Department of Philosophy
Colloquium Series 2011-2012


 
September 23, 2011 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Maggie Little
Georgetown University
"Abortion and Feminist Theory"
Sponsored by the Diotima Graduate Conference on Feminist Philosophy

October 14, 2011 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Luc Faucher
Université du Québec a Montréal
"Gunning for responsibility,implicit racial biases and revisionism about responsibility"

October 20, 2011 at 11:30am (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1140)
Øyvind Rabbås
University of Oslo
"Eudaimonia and Normativity "

October 21, 2011 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Richard Kraut
Northwestern University
"Problems and Prospects for Aristotle’s Theory of Friendship"

October 28, 2011 at 1:30pm (Huron University College, Rm. W8)
Fred Feldman
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"True and Useful: A Two Level Normative Theory"

November 1, 2011 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
David Bourget
University of London
"Regimentation and the Science of Consciousness"

November 11, 2011 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins
University of British Columbia
"Naturalistic Challenges to the A Priori"

November 15, 2011at 2:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Adina Roskies
Dartmouth College
"Neurons, Mechanism, and Freedom of the Will"

November 22, 2011 at 2:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Christopher Fuchs
Perimeter Institute
"The Quantum Mechanical Born Rule as an Empirical Addition to Bayesian Coherence"

November 25, 2011 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Aaron Garrett
Boston University
"Bishop Butler on Bullshit"

December 2, 2011 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
John Bolender
University of Western Ontario
"Unbounded Recursion Outside Language... or Not?"

December 9, 2011 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Adrian Owen
University of Western Ontario
"When Thoughts Become Actions: Imaging Disorders of Consciousness"

December 13, 2011 at 2:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Stephan Hartmann
Tilburg University
"Voting, Deliberation and Truth"

December 16, 2011 at 2:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Stathis Psillos
Athens University
"How Molecules Became Part of Scientific Consciousness: On Jean Perrin's Case for Realism"

January 13, 2012 at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 2150H)
Chris Pincock
University of Missouri
"Abstract Explanation and Difference-Making"

January 20, 2012 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Robert Wilson
University of Alberta
"Bio-Essentialism, Kinship, and the Ethnocentric Projection Thesis"

January 24, 2012 at 4:00pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)

Erik Curiel
University of Western Ontario
"On the Propriety of Physical Theories as a Basis for Their Semantics"

January 27, 2012 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Trevor Pearce
Wisconsin, Madison
"Convergence versus Parallelism:  Externalism and Privileged Causes in Evolution"

January 31, 2012 at 4:00pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Jacqueline Sullivan
Birmingham, Alabama
"Reviving the Mind in Cognitive Neurobiology - Towards a Perspectival Pluralism in the Context of Experimentation"

February 3, 2012 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)

James Weatherall
UCI
"Can Newtonian Gravitation Explain Inertial Motion?"

February 7, 2012 at 4:00pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)

Michael Koss
Indiana
"Meaning and Mathematical Coherence (Provisional)"

March 2, 2012 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)

Kathryn Norlock
Trent University
"Philosophy Curriculum, Moral Perception and Gender Perception"
Co-hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research

Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 2150H)
John Manchak
University of Washington
"Time Machines: Some Recent Work"

April 27, 2012 at 3:30pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Steven Nadler
University of Wisconsin
"Malebranche's Shadow: Divine Providence in the Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence"

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