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Past Colloquia
Colloquia Winter 2008
January 18: Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics and Political Science
"What is That Thing Called 'Efficacy'?"
February 1: Stephen Menn, McGill University
"Aristotle and the Sophists"
February 14: Pierre Destrée, Université De Louvain
"Aristotle on Responsibility for One's Character"
Co-sponsor: Department of Classics
NOTE: DATE IS A THURSDAY
March 7: Ulrich Kohlenbach, Technische Universität Darmstadt
"Finitism and Constructivism in Mathematics Revisited"
March 14: Donald Rutherford, UC San Diego
"Spinoza and the Dictates of Reason"
Colloquia Autumn 2007
September 28:
Ted Sider, New York University
"Ontological Realism"
October 19:
Richard Moran,
Harvard University
"Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty"
November 2:
Jürgen Habermas:
A Memorial Lecture for Richard Rorty
" ' And to define America, her athletic democracy...'
Richard Rorty: Philosopher and Language-Shaper"
Friday, November 2 at 5 PM in Cubberley Auditorium
Sponsored by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
November 9:
Gerald Cohen,
All Souls College, Oxford
"A Truth in Conservatism"
Co-Sponsors: Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and the Political Theory Colloquium
November 16:
Fred Dretske,
Stanford Emeritus, Duke
"What We See: The Texture of Conscious Experience"
2:15 PM, Cordura Hall, Room 100
Sponsors: The Center for the Explanation of Consciousness at CSLI
November 30:
Edward Gibson,
Department of Brain & Cognitive Science, MIT
Title to be announced
Co-Sponsors: Departments of Psychology and Linguistics
Colloquia Spring 2007
April 4 - 6: Tanner Lectures in Human Values
Glenn Loury, Economics, Brown University
"Racial Stigma, Mass Incarceration and American Values"
Presented by the Ethics in Society Program and the President's Office
Lecture 1: "Ghettos, Prisons and Racial Backlash"
Wednesday, April 4, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
Lecture 2: "Social Identity & the Ethics of Punishment"
Thursday, April 5, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
Discussion Seminar 1
Commentators: Pamela Karlan (Stanford Law) and
Lawrence D. Bobo (Stanford)
Thursday, April 5, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Landau Economics Bldg, SIEPR A
Discussion Seminar 2
Commentators: Tommie Shelby (Harvard) and Loïc Wacquant (Berkeley)
Friday, April 6, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Landau Economics Bldg, SIEPR A
April 18-20: Wesson Lectures on Problems of Democracy
David Miller, University of Oxford
"Democracy's Scope"
Commentator: Joshua Cohen, Stanford, Philosophy/Political Science/Law
Presented by the Ethics in Society Program
Lecture 1: "What Makes a Demos?"
April 18, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Cordura Hall, Room 100
Lecture 2: "Democratic Inclusion & Exclusion"
April 19, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Cordura Hall, Room 100
Discussion Seminar
April 20, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Cordura Hall, Room 100
April 27: Philip Pettit, Princeton University
"Personal and Subpersonal Reason: The Case of Groups"
May 4: Richard Kraut, Northwestern University
"Politics and the Good: Reflections on Rawls"
Co-sponsored by the Classics Department
May 11: Charles Parsons, Harvard University
Title to be announced
May 21: Tim Crane, University College London
"Singular thoughts about the non-existent"
NOTE: Monday, 5:30 p.m.
May 25: Gideon Rosen, Princeton University
"The Reality of Numbers"
Colloquia Winter 2007
February 16: Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University (Visiting the Stanford Humanities Fellows Program)
"Agency, Mind, and Authority"
Thursdays February 22, March 1, and March 8:
Isaac Newton Lectures
George Smith, Tufts University
"Turning Data Into Evidence"
Three Lectures on the Role of Theory in Science
Principal sponsor: Suppes Center.
