Upcoming Sapientia Lectures
TBA
The Sapientia Lecture Series is underwritten by the Mark J. Byrne 1985 Fund in Philosophy, which is an endowment established in 1996 to help support the study of philosophy at Dartmouth College.
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Term |
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
Co-Sponsor(s) |
23F | Nandi Theunissen, University of Pittsburgh | Is Good Fundamental? | Friday, November 10, 2023 | |
23X | Michael Cholbi, University of Edinburgh | Love, Identity, and the Duty to Grieve | Friday, August 11, 2023 | |
23S | Aaron Meskin, University of Georgia | "Let's go see that together!": Going Out as a Core Aesthetic Activity | Friday, May 5, 2023 | |
23S | Jenny Saul, University of Waterloo | Saying the Quiet Part Loud: How Figleaves Facilitate the Spread of Blatant Racism and Obvious Falsehood | Monday, April 17, 2023 | |
23W | Colin Allen, University of Pittsburgh | How Much are Large Language Models narrowing the Gap to Human Intelligence? | Friday, January 20, 2023 | |
22F | Takaaki Matsui, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Hitotsubashi University | Inferentialism, Conceptual Engineering, and Path-Dependence of Topic Continuity | Tuesday, October 11, 2022 | |
22X | Dave Ward, University of Edinburgh | Perceptual Knowledge and Embodied Skill | Friday, August 19, 2022 | |
22S | Alex Horne, Cambridge | Agential Plasticity | Thursday, March 31, 2022 | |
22W | E. Hande Tuna, UC Santa Cruz | Modes of Imagining: Selective and Reflective Imagining | Friday, February 4, 2022 | |
21F | Chad Hansen, University of Hong Kong | Believing in Dao | Monday, September 27, 2021 | Religion Department |
20W | Shen-yi Liao, University of Puget Sound | Memorials and Memories | Friday, February 7, 2020 | |
20W | Gabriel Rabin, NYU Abu Dhabi | The Structure of Analog Representation | Friday, January 17, 2020 | Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth (ICE) |
19F | Eric Campbell, University of Maryland, Baltimore | Pragmatic Naturalism: A New Methodology for Metaethics and Metamorals | Wednesday, October 30, 2019 | |
19X | Elinor Mason, University of Edinburgh | Sexual Refusal and the Fragility of Women's Authority | Monday, August 9, 2019 | |
19W | Alejandro Pérez Carballo, UMass-Amherst | New Boundary Lines | Friday, February 22, 2019 | |
18F | Sybren Heyndels, KU Leuven | Strawson's Method in Freedom and Resentment (Work-in-Progress) | Monday, November 19, 2018 | |
18F | Ned Markosian, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | The Open Future | Friday, October 19, 2018 | |
18F | Takaaki Matsui, University of Tokyo (Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth) | Ontological Pluralism and Deflationism (Work-in-Progress) | Tuesday, October 9, 2018 | |
18F | Adam Hosein, Northeastern | Gender Libertarianism in the Workplace | Friday, September 28, 2018 | |
18F | Lambert Wiesing, Friedrich Schiller University | Luxury: The Dadaism of Possession | Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | |
18X | Mario de Caro, Universitå Rome Tre & Tufts | Naturalism and Nature | Friday, August 17, 2018 | |
18X | Robert Stecker, Central Michigan University | Moral Norms and Nature Appreciation | Friday, August 10, 2018 | |
18X | Martin Seel, Goethe University, Frankfurt | Two Dimensions of Language | Friday, August 3, 2018 | |
18X | Patrick Todd, Edinburgh | The Open Past, Classical Style | Friday, July 17, 2018 | |
18S | Richard Moran, Harvard | Speech as Expression and as "Social Act of Mind" | Friday, May 11, 2018 | |
18S | Daniel J. Singer, University of Pennsylvania | Polarization, Forgetting, and a Computational Approach to Social Epistemology | Friday, April 27, 2018 | |
18S | Branden Fitelson, Northeastern | p is true, but S ought not to believe/assert p | Wednesday, April 18, 2018 | |
18S | David Woodruff Smith, UC-Irvine | The Inner Liar Paradox: As Logic Meets Phenomenology | Wednesday, April 10, 2018 | |
18W | Agostín Rayo, MIT | On the Open-Endedness of Logical Space | Friday, March 2, 2018 | |
18W | Robin Dembroff, Yale | Oppressive Categories | Friday, February 23, 2018 | Leslie Center for the Humanities |
18W | Michael Silberstein, Elizabethtown College | Contextual Emergence | Friday, February 9, 2018 | |
17F | Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro, Texas Tech | The Musical Protolanguage Hypothesis and the Origins of Poetry | Friday, November 10, 2017 | |
17F | Monique L. Wonderly, Priceton and UCSD | Attachment and Felt Necessity: Engaging with Value in Love and Addiction | Friday, September 29, 2017 | |
17X | Kris McDaniel, Syracuse University | The Essence of Being | Friday, August 25, 2017 | |
17X | Brian Rabern, Universty of Edinburgh | Future Contingents and Temporal Omniscience | Tuesday, August 8, 2017 | |
17S | Shaun Nichols, Arizona | Self as Primitive: The View from Lexical Semantics | Friday, May 19, 2017 | |
17S | Daniel Smyth, Wesleyan | Kant's Infinities | Wednesday, May 12, 2017 | |
17S | Evan Thompson, British Columbia | Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep? | Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | |
17W | Michael Bukoski, Dartmouth | Some Ethical Implications of Moral Uncertainty | Friday, February 17, 2017 | |
17W | Scott Jenkins, University of Kansas | Nietzche's Psychology of Metaphysics (or, Metaphysics as Revenge) | Friday, January 27, 2017 | |
16F | Stephen Darwall, Yale | What Are Moral Reasons | Friday, November 4, 2016 | |
16X | Anders J. Schoubye, Visiting Edinburgh Professor | Type Ambiguous Names | Friday, August 24, 2016 | |
