on at the moment (as advertised in my application) is political epistemology. Here's a list of topics that I'm thinking about: Political...

The official schedule for the upcoming Morris Colloquium , "The Self and Its Realizations", has been released. The Colloquium will be held June 16-18, and the full schedule is available here .

Undergraduate Toby Bollig has won the inaugural Morris Judd Undergraduate Essay Prize for the best undergraduate essay submitted on any topic in the values area. An earlier version of his essay, titled “Is Circumventing the Euthyphro Dilemma By Appealing to God’s Nature Problematic?” is available here .

On April 5-7, Boulder will be the home to the largest conference in medieval philosophy that has recently taken place in North America. There are 63 talks scheduled, and over 70 scholars coming into town for the event. The Colloquium is made possible thanks especially to the Morris Fund, the...

3rd Boulder Formal Value Theory Workshop New Problems in Theoretical and Practical Rationality Monday, March 19th, 2018 On Monday March 19th the 3rd Boulder Formal Value Theory Workshop will be held. The one-day features six prominent philosophers from Australia, Sweden, and the US. All talks will be held in Hellems...

Department of Philosophy PhD graduate Duncan Purves (2013) will be giving a talk entitled "The Ethics and Ecology of Genetic Interventions to Prevent Wild Animal Suffering" on March 14, 2018, from 3:00-4:00 in the Sievers Conference Room (S228), in the SEEC (Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Complex) building. Abstract: Facts about...

The CVSP is pleased to announce the Visiting Fellows for 2018-2019: Nathan Hanna (Drexel University), Cara Nine (University College Cork), and Alex Worsnip (UNC Chapel Hill). For more information click here .

The 2018 Morris Colloquium , on the topic "The Self and Its Realizations", will be held June 16-18, 2018. The theme will be interpreted broadly, so as to include a wide range of topics, from the psychology of the self to the nature of the neural mechanisms that implement the...