Colloquium Series Past Events

Spring 2007
April 13, Andy Egan, "Billboards, Bombs and Shotgun Weddings: A Case for Content Relativism"

Fall 2006
Kaiser Ethics Lecture, September 8, 2006, Stephen J. Macedo, "US Immigration Policy & Social Justice
November 17, Tait Szabo, " Sex and Commerce: Feminist Approaches "

Spring 2006 March 26-29, Dave Chalmers, "The Matrix as Metaphysics" and "Probability and Propositions."

Fall 2005 September 16-17, Elliot Sober, "The Design Argument" and "Epiphenomenalism - Do's and Don'ts"
October 28, Bernie Rollin, "Science, Society, and the Value of Good Philosophy"

Spring 2005
February 11, Franz-Peter Griesmaier, "Norms of Rationality and Levels of Epistemic Sophistication"
February 18, George Sher, "When Good People do BadThings"
April 1, Carlos Mellizo, "Francisco Sanchez of Tui (1550-1623) & the New Science"
April 15, Robert Pasnau, "After Medieval Philosophy, What? An Essay on Periodization"
April 29, Ronald Giere, "Scientific Perspectives"

Fall 2004
October 4, John Bengson, "How to See With Your Eyes Shut"
October 22, Abigail Gosselin, "Causal Considerations a Poverty"
November 12, Jim Forrester, "Why are the late Platonic Dialogues so Strange"
November 19, Brendan Jackson, "Areas of Research: Philosophy of Language; Metaphysics; Metaethics"

Spring 2004
February 6, Christopher Shields, "Diachronic Unity: The Ship of Theseus and Theseus the Man"
February 25, George Sher, "Out of Control: On the Relation Between Being In Control of What We Do and Being Responsible For It"
April 2, Carlos Mellizo, "Hume and Institutional Theory"
April 16, Philip Cafaro, "Thoreau's Environmental Ethics: 150 Years After Walden"