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Department of Philosophy

Schedule of Weekly Wednesday Meetings

Time: 12:00-1:20 pm
Location: 731 Heller Hall (unless otherwise noted)

SPRING 2012
DATE PRESENTER TOPIC
01/18/12 Shay Logan On the reduction of mathematics to set theory
01/25/12 Frédéric Bouchard Knowing why it’s appropriate to rely on scientific experts (and when it’s not) - MCPS Visiting Fellow (University of Montreal)
02/01/12 Haidar Al-Dhalimy An epistemic puzzle about infinite exchanges
02/08/12 Yi Deng Property rights and cosmopolitan right in Kant's political philosophy
02/15/12 Britt Johnson Virtue and health care: beneficence, not business
02/22/12 Alan Love Apportioning causal responsibility in reductive explanations of ontogeny
02/29/12 Jason Steffen Social epistemology and the criminal law
03/07/12 Maran Wolston Philosophers are the worst kind of patients
03/14/12 No Meeting Spring Break
03/21/12 Roy Cook The paradox of logical validity
03/28/12 Molly Paxton Quantifying the gender gap: An empirical study on the under-representation of women in philosophy
04/04/12 Peter Truran Practical implications of the philosophy of science - MCPS Visiting Fellow
04/11/12 Taylor Murphy Mindreading and evolutionary developmental cognitive
neuroscience
04/18/12 Joe Paxton Reasoning and reflection in moral judgment - Visitor (Harvard University)
04/25/12 Peter Hanks Propositions as types III: Propositional attitude reports
05/02/12 Brian Wilson On obligations
05/09/12 Douglas Marshall Taking applications of mathematics inside mathematics seriously - MCPS Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow

Abbreviations

DRPP: Department Research Partnership Program
CLA GRPP: College of Liberal Arts, Graduate Research Partnership Program
WIP: Work in Progress

Upcoming Colloquium

Our colloquium series will resume in fall semester 2012. See you then!

Other Events

List of All Future Colloquia Events

Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science Events