Departmental Colloquia as well as talks Philosophy Workshop Series from previous semesters are listed below.
Winter 2013
Friday, March 22
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
John MacFarlane, UC Berkeley
Title: "Objective and Subjective Oughts."
Friday April 12
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Michael Ferejohn, Duke University
Title: "Causal Definitions and the Unity of Substance in Metaphysics Z".
Fall 2012
Friday, September 21
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Jennifer Nagel
Title: Disagreement and Variation in Epistemic Intuition
Friday, October 5
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Fanny Söderbäck
Title: Art, Politics, and the Public Sphere
Friday, October 19
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Daniel Weinstock
Title: The Ethical Bases of Linguistic Pluralism
Friday, November 23
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Daniel Halliday
Title: Should Liberals be Committed to Institutions? How the Requirements of Justice might be Collective rather than Indirect
Winter 2012
Friday, February 10
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Yves Bouchard (Université de Sherbrooke)
Title: Epistemic Contexts and Indexicalized Knowledge
Friday, March 9
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Günther Zöller (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich)
Title: ‘Homo homini civis. The Modernity of Classical German Political Philosophy’
Friday, March 23
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Christine Tappolet (Université de Montréal)
Title: Alethic Pluralism: What Prospect?
Friday, April 13
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Garrett Cullity (University of Adelaide)
Title: "Loving the Bad"
Fall 2011
Monday, September 19
Time: 3:00, LEA 927
David Sedley (Cambridge University)
Title: The First Greek Atheists.
Friday, September 23
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Catriona Mackenzie (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
Title: Embodied Agents, Narrative Selves.
Friday, November 18
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia)
Title: Meaning and Contingency, Or, How Scientific Philosophy Became Analytic Philosophy
Winter 2011
January 21
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Devin Henry (Western Ontario)
Title: Optimality and Teleology in Ancient Greek Science
February 11
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Andrew Kania (Trinity University)
Title: Sounds and Silence: On the Nature of Music
March 11
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Lisa Downing (OSU)
Title: Locke’s Metaphysics and Newtonian Metaphysics
March 18
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Tamar Gendler (Yale)
Title: Giving Notice: Attention, Perception and Bias
April 1
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter College/CUNY)
Title: To be or not to be post-racial: a realist approach to social identities
Fall 2010
September 24
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Daniel Conway (Texas A&M)
Title:Life After the Death of God
October 15
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Stavroula Glezakos (Wake Forest)
Title: Meaning Well
October 22
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Graham Priest (Melbourne, St. Andrews/Arche, CUNY Graduate Centre)
Title: Mathematical Pluralism
November 12
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Iddo Landau (Haifa)
Title:Should Marital Relations be Non-Hierarchical?
November 15 *MONDAY
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Timothy Williamson (Oxford)
Title: Evidence of Evidence
Winter 2010
January 15
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Stephen Yablo (MIT)
Title:Pretense, Presuppostition and Assertive Content
January 22
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Daryn Lahoux (Queens)
Title: Truth, Coherence, Realism, and why they Matter to the Historian of Science
February 5
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Ann Cudd (Kansas)
Title:Wanting Freedom
March 5
Time:3:30 - 5:30 LEA 927
Martha Bolton (Rutgers)
Title:Locke and Leibniz on Substances and Moral Subjects
March 26
Time:3:30 - 5:30pm LEA927
John Drummond (Fordham)
Title:Having the Right Attitudes
April 9
Time:3:30 - 5:30pm LEA927
Erin Eaker (Maryland, College Park)
Title:What is the philosophical significance of the Kripkean necessary a posteriori?
