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PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
FALL 2009
MARILYN FISCHER
University of Dayton
"Interpreting a Murder with Addams and Mead"
September 17, 2009, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG 1268
ELEONORE STUMP
St. Louis University
"Modes of Knowing: Autism, Fiction, and Second-person Perspectives"
November 12, 2009, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG 1254
TOM BEAUCHAMP
"From Morality to Common Morality"
Georgetown University
October 29, 2009, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG 1268
SPRING 2010
CHIEN-KUO (MICHAEL) MI
Soochow University
"Saving Quine's Truth in His Semantic Ascent"
February 23, 2009, 4:30 - 6:30pm
TBA
DENNIS DE CHENE
Washington University
"TBA"
March 4, 2009, 4:30 - 6:30pm
TBA
MARK MURPHY
Georgetown University
"Moral Law"
March 25, 2009, 4:30 - 6:30pm
TBA
JOHN DORIS
Washington University
"TBA"
April 15, 2009, 4:30 - 6:30pm
TBA
CAROLINA SARTORIO
University of Arizona
"Forking Paths: Rethinking Dual Control"
April 22, 2009, 4:30 - 6:30pm
TBA
FALL 2008
JOHN GRECO
St. Louis University
"Epistemic Normativity"
September 11, 2008, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG B222
JONATHAN LEAR
University of Chicago
"Irony and Ethics"
September 25, 2008, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG B222
IRWIN TESSMAN
Purdue University (Biology Emeritus)
"Evolution of Moral Behavior by Natural Selection"
October 2, 2008, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG B222
ALLEN WOOD
Indiana University
"Kant and the Right to Lie"
October 17, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG 2290
CHARLES TALIAFERRO
St. Olaf College
"The Virtues of Philosophy of Mind: Revisiting the So-called Naturalistic Fallacy"
November 13, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG B222
SPRING 2009
TIMOTHY O'CONNOR
Indiana University
"Human Freedom and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior"
February 12, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG 2275
PETER RAILTON
University of Michigan
"Rationality in Belief and Desire"
March 5, 2008, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG 1268
VICTOR CASTON
University of Michigan
"The Veil of Perception"
March 26, 2008, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG 1268
SPRING 2008
STEWART COHEN
Arizona State University
"Knowledge Ascriptions and Semantic Blindness"
February 14, 2008, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG 1222
JOHN HEIL
Washington University
'Relations"
February 28, 2008; 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG 1222
BRANDON LOOK
University of Kentucky
"The Possibility of Nothingness: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives"
April 3, 2008, 4:30 pm - 6:30pm
BRNG 1222
Copies of papers are usually available in the Purdue Philosophy Department Main Office a few days before each talk.
Previous colloquium speakers
Fall 2007
JOHN MARTIN FISCHER
"Molinism"
TIBERIU POPA
"Aristotle's mind-dependence theory of time"
ROBERT SINNERBRINK
"Misrecognition as moral injury: Remarks on Honneth and Bernstein"
WENDY PARKER
"Ensembles, Robustness and Adequacy: Predicting Future Climate with Collections of Incompatible Models"
PHIL DOWE
"Localism and Possible Causation"
ION COPOERU
"Does morality matter in your professional life? Moral actions and ethical reflections in a post-totalitarian society"
Spring 2007
Jennifer Lackey, Northern Illinois University
"Trust and Testimony"
Samuel Fleischacker, Universiy of Illinois at Chicago
"What Exactly is a 'Right' to Welfare?"
Fall 2006
David Bradshaw, University of Kentucky
"The Concept of Divine Energies"
Peter Van Inwagen, University of Notre Dame
"The End is Nigh: An Adventure in Rational Eschatology"
Andrew Cutrofello, Loyola University
"Kant's Resistance to Sturm and Drang Enthusiasm for Hamlet"
Spring 2006
Peter Kemp, Danish Pedagogical University, Coopenhagen
"The Cosmopolitan Foundations of International Law"
Brian Leftow, University of Oxford (Oriel College)
"God, Vagueness and Logical Truth"
Jean-Luc Marion,University of Chicago Divinity School
"Saturation and Counter-Experience"
Richard Swinburne, University of Oxford (Oriel College)
"God and Morality"
Fall 2005
Scott MacDonald, Cornell University
"Prudence: Aquinas on the Foundations of Virtue"
Hud Hudson, Western Washington University
"Extended Simples"
Barbara Herman, University of California at Los Angeles
"Reasoning to Obligation"
Spring 2005
Richard Shusterman, Temple University
"In Search of Aesthetic Experience"
Michael Murray, Franklin and Marshall College
"Theism and Animal Suffering"
Fall 2004
Jacqueline Marina, Purdue University
"The Refutation of Idealism"
Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
"The Structure of Desire and Recognition: Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution"
Jurgen Habermas, J-W Goethe University)
"The Kantian Project of Cosmopolitan Law"
Stephen Darwell, University of Michigan
"Second-Personal Reasons and the Dignity of Persons"
Spring 2004
Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame
"Against Materialism"
Stephen Neale, Rutgers University
"Linguistic Pragmatism"
Gisela Striker, Harvard University
"Plato and the Ontology of Aristotle's Categories"
Events co-sponsored with Philosophy and Literature Program
LOCAL CONFERENCES 2007
Bioethics Seminar Series 2007
November 5, 2007 Ethics and Politics of Climate Change
Speaker: Dr. Leigh Raymond
Burton Morgan Center, MRGN 121, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
February 8, 2008 Nanotechnologies and Environmental Concerns
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Karn
Burton Morgan Center, MRGN, 121, 6:00 - 7:30pm
March 3, 2008 Nanotechnologies and Medical Ethics
Speaker: Dr. Nigel Cameron
Burton Morgan Center, MRGN 121, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
April 2, 2008 The Ethics of Commercialization of Research in the Life Science
Speaker: Dr. David Resnik
Burton Morgan Center, MRGN 121 5:30 - 7:00pm
April 16, 2008 Commercialization of the Human Genome
Speaker: Dr. Eric Meslin
Burton Morgan Center, MRGN 121 6:00 - 7:30pm
LOCAL CONFERENCES 2006
How Do Biotechnologies Challenge Our Social Boundaries
Schedule 2006-07
October 25, 2006
Cloning and Stem Cells
6:00-7:30 p.m. Burton Morgan Center, MRGN 129
November 9, 2006
Euthanasia
5:00 - 6:30pm Burton Morgan Center, MRGN 129
December 5, 2006
Genes, Eugenics, and Evolution of Species
6:00 - 7:30pm Burton Morgan Center, MRGN 121
January 18, 2007
Biotechnologies and Economics
5:00 - 6:30pm Burton Morgan Center, MRGN 121
February 15, 2007
Environmental Risks and Genetically Modified Organisms
6:00 - 7:30pm Burton Morgan Center, MRGN 129
March 22, 2007
How do Biotechnologies Challenge Our Social Boundaries
6:00 - 7:30pm Burton Morgan Center, MRGN 129
April 5, 2007
Nanotechnologies Science and Society
6:00 - 7:30pm Burton Morgan Center, MRGN 129
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