Harvard University
Department of Philosophy
Schedule of Colloquia
2009-2010
The schedule of colloquia for the 2009-2010 academic year is now available. All talks take place in Emerson 305, at 4 pm, unless otherwise noted. Schedule is subject to change. |
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| September 2009 | ||
| 25 & 26 September 2009 | Svetlana Boym Harvard University Malachi Haim Hacohen Duke University Janos Kis Central European University and New York University Pratap Bhanu Mehta Center for Policy Research, New Delhi and New York University Law School Martha Nussbaum University of Chicago Alan Ryan University of Oxford and Princeton University Amartya Sen Harvard University Michael Walzer Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Bernard Yack Brandeis University |
Isaiah Berlin: Centennial Reflections Co-sponsored by the Departments of Government and Philosophy, the Safra Center and the Center for Jewish Studies For more information, please visit the conference Web site. |
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| October 2009 | ||
| 1 October 2009 | Ralph Wedgwood Oxford University |
Instrumental Rationality |
| 22 October 2009 | Margaret Gilbert University of California, Irvine |
Agreements, Rights, and Joint Intentions Abstract: I discuss two puzzles from different areas of philosophy to which an investigation of the nature of informal agreements -- as opposed to contracts in law -- can make a contribution. These puzzles concern the nature of claim-rights; and what it is for us, as opposed to me on the one hand and you on the other, to intend to do something. I then sketch an account of agreements that offers a solution to both of these puzzles. |
| 31 October 2009 | Alan Nelson University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Descartes on What is Best Known Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy 11 AM - 1 PM Location: Emerson 310 |
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| November 2009 | ||
| 4 November 2009 | Jonathan Lear University of Chicago |
Becoming Human Is Not That Easy Tanner Lectures on Human Values 4:30 PM Location: Lowell Lecture Hall |
| 5 November 2009 | Jonathan Lear University of Chicago |
Ironic Soul Tanner Lectures on Human Values 4:30 PM Location: Lowell Lecture Hall |
| 6 November 2009 | Jonathan Lear University of Chicago |
Seminar Tanner Lectures on Human Values 10 AM Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, 12 Quincy St. Participants include: Cora Diamond (University of Virginia) Christine Korsgaard (Harvard) Richard Moran (Harvard) |
| 14 November 2009 | Mark Green Stony Brook University (SUNY) Casey O'Callaghan Rice University Frederique de Vignemont CNRS, Paris Matt Fulkerson University of Toronto |
Perception Beyond Vision 9 AM - 6 PM CGIS, Room K-354 Commentators: Geoff Lee, University of California, Berkeley Diana Raffman, University of Toronto Mohan Matthen, University of Toronto Clare Batty, University of Kentucky Chairs: Christopher Peacocke, Columbia University Fiona Macpherson, University of Glasgow Nico Silins, Cornell University Berit Brogaard, University of Missouri, St. Louis |
| 19 November 2009 | Dominic Bailey University of Colorado, Boulder |
Language and Modality in Megaric Philosophy |
| 21 November 2009 | Alison Simmons Harvard University |
Cartesian Consciousness Reconsidered Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy Location: Emerson 310 10 AM - 12 PM |
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| February 2010 | ||
| 18 February 2010 | Mark Wilson University of Pittsburgh |
How ‘Wave Front' Found its Truth-Value Abstract: Scientific theories rarely serve as islands entire of themselves. Such hidden connections sometimes force novel readings upon venerable doctrines, dramatically altering our understanding of their basic "subject matter" in the process. Conventional Maxwellian electromagnetism underwent an upheaval of this type in the mid twentieth century. The case (which will be recounted in non-technical terms) offers interesting insights for both philosophy of language and philosophy of science, for it supplies a portrait of semantic stabilization unfolding in a different manner than conventional "natural kind" models suggest. |
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| March 2010 | ||
| 4 March 2010 | Kendall Walton University of Michigan |
TBA |
| 25 March 2010 | Don Garrett NYU |
Hume’s Sense of Probability Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy Location: TBA |
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| April 2010 | ||
| 1 April 2010 | David Sussman University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
TBA |
| 9 April 2010 | Andrew Janiak Duke University |
Kant on Logical and Real Meaning Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy Location: TBA |
| 10 April 2010 | Andrew Janiak Duke University |
Substance and Action in Descartes and Newton Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy Location: TBA |
| 16 April 2010 | Marleen Rozemond University of Toronto |
TBA Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy Location: TBA |
| 22 April 2010 | John McDowell University of Pittsburgh |
TBA Harvard Review of Philosophy Annual Lecture Location: TBA |
| 29 & 30 April 2010 | Kit Fine NYU |
Counterfactuals and the Frame Problem Whitehead Lectures Location: TBA Abstract: I shall develop a semantics for counterfactuals based upon an ontology of states rather than possible worlds; and I shall attempt to show that it avoids many of the problems facing the possible worlds semantics and that it able to provide a simple and satisfying solution to the frame problem in AI. |
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