USC College School of Philosophy

Past Events

2009-10

8.28.09	Gillian Russell - Washington University-St. Louis "Could Knows that be Inconsistent?"
9.25.09	Kathrin Koslicki – University of Colorado-Boulder “Dependence and Explanation ”
10.23.09	Imogen Dickie - University of Toronto "How Proper Names Refer"
11.6.09	Dana Nelkin - UC-San Diego "Moral Responsibility and the Ought Implies Can Principle"
11.13.09	Robin Jeshion - UC-Riverside "Thinking of Things"
11.20.09	Alexis Burgess - Stanford University "The Other Problem of Negative Existentials"
12.4.09	Jenann Ismael – University of Arizona "Freedom, Natural Law, and the Humanization of Physics"
1.8.10	Carrie Jenkins - University of Nottingham
1.15.10	Maya Eddon - UMass-Amherst "Intrinsicality & Hyperintensionality"
2.12.10	Adina Roskies - Dartmouth College "Neurons, mechanism, and freedom of the will"
2.26.10	Shieva Kleinschmidt - New York University "Mereology & Location"
3.12.10	Thomas Christiano - University of Arizona "An Instrumental Argument for a Human Right to Democracy"
3.24.10	Stephen Finlay - USC "Metaethical Contextualism Defended"
3.26.10	David Enoch - Hebrew University "Being Responsible, Taking Responsibility, and Penumbral Agency"
4.9.10	Gunnar Björnsson - Linköpings Universitet "The Explanatory Component of Moral Responsibility"
4.16.10	Geoff Georgi - USC
4.23.10	Lewis Powell - USC "What David Hume Should, Can, and Does Say about Denial"
	Law & Philosophy Workshop Speakers:
8.31.09	Timothy Endicott - Oxford University
9.21.09	John Perry - Stanford University
10.5.09	Stephen Neale - CUNY
10.19.09	Gideon Rosen - Princeton University
11.2.09	Richard Holton - MIT
11.16.09	Connie Rosati - University of Arizona
11.30.09	Nicos Stavropoulos - Oxford University

2008-9

2.21.09	UCLA/USC Graduate Student Conference at UCLA
10.3.08	Timothy Williamson – Oxford University “Objects, Properties and Contingent Existence”
10.6.08	Timothy Williamson – Oxford University “Knowledge, Chance and Safety”

2007-8

9.28.07	Christopher Hitchcock - California Institute of Technolog "Norms, Counterfactuals, and Casual Attribution"
10.12.07	Branden Fitelson - UC Berkeley "Epistemological Critiques of "Classical" Logic: Two Case Studies
10.19.07	Kendall Walton - University of Michigan "Poets, Personae, and Speechwriters"
11.9.07	Shelden Smith - UCLA "Kant's Balance Argument and The Dynamical Conception of Force"
11.16.07	Jessica Moss -University of Pittsburgh "Aristotle's non trivial, non-insane view that everyone always desires things under the guise of the good"
11.30.07	Margaret Gilbert - UC Irvine "Three Dogmas about Promises"
1.11.08	Michael Titelbaum- UC Berkeley "Unlearning What You have Learned"
1.18.08	Martin Stone - Duke University "Anscombe on the Expression of Intention"
1.25.08	Jonathan Weisbert - University of Toronto
1.28.08	Kenny Easwaran - UC Berkeley "Probablistic Proofs and Transferability"
2.1.08	Robert Brandom - University of Pittsburgh "Towards an Analytic Pragmatism"
2.15.08	John Broome - Oxford University "Requirements"

4.4.08

Michael Friedman - Stanford University
"Carnap and Quine: Twentieth Century Echoes of Kant and Hume"

2006-7

11.03.2006	Adam Elga - Princeton University "Lucky to be Rational, Lucky to be Wise"
11.17.2006	Cian Dorr - University of Pittsburgh
01.19.2007	Michael Bratman - Stanford University
02.16.2007	Niko Kolodny - UC Berkeley
04.27.2007	Kit Fine - NYU

2005-6

10.07.2005	Jamie Dreier - Brown University "Negation for Expressivists"
10.31.2005	Justin D'Arms - Ohio State University "Anthropocentric Constraints on Human Value"
11.11.2005	Michael Martin - University College / UC Berkeley "Passions Restrained in their Partial and Contradictory Motions: Hume on the Origin of Justice"
11.18.2005	Mark Schroeder - University of Maryland "Teleology, Agent-Relative Value, and 'Good'"
12.02.2005	Kent Bach - San Francisco State University "Regressions in Pragmatics"
01.13.2006	Jacob Ross - Rutgers University "Rejecting Skeptical Hypotheses"
01.23.2006	Luke Robinson - UCSD "Conflicts of Obligation: A Dispositionalist Account"
02.03.2006	Candace Vogler - University of Chicago "Modern Moral Philosophy Again: Isolating the Promulgation Problem"
01.30.2006	John Hawthorne - Rutgers University "Gunk and Continuous Variation"
02.06.2006	John Hawthorne - Rutgers University "Lewis and the Metaphysics of Quantity"
02.08.2006	John Hawthorne - Rutgers University "Regressions in Pragmatics"
02.17.2006	Alastair Norcross - Rice University "The Scalar Approach to Utilitarianism"
03.31.2006	David Manley - USC "Safety, Content, A Priority"

2004-5

09.10.2004	Ted Sider - Rutgers University "Parthood"
10.08.2004	Charles Raff - Swarthmore College "Some Proofs of an External World"
10.29.2004	John Burgess - Princeton University "Being Explained Away"
11.05.2004	Jeff McMahan - Rutgers University "Paradoxes of Abortion and Pre-Natal Injury"
11.19.2004	James Pryor - Princeton University "Acquaintance and Evidence"
12.03.2004	Gideon Rosen - Princeton University "Skepticism about Moral Responsibility"
01.12.2005	Alex Byrne - Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Transparency and Self-Knowledge"
01.14.2005	Hans Halvorson - Princeton University "No reductive physicalism, no measurement problem"
01.28.2005	Bradford Skow - New York University "Are Shapes Intrinsic?"
02.04.2005	Jeff Speaks - McGill University "Explaining the Disquotational Principle"
02.11.2005	Steven Daskal - University of Michigan at Ann Arbor "Innocent Mistakes"
04.18.2005	David Manley - Rutgers University "Linking Dispositions with Conditionals"

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