Colloquia Program
The Philosophy Colloquia Program takes place most Fridays of the quarter from 4-6PM in H&SS 7077 in John Muir College, unless noted otherwise. A reception for the colloquium speaker follows the talk in H&SS 7076. For more information, contact the Main Office at (858) 534-3070 or check this page.
Fall Term 2007
Speaker: Hanoch Sheinman (Rice University)
Title: "The Practice Reason Account of Promises"
Date: October 12th
Abstract: Click here.
Speaker: Michael Martin (University College London)
Title: "What's in a look?"
Date: October 26th
Abstract: Click here.
Speaker: Doug Hutchinson (University of Toronto)
Title: "Socrates in Prison Again: a second 'Second Apology' in P.Köln205"
Date: November 2nd
Abstract: Click here.
Speaker: Kent Johnson (UC Irvine)
Title: Analytic Methods for Linguistics
Date: November 9th
Abstract: Click here.
Speaker: David Owen (University of Arizona)
Title: "Seeing is Believing: The Development
of Empirical Knowledge in Locke and Hume".
Date: November 16th
Abstract: Click here.
Speaker: Barry Loewer (Rutgers)
Title: "Laws and Natural Properties"
Date: November 30th
Abstract: Click here.
Speaker: Manuel Vargas (University of San Fransisco)
Title: "Building a Better Beast"
Date: December 7th
Abstract: Click here.
Winter Term 2008
Speaker: Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt University Berlin and UC Berkeley)
Title: "Hegel's Metaphysical Conception of Self-Consciousness"
Date: February 22nd
Abstract: Click here.
Speaker: Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona, University of Sydney)
Title: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reflexivity
Date: February 29th
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Speaker: Monte Johnson (UC San Diego)
Title:Aristotle the materialist, mechanist, and reductionist
Date:March 14th
SPECIAL LOCATION: Mandeville East Room 285
Abstract: Click here.
Spring Term 2008
Speaker: Maurice Finocchiaro (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Title: Defending Copernicus and Galileo:
Critical Reasoning in the Two Galileo Affairs
Date: April 11th
Abstract: Click here.
Speaker: Paul Churchland (UC San Diego)
Title: "On the Genesis of Conceptual Frameworks: How We Learn Structures That
Unfold in Time."
Date: April 18th
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Speaker: Sam Cumming (UC Los Angeles)
Title: "Discourse Content"
Date: April 25th
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Speaker: Hannah Ginsborg (UC Berkeley)
Title: Concepts as Rules: A Kantian Proposal
Date: May 2nd
Speaker: Gary Watson (UC Riverside)
Title: The Trouble with Psychopaths
Date: May 9th
Speaker: Carl Craver (Washington University, St. Louis)
Title: TBA
Date: May 23rd
Speaker: Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona)
Title: TBA
Date: May 30th