16S | Nina Emery, Brown | Actualism without Presentism? Not by Way of the Relativity Objection | Friday, April 22, 2016 | |
15F | Melissa Merritt, University of New South Wales | Attention, Perception, Experience | Friday, November 13, 2015 | |
15F | Daniel Sutherland, University of Illinois, Chicago | The Place of Measurement in Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics | Friday, October 23, 2015 | |
15F | Russ Shafer-Landau, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Categorical Moral Reasons | Friday, October 16, 2015 | |
15F | Sarah Buss, Michigan | Personal ideals, Moral Requirements, and the Ideal of Rational Agency | Friday, October 2, 2015 | |
14S | Alfred Mele, Florida State University | Two Libertarian Theories: or Why Event-causal Libertarians Should Prefer My Daring Libertarian View to Robert Kane's View | Friday, April 24, 2015 | |
14S | Kristie Dotson, Michigan State | A Road to Oblivion, or Joe Scarborough on Ferguson | Tuesday, April 7, 2015 | Women's and Gender Studies Program, Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth, Ferguson Teaching Collective at Dartmouth |
14W | Kieran Setiya, MIT | The Problem of Akrasia | Friday, March 13, 2015 | |
14W | Jeffrey McDonough, Harvard | Leibniz and the Foundations of Physics: The Later Years | Friday, March 6, 2015 | |
14F | Elisabeth Camp, Rutgers University | Why Metaphors Make Good Insults | Friday, October 10, 2014 | |
14X |
Houston Smit, University of Arizona |
Kant on Unity of Apperception and the Spontaneity of Cognition | Thursday, July 24, 2014 | |
14X | Jesper Kallestrup, Visiting Edinburgh Professor | Extended Knowledge | Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | |
14S |
Tom Hill, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Utopian Thinking in Kant's Ethics and in Everyday Life |
Friday, May 9, 2014 |
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14S | Miranda Fricker, University of Sheffield | Fault and No-Fault Responsibility for Implicit Prejudice: A Space for Epistemic Agent Regret? | Monday, April 7, 2014 | |
14W | Ken Baynes, Syracuse | Autonomy, Social Oppression, and Adaptive Preference Formation |
Friday, March 7, 2014 |
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14W | Karen Ng, Siena College/Vanderbilt | From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Ideology: On the Relation Between Life and Consciousness from Hegel to Critical Theory |
Friday, January 31, 2014 |
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14W | Smaranda Aldea, Dartmouth | Beyond the Eidetic Method - Transcendental Phenomenology, the Sciences, and the Everyday |
Friday, December 10, 2014 |
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13F | Josh Schechter, Brown | Does Expressivism Have an Epistemological Advantage Over Realism? |
Friday, November 8, 2013 |
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13F | Sharon Street, NYU | Normativity and Water: The Analogy and its Limits |
Friday, October 25, 2013 |
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13F | Colin Koopman, Oregon | Critique and Judgment in Political Theory: Foucault and Butler on the Politics of Sex |
Thursday, October 10, 2013 |
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13X | Mark Budolfson, Stanford | Individual Freedom, the Tragedy of the Commons, and the Perils of Social Engineering: The Case for Modest Libertarianism |
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
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13X | James Van Cleve, USC | Reid on Direct Realism and Nonexistent Objects of Conception |
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 |
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13X | Elinor Mason, Edinburgh | Responsibility for Moral Ignorance |
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 |
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13S | Amie Thomasson, University of Miami | Easy Ontology and its Consequences |
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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13S | Brian Cantwell Smith, University of Toronto | Creatures Made of Clay |
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 |
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13S | Daniel Loick, Goethe University and Harvard | The Young Hegel as a Critic of Juridicism |
Friday, April 5, 2013 |
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13S | Katharine Gelber, University of Queensland (Australia) | Universalism, Freedom of Speech, and the Capabilities Approach |
Friday, March 29, 2013 |
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13W | Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore | Emotional Perception of Morality |
Friday, March 8, 2013 |
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13W | Smaranda Aldea, Mellon Research Fellow, Dartmouth College | Phenomenology and the Problem of Content |
Friday, February 15, 2013 |
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13W | Paul Taylor, Warburg Institute | Dead Deities in Western Art |
Friday, February 8, 2013 |
Co-sponsored by Art History, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and the Dickey Center for International Understanding |
13W | Shamik Dasgupta, Princeton University | The Possibility of Physicalism |
Friday, January 18, 2013 |
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12F | Catherine Elgin, Harvard University | The Commonwealth of Epistemic Ends |
Friday, November 9, 2012 |
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12F | Dominic McIver Lopes, University of British Columbia | Photography, Plugged and Unplugged |
