Events

• Department Calendar
• Colloquium Schedule
• Workshops of the Program for European Philosophy
• Graduate Student Talks
• Conferences and Lectures
  Department Picnic Photos

 

2009/2010 Philosophy Events

Department Colloquia and Lectures

• Sept. 25 - Brian Leftow (Oxford; co-sponsored with the Center for Philosophy of Religion) , " A Truly Ontological Argument"
• Oct. 2 - Mark Murphy (Georgetown), "God and Moral Law". The Plantinga Lecture (sponsored by the Center for Philosophy of Religion) -3:00pm in the Eck Visitors Center
• Oct. 9 - Alternative Justifications of Morality - Barbara Herman (UCLA) 3:00pm, Allan Gibbard ( Michigan) 8:00pm
• Oct. 10 - Alternative Justifications of Morality - Russ Shafer-Landau (Wisconsin) 10:00am, James P. Sterba (Notre Dame) 11:00am
• Oct. 16 - Scott Soames (USC), "Propositions"
• Nov. 13 at 4pm - Michael Rosen (Harvard), "Freedom in German Idealism"
• Dec. 4 - First Annual Philip Quinn Lecture - Alasdair MacIntyre
• Feb. 26 - Timothy Williamson (Oxford)
• April 23 - David Velleman (NYU)
  (All Colloquiua are at 3pm Fridays in 220 Malloy unless otherwise noted)

 

Workshops of the Program of Modern and Contemporary European Philosophy

• Sept. 10 - Ed Curley (U of Michigan), "Is Religious Liberty a Good Thing?"
• Oct. 28 - Michael Forster (U of Chicago)
• Dec. 2 - Diane Perpich (Clemson), "The Space of Politics: Levinas and Arendt on Singularity and Intersubjectivity"
• Jan. 15 - Paul Guyer (Pennsylvania) , "Baumgarten and Mendelssohn on Mixed Sentiments”
• Mar. 17 - Jamie Ferreira (U of Virginia)
• Apr. 9 - Tyler Burge (UCLA)
  

Graduate Student Talks

• Sept. 7 - Brian Pitts,"Why the Big Bang Singularity Does Not Help the Kalam Cosmological Argument for Theism"
• Sept. 14 - Matthew Lee
• Sept. 21 - Jeff Snapper, "Stating Quantifier Variance"
• Sept. 28 - Peter Wicks , "The Call of Duty and Beyond: Saints, Heroes, and Moral Theory"
• Oct. 5 - Alex Skiles - TBA
• Oct. 12 - Nate King, "Disagreement and Defeat"
• Nov. 9 - Claire Brown - TBA
• Nov. 16 - Brian Boeninger, "Influence, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility"
• Nov. 23 -Josh Rasmussen, "Propositions are Not on Paper, In Your Brain, or Anywhere Else"
• Nov. 30 - Caleb Perl, "Relativism and Faultless Disagreement about Indicative Conditionals"
  (All talks at 6:00 pm on Monday, in 220 Malloy)

   

Conferences

• Sept. 10-12 - "My Ways are Not Your Ways: The Moral Character of God in the Hebrew Bible" (sponsored by the Center for the Philosophy of Religion)
• Oct. 9-10 - "Justifying Morality"
• Oct. 10-11 - Midwest PhilMath Workshop (MWPMW 10)
• Mar. 5 - "Relational and Constituent Ontologies"
• April 16-17 - "Justifying a Political Morality"
• May 20-22 - Alvin Plantinga Retirement Celebration Conference