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The UCLA Department of Philosophy sponsors a series of colloquia througout the year. These colloquia are open to the public. They usually take place on Friday at 3:00 on the ground floor of Dodd Hall, in room 175; sometimes they are held instead in the Philosophy Common Room on the third floor of Dodd Hall (room 399). There is usually a reception in the Common Room after the talk. All times and dates are tentative; check this page for last-minute changes, or call the Philosophy Department main office at (310) 825-4641 during the week in which the talk is scheduled.
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PLANNED TALKS
Departmental Colloquium
Laurie Paul
UNC
Temporal Experience
Friday, November 6, 2009
Departmental Colloquium
Susan Wolf
UNC
One Thought Too Many: Love, Morality and the Ordering of Commitment
Friday, December 4, 2009
Departmental Colloquium
Martin Lin
Rutgers
TBA
Friday, February 12, 2010
Departmental Colloquium
Penelope Maddy
UC Irvine
TBA
Friday, March 5, 2010
Departmental Colloquium
John Hawthorne
Oxford
TBA
Friday, April 23, 2010
Departmental Colloquium
Sharon Street
NYU
TBA
Friday, May 21, 2010
PREVIOUS TALKS
Departmental Colloquium
Ned Block
NYU
TBA
Friday, October 16, 2009
Departmental Colloquium
Tamar Schapiro
Stanford
"From passion to action"
Friday, May 29, 2009
Departmental Colloquium
Dana Nelkin
UCSD
Responsibility, Fairness and the
Ought-Implies-Can Principle
Friday, May 15, 2009
Departmental Colloquium
Carolina Sartorio
Wisconsin
"Actuality and responsibility"
Friday, April 24, 2009
Quinn Lecture
Thomas Scanlon
Harvard University
"Metaphysics and normativity"
Friday, February 27, 2009
Departmental Colloquium
Jonathan Lear
Chicago
"Irony and Identity"
Friday, February 6, 2009
Departmental Colloquium
Michael Bratman
Stanford
"Intention, Practical Rationality and Self Governance"
Friday, October 24, 2008
Departmental Colloquium
Robert Stalnaker
MIT
"The Essential Contextual"
Friday, November 7, 2008
Departmental Colloquium
Adam Sennet
UC Davis
"Articulating 'Unarticulated Constituent'"
Friday, December 5, 2008
Departmental Colloquium
Gideon Rosen
Princeton University
"Metaphysical Dependence: Grounding and Reduction"
Friday, May 16, 2008
Departmental Colloquium
Karen Neander
Duke University
"Information and Isomorphism"
Friday, May 9, 2008
Departmental Colloquium
Richard Kraut
Northwestern
"Politics and the Good: Reflections on Rawls"
Friday, April 25, 2008
Departmental Colloquium
Ian Hacking
College de France
"Finding out: A theory of truthfulness and reasoning in the sciences"
Friday, March 7, 2008
USC/UCLA Grad Student Conference
Judith Thomson
MIT
"TBA"
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Moody Conference
Various Speakers
Various
"See http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/phil/Lectures/Moody.htm"
Friday, February 1, 2008
Departmental Colloquium
Christine Korsgaard
Harvard
"The Origin of the Good and Our Animal Nature"
Friday, November 30, 2007
North American Kant Society Conference
Various Speakers
Various
"See http://philosophy.ucsd.edu/faculty/ewatkins/psg/PSGProgram2007.html"
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Departmental Colloquium
Beatrice Longuenesse
NYU
"Self-consciousness and self-reference. Sartre and Wittgenstein."
Friday, October 26, 2007
Departmental Colloquium
Doug Lavin
Harvard
"Must There Be Basic Action?"
