2012-2013
Spring 2013
| 1.18-20.13 |
Linguistics for Metaphysics Conference (Conference Website) |
| 1.25.13 |
Kristen Primus (Princeton) "Spinoza's Four Causes" |
| 2.16.13 |
Workshop II, SoCal PhilMath + PhilLogic + FoM (Conference Website) |
| 2.16.13 |
UCLA-USC Grad Conference (Conference Website) |
| 3.6.13 |
Seth Lazar (Australian National University) "Risking Killing, Risky Killing, and the Principle of Distinction" |
| 3.15.13 |
Robyn Carston (UCL) "Word Meaning and Concept Expressed" |
| 3.28.13 |
James Weatherall (UC, Irvine) "When Physics Met Finance: A Discussion of the Practical Use of Advanced Mathematics" |
| 4.5.13 |
Paul Reddam (USC Alum) "Undergraduate Workshop: How to Succeed in Business with a Degree in Philosophy" |
| 4.11.13 |
Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) "The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear" |
| 4.19.13 |
Andrew Schroeder (Claremont McKenna College) "Normativity in Summary Measures of Population Health" |
| 4.20.13 |
Workshop III, SoCal PhilMath + Phil Logic + FoM (Conference Website) |
| 5.6.13 |
Giovanni Valente (Pittsburgh) "Entanglement, Relativistic Causality and Independence between Quantum Field Systems" |
Fall 2012
| 8.31.12 |
Bryan Roberts (USC) "When do the laws of physics distinguish past and future?" |
| 9.14.12 |
Daniel Rothschild (Oxford) "On the Dynamics of Conversation" |
| 9.21.12 |
John Hawthorne (Oxford) "Group Credence" |
| 9.24.12 |
John Hawthorne (Oxford) "Embedding Epistemic Modals" |
| 10.5.12 |
James Weatherall (UC Irvine) "Can Newtonian Gravitation Explain Inertial Motion?" |
| 10.6.12 |
Workshop I, SoCal PhilMath + PhilLogic + FoM (Conference Website) |
| 10.12.12 |
Roger White (MIT) "Disrespecting the Evidence" |
| 10.19.12 |
Alejandro Carballo (USC) "New Boundary Lines" |
| 10.26.12 |
Jonathan Quong (University of Manchester) "Proportionality in Defensive Harm" |
| 11.2.12 |
Anthony Gillies (Rutgers) "Deontic Expectation Modals" |
| 11.9.12 |
Berit Brogaard (University of Toronto) "Perceptual Content and Phenomenal Seemings" |
2011-2012
Spring 2012
| 1.11.12 |
Daniel Greco (MIT) "The Impossibility of Skepticism" |
| 1.12.12 |
Agustin Rayo (MIT) "The Construction of Logical Space" |
| 1.13.12 |
David Albert (Columbia) "The Sense of Passing" |
| 1.18.12 |
Miriam Schoenfield (MIT) "Permission to Believe" |
| 1.27.12 |
Andrew Bacon (Oxford) "What a revenge free solution to the Liar can and can't look like." |
| 2.3.12 |
Jane Friedman (Oxford) "Question-Directed States of Mind" |
| 3.9.12 |
Tyler Burge (UCLA) "Psychological Content and Ego-Centric Indexes" |
| 3.30.12 |
Matthew Chrisman (Edinburgh) |
| 3.26.12 - 4.11.12 |
Reading Group on Michael Ridge's Manuscript: 3.26 @ 10am (Ch.1-2), 3.30 @ 10am (Ch.3), 4.2 @ 10am (Ch.7,9), 4.9 @ 10am (Ch.10), 4.11 @ 10am (Ch.5,8). |
| 4.17.12 |
Tim Williamson (Oxford) |
Fall 2011
| 9.23.11 |
Allen Buchanan (Duke) "The Ethical Pluralist Challenge to Human Rights" (CANCELLED) |
| 9.23.11 |
Graciela de Pierris (Stanford) "Hume on Space and Geometry" |
| 10.28.11 |
Gideon Yaffe (USC) Mini-Conference on Gideon's (2010) book Attempts |
| 11.18.11 |
Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA) Mini-Conference on Gideon's (2010) book Attempts |
| 12.13.11 |
Scott Sturgeon (Oxford) "Visual Reasons" |
| Law & Philosophy Workshop Speakers: |
| 10.3.11 |
David Estlund (Brown) |
| 10.17.11 |
Margaret Moore (Queens) |
| 10.31.11 |
Samuel Freeman (Penn) |
| 11.14.11 |
David Schmidtz (Arizona) |
| 11.28.11 |
Peter Vallentyne (Missouri-Columbia) |
2010-2011
Spring 2011
| 1.28.11 |
Daniel Nolan (Nottingham) "The Extent of Metaphysical Necessity " |
| 2.2.11 |
Karen Lewis (Rutgers) "Dynamic Semantics and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction" |
| 2.4.11 |
John Horty (Maryland) "Default Logic as a Theory of Reasons" |
| 2.11.11 |
Karen Bennett (Cornell) "Building and Causing" |
| 2.2.11 |
Karen Lewis (Rutgers) "Dynamic Semantics and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction" |
