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Events | Seminars 08

2008 Seminar Schedule

February 27

Charles Pigden

Otago

A Letter from a Gentleman in Dunedin to a Lady in the Country

March 5

Grant Gillett

Otago

Determinism is wrong - a strong will is the thing

March 12

Cei Maslen

VUW

The Gen-X Mind-Body Problem

March 19

Greg Currie

Nottingham

Narrative and Character

March 26

Peter Anstey

Otago

Early modern philosophy of experiment

April 2

Anjan Chakravartty

Toronto

Science and Metaphysics

April 9

Otago

In Defence of Quine's Criterion

April 16

Colin Cheyne

Otago

Narrative, Fiction and Abstract Objects

April 23

Mid-Semester Break

April 30

Kendall Walton

Michigan

Empathy and Phenomenal Concepts

May 7

Andrew Moore

Otago

Individual Well-being

May 14

Peter Leech

Otago

Limits of Visual Representability

 

May 21 (11am)

 

 

Early Modern Thought Research Cluster Seminars

Cary Nederman Texas A & M

The Medieval and Modern Development of Political Representation

(Burns 4)

 

Margaret Osler Calgary

When Did Gassendi Become a Libertine? Or, Historians and Historical Subjects in Context

(Commerce 2.04)

May 21 (3pm)
May 28

Simon Keller

Melbourne

Virtue Ethics and Self-Effacement

June 4 - July 2

Examinations Period and Mid Semester Break

July 9

No seminar this week

July 16

Houston Smit

Arizona

Kant on Cognition and Things in Themselves

July 16 2-5pm

Graduate Research Conference

July 23

Josh Parsons

Otago

Interactionism is not Empirically Refuted

July 30

Jeremy Waldron

New York

Terrorism, Civilians, and Deadly Serious Conventions

August 6

Joe Salerno

St. Louis

'Must' and 'Can'

August 6 (3pm)

Berit Brogaard

Missouri - St Louis

Common-Factor Disjunctivism

 

August 13

Mara Miller

Canterbury

Cognitive Prostheses

August 20

James Maclaurin

Otago

Eliminating Reduction

August 27
Mid-Semester Break
September 3

David Coady

Tasmania

Evolution and Moral Error Theory

September 10

Robert Nola

Auckland

Religion is owed no respect

September 17

Alan Chalmers

Flinders

What was Scientific about the Scientific Revolution?

September 24

Helen Beebee

Birmingham

Is the phenomenology of free will relevant to its metaphysics?

September 30 (Open Lecture)

Helen Beebee

Birmingham

Hume's problem of induction: philosophy or psychology?

October 1

Jonathan Schaffer

ANU

Truthmaker Commitments

October 1 (3pm)

Susanna Schellenberg

ANU

 

In Defence of Perceptual Content

October 8

HUME DAY

11 am Necessity and Projection, Helen Beebee (Burns 4)

 

2 pm Snare's Puzzle/Hume's Purpose: Non-Cognitivism and what Hume was Really up to with No-Ought-From-Is, Charles Pigden (Central Library, Meeting Room 2)

 

3.30pm Why Hume asked us not to read the TREATISE, Annette Baier (Central Library, Meeting Room 2)

 

4.30pm Launch of Annette Baier's new book: Death and Character: Further Reflections on Hume (Central Library, Meeting Room 2)

October 15 -
End of Year Examination and Summer Break

 

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