Graduate Philosophy Association

UB NORTH CAMPUS AERIAL.

The Graduate Philosophy Association (GPA) is an organization representing philosophy graduate students attending the University at Buffalo. 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 Wikimedia Commons.