Fall 2009
September 2, 2009 -- McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 11:00, LEA 927
Shiloh Whitney, McGill
Title: A New Expression of the Third Dimension: How Perspective Drawing Illustrates the Institution of Visual Space Perception
September 18
Time: 3:30 - 5:30, LEA 927
Stewart Cohen (Arizona)
Title: Epistemic Justification
September 25
Time: 3:30 - 5:30, LEA 927
Richard Heck (Brown)
Title: Against Deflationism
September 28 -- McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 2 - 4pm, LEA 927
Bruno Guindon, McGill
Title: Two Faces of Normativity
October 1
Time: 4:00 - 5:00, LEA 927
Michael Meyer (ULB)
Title: Art and Beauty: Towards a New Esthetics beyond Kant and Hegel
October 2
Time: 3:30 - 5:30, LEA 927
Michael Zimmerman (N.C. State Greensboro)
Title:Responsibility, Reaction, and Value
co-sponsored by GRIN
October 5, 2009 -- McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 1:30, LEA 927
Oran Magal, McGill
Title: Another Look at the 'Paradox of Analysis' and the Content of Mathematics
October 26
Time: Monday - 3:30 - 5:30, LEA 927
John Broome (Oxford)
Title:The Ethics of Climate Change
co-sponsored by GRIN
October 29, 2009 -- McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 11:00, LEA 927
Brian Redekopp, McGill
Title: Husserl and Davidson on the Singularity of the World
November 2, 2009 -- McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 1:30, LEA 927
Michael Blome-Tillmann, McGill
Title: Presuppositions and the Semantics of Definite Descriptions
November 13
Time:3:30 - 5:30, LEA 927
Karen Nielson (Western Ontario)
Title:Aristotle and Epictetus: On what is up to us
November 20
Time:3:30 - 5:30, LEA 927
Robert Wisnovsky (McGill)
Title: Avicennian Ontology in the Islamic East (Mashriq) in the 12th Century CE: A Sketch
November 25, 2009 -- McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 11am, LEA 927
Anna Ezekiel, McGill
Title: Nietzsche’s critique of the “Christian” conception of the subject
December 7, 2009 -- McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 1:30, LEA 927
David Chabot, McGill
Title: Epistemic Invariantism and Assertion: A Pragmatic Solution to the Contextualist Challenge
Winter 2009
Friday, April 24
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Pierre Destree, Louvin
Title: "Justice, happiness, and poetry in Plato's Republic"
Wednesday, April 15 *** note special day ***
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Tim Bayne, Oxford
Title: The reach of phenomenality
Monday, March 30 -- McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 12:00, LEA 927
Anna Ezekiel, McGill
Title: Nietzsche's Attempt at a Philosophy of Affirmation:
Getting from language as trope to Romantic and Christian themes in Nietzsche's conception of the self
Friday, March 27
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Jim Higgenbotham, USC
Title: Reflexive Thoughts and Normal Forms
Monday, March 23
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Dirk Schlimm, McGill
Title: On the creative role of axiomatics
Friday, March 20
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Jacob Levy , McGill
Title: Constitutionalism without social contractarianism
Monday, March 16 -- McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 12:00, LEA 927
Olivier Mathieu, McGill
Title: Artistic and Aesthetic Interests
Friday, March 13 *****CANCELLED*****
Time: cancelled
Alan Code, Rutgers
Title: Substances versus Accidental Unities in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Monday, March 9 -- McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 12:00, LEA 927
Emily Carson, McGill
Title: Kant on Arithmetic and the Conditions of Experience
Friday, March 6
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Dean Moyar, Johns Hopkins
Title: Hegel and Agent-Relative Reasons
Friday, Feb. 13
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Shaun Gallagher, Central Florida
Title: Two problems of intersubjectivity
Friday, Jan. 9
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Ken Westphal, Kent
Fall 2008
Friday, Sept. 26
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Nick Zangwill, Durham
Title: Music, Metaphor, and Privacy
Friday, Oct. 3
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Karen Jones, Melbourne
Title: Intellectual self-trust
Friday, Oct. 10
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Rae Langton, MIT
Title: 'Esteem in the Economy of Objectification'
co-sponsored with MCRTW
Friday, Oct. 24
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Victor Caston, Michigan
Friday, Oct. 31
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
David Copp, Florida
Friday, Nov. 14
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Crispin Wright, NYU/ St. Andrews
Friday , Nov. 21
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Christine Thomas, Dartmouth
Winter 2008
Monday, April 14 -- CANCELLED!!
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Victor Caston, Michigan
Title: TBA
Monday, April 14 -- McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 1 p.m., LEA 927
Jim McGilvray, McGill
Title: Chomsky's Anarchosyndacalism
Friday, April 11
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Martin Lin, Rutgers
Title: "The Power of Reason Over the Passions in Part 5 of Spinoza's Ethics."
