Each semester, the department offers a series of lectures given by a mix of guest speakers from around the world and UNLV professors, presenting current research on a broad range of philosophical issues. These lectures expand on topics covered in philosophy classes. There is also a course (PHIL 482) centered on the Colloquium Series itself.

Spring 2025 Colloquia

  • Allison Wolf, Dept. of Philosophy, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia —Almost all philosophical work related to immigration explores the issue through the lens of the way migration is framed in the United States and…

  • Leo Groarke, Dept. of Philosophy, Trent University —Visual arguments that support conclusions with pictures instead of (or in addition to) sentences and words have been discussed for decades, but the logic of such arguments…

  • Laura Gradowski, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh —The term "fringe" is often used to disparage or dismiss a theory as unserious, or obviously false. By contrast, I outline an account…

  • Speaker: Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Presidential Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Center, City University of New York There is a clear generational and demographic divide in the U.S. (and elsewhere) on Israel/Palestine…

  • Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Dept. of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, CUNY —This paper has two aims: first, to defend the claim that episodic memory is a distinct psychological capacity, and second, to propose a possible…

  • Natalie Hsiao and Bill Ramsey, Dept. of Philosophy, UNLV —Experimental philosophy has exposed several ways in which ostensibly philosophically irrelevant factors influence the sort of intuitive reactions people have to the…

  • Susanna Melkonian-Altshuler, Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna —According to Aristotle’s Categories (14b, 14-22), there is an explanatory asymmetry between truth and the world: the truth of a proposition depends…

  • John Symons, Dept. of Philosophy and the Center for Cyber Social Dynamics, University of Kansas —This talk explores an approach to philosophy of science that takes hard formal limits and no-go theorems as the basis of an…