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…

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…

Alex Honnold, international climber Alex Honnold will explore current attitudes on the subject and on how modern culture may have become overly risk-averse. Rather than try to eliminate even extreme risk, he’ll suggest that…

David Beisecker, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nevada Las Vegas — Early American Hegelianism can be found in some surprising places. One of the most unlikely would surely be Nevada Territory during the American Civil…

Zahi Zalloua, Dept. of Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies, Whitman College—In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?” What makes the…

Bill Ramsey, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nevada Las Vegas — There has been a tremendous amount of attention, analysis, speculation and awe directed at recent developments in artificial intelligence. And yet despite…

Chris Heathwood, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder — An adaptive preference is one formed or changed in response to what the subject of the preference takes their feasible options to be. The problem of…