Monday, April 7
Time: 4 p.m., LEA 927
Gunter Zoller
Title: Schopenhauer's Fairy Tale About Fichte. The Origin of 'The World As Will and Representation' in German Idealist Thought.
Friday, April 4
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Jerry Levinson, UMD College Park
Title: Jazz Vocal Interpretation: A Philosophical Analysis
Friday, March 28
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Katherine Dunlop, Brown University
Title: 'Geometry and the Generality of Signs in Berkeley’s Principles and New Theory of Vision.'
Monday, March 17 -- Graduate Student Colloquium
Time: 12:30-2 p.m., LEA 927
Anna Carasthatis
Title: TBA
Friday, March 7
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Parimal Patil, Harvard University
Title: 'On why there is a history of Buddhist philosophy in India.'
Wednesday, March 5 -- Graduate Student Colloquium
Time: 10-11:30 a.m., LEA 927
Anna Ezekiel
Title: TBA
Monday, February 18 -- Graduate Student Colloquium
Time: 12:30-2 p.m., LEA 927
Oran Magal
Title: TBA
Monday, January 28 -- Graduate Student Colloquium
Time: 12:30-2 p.m., LEA 927
Don Beith
Title: Striving toward Objectivity: The Interpretive Subject as a “Text of Becoming” in Adorno’s Critical Philosophy
Fall 2007
Friday, November 30
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Sally Haslanger, MIT
Title: "Social Categories, Social Structure and Ideology Critique"
Tuesday, November 27 -- Graduate Student Colloquium
Time: 12:30 p.m., LEA 927
Title: TBA
Friday, November 16
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Jason Read, University of Maine
Title: 'A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Production of Subjectivity'
Tuesday, November 13 -- Graduate Student Colloquium
Time: 12:30 p.m., LEA 927
Rafael Najera
Title: TBA
Friday, October 26
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Jeff Speaks, Notre Dame
Title: 'Spectrum inversion without misrepresentation is impossible'
Tuesday, October 23 -- Graduate Student Colloquium
Time: 12:30 p.m., LEA 927
Yvan Tetreault
Title: TBA
Friday, October 19
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Phil Dowe, Sydney HPS
Title: 'Time Travel and A-Theories of Time'
Friday, October 5
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Jeff Collins, Queen's University
Title: "Contextualizing Thomas Hobbes."
Tuesday, October 2 -- Graduate Student Colloquium -- CANCELLED!!
Time: 12:30 p.m., LEA 927
Don Beith
Title: TBA
Friday, September 28 -- CANCELLED!!
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
George Bealer, Yale University
Title: 'Impossibility as Contradiction'
Tuesday, September 18 -- Graduate Student Colloquium
Time: 12:30 p.m., LEA 927
Brian Redekopp
Title: Frege and Husserl on Existence
Friday, September 14
Time: 3 p.m., LEA 927
Louis DeRosset, University of Vermont
Title: 'What is the Grounding Problem?'
Winter 2007
Friday, April 13
Time: 3 p.m., LEA 927
George Dreyfus, Williams College
Title: Intentionality in Indian Philosophy
Friday, March 30
Time: 3 p.m., LEA 927
Paul Pietroski, University of Maryland
Title: Systematic Thought via Monadic Language
Friday, March 23
Time: 3 p.m., LEA 927
Gabor Betegh, Central European University
Title: "Tale, Theology, and Teleology in the Phaedo."
Friday, March 16
Time: 3 p.m., LEA 927
Brendan Gillon, McGill University
Title: The Development of Indian Logic in the Classical Period.
Wednesday, March 14 -- Graduate Student Colloquium
Time: 1:30 p.m., LEA 927
Julien Villeneuve
Title: The proper care of a lyre: Plotinus on our bodies.
CANCELLED!!! --- Friday, March 9
Time: 3 p.m., LEA 927
Gabor Betegh, Central European University
Title: "Tale, Theology, and Teleology in the Phaedo."
CANCELLED!! --- Professor Betegh will also speak to the Montreal Interuniversity Workshop in the History of Philosophy at 11:30 the same day, in Thomson House, on the Derveni Papyrus.
Wednesday, Feb. 28 -- Graduate Student Colloquium
Time: 1:30 p.m., LEA 927
Olivier Mathieu
Title: "Art, Intentions, and Mobilization of Conventions."
