Fall, 2005 |
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September 29
Mark Reiff
University of Durham
"Equality and Proportionality"
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October 7
Mandy Simons
Carnegie Mellon University
"Conversation and Presupposition"
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October 21
Marya Schechtman
University of Illinois, Chicago
"Metaphysics, Value, and Personal Survival"
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November 4
Dana Nelkin
University of California, San Diego
"Deliberative Alternatives and the Explanatory Nexus"
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November 10
Robert May
University of California, Irvine
"The Essential Proposition: Frege on Identity Statements"
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November 10
Anya Plutynski
University of Utah
"Genic Selectionism Meets the Realism Debate"
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December 9
Matt Haber
University of California, Davis
"Unnatural Kinds: Stable Relationships are Overrated"
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December 9
Andrew Hamilton
University of California, Davis
"Unnatural Kindness: Complexity, Contingency, and The Biology Problem"
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December 16
John M. Fischer
University of California, Riverside
"The Cards That Are Dealt You"
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Winter, 2006 |
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January 4
Pekka Väyrynen
University of California, Davis
"Normative Appeals to the Natural"
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January 12
Jan Szaif
University of California, Davis (visiting)
"Aristotle on the Benefits of Virtue"
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January 16
Brendan Jackson
The Australian National University
"Truth vs. Pretense in Discourse About Motion (or, why the sun really does rise)"
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January 19
Samuel Newlands
Yale University
"The Harmony of Spinoza and Leibniz"
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January 26
Deborah Brown
University of Queensland
"Descartes on False Ideas"
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January 27
Calvin Normore
University of California, Los Angeles
"Bodies"
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January 30
Elisa Hurley
Georgetown University
"Normativity and the Moral Life of Emotions"
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February 3
Jacob Ross
Rutgers University
"The Practical Rejection of Skepticism"
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February 6
Gary Bartlett
Rutgers University
"A Dilemma for Computational Theories of Experience"
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February 10
Cody Gilmore
University of Nebraska, Omaha
"Enduring Composites in Relativistic Spacetime: Where Are We?"
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February 13
Rebecca Copenhaver
Lewis and Clark College
"Thomas Reid on Consciousness"
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February 17
Daniel Weiskopf
University of South Florida
"Between Empiricism and Rationalism"
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February 23
Bernard Molyneux
University of Maryland
"A Hard Epistemological Problem for Research Into Consciousness"
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February 27
Stephan Hartmann
London School of Economics
"Modeling in Philosophy of Science"
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March 1
Patrick Forber
Stanford University
"The Importance of Genuine Rivals in Evolutionary Biology"
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March 3
Richard Healey
University of Arizona
"Surprise and Survival in a Deterministic Quantum World"
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March 6
Adam Sennet
Rutgers University
"Reflections on the Binding Argument"
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March 10
Jordi Cat
Indiana University
"Fuzzy Empiricism and Fuzzy Causality: What's All the Fuzz About?"
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March 17
Roberta Millstein
California State University, East Bay
"The Determinism/Indeterminism Question in the Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology"
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April 7
Jenefer Robinson
University of Cincinnati
"Emotion and Narrative Understanding"
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April 14
Karen Bennett
Princeton University
"Why I Am Not a Dualist"
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May 12
Christopher Hill
Brown University
"Ouch! The Paradox of Pain"
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