SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FALL 2008
GUSTAV BERGMANN LECTURE
Paul Boghossian
New York University
"What is Relativism"
8:00pm, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
107 EPB (English Philosophy Building)
Reception to follow Lecture
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COLLOQUIUM
Paul Boghossian
New York University
"Epistemic Systems, Rules and Norms"
3:30pm, Friday, Oct 17, 2008
Rm. 304EPB (English Philosophy Building)
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IOWA PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Paul Boghossian
New York University
Saturday, Oct 18, 2008
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
SPRING 2008
E.W. HALL LECTURE
Samuel Scheffler
Univ. of California @ Berkeley
"Morality and Reasonable Partiality"
8:00pm, Thursday, May 1, 2008
Shambaugh Auditorium
Reception to follow Lecture
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COLLOQUIUM
Samuel Scheffler
Univ. of California @ Berkeley
"Valuing"
3:30pm, Friday, May 2, 2008
107EPB
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SIEVERT LECTURE
CANCELLED
Sarah Ann Sawyer
University of Sussex
"Perceptual, Mathematical and Fictional Thought"
3:30pm, Friday, April 11th, 2008
107EPB
Abstract: There is an intuitive distinction between de re thought and de dicto thought. The distinction applies most naturally to thoughts about objects we perceive. In this paper I explore the question of whether the distinction can be extended to mathematical thought and fictional thought.
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Early Analytic Philosophy Conference
4-5 April 2008
http://www.myweb.uiowa.edu/glandini/earlyanalytic
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FACULTY COLLOQUIUM
Carrie Figdor
University of Iowa
"A Deep Confusion in Massive Modularity"
3:30p.m., Friday, March 7, 2008
107EPB
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FALL 2007
COLLOQUIUM
Christoph Jaeger
University of Aberdeen, King's College
Scotland, UK
"Meta-Emotions"
Friday, September 28, 2007, 3:30pm
109EPB (English Philosophy Building)
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM
Laird Addis
University of Iowa
"Ryle and Intentionality"
Friday, October 12, 2007, 3:30pm
304EPB (English Philosophy Building)
GUSTAV BERGMANN LECTURE
CANCELLED
Paul Boghossian
New York University
"What is Relativism"
Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, 8:00pm
Rm. 304EPB (English Philosophy Building)
Reception to follow Lecture
COLLOQUIUM
CANCELLED
Paul Boghossian
New York University
"Epistemic Systems, Rules and Norms"
Friday, Oct 19, 2007, 3:30pm
Rm. 107EPB (English Philosophy Building)
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
SPRING 2007
COLLOQUIUM
Nevia Dolcini, Visiting Assistant Prof.
University of Macerata (Italy)
" The Comprehension of Indexicals. The salience-based model for a semantic theory of indexicals "
Friday, May 4, 2007 3:30pm, 304EPB
FACULTY COLLOQUIUM
Richard Fumerton
University of Iowa
"The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement"
Friday, April 27, 2007 3:30pm
Place: 304EPB
COLLOQUIUM
T.M. SCANLON
Harvard University
Title: "Blame, Desert, and Freedom"
March 30, 2007, 3:30pm, 304EPB
E.W. HALL LECTURE
T.M. SCANLON
Harvard University
Title: "The Ethics of Blame"
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 8:00pm, 107EPB
Reception to follow Lecture
Monday, February 19, 2007
Katherine Dunlop
"'The Unity of Time's Measure': Kant's Reply to Locke"
6:30PM, 304EPB
Monday, February 12, 2007
Carrie Figdor, Claremont McKenna College.
"Intrinsically/Extrinsically"
5:30pm, 304EBP
Monday, February 5, 2007
Matthew Haug, Cornell University.
"Of Mice and Metaphysics: Natural Selection and Realized Population-Level Properties"
5:30pm, 304EPB
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Maya Eddon, Rutgers University.
"Quantities and Resemblance"
5:30pm, 304EPB
Monday, January 29, 2007
Susanna Schellenberg, University of Toronto.
Action and Self-Location in Perception
3:30pm, 304EPB
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Clare Batty, MIT.
"Olfaction, Qualia and the Transparency of Experience"
5:30pm, 304EPB
Monday, January 22, 2007
Valia Allori, Rutgers University.
"Pandora's Cat: On the Common Structure of Bohmian Mechanics & the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Theory"
3:30pm, 304EPB
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FALL 2006
Richard Foley
New York University
Title: "Knowledge as Sufficient Information"
Friday, December 8, 2006, 3:30pm
Place: 304EPB
Irving Anellis
“Some Views of Russell and Russell's Logic
by His Contemporaries”
Friday, November 10, 2006, 3:30pm
Room: 304EPB
David Stern
University of Iowa
"The Uses of Wittgenstein's Beetle: Philosophical Investigations §293 and its Interpreters,"
Friday, October 13, 2006, 3:30pm
Place: 104 English-Philosophy Bldg.
Stephen Stich
Rutgers University
"Is the Moral/Conventional Distinction a Myth?"
Friday, Sept 22, 2006, 3:30pm
Rm. 304EPB (English Philosophy Building)
GUSTAV BERGMANN LECTURE
Stephen Stich
Rutgers University
"Philosophy, Intuition and Culture"
Thursday, Sept 21, 2006
8:00pm
Rm. 107EPB (English Philosophy Building)
Reception to follow Lecture
GREGG OSBORNE
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
BEIRUT
"Does Hume Prove THhat The Causal Maxim Is Neither Intuitively Certain Nor Demonstravely Certain?"
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
7:30pm
ROOM 304EPB
MICHAEL MI
Soochow University, Shihlin, Taipei
Taiwan, R.O.C.