Friday, Jan. 26
Time: 3 p.m., LEA 927
Deborah Brown, University of Queensland
Title: Descartes: material falsity and the identity of ideas
Friday, Jan. 5
Time: 3 p.m., LEA 927
Alan Hajek, Australian National University
Title: Most Counterfactuals are False
Fall 2006
Friday, Nov. 24
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Steven Nadler, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Whatever is, is in God”: Substance and Things in Spinoza's Metaphysics
Professor Nadler will also speak to the Montreal Interuniversity Workshop in the History of Philosophy at 12:30 p.m. the same day, in Thomson House 403, on "Arnauld's God."
Friday, Nov. 17
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Lisa Guenther, University of Auckland
"Nameless Singularity”: Levinas on Individuation and Singularity
Friday, Nov. 10
Time: 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University
Title: Modelling Parity
Thursday, Nov. 9
Time: 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., LEA 927
Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University
Workshop: Pragmatic Arguments for Rationality Constraints
Contact the department at 6060 in advance of the workshop for a copy of the paper for discussion.
Saturday, Oct. 21
Time: 1:30 p.m., LEA 927
Robert DiSalle, University of Western Ontario
Title: Theory and Interpretation: Mathematical Structure in the Physical World
(A Seminar/Discussion)
Friday, Oct. 20
Time: 2:30 p.m., LEA 927
Robert DiSalle, University of Western Ontario
Title: The Synthetic A Priori and Empirical Science
Tuesday, Oct. 3 -- Graduate Student Colloquium
4:30 p.m., Thomson House, Room 403
Pierre Chetelat. Title: "Hegel's Philosophy of World History as Theodicy: On Evil and Freedom."
Abstract: My objective is to explore what Hegel means when he claims that his philosophy of history is theodicy. I demonstrate the inadequacy of what I refer to as the means/end interpretation: the view that the philosophy of history is theodicy because it shows that evil events are a necessary part of history's progression towards the final good. As Hegel himself claims, it is theodicy because it demonstrates that evil is overcome in history with the actualization of freedom. I make sense of this claim by examining how freedom for Hegel involves the capacity to transcend evil, i.e., to endure pain.
Friday, Sept. 29
Time: TBA, LEA 927
Thomas Flynn, Emory University.
Title: Jean-Paul Sartre: Philosopher of the Imaginary or Imaginary Philosopher?
Friday, Sept. 22
Time: 2:30, LEA 927
Ralph Wedgwood, Oxford University. Title: "Contextualism about Justified Belief"
Winter 2006
Monday, March 13
4 p.m., LEA 927
Adam Morton, University of Alberta. Title: "How to invent an -- epistemic -- virtue"
Monday, March 27
CANCELLLED
Casey O'Callaghan, Bates College. Title: "Constructing a theory of sounds"
Friday, March 31
4pm in LEA 927
Deborah Modrak, University of Rochester: Title: "Form and Function in Aristotle's Metaphysics"
March 31-April 2
Meeting of the Ontario Hegel Group.
Fall 2005
Friday, September 23
4pm in LEA 927
Antony Eagle, Oxford University: “Motivating fictionalism.” October 7
2:30pm in LEA 927
Iwao Hirose, Oxford University: "Reconsidering the value of equality".
Tuesday, October 11
4:30pm, LEA 808
Gary Hagberg, Bard College: "Wittgenstein, the 'Mysterious I', and Autobiographical Knowledge."
Friday, November 4
2:30pm in LEA 927
Ben Caplan, University of Manitoba: “Modality, Individuation, and the Ontology of Art.”
Tuesday, November 8
3pm at 688 Sherbrooke St. W., rm 1025
Dietmar Köveker, Université de Montréal: "Supremacy of philosophy over poetry? The Habermas-Derrida-debate on speech acts revisited"
(co-presented by the Department of German Studies and the Department of Italian Studies)
Thursday, November 17
4pm in ARTS 265
Elizabeth Ashford, St. Andrew's :"Doing Justice to Bentham: Rawls's separateness of persons objection to utilitarianism"
Friday, December 2
2:30pm in LEA927
Wayne Myrvold, University of Western Ontario: "Prediction versus Accommodation from a Bayesian Perspective".
