2026 Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable

This year’s Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable will be held at Virginia Tech from March 6-7, 2026. 

This year’s Roundtable will host Maggie Penn (Political Science and Data & Decision Sciences, Emory) and Jennifer Raff (Anthropology, University of Kansas) as keynote speakers. We will have an ‘author-meets-critics’ session with Armin Schulz (Philosophy, Kansas University) on his new book It’s Only Human: The Evolution of Distinctively Human Cognition. Commentators will be Daniel Kelly  (Purdue University) and Ron Mallon (Washington University in Saint Louis).

Here is a link to the program of the Roundtable. Please contact Gil Hersch (hersch@nullvt.edu) in advance, if you plan to attend.

The Roundtable is supported by the David H. Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, the Department of Philosophy, the Center for Humanities, and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech.

Please reach out to PPE Core Faculty member Gil Hersch with any questions related to the event.

(Photo by Luke Hayes for Virginia Tech)