Departmental Colloquia as well as talks Philosophy Workshop Series from previous semesters are listed below.
Winter 2022
Friday, March 18, 2022 - Jarislowsky Chair Lecture Series in Human Nature and Technology
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m. EST, 2001 McGill College, Room 1201
Simone Chambers, University of California, Irvine
Title: Wrecking the Public Sphere: new-authoritarians and the digital attack on pluralism and truth (Poster)
Simone Chambers' Website
Friday, March 11, 2022 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST
Alex King, Simon Frasier University
Title: Aesthetic Moore Paradoxes
Alex King's Website
Friday, February 11, 2022 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST
Maya Goldenberg, University of Guelph
Title: Well-Placed Trust and Public Resistance to Science
Maya Goldenberg's Website
Fall 2021
Friday, December 3, 2021 - Jarislowsky Chair Lecture Series in Human Nature and Technology
Time: 4:00 p.m. EST, In-person at 2001 McGill College, Room 1201 and live on Zoom
Markus Gabriel, Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Bonn University
Title: Being Human in the Digital Age – On Human and Artificial Intelligence
markus_gabriel_event.pdf
Markus Gabriel's Website
Friday, November 12, 2021 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST, Virtual
Katharina Nieswandt, Concordia University
Title: Gender Ratio in Philosophy: An Inferential-Statistical Model of Possible Determinants
Katharina Nieswandt's Website
Friday, October 29, 2021 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST, Virtual
Simona Vucu, Postdoctoral Researcher with the project Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy, supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Title: Catherine of Siena on the Unity of Virtue
Simona Vucu's Website
Friday, October 1, 2021 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST, Virtual
Jonathan Simon, Université de Montréal
Title: Can Consciousness be Indeterminate? Some Decision Theoretic Puzzles
Jonathan Simon's Website
Winter 2021
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 - Anti-Racist Lens Panel Event
Time: 4:00 p.m. EST, Virtual
Moderated by Alia Al-Saji, McGill University
Panel: David Austin, Agnès Berthelot-Raffard and Geneviève Vande Wiele Nobert
Title: Teaching Philosophy through an Anti-Racist Lens
Friday, March 19, 2021 - Colloquium Virtual Series
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST, Virtual
Myisha Cherry, University of California, Riverside
Title: Racialized Forgiveness
Winter 2020
Friday, January 24, 2020 - Colloquium Series
Efraín Lazos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Title: Kant on mathematical schematism
Friday, January 17, 2020 - Montreal Workshop in Critical Philosophy of Race
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Jacqueline Scott, Loyola University Chicago
Title: ‘This land of thorns is not habitable’: Healing the Despair of Racialized Meta-Oppression.
Friday, January 10, 2020 - Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Kate Nolfi, University of Vermont
Title: Nonfactive knowledge
Fall 2019
November 15-16, 2019 - Montreal Workshop in Critical Philosophy of Race
Time and Location: Nov 15 - Starts at 2:30pm & Nov 16 - All day in Leacock 927
https://mtlworkshopcpr.eventbrite.com
Friday, November 1, 2019 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell University
Title: Accidental agency and agent regret
October 11, 2019 – The 13th Annual Meeting for the Society for Ricoeur Studies
Keynote Lecture: Gaëlle Fiasse, "Ethical Imagination and the Consideration of the Other Human Being”
Time and Location: 10 :45 a.m. – 12 :15 p.m., Birks Building, McGill University, 3520 University Street, Montreal H3A 2A7
www.ricoeursociety.org - 2019 Society for Ricoeur Studies Program
October 10-12, 2019 – 13th Annual Society for Ricoeur Studies Conference – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The theme of the 2019 annual conference is “Imagination and Hermeneutics”. The conference will be hosted by McGill University and the School of Religious Studies.
The Society for Ricoeur Studies keynote speakers are Professor Jean Grondin (Université de Montréal) and Professor Gaëlle Fiasse (McGill University).
Friday, October 4, 2019 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Jessica Gelber, University of Toronto
Title: Can Aristotle accept cross-species teleology?
