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Events | Archive 07

2007 Seminar Schedule

February 28

Allan Gibbard

Horwich on Meaning

March 7

Josh Parsons

A New Look at the Old Tenseless Theory

March 14

Charles Pigden

Not Derived from Reason: Hume on Moral Distinctions

March 21

Greg Dawes

Darwinism and Christianity: The Conflict Thesis Revisited

March 28

Paul Snowdon

Wittgenstein on Sense Data and Private Experience

April 4

Greg Currie

Empathy for Objects

April 11

Mid-Semester Break

April 18

William Lycan

Moore's Antiskeptical Strategies

April 25

Anzac Day

May 2

Paul Snowdon

Some Properties of Self Knowledge

May 9

Andrew Moore

Ethical Theories: Their Nature and Justification

May 16

Dan Russell

Situationism and Virtue Theory: What Empirical Psychologists Know and What Philosophical Psychologists Aren't Telling

May 23

Kim Sterelny

SNAFUS: An Evolutionary Perspective

May 23 (4pm)

Michael Glanzberg

Context, Content and Relativism

May 30

Daniel Nolan

The Extent of Metaphysical Necessity

June 5 - July 8

Examinations Period

June 27

Eleonore Stump

Modes of Knowing: Autism, Fiction, and Second-Person Perspectives

July 11

James Maclaurin

Universal Development

July 18

Graduate Research Conference

July 25

Annette Baier

Operating on Hume's Appendix

August 1

David Armstrong

Realism about Totalities

August 8

Hugh Mellor

Acting Under Risk

August 14 (5:10pm)

Hugh Mellor (De Carle Lecture)

TOPICS JUST IN TIME: Time and Space

August 15

James Flynn

Free-will true or false: unknowing and its consequences

August 21 (5:10pm)

Hugh Mellor (De Carle Lecture)

TOPICS JUST IN TIME: The Flow of Time

August 22

Tim Mulgan

Beyond Theism and Atheism: The Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism

August 28 (5:10pm)

Hugh Mellor (De Carle Lecture)

TOPICS JUST IN TIME: God and Time

August 29

Mid-Semester Break

Sept 4 (5:10pm)

Hugh Mellor (De Carle Lecture)

TOPICS JUST IN TIME: Time Travel

September 5

Kristie Miller

Persons as sui generis ontological kinds

September 12

Hugh Mellor

Micro-Composition

September 12 (5:30pm)

Peter Anstey Inaugural Professorial Lecture

Title: Footnotes to Plato

September 19

Mark Colyvan

Probability in Law

September 26

Mark Colyvan

Idealisations in Normative Models

October 3

Jennan Ismael

Probability in Classical Physics

October 10

Koji Tanaka

Logical Pluralism, Non-Euclidean Geometry and Kant's a priori

 

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