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 →

Faculty, students, and staff are saddened by Professor Cheng’s passing. It occurred just two days after his official retirement, preventing him from enjoying the emeritus status the UH Department of Philosophy unanimously requested on his behalf.

Friday, June 21, 2024, 2pm (HST) via Zoom Title of Dissertation: Exploring Alternative Foundations: Xuanxue Philosophers’ Quest for Social and Political Order Post-Han Dynasty Collapse

MAY 24-31, 2024. Co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the East-West Center Honolulu, Hawai‘i

Thursday, May 2, 2024, 2:30 PM. Ben Kiesewetter is a Professor of Practical Philosophy at Bielefeld University in Germany. In this talk, Dr. Kiesewetter will criticize Scanlon’s contractualist attempt to defend the duty to save the greater number.