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Below is the schedule for the watch party sessions, together with the topic for each session: 

    Wednesday, April 8, 2026
    Session Time Title
    PA 5:00 PM Presidential Lecture: John P. Carriero, "Spinoza on Our Place in Nature"

     

    Thursday, April 9, 2026
    Session Time Title
    1A 8:00 AM Book Symposium: Marshall Abrams, Evolution and the Machinery of Chance
    2B 10:00 AM Invited Paper: Duncan Pritchard, Intellectual Virtues and Artificial Intelligence
    3B 12:00 PM Invited Symposium: New Work in the Philosophy of Money
    4C 2:00 PM Invited Symposium: Political Ignorance
    5A 4:00 PM Invited Symposium: The Ethics of Online Conferencing: A Tribute to Helen De Cruz (Public)

     

    Friday, April 10, 2026
    Session Time Title
    G6E 8:00 AM Philosophers for Sustainability, Session 1 Philosophers in the Field: Philosophers in Public Policy/Public Institutions (Public)
    7A 10:00 AM Invited Symposium: Daoism
    8F 12:00 PM Taskforce on Contingent Faculty Report (Public)
    9F 2:00 PM Dewey Lecture: Patricia Churchland, “Ethics: A case study in how empirical data can impact philosophy”

     

    Saturday, April 11, 2026
    Session Time Title
    11B 8:00 AM Book Symposium: Allison Merrick, Nietzsche on the Methods and Aims of Philosophy: The Seal of Liberation
    13C 12:00 PM

    Invited Symposium: Merleau-Ponty’s Transcendental Geology

    Chair: 
    • Keith Whitmoyer (The City University of New York)
    Speakers:
    • David Morris (Concordia University)
    • Robin Muller (California State University, Northridge)
    • Prisca Amoroso (Università degli Studi di Bologna)
    14E 2:00 PM Invited Symposium: The Philosophy of Sex and Love
    15C 4:00 PM Invited Symposium: The Philosophy of Loneliness

     

    Sunday, April 12, 2026
    Session Time Title
    17B 10:00 AM Invited Symposium: Feminism, Fascism, and Philosophy
    18A 12:00 PM Colloquium: Reasons, Agency, and AI
    19D 2:00 PM Colloquium: Gaslighting
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