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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

SPRING 2012

 

 

FACULTY COLLOQUIUM
Alexander Somek
College of Law, The University of Iowa

"The constituent power in a transnational context"
 3:30pm, Friday, April 27, 2012

109 EPB (English Philosophy Building)

 

Abstract:
The paper attempts to make sense of Abbé Sieyès' classical conception of the nation as the constituent power underlying a constitutional system. It then goes on to explore whether it is possible to conceive of such a power under trans- or postnational conditions. What, if anything, might be the power constituting transnational sites of authority, which are by definition not linked to a particular people? The answer to this question requires a modified understanding of collective self-determination. It will be seen, however, that it remains an open question whether there is anything that "constitutes" in a transnational context.

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COLLOQUIUM

Trent Dougherty

Baylor University

The Ethics of Belief is Ethics.

(Period) [Not epistemology]

4:50pm, Wednesday, April 18th

427 (English Philosophy Building)

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SIEVERT LECTURE

Russell Jones

Harvard University

"Plato on Why We Should Care About the Truth"

3:30 p.m., Friday, March 30, 2012

304 EPB (English-Philosophy Building)

 

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CONFERENCE

Annual University of Iowa Graduate

Philosophy Society (UIGPS) Conference

Saturday, March 31, 2012

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COLLOQUIUM

Russell Shafer-Landau

University of Wisconsin, Madison

"How do the Origins of Our Moral Beliefs Affect Their Credibility?"

3:30 p.m., Friday, March 2, 2012

304 English Philosophy Building

 

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E.W. HALL LECTURE

Russell Shafer-Landau

University of Wisconsin, Madison

"A Defense of Marriage Equality"

8:00 p.m., Thursday, March 1, 2012

W10 Pappajohn Business Building

Reception to Follow

 

Abstract

In this talk, Russ Shafer-Landau provides an argument in support of marriage equality for all, regardless of sexual orientation. He then considers the most popular critiques of gay marriage and argues that each of these critiques is misguided. The talk is designed for those without any prior background in philosophy. It will be followed by a question-and-answer period in which audience members are encouraged to critically engage with Shafer-Landau's arguments

 

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Vanessa de Harven

University of California, Berkeley

4:30pm, Sunday, January 15

304 English Philosophy Bldg.

 

"How Nothing Can Be Something:  The Stoic Theory of Void"

Abstract:

The notion of void has posed metaphysical difficulties for philosophers since antiquity, and the Stoics are no exception.  What could something that is arguably nothing even be?  The Stoics' answer to this question was a matter of some internal debate then, as it is now to those of us looking back.  I will give an account of the Stoics' unique theory of void, and show how it illustrates the general ontological principles that make the Stoics our first true physicalists.

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Mary Katrina Krizan,

Spring Hill College

3:30pm, Friday, January 20

109 English-Philosophy Building

 

"Underlying matter and a new hylomorphism for Aristotle's elements"

Abstract.

Aristotle's account of the natural world presents us with what appears to be a common-sense

ontology: individual things, such as dogs and horses, are unified, ontologically independent beings, and are rightly called 'substances'.  When we begin to examine the theoretical framework that underpins Aristotle's account of such things, a serious philosophical puzzle arises; in particular, it is not clear how Aristotle can maintain the ontological independence of complex things while simultaneously explaining how they come into

existence, perish, and change.   In my talk, I

examine what I take to be the most serious form of the puzzle, which arises from Aristotle's attempt to explain changes between his simple bodies or (so-called) elements.  I suggest that three initially plausible interpretative strategies for avoiding the puzzle fail because they commit Aristotle to a denial of unity or a denial of genuine, substantial change.  I argue that the puzzle can be avoided by reconsidering the relationship between elements and their metaphysically basic parts – and that, for Aristotle, the basic parts are (perhaps

bizarrely) ontologically dependent upon the things they form

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Jovana Davidovic

University of Minnesota

5pm, Wednesday, January 25

304 English Philosophy Bldg.

“International Law and Killing in War”

 

In this paper, I argue that some of the time what justice requires of us in the global arena can only be meaningfully answered by grounding such answers in the necessary institutional structures available for the pursuit of global justice. In particular, I suggest that the necessary features of the institution of international law can and should be used to reject some and accept other principles of global justice. I attempt to give further support for this, my main claim, by showing how my argument would work with respect to a particular global justice problem, namely the problem raised by the application of the principle of moral equality of combatants in war.

