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New York University
Department of Philosophy

Lectures in the Philosophy Department, 2012–2013

General Colloquia

Colloquia are on selected Fridays from 3:30pm to 5:30pm, and will take place in the second floor seminar room (room 202), 5 Washington Place, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call the department at (212) 998-8320.

Fall 2012

October 5, 12 p.m. Anandi Hattiangadi, "The Fundamentality of Intentionality". Show abstract.
October 12 Kris McDaniel. "Degrees of Being". Show abstract.
October 26 Susanna Siegel. "Can Selection Effects on Experience Influence its Rational Role?" Show abstract.
December 7 Delia Graff Fara. "'Circularity is No Problem for Predicativism".

Spring 2013

February 1 Jonardon Ganeri "Self-Representation and the Memory of One’s Subjective Past: A Proposal in Buddhist Philosophy of Mind"
February 8 Kevin Coffey "Interpretation and Equivalence in Classical Gravitation"
February 15 Jacob Chandler "Reasons to Believe and Reasons to Not"
March 1 Whitney Schwab
March 8 Gabriel Rabin "Conceptual Mastery and the Knowledge Argument"
April 5 Niko Kolodny "Rule over None: Social Equality and the Value of Democracy" Show abstract.
April 26 Andrew Chignell "Kantian ways of knowing (and not-knowing)" Show abstract.
May 10 2013 Mala Kamm Lecture, given by Susan Wolf "Responsibility, Moral and Otherwise" Show abstract.

Brown Bag Lunches

Brown bag lunches take place in the second floor seminar room (room 202), 5 Washington Place, unless otherwise noted.

Fall 2013

September 14
4:00–6:00pm
Pierre Jacob (Institut Nicod). "A Puzzle for Belief-Ascription". This is a paper that has much the same content as what Jacob will present. Show abstract.
October 5
12:00–2:00pm
Anandi Hattiangadi
October 29
12:30–2:30pm
Åsa Wikforss (Stockholm University). " Why mental content is not transparent - and why it does not matter". Show abstract.
October 5
12:00–2:00pm
Anandi Hattiangadi
November 2
12:00–2:00pm
Geoffrey Hellman
"Modal-structural resolution of set-theoretic paradoxes"
Special Lecture:
November 6
11:00am–1:00pm, Rm 202
Alison Gopnik (Psychology, Berkeley). "Why children are better causal learners than adults are: Search, temperature and the origins of human cognition." Show abstract.

Spring 2013

May 13th
1:00pm–3:00pm
Lizzie Fricker (Magdalen College, Oxford). "Intellectual Self-Trust and Trust in Others - an Argument from Analogy?"Show abstract.