Friday, October 19, 2012 |
Co-Sponsored by Digital Humanities and Studio Art |
12F | Corey Anton, Valley State University | Natural Guilt, Death Acceptance, and the Meaning of Transcendence |
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 |
Co-Sponsored by the Geisel School of Medicine |
12F | Robert Hopkins, University of Sheffield | Sculpting in Time? |
Friday, October 5, 2012 |
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12X | Tillman Vierkant, Edinburgh | Mental Muscles and the Extended Will |
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
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12S | Alan Kim, Dartmouth | The Becoming of Being: A Historical Fragment |
Friday, May 11, 2012 |
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12S | Sam Kerstein, Maryland | The Dignity of Persons: An Unorthodox Kantian Approach |
Friday, May 4, 2012 |
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12S | Nancy Sherman, Georgetown | Recovering Lost Goodness: Guilt, Shame, and Self-Empathy |
Monday, April 2, 2012 |
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12S | Eleni Manis, Franklin & Marshall | A Floor for Democratic Distributive Justice |
Friday, March 2, 2012 |
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12W | Ann Bumpus, Dartmouth | Reply to Marquis |
Friday, February 17, 2012 |
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12W |
Smaranda Aldea, Mellon Teaching Fellow | Husserlian Phenomenology Rethought: Phantasie and the Path to Eidetic Knowledge |
Friday, February 3, 2012 |
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12W |
Rusty Jones, Harvard University | Friends of the Gods in the Republic | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | |
11F |
Alice Phillips Walden, Dartmouth College | Failures of Courage in Ancient Philosophy | Friday, November 18 | |
11F |
Julia Markovits, MIT |
Saints, Heroes, Sages, and Villains |
Friday, October 7, 2011 |
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11X |
Robert Fogelin, Emeritus, Dartmouth College |
Hume's Role in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion |
Friday, July 29, 2011 |
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10X |
Anat Biletzki, Tel Aviv |
De-transcendentizing Religion with Hobbes and Wittgenstein |
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 |
Co-Sponsored by the Religion Department |
10S |
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein |
36 Arguments for the Existence of God |
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
Co-Sponsored by the Religion Department, and Leslie Humanities Center |
10S |
Lawrence Crocker |
Hope to God |
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
Co-Sponsored by the Religion Department |
10S |
Helen Nissenbaum, NYU |
What's Wrong with Behavioral Advertising? |
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
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09F |
Peter Graham, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
In Defense of Objectivism About Moral Obligation |
Friday, November 6, 2009 |
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09F |
Ishani Maitra, Rutgers University |
Subordinating Speech |
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
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09X |
Mario De Caro, Tufts/Roma Tre University |
Davidson and Naturalism |
Friday, July 31, 09 |
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09X |
Rainer Forst, University of Frankfurt |
Two Pictures of Justice |
August 12, 2009 |
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09S |
Martin Lin, Rutgers University |
Friday, May 29, 09 |
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09S |
Robert Plotnik, MIT alumnus, patent attorney |
The Future of Inventing |
Friday, April 24, 09 |
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09W |
Barbara Fultner, Denison University |
Why Philosophers of Language Need (a) Social Theory |
Friday, January 16, 09 |
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09W |
Bernhard Nickel, Harvard University |
What Ravens and Rivers Teach Us about Theorizing: Laws in the Special Sciences |
Friday, January 23, 09 |
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09W |
Larry Crocker, Dartmouth College |
Any Possible Alternative for Consequentialists |
Friday, February 6, 09 |
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09W |
Elizabeth V. Spelman, Smith College |
Desire and Disposability |
February 11, 2009 |
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08X |
Bob Fogelin, Dartmouth College |
Inapprehensability |
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 |
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08X |
John Roberts, University of North Carolina |
Why do laws of nature support counterfactual conditionals? |
Friday, July 25, 2008 |
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08X |
Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame |
Friday, August 1, 2008 |
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08W |
Bob Fogelin, Dartmouth College |
Hume's Skeptical Crisis |
Friday, January 11, 2008 |
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08W |
John Kulvicki, Dartmouth College |
The Nature of Noise |
Friday, February 8, 2008 |
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08W |
Penelope Maddy, UC Irvine |
How Applied Mathematics Became Pure |
Friday, February 15, 2008 |
Co-Sponsored by the Math Dept |
08W |
David Estlund, Brown University |
Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework |
