Jennifer Saul
The University of Sheffield
Generics, Implicit Communication and Political Manipulation
Sally Haslanger has recently argued that generic utterances play a special role in transmitting racist, sexist and other oppressive ideologies. I argue against some of her specific claims and suggest that the use of generics she discusses needs to be situated in the broader context of implicit political communication, a greatly under-explored topic in philosophy.
James R. Beebe
University at Buffalo, SUNY
The Folk Conception of Weakness of Will
Alan Richardson
University of British Columbia
The Social Virtue of Science: Motivating the Structural Objectivity of Early Logical Empiricism
Robert Stainton
University of Western Ontario
Non-Sentences Strike Back: Revisiting Logical Form and the Vernacular
The Undergraduate Philosophy Society (PhilSoc) holds a pizza social every year during the fall term. The social provides an opportunity for students interested in Philosophy to meet each other as well as their professors and chat informally.
Organizer: Heather Douglas, University of Waterloo
All activities for the annual meeting will take place on the campus of the University of Waterloo. The plenary lectures will be in the lecture hall
QNC 1102/1103 of the Quantum-Nano building (QNC) and special sessions will be in Math & Computer building (MC) and QNC. Registration, book exhibits, and morning coffee and refreshments will be in QNC 1501. The welcome reception will be held on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. in the QNC atrium.
Fourth Annual Philosophy Awards
This event will celebrate both the Philosophy undergraduate and graduate students' achievements over the past academic year and will also include the naming of a new official 'Friend’ to the Philosophy Department.
Event information page: Philosophy Graduate Student Association (PGSA) Conference - Mar. 22 and 23, 2013
Location: Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics
Event information page: Women in Physics, Past, Present and Future
A series of talks given by the Visiting Humphrey Professor in Feminist Philosophy during the Winter 2013 term.
Anita Superson, University of Kentucky
Honky Tonk Women: The Right to Bodily Autonomy and Prostitution
Robert McCauley, Emory University
Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not
Why Religion is Natural abstract (PDF)
A series of talks given by the Visiting Humphrey Professor in Feminist Philosophy during the Winter 2013 term.
Anita Superson, University of Kentucky
The Right to Bodily Autonomy and the Abortion Controversy
Nancy Tuana
Director, Rock Ethics Institute
Penn State University
Coupled Ethical-Epistemic Issues in the Climate Sciences (PDF)
Co-hosted with Science and Technology in Society
A series of talks given by the Visiting Humphrey Professor in Feminist Philosophy during the Winter 2013 term.
Anita Superson, University of Kentucky
Moral Bindingness
Moral Bindingness abstract (PDF)
Co-hosted with Women's Studies