Prof Coseru will be giving a talk at the “Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness: Tradition and Dialogue” Conference, to be hosted by the Philosophy Department, National Chengchi University, Taipei, entitled “Whose Consciousness, Which Cognition: Svasaṃvedana and the Problem of Self-Knowledge.”

Prof Coseru will be giving a talk at the Brain & Consciousness Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, on “Reflexive Sensibility: The Bedrock of Consciousness.”

Prof. Sheridan Hough will be presenting a paper entitled “Nietzsche, Epiphenomenalism, and the “Dangers of Consciousness” at the Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Taiwan, March 10, 2016.

Professor Christian Coseru will be presenting a paper Consciousness, Naturalism, and Human Flourishing.

Professor McKinnon will be presenting a paper Yikkety Yak, Who Said That?  The Epistemology of Anonymous Assertions.

Please join us for a special colloquium in honor of Ned Hettinger’s retirement – a talk by Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at New York University The Anthropocene: Love it or Leave it on Tuesday, 3/15/2016 in the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance Alumni Center (86 Wentworth)

Prof. Jamieson is a prolific author whose most recent academic works are Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed–and What It Means For Our Future (Oxford, 2014) and Love in the Anthropocene (OR, 2015), a collection of short stories & essays written with the novelist, Bonnie Nadzam.

Congratulation to Philosophy major William Raines who was awarded a MAYS grant for Spring 2016 for his project Moral and Political Psychology of Fairy Tales. Prof. Thomas Nadelhoffer will be the mentor for Mr. Raines’ project. They will be collecting data from the general population to explore the influence that exposure to fairy tales during childhood has on our moral and political beliefs and attitudes as adults.