Thursday, October 23, 2014 — 4:00 PM EDT
Author of my own story: Recognizing the words and choices of people without voices
Friday, October 10, 2014 — 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Ishani Maitra
University of Michigan
Friday, September 26, 2014 — 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Robert McCauley
Emory University
Four Ways Science Progresses
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 — 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
The fifth annual Department of Philosophy Awards will be held:
- Tuesday, April 15, 2014
- 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
- J.G. Hagey Hall (HH), Room 373
More details to follow soon.
Here is a link to past Philosophy Awards.
Friday, April 11, 2014 — 2:30 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
The Department of Philosophy will be holding a retirement celebration for Joseph A. Novak.
Friday, March 28, 2014 — 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
James Dreier
Brown University
*Keynote speaker for the Philosophy Graduate Student Conference 2014
The Normative Explanation of Normativity
Thursday, March 27, 2014 (all day) to Friday, March 28, 2014 (all day)
Location:
Thursday, March 27, 2014
- J.G. Hagey Hall (HH), room 373 (9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Friday, March 28, 2014
- J.G. Hagey Hall (HH), room 334 (10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Philosophy Graduate Student Conference 2014 Speakers:
Benjamin Wald (University of Toronto)
Steven Coyne (University of Toronto)
Friday, March 14, 2014 — 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Elijah Millgram
University of Utah
Who Was the Author of Nietzsche's Zarathustra?
Friday, February 28, 2014 — 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EST
Carrie Jenkins
University of British Columbia
On Putting Knowledge 'First'
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 — 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM EST
Friday, January 24, 2014 — 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EST
Jacqueline Feke
University of Chicago
Harmonic Ethics: Ptolemy’s Virtue Ethics for the Mathematician
Friday, January 17, 2014 — 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EST
Peter Distelzweig
Western Michigan University
“Mechanics” and Mechanism in William Harvey’s Anatomy: Varieties and Limits
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 — 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EST
Jennifer Mensch
Pennsylvania State University
Teleology and Race in Kant’s Biological Philosophy of History
Friday, January 10, 2014 — 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EST
Jennifer Nagel
University of Toronto
The Value of Reasoning in Epistemic Justification
When and why does it matter whether we can give an explicit justification for what we believe? This paper examines these questions in the light of recent empirical work on the social functions served by our capacity to reason, in particular, Mercier and Sperber’s argumentative theory of reasoning.
