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Philosophy Department
UC Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone (831) 459-2070
Fax (831) 459-2650

• Fall 2007
• Winter 2008
• Spring 2008

FALL 2007

Margaret Gilbert, Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
"Commands and their practical import"
Thursday, October 11, 4:00 pm

Jonathan Moreno, Professor of Medical Ethics, the David & Lyn Silfen University Professor, and Professor of the History and Sociology of Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania
"The Ethics of Human Experimentation for National Security Purposes"
Monday, October 29, 5:00 pm, Stevenson College, Fireside Lounge
Dr.Moreno is a Stevenson College Alumni Association Distinguished Visiting Professor.

Sarah Richardson, Stanford University
"Contextual Values and Sex Differences in the Genome"
Thursday, November 15, 4:00 pm
This talk is co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research.
View the abstract here.

Sam Cumming, University of California, Los Angeles
"Hypercontexts"
Friday, November 16, 4:30 pm
This is a joint colloquium with the Linguistics Department.

Jessica Heineman-Pieper
"Resolving the Ghost in the Mirror: The Structure of Authentic Mental Causation in a Physical World"
Thursday, December 6, 4:00 pm
View the abstract here.

WINTER 2008

Ted Toadvine, University of Oregon
"The Question of the Animal in Merleau-Ponty"
Thursday, February 7, 4:00 pm, Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson College
View the abstract here.

Judith Baker, York University
"Rationality without Reasons"
Monday, February 11, 2:00 pm
View the abstract here.

Barbara Herman, University of California, Los Angeles
"Can a Kantian ever argue that ends justify means?"
Thursday, February 21, 4:00 pm

Eric Schliesser, University of Leiden
"The Newtonian Refutation of Spinoza"
Monday, February 25, 12:30 pm

Lydia Patton, Virginia Tech
"Regularity without covering laws: causality and the a priori"
Thursday, February 28, 4:00 pm
View the abstract here.

Amy Allen, Dartmouth College
"Rationalizing Oppression"
Monday, March 3, 12:45 pm
View the abstract here.

Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh
"Two conceptions of subjective experience"
Thursday, March 6, 4:00 pm
View the abstract here.

**NEW**
Ian Hacking, Visiting Professor in Philosophy; Chair holder of the Peggy Downes Baskin Endowed Humanities Chair for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics
"The Secrets of Nature"
Tuesday, March 11, 6:00 pm
This talk is co-sponsored by the Humanities Division.

Grant Fisher, University College, London
"Evidence in the context of action"
Thursday, March 13, 4:00 pm
This talk is co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research.
View the abstract here.

Additional Lectures of Interest

The UCSC History of Consciousness Department presents:
Paul Davies, University of California, Los Angeles
"On lingering (with Kant's account of beauty)"
Monday, February 4, 4:30 pm, Humanities 1, room 416
This talk is co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department.

The UCSC Center for Cultural Studies presents:
Ian Hacking, College de France
"Will You Be Known by Your Genes or The Company You Keep?"
CANCELLED
This talk is co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department.

SPRING 2008

Mario Gomez-Torrente, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
"On an argument for epistemic non-factualism"
Monday, April 7, 2:30 pm
View the abstract here.

Eugenia Allier, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
"The Mexican 68: History and memory"
Tuesday, April 8, 4:00 pm, Silverman Conference Room
View the abstract here.

Lenny Moss, University of Exeter
"What Does it (Really) Mean to be Human? From Post-Genomic Biology to a Reconstruction of Philosophical Anthropology"
Thursday, April 17, 4:00 pm

Ernest Lepore, Rutgers University
"The Heresy of Paraphrase"
Thursday, April 24, 4:00 pm
Presented by the Santa Cruz Language and Linguistics Group
View the abstract here.

Dorothea Olkowski, University of Colorado
“Every ‘One’ - a Crowd, Making Room for the Excluded Middle”
Thursday, May 1, 4:00 pm
View the abstract here.

John Zammito, Rice University
"Should Kant have Abandoned the 'Daring Adventure of Reason'? The Interest of Contemporary Naturalism in the Historicization of Nature in German Idealism"
**Note new location**
Thursday, May 8, 4:00 pm, Silverman Conference Room
View the abstract here.

Peter Carruthers, University of Maryland
"How we know our own minds: a dual-method theory"
**Note new location**
Thursday, May 15, 4:00 pm , Silverman Conference Room
Presented by the Santa Cruz Language and Linguistics Group
View the abstract here.