Friday, February 29, 2008 |
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08W |
Adam Kolber, Princeton University |
The Subjective Experience of Punishment |
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
Co-Sponsored by Legal Studies |
08S |
Alan Hajek, Australian National University |
Most Counterfactuals are False |
Monday, March 31, 2008 |
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08F |
Patricia Curd, Purdue University |
Thought and Body in Heraclitus and Anaxagoras |
Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
BACAP |
08F |
Oliver Rauprich, Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum |
Who Should Pay for ART? Conceptual and Ethical Considerations on the Medical Significance of Infertility |
October 15, 2008 |
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08F |
Thomas McCarthy, Yale University |
Liberal Universalism and the Dilemma of Development |
Friday, November 14, 08 |
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08F |
Jonathan Vogel, Amherst College |
The Luminosity of the Mental |
Friday, November 21, 08 |
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07X |
James Harold, Mt. Holyoke College |
The Cognitive Link Between Moral and Aesthetic Value |
Friday, June 29, 2007 |
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07X |
Heidi Maibom, Carleton University |
The Descent of Shame |
Friday, July 27, 2007 |
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07W |
Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon |
Understanding Proofs |
Friday, January 5, 07 |
co-sponsored by Math Dept |
07W |
Matti Eklund, Cornell |
Carnap and Ontological Pluralism |
Friday, January 26, 07 |
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07S |
Maeve Cooke, University College Dublin |
Friday, April 27, 07 |
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07S |
Charlotte Witt, University of New Hampshire |
Humans, Persons and Social Individuals |
Friday, May 11, 07 |
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07S |
Sigrun Svavarsdottir, Ohio State University |
The Virtue of Practical Rationality |
WEDNESDAY, May 16, 2007 |
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07S |
Mary Louise Gill, Brown University |
Parmenides in Plato's Theaetetus and Sophist |
Friday, May 25, 07 |
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07F |
Jana Sawicki, Williams College |
Foucault and Sexual Freedom: Why Embrace an Ethics of Pleasure |
Friday, November 2 |
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07F |
Eugene Marshall, Dartmouth College |
A Spinozist Solution to the Problem of Weakness of Will |
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 |
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06X |
Matthew Slater, U of Idaho |
Why the Long Face? Biological Natural Kinds Without Tears |
Friday, June 30, 2006 |
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06X |
John Roberts, U North Carolina |
The Meta-Theoretic Conception of Laws |
Friday, July 7, 2006 |
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06X |
Jeffrey Ketland, U of Edinburgh |
TBA |
Friday, July 21, 2006 |
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06X |
Paul Audi |
Friday, August 4, 2006 |
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06X |
Michael Smith, Princeton |
The Explanatory Role of Being Rational |
Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
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06W |
Nishi Shah, Amherst College |
TBA |
Friday, January 20, 2006 |
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06W |
David Velleman, NYU |
TBA |
Friday, Feb. 3, 2006 |
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06W |
Sally Haslanger, MIT |
TBA |
Friday, March 3, 2006 |
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06S |
Elizabeth Ashford, St. Andrews (visiting Harvard) |
The Separateness of Persons Objection to Utilitarianism |
Friday, April 7, 2006 |
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06S |
Tom Kelly, Princeton |
Disagreement, Dogmatism, and Belief Polarization |
Friday, April 21, 2006 |
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06S |
Gordon Belot, Pittsburgh |
Gödel on Dust, Time, and Symmetry |
Friday, May 12, 2006 |
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06F |
LIVIA GUIMARAES, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
Skeptical Tranquility and Hume's Manner of Death |
Friday, September 22, 2006 |
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06F |
THOMAS HURKA, University of Toronto |
Asymmetries in Value |
Friday, September 29, 2006 |
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06F |
DIANA MEYERS, University of Connecticut at Storrs |
Affect, Corporeity, and Practical Intelligence |
Friday, October 6, 06 |
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06F |
JONATHAN WESTPHAL, Idaho State University |
TBA |
Thursday, October 26, 2006 |
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05X |
Bill Pollard, University of Edinburgh |
Identification and Habits |
Friday, July 8, 2005 |
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05X |
Roberta Millstein, California State University, East Bay |
The Determinism/Indeterminism Question in the Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology |
Friday, July 29, 2005 |
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05X |
Soran Reader, University of Durham, England |
Need, Capability, and Equality |
Friday, Aug. 5, 2005 |
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05W |
TIMOTHY ROSENKOETTER, Dartmouth College |
