Home | Events > Recent Colloquiums Colloquium Speakers 2008 May 2, 2008 R.Jay Wallace (UC Berkeley) TBA April 14, 2008 Alan Hajek (ANU) "Most Counterfactuals are False" April 10, 2008 BACAP Heike Sefrin-Weis TBA April 4, 2008 James Pryor (NYU) TBA March 28, 2008 David Chalmers (ANU) "From the Aufbau to the Canberra Plan" Februrary 29, 2008 R.Lanier Anderson (Stanford) TBA 2007 December 7, 2007 Cian Dorr (Pittsburgh) "Transparency and the Context-Sensitivity of Attitude Reports" November 29, 2007 BACAP Rachana Kamtekar (U. of Arizona) "The Powers of Plato's Tripartite Psychology" Commentator: Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) November 16, 2007 Sydney Shoemaker (Cornell) "Self-Intimation and Second-Order Belief" November 15, 2007 Pierre Destree (U. of Louvain) "On the Impossibility of Happiness Without Virtue" (in conjunction with the Brown Classics Department) November 9, 2007 Peter Menzies (Macquarie University) "Do Causal Statements Have Actual World Truthmakers?" October 19 - 20, 2007 Brown Graduate Conference Keynote Speaker: Tim Scanlon (Harvard) "Means and Ends" September 28, 2007 David Velleman (NYU) "Artificial Agency" April 27 - 28, 2007 Shapiro Conference at Brown: Causal and Epistemic Asymmetry April 13, 2007 Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State) "We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident. But What do We Mean by That?" March 16, 2007 Adam Morton (University of Alberta) "Why is it Difficult to Know What is Difficult?" February 23, 2007 Phillip Pettit (Princeton) "Rationality and Reasoning: The Case of Groups" February 9, 2007 Daniel Korman (University of Texas at Austin) "Restricted Composition Without Sharp Cut-Offs " February 5, 2007 Katherine Dunlop (Stanford) "The Unity of Time's Measure: Kant's Reply to Locke" January 26, 2007 Louis deRosset (University of Vermont) "Reference and Response" January 22, 2007 Jeremy Heis (Pittsburgh) "Abstracting Concepts and Constructing Concepts" 2006 December 1, 2006 Hartry Field (NYU) “Vagueness, Higher-Order Indeterminacy, Semantic Paradoxes” November 10, 2006 Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers) "On the Limits of A Priori Physicalism" October 27, 2006 John Campbell (UC Berkeley) "What's the Role of Spatial Awareness in Perception of Objects?" October 13 - 14, 2006 Graduate Student Conference Keynote Speaker: Ted Sider (Rutgers) October 5, 2006: BACAP Pierre-Marie Morel (University of Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne) "Method and Evidence (enargeia): the Epicurean prolepsis" Commentator: David Konstan September 25 - 29, 2006 Frank Jackson (ANU) Blackwell/Brown Lectures Lecture 1, September 25: "Sentences and Representation" Lecture 2, September 27: "Two-dimensionalism and Representational Content" Lecture 3, September 29: "Proper Names" September 15, 2006 Paul Guyer (UPenn) "Naturalistic and Transcendental Moments in Kant's Moral Philosophy" April 26, 2006 Brad Inwood (Toronto) April 17- 21, 2006 Robert Stalnaker (MIT) Royce Lectures April 7, 2006 Gideon Rosen (Princeton) March 10, 2006 Larry Sklar (Michigan) February 17, 2006 Dorothy Edgington (Oxford) February 3, 2006 Bill Brewer (Warwick) 2005 December 2, 2005 Karen Bennett (Princeton) November 18, 2005 George Bealer (UT-Austin) November 15, 2005 Duncan Pritchard (Stirling) November 4, 2005 Ned Block (NYU) November 1, 2005 Jonathan Kvanvig (Missouri) October 25, 2005 Tamar Gendler (Cornell) October 21, 2005 Jesse Prinz (UNC) October 14 - 15, 2005 Graduate Student Conference Keynote Speaker: Michael Smith (Princeton) October 13, 2005 Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) September 26-30, 2005 Timothy Williamson, Blackwell/Brown Lectures September 9, 2005 John Hawthorne (Rutgers) April 8 - 9, 2005 Practical Reason Conference Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room, Pembroke Campus. April 18, 2005 Stew Cohen (Arizona State University), April 22, 2005 Jason Stanley (Rutgers) April 28, 2005: BACAP Thomas Johansen (Edinburgh) "Aristotle on Common Sense" Commentator: Aryeh Kosman (Haverford) 2004 December 3 Tyler Burge (UCLA) November 5 Steven Yablo (MIT) October 8 Robert Brandom, (Pittsburgh) October 15 - 16 Ninth Annual Brown Philosophy Graduate Conference September 17 Joseph Raz (Oxford, visiting Prof. at Columbia) September 10 Alison Simmons (Harvard) March 1, 5:30 pm Michael Martin, University College, London March 12, 6:00 pm Karen Bennett, Princeton University March 22, 5:30 pm Ruth Chang, Rutgers