Graduate Philosophy Association

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The Graduate Philosophy Association (GPA) is an organization representing philosophy graduate students attending the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½. We sponsor graduate students for conferences, organize events, and represent the interests of the graduate students in the department. The GPA is active in promoting a positive environment for the student community and promoting interaction with the larger philosophical community. 

Contact: Jisoo Seo, jisooseo@buffalo.edu

 

 

GPA Officers, AY 24-25

  • Jisoo Seo, President
  • Katie Johnson, Vice President
  • Matthew Jones, Secretary

Philosophy Research Forum — Graduate Student Presentations

FALL 2024 PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH FORUM
Park 141, Wednesdays, 12 pm.

Presentations by our graduate students in the Fall 2024 Philosophy Research Forum include:

Sep 4 - Matthew Jones “What Am I Even Doing Here?”

Sep 11 - Katie Johnson “Don't Say No”

Sep 18 - Finn Wilson “Organ Procurement and Allocation Ontology”

Sep 25 - Emily Heydon “Niche Construction and (Co)Evolutionary Games”

Oct 2 - Brandon Long “The Organizational Account of the Good of Local Economies and Government”

Oct 9 - Noah Kim “Popper's Open Society and Unreasonable People”

Oct 23 - Giacomo De Colle “TBD”

Oct 30 - Federico Donato “Risky business”

Nov 6 - Sean Kindya “Timeshare arguments fail as counterexamples to animalism (or) An experimental method to measure norm-sensitivity”

Nov 13 - Jisoo Seo “A new metaphysical picture of natural kinds”

Nov 20 - Giacomo De Colle “TBD”

Dec 4 - Austin Liebers “TBD”

SPRING 2024 PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH FORUM

Presentations by our graduate students in the Spring 2024 Philosophy Research Forum include:

  • Jan 26- Vi “What are we doing when we start inquiry: Expected Utility and Starting Inquiry 
  • Feb 2- Jaron Cheung “The Game of Nonviolence: Passivity, Violence, and the Third Way”
  • Feb 7- Noah Kim “Social Norms Analysis of Racial Stereotypes” 
  • Feb 14- Sean Kindya “Aesthetic Descriptions of Character Indicate Aesthetic Character Evaluation”
  • Feb 21- Finn Wilson “How Ontologies Fight Bias: And How They Can Still Be Biased”
  • Feb 28- Fede Donato aka Fede Doremi “Metaphysics of Information”
  • Mar 6- Jieming Yu "Restall's Challenge and a Metaphysical Possible-World Approach"
  • Mar 13- Matthew Jones “Why Get a PhD & Why in Philosophy?”
  • Mar 27- Giacomo DeColle "City Ontologies"
  • Apr 3- Delaney “The Right to Destroy Cultural Property under NAGPRA”
  • Apr 10- Ryan Muldoon "Why PPE and the Future of the Field"
  • Apr 17- Jisoo Seo “Epistemic Injustice in Race Representations”
  • Apr 24- Finn Wilson “Ontology of Death and Dying (ODD)
  • May 1- Katie Johnson "TBA"

 

Tower of Babel.

Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel (Rotterdam), courtesy of .