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Krisanna Scheiter

Illinois Institute of Technology

3:30-5:30pm  Friday, January 27

304 English Philosophy Bldg.

Is Hunger Like Anger? Plato and Aristotle on Emotion and Desire

Most contemporary philosophers and psychologists of emotion argue that our desires for food, drink, and sex (what the ancient Greeks call epithumia) are bodily drives and as such are very different from emotions like anger, fear, and pity. Many commentators argue that Plato and Aristotle make a similar distinction between epithumia and the emotions. In this paper, however, I argue that this is not the case. I show that Plato and Aristotle characterize both epithumia and the emotions as pleasurable or painful affections of the soul, requiring either memory or imagination (phantasia). My interpretation allows us to make sense of what on the surface appears to be conflicting textual evidence. What is more, if there is any chance that Plato and Aristotle are right, then our desire for food and drink is not an instinctive bodily drive, but something that is learned quickly and at an early age.

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Jason Wyckoff

University of Colorado, Boulder

4:30-6:30, Saturday, January 28

304 English Philosophy Bldg.

 

“The Construction of Animality and the Roots of Animals' Oppression”

Most people seem to believe that it is wrong to cause needless suffering and death to non-human animals, and yet most people also contribute to the needless suffering and death of a great many animals. If speciesism is understood as the tendency of an individual human agent to disregard the interests of animals, then this fact is utterly paradoxical. I begin with the claim that once speciesism is understood structurally—as a matter of injustice rather than a matter of ethical wrongdoing—the appearance of a paradox disappears. I then argue that this raises a set of as yet unanswered questions about the place(s) accorded to animals in humans’ social, legal, and political institutions, and, drawing on the work of feminist theorists such as Sally Haslanger and Catharine MacKinnon, suggest a way of reconceiving the question of the moral status of animals as a political question (to which I sketch an answer) about the construction of animals and animality through our social, cultural, legal, and linguistic practices.

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Nicole Hassoun

Carnegie Mellon University

5pm, Monday, January 30

304 English Philosophy Bldg.

“Libertarian Welfare Rights?

Questioning the Coherence of Some Common Libertarian Committments”

This paper argues that libertarians should endorse some welfare rights understood as rights that all states must guarantee to their subjects as a condition of legitimacy. For, it argues that libertarians, because they should be actual consent theorists, must agree to the following condition for state legitimacy: States must do what they can to ensure that their rights-respecting subjects secure the basic reasoning and planning capacities they need to consent to their rules. To secure these capacities, most people need some minimal amount of food, water, shelter, education, health care, social and emotional goods. So states have to ensure that these people secure these things (as long as they do not violate others’ rights). This should be a striking conclusion as most libertarians notoriously reject welfarism and positive social and economic rights. They do not think legitimate states must ensure that any of their subjects secure food, water, shelter, education, health care, social or emotional goods. So, this paper's argument at least poses a puzzle for those who hold the common libertarian commitments from which this conclusion is derived.

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Asha Bhandary

University of Connecticut

3:30-5:30pm  Friday, February 3

109 English-Philosophy Building

"Liberal Dependency Care"

“Dependency care” is the direct care that must be provided by another person so that the dependent charge can survive and thrive.  All human beings need to receive dependency care for some period of time during their lives.  There is an asymmetry to care, though, which is that although all humans need to receive care, not all humans need to provide care.  This paper establishes a solution to the provision of dependency care.  I formulate and evaluate four principles of distributive justice for dependency care and argue in favor of a strong procedural principle for autonomous dependency care provision.  Strong proceduralism requires interventions to disrupt the perpetuation of an unjust status quo.  The chief intervention I recommend is a de-gendering of the general care-giving skills attentiveness and responsiveness.  These changes to the context of choice are needed to make the choice to provide care a viable option for men and others who have not traditionally engaged in dependency care work.

