The Morris Colloquium -- an annual conference in memory of Bertram Morris (Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder) -- is organized by the Philosophy Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder and supported by the generous contributions of the Bertram Morris Fund.
Bertram Morris
Bertram Morris (1908-1981) was born in Denver. Educated at Princeton and Cornell, he taught at the University of Colorado from 1947 until his retirement in 1977. He published books including The Aesthetic Process, Philosophical Aspects of Culture, and Institutions of Intelligence.
Bertram Morris is remembered as much for his committed involvement in the social issues of his community as for his scholarly work. In 1953, he began an outreach program at Manual High School in Denver that still continues. In 1975, he was given a special award by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado for his efforts on behalf of academic freedom and his work to improve conditions at the Boulder County Jail.
As an expression of admiration and gratitude, the Philosophy Department established this Colloquium when Bertram Morris retired in 1977.
2020 Morris Colloquium: Logic, Language and Metaphysics, March 6-7, 2020
The Spring 2020 Morris Colloquium
to mark the occasion of the retirement of Professor Graeme Forbes
"Logic, Language and Metaphysics"
Friday March 6th and Saturday March 7th
Friday March 6th (Hellems 252)
- 2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.: Mark Richard (Harvard): “Superman and Clark Walk Into a Bar”
- 4.15 p.m. - 5.45 p.m.: Ede Zimmerman (Frankfurt): “Propositionalisms”
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Saturday, March 7th (Hellems 269)
- 11.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.: Mark Sainsbury (Austin): “Fregean Attributions of Attitudes”
- 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.: Anne Hunt (Medici): “Frege’s Puzzle in Industrial Applications”
- 3.45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.: Graeme Forbes (Boulder): “Two New Solutions to Chisholm’s Paradox”
Previous Colloquia
Topic: Medieval Philosophy, April 5-7 2018
On April 5-7, Boulder will be the home to the largest conference in medieval philosophy that has recently taken place in North America. There are 63 talks scheduled, and over 70 scholars coming into town for the event.
Topic: The Self and Its Realizations, June 16-18 2018
Invitees will interpret the theme broadly, so as to include a wide range of topics, from the psychology of the self to the nature of the neural mechanisms that implement the processes that realize the self to a discussion of the realization-relation itself. Expect a lot of philosophy of psychology/psychiatry, philosophy of science (especially about mechanisms and interlevel relations), and even some abstract metaphysics.
Rob Cummins will open the Morris with a keynote lecture on the evening of June 16. This will be followed by two full days of talks. Other confirmed speakers are
- Fred Adams (U. of Delaware)
- Ken Aizawa (Rutgers U., Newark)
- Heather Demarest (CU-Boulder)
- Zoe Drayson (UC-Davis)
- Carrie Figdor (U. of Iowa)
- Lena Kastner (Ruhr U., Bochum)
- Beate Krickel (Ruhr U., Bochum)
- Tom Polger (U. of Cincinnati)
- Sarah Robins (U. of Kansas)
- Elizabeth Schechter (Washington U. of St. Louis)
- Larry Shapiro (U. Wisconsin-Madison)
- Shannon Spaulding (Oklahoma State U.)
Click here for the official schedule.
Topic: Cultural Property and the Ethics of War
April 27-28, 2017
Topic: Metaphysics and Its History
March 11-12, 2016
The topic of this year's colloquium is metaphysics and its history. It will be a crossover workshop bringing together contemporary metaphysicians working on issues with a rich history and historians of metaphysics working on issues of great contemporary significance, aiming to encourage a dialogue between what are arguably continuous lines of inquiry. To that end, historians will comment on non-historians and non-historians on historians.
More information can be found at the conference website.
You can also contact the conference organizers, Robert Pasnau and Raul Saucedo.
Topic: Cognitive Values
March 6th - March 7th, 2015
- Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol)
- Julia Staffel (Washington University St Louis)
- Luc Bovens (London School of Economics)
- Matt Kopec (Northwestern University)
- Miriam Schoenfield (University of Texas at Austin)
- Brian Talbot (Washington University St Louis)
- David Etlin (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich )
- Branden Fitelson (Rutgers University)
- Ted Shear (University of California, Davis)
More information can be found at the conference website. (i.e. link to http://www.gjoddie.com/boulder-workshops/workshop-1.html)