Conferences and Workshops

Current and Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

• 10th Annual Conference of the American Association of Mexican Philosophers (AAMP)
  Contact: Raul Saucedo
  Full schedule here
  September 8-9 2018, Hellems 269
   
• 34th Annual Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science (CHPS) Conference: Chance and Probability in Science
  Contact: Heather Demarest
  Full schedule here
  October 12-14, 2018

• Concerned Philosophers for Peace Conference (co-sponsored by the Center for Values and Social Policy)
  Contact: Alison Jaggar
  October 18-20, 2018
   
• Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference (RMPC)
  Information to follow
  March 8-19, 2019

Past Conferences

2017-18

• 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
  Keynote Speakers: Eva Kittay (Stony Brook), Julia Driver (Washington University St. Louis), Chris Armstrong (Southampton, UK)
  Contact: Alastair Norcross
  August 9-12, 2018
   
• Morris Colloquium: The Self and its Realizations
  Keynote Speaker: Rob Cummins
  June 16-18, 2018
   
• Morris Colloquium: Medieval Philosophy
  Contact: Robert Pasnau
  April 5-7, 2018
   
• Workshop on Cognitive Value
  Participants:  Alan Hajek (Australian National University); Branden Fitelson (Northeastern University); Julia Staffel (Washington University); Graham Oddie (University of Colorado).
  Contact: Graham Oddie
  Wednesday March 8th 2017
   
• Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference
  CU-Boulder Graduate Philosophy Conference19^th
  Annual. Keynote speakers:
  Spring 2017

2016-17

• 32nd Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
  "Gravity: Its History and Philosophy"
  Invited speakers:
  Peter Saulson, Syracuse University, LIGO
  Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota
  Peter Bender, JILA, University of Colorado
  October 28th-30th, 2016

• Morris Colloquium: Metaphysics and its History
  March 11-12, 2016

• Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference
  CU-Boulder Graduate Philosophy Conference
  Spring 2016

• Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
  9th Annual. Keynote speakers: Nomy Arpaly (Brown University), David Brink(UCSD), Lawrence Blum (UMass, Boston)
  August 11-14, 2016 

2015-16

• Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference
  17th Annual. Keynote speakers: Sharon Street (New York University), Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland, College Park), Benjamin Morison (Princeton University)
  April 17-18, 2015

• Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference (RoME)
  8th Annual. Keynote speakers: Richard J. Arneson (UCSD), Shelly Kagan (Yale), Nancy Sherman (Georgetown)
  August 6-9, 2015

• The Morris Colloquium: Cognitive Values
  March 6-7, 2015

2014-15

• The Morris Colloquium: The Work of Alison Jaggar
  August 6-7, 2014
   
• Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference (RoME)
  7th Annual. Keynote speakers: George Sher (Rice), Elizabeth Spelman (Smith College), Richard J. Arneson (UCSD)
  August 7-10, 2014

2013​-14

• The Morris Colloquium: Inclusion
  Speakers: Peggy DesAutels (Dayton) and Susanna Goodin (Wyoming)
  April 19, 2013
   
• Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference
  15th Annual. Keynote speakers: Elizabeth Harman (Princeton),Ruth Chang (Rutgers), Ed Curley (University of Michigan)
  April 5-6, 2013
   
• Society of Christian Philosophers Mountain-Pacific Region Conference
  Speakers: Lara Buchak, Trent Dougherty, and Jeffrey Jordan
  March 8-9, 2013

2012-13

• 28th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
  September 14-16, 2012
   
• The Morris Colloquium: Immigration
  Speakers: Michael Blake, Kit Wellman, and Sarah Song
  March 15-16, 2012
   
• Rocky Mountain Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
  14th Annual. Keynote speakers: Jerry Fodor (Rutgers), Kit Fine (NYU), and Russ Shafer-Landau (Wisconsin)
  April 20-21, 2012
   
