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.

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Spring 2026 Colloquia

  • Feb 13: “Socially Centered Discourse”

    Ravi Thakral, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Reno—People often preface a claim by foregrounding part of their identity: “Speaking as an American…”, “Speaking as an immigrant…”, “Speaking as an educator…

  • Feb 27: "Natural Psychological Kinds - An Integrative Proposal"

    Jasmin Özel, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities —The homeostatic property cluster framework for natural kinds has proven useful across various scientific contexts, particularly…

  • Mar 06: "Does Cognitive Science Show That Digital Minds Are Possible?"

    Carl Sachs, School of Humanities, Marymount University—One widespread argument for the feasibility of digital minds holds that digital minds are possible because biological cognition is computational and computational…

  • Mar 27: "Conversion to Judaism: A Model for Ethnoracial Identity Change?"

    Amy Reed-Sandoval, Dept. of Philosophy, UNLV—¡Mami sí es mexicana!, my then-four-year-old daughter shouted, tears in her eyes. I was trying to explain that while she and her father are Mexican, I am not. She seemed…

  • Apr 03: "Non-Compact Proofs"

    Sergei Artemov, Dept. of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, CUNY— Non-compact proofs are used in mathematics but overlooked in the analysis of (un)provability of consistency. We focus on arithmetical proofs of universal…

  • Apr 22: "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…