- Keith Whittingslow Prize for Best Graduate Essay
Prize Presentation and Winner’s Essay Presentation – “A Partial Case for Pragmatic Encroachment” by Sera Kong – Friday, March 15, 2024, 2:30pm
- Uehiro Graduate Student Conference 2024
The Benefit of the Doubt: Skepticism, Epistemic and Moral. March 7-8th.
- PH.D. FINAL ORAL DEFENSE by MICHAEL DUFRESNE
“The Worlds of Wang Guowei: A Philosophical Case Study of Coloniality”
– MARCH 1, 2024
3:30pm HST via Zoom
- Spinoza and Asian Philosophy. Reading Pierre Bayle’s Historical and Critical Dictionary (1702)
With Dr. Mateusz Janik, Assistant Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Visiting Fulbright Scholar – March 1, 2024, 12:00-14:00
- Free Will and the Afterlife: A philosophical Comparison between Asia and the West
Presented by: Neil Sinhababu, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Singapore. February 23, 2024
- Volunteer…ULUNIU PROJECT WORKDAY AND POTLUCK! (JAN 27, 2024)
Join the philosophy department for a service event tending to the niu (coconut) trees followed by a potluck lunch. Some trees are ready to take home!
- Mandarin Robe, Jesuit Body: Epistemology of Accommodation and the Origins of Comparative Philosophy
Mandarin Robe, Jesuit Body: Epistemology of Accommodation and the Origins of Comparative Philosophy.
– Friday, January 26
– Speaker: Mateusz Janik
- Department of Philosophy Dissertation defense by Elijah Byrnes
Arendt is commonly read as relegating death to the private and opposing natality—the political condition par excellence—to mortality. And yet…
- Upcoming UH Mānoa Philosophy Conference
Prospects, Problems, and Urgency of Global Intercultural Philosophy Now. December 04-06, 2023 at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Center for Korean Studies, Auditorium
- Department of Philosophy Dissertation Defense Announcement
Date: December 1, 2023
“The Concept of Ekstasis in the Modern Japanese Philosophy of Nishitani Keiji”
- Volunteer…ULUNIU PROJECT WORKDAY AND POTLUCK!
Join the philosophy department for a service event planting niu (coconut) trees at the uluniu coconut grove. The work day will be followed by a potluck lunch!
- Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning
Applications of artificial intelligence are ubiquitous in everyday life. Who doesn’t use a smartphone or a smartwatch? However, relatively few of us are actually familiar with how AI systems work. This talk will attempt to close this gap.
- Eliot Deutsch Merit Award Presentation: Neil Sims
- Chatbot Passes Turing Test
- Wayfinding Across the Pacific
- A Rilkean Challege to Herder on Aesthetic Appreciation of Sculpture
K. Whittingslow Prize Presentation for Best Graduate Essay by Husayn Ja’fari Friday, March 24, 20232:30pm HST . Sakamaki C308 Johann Gottfried Herder argues in Sculpture that the sense of touch is essential to the aesthetic appreciation of sculpture, while other senses play only a limited role, if any. While we may grant him the inclusion …
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- The Philosophy Department Colloquium Series Presents
Leo Strauss’s Theory on Tyranny: Ancient and Modern. This talk deals with the theory on tyranny by Leo Strauss (1899-1973), the German American scholar who was one of the leading political philosophers of the 20th century. His disciples are called the Straussians, and they are influential not only in America but all over the world.
- TIANXIA: BETWEEN NATIONALISM
AND COSMOPOLITANISMDr. Yong Li, (PhD, Saint Louis University), Professor of Philosophy at Wuhan University, Associate Dean of School of philosophy. Dr. Li works primarily in ethics and political philosophy, and focuses on Confucian ethics and comparative political philosophy.
- Where Will Our Bones End Up?