September 19 to September 20, 2019 – Charles Taylor Lecture Series
Time and Location: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Université de Montréal, 3200 Jean-Brillant, Room B-2325
Philip Pettit, Princeton Unversity and Australian National Unversity
Title: Part One: "Persons", Part Two: ‘Values’
Friday, September 13, 2019 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Klaus Vieweg, University of Jena
Title: Wall Street and People’s Republic. Hegel as Founder of the Concept of a Welfare State
Winter 2019
Friday, January 18, 2019 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Emily Fletcher, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: The nature of injustice in Plato's Republic
Fall 2018
Friday, November 23, 2018 – Interdisciplinary Speaker Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 934
Moe Touizrar, McGill University
Title: Fictional Transliterations: Cross-Modal Representations of Sunrise in Music
Friday, November 9, 2018 – Interdisciplinary Speaker Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor, McGill University
Title: Place and Architectural Space
Monday, October 15, 2018 – Panel discussion: Women in Early Modern Philosophy
Time and Location: 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Leacock 638
Guest speakers include:
Martina Reuter, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Patricia Sheridan, University of Guelph
Marguerite Deslauriers, McGill University
Friday, September 7, 2018– Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Douglas Hedley, Cambridge University
Title: Cudworth and the Romantic philosophers on the chain of being
Winter 2018
Friday, April 6 - Saturday, April 7, 2018 – Conference in Honor of Storrs McCall
Time and Location: April 6 at 3:00 p.m., April 7 at 1:00 p.m.; Leacock 927
Guest speakers include:
Anil Gupta, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Hallett, McGill University
Achille Varzi, Columbia University
James Brown, University of Toronto
Thursday, March 22, 2018 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:00 p.m., Leacock 927
Philip Kitcher, Columbia University
Title: Progress in the sciences and in the arts
Thursday, February 15, 2018 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 6:00 p.m., Leacock 927
Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: When is the simpler theory better?
Fall 2017
Friday, December 1, 2017 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Anouk Barberousse, Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne)
Title: Formalism, mathematical interpretation, and physical theories
Thursday, November 2, 2017 – History and Philosophy of Science Lunchtime Talk Series
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., Leacock 927
François Claveau, Université de Sherbrooke
Title: Central Banks as Experts: What Can Social Epistemology Say?
Friday, October 27, 2017 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Danielle Allen, Harvard University
Title: Difference without domination
Thursday, October 19, 2017 – History and Philosophy of Science Lunchtime Talk Series
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., Leacock 927
Christophe Malaterre, Université du Québec à Montréal
Title: Shades of Life
Thursday, October 5, 2017 – History and Philosophy of Science Lunchtime Talk Series
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., Leacock 927
Molly Kao, Université de Montréal
Title: Discovery and Justification: Refining the Context Distinction
Friday, October 2, 2017 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Jacqueline Broad, Monash University
Title: Dignity, Cartesian Metaphysics, and Women’s Rights, 1650-1750
Friday, September 22, 2017 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 2:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Cheryl Misak, University of Toronto
Title: Pragmatism and Evaluation of Ethical Beliefs
Thursday, September 21, 2017 – History and Philosophy of Science Lunchtime Talk Series
Time and Location: 12:00 p.m., Leacock 927
Faith Wallis, McGill University
Title: Medicine's Academic Turn in the 12th Century: the case of Master Bartholomaeus of Salerno
Monday, September 11, 2017 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Calvin Normore, UCLA and McGill
Title: The Power of Freedom
Friday, September 8, 2017 – History and Philosophy of Science Talk
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Prof. Sorin Bangu, University of Bergen, Norway
Title: Reductionism, Constructionism and Explanation. The Case of Superconductivity
Winter 2017
Friday, March 31, 2017 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Jennifer Saul, University of Sheffield
Title: Dogwhistles and Figleaves: Techniques of Racist Political Manipulation
Friday, March 31, 2017 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 1 p.m., New Chancellor Day Hall 202
Susan Jaack. University of Miami
Title: Justice, Truth and Proof
Friday, March 17, 2017 – Montreal Philosophy of Science Network Speaker Series
Time and Location: 9:30 a.m., Leacock 927
Peter Galison, Harvard University
Title: On the objectivity of science
Thursday, February 2, 2017 – Montreal Philosophy of Science Network Speaker Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Martin Carrier, Bielefeld University
Title: Agnotological Challenges: How to Capture the Production of Ignorance
Friday, January 27, 2017 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
David Hyder, University of Ottawa
Title: Kant and Einstein on the Causal Order of Time
Friday, January 20, 2017 - Interdisciplinary Speaker Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Michael Makkai, McGill University
Title: Meta-Mathematics in Bourbaki's Structuralism
Friday, January 13, 2017 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
G. Anthony Bruno, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, McGill University
Title: Genealogy and Jurisprudence in Fichte's Genetic Deduction of the Categories
Friday, January 6, 2017 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Daniel Stoljar, Australian National University
Title: The reflexive theory of consciousness
Fall 2016
Friday, October 21, 2016 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Hannah Ginsborg, University of California at Berkeley
Why must we presuppose the systematicity of nature?
