Sapientia Lecture Series

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.

Upcoming Sapientia Lectures

Friday, November 15, 2024

Keren Gorodeisky, Auburn College

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Friday, January 17, 2025

Nina Emery, Mount Holyoke

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Keshav Singh, University of Alabama, Birmingham

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Series History

Term

Speaker

Title

Date

Co-Sponsor(s)

24S Martin Jonsson, Lund University What We Mean as What We Say or Would Have Said Wednesday, April 10, 2024  
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 Nietzsche'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

 
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

 
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

 
14W Smaranda Aldea, Dartmouth Beyond the Eidetic Method - Transcendental Phenomenology, the Sciences, and the Everyday

Friday, December 10, 2014

 
13F Josh Schechter, Brown Does Expressivism Have an Epistemological Advantage Over Realism?

Friday, November 8, 2013

 
13F Sharon Street, NYU Normativity and Water: The Analogy and its Limits

Friday, October 25, 2013

 
13F Colin Koopman, Oregon Critique and Judgment in Political Theory: Foucault and Butler on the Politics of Sex

Thursday, October 10, 2013

 
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

 
13X James Van Cleve, USC Reid on Direct Realism and Nonexistent Objects of Conception

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

 
13X Elinor Mason, Edinburgh Responsibility for Moral Ignorance

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

 
13S Amie Thomasson, University of Miami Easy Ontology and its Consequences

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

 
13S Brian Cantwell Smith, University of Toronto Creatures Made of Clay

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

 
13S Daniel Loick, Goethe University and Harvard The Young Hegel as a Critic of Juridicism

Friday, April 5, 2013

 
13S Katharine Gelber, University of Queensland (Australia) Universalism, Freedom of Speech, and the Capabilities Approach

Friday, March 29, 2013

 
13W Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore Emotional Perception of Morality

Friday, March 8, 2013

 
13W Smaranda Aldea, Mellon Research Fellow, Dartmouth College Phenomenology and the Problem of Content

Friday, February 15, 2013

 
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

 
12F Catherine Elgin, Harvard University The Commonwealth of Epistemic Ends

Friday, November 9, 2012

 
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

 
12X Tillman Vierkant, Edinburgh Mental Muscles and the Extended Will

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

 
12S Alan Kim, Dartmouth The Becoming of Being: A Historical Fragment

Friday, May 11, 2012

 
12S Sam Kerstein, Maryland The Dignity of Persons: An Unorthodox Kantian Approach

Friday, May 4, 2012

 
12S Nancy Sherman, Georgetown Recovering Lost Goodness: Guilt, Shame, and Self-Empathy

Monday, April 2, 2012

 
12S Eleni Manis, Franklin & Marshall A Floor for Democratic Distributive Justice

Friday, March 2, 2012

 
12W Ann Bumpus, Dartmouth Reply to Marquis

Friday, February 17, 2012

 

12W

Smaranda Aldea, Mellon Teaching Fellow Husserlian Phenomenology Rethought: Phantasie and the Path to Eidetic Knowledge

Friday, February 3, 2012

 

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

 

11X

Robert Fogelin, Emeritus, Dartmouth College

Hume's Role in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Friday, July 29, 2011

 

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

 

09F

Peter Graham, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

In Defense of Objectivism About Moral Obligation

Friday, November 6, 2009

 

09F

Ishani Maitra, Rutgers University

Subordinating Speech

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

 

09X

Mario De Caro, Tufts/Roma Tre University

Davidson and Naturalism

Friday, July 31, 09

 

09X

Rainer Forst, University of Frankfurt

Two Pictures of Justice

August 12, 2009

 

09S

Martin Lin, Rutgers University

 

Friday, May 29, 09

 
09S

Robert Plotnik, MIT alumnus, patent attorney

The Future of Inventing

Friday, April 24, 09

 

09W

Barbara Fultner, Denison University

Why Philosophers of Language Need (a) Social Theory

Friday, January 16, 09

 

09W

Bernhard Nickel, Harvard University

What Ravens and Rivers Teach Us about Theorizing: Laws in the Special Sciences

Friday, January 23, 09

 

09W

Larry Crocker, Dartmouth College

Any Possible Alternative for Consequentialists

Friday, February 6, 09

 

09W

Elizabeth V. Spelman, Smith College

Desire and Disposability

February 11, 2009

 

08X

Bob Fogelin, Dartmouth College

Inapprehensability

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

 

08X

John Roberts, University of North Carolina

Why do laws of nature support counterfactual conditionals?

Friday, July 25, 2008

 

08X

Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame

 

Friday, August 1, 2008

 

08W

Bob Fogelin, Dartmouth College

Hume's Skeptical Crisis

Friday, January 11, 2008

 

08W

John Kulvicki, Dartmouth College

The Nature of Noise

Friday, February 8, 2008

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

08F

Thomas McCarthy, Yale University

Liberal Universalism and the Dilemma of Development

Friday, November 14, 08

 

08F

Jonathan Vogel, Amherst College

The Luminosity of the Mental

Friday, November 21, 08

 

07X

James Harold, Mt. Holyoke College

The Cognitive Link Between Moral and Aesthetic Value

Friday, June 29, 2007

 

07X

Heidi Maibom, Carleton University

The Descent of Shame

Friday, July 27, 2007

 

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

 

07S

Maeve Cooke, University College Dublin

 

Friday, April 27, 07

 

07S

Charlotte Witt, University of New Hampshire

Humans, Persons and Social Individuals

Friday, May 11, 07

 

