Meetings usually on Friday from
4-6pm in the Kemp Smith Room on the 3rd floor of David Hume Tower.
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Semester
1
21 September
Mark Kalderon (UCL) 'Metamerism, Constancy,
and Knowing Which'
28 September
Jesse Prinz (UNC) 'Emotions, Sentiments,
and Moral Judgments'
5 October
Joshua Gert (Florida State) 'Parfit's
Explanation of the Justifying/Requiring Distinction'
12 October
Geoff Sayre-McCord (UNC) 'A Moral Argument
Against Moral Dilemmas'
19 October
Brad Hooker (Reading) 'Fairness, Needs,
Desert'
26 October
Katherine Hawley (St. Andrews) 'Persistence
and Determination'
2 November
Tom Sorell (Birmingham) 'Naturalism, Mysterianism,
and Other Related Things in Descartes'
9 November
Staff Symposium: Matt Nudds 'Determining the content of perceptual
experiences' and Jesper Kallestrup 'Kripke's Modal Argument against
the Identity Theory'
16 November
Conference on Ancient Idealism
23 November Nadeem
Hussain (Stanford) 'Metaethics and Constructivism'
30 November
Bernard Gert (Dartmouth) 'Impartiality
and Morality' as part of the Scots
Phil Club Annual Meeting, 5pm, note special time.
Semester
2
25 January
Christian List (LSE) 'Group
Deliberation and the Revision of Judgments: An Impossibility Result'
--This talk is cohosted with the Political Thery Group of the
Dept of Politics and International Relations
1 February
Staff Symposium: Josefa Toribo 'Maps, and Seemings: Nonconceptualism
Defended (Again)' & Alasdair Richmond 'Resisting Doomsday
and Simulation Arguments' --note special place for this
event - Conference Room, Ground Floor DHT
6 February (Wed., 12pm)
Cecile Fabre (Edinburgh) 'NonCombatant Immunity
and the Duty of Good Samaritanism' --note
special day and time --This talk is cohosted with
the Political Thery Group of the Dept of Politics and International
Relations
15 February (5:15pm,
Reception Room of the McEwan Hall) Christopher
Rowe (Durham) 'Plato the Socratic' as
the A. E. Taylor Lecture
in Ancient Philosophy ---note special time/place
22 February
Max de Gaynesford (Reading) 'The Bishop,
the Chambermaid, the Wife, and the Ass: What difference does it
make if something is mine?'
29 February
Paul Faulkner (Sheffield) 'On Trust'
7 March
Peter Adamson (KCL) "Divine Attributes
and Aristotelian Logic"
14 March
Ralph Wegwood (Oxford) 'A Platonic Theory
of Reasons for Action'
19 March (Wed.)
Samir Okashs (Bristol) TBA --note
special day
8 April (5pm)
Alvin Goldman (Rutgers) 'Externalism and
the Architecture of Justification' as the Nature
of Knowledge Lecture --note special time/place
18 April
Frans de Haas (Leiden) cancelled: Prof.
de Haas will give his paper on May 10 (see next section)
Specially
Organised
28 January (5:30) Robert
Zaborowski (Polish Academy), "Some neglected details in Plato's
Phaedrus",
Faculty Room South,
DHT - Philosophy and Classics event sponsored by RSE
19 February (3-6pm)
Richard Holton (MIT) 'Determinism, Self-Efficacy and the Phenomenology
of Free Will' & Rae Langton (MIT) 'Esteem in the Economy of
Sexual Oppression'
9 May Malcolm
Schofield (Cambridge) 'Music and the soul:
Republic and Laws'
10 May 'Aspects of Ancient
Philosophy' (meeting of Classical
Association of Scotland, David Hume Tower, Conference Room
(Ground Floor))):
11:30: Frans de Haas
(Leiden): ‘ Aristotle on consciousness: the Greek text and modern
philosophical expectations '
2:40: Patricia Clarke
(Aberdeen): ‘Some comments on Plato's Theaetetus '
3:10: Richard Stalley (Glasgow):
‘The Origin of Justice'
