University of Minnesota, Department of Philosophy Colloquia

This page contains information about upcoming philosophy and philosophy-related colloquia at the University of Minnesota. This page is frequently updated - please check back regularly.

• All colloquia take place on Fridays, unless otherwise noted.

• Department of Philosophy (Phil) colloquia take place at 3:30 pm, rooms to be announced. Please check the Announcements bar on the Department of Philosophy homepage for updates.

• Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science (MCPS) and History of Science and Technology (HST) colloquia take place at 3:30 pm in 131 Physics, unless otherwise noted.

Fall 2007
Friday, Sept. 28

Peter Railton, University of Michigan
3:30 p.m., 1-132 Carlson School of Management
"Rational Desire and Rationality in Desiring"

Monday, Oct.8

James Woodward, California Institute of Technology
3:30 p.m., 30 Hubert Humphrey Center
"Causation in Biology: Stability, Specificity, and the Choice of Levels of Explanation"
Friday, Nov. 2

Ken Manders, University of Pittsburgh
3:30 p.m., 1-132 Carlson School of Management
"Representation vs. Ontology in Mathematics"

Friday, Nov. 16

Donald Morrison, Rice University
3:30 p.m., 1-132 Carlson School of Management
"Conceptions of Analysis as a Philosophical Method in Later Greek Philosophy"

Friday, Nov. 30

Louis Goble, Willamette University
3:30 p.m., 1-132 Carlson School of Management
"Preemption and the Logic of Ought"

Friday, Dec. 7

Laura Snyder, St. Johns University
3:35 p.m., Room 131, Tate Lab of Physics
"Bold Leaps: Guesses or Inferences? Analogical Reasoning in Science"

Monday, Dec. 10

Giovanni Giorgini, University of Bologna
12:00 noon, Room L-122, Carlson School of Management
"Relativism and Its Discontents"
 
Spring 2008
Friday, Feb. 1

Kieran Setiya, University of Pittsburgh
3:30 p.m., 1-132 Carlson School of Management
"Believing at Will"

Friday,Feb. 29

Michael Root, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
3:30 p.m., 131 Physics; reception at 3:15 p.m. in 216 Physics
"Stratifying a Population by Race"

Friday, Mar. 7

Richard Kraut, Northwestern University
3:30 p.m., 1-132 Carlson School of Management
"Politics and the Good: Reflections on Rawls"

Friday, Mar.28

John MacFarlane, University of California, Berkeley
3:30 p.m., 1-143 Carlson School of Management
"Ought: Between Objective and Subjective"
Friday, Apr.4 H. Tristram Engelhardt, Rice University
3:30 p.m., 1-132 Carlson School of Managment
"The Death of God in Glauben and Wissen: Hegel's Recasting of Religion"
Friday, Apr.4

John Doris, Washington University
2:30 p.m., 131 Physics
Sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
"On Reflection ... (more or less)"
Friday, May 2

Norman Dahl, University of Minnesota
3:30 p.m., 1-132 Carlson School of Management
"Contemplation and Eudaimonia in the Nichomachean Ethics"

Friday, May 9

Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland
3:30 p.m., 1-132 Carlson School of Management
"Toward a Non-Minimalist Conception of Aesthetic Experience"

 

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