Spring 2012

Jan 11: Daniel Greco, MIT, "The Impossibility of Skepticism"
Jan 12: Agustin Rayo, MIT, "The Construction of Logical Space"
Jan 13: David Albert, Columbia, "The Sense of Passing"
Jan 18: Miriam Schoenfield, MIT, "Permission to Believe"
Jan 27: Andrew Bacon, Oxford, "What a revenge free solution to the Liar can and can't look like."
Feb 3: Jane Friedman, Oxford, "Question-Directed States of Mind"
March 9: Tyler Burge, UCLA, 'Psychological Content and Ego-Centric Indexes'.
March 30: Matthew Chrisman, Edinburgh, TBA
April 17: Tim Williamson, Oxford, TBA

READING GROUP ON MICHAEL RIDGE'S MANUSCRIPT
March 26 @ 10am - Chs 1, 2
March 30 @ 10am - Ch 3
April 2 @ 10am - Chs 7, 9
April 9 @ 10am - Ch 10
April 11 @ 10am (joint session with Steve Finlay's PHIL540 seminar) - Chs 5, 8

Fall 2011

September 23 - Allen Buchanan (Duke) CANCELED
. . . . . . . . . . . ."The Ethical Pluralist Challenge to Human Rights"

October 21 - Graciela de Pierris (Stanford)
. . . . . . . . . . "Hume on Space and Geometry"

October 28 - MINI-CONFERENCE ON GIDEON YAFFE'S BOOK, ATTEMPTS (2010)

November 18 - Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA)
. . . . . . . . . . . Title TBA

Dec 13: Scott Sturgeon, Oxford, "Visual Reasons"

LAW AND PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP SPEAKERS

October 3 - David Estlund (Brown)

October 17 - Margaret Moore (Queens)

October 31 - Samuel Freeman (Penn)

November 14 - David Schmidtz (Arizona)

November 28 - Peter Vallentyne (Missouri-Columbia)

 

Spring 2011

January 28 - Daniel Nolan (Nottingham)
. . . . . . . . . ."The Extent of Metaphysical Necessity "

February 2 - Karen Lewis (Rutgers)
. . . . . . . . . ."Dynamic Semantics and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction"

February 4 - John Horty (Maryland)
. . . . . . . . . ."Default Logic as a Theory of Reasons"

February 11 - Karen Bennett (Cornell)
. . . . . . . . . . . "Building and Causing"

February 25 - Katrina Elliot (UNC-Chapel Hill)
. . . . . . . . . . ."Mereological Supervenience and Synchronic Chance"

February 26 - 2011 USC/UCLA Graduate Philosophy Conference at UCLA

April 8 - Carl Posy (Hebrew University)
. . . . . . ."On the Finite: Kant and the Paradoxes of Knowledge"

 

Fall 2010

September 17 - Caspar Hare (MIT)
. . . . . . . . . . . . "Procreation and Rescue"

October 29 - WORKSHOP ON AUTHORITY (Center for Law & Philosophy)

November 2 - Brian Bowman (USC)
. . . . . . . . . ."Linguistic Competence and the Rationality of Speech Acts "

November 9 - Saul Smilansky (Haifa)
. . . . . . . . . . ."A Hostage Situation"

November 12 - Stewart Cohen (Arizona)
. . . . . . . . . . . "Bootstrapping and Defeasible Reasons"

November 16 - Sam Shpall (USC)
. . . . . . . . . . . "Moral and Rational Commitment"

November 19 - Alexis Burgess (Stanford)
. . . . . . . . . . . "An Alethic Account of Referential Success"

December 3 - Robert Shanklin (USC)
. . . . . . . . . . ."Five Things it is Good to Know about 'Good'"

December 7 - Hsin-Wen Lee (USC)
. . . . . . . . . . ."National Communities and the Right to Self-Government"

December 17 - Gabriel Uzquiano (Oxford)
. . . . . . . . . . . ."Plural Quantification and Modality"

 

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