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Tim Clarke

Yale University

4:30-6:30pm  Saturday, February 4

304 English Philosophy Bldg.

 

'An Ancient Puzzle about Coming to Be'

One point of agreement among the Presocratics, according to Aristotle, was that nothing ever really comes into or goes out of existence. In this talk I examine Aristotle’s understanding of—and proposed solution to—the “ancient puzzle” about coming to be. The puzzle, as Aristotle describes it, is this: “What comes to be must do so either from what is or from what is not, and both are impossible. What is cannot come to be, since it already is, and nothing can come to be from what is not, since something must underlie.” I argue that, contrary to previous interpretations, the dilemma here (“… either from what is or from what is not”) should be understood as a dilemma about the pre-change state of the thing that comes to be, and not as a dilemma about that thing’s precursor. I show how this interpretation allows us to explain the perceived force of the argument, while also making sense of Aristotle’s claim that his theory of generation provides the key to the puzzle’s solution.

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FALL 2011

Gustav Bergmann Lecture

Jesse Prinz

The Graduate Center

City University of New York

"Feeling Bad About the Bad: The Emotional Basis of Morals"

8:00pm, Thursday, September 29, 2011

W128CB (Chemistry Bldg.)

COLLOQUIUM

Jesse Prinz

The Graduate Center

City University of New York

"The AIR Theory of Consciousness"

3:30pm, Friday, September 30, 2011

304EPB

FACULTY COLLOQUIUM

Gregory Landini
The University of Iowa
“Russell and the Curious Calculi of Wittgenstein

and Spencer Brown”
Friday, November 11, 2011

104EPB

FACULTY COLLOQUIUM

Katarina Perovic
The University of Iowa
"On Resemblance Between Universals"
Friday, December 2, 2011, 3:30 pm
E132AJB

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

SPRING 2011

SIEVERT LECTURE
Brie Gertler

Associate Professor of Philosophy

University of Virginia

"The Extended Mind and the Status of Standing Attitudes"

Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:30pm

PLACE: 107EPB

FACULTY COLLOQUIUM

Ali Hasan
The University of Iowa
" Epistemic Justification and the Ethics of Belief"
Friday, February 18, 2011, 3:30 pm
Room 107 EPB

SIEVERT LECTURE

Crispin Wright
New York University
"Simple Arithmetical Knowledge"
Friday, March 25, 2011, 3:30pm

Place: 107EPB  

CONFERENCE
Annual University of Iowa Graduate
Philosophy Society (UIGPS) Conference
Saturday, March 26, 2011

FACULTY COLLOQUIUM
Carrie Figdor
The University of Iowa
“Verbs and Minds”

3:30 pm Friday, April 29, 2011
Room 109EPB

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FALL 2010

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

SPRING 2009

COLLOQUIUM

Guido Bonino

University of Turin, visiting The University of Iowa

"Russell's judgments and Wittgenstein's propositions"

3:30 pm Friday, April 3rd

Room 107 EPB

E.W. HALL LECTURE
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"A Moral Argument Against Moral Dilemmas”
8:00 pm Thursday, April 23
Room W151 PBB (Pappajohn Business Building)
Reception to follow

COLLOQUIUM

Geoffrey Sayre-McCord

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"The Nature of Normative Concepts"

3:30 pm Friday, April 24

Room 107 EPB

FACULTY COLLOQUIUM

Carrie Figdor

The University of Iowa

“What Is a Piece of Mind?”

3:30 pm Friday, May 1

Room 304 EPB

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FALL 2008

COLLOQUIUM

Kenneth Williford

St. Cloud State University/ Visiting @The University of Iowa

"Transparency, Representation and the Grain Problem"

3:30pm, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008

Room 304EPB

SIEVERT LECTURE

Carolina Sartorio

"The Prince of Wales Problem for Counterfactual Theories of Causation"

4:00pm, Friday, Nov. 14, 2008

Room 304EPB

FACULTY COLLOQUIUM

Ali Hasan

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy

 The University of Iowa

" Title A Defense of Realism about Spatial

Objects "

3:30pm, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008

Room 304EPB

 

GUSTAV BERGMANN LECTURE

Paul Boghossian

New York University

"What is Relativism?"

8:00pm, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008

Shambaugh Auditorium (Library)

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

COLLOQUIUM

Paul Boghossian

New York University

"Epistemic Relativism: Further Reflections"

3:30pm, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008

Room 203BCSB (Becker Comm. Studies Bldg.)

 

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES

ALUMNI FELLOW COLLOQUIUM

CO-SPONSORED BY THE UI PHILOSOPHY DEPT.

L. Nathan Oaklander

 University of Michigan-Flint

"McTaggart's Paradox and the Problem of Time"

3:30pm, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008

304EPB

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