The Department of Philosophy at UNCG has held a symposium almost every Spring since 1976. Each has brought together leading researchers for a lively exchange of ideas on a single topic. The main papers have usually been published together in a book or a single prominent journal. The topics, directors, main speakers and publication details are as follows.
Conceptual Revolutions and Scientific Progress, 1976 (Jarrett Leplin)
Dudley Shapere, Frederick Suppe, Stephen Brush, David Hull
Consciousness and the Brain, 1977 (Arnold B. Levison)
David Rosenthal, Ned Block, Diana Ackerman, Daniel Dennett
Human Rights and Justice, 1978 (Arnold B. Levison and Terrance McConnell)
Alan Gewirth, Lawrence Thomas, Irving Thalberg, Annette Barnes, Kurt Baier
Current Issues in the Philosophy of Mathematics, 1979 (Michael Resnick, UNC-Chapel Hill)
Michael Resnick, Philip Kitcher, Michael Jubien, Scott Weinstein , Hao Wang
Nous, Volume XV, Number 4 (November, 1981)
Current Issues in Epistemology, 1980 (John L. King and Gary Rosenkrantz)
Bruce Aune, Marshall Swain, Fred Dretske, Ernest Sosa, Jaegwon Kim
Philosophical Studies, Volume 40, Number 3, November, 1981
Action, Agency, and the Will, 1981 (Robert B. Rosthal)
Richard Taylor, Hector Castaneda, Myles Brand, Robert Audi, Lawrence Davis
Erkenntnis, Volume 18, Number 2, September, 1982
Scientific Realism, 1982 (Jarrett Leplin)
Ernan McMullin, Arthur Fine, Michael Levin, Ronald Laymon, Richard Boyd
Jarret Leplin (ed) Scientific Realism, U. of California, 1984
The Logic of Religious Concepts, 1984 (Gary Rosenkrantz)
George Mavrodes, Norman Kretzmann, Eleonore Stump, William Mann, Philip Quinn
Faith and Philosophy, Volume 2, Number 4, October, 1985
Rationality and Moral Values, 1985 (Terrance McConnell)
Dan Brock, Lawrence Blum, Stephen Darwall, Norman Dahl, Patricia Greenspan
Philosophical Studies, Volume 50, Number 3, November, 1986
Problems of Existence and Identity, 1986 (Joshua Hoffman)
Nathan Salmon, George Bealer, Terence Parsons, Peter van Inwagen, Ernest Sosa
Philosophical Perspectives, I, 1987
Thought and Reference, 1987 (Gary Rosenkrantz)
John Pollock, Steven Boer, Roderick Chisholm, Robert Stalnaker, Jerrold Katz
Philosophical Studies, Volume 58, Numbers 1-2, February, 1990
The Future of Folk Psychology, 1988 (John Greenwood)
Paul Churchland, Stephen Stich, Jonathan Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Simon Blackburn
John Greenwood (ed) The Future of Folk Psychology, Cambridge, 1991
How Theories Are Constructed: The Methodology of Scientific Creativity, 1989 (Jarrett Leplin)
Dudley Shapere, Don Page, John Norton, Howard Stein, Wyatt Anderson
Jarrett Leplin (ed) The Creation of Ideas in Physics,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995
Responsibility, 1990 (Michael J. Zimmerman)
Holly Smith, William Rowe, John Martin Fischer, Robert Audi, Peter French
Ethics, Volume 101, Number 2, January, 1991
Approaches to Cognition, 1991 (John L. King)
Michael Bratman, Henry Kyburg,, William Bechtel, Chris Lacher, John Pollock
Minds and Machines, Volumes 2-4 (Feb. 1992, Sept. 1992, Feb. 1993, Jan. 1994); Artificial Intelligence, Sept., 1992.
The Real Things: Studies in Ontology, 1992 (Joshua Hoffman)
John Foster, James Van Cleve, Roderick Chisholm, E.J. Lowe, Peter Simons
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 54, Number 3, 1994
Empirical Equivalence and the Underdetermination of Theories, 1993 (Jarrett Leplin)
Larry Laudan, Ron Giere, Alexander Rosenberg, James Cushing, Ronald Laymon
Rights, 1994 (Terrance McConnell)
Randy E. Barnett, Diana Tietjens Meyers, A. John Simmons, Carl Wellman, George Sher
Law and Philosophy, Volume 14, Number 2, May 1995
Moral Obligation, 1995 (Michael J. Zimmerman)
Fred Feldman, David Copp, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Roy Sorensen, Michael Slote
Utilitas, Volume 7, Number 2, November 1995
Kinds and Categories, 1996 (Gary Rosenkrantz)
Michael Loux, Jonathan Lowe, Eli Hirsch, Jerrold Aronson, Barry Smith
Philosophical Papers, Volume XXVI, Number 1, April 1997
Intrinsic Value, 1998 (Michael J. Zimmerman)
Shelly Kagan, Noah Lemos, Thomas Hurka, Robert Audi, Fred Feldman
The Journal of Ethics, Volume 2, Number 4, 1998
Current Issues in Ontology, 2000 (Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz)
John Heil, Jonathan Lowe, Peter Simons, Ernest Sosa, Dean Zimmerman
Conceiving and Modality, 2002 (Janine Jones)
Tamar Szabo, Stephen Yablo, Kit Fine, Bill Hart, Saul Kripke
Epistemic Justification, 2004 (Jarrett Leplin)
Jonathan Vogel, Peter Klein, Jarrett Leplin, Michael Williams, Ram Neta