General Colloquia in the Philosophy Department

Colloquia are on selected Fridays from 4:00-6:00pm, and will take place in the First Floor Seminar Room (room 101), 5 Washington Place, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call the department at (212) 998-8320.

• September 18, 2009: Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt). “The Limited Significance of Self-Consciousness.”
• October 16, 2009: Verity Harte (Yale). “Audience Psychology in Plato Republic 10.”
• February 19, 2010: Christine Korsgaard (Harvard).
• March 5, 2010: John Broome (Oxford).

Additional talks to be announced.

Brown Bag Lunches

• September 25, 2009: Frederieke Moltmann.
• October 2, 2009: Frederieke Moltmann.

Bioethics Talks

• September 24, time and place TBA: Martin Bunzl (Rutgers). “Us versus Them—Carbon Output in the Developing World.”
• October 9, 4–6pm: Onora O'Neill (Cambridge). “Making Reason Public: Necessary Conditions for Dialogue and Discourse—Rawls, Habermas and Kant.” 5 Washington Place, 1st Floor auditorium.
• October 23, 4–6pm: Anja Karnein. “Should We Genetically Manipulate Future Persons?”
• November 20, 4–6pm (moved from Nov. 13): James Griffin (Oxford, Rutgers). “Ethics Naturalized.”

Special Lectures

• November 16, 2009: Nancy Cartwright (UCSD, LSE). Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture.
• December 4, 2009: Ned Hall (Harvard), Sosin Lecture. “Humean reductionism about laws of nature.”
• April 9, 2009: Gideon Rosen (Princeton), Sosin Lecture. “Coercion, Manipulation and the Limits of Responsibility.”
• April 23, 2010: Seanna Schiffrin (UCLA), Mala Kamm Memorial Lecture in Value Theory.

Philosophy Colloquia at Other New York-area Departments

• City University of New York, Graduate School
• Columbia University
• The New School, Graduate Faculty
• Princeton University
• Rutgers University

Click here for a list of colloquia from previous years.