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Schedule 2010-11

Summer Session 2011 (mini-series)

Philosophy Department Seminar Room (H&SS 7077)
5:00pm - 7:00pm

June 28
Per Milam - "Forgiving Excusing and Letting Go"
July 19
Alex Marcellesi - "Why Learning About the World Requires Representation"
Gil Hertshten - "From Minimal to Representational Models"

Spring Quarter 2011

Philosophy Department Seminar Room (H&SS 7077)
7:00pm - 9:00pm

April 5
Charlie Kurth - "Moral Anxiety and Moral Judgment"
April 19
Ben Sheredos - "Vagueness without the Sorites Paradox"
May 3
Amy Berg - "Age and Role in Society: An Eleventh Capability"
May 24
Joyce Havstad - "The Classification of Proteins"
May 31
Damon Crockett - "Can Fregean Intentionalism Save Intentionalism"

Winter Quarter 2011

Philosophy Department Seminar Room (H&SS 7077)
6:00pm - 8:00pm

January 18
Eric Campbell - "Willpower Conception of (Practical) Rationality"
February 1
Theron Pummer - "Spectrum Arguments against the Priority View"
February 22
Nat Jacobs - "Mass and Energy, Perspective and Reality (Kant Rides and Atomic Bomb)"

Fall Quarter 2010

Philosophy Department Seminar Room (H&SS 7077)
7:00pm - 9:00pm

October 19
Tarun Menon - "The Second Law and the Asymmetry of Agency"
November 2
Erick Ramirez - "Psychopaths, Epistemology and Moral Responsibility"
November 16
Mitchell Herschbach - "Reformulating the Simulation Theory of Mindreading"
November 30
Ben Sheredos (with Tyler Marghetis, Cognitive Science) - "Toward a New Psychologistic Logic: Some Anti-Fregean (and Fregean!) Hypothesis"

Schedule 2009-10

Spring Quarter 2010

Philosophy Department Seminar Room
7:00pm - 9:00pm

April 1
Erick Ramirez - "Don't Call It a Comeback: Humean Answers to Questions about Emotional Codifiability"
April 15
Eric Campbell - TBA
April 29
Andy Beck - "Geometry, Tarski, Logical Form, and Formality"
May 13
Nate Rockwood - TBA
May 27
Alex Marcellesi - TBA

Winter Quarter 2010

Philosophy Department Library
4:30pm - 6:30pm

January 19
Jacob Stegenga - "The Medical Use of Racial Categories"
February 11
Per Milam - "Free Will and Pessimism"
February 16
Eric Campbell - "Who Cares About Morality?"

Fall Quarter 2009

Philosophy Department Seminar Room
7:00pm - 9:00pm

October 15
Joyce Havstad - "Mechanism & Natural Selection"
October 29
Mike Tiboris - "Wholeheartedness, Risk, and Punishing Failed Attempts"
November 12
Dan Schwartz - "On Leaping to Conclusions Inductively: Interpretation and Anticipation in Bacon's Cosmological Reasoning"
November 19
Tarun Menon - "An Anthropic Solution to the Problem of the Direction of Time"

Staff Contact

Catherine Asmann
Graduate Program Coordinator
Phone: (858) 534-3076
casmann@ucsd.edu

Faculty Contact

Rick Grush
Director of Graduate Studies
Phone: (858) 822-4440
Email: Rick Grush