University 2003 September 15 Frank Arntzenius, Rutgers September 22 Tim Crane, University College London October 20 Anil Gupta, Pittsburgh October 28-30 John Broome, Oxford November 10 Ken Walton, University of Michigan November 17 Ruth Milikan, U. Conn December 1 Pierre Pellegrin, Rutgers March 11 Richard Heck, Harvard University April 2 Dominic Scott, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge April 8 Stephen Yablo, Professor of Philosophy, MIT April 15 John Simmons, Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia April 17 Anthony A. Long, Professor of Classics, UC Berkeley 2002 January 25 Robin Jeshion, Univ of Southern California January 28 Michael Tooley, Univ of Colorado, Boulder February 4 Christopher Hill, Univ of Arkansas March 4 Ralph Wedgwood, MIT   March 5 James Pryor, Harvard University Sept 26 Ted Sider, Rutgers University   Oct 4 David Chalmers, U. of Arizona Oct 29, 30, Nov.1 Kit Fine, NYU (Blackstone Brown Lecture Series) Nov 15 Mohan Matthen, University of British Columbia, Nov 22 Jonathan Vogel, Amherst College 2001 Iris Murdoch Conference - Spring 2001. Sept. 27 Keith Lehrer, University of Arizona Oct. 4 Christian Wildberg, Princeton University (BACP) Oct.23 Jennifer Vest, UCLA Nov.4 Martin Davies, Monash Univeristy Nov.9 Robert Audi, University of Nebraska 2000 April 7 Dominic Scott, University of Cambridge April 14 Mark Timmons, University of Memphis November 10-11 Roderick Chisholm Memorial Conference 1998 February 12 M. M. McCabe, King's College London (BACAP) February 12 Donald Zeyl, University of Rhode Island (BACAP) February 19 David Armstrong, University of Sydney, Yale Univ. March 13 Kenneth Winkler, Wellesley College April 23 Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan April 30 Liam Murphy, New York University March 19 Carl Posy, Duke University October 29 Dean Zimmerman, University of Notre Dame November 4 Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University November 19, 20 Frank A. Lewis, University of Southern California (BACAP) December 11 Vann McGee, MIT 1997 February 7 Peter Klein, Rutgers University February 28 Michael Smith, Australian National University April 4 Richard Moran, Harvard University October 17 Barry Loewer, Rutgers University October 19 Mary Louise Gill, University of Pittsburgh (BACAP) November 4, 6, 7 Hilary Putnam, Harvard University (Royce) 1996 February 14 Michael Pendlebury, University of the Witwatersrand March 1 Sarah Broadie, Princeton University (BACAP) March 14, 15 Christopher Gill, University of Exeter (BACAP) March 21 Laurence Bonjour, University of Washington April 10 Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame May 3 David McNaughton, University of Keele September 20 Michael Martin, University College, London October 23 Robert Audi, University of Nebraska November 15 Gisela Striker, Harvard University December 6 Charles Larmore, Columbia University 1995 February 24 David Lewis, Princeton University March 2 Charlotte Witt, University of New Hampshire (BACAP) March 2 Arthur Madigan S.J., Commentator, Boston College, March 16 Bill Brewer, Oxford University April 14 Larry Temkin, Rice University April 19 Selmer Bringsjord, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute April 20 Michael Pakaluk, Clark University April 24 Kwame Gyekye, University of Ghana 1994 April 7, 8 Brain McLaughlin, Rutgers University April 12 Ramon Vargas-Machuca, Franklin & Marshall College April 22 Phillip D. Cummins, University of Iowa April 29 Gregory Currie, Flinders University, Adelaide Australia Sept. 28 Lennart Aqvist, Uppsala University October 6 David Armstrong, University of Sydney October 20 Keith Lehrer, University of Arizona November 3, 4 Christopher Bobonich, University of Chicago (BACAP) November 3 Jyl Gentzler, Commentator, Amherst College November 16 Anthony Quinton, Trinity College, Oxford University 1993 March 19 Barry Loewer, Rutgers University April 23 Brad Inwood, University of Toronto April 30 Paul Boghossian, New York University May 4 Jesus Mosterin, University of Barcelona October 27-29 Sydney Shoemaker, Cornell University (Royce) December 6 Ronald De Sousa, University of Toronto 1992 March 6 Hilary Putnam, Harvard University October 22, 23 Nancy Sherman, Georgetown University (BACAP) October 28 David Brink, MIT November 6 Paul Horwich, MIT BACAP = part of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy series Royce = Josiah Royce lecture series

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