Friday, May 11, 2007
Reichenbach Lecture
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Harvard University
"Progress and Procedures in Scientific Epistemology"
Friday, April 27, 2007
Departmental Colloquium
Laura Ruetsche
University of Pittsburgh
"Something About Nothing"
Friday, April 20, 2007
Departmental Colloquium
Mohan Matthen
University of Toronto
"How Things Look (and What Things Look That Way)"
Friday, April 13, 2007
Departmental Colloquium
Paul Boghossian
NYU
"Living by the Rules"
Friday, March 2, 2007
USC/UCLA Grad Student Conference
Keynote Speaker: Fred Dretske
Duke
"TBA"
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Moody Conference
Various
Various
"TBA"
Friday, January 19, 2007
Departmental Colloquium
Alan Code
UC Berkeley
"Causal Definition and Unification of Phenomena in Aristotle"
Friday, January 12, 2007
Departmental Colloquium
Diana Raffman
University of Toronto
"Vagueness and Cognitive Science"
Friday, December 8, 2006
Departmental Colloquium
Margaret Little
Georgetown University
"Intimate Assistance: Re-Thinking Abortion in Law and Morality"
Friday, December 1, 2006
Departmental Colloquium
George Smith
Tufts University
"Testing Newton, Then and Now"
Friday, October 13, 2006
Department Colloquium
Susanne Bobzien
Yale University
"Something Surprising About Higher Order Vagueness"
Friday, June 2, 2006
Reichenbach Lecture
Brian Skyrms
UC Irvine
"Signals: Evolution, Learning, and Convention"
Friday, May 12, 2006
Department Colloquium
Akeel Bilgrami
Columbia
"The Moral Psychology of Identity"
Friday, May 5, 2006
Department Colloquium
Daniel Warren
UC Berkeley
"Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Dynamics"
Friday, April 28, 2006
Moody Conference in Medieval Philosophy
Various Speakers
"TBA"
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Department Colloquium
Ned Block
NYU
"A Puzzle about How We Could Find a Neural Correlate of Consciousness"
Friday, April 14, 2006
Department Colloquium
Scott MacDonald
Cornell
"Foundations in Aquinas's Moral Theory"
Friday, February 17, 2006
UCLA/USC Graduate Student Conference
John Perry (Keynote Speaker)
Stanford
"TBA"
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Marschak Colloquium
Patrick Suppes
Stanford University
"A Theory of Rational Choice Based on Habits and Associations rather than Preferences"
Friday, January 20, 2006
Department Colloquium
Agnieszka Jaworska
Stanford
"Moral Psychology in Practice: Lessons from Alzheimer's Disease and the "Terrible Twos""
Friday, December 9, 2005
History and Phil of Science Conference
Friedman, Holden, Terrall, Watkins, Wise
Stanford, UCSB, UCLA, UCSD, UCLA
"Talks on Science in the Enlightenment"
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Terry Parsons Fest
Ernie Lepore and Ed Zalta
Rutgers and Stanford
"TBA"
Friday, October 28, 2005
Department Colloquium
John MacFarlane
UC Berkeley
"TBA"
Friday, October 21, 2005
Department Colloquium
Saul Kripke
CUNY Graduate Center
"Conversations on Naming and Necessity"
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
Law Room 1347
Reichenbach Lecture
Alan Richardson
University of British Columbia
"One Hundred Years of Scientific Philosophy: Hans Reichenbach and the Significance of Logical Empiricism"
Friday, June 3, 2005
Department Colloquium
Jenann Ismael
University of Arizona
"Freedom and Determinism: How Self-Representation Can Make You Free"
Friday, May 27, 2005
Department Colloquium
William W. Tait
University of Chicago
"Logic and Dialectic: The Truth of Axioms"
Friday, May 20, 2005
Dodd 175
Department Colloquium
Gisela Striker
Harvard University
"Aristotle's Ethics as Political Science"
Friday, May 13, 2005
Department Colloquium
Stephen Yablo
MIT
"Presupposition Failure: Not (Always) A Problem"
Friday, April 22, 2005
Department Colloquium
Elizabeth Anderson
University of Michigan
"Dignity, Autonomy, or Equality?: Sexual Harassment in International Perspective"
Friday, April 15, 2005
Department Colloquium
Kit Fine
NYU
"Material Coincidence"
Friday, March 18, 2005
Special Philosophy of Math Workshop
Kit Fine
NYU
"Relatively Unrestricted Quantification"
Thursday, March 17, 2005
4:00pm, Dodd 399
Special History of Philosophy Talk
Alan Silverman
Ohio State University
"Philosophical Anarchy and Realpolitik in Plato"
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Department Colloquium
David Chalmers
The Australian National University
"Two Conceptions of Character"
Friday, March 11, 2005
Special Philosophy of Science Talk
Paul Hoyningen-Huene
University of Hannover
"On the Nature of Science"
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Special Philosophy of Language Workshop
David Chalmers
The Australian National University
"TBA"
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Stephen Engstrom
University of Pittsburgh
"Willing a Maxim As a Universal Law: Universal Legislation As the Form of Practical Knowledge"
Friday, February 25, 2005
Catherine Wearing
Harvard