Friday, September 30, 2016 – Colloquium Series
Time and Location: 3:30 p.m., Leacock 927
Emily Austin, Wake Forest University
Praising and loving the unjust in Plato's Protagoras
Friday, September 16, 2016 – HPSC talk
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Eran Tal, McGill
Weighing the Kilogram: How History and Philosophy of Science Inform Each Other
Winter 2016
Friday, April 8, 2016 – McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Tim Juvshik, McGill
Antirealism about artifacts
Friday, April 1, 2016 – McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
David Collins, McGill
Re-examining the Idea of 'Virtue Aesthetics
Friday, March 18, 2016 – McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Frédérick Armstrong, McGill
TBA
Friday, March 11, 2016 – McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Ray Aldred, McGill
What can philosophers of love learn from trauma? Prolegomena to future theories of romantic love
Fall 2015
Friday, December 4, 2015 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Michele Palmira, CRÉ/McGill
Towards a Pluralist Theory of Singular Thought
Friday, November 27, 2015 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Nicholas Dunn, McGill
A Kantian Ethics of Care: Autonomy, Respect, and Moral Feeling
Friday, November 13, 2015 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Charlotte Sabourin, McGill
Is there room for disagreement in a Kantian state? Kant on the public use of reason and legal progress
Friday, November 6, 2015 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p..m
Eliot Litalien, McGill
Peoples and Non-Domination: A Republican Outlook on Collective Rights
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - Colloquium Series
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Rape as Spectator Sport and Creepshot Entertainment: Social Media and the Valorization of Lack of Consent
Friday, October 23, 2015 - Colloquium Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Adina Roskies, Dartmouth College
What can neuroimaging do for psychology?
Friday, September 11, 2015 - HPSC talk
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Brendan Gillon, McGill
History and Philosophy of Science in some unusual places
Find more information on the McGill History and Philosophy of Science Program.
Winter 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Oran Magal, McGill
Analyticity, Triviality, and Creativity: the Case of Mathematics
Friday, January 23, 2015 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Itamar Schmerling, McGill
The Inverse Relation Between Heidegger and Wittgenstein
Fri. February 6, 2015 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
David Davies, McGill
Sibley and the Limits of Everyday Aesthetics
Friday, February 13, 2015
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Mario Gomez Torrente, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
The referential use of quantifiers
Friday, February 20, 2015
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Vincenzo deRisi, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
The Foundations of Geometry in the Early Modern Period
Friday, March 20, 2015
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Imogen Dickie, U of Toronto
The delicate question of reference by description
Monday, March 23, 2015 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Erica Harris, McGill
Friday, March 27, 2015 - Equity and Climate committee
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Women in Philosophy. What Needs to Change?
A Panel Discussion With: Kate Norlock (Trent), Nicole Ramsoomair (McGill), Kristin Voigt (McGill)
Friday, April 10, 2015 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Richard Zach, U of Calgary/McGill
Derivation and consequence
Fall 2014
Friday, December 5, 2014 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Joey van Weelden,
What's Good About (and In) Desire-Satisfactionism?
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Antoine Panaioti, McGill
Causation as Folk Psychology: Towards a Buddho-Nietzschean Error Theory
Friday, November 28, 2014
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Robin Yates, McGill
What archeology tells us about early Chinese philosophy: Insights from texts in recently discovered tombs
Friday, November 14, 2014
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Sergio Tenenbaum, Toronto
Acting and satisficing
Friday, November 7, 2014 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Josephine Nielsen, McGill
Keeping Their Kids: Cultural Minorities and the Lives of Children
Friday, October 31, 2014
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Garth Green, McGill
Kant's Doctrine of Inner Intuition
Friday, October 17, 2014
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Andrew Ford, Princeton
The Purpose of the Poetics
Friday, September 26 - Sat. Sept 27, 2014
Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy: A symposium on the work of William Demopoulos. Prof. Michael Hallett will present on Sept 26 at 10 a.m.
Friday, September 18, 2014
Coming up September 18 from 2-4 p.m. in LEA 429, a public lecture by Omar Rivera (Southwestern University): "Mariátegui's Myth and the Rise of Latin American Marxism." This lecture is sponsored by the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy and is part of a new series of talks, Critical Social Theory at McGill.
