Friday 24 May 2013, 5pm, West Hall 310
'On Error: Spinoza and Hegel'
Professor John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton)

May 16-18 2013
Modern Influences in Contemporary Philosophy: Present Problems in a Past Light

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 5.30pm, West Hall 310
'Music, Metaphor, and Society'
Professor Robert Grant (University of Glasgow) 

Thursday 20 December 2012, 6.30pm, Nicely 325
'Pornography and Polysemicity'
Dr. Raja Halwani (Art Institute of Chicago)

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 6.30pm, Nicely 323
'Knowledge Doesn't Entail Belief'
Dr. Lucas Thorpe (Boğaziçi University)

Thursday 8 November 2012, 6.30pm, West Hall 310
'Can I be a Good Animal? A Naturalized Virtue Ethics'
Dr. Bana Bashour (AUB)

Monday 25 June 2012, 4pm, Nicely 325
'Being Up For Grabs: On the Elusive Nature of Contingency'
Dr. Hilan Bensusan (University of Brasilia)

Thursday 17 May 2012, 6.30pm, Nicely 409
'Popular Guides to Rhetoric: Manipulation for the Masses?'
Dr. Robert Hümmer (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 6pm, CAMS seminar room, College Hall
'New Perspectives on the Square of Opposition'
Dr. Jean-Yves Beziau (University of Rio de Janeiro) 

Thursday 16 June 2011, 4pm, Nicely 105
'The Aesthetics of Modernism: Some Illustrated Thoughts'
Professor Robert Grant (University of Glasgow)

Tuesday 7 June 2011, 6pm, Nicely 323
'Thinking Past "Islamophobia": Towards an Adequate Critique of the War on Terror'
Rohit Goel (University of Chicago)

Friday 27 May 2011, 6pm, Cafe Younes, Hamra
Philosophy Student Society Monthly Philosophy Night
'Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language'
Readings: Wittgenstein The Blue Book, pp.1-15; Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Sections 1-38.

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 4pm, Nicely 323
'Plantinga on Properly Basic Belief in God: Lessons from the Epistemology of Perception'
Dr. Jeremy Randal Koons (Georgetown University, Qatar)   

May 12-14 2011
The Metaphysics of Evolutionary Naturalism

Friday 15 April 2011, 6pm, Cafe Younes, Hamra
Philosophy Student Society Monthly Philosophy Night
'The Explanatory Gap'
Readings: Joseph Levine, ‘Materialism and Qualia: the Explanatory Gap’ and Thomas W. Clark, ‘Function and Phenomenology: Closing the Explanatory Gap’

Tuesday 22 March 2011, 6.30pm, Nicely 325
'Alfarabi on the Foundations of Islamic Political Philosophy'
Dr. Terence Kleven (Fulbright Fellow at the Centre Louis Pouzet, Université Saint-Joseph)

Friday 14 January 2011, 6.00pm, Cafe Younes, Hamra
Philosophy Student Society's Monthly Philosophy Night
'Introduction to Metaphysics' by Henri Bergson

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 6.30pm, Nicely 322
'Marx's Concept of Alienation'
Rohit Goel (University of Chicago)

Wednesday 2 June 2010, 5pm, Nicely Hall 409
'Universalism versus Relativism in Color Categorization: Where do we Stand Today?'
Dr. Yasmina Jiraissati

Monday 24 May 2010, 6:00 pm, West Hall 310
'The Care Structure in Heidegger’s Being and Time'
Professor Lawrence Hatab (Old Dominion University)

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 6:30pm, Fisk 104
'The Divided Imagination in Plato’s Republic: from Eikasia and Dianoia to Phantasia'
Daniel Regnier (St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan)

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 5.00-6.30pm, Auditorium A, West Hall
'Killing People as Side Effect'
Dr. Gerhard Overland (University of Oslo)

Tuesday 27 April 2010, 5.00-6.30pm, Auditorium A, West Hall
'On Not Believing in Justified Wars without Being a Pacifist'
Dr. Uwe Steinhoff (University of Hong Kong)

April 15-17 2010 
The Contemporary Condition of Philosophy: Abstraction, Production, Politics

April 14 2009
'The Evolution of Reasons'
'On Consciousness'
Professor Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)

March 13 2008
'Nietzsche’s Unique Naturalism: Philosophy Read With Tooth and Claw'
Dr. Lawrence Hatab (Old Dominion University, Virginia)

March 11 2008
'Democracy and Conflict: Reflections on American Politics and the Prospects for Democracy in the Arab and Muslim World'
Dr. Lawrence Hatab (Old Dominion University, Virginia) 

May 15 2007
'Hegel, Biology, and Contemporary Philosophy'
Dr. Sebastian G. Rand (Georgia State University)

May 31 2004
‘Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation’
Thomas Pogge (Columbia University)

April 14 2004
'Is There a Conflict Between Religion and Science?'
Professor Richard Rorty (Stanford University)

December 16 2003
'Compassion and Terror'
Professor Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago) 

November 20 2003
'Philosophy and Public Affairs'
UNESCO Philosophy Day