UNLV Philosophy Department

10/03/2026

Our third Series talk for Fall 2026 is WEDNESDAY 10/7 at 3pm in BEH 241 [NOTE THE AND !]. Prof. Nick Byrd of Geisinger College of Health Sciences will discuss “Your Health vs. My Liberty: From Precautionary Principles to Duties to Be Watched and Randomized?”

Nick Byrd, Dept. of Bioethics and Decision Sciences, Geisinger College of Health Sciences — Public health controversies are often oversimplified. A technocrat may treat resistance to expert recommendations as a communication problem. A psychologist may expect identifiable victims to motivate compl...

09/19/2026

Our second UNLV Series talk for Fall 2026 is Friday 9/25 at 3pm in CHB C128. Prof. John Casey of Philosophy will discuss “Argument’s Peculiar Adversaiality”.

John Casey, Dept. of Philosophy, Northeastern Illinois University — This talk proposes a new defense of the thesis that argument is essentially adversarial. While previous defenses of this thesis have centered on the kinds of states beliefs or commitments are, this paper will focus on inference, w...

09/11/2026

Our first talk in the UNLV Series for Fall 2026 is Friday 9/11 at 3pm in CHB C128. Prof. Todd Jones of UNLV Philosophy will discuss “To Eliminate or Not to Eliminate: The Science and Metaphysics of Non-Existence”.

Todd Jones, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nevada Las Vegas — A central debate in philosophy of mind continues to be whether developments in neuroscience should convince us to be eliminativists regarding folk psychological terms.

06/16/2026

UNLV alum Rachel Schell, now a at , wrote an article for about her journey to praxis at and how she’s now bringing that work to pre-college students in Washoe County!
https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2026/experiences-of-the-pack-rachel-schell

06/11/2026

FALL 2026 COURSE!
PHIL 425: Philosophy of Language (MW 11:30am - 12:45pm)
with Prof. James Woodbridge

05/28/2026

We need philosophers because when the world faces crises we need people trained to question, critique, and imagine better alternatives.

04/20/2026

Our final talk in the UNLV Series this term is a UNLV Liberal Arts being given by Rabbi Brant Rosen of the Congregation in Chicago, IL. The topic is “The Growing Divide In American Jewish Community Over Israel/Palestine”.

Rabbi Brant Rosen will examine this important Jewish communal shift, including the increasing involvement of antizionist Jews in the Palestine solidarity movement, the growth of organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace and and the beginning of American Jews who are creating Jewish ritu...

04/20/2026

Join us at the last University Forum lecture of the semester on April 23 at 4 p.m. in the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art . Rabbi Brant Rosen, of Tzedek Chicago, will examine the important Jewish communal shift over the Israel/Palestine conflict.

04/17/2026

Our seventh UNLV Series talk of the semester is 4/22 at 3pm in CHB C117. Rabbi Brant Rosen from the Congregation of Chicago, IL will discuss “Responses to the Biblical Conquest Tradition”.

Rabbi Brant Rosen, Tzedek Chicago, Chicago, IL— The Biblical commandment to the Israelites to conquer the land of Canaan and annihilate its inhabitants occurs repeatedly in the Torah - and is described in horrifying detail in the book of Joshua.

04/16/2026

We need philosophers because they teach us how to think deeply and clearly about the most fundamental questions: what matters, what’s true, and how we should live.