Winter 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Joseph Carew, McGill University
The Metaphysical Threat of Silence: Reconsidering Hegel's Idealism.
Friday, February 14, 2014 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Eliot Michaelson, McGill University
Two Puzzles About Vagueness and Quantification.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Time: 3 p.m.
Prof. Charles Taylor, McGill University
Beyond G.H. Mead: the primacy of the dialogical
Arts 160
Friday, February 28, 2014 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Noah Moss Brender, McGill University
Phenomenology as Philosophy of Nature: Merleau-Ponty, Embodied Cognition, and Dynamic Systems Theory
Monday, March 17, 2014
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Jonathan Cohen, University of California, San Diego
Perceptual integration, modularity, and cognitive penetration
Friday, March 21, 2014
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Agnes Gellen Callard, University of Chicago
Aspiration
Friday, March 28, 2014
Time: 3:30 p.m.
James Porter, University of California at Irvine
Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche on Epicurus
Friday, April 4, 2014 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Marie-Anne Casselot-Legros, McGill University
Trouble in the Air: Heidegger and Irigaray on Dwelling.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Tim Juvshik, McGill University
Monday, April 14, 2014
Time: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Roger Scruton, Visiting Professor at Oxford University and the University of St Andrews
Arts Council Room, ARTS 160
Friday, April 18, 2014 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Ray Aldred, McGill University
Fall 2013
Friday, September 13, 2013
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Robert Hopkins, NYU
The Real Challenge to Photography (as Communicative Representational Art)
Friday, September 27, 2013
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Georgina Born, Oxford
Relationship Ontologies and Social Forms in Digital Music
Friday, October 11, 2013 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Daniel Wilson, University of Auckland
Kant and Artistic Appreciation
Friday, October 18, 2013
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt
A Critical Phenomenology of Solitary Confinement
Friday, October 24, 2013
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Jeff Speaks, University of Notre Dame
The metaphysics of phenomenal character
Friday, November 8, 2013 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.University
Merleau-Ponty, Sch
Muhammad Velji, McGill izophrenia and the Pathology of Feminine Space
Friday, November 15, 2013 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 4 p.m.
Oran Magal, McGill University
Teratological Investigations: What's in a mathematical monster?
Friday, November 22, 2013
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Mauro Rossi, UQAM
Wellbeing, Preference Satisfaction, and Interpersonal Utaily Comparisons
Friday, November 29, 2013
Bruno Whittle, Yale
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Incompleteness and the Limits of Mathematical Knowledge
Friday, December 6, 2013 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Melanie Coughlin, McGill University
Feuerbach and the History of Nihilism
Summer 2013
August 21-23, 2013
Normativity in Perception Conference
This is an invitation to all students, postdocs and faculty members to an international conference on Normativity in Perception being held at McGill University from 21-23 August, 2013. This conference combines analytical, phenomenological, and psychopathological perspectives to address the question of the nature of norms in perceptual experience. The conference will feature several prominent international philosophers working within or at the intersections of these disciplines. Please see the attached schedule for titles and times.
normativity_conference_2013_schedule.doc
Monday, June 10, 2013
Launch of The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie by Eric Lewis
5 – 7 p.m.
Sala Rossa
4848 St-Laurent
Montreal, QC
Friday, May 17, 2013
Launch of Raymond Klibansky (1905-2005)– La bibliothèque d’un philosophe
l’Auditorium du Centre d’archives de Montréal de BAnQ,
535, avenue Viger Est
6 p.m. (conference)
7 p.m. (launch)
RSVP by Wed. May 15 via email: rsvp [at] banq.qc.ca.
November 2012 - August 2013
Raymond Klibansky (1905-2005) – La bibliothèque d'un philosophe Exhibition
From November 13, 2012 to August 25, 2013
Grande Bibliothèque
Main exhibition hall, Level M
475, boulevard De Maisonneuve Est
Montréal
Free admission Tuesdays through Fridays, from 12 noon to 9 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 10 am to 5 pm.
The exhibition is a BAnQ production.
Winter 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
John MacFarlane, UC Berkeley
Title: "Objective and Subjective Oughts."