A Geometrical Ethics: Kant on Constructing the Moral Law |
Friday, January 14, 2005 |
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05W |
ROBERT C. SCHARFF, University of New Hampshire |
Thinking' Technoscience as Consummatory Event: Comte's Pleasure, Heidegger's Problem" |
Friday, February 25, 2005 |
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05W |
SUSAN STUART, University of Glasgow, Scotland |
Extended Body, Extended Mind: The Self As Prosthesis |
Friday, March 4, 2005 |
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05S |
LARRY CROCKER, Dartmouth College |
To Have a Justifying Reason |
Friday, April 1, 2005 |
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05S |
CASEY O'CALLAGHAN, Bates College |
Constructing a Theory of Sounds |
Friday, May 6, 2005 |
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05F |
Aki Kanamori, Math, Boston University |
Set-Theoretic Knowledge: Beyond True and False |
Friday, October 7, 2005 |
Co-sponsored by Math Dept |
05F |
Don Garrett, NYU |
The First Virtuous Motives to Justice and Fidelity: Hume's Circle Argument Squared |
Friday, October 14, 2005 |
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05F |
Johanna Meehan, Grinnell College |
Trauma and Subjectivity |
Thursday, November 3, 2005 |
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05F |
Hiedi Maibom, Carlton University |
Patriotic Virtue |
Friday, December 2, 2005 |
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04X |
David Sanford, Duke University |
Questions about Persistence |
Friday, July 2, 2004 |
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04X |
Mike Ridge, University of Edinburgh |
Fairness and Non-compliance |
Friday, July 16, 2004 |
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04X |
Sean McKeever, Cornell University |
How to Object to a Talking Principle |
Friday, August 6, 2004 |
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04S |
Alex Byrne, MIT |
Transparency and Self-Knowledge |
Friday, April 2, 2004 |
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04S |
Luciano Floridi, Oxford |
On the Morality of Artificial Agents |
MONDAY, April 19, 2004 |
Co-sponsored by Ethics Institute |
04S |
Helen Nissenbaum, New York University |
Contextual Integrity: A Cultural Approach to Protecting Privacy |
Friday, May 7, 2004 |
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04F |
NANCY BAUER, Tufts University |
Pornography and Philosophical Authority |
Thursday, October 7, 2004 |
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04F |
JOHN KULVICKI, Dartmouth College |
Pictorial Realism as Verity |
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
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04F |
AUSTEN CLARK, University of Connecticut at Storrs |
Cross-modal Cuing and the Common Sensibles |
Friday, October 29, 2004 |
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03X |
Matthew Nudds, University of Edinburgh |
The Significance of the Senses |
Friday, June 27, 03 |
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03X |
Susanna Siegel, Harvard |
Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception |
Friday, August 22, 03 |
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03W |
Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts |
How Mental Causation is Possible |
Friday, January 10, 2003 |
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03W |
MaryKate McGowan, Wellesley |
Something Else We Do With Our Words |
Friday, January 24, 2003 |
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03W |
Michelle Mason, University of Minnesota and Program in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard |
Shamelessness |
Friday, February 28, 2003 |
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03W |
Christine Thomas, Dartmouth College |
Plato's Heracleiteanism and Plato's Platonism |
Friday, March 7, 2003 |
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03S |
Patrick Byrne, Stanford |
Six Mental Models for Social Philosophy |
Friday, April 4, 2003 |
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03F |
Catherine Driscoll, Dartmouth |
TBA |
Friday, October 3, 03 |
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03F |
Mark McPherran, University of Maine |
The Aporetic Interlude and Fifth Elenchos of Plato's Euthyphro |
Friday, October 17, 03 |
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03F |
Joshua Gert , Florida State University |
Sensations and Circularity |
Friday, November 14, 03 |
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02X |
Diana Raffman, Ohio State |
Is Perceptual Indiscriminability Nontransitive? A Psychophysical Study |
Wednesday, July 24, 2002 |
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02X |
Peter Milne, Edinburgh |
Information and Confirmation |
Wednesday August 7, 2002 |
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02X |
Jonathan Schaffer, U. Mass |
From Contextualism to Contrastivism in Epistemology |
Wednesday, August 21, 2002 |
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02W |
Nomy Arpaly, Rice |
The Trouble With Autonomy |
Jan. 25, 2002 |
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02W |
Jack Hanson, Dartmouth |
A Case Study in Suspect Possibility Talk: Plantinga on God, Evil, and What's Possible |
Feb. 15, 2002 |
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02W |
Michael Scanlan, Oregon State University |
Russell's Problem with Denoting |
Feb. 22, 2002 |
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02W |
Samuel Levey, Dartmouth |
Soul Man |
Mar. 01, 2002 |
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02W |
