Philosophy Phridays

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Philosopher	Affiliation(s)	Date	Title
Eli Hirsch	Brandeis University	02/24/2017	“Ants and Uncles“
Larisa Svirsky	University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (UNC)	03/03/2017	“The Hypocrantic Oath“
Ram Neta	UNC	03/10/2017	“Video Interview with Ram Neta“
Cheryl Abbate	University of Colorado	03/17/2017	“Consider the Ant“
Barry Lam	Vassar College & Duke University	03/24/2017	“The Ant Farm“
Keshav Singh	UNC	03/31/2017	“Do Ants Do Things for Reasons?“
Miriam Schoenfield	University of Texas at Austin	04/07/2017	“Ants in Your Pants“
Ben Roth	Harvard College (Writing Program)	04/14/2017	“Concerning Wittgenstein’s 284th Philosophical Investigation“
Richard Polt	Xavier University	04/21/2017	“On Formiciform Virtue: Plato’s Ants“
Kathryn Pogin	Northwestern University	04/28/2017	“Ants and Women: A Reflection on Understanding“
David Detmer	Purdue University Northwest	05/05/2017	“Giraffes are Taller than Ants, and Other Observations“
Kevin Lande	UCLA	05/12/2017	“O Ant, Where Art Thou?“
David Schwartz	Randolph College	05/19/2017	“Human Nature, Ethics, and Ants“
Amber Carlson	Vanderbilt University	05/26/2017	“She’s a Man(t)eater“
Mike Rea	University of Notre Dame & University of St. Andrews	06/02/2017	“Ants and the Hiddenness of God“
Dustin Crummett	University of Notre Dame	06/09/2017	“Ants and the Problem of Evil“
Margaret Cavendish	Duchess of Newcastle (17th Century)	06/16/2017	“Of the Ant“
Curtis Franks	University of Notre Dame	06/23/2017	“Towards a ‘Pataphysics of Anthills“
Lorraine Keller	Niagara University & University of Notre Dame	06/30/2017	“Ants Doing Math and Kids Doing Linguistics?“
Eddy Chen & Isaac Wilhelm	Rutgers University	07/07/2017	“From Ants to Quantum Non-Locality“
Lauren Ashwell	Bates College	07/14/2017	“Dispositions and Ant-idotes“
Chris Blake-Turner	UNC	07/21/2017	“Trantsformative Experience”
Michael Ruse	Florida State University	07/28/2017	“All About Ants”
Suzanne Kawamleh	Indiana University-Bloomington	08/04/2017	“Ants and NGOs”
Gabriel Richardson Lear	University of Chicago	08/11/2017	“Myrmecology as a Humanistic Discipline”
Sameer Yadav	Westmont College	08/18/2017	“Anthropocentrism: A Problem for Neuroethology and Philosophical Theology”
Ryan Kemp	Wheaton College	08/25/2017	“The Existential Upshot of Crazy Ants”
Marc Lange	UNC	09/01/2017	“Ant Are Alive”
Samantha Noll	Washington State University	09/08/2017	“Ant Philosophies of Farming”
Kevin Timpe	Calvin College	09/15/2017	“The Fecundity of Ants and the Goodness of Existing”
Anne Pollok	University of South Carolina	09/22/2017	“Antropology”
Kieran Setiya	Massachusetts Institute Technology	09/29/2017	“Ant-I-Intellectualism”
Rivka Weinberg	Scripps College	10/06/2017	“Video Interview with Rivka Weinberg”
Kenny Easwaran	Texas A&M University	10/13/2017	“Mutualistic Anteractions”
Meg Wallace	University of Kentucky	10/20/2017	“Antological Disagreement”
Eric Schwitzgebel	University of California – Riverside	10/27/2017	“Antarean Antheads”
Ross Cameron	University of Virginia	11/03/2017	“Ants in Time”
Liam Kofi Bright	Carnegie Mellon University	11/10/2017	“The Value Free Ideal for Scieants”
Joshua Blanchard	UNC	11/17/2017	“Metaethical Implications of Myrmecology”
Amber Leigh Griffioen	University of Konstanz	11/24/2017	“Asshoppers and Grants – Playing at Being Human?”
Sukaina Hirji	Virginia Tech	12/01/2017	“Political Antimals”
David Faraci	Georgetown University	12/08/2017	“If There’s a Number of Real Ants, Is There a Real Number of Ants?”
Branden Fitelson	Northeastern University	12/15/2017	“Video Interview with Branden Fitelson”
Will Fleisher	Rutgers University	12/22/2017	“Ruining Picnics with Epistemology”
Kelle Dhein	Arizona State University	12/27/2017	“How Ants Can Help Solve the Mystery of Intentionality”
Carolina Flores	Rutgers University	01/05/2018	“Propositional Anttitudes and Social Coordination”
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò	UCLA	01/12/2018	“Antílcar Cabral: National Liberation and Soil Culture”
Jay Odenbaugh	Lewis and Clark College	01/26/2018	“The Sociobiological Misadventures of Ants”
Jack Samuel	University of Pittsburgh	02/02/2018	“Unity and Antnihilation”
Helen De Cruz	Oxford Brookes University	03/16/2018	“The Puzzle of Inter-Group Cooperation: What Ants Can Tell Us, and What it Means for Brexit and Trade Wars”
Helena de Bres	Wellesley College	03/23/2018	“The Ants Who Prefer Not To”
Madeline Eller	Georgetown University	04/13/2018	“The Formicid Mystique: Embodied Social Norms and Common Sense”
Gretchen Ellefson	Northwestern University	04/27/2018	“What Do (Ant) Emojis Mean?”
Daniel Singer	University of Pennsylvania	06/22/2018	“To Understand Ant Communication, We Can’t Forget What Ants Forget”
Danny Weltman	Ashoka University	06/29/2018	“Personal Identity and Personal Idantity”
Audrey Yap	University of Victoria	07/06/2018	“Speech Acts and Unspeakable Ants”
Benjamin Blanchard	University of Chicago	07/13/2018	“Northwestern Prison Education Program”
Craig Agule	Rutgers University – Camden	07/20/2018	“On Blaming Ants”
Andrew Moon	Virginia Commonwealth University	07/27/2018	“Do Ants Doubt?”
Julia Driver	Washington University in St. Louis	09/07/2018	“The Parable of the Ants”
Nathan Eckstrand	Fort Hays State University	11/30/2018	“Supercolonies and Overcoming Self-Other Aggression”
Carrie Jenkins	University of British Columbia	01/11/2019	“Twenty Million Sisters”
Stephen White	Northwestern University	01/18/2019	“‘The Ant and the Grasshopper’ and the Politics of Insect Responsibility”
Briana Toole	Baruch College, CUNY	01/25/2019	“To Follow Blindly – Army Ants and Echo Chambers”
Luke Roelofs	Ruhr-University Bochum	02/22/2019	“Anty-Nesting and Anty-Combination”
Eric Wiland	University of Missouri – St. Louis	08/09/2019	“Colonies and the Common Weal”
Vida Yao	Rice University	08/16/2019	“Video Interview with Vida Yao”
Jeff Sebo	New York University	08/30/2019	“Video Interview with Jeff Sebo”