Philosophy Department

UPCOMING SPRING 2025 Friday Brown Bag TALKS



a. April 18, 12:30-2pm, Seminar Room, Bowden Hall
Ernesto Blanes-Martinez, The work-in-progress is based on an earlier essay, “A Transcendental Materialism? Tran Duc Thao, Jacques Derrida and the Question of Existence.”

b. April 25, 12:30-2pm, Seminar Room Bowden Hall

David Marriott, Work-in-progress brownbag
Essay title TBA

Congratulations to Dr. Hasan Birdwell for winning the 2025 Beaney Prize for the best paper published in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
Please follow the link below for more details on Dr. Birdwell's award and details on the published paper.

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/philosophy/2025/04/14/prof-hasan-birdwell-awarded-beaney-prize/

Philosophy Department's End of the Year December 2024 party
Wisteria Lanes
Emory University Conference Center and Hotel

Joseph Fishkin, professor at UCLA School of Law, gave his “Partisan Constitutional Politics and Judicial Legitimacy” talk on November 14, 2024, at Emory University.

The talk was attended by undergraduate and graduate Philosophy students, and faculty from Emory University’s Philosophy department.

Please join the Philosophy Department at Emory University in celebrating the publication of E. Hughes’ poetry collection “Ankle Deep In Pacific Water”.

Poets Bettina Judd, Opal J. Moore, Maya Marshall, and W.J. Lofton will be present for a discussion and reading of collective memory and historical disposition. E. Hughes is a third-year PhD student in the Philosophy Department at Emory University.

Talk: In My Own Time: Black Poets on Paradox and History

Date/Time: November 22, Friday
4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Location: Atwood Chemistry Building
Room 360
Emory University

Reception to follow

Pre-Halloween Phil-O-so-PhicAL Pumpkin Carving and Snacks behind Bowden Hall! 🎃👻😎

On October 24, 2024, Dr. Lauren Guilmette Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elon University gave the Williams F. Edward Lecture in White Hall at Emory University.

Dr. John Stuhr moderated her talk, “Something in the Atmosphere: Community Gardens and the Project of an Affective Commons,” and was well received by Philosophy undergraduate and graduate students.