This spring the GPPC is co-sponsoring several symposia, conferences, workshops, and talks. Please see our website for details! thegppc.wordpress.com/2025-2026-pr...

Call for Abstracts (deadline March 2) for upcoming U. Delaware workshop on “Ethics, Epistemology, and Engineering” (April 24-26). The workshop aims to foster dialogue between philosophical theory and engineering practice. Contact [email protected] for more info. #philsky #philsci

Reminder -- deadline at the end of January.

Call for Papers! On April 18, 2026, the University of Delaware will host the annual GPPC Undergraduate Conference. Papers (less than 2000 words) may be submitted on any topic of philosophical interest. The deadline for submission is 1/31/26. See additional information on the flyer.

Join us on Friday, November 21 for a day of events celebrating the APA's 125th anniversary and 50 years of the APA at the @udelaware.bsky.social! Pre-registration is encouraged but not required. bit.ly/491r2RY

Happening Friday: APA member Shelly Kagan of Yale University to give the fall 2025 Norton Lecture at @udelaware.bsky.social. events.udel.edu/event/death-...

Sept. 19-20: Retirement conference in honor of Gary Hatfield at UPenn. Speakers include Aleksandra Igdalova, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Ben Baker, Peter Schwartz, Louise Daoust, and Uljana Feest. For those interested in attending, RSVP here: upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #philsky

We are excited to announce the 4th Annual Penn-Georgetown Digital Ethics Workshop, organized by Brian Berkey and myself. The conference will take place April 3-4, 2026, at Penn. If you work on digital technology ethics, broadly construed, please consider submitting an abstract.

This Friday, May 9 the GPPC is co-sponsoring a one day conference "Creative Reason: Kant and Schelling in Dialogue" at Temple U. (9:30-5 in Charles Library, Room 401) #philsky

Temple U. Philosophy Event: Garry Hagberg (Bard College) giving this year's Beardsley Lecture, titled "The Metaphorical Lens." Friday, April 25, 5:15-7:15pm Barnes Foundation Museum (2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia) Followed by reception #philsky

We're delighted to serve as hosts for the 2025 Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium @thegppc.bsky.social Undergraduate Conference this Saturday, April 26.

The annual GPPC Undergraduate Conference is here! Saturday, April 26 at Temple U. (9:30am-6pm in Gladfelter Hall). Talks by students from St. Joe's, LaSalle, Penn, Delaware, Haverford, Boston U, Swarthmore, Ursinus, Fordham, and Temple. Keynote from Peter Baumann (Swarthmore). #philsky

We're looking forward to University of Pennsylvania Philosopher Quayshawn Spencer's presentation at the Temple University Science, Technology and Society Network, coming up on Monday, April 14, 12-1pm in the Charles Library First Floor Event Space.

Next Week!

The Penn Dept. of Philosophy is hosting the Inaugural Charles Kahn Memorial Lecture later this week. Rachel Barney, University of Toronto "Protagoras and the Measure of All Things" 3 pm March 28, 2025 Cohen 402 University of Pennsylvania #philsky

Later this week, March 28-30, the GPPC is co-sponsoring a conference at Temple U. on "Constitutional Democracy in Crisis." Co-hosted by the Philosophy Department at Temple and the University of Glasgow School of Law. More information here: sites.temple.edu/crisis/sched...

The Spring 2025 Norton Lecture LA Paul (Yale) "Transformative Changes of Self" Gore 116 4pm, Friday April 18th

From Temple U Philosophy: We're delighted to welcome Dr. Sally Haslanger, Ford Prof. of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at MIT as our 2024-2025 Distinguished Speaker. Dr. Haslanger will present a public lecture "Social Reproduction and the Politics of Care" from 3-5 p.m. in Mazur Hall 821.

On Thursday, March 13th at 5pm in Memorial 127, @udelphilosophy.bsky.social and @udposcir.bsky.social will host a debate: Do We Have a Duty to Vote? Jason Brennan (Georgetown University) vs. Julia Maskivkir (Rollins College)

Thurs. February 13 at 7pm: West Chester U. will host a discussion with interdisciplinary scholar of race and ethnic studies Scott Kurashige. Free and open to the public. #philsky

The deadline for submissions to our undergraduate conference is next week! #philsky

Call for Papers! On April 26, 2025 Temple U. will host the annual GPPC Undergraduate Conference. Undergrads can submit papers of 2,000-2,500 words on any phil. topic by Feb. 7, 2025 (see flyer for more info). Send papers and any questions to [email protected]. #philsky

Reminder: starts tomorrow!

Next Tuesday, September 24 Sean Carroll (Johns Hopkins) will deliver the David Norton Memorial Lecture at the University of Delaware. The talk begins at 7pm in Gore Recital Hall, Roselle Center for the Arts on the UD campus. It is free and open to the public.

More info on the annual meeting of the Int'l Merleau-Ponty Circle, Oct. 24-26 at Villanova (see poster and our website). Note! On Thurs. Oct 24, 8:15 pm, the conference features an artistic performance, sponsored by the GPPC, free and open to the public (advanced registration is required).

The GPPC 2024-25 program is posted! thegppc.wordpress.com/2023-2024-pr... 3 Philadelphia-area philosophy events are set for the fall and several are being finalized for the spring (some details on fall events threaded below). Also, the site has up-to-date info on our reading discussion groups.

This weekend!

Interesting upcoming philosophy event at U of Delaware. 16 April

On April 26-27 the University of Delaware will be hosting the 34th annual GPPC Undergraduate Conference. See poster for more details.

On Saturday, April 6, the GPPC is sponsoring a retirement conference for Todd Moody at St. Joseph's. See the attached poster for the schedule and RSVP details.

We're sponsoring 4 events this spring! 1. February 23-24, “War in the 21st Century: What can it Accomplish?” (Temple U. & Zoom, Keynotes: James Pattison and Yvonne Chiu) 2. March 15, "Poetry’s Essential Place in Anti-Colonial Philosophy: A Discussion with Jason Allen-Paisant and Company” (UPenn)

University of Delaware The Spring 2024 Norton Lecture Tommie Shelby, Philosophy & African/African American Studies Harvard University "How Racial Stereotypes Wrong: A Political Ethics of Belief." Friday, March 1st, 3:30PM Gore 104 Free & Open to the Public Reception to Follow

Reminder for undergrads: paper submissions due January 26!

Call for papers! The 34th GPPC Undergraduate Conference will be at U Delaware April 26-7. Tim Maudlin (NYU) will give the keynote. Undergraduates are invited to submit papers of less than 2,000 words on any philosophical topic. The deadline is January 26. thegppc.wordpress.com/2023/11/27/c...

Hello Bluesky! The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium is a non-profit founded in 1980. We have 14 colleges/universities as members. Our primary purpose is fostering cooperation between philosophers in the area and sharing the insights and methods of philosophy with the public. #philsky

We are sponsoring several philosophy events this spring. See our our website: thegppc.wordpress.com/2023-2024-pr...