Lecture 1
"Closing the Loop: Testing Newtonian Gravity, Then and Now"
Thursday, February 22
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Bldg 200, Rm 203
Lecture 2
"Getting Started: Building Theories from Working Hypotheses"
Thursday, March 1
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Bldg 200, Rm 203
Lecture 3
"Gaining Access: Using Seismology to Probe the Earth's Insides"
Thursday, March 8
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Bldg 200, Rm 203
February 23: Tim Scanlon, Harvard University
"When Does Equality Matter?"
Co-sponsored by Global Justice Workshop and Political Theory Workshop
March 2: Gordon Belot, University of Pittsburgh
"Good and False"
March 16: Thomas Ricketts, University of Pittsburgh
"Logical Segmentation and Higher-Order Quantification in Wittgenstein's Tractatus"
Colloquia Autumn 2006
October 6: John Campbell, UC Berkeley
"Causation in Psychology"
October 13: Matthew Kramer, University of Cambridge
"Dimensions of Objectivity in Law"
Sponsored by Ethics in Society
October 25, 26, 27:
2006-2007 Immanuel Kant Lectures
Tyler Burge , UCLA
"Origins of Objectivity"
October 25: Lecture I
Wednesday, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Bldg. 260, Rm. 113
October 26: Lecture II
Thursday, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Bldg. 260, Rm. 113
October 27: Discussion Seminar
Friday, 3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Bldg. 90, Rm. 92Q
November 17: Agustín Rayo, MIT
"On Specifying Content"
December 1: Peter Hylton, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Quine"
Colloquia Spring 2006
April 7: Amartya Sen, Harvard University
"What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice?"
NOTE TIME AND LOCATION: 1:00 PM, Bldg 200, Rm 002
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Program in Ethics in Society, Stanford Center for Ethics, Stanford Law School, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and the Department of Sociology.
April 14: Gideon Yaffe, University of Southern California
"Trying, Intending and Attempted Crimes"
April 19, 20, 21:
Immanuel Kant Lectures
Dag Prawitz , Stockholm University
"Proofs, Meaning, and Reality"
April 19: Lecture I
Wednesday, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Bldg. 260, Rm. 113
April 20: Lecture II
Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Bldg. 380, Rm. 380C
April 21: Discussion Seminar
Friday, 3:15 PM Ð 5:15 PM
Bldg. 90, Rm. 92Q
May 12: Alfred Mele, Florida State University
"Free Will and Neuroscience"
May 26: Brian Weatherson, Cornell University
"Natural Quantities"
June 2: Robin Jeshion, University of California - Riverside
"Singular Thought and Cognitive Elasticity"
Colloquia Winter 2006
January 13: John Dupre, University of Exeter
"Size doesn't matter: towards a more inclusive philosophy of biology"
January 27: Thomas Ricketts, University of Pittsburgh
"Logical Segmentation and Higher-Order Quantification in Wittgenstein's Tractatus"
CANCELLED
February 10: Laurie Paul, University of Arizona
"Understanding Coincidence"
February 17: John Doris, Washington University in St. Louis
"Variantism about Responsibility"
February 22, 23, 24:
TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES
David Brion Davis , Yale University
"Exiles, Exodus, & Promised Lands"
February 22: Lecture I
Wednesday, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
(Bldg 200, Rm 2)
February 23: Discussion of Lecture I
Thursday, 9:00 - 11:00 AM
SIEPRA A, Landau Economics Building
Discussants: Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (Harvard),
Walter Johnson (NYU)
February 23: Lecture II
Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
(Bldg 200, Rm 2)
February 24: Discussion of Lecture II
Friday, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
SIEPRA A, Landau Economics Building
Discussants: Eric Foner (Columbia),
Paul E. Lovejoy (York)
March 3: John Broome, Oxford University
"Do we necessarily have reason to satisfy the requirements of rationality?"
March 8, 9, 10:
WESSON LECTURES
Nancy L. Rosenblum, Harvard University
"On the Side of the Angels"
March 8: Lecture I
"Glorious Traditions of Antipartyism and Moments of Appreciation"
Wednesday, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
(Bldg 200, Rm 2)
March 9: Lecture II
"Partianship and Independence: The Moral Distinctiveness of Party ID"
Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
(Bldg 200, Rm 2)
March 10: Discussion
Friday, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
SIEPRA A, Landau Economics Building
Discussant: John Ferejohn (Stanford)
March 20: CANCELLED
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University
"What Races Are Not"
Colloquia Autumn 2005
September 30: Stephen Neale, Rutgers University
"A Matter of Intention in Interpretation"
October 7: Elisabeth Lloyd, Indiana University
"Why the Gene will Not Return"
October 28: Mini-Conference: Mind, Emergence, and Deity
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm, CSLI Conference Room
November 4: Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania
"Proving Ourselves Free"
November 18: Michael Martin, University College, London and UC Berkeley
"In Praise of Self: Hume's Love of Fame"
December 9: Brian Skyrms, University of California, Irvine
"Learning to Network"/"Learning to Signal"
April 7: Amartya Sen, Harvard University
"What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice?"
NOTE TIME AND LOCATION: 1:00 PM, Bldg 200, Rm 002
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Program in Ethics in Society, Stanford Center for Ethics, Stanford Law School, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and the Department of Sociology.
April 14: Gideon Yaffe, University of Southern California
"Trying, Intending and Attempted Crimes"
April 19, 20, 21:
Immanuel Kant Lectures
Dag Prawitz , Stockholm University
"Proofs, Meaning, and Reality"
April 19: Lecture I
Wednesday, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Bldg. 260, Rm. 113
April 20: Lecture II
Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Bldg. 380, Rm. 380C
April 21: Discussion Seminar
Friday, 3:15 PM Ð 5:15 PM
Bldg. 90, Rm. 92Q
May 12: Alfred Mele, Florida State University
"Free Will and Neuroscience"
May 26: Brian Weatherson, Cornell University
"Natural Quantities"
June 2: Robin Jeshion, University of California - Riverside
"Singular Thought and Cognitive Elasticity"
Colloquia Spring 2005
April 8: Brad Inwood,
University of Toronto
"Moral Causes"
April 15: Krister Segerberg,
Uppsala University
"Reflexions on some so-called paradoxes of deontic logic"
TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES
May 4-6: Avishai Margalit, Hebrew University
May 4: Lecture I: "Indecent Compromise"
Wednesday, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Tresidder Oak Lounge (Tresidder Student Union Building)
May 5: Discussion of "Indecent Compromise"
Thursday, May 5, 9:00 - 11:00 AM
SIEPRA A, Landau Economics Building
Discussants: John Ferejohn (Political Science, Stanford)
Sam Scheffler (Philosophy & Law, Berkeley)
May 5: Lecture II: "Decent Peace"
Thursday, May 5, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Tresidder Oak Lounge (Tresidder Student Union Building)
May 6: Discussion of "Decent Peace"
Friday, May 6, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
SIEPRA A, Landau Economics Building
Discussants: Tamar Schapiro (Philosophy, Stanford)
Lee Ross (Psychology, Stanford)
Colloquia Winter 2005
January 21: Henry Allison,
University of California, Davis
"Transcendental Realism, Empirical Realism, and Transcendental Idealism"
February 11: Alex Byrne,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Transparency and Self-Knowledge"
February 25: Rachana Kamtekar,
Princeton University Center for Human Values
"Socrates on the Attribution of Conative Attitudes"
March 4: David Kaplan,
University of California, Los Angeles
"Remarks to help students through some of the difficult bits in
'On Denoting' on the Centenary of the publication of that great work"
March 11: Béatrice Longuenesse,
New York University
"Kant and Descartes on 'I Think'"
Colloquia Autumn 2004
October 8: Otávio Bueno,
University of South Carolina
"How to Dissolve the Problem of the Application of Mathematics"
October 22: Thomas Ryckman,
Stanford University
"Recovering First Philosophy: The Future of an Illusion?"
November 19: David Sedley,
Christ's College, University of Cambridge
"Myth, Punishment, and Politics in Plato's Gorgias"
December 3: Stephen Darwall,
University of Michigan
"Second-Personal Reasons and the Dignity of Persons"
November 9-12:
WESSON LECTURES IN PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRACY
Josiah Ober, Classics, Princeton University
Presented by Ethics in Society
"The Democratic Animal: Nature, History, and Politics"
November 9: Lecture 1: "Aristotle's Natural Democracy"
Tuesday, 5:30 pm
Location to be announced
November 11: Lecture 2: "Democracy and Happiness"
Thursday, 5:30 pm
Location to be announced
November 12: Discussion
Friday, 10:00 am
Location to be announced
Colloquia Spring 2004
April 9: Michael Devitt,
CUNY Graduate Center
"On Determining What There Isn't"
TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES
Harry Frankfurt, Princeton University
April 14: Lecture I: "Taking Ourselves Seriously"
Wednesday, 5:30 PM, Building 160, Room 124
April 15: Seminar I
Thursday, 10:00 AM, Building 160, Room 124
Discussants: Eleanore Stump, Saint Louis University
Meir Dan-Cohen, UC Berkeley Law School
April 15: Lecture II: "Getting it Right"
Thursday, 6:00 PM, Building 160, Room 124
April 16: Seminar II
Friday, 10:00 AM, Building 160, Room 124
Discussants: Michael Bratman, Stanford University
Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Program in Ethics in Society and the Office of the President.
For more information check:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_tanner.html
April 23: John Boler,
University of Washington
"Formal Causality"
Workshop: The Mathematical Representation of Nature
Friday April 30, 2004
Wallenberg Theater, 1st floor, Wallenberg Hall (Bldg. 160)
3:15 pm Michael Dickson (Indiana University)
"Beauty doth of itself persuade: Quantization,
mathematical beauty, and theoretical understanding"
Saturday May 1, 2004
Terrace Room, 4th floor, Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460)
10:00 am Mathias Frisch (University of Maryland)
"A case of mathematical uncooperativeness:
Classical field theories and the classical ideal of
theories"
Respondent: Scott Tanona (Stanford University)
2:00 pm Mark Wilson (University of Pittsburgh)
"Hume and mechanics' complexities"
Respondent: Michael Friedman (Stanford University)
Co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Fellows Program and the Program
in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
May 7: Dorothea Frede,
University of Hamburg
Title to be announced
May 14: Lawrence Blum,
University of Massachusetts, Boston
"Racial Virtues"
Colloquia Winter 2004
January 9: Georges Rey,
University of Maryland, visiting Stanford University in Winter Quarter
"Language as a System of Intentional Inexistents"
January 21-23: Wesson Lectures in Problems of Democracy
Jeremy Waldron, Center for Law and Philosophy at Columbia Law School
Presented by Ethics in Society
"Can There Be Democratic Jurisprudence?"
January 21: Lecture 1
5:30 pm, TCSEQ 210
January 22: Lecture 2
5:30 pm, TCSEQ 210
January 23: Discussion Seminar
10 am, Building 460, Room 426
February 6: Scott Tanona, Stanford University
"Correspondence Between Theory and Phenomena"
February 20: Colin Allen,
Texas A&M University
"What Could Animals Do With Nonconceptual Content?"
March 12: Michael Detlefsen,
University of Notre Dame
"Sources of Formalism in Mathematics"
Colloquia Autumn 2003
October: IMMANNUEL KANT LECTURES
Christopher Peacocke, New York University
"Another I: Representing Conscious States"
October 1: Lecture 1
5:30 pm, Building 260, Room 113
October 2: Lecture 2
5:30 pm, Building 260, Room 113
October 3: Discussion Seminar
3:15 p.m., Building 460, Room 426
October 17: John MacFarlane, University of California, Berkeley
"A Relativist Semantics for 'S knows that P'"
November 14: Patricia Marino,
Stanford University
"Expressivism, Deflationism, and Correspondence"
November 21: Jennifer Whiting, University of Toronto
(Title To Be Announced)
December 5: Bas van Fraassen, Princeton University
"Structural Realism"
Colloquia Spring 2003
April 4: Luca Ferrero, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"An Ontological Account of Intention"
April 16-18: KANT LECTURES
John Cooper, Princeton University
April 16: "Plato and Aristotle on Finality and (Self-) Sufficiency"
Wednesday, 4:15 p.m., Building 260, room 113
April 17: "Stoic Autonomy"
Thursday, 4:15 p.m., Building 260, room 113
April 18: discussion seminar
3:15 p.m., Building 200 (History Corner), Room 107
May 2: Jim Woodward, Caltech
"Sensitive and Insensitive Causation"
May 5-7: WESSON LECTURES IN PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRACY
Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University
May 5: "Deconstructing Race and Constructing a New Ordering"
5:45 pm, Building 370, Room 370
May 6: "The Politics and Morality of a Skin Tone Ordering"
5:45 pm, Building 370, Room 370
May 7: Discussion Seminar
9 am, Building 60, Room 426
Seminar Commentator: Richard Ford, Stanford Law School
May 9: Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
"Hermeneutics and Theories of Meaning"
May 30: David Velleman, University of Michigan
"A Sense of Self"
CANCELLED
Colloquia Winter 2003
January 10: Louise Antony, Ohio State University
"Naturalizing Moral Epistemology: A Defense of Partiality
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January 17: David Rosenthal, City University of New York
"Unity of Consciousness and the Self"
February 7: Nancy Cartwright, LSE and UC San Diego
"Causation: One Word, Many Things"
CANCELLED
February 12-14: TANNER LECTURES IN HUMAN VALUES
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
February 12: "Human Rights and Ethical Globalization"
5:45pm, Kresge Auditorium
February 13: discussion seminar
11:30am, SIEPR A, Economics
February 13: "The Challenge of Human Rights Protection in Africa"
7:00 pm, Kresge Auditorium
February 14: discussion seminar
9:00am, SIEPR A, Economics
For more information about the Tanner Lectures, please check the Ethics in Society website: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EIS/lectures_tanner_02_03.html
February 21: Jenann Ismael, University of Arizona
"Colors, Contexts, and Unarticulated Constituents in the Story of Jim and his Tie Shop"
March 7: Erich Reck, University of California, Riverside
"Carnap, Completeness, and Logical Consequence"
March 14: Brian Loar, Rutgers University
"Qualia and Intentionality"
Colloquia Autumn 2002
October 4: David Magnus, University of Pennsylvania
"What is the Value of Science?"
October 25: Bernard Reginster, Brown University
"What is the Will to Power?"
November 1: Ludger Honnefelder, University of Bonn
"Bioethics and the Image of Humanity"
November 8: Derek Parfit, All Souls College, Oxford/NYU
"Reasons and Rationality"
November 22: William Tait, University of Chicago
"Dialectic and Logic: The Truth of Axioms"
December 6: Jesse Prinz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Coming to our Senses: Could Concept Empiricism Be True?"
Colloquia Spring 2002
April 5: Richard Sorabji, Oxford University
"Personal Identity: Ancient and Modern Theories"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
April 19: Michael Rathjen , University of Leeds
"The Constructive Hilbert Program and the Limits of Martin-L of Type Theory"
April 26: Wayne Martin,University of California, San Diego
"The Judgment-Stroke and the Truth Predicate: Frege and the Phenomenology of Judgment"
May 3: Jennifer Ashworth, University of Waterloo
"Singular Terms and Singular Concepts: Some Medieval Discussions of Proper Names"
This colloquium is made possible by the generosity of donors to the department
May 15-17: KANT LECTURES: Philip Kitcher, Columbia University
"The Geneology of Morals"
May 15 "The Evolution of Normative Guidance"
Wednesday, time and location to be announced
May 16 "The Structure of Moral Revolutions"
Thursday, time and location to be announced
May 17 discussion seminar
Friday, 3:15 p.m., location to be announced
May 24: Jeff King, University of California, Davis
Title to be announced
Colloquia Winter 2002
Jan 11: Noel Carroll, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Aesthetic Experience Revisited"
Jan 18: Stephen Yablo, MIT
"De Facto Dependence"
Feb 1: Achille Varzi, Columbia University
"Begging the Question in Metaphysics"
Feb 15: Arthur Fine, University of Washington, Seattle
"Structural Realism, Then and Now"
March 1: Thomas Scanlon, Harvard University
"Moral Assessment and the Agent's Point of View"
March 5: Gerald Cohen, All Souls College, Oxford University
"Facts and Principles"
NOTE: Tuesday, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, location to be announced
Colloquia Fall 2001
Sept. 28: Kendall Walton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"In Other Shoes"
Oct. 12: Elliot Sober, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Common Ancestry and Natural Selection ‰ How do the Two Parts of Darwinian Theory Fit Together?"
Oct. 26: Michael Smith, Australian National University
"Rational Capacities"
Nov. 2: Harvey Friedman, Ohio State University
"Current Status of Foundations of Mathematics"
Nov. 14-16: Wesson Lectures in Problems of Democracy
Richard A. Posner, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit & University of Chicago Law School
Title: "Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy"
Discussant: Thomas C. Grey, Law, Stanford University
Wed., Nov. 14: lecture, "Deliberative versus Pragmatic Democracy"
5:15 PM, Kresge Auditorium
Thurs., Nov. 15: lecture, "Presidential Impeachment and Deadlocked Election"
5:15 PM, Kresge Auditorium
Fri., Nov. 16: Discussion Seminar
2 PM, Location tba
Dec. 7: Jennifer Whiting, Cornell University
"The Normativity of Psychological Continuity"
Colloquia Spring 2001
April 6: Paul Griffiths, University of Pittsburgh
"Some Deficiencies in the Planning Of Canberra: Conceptual Analysis in Philosophy Of Science"
Room changed to Building 380, Room 380X (Math Dept.)
April 20: Sarah Buss, University of Iowa
"Valuing Autonomy and Respecting Persons: Manipulation, Seduction, and The Basis of Moral Constraints"
April 27: Brian Skyrms, UC Irvine
"From the Stag Hunt to the Dynamics of Social Network Formation"
May 4: James Pryor, Harvard University
"Externalism about Content and Modus Ponens Reasoning"
May 14-16: Tanner Lectures
Dorothy Allison, Author of Bastard Out of Carolina and Cavedweller
Monday, May 14: lecture, "Mean Stories and Stubborn Girls"
5:00 PM, Kresge Auditorium
Tuesday, May 15: lecture, "What it Means to be Free"
5:00 PM, Kresge Auditorium
Wednesday, May 16: discussion seminar
2:15 PM, Terrace Room, Bldg. 460
May 18: Graeme Forbes, Tulane University
"The Logic of Intensional Transitives: Some Questions"
May 25: Paul Weingartner, University of Salzburg, Austria
"St. Thomas Aquinas on Analogy"
co-sponsored by CSLI
June 1: Rainer Stuhlmann-Laeisz, University of Bonn, Germany
"Systematic Connections between Frege's Theory of
Abstraction and his Context-principle"
Colloquia Winter 2001
January 15-16: WESSON LECTURES IN PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRACY:
Amartya Sen, University of Cambridge
Sponsored by the Program in Ethics in Society and co-sponsored by the Stanford South Asia Initiative. For more information, contact the Ethics in Society Program, 723-0997
"Democracy and Social Justice"
January 15: "Limits of Contractual Reasoning"
8:00 p.m., Kresge Auditorium
January 16: "Democracy and Human Rights"
8:00 p.m., Kresge Auditorium
January 26: A SYMPOSIUM IN MEMORY OF WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE
2:15 p.m., Building 420, Room 41 (Jordan Hall, Psychology)
Solomon Feferman, Stanford University
"Quine's Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics"
Grigori Mints, Stanford University
"Quine and the Modalities"
Patrick Suppes, Stanford University
"Quine and Skinner"
Julius Moravcsik, Stanford University
"Quine's Philosophy of Language"
Dagfinn Føllesdal, Stanford University
"Quine's Philosophy; Personal Recollections" (via video)
Donald Davidson,UC Berkeley
"Quine's Philosophy; Personal Recollections"
February 2: Christopher Rowe, University of Durham, UK
co-sponsored with Classics
"Handling a Philosophical Text:
Commentators, Translators, and the Truth"
February 16: Daniel Garber, University of Chicago
"What's
Philosophical about the History of Philosophy?"
March 2: Jim Joyce, University of Michigan
"On Cause-to-Effect Inferences"
March 16: Richard Moran, Harvard University
"Believing the Speaker"
March 23: Ken Taylor, Stanford University
"Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Rational Intentionality"
Colloquia Fall 2000
October 6: Axel Bühler, University of Düsseldorf
"Translation as Interpretation"
October 12: Richard Boyd, Cornell University
Undergraduate Philosophy Association Distinguished Lecturer
"Incommensurabilty and the Meaning of Scientific Terms"
4:00 p.m., Education Building, Room 210
October 13: Richard Boyd, Cornell University
"Natural Kinds as the 'Workmanship of Men' (and Women)"
October 20: Penelope Maddy, UC Irvine
"Naturalism: Friends and Foes"
November 3: Christoph Fehige, University of Konstanz
"Empathy A Priori"
November 17: Ralph Wedgwood, MIT
"Internalism Explained"
December 8: Eleonore Stump, St. Louis University
"Augustine on Free Will and Moral Responsibility"
Colloquia Spring 2000
March 31: Simon Blackburn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Desires, Emotions and Virtues"
April 14: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"A Moral Argument Against Moral Dilemmas"
April 21: Elijah Millgram, University of Utah
"The Incredible Truth"
May 2-5: KANT LECTURES: Peter Railton, University of Michigan
"Rational Beliefs, Rational Desires"
May 2: "Rational Beliefs," 8:00 p.m., Bldg. 300, Room 300
May 3: "Rational Desires," 8:00 p.m., Bldg. 300, Room 300
May 4: "Rational Beings, Being Rational," 8:00 p.m., Bldg. 300, Room 300
May 5: discussion seminar, 3:15 p.m., 92Q
May 12: Harry Frankfurt, Princeton University
Undergraduate Philosophy Association Distinguished Lecturer
"Some Mysteries of Love"
May 16-18: WESSON LECTURES: Peter Singer, Princeton University
"On Obligations to Outsiders"
(note: open only to Stanford members with ID's)
May 16: "Obligations Beyond National Borders"
8:00 p.m., Kresge Auditorium
May 18: "Obligations Beyond the Species Boundary"
8:00 p.m., Kresge Auditorium
May 22-23: TANNER LECTURES IN HUMAN VALUES:
Jared Diamond, UCLA School of Medicine
May 22: "Modern Lessons from Ecological Collapses of Ancient Civilizations"
8:00 p.m., Kresge Auditorium
May 23: "When Do Green Values Pay Off for Big Businesses?"
8:00 p.m., Kresge Auditorium
May 25: Robert Stalnaker, MIT
"What is it like to be a Zombie?"
Note: Thursday
3:30 p.m., Building 380 (Math), Room 380D
May 26: Robert Stalnaker, MIT
CSLI Distinguished Lecture Series in Cognitive Science
"Counterfactuals and the Explanation of Rational Action"
3:30 p.m., Building 420 (Psychology), Room 041
Colloquia Winter 2000
January 7: Joe Mintoff, University of Newcastle (Australia)
"Is Rational and Voluntary Constraint Possible?"
Jan. 14: Nadeem Hussain, University of Michigan
"A Nietzschean Theory of Practical Reasons"
Jan. 21: Karen Bennett, University of Michigan
"On Differing Modally"
Jan. 27: Richard Zach, University of California, Berkeley
"Finitism and Intuitive Knowledge"
(n.b.: Thursday, 5:15, Building 60, Room 61G)
Jan. 28: Dirk van Dalen, University of Utrecht
"The Fight of the Century--Brouwer versus Hilbert"
Jan. 31: Craig Callender, London School of Economics
"Is Time Directed in a Quantum World?"
(n.b.: Monday, 5:15, Building 90, Room 92Q)
Feb. 3: John MacFarlane, University of Pittsburgh
"Permutation Invariance and the Generality of Logic"
(n.b.: Thursday, 5:15, Building 60, Room 61G)
Feb. 4: Gideon Rosen, Princeton University
"Nominalism and Epistemic Relativism"
Feb. 11: Fiona Cowie, Cal Tech
"Eating One's Words: How did Language Enhance Fitness?"
Feb. 18: Alvin Goldman, University of Arizona
"Can Science Know When You're Conscious? Epistemological Foundations of Consciousness Research"
Feb. 25: David Chalmers, University of Arizona
"Modal Rationalism and the Mind-body Problem"
Mar. 3: Peter van Inwagen, University of Notre Dame
"Free Will Remains a Mystery"
Mar. 13: Myles Burnyeat, University of Oxford
"World-creation as an Exercise of Practical Reason in Plato's Timaeus"
3:15 p.m., Building 90, Room 92Q
(n.b.: Monday, during finals week)
Colloquia Fall 1999
Oct. 8: Alison Simmons, Philosophy, Harvard University
DONOR'S LECTURE: "Changing the Cartesian Mind"
Oct. 29: Paolo Mancosu, Philosophy, UC Berkeley
"Mathematical Explanation: A New Challenge for the Philosophy of
Mathematics?"
Nov. 12: Lori Gruen, Philosophy, Stanford University
"Non-Humans as Sources of Normativity"
Nov. 19: David Malament, Philosophy, UC Irvine
"A Remark About Rotation and Relative Rotation in Relativity Theory"
Dec. 3:
**POSTPONED**
Fiona Cowie, Philosophy, Cal Tech
"Eating One's Words: How *Did* Language Enhance Fitness?"
Dec. 10: Graciela de Pierris, Philosophy, Indiana University
"Skepticism and Naturalism in Hume's Epistemology"
Colloquia Spring 1999
March 31: Richard Jeffrey, Professor, Princeton University
(CSLI CogLunch series)
"Probabilistic Epistemology"
**Note: Wednesday, 12:15-1:30 p.m., Cordura Hall, Room 100**
April 9: Richard Kraut, Professor, Northwestern University
(co-sponsored with Classics)
"Justice in the Nicomachean Ethics"
April 15-17: Conference on Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism
Speakers to include: Shashi Tharoor, Martha Nussbaum, Samuel Scheffler, Henry Shue, Jennifer Moore, Thomas Pogge, Liam Murphy, Karen Musalo, Joseph Carens, Uma Narayan, Yael Tamir, Elizabeth Kiss, Josh Ober, Allen Buchanan, Dan Smith
April 23: Ned Hall, Assistant Professor, MIT
"How to Set a Surprise Exam"
April 26-28: TANNER LECTURES IN HUMAN VALUES
Randall Kennedy, Professor, Harvard Law School
"Who Can Say 'Nigger'?...and Other Related Questions"
- Part 1: Monday, April 26, 8 p.m.
Building 320, Room 105
- Part 2: Wednesday, April 28, 8 p.m.
Building 320, Room 105
- Discussion Seminars:
Tuesday, April 27, 3:15 p.m.
Building 200, Room 307
Thursday, April 29, 3:15 p.m.
Building 200, Room 307
May 10-14: KANT LECTURES
Michael Friedman, Professor, Indiana University
"Dynamics of Reason: Kantian Themes in the Philosophy of Science"
- The Idea of a Scientific Philosophy
Tuesday, May 11, 8 p.m.
Building 160, Room 161J
- Historical Perspectives on the Stratification of Knowledge
Wednesday, May 12, 8 p.m.
Building 370, Room 370
- Rationality, Revolution, and the Community of Inquiry
Thursday, May 13, 8 p.m.
Building 370, Room 370
- Discussion Seminar:
Friday, May 14, 3:15 p.m.
Building 90, Room 92Q
May 21: **POSTPONED TIL NEXT YEAR**
Robert Stalnaker, Professor, MIT
(co-sponsored with Linguistics, and the CSLI Distinguished Lecturer Series)
"Qualia and Intentional Content"
May 28: Jaegwon Kim, Professor, Brown University
"Essentialist Dualisms and Mental Causation"
June 4: Julia Annas, Professor, University of Arizona
"Should Virtue Make You Happy?"
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