In addition, the Department hosts occasional talks by visiting philosophers. Recent speakers include:
Fall 2019, Jill Graper Hernandez (Layman Lecture), “Early Modern Women and the Need to Do More”
Spring 2018, Meghan Sullivan (Layman Lecture), “Time Biases and Valuing Afterlives”
Fall 2017, Billy Dunaway, “Theological Predication: Duns Scotus, Univocity, and Knowledge”
Spring 2017, Robert Audi (Layman Lecture), “Faith, Belief, and the Problem of Evil”
Fall 2016, Trent Dougherty, “Faith, Reason, and Religious Disagreement: Surprising Results”
Spring 2016, Steve Layman, Book Symposium: Philosophical Approaches to the Atonement, Incarnation, and the Trinity. With comments by Daniel Howard-Snyder and Terence Cuneo
Fall 2014, Alfred Mele, “Free Will and Neuroscience,” and “On the Situationist Challenge to Free Will”
Spring 2012, SPU Philosophy Alumni Panel: Jennifer Corns, Jonathan Jacobs, Nathan King, John Mouracade
Fall 2009, Jaegwon Kim, “Metaphysical Considerations on Consciousness and the Science of Consciousness”
Fall 2009, Kevin Corcoran, “Persons, Bodies, and Relationality”
Fall 2008, Nicholas Wolterstorff , “Beauty, Love, Justice, and Worship”
Spring 2008, Daniel Dombrowski, “The Concept of God: A Process Point of View”
Fall 2007, James Van Cleve, “Direct Realism and Double Vision”