Recent Speakers

Note: Affiliations were correct when speakers visited Rochester, but have not been updated.

2022-2023

  • Professor Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
  • Professor Thomas Grundmann (University of Cologne, Germany)
  • Professor Alyssa Ney (University of California, Davis)
  • Professor Sarah McGrath (Princeton University)
  • Professor Alexander Kocurek (Cornell University)
  • Professor Umrao Sethi (Brandeis University)
  • Professor Katie Stockdale (University of Victoria, Canada)

2021-2022

  • Professor Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)
  • Professor Agustin Rayo (MIT)
  • Professor Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth College)

2020-2021

  • Professor Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oriel College, Oxford, UK)
  • Professor Jonathan Herington (University of Rochester)
  • Professor Jonathan Weisberg (University of Toronto)
  • Professor James VanCleve (University of Southern California)
  • Profesor Mark Povich (University of Rochester)

2019-2020

  • Professor Rosa Cao (Stanford University)
  • Professor Jody Azzouni (Tufts University)
  • Professor Michaela McSweeney (Boston University)

2018-2019

  • Professor Elizabeth Camp (Rutgers)
  • Professor Jason Stanley (Yale)
  • Professor Maya Eddon (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • Professor David Braun (University at Buffalo)
  • Professor David Fleming (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • Professor Bernhard Nickel (Harvard University)

2017-2018

  • Professor Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Professor Phillip Kitcher (Columbia University in the City of New York)
  • Professor Richard Kimberly Heck (Brown University)
  • Professor Alexandra Plakias (Hamilton College)

2016-2017

  • Colin Chamberlain (Temple University)
  • Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame)
  • Brian Epstein (Tufts University)
  • Derk Pereboom (Cornell University)
  • Gina Schouten (Harvard University)
  • Eric Schliesser (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Peter King (University of Toronto)
  • John Doris (Washington University, St. Louis)
  • Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oriel College, Oxford, UK)

2015-2016

  • Richard Dees (University of Rochester)
  • David Christensen (Brown University)
  • Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University)
  • Julia Markovits (Cornell University)
  • Jessica Moss (New York University)
  • Janice Dowell (Syracuse University)
  • Paul Audi (University of Rochester)
  • Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh)

2014-2015

  • Wayne Myrvold (Western University)
  • Nicholas Sturgeon (Cornell University)
  • Hasok Chang (Cambridge University)
  • David Glick (University of Rochester)
  • Esa Diaz-Leon (University of Manitoba)
  • Diana Raffman (University of Toronto)
  • Jaime Ahlberg (University of Florida)

2013-2014

  • Bonnie Steinbock (SUNY Albany)
  • Christian Miller (Wake Forest University)
  • Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)
  • Declan Smithies (OSU, visiting MIT 2013-14)
  • David Liebesman (Boston University)
  • Sara Bernstein (Duke University)

2012—2013

  • Susanna Siegel (Harvard)
  • Erin Taylor (Cornell)  
  • Michael Huemer (Colorado)
  • Trent Dougherty (Baylor) 
  • Shamik Dasgupta (Princeton)
  • John G. Bennett (Rochester)
  • Alan Baker (Swarthmore)
  • Barry Lam (Vassar)
  • Alan Hajek (Australian National University)
  • Brad Inwood (Toronto)
  • James Dreier (Brown)  

2011-2012

  • Derrick Darby (University of Kansas)
  • Hud Hudson (Western Washington University)
  • Gordon Belot (University of Michigan)
  • Stewart Cohen (University of Arizona)
  • Derk Pereboom (Cornell University)
  • Earl Conee (University or Rochester)
  • Sarah McGrath (Princeton University)
  • Donald Ainslie (University of Toronto)
  • James Lennox (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton)