UNLV Philosophy Department

05/28/2026

We need philosophers because when the world faces crises we need people trained to question, critique, and imagine better alternatives.

04/20/2026

Our final talk in the UNLV Series this term is a UNLV Liberal Arts being given by Rabbi Brant Rosen of the Congregation in Chicago, IL. The topic is “The Growing Divide In American Jewish Community Over Israel/Palestine”.

Rabbi Brant Rosen will examine this important Jewish communal shift, including the increasing involvement of antizionist Jews in the Palestine solidarity movement, the growth of organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace and and the beginning of American Jews who are creating Jewish ritu...

04/20/2026

Join us at the last University Forum lecture of the semester on April 23 at 4 p.m. in the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art . Rabbi Brant Rosen, of Tzedek Chicago, will examine the important Jewish communal shift over the Israel/Palestine conflict.

04/17/2026

Our seventh UNLV Series talk of the semester is 4/22 at 3pm in CHB C117. Rabbi Brant Rosen from the Congregation of Chicago, IL will discuss “Responses to the Biblical Conquest Tradition”.

Rabbi Brant Rosen, Tzedek Chicago, Chicago, IL— The Biblical commandment to the Israelites to conquer the land of Canaan and annihilate its inhabitants occurs repeatedly in the Torah - and is described in horrifying detail in the book of Joshua.

04/16/2026

We need philosophers because they teach us how to think deeply and clearly about the most fundamental questions: what matters, what’s true, and how we should live.

04/07/2026

A very timely topic…

Join us at the next University Forum lecture on Thursday, April 9 at 7 p.m. in the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art . Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College, will talk about life in Berlin during World War II and how N***s wanted people to believe that life was normal.

03/29/2026

Our sixth UNLV Series talk of the semester is Friday 4/3 at 3pm in CHB C122. Prof. Sergei Artemov from at will discuss “Non-Compact Proofs”.

Sergei Artemov, Dept. of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, CUNY— Non-compact proofs are used in mathematics but overlooked in the analysis of (un)provability of consistency. We focus on arithmetical proofs of universal statements (*) "for any natural number n, F(n)." A proof of (*) is compact if al...

03/24/2026

Our fifth Series talk of the semester is Friday 3/27 at 3pm in CHB C122. Prof. Amy Reed-Sandoval of UNLV will discuss “Conversion to Judaism: A Model for Ethnoracial Identity Change?”

Amy Reed-Sandoval, Dept. of Philosophy, UNLV—¡Mami sí es mexicana!, my then-four-year-old daughter shouted, tears in her eyes. I was trying to explain that while she and her father are Mexican, I am not. She seemed stunned by my words. Why would I deny all the ways in which Mexican culture is pa...

03/07/2026

The National Education for Women’s (NEW) Leadership Nevada program, through the Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN), is a free five-day summer program designed to empower women across NSHE institutions in developing leadership skills and learning more about politics, public policy, business, and community leadership. For more information, follow the QR link on the flyer below.
*Application deadline: Friday 3/13*

03/01/2026

Our fourth UNLV Series talk of the semester is Friday 3/6 at 3pm in CHB C122. Dr. Carl Sachs from the School of Humanities, Marymount University will address the question, “Does Cognitive Science Show That Digital Minds Are Possible?”.

Carl Sachs, School of Humanities, Marymount University—One widespread argument for the feasibility of digital minds holds that digital minds are possible because biological cognition is computational and computational processes are substrate-neutral. If biological cognition is essentially computat...