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Schedule of Colloquia
2007-2008

All talks take place in Emerson 305, at 4 pm, unless otherwise noted. Schedule is subject to change.

October 2007
4 October 2007 Hilary Putnam
Harvard University
Externalism: Its Motivation and Its Critics
Internalist Explorations of Meaning Reading Group

6 PM
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

12 & 13 October 2007 Donald Rutherford
UC San Diego
Leibniz on Infinitesimals and the Reality of Force
Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy

12 October 2007
5 PM
Emerson 310

Leibniz on Possible Worlds and Compossibility
Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy

13 October 2007
11:30 AM
Emerson 310
25 October 2007 Kieran Setiya
University of Pittsburgh
Practical Knowledge
M&P Workshop
26 October 2007 Don Baxter
University of Connecticut
Hume, Distinctions of Reason, and Differential Resemblance
Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy

4 PM
Emerson 310
30 October 2007 Noam Chomsky
MIT
'On Referring' Revisited
Internalist Explorations of Meaning Reading Group

6 PM
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

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November 2007
13 November 2007 Ray Jackendoff
Tufts University
A Conceptualist Treatment of Reference and Truth
Internalist Explorations of Meaning Reading Group

6 PM
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

15 November 2007 Hannah Ginsborg
UC Berkeley
Primitive Normativity and Skepticism about Rules
20 November 2007 Juan Uriagereka
University of Maryland
How Much Meaning Can Syntax Carve Out?
Internalist Explorations of Meaning Reading Group

6 PM
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

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December 2007
1 December 2007 Barbara Montero
CUNY

Brian O'Shaughnessy
King's College London

José Luis Bermúdez
Washington University in St. Louis
Bodily Awareness and Proprioception

9:30 AM - 6 PM
Thompson Room, Barker Center

Commentators:
Wayne Wu, The Ohio State University
Stephen White, Tufts University
Daniel Stoljar, Australian National University

Chairs:
Benj Hellie, University of Toronto
Susanna Siegel, Harvard University
James John, University of Toronto
13 December 2007 Richard Lewotin
Harvard University
Internal and External in Biology
Internalist Explorations of Meaning Reading Group

6:30 PM
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

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February 2008
14 February 2008 Thomas Pogge
Australian National University &
Columbia University
Duties of Justice
22 February 2008 Daniel Garber
Princeton University
Discussion of Chapters of Book-in-Progress on Leibniz
Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
22 & 23 February 2008 Shelly Kagan
Yale University

Jeff McMahan
Rutgers University

Gideon Rosen
Princeton University

T. M. Scanlon
Harvard University

Seana Shiffrin
UCLA
Conference on Frances Kamm's Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm

A PDF poster, with information, is available.

Sponsored by Rutgers University, The Institute for Law and Philosophy

Rutgers Law School
Camden, New Jersey
28 February 2008 Hartry Field
NYU
Epistemology Without Metaphysics
M&E Workshop
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March 2008
6 March 2008 Aaron Zimmerman
UC Santa Barbara
Introspective Knowledge: Thought v. Experience
M&E Workshop
14 March 2008 G.A. Cohen
All Souls College, Oxford

A.J. Julius
UCLA
Colloquium: Justice and Constructivism

Co-sponsored with the Department of Government and the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.

1 PM - 5:15 PM
Tsai Auditorium (Room S010)
CGIS-South Building
1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA

18 March 2008 Verity Harte
Yale University
Republic X and the Role of the Audience in Art
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April 2008
9 & 10 April 2008 Tony Kushner
Playwright (Angels in America)
11 April 2008 Tony Kushner
Playwright (Angels in America)
17 April 2008 János Kis
Central European University & NYU
Dirty Hands and Moral Dilemmas

Co-sponsored with the Department of Government.

4:15 PM
New Location: CGIS South 50 (1730 Cambridge Street)
18 April 2008 Martha Bolton
Rutgers University
The unity of Leibniz’s substance — a psychological-teleological foundation?

Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy

Emerson 310
24 April 2008 Ram Neta
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Coherence
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May 2008
1 May 2008 Susan Wolf
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Meaningfulness: a third dimension of the good life

Whitehead Lecture

Emerson 210
2 May 2008 Susan Wolf
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Meaningfulness: a third dimension of the good life

Whitehead Lecture
Emerson 210
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