"TBA"
Thursday, February 3, 2005
Moody Historiography of Philosophy Conference
Various
Various
"TBA"
Friday, January 28, 2005
Thomas Sattig
Oxford University
"TBA"
Monday, January 24, 2005
Peter van Inwagen
Notre Dame
"McGinn on Existence"
Friday, December 3, 2004
Warren Quinn Conference
H. Ginsborg, R. Moran, J. Raz, M. Thompson
Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, Pittsburgh
"TBA"
Friday, November 12, 2004
Conference in the Phil and Hist of Science
Smeenk, Jacob, Smith, Barrett, Stanford
UCLA, UCLA, UCLA, UCI, UCI
"Concepts of Cause: Physics, Biology, History and Philosophy"
Sunday, November 7, 2004
David Sedley
Cambridge
"Myth, Punishment and Politics in Plato's Gorgias"
Friday, October 29, 2004
Timothy Williamson
Oxford
"Armchair Philosophy, Metaphysical Modality and Counterfactual Thinking"
Friday, October 8, 2004
Hannah Ginsborg
UC Berkeley
"Kant and the Problem of Experience"
Friday, June 11, 2004
Hans Reichenbach Lecture
Charles Parsons
Harvard University
"The Problem of Absolute Universality"
Friday, June 4, 2004
Finland/UCLA Philosophy Conference
Various
for more information, see
"http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/phil/finland04.htm"
Friday, May 28, 2004
Krista Lawlor
Stanford University
"The New Privileged Access Problem"
Friday, May 14, 2004
Chris Bobonich
Stanford University
"Plato on Akrasia and Knowing Your Own Mind"
Friday, April 16, 2004
Warren Quinn Lecture
Thomas Nagel
New York University
"The Problem of Global Justice"
Friday, March 12, 2004
R. Jay Wallace
UC Berkeley
"The Publicity of Reasons"
Friday, March 5, 2004
Susanna Siegel
Harvard University
"Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception"
Friday, February 20, 2004
Special Event
Fred Stoutland
University of Uppsala
"Action Theory"
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Special Event
Fred Stoutland
University of Uppsala
"Action Theory"
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Moody Conference
See the link to the Moody Conference one page back
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/phil/Lectures/Moody.htm
"Various"
Saturday, February 14, 2004
Special Event
Lilli Alanen
University of Uppsala
"Rethinking Necessity and Making Sense: Descartes's doctrine of the creation of eternal truths"
Friday, February 13, 2004
Nicholas Silins
Oxford University
"Are Reasons for Belief Facts?"
Monday, February 9, 2004
Imogen Dickie
Oxford University
"Looking for Things to Talk about"
Friday, January 30, 2004
James Higginbotham
University of Southern California
"Compositionality"
Friday, December 5, 2003
Michael Martin
University College London
"The Claims of Transparency"
Friday, November 14, 2003
"DavidFest" Event
Tony Anderson, Paul Hovda
UCSB, Reed College
"Logical Aspects of Davids Work"
Saturday, October 18, 2003
"DavidFest" Event
Ben Caplan, Erin Eaker, Stavroula Glezakos
U. of Manitoba, U. of Western Ontario, Claremont
"Davids Philosophy of Language and Mind"
Saturday, October 18, 2003
"DavidFest" Event
Tyler Burge
UCLA
"Dinnertime Roasting of David"
Saturday, October 18, 2003
"DavidFest" Event
Nathan Salmon
UC Santa Barbara
"Introduction to Davids Life and Works"
Friday, October 17, 2003
Huw Price
University of Edinburgh
"Naturalism without Reductionism"
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Krister Segerberg
University of Uppsala
"What Are Actions, and What Would a Logic of Actions Look Like?"
Friday, May 16, 2003
Michael Otsuka
University College London
"Skepticism about Saving the Greater Number"
Friday, May 2, 2003
Dodd 175
Gyula Klima
Fordham University
"The Essentialist Nominalism of John Buridan"
Friday, April 18, 2003
Joint Colloquium with UCLA Law School
David Lyons
Boston University
"The Structure of a Reparations Argument: False Promises, Political Responsibility, and Equal Opportunity"
Friday, April 4, 2003
Michael Kremer
University of Chicago
"Logicist Responses to Kant: (Early) Frege and (Early) Russell"
Friday, February 28, 2003
Dodd 175
Metaphysics Workshop Colloquium
Robert Stalnaker
MIT
"Mary Tales: Variations on a Theme of Frank Jackson"
Friday, February 21, 2003
Sheldon Smith
Ohio State University
"Armstrong on the Relationship between Causation and Laws"
Thursday, February 6, 2003
Niko Kolodny
UC Berkeley
"Partiality and Morality"
Thursday, January 30, 2003
Philosophy of Language Workshop Special Event
Ernie Lepore
Rutgers University
"Context Shifting Arguments"
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Carolina Sartorio
MIT
"How To Be Responsible for Something without Causing It"
Thursday, January 16, 2003
Scott Soames
Princeton University
"Roots of Two-Dimensionalist Error: (Mis)Reading Kripke and Kaplan"
Friday, December 6, 2002
Lynne Rudder Baker
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"How Mental Causation Is Possible"
Friday, November 22, 2002
Dodd 175
Houston Smit
University of Arizona
"What Can We Know about Things in Themselves?"
