Colloquia, Conferences and Works in Progress

The campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia, conferences and works in progress.

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Spring 2012

  • Maeve Cooke, Dublin, Ireland: Social Freedom
  • Warren Sack, DANM, UCSC: Narrative Intelligence
  • Abe Stone: Phenomenological Workshop

Winter 2012

Fall 2011

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Spring 2011

Winter 2011

  • John MacFarlane, UC Berkeley: A Puzzle About Modal Necessity 

Fall 2010

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Spring 2010

  • Justin Tiwald, San Francisco State University: The Confucian Stance on the Practice of Rights-Claiming
  • Sally Sedgwick, University of Illinois at Chicago: Reason and History: Kant versus Hegel
  • Peter Hylton, University of Illinois at Chicago: Ideas of a Logically Perfect Language in Analytic Philosophy
  • Thomas Ricketts, University of Pittsburgh: Inference, Semantics, and Formal Rigor in Frege
  • Adam Sennet, University of California, Davis: Defining Unarticulated Constituents
  • Krista Lawlor, Stanford University: Assurance as Action: Themes from Austin and a suggestion from Wittgenstein's "On Certainty"

Winter 2010

  • Elaine Landry, University of California, Davis: Recollection in Plato's "Meno": Method, Myth or Necessary Hypothesis?
  • David Carr, Emory University: On the Concept of Experience

Fall 2009

  • Doug Hutchinson, University of Toronto: Socrates in prison, again: a second 'Second Apology' in P.Köln205
  • Alyssa Ney, University of Rochester: Mass, Charge, and the Rest
  • Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir, San Francisco State University: Human Kinds as Conferred Kinds
  • Kirk Sanders, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana: Further reflections on Socrates' trial (and guilt), with special reference to Xenophon as a source