Colloquium Series - Past Events
The department of Philosophy at the University of Wyoming provides a series of speakers throughout the semester on a variety of topics. Speakers and dates are available of upcoming events as well as past events.
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Spring 2009 |
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3/27/09 "Mill on Religion: A New Look" |
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3/5/09 Click here to view his talk. |
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2/27/09 "Intuition, Causation, and Explanation" |
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2/20/09 "Counterfactual Entailment" |
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Fall 2008 |
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9/19/08 "Plato on the Power of Ignorance" |
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10/3/08 "Intuition & Calibration" |
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10/17/08 "Epistemic Luck" |
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11/7/08 "Ulysses Contracts and the Significance of Consent" |
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11/14/08 "Persisting Acts" |
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11/21/08 "Can Gratitude Serve as a Basis for Political Obligation?" |
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Spring 2008 |
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May 13 - 17, 2008 |
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Fall 2007 |
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September 29 Beth Tropman, "Renewing Moral Intuitionism" Mark van Roojen, "Moral Rationalism and Rational Amoralism" |
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October 12, 2007 "Nature and the City or The Utility of Hunting" |
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October 19, 2007 "Consciousness and Essential Embodiment" |
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November 16, 2007 "Justice, Development, and Just Development: An Institutional Analysis of Development" |
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November 30, 2007 "Ethical Vegetarianism: Feminist Obligation or Patriarchal Burden?" |
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Spring 2007 |
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April 13 "Billboards, Bombs and Shotgun Weddings: A Case for Content Relativism" |
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Fall 2006 |
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Kaiser Ethics Lecture, September 8, 2006 "US Immigration Policy & Social Justice |
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November 17 "Sex and Commerce: Feminist Approaches " |
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Spring 2006 |
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March 26-29 "The Matrix as Metaphysics" and "Probability and Propositions." |
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Fall 2005 |
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September 16-17 "The Design Argument" and "Epiphenomenalism - Do's and Don'ts" |
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October 28 |
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Spring 2005 |
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February 11 "Norms of Rationality and Levels of Epistemic Sophistication" |
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February 18 "When Good People do BadThings" |
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April 1 "Francisco Sanchez of Tui (1550-1623) & the New Science" |
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April 15 "After Medieval Philosophy, What? An Essay on Periodization" |
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April 29 "Scientific Perspectives" |
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Fall 2004 |
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October 4 "How to See With Your Eyes Shut" |
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October 22 "Causal Considerations a Poverty" |
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November 12 "Why are the late Platonic Dialogues so Strange" |
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November 19 "Areas of Research: Philosophy of Language; Metaphysics; Metaethics" |
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Spring 2004 |
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February 6 "Diachronic Unity: The Ship of Theseus and Theseus the Man" |
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February 25 "Out of Control: On the Relation Between Being In Control of What We Do and Being Responsible For It" |
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April 2 "Hume and Institutional Theory" |
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April 16 "Thoreau's Environmental Ethics: 150 Years After Walden" |
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