Workshops
Berkeley-Stanford Circle in Logic and Philosophy
Downtown San Francisco
The group welcomes students at Berkeley and Stanford working on topics at the border between logic and philosophy.
What
The Berkeley-Stanford Circle in Logic and Philosophy, run by Wesley Holliday (Berkeley) and Thomas Icard (Stanford), is aimed at maintaining close ties, and fostering...
Cognition and Language Workshop (Linguistics Department)
Meets Thursdays 4pm in 460-126
This workshop is aimed at encouraging and facilitating communication among the fields of linguistics, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and computer science, through examining the inner workings of language and its interaction with other cognitive processes that shape the human experience....
Ethics and Politics, Ancient and Modern Workshop (EPAM)
EPAM is a workshop meeting several times a quarter to discuss papers and works in progress on topics that touch on classics, philosophy, and political theory.
The workshop aims to provide a focus for Stanford faculty and students with a primary or secondary interest in classical moral and...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Consciousness (CSLI Center at Stanford)
Conscious experience is a phenomenon that each of us knows intimately well, yet explaining consciousness has proved to be exquisitely difficult.
This workshop explores the nature of conscious experience from a variety of viewpoints that cross boundaries in the humanities and sciences....
Logic Lovers
This group's purpose is to gather people interested in logic to learn from each other by having talks and reading groups and hosting events.
We often attend a weekly Research Seminar in Logic and Foundations of Mathematics, which cycles between consisting of research talks from...
Philosophy + Literature Initiative
Every novel says to the reader: ‘Things are not as simple as you think.’ That is the novel's eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers.—Milan Kundera
What is so fascinating about works like Plato's dialogues and...
Political Theory Workshops (Political Science Department)
The Political Theory Workshop offers faculty and other scholars an opportunity to present "in progress" or recently completed work to a diverse audience from political science, philosophy, law, and other social sciences and humanities.
Workshop papers come from all areas of...
The Graduate Student Workshop (GSW)
Meets Thursdays 6pm in building 90, room 92Q
The Stanford philosophy department's Graduate Student Workshop provides a forum for graduate students interested in philosophy to present their work and discuss it with one another. The setting is fairly informal and is designed to be low-stakes for all the participants.
Sessions are typically...
The Kant Studies Workshop
KSW meets weekly or bimonthly
The Kant Studies Workshop (KSW) is composed largely of Stanford Philosophy graduate students. Faculty attend sporadically. We meet weekly or bimonthly to discuss Kant's work or work on Kant. In addition, we occasionally invite those working in the field to give presentations.
Once a...
Varieties of Agency
The workshop usually meets three times per quarter.
Actions are most natural and intimately known to us. We all act all the time, thereby interacting with the world and each other. Likewise, we naturally engage in practices of reasoning and explain our actions with recourse to reasons for action.
Closer investigation of such phenomena makes...
