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Department of Philosophy
Colloquium Series
All Colloquium talks are free and open to the public.
For more information please contact David Barnett or Dominic Bailey.
Fall 2007
Jason Wyckoff, University of Colorado at Boulder
Friday, September 7 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
"On the Failure of the Fair Play Account of Political Obligation"
Mr. Wyckoff's colloquium is this year's Jentzsch Prize Talk.Mathias Risse, Harvard University
Friday, September 28 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
TBAHud Hudson, Western Washington University
Friday, October 26 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
TBAJames Pryor, University of Colorado at Boulder
Friday, November 9 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
TBA
Spring 2008
Verity Harte, Yale University
Friday, February 22 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
TBAJeff McMahan, Rutgers University
Friday, March 14 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
TBAMichelle Montague, University of California at Irvine
Friday, April 18 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
TBA
Professor Montague's colloquium is this year's Alumni Talk.For more information please contact David Barnett or Dominic Bailey.
Past Colloquia
Spring 2007
Margaret Walker, Arizona State University
Friday, March 2 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
"The Politics of Transparency and the Moral Work of Truth-Telling"Michael Potter, University of Cambridge
Friday, March 16 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
"Does Mathematics Need Replacement (and Is It Even True)?"
Professor Potter's colloquium is our Reinhardt Lecture in the Philosophy of MathematicsRuss Shafer-Landau, University of Wisconsin--Madison
Friday, April 13 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
"Moral and Theological Realism"Rachel Singpurwalla, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Friday, April 27 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
"Reason and the Divided Soul in Plato's Republic"
Professor Singpurwalla's colloquium is this year's Alumni Talk.
Fall 2006
Thomas Holden, University of California Santa Barbara
Friday, September 15 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 250
"Natural Religion and Moral Prohibition in Hume's 'Of Suicide'"James Van Cleve, University of Southern California
Friday, September 29 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 250
"Mechanics and Morals of Double Vision"Richard Fumerton, University of Iowa
Friday, October 20 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 250
"Epistemic Conservatism: Theft or Honest Toil?"Kit Fine, New York University
Friday, November 3 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 250
"Response-Dependent Concepts"Alastair Norcross, Rice University
Friday, December 1 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 250
"Two Dogmas of Deontology: Aggregation, Rights, and the Separateness of Persons"
This talk is sponsored by a GCAH Visiting Scholar Grant.
Spring 2006
Mark Colyvan, University of Queensland, Australia
Friday, January 20 at 3:15 PM, Hazel Barnes Room Hellems 196
"Modeling the Moral Dimension of Decisions"Thomas Pogge, Australian National University And Columbia University
Friday, February 10 at 1:00 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
"Why Inequality Matters: An Instrumental Argument"Richard Boyd, Cornell University
Friday, February 24 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
"Natural Kinds and Philosophical Naturalism: What's 'Natural' About Natural Kinds?"Jan Wolenski, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Monday, March 13 at 3:15 PM in the Hazel Barnes Seminar Room, Hellems 196
"On Interpreting Tarski's Theory of Truth"Geoff Sayre-McCord, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Friday, March 17 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
"The Nature of Normative Concepts"Dermot Moran, University College Dublin and Rice University
Friday, April 7 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
"Husserl's Transcendental Idealism and the Critique of Naturalism"Sara Goering, University of Washington
Friday, April 14 at 3:15 PM, Eaton Humanities 150
"Disability, Genetics and Justice"