Friends of Philosophy
The department has a supporting organization called “The Friends of Philosophy” whose membership and meetings are open to all persons interested in philosophical questions. The Friends of Philosophy organizes dialogues, lectures, symposia, and discussions intended for a wide (non-academic as well as academic) audience.
Parodi Lecture in Aesthetics
Appignani Foundation Lectures on Science, Reason & Secular Ethics
Sponsored by the Louis J. Appignani Foundation, the Appignani Foundation Lectures on Science, Reason and Secular Ethics bring distinguished philosophers to campus to discuss the place of science, reason and a secular approach to ethics in the resolution of both perennial and pressing contemporary issues. These lectures engage significant philosophical issues in accessible ways, and are intended for and attended by members of the broad South Florida community.**
University of Miami Graduate Student Conference in Epistemology
Constitution
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The Miami Forum hosts graduate student presentations and discussions of philosophy. It is the meeting place where insights and criticisms are given free play among the graduate students about their own work. It is also where graduate students discuss conference presentations, funding, and other aspects of the profession of philosophy. The Miami Forum is the birthplace of the first graduate student philosophy conference at the University of Miami.
Below is a list of past presidents, calendar of events, and an archive. All current graduate students are invited to request meetings of the Forum by contacting the acting president.
The Governance of the Miami Forum
- Except for the discrepancies made here, the Miami Forum shall be conducted as stipulated by Kreider and Shaffer, 1995.
- The President of the Miami Forum shall solicit presentations and discussions from graduate students in the UM department of philosophy.
- The President shall decide all matters of scheduling of events.
- The President shall hold meetings for important graduate student affairs, e.g., electing a graduate student representative to the faculty meetings.
- The outgoing president shall appoint the incoming president according to the advice of the active Forum members and the past presidents.
- The Miami Forum president shall make every effort to aid graduate student conferences hosted by the UM department of philosophy.
- Candidates for president must be distinguished as leaders; preferably by standing as a conference organizer.
Presidents
Brian Mondy/Mark Warren: 2008-present
Shane Oakley: 2005-2008
Jeremy Morris: 2002-2004
Michael Veber: 2000-2002
Len Olsen: 1999-2000
Michael J. Shaffer: 1995-1999
Archive
2009
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2008
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Daniel Cohen - "Love, Friendship, Harmony: A Reply to the 'Moral Schizophrenia' Argument Against Modern Ethical Theories" - - October 31, 2008.
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Aaron Wilson - "Peirce's Categorical Phenomenology as a Plausible ' First Philosophy'" - Friday, Oct 17, 2008
Ben Burgis - "What You Don't Need Paraconsistency or Pluralism For" - Friday, Oct 3, 2008
Philipp Schwind - "Does Holism Imply Moral Particularism?" - Friday, Sept 12, 2008
Shane Oakley - "Causation and Counterfactuals" - Friday, May 9, 2008
Nick Wiltsher - "Kornblith on Knowledge and Natural Kinds" - Friday, May 2, 2008
Ryan Lake - "Compatibilism and the Case Against Prepunishment" - Friday, March 21, 2008
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2007
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2006
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Kristjan Laasik - "The Ambassadors' and the Ambulatory View of Knowledge" - Friday, October 12, 2007
Robin Neiman - "Putnam's Relativity and Our Interpretive Norms" - Friday, September 14, 2007
Nick Wiltsher - "Emotions in Sartre's Theory of Imagination" - Friday, September 7, 2007
Jeremy Morris - "Knowing That vs. Knowing What Someone Else Knows" - Friday, April 20, 2007
Shane Oakley - "On the Transitivity of Causation" - Friday, April 13, 2007
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Fredrik Haraldsen - "Descriptive Names" - Friday, November 10, 2006
Daniel Cohen - "Value and Truth" - Friday, October 6, 2006
Mark Warren - "Dennetizing Tye: A Consideration of Michael Tye's PANIC Criteria for Phenomenal Content" - Friday, September 22, 2006
Ben Burgis - "God, the Origin of the Universe, and the Instantiation of Transfinite Set Theory" - Friday, September 8, 2006
Aaron Wilson - "Pragmatism and the Heroic"- Friday September 1, 2006
Mike McCracken - "Propositions as Mind and Language - dependent Entites: A Deflationary View of the Ontology of Propositions - Friday March 31, 2006
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2005
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2004
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Kristjan Laasik - "Searle on Consciousness and Intentionality" - Friday, December 9, 2005
Eric Sternberg - "Utilitarianism and Love", Friday, October 21, 2005
Noel Alphonse - "Reductive Heuristics for Finding Emergence" - Friday, October 7, 2005
Brian Mondy - "Toward an Understanding of epistemic Obligation" - Friday, September 30, 2005
Shane Oakley -"Bayesian Updating and Testimonial Evidence" - Friday September 23, 2005
Kristin Borgwald - "Sidewalk Showdowns: Protecting Women's Reproductive Rights" - Friday, September 2, 2005
Ryan Lake - "Personal Foreknowledge and the Improbability of Time Travel" - Friday April 15, 2005
Jeremy Morris - "Indexicals and Epistemology" - March 11, 2005
Shane Oakley - “Why a Humean Should Not Regret Prudential Considerations” - Friday, February 18, 2005
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Michael McCracken - "Virture and Uncodifiability" - Friday, November 19, 2004
Christopher Weaver - "The Comparative Plausibility of Theory-Based versus Method-Based 'No Miracle Argumesn' for Scientific Realism" - Friday, October 29, 2004
Liz Giles - Leading Discussion of "When Is Reasoning Visual?" by George Stiny - Friday, October 22, 2004
Osvil Acosta-Morales - "Doxastic Courage The Will to Believe as Epistemic Virtue" - Friday, October 15, 2004
Meggan Payne - "For Endurantism But not of it: The New Dualist Theory of Identity and Persistence" - Friday, September 24, 2004
Jeremy Morris - "A Priori Justification and Metajustification" - Friday, September 17, 2004
Jonathan Quianzon - "Three Senses of Would Conditionals" - Friday, September 10, 2004
Shirong Luo - "Character, Good Samaritans, and the Fundamental Attribution Error Comments on a paper by Gilbert Harman" - Friday, April 30, 2004
His-Heng Cheng - "Defending the ScotuPeirce Conception of Reality" - Friday, February 6, 2004
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