2005-2006 Colloquia
Fall 2005
September 29
University of Durham
"Equality and Proportionality"
October 7
Carnegie-Mellon University
"Conversation and Presupposition"
October 21
University of Illinois, Chicago
"Metaphysics, Value, and Personal Survival"
November 4
University of California, San Diego
"Deliberative Alternatives and the Explanatory Nexus"
November 10
University of California, Irvine
"The Essential Proposition: Frege on Identity Statements"
November 18
University of Utah
"Genic Selectionism Meets the Realism Debate"
December 9
University of California, Davis
"Unnatural Kinds: Stable Relationships are Overrated"
December 9
University of California, Davis
"Unnatural Kindness: Complexity, Contingency, and The Biology Problem"
December 16
University of California, Riverside
"The Cards That Are Dealt You"
Winter 2006
January 4
University of California, Davis
"Normative Appeals to the Natural"
January 12
University of California, Davis (visiting)
"Aristotle on the Benefits of Virtue"
January 16
The Australian National University
"Truth vs. Pretense in Discourse About Motion (or, why the sun really does rise)"
January 19
Yale University
"The Harmony of Spinoza and Leibniz"
January 26
University of Queensland
"Descartes on False Ideas"
January 27
University of California, Los Angeles
"Bodies"
January 30
Georgetown University
"Normativity and the Moral Life of Emotions"
February 3
Rutgers University
"The Practical Rejection of Skepticism"
February 6
Rutgers University
"A Dilemma for Computational Theories of Experience"
February 10
University of Nebraska, Omaha
"Enduring Composites in Relativistic Spacetime: Where Are We?"
February 13
Lewis and Clark College
"Thomas Reid on Consciousness"
February 17
University of South Florida
"Between Empiricism and Rationalism"
February 23
University of Maryland
"A Hard Epistemological Problem for Research Into Consciousness"
February 27
London School of Economics
"Modeling in Philosophy of Science"
March 1
Stanford University
"The Importance of Genuine Rivals in Evolutionary Biology"
March 3
University of Arizona
"Surprise and Survival in a Deterministic Quantum World"
March 6
Rutgers University
"Reflections on the Binding Argument"
March 10
Indiana University
"Fuzzy Empiricism and Fuzzy Causality: What's All the Fuzz About?"
March 17
California State University, East Bay
"The Determinism/Indeterminism Question in the Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology"
Spring 2006
April 7
University of Cincinnati
"Emotion and Narrative Understanding"
April 14
Princeton University
"Why I Am Not a Dualist"
May 12
Brown University
"Ouch! The Paradox of Pain"
All photographs copyright ©, G. J. Mattey, 2005, 2006.