Jeff Mikulina on the cultural impacts of climate change Dec. 2, 2022, 2:30-4:00pm, POST 127 Click here to view the full flier
- Palehua Workday
Native Forest Restoration with Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer Saturday, November 19th. EMAIL FOR RSVP / DIRECTIONS / CARPOOL: TBHUNTER@HAWAII.EDU Click here to view the full flyer.
- The Annual Ruth Lenney Memorial EPOCH Lecture: Can Machines Have Emotions?
Presented by Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, Professor of Philosophy at San José State University Friday, November 4th at 2:30pm (HST) in room POST 126 Click here to view the full flyer. Workshop the following day: Mind and Moral Ground: a Workshop with Anand Vaidya, Sean Smith and George Tsai Saturday, November 5th, 9:30am-12:30pm SAKAM C 308 …
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- How to Read Ancient Chinese Philosophy: Interpretation and the Problem of Authorship
Recent Event: ” In this faculty dialogue, Tao Jiang, Esther Sunkyung Klein, and Franklin Perkins will explore the implications of that conclusion for how we should read and interpret classical Chinese philosophical texts.” Click here to view the full flyer.
- Yin-Yang Philosophy and its Implications in Contemporary Times
Colloquium talk presented by Professor Yao Xinzhong, School of Philosophy, Remin University of China Friday, October 14th at 2:30pm (HST) via zoom. Click here to view the full flyer.
- Philosophy For Everyone
Thursdays @6:00pm in the Bale courtyard. Click here to view the full flyer.
- Falsity in Advaita Vedānta: Recognizing the Semantic Dilemma for Metaphysics of Consciousness
April 29, 2022, 2:30pm (HST), University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Room POST 126 Colloquium Presentation by Emma Irwin-Herzog, Winner of the 2022 Eliot Deutsch PhD Merit Award Click here to view the full flyer
- Ka Hulikanaka a me Ka Hoʻokūʻonoʻono: Davida Malo and Richard Armstrong on Being Human and Living Well
Colloquium Presentation by Dr. Michael Kaulana Ing Event Details: April 22, 2022 at 2:30pm (HST), UH Mānoa Room POST 126 Click here to view the full flyer
- Fatigue, Sleep, and Insomnia
Presented by Professor Arindam Chakrabarti Friday, April 8, 2022 at 2:30pm (HST) University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Room POST 126 Click the following link for the full flyer: https://hawaii.edu/phil/wp-content/uploads/Fatigue-Sleep-and-Insomnia-Flyer.png
- Holographic Epistemology: Native Common Sense
Presented by Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer, Konohiki, Kūlana o Kapolei, University of Hawaiʻi West Oʻahu With an introduction by Jon Osorio, Dean of Hawai’inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge Friday March 11, 2022, 2:30 pm (HST), UH Mānoa, Room POST 126 Click the following link to view the full flier: https://hawaii.edu/phil/wp-content/uploads/Holographic-Epistemology-Flyer-.png
- On Recognizing an Opportunity: The Role of Imagination in Our Knowledge of Action-Possibilities
Presented by Ian Nicolay, recipient of the 2022 Keith Whittingslow Graduate Student Essay Prize Friday March 4, 2022, 2:30pm (HST), UH Mānoa, Room POST 126 Click the following link for the full flyer: https://hawaii.edu/phil/wp-content/uploads/On-Recognizing-an-Opportunity-Flyer-Updated.png
- Do Beliefs Need Justification?
Abstract: I argue that the widespread use of “justification” language in contemporary epistemology carries substantial normative presuppositions. “Justification” language in general presupposes that the action in question is pro tanto wrong. In the case of epistemology, discussion of whether beliefs are “justified” insinuates that belief in general is to be suspected or regretted, even if one’s …
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- Inter-cultural Philosophies of the Sea: Cultivating a Pragmatist Transoceanic Consciousness in Addressing Settler Allyship in Hawai’i
I hope to develop a pragmatist inspired analysis of a transoceanic consciousness that (a) locates philosophical analysis that addresses particular and situated social and political problems in Hawaiʻi and its reverberations throughout Oceania and (b) articulates a specific metaphysics, epistemology and ethics of the ocean. A transoceanic consciousness emerges as a response to the ongoing histories of settler …
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- Capstone Conference
Please join us for the upcoming Capstone Conference, showcasing the work of our graduating Undergraduate Philosophy Majors! https://hawaii.edu/phil/wp-content/uploads/2021-Dec-Undergraduate-Capstone-Conference-Flyer_1-scaled.jpg
- On Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear of Death and the Consolations of Science
This talk critically examines Thich Nhat Hanh’s attempt to interface Buddhist views about fear with science.
