Spring, 1998

May 6, 1998 Bernard Williams UC Berkeley "Moralism, Realism and Political Theory"

May 22, 1998 Peter Ludlow SUNY Stony Brook "Externalism, Self-Knowledge and Memory"

May 27, 1998 Hugh Wilder College of Charleston "What's Wrong with Speciesism?"

June 5, 1988 Mark Richard Tufts University "Commitment"

Winter, 1998

January 14, 1998 Rachel Cohon Stanford University (Now at SUNY Albany) "Hume on Promises and the Peculiar Act of Mind"

January 16, 1998 Connie Rosati Harvard Law School (Now at UC Davis) "Regret and the Good"

January 20, 1998 Nomy Arpaly Stanford University (Now at Rice University) "Three Views of Moral Worth"

January 27, 1998 Michael Otsuka University of California, Los Angeles (Now at University College, London ) "Incompatibilism and the Avoidability of Blame"

February 2, 1998 George Wilson Johns Hopkins University (Now at UC Davis) "Le Grande Imagier Steps Out: On the Epistemology of Film"

February 11, 1998 Barry Loewer Rutgers University "Laws and Induction"

February 13, 1998 Katalin Balog Rutgers University (Now at Yale University) "Revenge of the Zombies: The New Conceivability Arguments"

Fall, 1997

October 8, 1997 Susan Haack University of Miami "Confessions of an Old-Fashioned Prig: Concern for Truth; What it Means, Why it Matters"

October 29, 1997 Teresa Britton UC Davis (Visiting 1997-98) (Now at Eastern Illinois University) "The A Priori, Error and Disconfirmation"

Spring, 1997

April 2, 1997 Alexander Rosenberg University of Georgia "Will the Real Naturalist Please Stand Up?"

April 10, 1997 Nancy Cartwright London School of Economics "Where Do Laws of Nature Come From?" "The Rule of Physics / The Rule of Economics: Empire or Alliance?"

April 30, 1997 Norman Dahl University of Minnesota "On Substance Being the Same as its Essence in Metaphysics Z 6: The Pale Man Argument"

May 21, 1997 Elijah Millgram Princeton University "Desire as Proof of Desirability, Revisited"

Winter, 1997

February 5, 1997 Randy Mayes California State University, Sacramento "Explanation as a Cognitive Response to Predictive Failure"

February 24, 1997 William Demoupolus University of Western Ontario "The Philosophical Basis of Our Knowledge of Numbers"

March 5, 1997 Richard Grandy Rice University "Monster Barring in Sentential Logic"

Fall, 1996

October 2, 1996 Philip Clark UC Davis (Now at University of Toronto) "Do Moral Judgments Motivate?"

October 30, 1996 Paul Skokowski Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Now at Stanford University, Symbolic Systems Program) "Swampman Meets Swampnet"

November 20, 1996 David Kaplan UCLA "Meaning as Use"

December 2, 1996 George Wilson Johns Hopkins University (Now at USC) "Interpretation and the Enigmatic Narrative Film"

December 3, 1996 George Wilson Johns Hopkins University (Now at USC) "Kripke's Wittgenstein and Non-Factualism"

Spring, 1996

April 17, 1996 Julian Nida-Rümelin University of Göttingen "Why Consequentialism Fails Not Only as an Ethical Theory but also as a Practical Theory of Rationality."

May 8, 1996 Rachel Cohon Stanford University (Now at SUNY Albany) "Hume on Feeling and Knowing Virtue: The Myth of the Noncognitivist Hume"

May 10, 1996 Arnold Davidson University of Chicago "Ethics as Ascetics: Foucault, the History of Ethics, and Ancient Thought"

June 5, 1996 David Brink UC San Diego "Kantian Rationalism: Inescapability, Authority, and Supremacy"

Winter, 1996

January 17, 1996 David Barton UC Davis (Visiting 1995-97) (Now at Boalt Hall Law School) "Plato's Sophist on False Thought and Speech."

February 7, 1996 Marleen Rozemond Stanford University (Now at Kansas State University) "Mind-Body Interaction in Descartes: What's the Problem?"

March 6, 1996 Erich Loewy UC Davis Medical School "Moral Strangers and Compassion"

Fall, 1995

January 17, 1996 David Barton UC Davis (Visiting 1995-97) "Plato's Sophist on False Thought and Speech"

October 27, 1995 Kent Bach San Francisco State University, "Saying What Someone Thinks"

October 19, 1995 Gerald Dworkin University of Illinois, Chicago (Now at UC Davis) "Contracting Justice" Sponsored by the Program in Economy, Justice and Society

November 15, 1995 Debra Satz Stanford University, "Status Equality: 'Equality of What' Among Whom?"

November 29, 1995 Alison Wylie University of Western Ontario, "Unification and Consilience in Archeological Explanation"