Research Groups
Each semester, the Center hosts a mix of the different interest groups listed below. Each group has its own mailing list for reminders of dates and links to the week's reading. Please join the mailing lists of interest via this form.
Spring 2025 interest groups
Time: Friday mornings 10:15-11:30 am Central time
Place: 737 Heller Hall and online via Zoom
The biological interest group (BIG) reads and discusses works of mutual interest in the history and philosophy of biology.
Time: Friday afternoons (every other week), 1:30–3:00 pm Central time
Place: 737 Heller Hall and online via Zoom
The Center discussion group (CtrDG) reads and discusses works of mutual interest in the philosophy of science, broadly construed. We have a tradition of inviting authors to visit and discuss their work with the group.
Time: Friday afternoons every other week, 1:30–3:00 pm Central time
Place: 737 Heller Hall and online via Zoom
The early modern interest group (EMIG) reads and discusses primary and secondary literature focused on natural philosophy from the early modern period, especially in the work of key philosophers such as Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant. Our basis for selecting readings is to study works that are routinely ignored in the philosophy curriculum.
Time: Thursdays, 4:00-5:30pm
Place: 737 Heller Hall and online via Zoom
The foundations interest group (FIG) reads and discusses works of mutual interest in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics and the philosophy of logic.
Time: Online every other week
The social and behavioral sciences interest group (SoBIG) reads and discusses works of mutual interest in the philosophy of the social sciences, and in moral and prudential psychology in philosophy or the social sciences.
Biological Interest Group: Works in Gestation; Empirical Philosophy Interest Group; Individuality and Modularity Interest Group; Philosophical Perspectives on Causal Reasoning in Biology; Technical Individuation Interest Group