E T H I C S S E M I N A R
Boston University Ethics Seminar meetings are open to all faculty and students, at Boston University and elsewhere. Please contact me to be added to the email list that I maintain for the purpose of sending out announcements and papers.
Schedule for 2026-27
I am co-organizing the ethics seminar series in the 2026-27 academic year with a department PhD candidate,
Caroline Wall . Meetings are normally in person on Thursdays, from 4pm to 5.30pm.
October 8: David Sobel (Syracuse)
October 26 (Monday): Robbie Kubala (UT Austin)
February 11: Gwen Bradford (Toronto)
April 22: Chris Heathwood (Colorado)
Visitors in 2025-2026
Simone Gubler (Brown), Yiran Hua (Toronto),
Andrew Lichter (Stanford), Sara Protasi (Puget Sound),
Bart Streumer (Groningen)
Visitors in 2023-2025
Olivia Bailey (UC Berkeley), Heather Battaly (UConn),
Anthony Cross (Texas State), Jason D'Cruz (SUNY, Albany),
Daniela Dover (UCLA), Ellen Fridland (KCL),
Stephen Kearns (FSU), Irene Martínez Marín (Uppsala),
Daniel Muñoz (UNC Chapel Hill), Linda Radzik (Texas A&M),
Nick Smyth (Fordham), Lisa Tessman (Binghamton)
Visitors in 2021-2023
Gwen Bradford (Rice), Roger Crisp (Oxford),
Reza Hadisi (Toronto), Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA),
Nathan Howard (Texas A&M), Anthony Kelley (Coe College),
Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech), Keshav Singh (University of Alabama, Birmingham),
Sharon Street (NYU), Valerie Tiberius (Minnesota),
Patrick Tomlin (Warwick), Daniel Wodak (Pennsylvania)*
*In November 2021, Daniel Wodak was the 100th visitor in this series (since 2008).
See this article: Boston University Ethics Seminar to Host One-Hundredth Speaker
Visitors in 2019-2021
Renée Bolinger (Princeton), Lindsay Crawford (Connecticut College),
Daniel Fogal (NYU), Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn),
Alex King (Buffalo) , Stephanie Leary (McGill),
Kathryn Lindeman (South Carolina), Eric Marcus (Auburn),
Thi Nguyen (Utah), Mark Schroeder (USC),
Alex Worsnip (UNC Chapel Hill), Vida Yao (Rice)
Visitors in 2017-2019
Nomy Arpaly (Brown), Jeff Behrends (Harvard),
Gunnar Björnsson (Stockholm), Agnes Callard (Chicago),
Steve Clarke (Charles Sturt), Garrett Cullity (Adelaide),
Candice Delmas (Northeastern), Stephen Finlay (University of Southern California),
Chris Howard (UNC Chapel Hill), Benjamin Kiesewetter (Humbolt),
Zoë A. Johnson King (NYU), Sarah McGrath (Princeton),
Benjamin Morison (Princeton), Doug Portmore (Arizona State),
Gina Schouten (Harvard), Gerard Vong (Emory)
Support over the years has been, and continues to be provided by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Some 69 philosophers were guests of the Boston University Ethics Seminar between 2008 and 2016 (these visitors are listed on the old website). Below is a selection of photos of some of our early speakers.
