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Philosophy Department
Colloquia Series

2008-09 Lectures

Please Note: All colloquia will be held in the Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson College, unless otherwise noted.

Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia may be used for the colloquia course, Phil 280. For information on Phil 280, please click here.


FALL 2008

Gila Sher, UC San Diego
"Is Logic in the Mind or in the World?"
Thursday, October 23, 4:00 pm
Abstract

Isabelle Peschard, San Francisco State University
"The Temporal Dimension of Models"
Thursday, October 30, 4:00 pm
Abstract


Sam Cumming, UC Los Angeles
"Creatures of Darkness"
Thursday, November 13, 4:00 pm
Presented by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group
Abstract

Yotam Benziman, UC Santa Cruz and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Forgiving Without Forgetting"
Thursday, December 4, 4:00 pm
Abstract


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WINTER 2009

Philosophy Job Talks
(Please note date, time, and location of each talk.)

Kritika Yegnashankaran, Harvard University
“Reconceiving Reason”
Monday, January 26, 3:00 pm, Cowell Conference Room

Eric Schliesser, University of Leiden
"Newtonian Emanation, Measurement, and the Baconian Origins of the Laws of Nature: with a few remarks on Newton's Spinozism"
Thursday, January 29, 4:00 pm, Stevenson Silverman Conference Room


Holly Andersen, University of Pittsburgh
“The Internalization of Conscious Agency”
Monday, February 2, 3:00 pm, Cowell Conference Room

Anabella Zagura, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Love as a Way of Valuing"
Wednesday, February 4, 3:30 pm, Stevenson Silverman Conference Room
Abstract


Vanessa Carbonell, University of Michigan
"Moral Saints and the Ratcheting-Up Effect"
Tuesday, February 17, 4:00 pm, Stevenson Silverman Conference Room
Abstract


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SPRING 2009

Adam Elga, Princeton University
"How to be Incoherent, and Why"
Thursday, April 16, 4:00 pm, Humanities Room 202
*Presented by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group
Abstract

Simon Critchley, The New School for Social Research
"To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die"
Thursday, April 23, 4:00 pm, Stevenson Silverman Conference Room
*Co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies

James Griesemer, UC Davis
"Tracking Mendel: On Process-Following, Notation and Representation in
Mendel's Experiments in Plant Hybridization"

Thursday, May 7, 4:00 pm, Stevenson Silverman Conference Room


Jesse Prinz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Role of Emotions in Moral Judgment"
Thursday, May 21, 4:00 pm, Stevenson Silverman Conference Room


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