Dave Robb, Davidson |
Three Roles for Properties |
Mar. 07, 2002 |
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02S |
Will Dudley, Williams College |
Freedom In and Through Hegel's Philosophy |
Apr. 19, 2002 |
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02S |
Jamie Dreier, Brown University |
Boundless Good |
Wednesday, June 5, 02 |
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02F |
Ian Gold, Monash and Dartmouth |
On the Unification of Psychology and Neuroscience |
Fri, Sept. 27, 2002 |
Co-sponsored by PBS |
02F |
David Chalmers, Arizona |
Envatment as a Metaphysical Hypothesis |
Wed., Oct. 9, 2002 |
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02F |
Natalie Stoljar, Melbourne |
Tradition and Legal Interpretation |
Fri., Nov. 15 |
Co-sponsored by Legal Studies |
02F |
James Moor, Dartmouth |
To What Extent Should We Become Cyborgs?" |
Fri., Dec. 6, 2002 |
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01X |
Rae Langton |
What is objectification? |
Friday, July 13, 2001 |
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01X |
Kathleen Wallace |
Hume on Regulating Belief and Moral Sentiment |
Friday, July 27, 2001 |
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01X |
Eric Steinhart |
Pythagoreanism |
Friday, Aug 10, 2001 |
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01X |
Willis Doney, Dartmouth College |
Objections and Replies within Meditation V |
Wednesday, Aug 22, 2001 |
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01W |
Margaret Graver, Classics, Dartmouth College |
Emotions and the Practical Syllogism: A Problem for the Stoic Theory |
Wednesday, January 31, 2001 |
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01W |
Sam Levey, Dartmouth College |
Leibniz to the Limit |
Friday, February 16, 2001 |
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01W |
Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research |
Recognition Without Ethics |
Friday, March 2, 2001 |
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01W |
Roy Sorensen, Dartmouth College |
Goethe's Colored Shadows |
Wednesday, March 7, 2001 |
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01S |
Amy Allen, Dartmouth College |
Discourse Ethics vs. Moral Skepticism: The Foucault / Habermas Debate Reconsidered |
Friday, May 18, 2001 |
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01F |
Gail Fine, Cornell University |
Sextus and External World Skepticism |
Friday, Sept. 28, 2001 |
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01F |
Christie Thomas, Dartmouth |
Plato on the Nature of Life |
Friday, Oct. 19, 2001 |
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01F |
Jon Ellis, UC-Berkeley |
Color, Content, and Concept-Acquisition |
Friday, Nov. 16, 2001 |
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01F |
Michael Dietrich, Dartmouth |
Making Time: Molecular Clocks and the Constitution of Statistical Objects |
Wednesday, Dec. 05, 2001 |
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00X |
Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Harris German-Dartmouth Distinguished Visiting Professor) |
Fichte Against Skepticism: The 1794/95 Strategy |
Friday, July 7, 00 |
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00X |
Peter Hylton, University of Illinois/Chicago (DC Visiting Scholar) |
Reference, Ontological Relativity, and Realism |
Friday, July 21, 00 |
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00X |
Willis Doney, Dartmouth College |
Descartes' Triangle in a Square |
Friday, August 4, 00 |
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00X |
Denis Walsh, University of Edinburgh |
TBA |
Friday, August 11, 00 |
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00W |
Amy Allen, Dartmouth College |
Foucault and Arendt |
Wednesday, January 19, 2000 |
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00W |
Earl Conee, University of Rochester |
The Moral Value in Promises |
Friday, February 25, 2000 |
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00W | Christie Thomas, Dartmouth College | Inquiry Without Names in Plato's Cratylus | Wednesday, March 8, 2000 | |
00S | Robert Fogelin, Dartmouth College | The Skeptics are Coming, The Skeptics are Coming | Wednesday, March 29, 2000 | |
00S | Dale Turner, Dartmouth College | Waldron on Superceding Historical Injustice | Wednesday, April 12, 2000 | |
00S | Nancy Sherman, Georgetown University | Is the Ghost of Aristotle Haunting Freud's House? | Friday, April 28, 2000 | |
00S | Victor Caston, Brown University | Aristotle on Consciousness | Friday, May 12, 2000 | |
00F | Christine Swanton, University of Auckland, New Zealand | Virtue Ethical Constructivism | Friday, Sept. 29, 2000 | |
00F | Robert Sleigh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Leibniz on Freedom | Wed., Oct. 4, 2000 | |
00F | Robert Fogelin, Dartmouth | Hume on the Testimony for Miracles | Friday, Oct. 20, 2000 | |
00F | Richard Patterson, Emory University | What is the 'Greatest Problem' for Plato's Theory of Forms? | Monday, Oct. 30, 2000 | |
00F | Sally Sedgwick, Dartmouth | The State as Organism: The Metaphysical Basis of Hegel's Philosophy of Right | Friday, Dec. 1, 2000 | |
99X | LISA SHABEL, Ohio State University | Kantian Intuitions of Geometric Objects | Friday, July 30, 1999 | |
99X | ANN BUMPUS (Dartmouth College) | The Consistency and Connectedness of the Virtues | Friday, August 13, 1999 | |
99X | ALEXANDER BIRD (University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Dartmouth College | Inductive Knowledge and Holmesian Inference | Wednesday, August 18, 1999 | |