| 2.25.11 |
Katrina Elliot (UNC-Chapel Hill) "Mereological Supervenience and Synchronic Chance" |
| 2.26.11 |
2011 UCLA/USC Graduate Philosophy Conference (UCLA) |
| 4.8.11 |
Carl Posy (Hebrew University) "On the Finite: Kant and the Paradoxes of Knowledge" |
Fall 2010
| 9.17.10 |
Caspar Hare (MIT) "Procreation and Rescue" |
| 10.29.10 |
Workshop on Authority (Center for Law & Philosophy) |
| 11.2.10 |
Brian Bowman (USC) "Linguistic Competence and the Rationality of Speech Acts" |
| 11.9.10 |
Saul Smilansky (Haifa) "A Hostage Situation" |
| 11.12.10 |
Stewart Cohen (Arizona) "Bootstrapping and Defeasible Reasons" |
| 11.16.10 |
Sam Shpall (USC) "Moral and Rational Commitment" |
| 11.19.10 |
Alexis Burgess (Stanford) "An Alethic Account of Referential Success" |
| 12.3.10 |
Robert Shanklin (USC) "Five Things it is Good to Know about 'Good'" |
| 12.7.10 |
Hsin-Wen Lee (USC) "National Communities and the Right to Self-Government" |
| 12.17.10 |
Gabriel Uzquiano (Oxford) "Plural Quantification and Modality" |
2009-2010
Spring 2010
| 1.8.10 |
Carrie Jenkins (University of Nottingham) |
| 1.15.10 |
Maya Eddon (U. Mass - 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" |
Fall 2009
| 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" |
| Law & Philosophy Workshop Speakers: |
| 8.31.09 |
Timothy Endicott (Oxford) |
| 9.21.09 |
John Perry (Oxford) |
| 10.5.09 |
Stephen Neale (Stanford) |
| 10.19.09 |
Gideon Rosen (Princeton) |
| 11.2.09 |
Richard Holton (MIT) |
| 11.16.09 |
Connie Rosati (University of Arizona) |
| 11.30.09 |
Nicos Stavropoulos (Oxford) |
2008-2009
| 10.3.08 |
Timothy Williamson (Oxford) “Objects, Properties and Contingent Existence” |
| 10.3.08 |
Timothy Williamson (Oxford) “Knowledge, Chance and Safety” |
| 2.21.09 |
2009 UCLA/USC Graduate Student Conference (UCLA) |
2007-2008
Spring 2008
| 1.11.08 |
Michael Titelbaum (UC Berkeley) "Unlearning What You have Learned" |
| 1.18.08 |
Martin Stone (Duke) "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) "Requirements" |
| 4.4.08 |
Michael Friedman (Stanford) "Carnap and Quine: Twentieth Century Echoes of Kant and Hume" |
Fall 2007
| 9.28.07 |
Christopher Hitchcock (California Institute of Technology) "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 |
Sheldon 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" |
2006-2007
| 11.03.2006 |
Adam Elga (Princeton) "Lucky to be Rational, Lucky to be Wise" |
| 11.17.2006 |
Cian Dorr (University of Pittsburgh) |
| 01.19.2007 |
Michael Bratman (Stanford) |
| 02.16.2007 |
Niko Kolodny ( UC Berkeley) |
| 04.27.2007 |
Kit Fine (NYU) |
2005-2006
Spring 2006
| 01.13.2006 |
Jacob Ross (Rutgers) "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) "Gunk and Continuous Variation" |
| 02.06.2006 |
John Hawthorne (Rutgers) "Lewis and the Metaphysics of Quantity" |
| 02.08.2006 |
John Hawthorne (Rutgers) "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" |
Fall 2005
| 10.07.2005 |
Jamie Dreier (Brown) "Negation for Expressivists" |
| 10.31.2005 |
Justin D'Arms (Ohio State) "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) "Regressions in Pragmatics" |
2004-2005
Spring 2005
| 01.12.2005 |
Alex Byrne (MIT) "Transparency and Self-Knowledge" |
| 01.14.2005 |
Hans Halvorson (Princeton) "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, Ann Arbor) "Innocent Mistakes" |
| 04.18.2005 |
David Manley (Rutgers) "Linking Dispositions with Conditionals" |
Fall 2004
| 09.10.2004 |
Ted Sider (Rutgers) "Parthood" |
| 10.08.2004 |
Charles Raff (Swarthmore College) "Some Proofs of an External World" |
| 10.29.2004 |
John Burgess (Princeton) "Being Explained Away" |
| 11.05.2004 |
Jeff McMahan (Rutgers) "Paradoxes of Abortion and Pre-Natal Injury" |
| 11.19.2004 |
James Pryor (Princeton) "Acquaintance and Evidence" |
| 12.03.2004 |
Gideon Rosen (Princeton) "Skepticism about Moral Responsibility" |
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