An Entire World in Motion: Civil Disobedience, the Civil Rights Movement, and Anti-Colonialism, Erin Pineda

11/15/2019

Implicitly or explicitly, the constitutional nation state frames many accounts of civil disobedience ..
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A Neo-Existentialist Account of Human Nature and Social Identity, Markus Gabriel

11/14/2019

Markus Gabriel, Chair of Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy..
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Dilemmas of Education in Times of Political Upheaval, Meira Levinson

09/18/2019

School walkouts. Lawsuits over bathroom access for transgender students. Battles over history curricula. Opt-out movements from standardized tests…
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Responding to Hate

09/17/2019

Mass shootings from Parkland to Pittsburgh to Christchurch, and to El Paso and Dayton, have raised questions about the toxic mixtures of access to guns..
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Formal and Experimental (FAX) Conference

04/27/2019 - 04/28/2019

This conference will bring together researchers in philosophy and cognitive science who are interested in both formal and experimental methods and their applications to descriptive and normative modeling of cognitive phenomena…
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“Severe Weather Event Attribution”-A case study in values in science

04/16/2019

We start by reviewing the complicated situation in methods of scientific attribution of climate change to extreme events. ..
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“Two American Myths: The Melting Pot and the Minority-Majority Nation “

04/09/2019

Guest Speaker: José Jorge Mendoza, Assistant Professor, Umass Lowell Abstract: For Americans on the left of the political spectrum, there are not many positive takeaways from the 2016 presidential election. One potential silver lining, however, has been the dramatic increase in the Latinx vote and the fact that this group is both the fastest growing minority…
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Information Ethics Roundtable

04/05/2019 - 04/07/2019

The Information Ethics Roundtable (IER) is a yearly conference that brings together researchers from disciplines such as philosophy, information science, communications, public administration, anthropology, and law to discuss ..
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“Scientific Diversity and the Theoretical Virtues”

04/04/2019

Scientists evaluate theories according to many different dimensions of value. Philosophers debate how many and what they are..
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“Liberation or Panopticon? The Costs and Benefits of Emerging Technologies”

03/15/2019

Advances in new and emerging technologies have provided people all over the world with valuable services and tools that enhance free speech and privacy. ..
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