The Philosophy Seminar programme for 2009 has now finished. Seminars will begin again in Semester 1 2010.
The Philosophy seminars are held in Burns 4 at 11am on Wednesdays (unless otherwise stated). The session normally runs for one and a half hours.
| March 11 |
Charles Pigden |
Otago |
A New Refutation of Dummett? |
| March 18 |
Alan Musgrave |
Otago |
Deductivism Surpassed? |
| March 25 |
Howard Ducharme |
Akron, Ohio |
Personalism: A New Argument for Ethical Realism |
| April 1 |
Ken Walton |
Michigan |
Empathy, Imagination, and Phenomenal Concepts |
| April 8 |
Charles Pigden and Josh Parsons |
Otago |
Imperative Consequence |
| April 15 |
Mid-Semester Break |
| April 22 |
|
Otago |
Action at a Distance |
| April 29 |
Patrick Girard |
Auckland |
Reasoning about Social Preferences |
| May 6 |
Sarah Grant |
Leeds |
Temporally Shifted Worlds |
| May 13 |
Sondra Bacharach (co-authored with Deb Tollefsen (Memphis) |
VUW |
Wanted Dead or Alive: The Puzzle of Posthumous Authorship |
| May 20 |
Grant Gillett |
Otago |
Second Thoughts about Second Nature |
| May 27 |
Peter Anstey |
Otago |
Locke on Demonstration |
| June 3 |
|
Michigan |
Knowing how to go on in Northanger Abbey |
| June 8 - July 10 |
Examinations Period and Mid Semester Break
|
| July 15 |
Jonathan McKeown-Green |
Auckland |
Does it matter that my mother-in-law is a pharmacist? |
| July 22 |
|
Connecticut |
Transparent Truth and Inconsistency |
| July 29 |
|
Connecticut |
Truth, Abnormality and Necessity |
| August 5 |
|
Ireland |
Unknown Apperceptions |
| August 12 |
|
Florida |
Naturalistic Metaethics at Half Price |
| August 19 |
|
Toronto |
Five Ways Perceptual Content Can Be Conceptual
(or Non-Conceptual) |
| August 26 |
|
St Andrews |
Utilitarian Morality and the Argument from Evil |
| September 2 |
Mid-Semester Break |
| Friday September 11 |
Hugh Mellor |
Cambridge |
Successful Semantics |
| September 16 |
Denis Dutton |
Canterbury |
The Art Instinct: Why We Evolved to Love Beauty |
| September 23 |
Vicki Spencer |
Politics, Otago |
Recognition, Tolerance and Humility |
| September 30 |
Heather Dyke |
Otago |
The Trouble with Propositions |
| October 7 |
Colin Cheyne |
Otago |
Belief Formation and the Enjoyment of Fiction |
| October 14 |
Martin Wilkinson |
Auckland |
Organs, Money and Ethics |
| October 19 - |
End of Year Examination and Summer Break
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