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Colloquia 2013-2014

Date: March 8, 2013

Speaker: Larry Shapiro (Wisconsin)

Topic: "Embodied Cognition: Lessons from a Linguistic Determinism"

Time: 4 PM

Place: FS 216

 

Date: April 5, 2013

Speaker: John Burgess (Princeton)

Topic: "Realism and Pragmatism about Modality"

Time: 4 PM

Place: Family Studies (FS) 220

 

Date: April 8, 2013

Speaker: Distinguished Professor Diana Tietjens Meyers (Loyola University)

Topic: Sex Trafficking and Women's Agency: A Workshop

Time: 12-1:30

Place: Beach Hall, Room 404

Sponsored by Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department

More details to follow.

 

Date: April 12, 2013

Speaker: Gunnar Bjornsson (Umea University)

Topic: Why Believe in Metaethical Absolutism?

Time: 4 PM

Place: Family Studies (FS) 216

 

Date: April 25, 2013

Speaker: Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern University)

Topic: Discussion style forum on Truth

Time: 5-7 PM

Place: Oak Hall, Room 408

***This event is sponsored by the Philosophy Graduate Student Organization***

 

Date: April 26, 2013

Speaker: Lisa Downing (Ohio State)

Topic: "Locke's Metaphysics and Newtonian Metaphysics"

Time: 4 PM

Place: Family Studies (FS) 102

 

Date: October 4, 2013

Speaker: Michael Smith (Princeton)

Topic: TBA

Time: 4 PM

Place: TBD

 

Date: October 18, 2013

Speaker: Sandra Mitchell (Pittsburgh, HPS)

Topic: TBA

Time: 4 PM

Place: TBD

 

Date: November 1, 2013 -- SPECIAL Parcell's Lecture

Speaker: Deborah Satz (Stanford)

Topic: TBA

Time: 4 PM

Place: TBD

 

Date: February 28, 2014

Speaker: Denis Stampe (Wisconsin, Madison)

Topic: TBA

Time: 4 PM

Place: TBD

 

Date: April 4, 2014

Speaker: Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern)

Topic: TBA

Time: 4 PM

Place: TBD

 

Date: TBD April, 2014

Speaker: Jennifer Whiting (Toronto)

Topic: TBA

Time: 4 PM

Place: TBD

 

 


PAST COLLOQUIA

Date: September 14, 2012

Speaker: Jason Stanley (Rutgers)

Topic: "Knowledge, Skill, Action"

Time: 4 PM

Place: Arjona 311

 

Date: October 12, 2012

Speaker: Loren Lomasky (Virginia)

Topic: "Is It Wrong to Eat Animals?"

Time: 4 PM

Place: HBL (Library) Class of 1947 Conference Room

 

Date: October 26, 2012

Speaker: Valerie Tiberius (Minnesota)

Topic: TBA

Time: 4 PM

Place: Arjona 311