Friday April 12, 2013
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, 2012
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Jennifer Nagel
Title: Disagreement and Variation in Epistemic Intuition
Friday, October 5, 2012
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Fanny Söderbäck
Title: Art, Politics, and the Public Sphere
Friday, October 19, 2012
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Daniel Weinstock
Title: The Ethical Bases of Linguistic Pluralism
Friday, November 23, 2012
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, 2012
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Yves Bouchard (Université de Sherbrooke)
Title: Epistemic Contexts and Indexicalized Knowledge
Friday, March 9, 2012
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, 2012
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Christine Tappolet (Université de Montréal)
Title: Alethic Pluralism: What Prospect?
Friday, April 13, 2012
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Garrett Cullity (University of Adelaide)
Title: "Loving the Bad"
Fall 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Time: 3:00, LEA 927
David Sedley (Cambridge University)
Title: The First Greek Atheists.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Catriona Mackenzie (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
Title: Embodied Agents, Narrative Selves.
Friday, November 18, 2011
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, 2011
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Devin Henry (Western Ontario)
Title: Optimality and Teleology in Ancient Greek Science
February 11, 2011
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Andrew Kania (Trinity University)
Title: Sounds and Silence: On the Nature of Music
March 11, 2011
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Lisa Downing (OSU)
Title: Locke’s Metaphysics and Newtonian Metaphysics
March 18, 2011
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Tamar Gendler (Yale)
Title: Giving Notice: Attention, Perception and Bias
April 1, 2011
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, 2010
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Daniel Conway (Texas A&M)
Title:Life After the Death of God
October 15, 2010
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Stavroula Glezakos (Wake Forest)
Title: Meaning Well
October 22, 2010
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Graham Priest (Melbourne, St. Andrews/Arche, CUNY Graduate Centre)
Title: Mathematical Pluralism
November 12, 2010
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Iddo Landau (Haifa)
Title:Should Marital Relations be Non-Hierarchical?
November 15, 2010
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Timothy Williamson (Oxford)
Title: Evidence of Evidence
Winter 2010
January 15, 2010
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Stephen Yablo (MIT)
Title:Pretense, Presuppostition and Assertive Content
January 22, 2010
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Daryn Lahoux (Queens)
Title: Truth, Coherence, Realism, and why they Matter to the Historian of Science
February 5, 2010
Time:3:30, LEA 927
Ann Cudd (Kansas)
Title:Wanting Freedom
March 5, 2010
Time:3:30 - 5:30 LEA 927
Martha Bolton (Rutgers)
Title:Locke and Leibniz on Substances and Moral Subjects
March 26, 2010
Time:3:30 - 5:30pm LEA927
John Drummond (Fordham)
Title:Having the Right Attitudes
April 9, 2010
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, 2009
Time: 3:30 - 5:30, LEA 927
Stewart Cohen (Arizona)
Title: Epistemic Justification
September 25
Time: 3:30 - 5:30, LEA , 2009
Richard Heck (Brown)
Title: Against Deflationism
September 28, 2009 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 2 - 4pm, LEA 927
Bruno Guindon, McGill
Title: Two Faces of Normativity
October 1, 2009
Time: 4:00 - 5:00, LEA 927
Michael Meyer (ULB)
Title: Art and Beauty: Towards a New Esthetics beyond Kant and Hegel
October 2, 2009
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, 2009
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, 2009
Time:3:30 - 5:30, LEA 927
Karen Nielson (Western Ontario)
Title:Aristotle and Epictetus: On what is up to us
November 20, 2009
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, 2009
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, 2009
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Jim Higgenbotham, USC
Title: Reflexive Thoughts and Normal Forms
Monday, March 23, 2009
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Dirk Schlimm, McGill
Title: On the creative role of axiomatics
Friday, March 20, 2009
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Jacob Levy , McGill
Title: Constitutionalism without social contractarianism
Monday, March 16, 2009 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 12:00, LEA 927
Olivier Mathieu, McGill
Title: Artistic and Aesthetic Interests
Friday, March 13, 2009 *****CANCELLED*****
Time: cancelled
Alan Code, Rutgers
Title: Substances versus Accidental Unities in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Monday, March 9, 2009 - McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Time: 12:00, LEA 927
Emily Carson, McGill
Title: Kant on Arithmetic and the Conditions of Experience
Friday, March 6, 2009
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Dean Moyar, Johns Hopkins
Title: Hegel and Agent-Relative Reasons
Friday, February 13, 2009
Time: 3:30, LEA 927
Shaun Gallagher, Central Florida
Title: Two problems of intersubjectivity
Friday, January 9, 2009
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".