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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). “Reflections on the Evolution of Morality.”
  • March 5, 2010: John Broome (Oxford).
  • April 16, 2010: John Hawthorne.

Additional talks to be announced.

Brown Bag Lunches

Brown bag lunches take place in the 3rd floor seminar room, 5 Washington Place.
  • September 25, 2009: Frederieke Moltmann.
  • October 2, 2009: Frederieke Moltmann.
  • February 12, 2010, 12:30–2:30pm: Dominic Murphy. “Why There's No Such Thing As Introspection.”

Bioethics Talks

Bioethics talks take place in room 202, 5 Washington Place, unless otherwise noted.
  • 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.”
  • February 26, 4–6pm: S. Matthew Liao. “Intentions and Moral Permissibility.”
  • March 26, 4–6pm: Jeff McMahan.

Special Lectures

  • November 16: Nancy Cartwright (UCSD, LSE). Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture.
  • December 4, 4–6pm: Ned Hall (Harvard), Sosin Lecture. “Humean reductionism about laws of nature.” Room 101, 5 Washington Place.
  • April 9, 2009: Gideon Rosen (Princeton), Sosin Lecture. “Coercion, Manipulation and the Limits of Responsibility.”
  • April 23, 2010: Seana Shiffrin (UCLA), Mala Kamm Memorial Lecture in Value Theory.

Philosophy Colloquia at Other New York-area Departments

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