- Embodied Perspectives, Affective Bias,and Some Norms of Attention
In this talk I present an argument that the pervasiveness of affective bias on our conscious attention makes our attention normatively accessible in various ways.
- Imaginability: From Mind to Morals
There is a long tradition in the philosophy of mind, stretching from Rene Descartes to David Chalmers…
- Thinking Singular Plural: on Jean-Luc Nancy
The early 1990s marks a watershed in the history of Europe and the world but also in the life and work of Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-2021).
- Dr. Calvin Normore — “Much Freer than a Bird: When Wills Became Free(r).”
Monday, May 3, 2021, 10:30-11:45 am Professor Normore will be a guest speaker in Phil 414 C: Fate and Freedom in Late Antiquity and address medieval Latin and Islamic theories of free will. (Please, contact Dr. Jonathan Fine for Zoom link, jdfine@hawaii.edu). Dr. Calvin Normore (UCLA), “Much Freer than a Bird: When Wills Became Free(r).”
- Dr. Abdessamad Belhaj — 20th Century Arab Philosophers Mohammed A. al-Jabri and George Tarabishi: A Controversy on Rationality and Ethics
Thursday, April 29, 2021, 6:00-7:00 pm Professor Belhaj will be a guest speaker in Phil 730: Contemporary ArabPhilosophy and address a famous debate involving the question of Westernversus Eastern Arab rationality. (Please, contact Dr. Tamara Albertini forZoom link, tamaraa@hawaii.edu). Dr. Abdessamad Belhaj (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium), “20th Century Arab Philosophers Mohammed A. al-Jabri and …
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- CLINGING TO THE BRIDGE: A PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATION OF THE AESTHETICS OF WANG GUOWEI — BY MICHAEL DUFRESNE
April 23, 2021, 2:30 p.m. (HST) BY MICHAEL DUFRESNERECIPIENT OF THE ELIOT DEUTSCH PRIZE In this talk, I will discuss the aesthetic theories of Wang Guowei (1877-1927). First, I will introduce my comparative methodology, which is in many ways indebted to Wang’s own approach to comparative thinking. From this point, I will move on to …
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- Holocaust Escapee and Swiss Philosopher Hansjörg A. Salmony: Evil Confirms the Existence of Free Will
by Dr. Tamara Albertini, UHM Chair and Professor of Philosophy After witnessing the ravages of the Reichskristallnacht in 1938, Hansjörg A. Salmony (1920-1991) escaped from Germany to Belgium, France, and, finally, to Switzerland. In 1942, he began studying philosophy at the University of Basel where he later became Karl Jaspers’s assistant and, eventually, a full …
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- Colloquium (Friday, March 12) – Thomas Schmidt
A Transcendental Reading of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā by Thomas Schmidt The Keith Whittingslow Graduate Essay Prize Winner Immanuel Kant and Nāgārjuna are probably as far from one another as is possible, both in terms of their times and places and in terms of their philosophical projects. Nevertheless, the parallels between both thinkers have inspired modern interpreters …
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- Colloquium (Friday, March 5, 2021) – Graham Priest
The Daodejing and the Mulamadhyamakakarika: Making sense of Ineffability Many texts claim that there are some things that are ineffable, and argue that they are so. Of course, the texts must say something about them to do this. Hence the texts seem committed to the contradictory nature of these objects. In this talk I will …
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