99W | AMY ALLEN, Dartmouth | Foucault's Genealogy of Power | Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1999 | |
99W | JACQUELINE TAYLOR, Tufts | Justice and the Foundations of Social Morality in Hume's 'Treatise' | Friday, March 5, 1999 | |
99S | HUBERT DREYFUS, Hamilton College | Being and Power in Heidegger and Foucault | Friday, April 9, 1999 | |
99F | Cheshire Calhoun, Colby College | Same-Sex Marriage: What is at Stake? | Wednesday, October 20, 1999 | cosponsored by the NCOW committee, the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, and the Ethics Institute |
99F | Bernard Gert, Dartmouth College | The Philosophical Significance of Mental Illness | Wednesday, November 10, 1999 | |
99F | Masahiko Mizutani, Kyoto University | Information Ethics in the Age of the Internet: Some Aspects from a Japanese Point of View | Friday, November 19, 1999 | |
98X | DENIS WALSH, Univ. of Edinburgh | The Dormitive Virtues of Teleological Explanation | Wednesday, July 22, 1998 | |
98X | ROY SORENSON, NYU | Seeing Intersecting Eclipses | Wednesday, July 29, 1998 | |
98X | RUTH CHANG, Rutgers | Comparing Morality and Well-Being | Friday, August 21, 1998 | |
98W | JOSHUA GERT, U. Illinois, Chicago | Skepticism about Korsgaardian Internalism | Friday, Jan. 9, 1998 | |
98W | ANN BUMPUS, Dartmouth College | The Double-Phenomena View of Intention | Friday, Jan. 23, 1998 | |
98W | CATHERINE Z. ELGIN, M.I.T. and Harvard | Take It From Me: The Epistemological Status of Testimony | Friday, Jan. 30, 1998 | |
98W | SUSAN HAACK, U. of Miami | Confessions of an Old-Fashioned Prig --Concern for Truth: What it Means, Why it Matters | Thurs., Feb. 12, 1998 | |
98W | ROBERT AUDI, U. of Nebraska, Lincoln | Outline of a Kantian Intuitionism as a Basis for Normative Ethics | Friday, Mar. 6, 1998 | |
98S | CLARK HARE | Towards an Ontology of Intellectual Property | Thursday, Apr. 23, 1998 | |
98S | MARGARET GRAVER (Dartmouth, Classics) | When is a passion not a passion? Quasi- and vestigial emotions in Roman Stoicism | Friday, May 1, 1998 | |
98S | JULIA DRIVER (CUNY) | Virtue and the Intrinsic Good | Wednesday, May 6, 1998 | |
98S | FRED FELDMAN (Univ. of Massachusetts) | Consequentialist Theories of Virtue | Friday, May 15 | |
98S | DEAN ZIMMERMAN (Notre Dame) | TBA | Wednesday, May 27 | |
98F | MARK BEDAU (Reed College) | The Meaning of Life | Thursday, Oct. 22, 1998 | |
98F | HEATHER BATTALY (Syracuse University) | A New Epistemological Order: Out with Justification, In with Virtue | Friday, Nov. 13, 1998 | |
98F | JAMES RUSSELL GORDLEY, UC Berkeley School of Law | The Philosophical Foundations of Contract Doctrine | Monday, Nov. 16, 1998 | Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association and the Rockefeller Center |
98F | L.A. PAUL (Princeton University) | Apect Causation | Monday, Nov. 30, 1998 | |
98F | JONATHAN ELLIS (UC Berkeley) | Skepticism, Interpretation and Evil Scientists | Friday, Dec. 4, 1998 | |
97X | SUSAN HAACK, Univ of Miami | Solving the Puzzle of 'Scientific Method' | Wed, July 2, 1997 | |
97X | ALEXANDER BIRD, Univ of Edinburgh& Dartmouth College | Dispositions and Antidotes | Fri., July 25, 1997 | |
97X | ROBERT AUDI, (Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln) | Doxastic Voluntarism and the Ethics of Belief | Wed., July 30, 1997 | |
97X | RALPH WEDGWOOD, MIT | Defence of Moral Judgment Internalism | Wed., Aug. 13, 1997 | |
97W | Samuel Levey, Syracuse University | On Leibniz's Constructivism | Wednesday, January 15, 1997 | |
97W | Julie Klein, Virginia Polytechnic Institute | Thinking as a Dualist | Friday, January 17, 1997 | |
97W | Amy Allen, Grinnell College | The Foucaultian Hypothesis | Friday, January 24, 1997 | |
97W | David Cerbone, University of Chicago | Heidegger and Dasein's 'Bodily Nature': What is the Hidden Problematic? | Friday, January 31, 1997 | |
97W | Richard Parker, California State University, Chico and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Dartmouth College; Thomas Green '62 (as moderator) | Debate: Murder and Attempted Murder: The Role of Luck in Punishment | Sunday, February 23, 1997 | |
97S | Sandeep Prasada, Psychology, Dartmouth | Names for Things and Stuff | Wednesday, April 16, 1997 | |
97S | Irwin Goldstein, Davidson College | The Magnetism of the Good and Ethical Realism | Friday, May 2, 1997 | |
97S | Karen Jones, Cornell University | The Politics of Credibility | Wednesday, May 7, 1997 | |
97F | ROBERT J. FOGELIN, Dartmouth College | The Skeptical Paradox Interpretation of the Private Language Argument | Friday, Nov. 7, 1997 | |
97F | ANDREW MILLS, Concordia | Assertions, Indicative Utterances, & Recent Arguments Against Non-Cognitivism | Friday, Nov. 14, 1997 | |
97F | CHRISTOPHER SHIELDS, Univ. of Colorado | Substance and Life in Aristotle | Friday, Dec. 5, 1997 | |
96X | ROBERT FOGELIN, Dartmouth College | QUINE'S LIMITED NATURALISM | WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1996 | |
96X | JOSE BERMUDEZ, University of Stirling | NATURALIZING THE NORMATIVE IN ACCOUNTS OF CONCEPT POSSESSION | WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1996 | |
96X | ERIC RUBENSTEIN, U.N.C. - Chapel Hill | THE PLACITY OF QUALITY | WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7, 1996 | |
96X | PETER MILNE, University of Edinburgh | TARSKI ON TRUTH AND ITS DEFINITION | WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14, 1996 | |
96W | Michael Pendlebury (Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) | THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN PERCEPTION | Thursday, February 15, 1996 | |