• The 38th Annual Society for Philosophy and Psychology Meeting
  Invited speakers: Susan Schneider, Joshua Greene (Stanton Prize Winner), Terry Horgan, Sharon Thompson-Schill, and Brian Scholl (President)
  June 21-23, 2012
   
• The Fifth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
  Keynote speakers: Julia Annas , Jeff McMahan, and one other to be announced.
  August 9-12, 2012

2011-12

• The Morris Colloquium
  Charles Mills
  March 10-11, 2011​
   
• Rocky Mountain Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
  13th Annual. Keynote speakers: Hud Hudson (Western Washington), Boris Kment (Princeton), and Peter Railton (Michigan).
  April 15-16, 2011
   
• Cox Family Fellow Visit
  The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome Professor David J. Chalmers (Australian National University) as a Cox Family Visiting Fellow, funded through the University of Colorado's Center for the Humanities and Arts. Professor Chalmers will be on campus during the week of April 25, 2011. He will give a colloquium talk on Monday, April 25 and a public lecture on Tuesday, April 26. Contact: Rob Rupert.
   
• Judith Jarvis Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion" After Forty Years: A Critical Appreciation
  August 3, 2011
   
• The Fourth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
  August 4-7, 2011
   
• The 27th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
  “History and Philosophy of Physics”
  September 23-25, 2011

2010-11

• Rocky Mountain Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
  12th Annual. Keynote speakers: Nathan Salmon (UC Santa Barbara) and Penelope Maddy (UC Irvine).
  April 9-11, 2010
   
• The Morris Colloquium
  David Benatar
  April 19-20, 2010
   
• 5th Biennial Margaret Dauler Wilson Conference
  June 28-30, 2010
   
• The Third Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
  August 5-8, 2010
   
• “Field Science"
  Oct 22-24, 2010
   
• Fall Faculty Symposium: Sex and Love
  Friday, December 3, 2010, 3:00–7:00pm, HUMN 150.
   
• 26th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science

2009-10

• 2009 Colorado Conference on Dependence
  Tuesday, March 17 - Saturday, March 21, 2009
   
• Rocky Mountain Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
  March 13-14, 2009
   
• The Problem of Punishment: A Kayden Book Award Author-Meets-Critics Symposium
  Saturday, April 4, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
   
• Summer Seminar Tenth-Anniversary Reunion Conference
  July 24-25, 2009
   
• The Second Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
  August 6-9, 2009
   
• 25th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
  "Social Sciences"
  Keynote Speakers: Alison Wylie (University of Washington), Christopher Green (York University).
  October 9-11, 2009
   
• Fall Faculty Symposium: Intuition
  Speakers: Bob Hanna, Brad Monton, Mike Huemer, Brian Talbot
  Friday, December 4, 2009

2008-09

• Symposium on Research on Prisoners and other Vulnerable Populations
  February 14-15, 2008​
   
• The Morris Colloquium
  March 7-8, 2008​
  April 4-5, 2008
   
• The First Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)
  August 8-10, 2008
   
• 24rd Regional Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
  "Experiment"
  Keynote Speakers: David Rudge (Western Michigan), George Smith (Tufts), and Allan Franklin (CU Boulder).
  October 10-12, 2008
   
• Fall Faculty Symposium: Causation
  Speakers: Rob Rupert, David Barnett, Michael Huemer, Michael Tooley
  Friday, November 21, 3:00-8:00 p.m.
   
• Rocky Mountain Graduate Student Philosophy Conference

Fall 2007-08

• The Morris Colloquium
  "Development and Human Rights in a Globalizing World"
  Oct 5-6, 2007
   
• 23rd Regional Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
  "Modality in Science"
  Oct 12-13, 2007
   
• Fall Faculty Symposium: Abortion
  Speakers: David Boonin, Alastair Norcross, Chris Heathwood, Michael Tooley, Alison Jaggar
  Friday, November 30, 2007, 3:00-8:00 p.m.