Symposia, Events, and Conferences

Symposia, Events, and Conferences

The Department of Philosophy features various events throughout the academic year, including colloquia to workshops, symposia, and conferences, as well as thesis defenses and events from the Student Philosophy Association Student Speaker Series [SPA] and Minorities in Philosophy Speaker Series [MAP]. The department also sponsors interdisciplinary events through CLA Scholarly Intersections [CLA], the University Art Museum [UAM], and with other programs and departments, including Geography [GEOG], Classics [CLSC], the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies [MRS], History [HIST], Political Science [POSC], and the German [GERM], French [FREN], and Spanish [SPAN] programs: 

The Applied Ethics Forum [AEF] is the university’s primary intellectual venue for extracurricular ethical programming. Its purpose is to foster CSULB’s fundamental mission—the production (research) and dissemination (teaching) of knowledge—regarding ethical issues in applied, practical, professional settings for the benefit of all faculty, students, and community members. The Applied Ethics Forum is funded by a generous grant from the Andre Family Foundation, and features an array of speakers, conferences, and projects on topics in applied ethics each year.

Current Events

2024–2025

  • Symposium: FA24 Philosophy Day! • 06 Dec 2024, 12:00pm–5:30pm, LA4–120 LA4–105
    Keynote: Sara Protasi (University of Puget Sound), ‘The value of sleeping‘
    Faculty Speaker: Torsten Odland (University of California Los Angeles), ‘Counting many as one: the ontological insignificance of grammatical number’
  • Student Speaker Series [SPA]: Daniel Mangandi-Escobar, ‘Determinism and compatibilism’; Margaret Welch; ‘B-theories of time’; Anna Rikshpun, ‘Julien Offray de La Mettrie on the mind/body problem’; Brandon Beller; ‘Sensorimotor enactivism’ • 17 Nov 2024, 5:00pm–7:00pm, LA5–165
  • Reading Group: Nietzsche [For information, contact organizer Joe Gordon.]