The Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series Presents Talking About Nothing, Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, Metaphor and Reference Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025Time: 4:00-5:30pmLocation: Sakamaki C-308 The seventh-century philosopher Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, in a passage explaining his theory of … Continue reading Talking About Nothing, Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, Metaphor and Reference →

Political & Social Emotions– How They Divide or Unite – January 23-24, 2025University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Campus Center Ballroom Keynote Speakers: Dr. Martha Nussbaum, University of ChicagoDr. Hagop Sarkissian, CUNY Graduate Center Phone: +1 … Continue reading 2025 Uehiro Philosophy Graduate Student Conference →

Entry deadline: JANUARY 20, 2025 Please email an anonymized copy of your essay to philo@hawaii.edu. Include your name and the title of your essay in the body of the email. The Department of Philosophy invites … Continue reading The David L. Hall Undergraduate Philosophy Prize →

December 11, 202412:30 – 3pmSakamaki C-308 Please join us in supporting this year’s outgoing undergraduate Philosophy majors. 3 of our 8 graduating seniors will present a paper based on This Life: Secular Faith & Spiritual … Continue reading 2024 Undergraduate Capstone Mini-Conference →

The Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series Presents CONFUCIAN FEMINISM: A FAMILY- AND CARE-BASED FEMINIST THEORY Date: November 15, 2024Location: Sakamaki C-308Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm Everyone is welcome to attend! This nook offers a hybrid feminist … Continue reading Confucian Feminism: A Family- and Care-based Feminist Theory →

The Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series Presents Did Evolution Shape the Human Moral Mind? Date: November 8, 2024Location: Sakamaki C-308Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm Did evolution by natural selection shape our moral emotions, attitudes, and judgments? … Continue reading Did Evolution Shape the Human Moral Mind? →

Thinking Like Dao: Environmental Virtue Ethics in Daoism Friday, October 18, 202411:00 AM (ST) ABSTRACT:This dissertation aims to establish that Daoist ethics can be understood as a form ofenvironmental virtue ethics, grounded in the Laozi … Continue reading PH.D. Final Oral Defense →

Date: Friday, October 11, 2024 Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm Location: Arch 205 Professor Keya MaitraProfessor of Philosophy at UNC Asheville My paper aims to carry forward the cross-cultural dimension in the philosophy of emotion especially … Continue reading RWCLS Colloquium Emotions in the Bhagavad Gita →

Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 Time: 3pm – 6pm Location: Sakamaki C-308 Professor Keya MaitraProfessor of Philosophy at UNC Asheville If you plan on attending, please RSVP to Professor Sean Smith Please read text if … Continue reading Sultana’s Dream: Philosophical Accounts of Decolonial Feminist Consciousness and Social Identity →

Rama Watumull Collaborative Lecture Series Visiting Speaker Monday, October 7, 2024 Location: Philosophy Department Lounge, Sakamaki C-308 Time: 4-6pm

Sep 27 (Friday), 2024 @ 2:30pm (HST) Sakamaki Hall C-308 Philosophy Department ColloquiumK. Whittingslow Prize Presentation In Book One of A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), David Hume lays down a few foundational principles for … Continue reading Hume’s Separability Principle & the Distinction of Reason: A Contradiction? →

Thursday July 25, 202411:30am (HST) Title of Dissertation: Alternative Talk of the Indefinite: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Epistemic and Semantic Problems in the Metaphysics of Consciousness Doctoral Advisory Committee:Arindam Chakrabarti, Dept. of Philosophy (chair)Sean Smith, … Continue reading PH.D. FINAL ORAL DEFENSE by EMMA IRWIN-HERZOG →