'Truth and the Slingshot"
Friday, August 25, 2006, 3:30pm
Room 304EPB (English Philosophy Building)
SPRING 2006
The Department will host the annual meeting of The Bertrand Russell Society on May 27th & 28th.
2006
Russell Society Conference
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Gustav Bergmann Centenary Conference
May 19-20, 2006
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, there will be a conference on the philosophy of Gustav Bergmann at the University of Iowa in Iowa City on Friday and Saturday, 19-20 May, 2006. All of the papers will be given in room 107 EPB. Contact laird-addis@uiowa.edu for more information.
Friday, 19 May
9:30-10:15 Robert Baker, Union College
"Bergmann as Historian"
10:25-11:10 Donald Sievert, University of Missouri
"Bergmann on the Synthetic A Priori Truth that Nothing
Can Have Two Colors"
11:20-12:05 Guido Bonino, University of Turin
"The First Station of Gustav Bergmann's Odyssey"
1:50-2:20 Nathan Oaklander, University of Michigan
"Reminiscences of Bergmann's Last Student"
2:30-4:00 Fred Wilson, University of Toronto
"Placing Bergmann"
Saturday, 20 May
8:30-9:15 Greg Jesson, The University of Iowa
"Bergmann's Quest for the Ontology of Knowledge: From
Phenomenalism to Realism"
9:25-10:10 Ernani Magalhaes, West Virginia University
"Time for Bergmann's Bare Particulars"
10:20-11:05 William Heald, The University of Iowa
"Bergmann's Thinkable Inexpressibles"
11:15-12:00 Francesco Orilia, University of Macerata
"Bradley's Regress: Bergmann vs. Meinong"
1:50-2:20 Gerald Weiss, Macalester College
"Reminiscences of Gustav Bergmann"
2:30-4:00 Erwin Tegtmeier, University of Mannheim
"Bergmann: Ontologist of the Century"
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DIANE JESKE
University of Iowa
"100% Natural: What Is Naturalism in Ethics?"
Friday, April 21, 2006 3:30pm
Rm. 304EPB (English-Philosophy Building)
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HEGEL FEST
Sponsored by the Dept. of Philosophy, POROI and the Law College
Friday, April 14th, 2006 10:00am
Terry Pinkard (Georgetown University)
"Liberal Rights without Liberalism."
Room W401, PBB(John Pappajohn Business Bldg.)
and
Friday, April 14th, 2006 1:30pm
Robert Pippin (University of Chicago)
"Hegel on Agency and Self-knowledge."
Room W401, PBB (John Pappajohn Business Bldg.)
About the speakers:
Terry Pinkard is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He has written extensively on the philosophy of Hegel and on German Idealism in general. His publications include German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism (Cambridge University Press, 2002 and Hegel: A Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2000).He is currently finishing up a translation of Hegel's Phänomenologie des Geistes for publication by Cambridge University Press
Robert Pippin is the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on Social Thought and Department of Philosophy of the University of Chicago. He works on the modern German philosophical tradition (Kant to the present), contemporary Continental philosophy in general, moral theory, social and political philosophy, theories of modernity, and various topics in ancient philosophy. His most recent publications include: The Persistence of Subjectivity. On the Kantian Aftermath (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Die Verwirklichung der Freiheit (Campus Verlag, 2005).
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Friday, March 3, 2006, 3:30pm
SARAH BUSS
University of Iowa
"Norms of Rationality and the Superficial Unity of the Mind"
Room 427 English-Philosphy Building
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Friday, February 10, 2006, 3:30pm
FRANCESCO ORILIA, Univ of Macerata (Italy)
"Deductive Reasons, Inductive Reasons and the Logical Paradoxes "
Room 107 English-Philosphy Building
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Friday, February 3, 2006, 3:30pm
Peter Railton
Dept. of Philosophy
University of Michigan
"Desire, Happiness and Morality"
Gerber Lounge (Rm. 304) English-Philosphy Building
Fall 2005
Friday, December 2, 2005, 3:30pm
Evan Fales
"Atheism, Death, and the Meaning of Life:
Despair, Optimism, and Rebellion"
304 English-Philosophy Building
(The Gerber Lounge)
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Friday, September 9, 2005, 3:30pm
Marcia Baron, Indiana University
Rudy Professor of Philosophy
"EXCUSES, EXCUSES"
107 English-Philosophy Building
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E.W. HALL LECTURE
Thursday, September 8, 2005, 8:00pm
Marcia Baron, Indiana University
Rudy Professor of Philosophy
"Self-Defense: The Reasonable Belief Requirement"
107 English-Philosophy Building
Reception to follow in the Richey Ballroom, IMU
Spring 2005
Friday, April 22, 2005, 3:30 pm
Barry Stroud, University of California, Berkeley
Sievert Lecture: “Wittgenstein on the Impossibility
of Explaining Thoughts and Language”
107 English-Philosophy Building
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Friday, April 15, 2005, 3:30 pm
Peter Railton, University of Michigan
Sievert Lecture: “Is There Hope
for an Objective Theory of Aesthetic Value?”
107 English-Philosophy Building
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Friday, March 25, 2005, 3:30 pm
Teresa Robertson, University of Kansas
“Quantifying In and Essentialist Claims”
107 English-Philosophy Building
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Friday, March 4, 2005, 3:30 pm
Gregory Landini, University of Iowa
“Russell’s Paradox Solved”
107 English-Philosophy Building
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Friday, February 4, 2005, 3:30 pm
Baron Reed, Northern Illinois University
“A Defense of Stable Invariantism”
107 English-Philosophy Building
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Thursday, February 3, 2005, 3:30pm
Jennifer Lackey, Northern Illinois University
“Learning from Words”
113 MacLean Hall