96W | Professor Richard Mohr, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | SPECIAL RIGHTS? A GAY AND STRAIGHT AGENDA | Thursday, February 22, 1996 | Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association and the Rockefeller Center |
96W | Stephen Jacobson, Dartmouth | EXTERNALISM AND ACTION-GUIDING EPISTEMIC NORMS | Wednesday, March 6, 1996 | |
96S | DAVID MCNAUGHTON, Keele University | HYPOCRISY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1996 | |
96S | MARY MACLEOD, Dartmouth & U.N.C. - Chapel Hill | KINGDOM COME | FRIDAY, May 10, 1996 | |
96F | WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG, Dartmouth | BEGGING THE QUESTION | WED., OCTOBER 2, 1996 | |
96F | WILLIS DONEY, Dartmouth | TRUE AND IMMUTABLE NATURES | WED., OCTOBER 30, 1996 | |
96F | ERIC RUBENSTEIN, Colgate University | THE PLASTICITY OF QUALITY | FRI., NOVEMBER 8, 1996 | |
96F | MATTHEW HENKEN, UC Berkeley & Dartmouth | THE LOATHESOME DITCH AND OUR KNOWLEDGE OF NECESSITY | WED., DECEMBER 4, 1996 | |
95X | ALEXANDER BIRD, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland | Analyzing Freud's Unconscious | Wednesday, June 28, 1995 | |
95X | JIM MOOR, Dartmouth | Turing Redux | Wednesday, Aug. 16, 1995 | |
95W | David Sosa, Dartmouth College | Irrationality in Externalism | Wednesday, January 11, 1995 | |
95W | Diana Raffman, Ohio State University, Tufts | On the Persistence of Phenomenology | Wednesday, January 18, 1995 | |
95W | Sarah Stroud, McGill University | Moral Theory, Moral Motivation, Moral Commitment | Friday, February 3, 1995 | |
95W | Trafford Welden, MIT | Decartes' Circle | Wednesday, February 15, 1995 | |
95W | Al Mele, Davidson College | Agency and Mental Action | Friday, February 17, 1995 | |
95S | ERIC STEINHART, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook | Nietzsche and Cognitive Science | Wednesday, April 19, 1995 | |
95S | PAUL BOGHOSSIAN, New York University | The Analytic and the A Priori | Friday, May 19, 1995 | |
95S | JOHN KONKLE (Dartmouth College) | Is Meno's Paradox Paradoxical? | Wednesday, May 24, 1995 | |
95S | LEE C. BOLLINGER, Provost, Dartmouth College) | The Constitution, Public Policy, and Public Institutions of Higher Culture" | Wednesday, May 31, 1995 | |
95F | JOHN HEIL, Davidson College | Skepticism | Friday, September 29, 1995 | |
95F | YAEL TAMIR (Harvard and Tel Aviv University | Freedom of Association | Friday, October 20, 1995 | |
95F | MICHAEL DAVIS (Illinois Institute of Technology) | The Death Penalty: Where We Are, What's Next, and Why | Friday, October 27, 1995 | co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association |
95F | DAVID DENBY, Dartmouth and Univ. of Massachusetts | Intrinsic Properties | Wednesday, November 29, 1995 | |
94X | KARL AMERIKS, Notre Dame Univ | ON KANT AND TASTE | FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1994 | |
94X | PAOLO CRIVELLI, U. Of Edinburgh | THE STOIC THEORY OF QUANTIFICATION | WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1994 | |
94X | GEORGE BOOLOS, M.I.T. | THE CENTRAL ARGUMENT OF FREGE'S 'FOUNDATIONS OF ARITHMETIC' | FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1994 | |
94X | SARAH BUSS, Princeton | AUTONOMY: A NEW STORY ABOUT WHY THERE IS MORE TO SELF-GOVERNMENT THAN ACTING FOR A REASON | FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1994 | |
94W | ||||
94S | MARY MOTHERSILL, Barnard College and MIT | Moral Dilemmas | FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1994 | |
94S | ROBERT STALNAKER, M.I.T. | The Interaction of Modality with Quantification and Identity | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1994 | |
94S | BRUCE AUNE, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst | The Unity of Plato's Republic | FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1994 | |
94S | ALLAN SILVERMAN, Ohio State University | A Prolegomenon to Platonic Metaphysics | WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1994 | |
94S | MIRIAM SOLOMON, Temple University | A More Social Epistemology: Scientific Change in the Recent Revolutions in Geology and Genetics | FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1994 | |
94F | STEFAN SENCERZ, Wayne State University | Inferences to the Best Explanation in Moral Theory | Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1994 | |
94F | STEPHEN STICH, Rutgers University | Moral Convictions, Cognitive Architecture, and Evolutionary Psychology | Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1994 | |
94F | WILLIAM THROOP, St. Andrews College | Pragmatism and the Objectivity of Value | Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1994 | |
94F | NICK ZANGWILL, University of Glasgow | Moral Apriorism | Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1994 | |
93X | ||||
93W | Jorge Garcia, Georgetown University | Virtue as the Basis for Ethical Theory | Wednesday, January 13, 1993 | |
93W | Kristen Schrader-Frechette, University of South Florida | The Case Against Geological Disposal: Scientific and Ethical Problems with the Storage of Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada | Thursday, January 28, 1993 | Co-Sponsored by Earth Sciences |
93W | Robert Stalnaker, MIT | Reference and Necessity | Friday, February 5, 1993 | |
93W | John N. Deely, Loras College | Semiotics and Metaphysics; or Revisiting the 17th Century | Friday, February 19, 1993 | |
93W | Ann Bumpus, MIT/Dartmouth | The Object of My Intentions | Wednesday, February 24, 1993 | |
93S | Laurence Thomas, Syracuse University | The Reality of the Moral Self | Friday, March 5, 1993 |