Friday, November 15, 2002
Albritton Commemoration
Kit Fine
New York University
"Frege's Puzzle"
Saturday, November 9, 2002
Faculty Center
Albritton Commemoration�Panel Discussion
Paul Hoffman, Thomas Nagel, and Barry Stroud
UC Riverside, NYU, and UC Berkeley
"Freedom of Action and Freedom of Will"
Saturday, November 9, 2002
Albritton Commemoration
Stanley Cavell
Harvard University
"Two Tales of Winter: Eric Rohmer and Shakespeare"
Friday, November 8, 2002
Faculty Center
In-House Colloquium
Joseph Almog
UCLA
"Pains & Brains"
Friday, May 31, 2002
Dodd 175
Deborah Brown
University of Queensland
"Descartes on False Ideas"
Friday, May 24, 2002
Hieronymi
George Wilson
UC Davis
"Skepticism in the Skeptical Solution"
Friday, May 10, 2002
Dodd 175/399
John Perry
Stanford University
"Reflexivity and Concepts"
Friday, May 3, 2002
Dodd 175
Reichenbach Lecture
Michael L. Friedman
Indiana University
"Scientific Philosophy and the Dynamics of Reason"
Friday, April 19, 2002
Dodd 175 & 399
Brigitte Rosenkranz Memorial Lecture
Stephen Read
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
"Concepts & Meaning in Medieval Philosophy"
Friday, April 12, 2002
Dodd 175
Hans Lottenbach
University of Pittsburgh
"Passionate Thought"
Friday, April 5, 2002
Dodd 175
Charles Parsons
Harvard University
"Putnam on Realism and 'Empiricism' in Mathematics"
Friday, March 15, 2002
Dodd 175
Alison McIntyre
Wellesley College
"Why Weakness of Will Never Takes Us Completely by Surprise"
Friday, March 8, 2002
Dodd 175/399
Martin Davies
Australian National University
"The Problem of Armchair Knowledge"
Friday, December 7, 2001
3 PM, Dodd 175?
"RuthFest" Lecture
Judith Jarvis Thomson
MIT
"Omissions & Causality"
Saturday, December 1, 2001
2 PM, Law School 1420
"RuthFest" Lecture
Kit Fine
New York University
"Unrestricted Quantification & the Barcan Formula"
Saturday, December 1, 2001
10 AM, Law School 1420
"RuthFest" Lecture
Terry Parsons
UCLA
"Pandoran Metaphysics"
Friday, November 30, 2001
3PM, Dodd 175
Robert Stalnaker
MIT
"What is it like to be a Zombie?"
Friday, November 9, 2001
TBA
David Lewis Memorial
Various
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Monday, November 5, 2001
Arthur Ripstein
University of Toronto Law School
"Authority and Coercion"
Friday, November 2, 2001
Dodd 175
Stephen Yablo
MIT
"Causation as Dependence"
Friday, October 12, 2001
3 PM, Dodd 175?
Nicholas Sturgeon
Cornell University
"Intuitionism and Ethical Naturalism"
Friday, May 4, 2001
Dodd 399
Jeffrey King
UC Davis
"Remarks on the Syntax and Semantics of Day Designators"
Friday, April 6, 2001
Dodd 399, 3PM
Matthew Hanser
UC Santa Barbara
"Permissibility and Practical Inference"
Friday, March 2, 2001
Dodd 399
Stephen Neale
Rutgers University
"The Verbs 'Mean', 'Refer', 'State' and 'Imply'"
Friday, February 23, 2001
Dodd 399
EA Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop
Various
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Friday, February 16, 2001
Royce 306
C. J. Rowe
University of Durham
"Handling a Philosophical Text: Commentators, Translators and the Truth"
Friday, February 9, 2001
Dodd 399
History Occasional Colloquium
Ken Saito
Osaka Prefecture University
"Induction in Greek Mathematics"
Sunday, January 21, 2001
Dodd 399
Kit Fine
NYU
"The Varieties of Necessity"
Friday, December 8, 2000
T. M. Scanlon
Harvard University
"Moral Assessment and the Agent"
Tuesday, November 28, 2000
PP 1246; Dodd 399
Kalish Commemoration
Various
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Friday, November 17, 2000
Royce 306/362
Josh Cohen
MIT
"Privacy, Pluralism & Democracy"
Thursday, November 16, 2000
Law School 1430
History of Philosophy Colloquium
Henrik Lagerlund
Uppsala University
"Thinking in Language � Pierre d�Ailly on Semantics and Psychology"
Tuesday, November 7, 2000
Dodd 399
History Occasional Colloquium
Rega Wood
Yale University
"Richard Rufus of Cornwall"
Tuesday, October 31, 2000
Dodd 399, 1:00 PM
Reichenbach Lecture
Kit Fine
NYU
"The Question of Realism"
Friday, March 10, 2000
Law 1357 & Dodd 399
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