07S

Sigrun Svavarsdottir, Ohio State University

The Virtue of Practical Rationality

WEDNESDAY, May 16, 2007

 

07S

Mary Louise Gill, Brown University

Parmenides in Plato's Theaetetus and Sophist

Friday, May 25, 07

 

07F

Jana Sawicki, Williams College

Foucault and Sexual Freedom:  Why Embrace an Ethics of Pleasure

Friday, November 2

 

07F

Eugene Marshall, Dartmouth College

A Spinozist Solution to the Problem of Weakness of Will

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

 

06X

Matthew Slater, U of Idaho

Why the Long Face? Biological Natural Kinds Without Tears

Friday, June 30, 2006

 

06X

John Roberts, U North Carolina

The Meta-Theoretic Conception of Laws

Friday, July 7, 2006

 

06X

Jeffrey Ketland, U of Edinburgh

TBA

Friday, July 21, 2006

 

06X

Paul Audi

 

Friday, August 4, 2006

 

06X

Michael Smith, Princeton

The Explanatory Role of Being Rational

Thursday, August 24, 2006

 

06W

Nishi Shah, Amherst College

TBA

Friday, January 20, 2006

 

06W

David Velleman, NYU

TBA

Friday, Feb. 3, 2006

 

06W

Sally Haslanger, MIT

TBA

Friday, March 3, 2006

 

06S

Elizabeth Ashford, St. Andrews (visiting Harvard)

The Separateness of Persons Objection to Utilitarianism

Friday, April 7, 2006

 

06S

Tom Kelly, Princeton

Disagreement, Dogmatism, and Belief Polarization

Friday, April 21, 2006

 

06S

Gordon Belot, Pittsburgh

Gödel on Dust, Time, and Symmetry

Friday, May 12, 2006

 

06F

LIVIA GUIMARAES, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Skeptical Tranquility and Hume's Manner of Death

Friday, September 22, 2006

 

06F

THOMAS HURKA, University of Toronto

Asymmetries in Value

Friday, September 29, 2006

 

06F

DIANA MEYERS, University of Connecticut at Storrs

Affect, Corporeity, and Practical Intelligence

Friday, October 6, 06

 

06F

JONATHAN WESTPHAL, Idaho State University

TBA

Thursday, October 26, 2006

 

05X

Bill Pollard, University of Edinburgh

Identification and Habits

Friday, July 8, 2005

 

05X

Roberta Millstein, California State University, East Bay

The Determinism/Indeterminism Question in the Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology

Friday, July 29, 2005

 

05X

Soran Reader, University of Durham, England

Need, Capability, and Equality

Friday, Aug. 5, 2005

 

05W

TIMOTHY ROSENKOETTER, Dartmouth College

A Geometrical Ethics: Kant on Constructing the Moral Law

Friday, January 14, 2005

 

05W

ROBERT C. SCHARFF, University of New Hampshire

Thinking' Technoscience as Consummatory Event: Comte's Pleasure, Heidegger's Problem"

Friday, February 25, 2005

 

05W

SUSAN STUART, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Extended Body, Extended Mind: The Self As Prosthesis

Friday, March 4, 2005

 

05S

LARRY CROCKER, Dartmouth College

To Have a Justifying Reason

Friday, April 1, 2005

 

05S

CASEY O'CALLAGHAN, Bates College

Constructing a Theory of Sounds

Friday, May 6, 2005

 

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

 

05F

Johanna Meehan, Grinnell College

Trauma and Subjectivity

Thursday, November 3, 2005

 

05F

Hiedi Maibom, Carlton University

Patriotic Virtue

Friday, December 2, 2005

 

04X

David Sanford, Duke University

Questions about Persistence

Friday, July 2, 2004

 

04X

Mike Ridge, University of Edinburgh

Fairness and Non-compliance

Friday, July 16, 2004

 

04X

Sean McKeever, Cornell University

How to Object to a Talking Principle

Friday, August 6, 2004

 

04W

       

04S

Alex Byrne, MIT

Transparency and Self-Knowledge

Friday, April 2, 2004

 

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

 

04F

NANCY BAUER, Tufts University

Pornography and Philosophical Authority

Thursday, October 7, 2004

 

04F

JOHN KULVICKI, Dartmouth College

Pictorial Realism as Verity

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

 

04F

AUSTEN CLARK, University of Connecticut at Storrs

Cross-modal Cuing and the Common Sensibles

Friday, October 29, 2004

 

03X

Matthew Nudds, University of Edinburgh

The Significance of the Senses

Friday, June 27, 03

 

03X

Susanna Siegel, Harvard

Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception

Friday, August 22, 03

 

03W

Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts

How Mental Causation is Possible

Friday, January 10, 2003

 

03W

MaryKate McGowan, Wellesley

Something Else We Do With Our Words

Friday, January 24, 2003

 

03W

Michelle Mason, University of Minnesota and Program in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard

Shamelessness

Friday, February 28, 2003

 

03W

Christine Thomas, Dartmouth College

Plato's Heracleiteanism and Plato's Platonism

Friday, March 7, 2003

 

03S

Patrick Byrne, Stanford

Six Mental Models for Social Philosophy

Friday, April 4, 2003

 

03F

Catherine Driscoll, Dartmouth

TBA

Friday, October 3, 03

 

03F

Mark McPherran, University of Maine

The Aporetic Interlude and Fifth Elenchos of Plato's Euthyphro

Friday, October 17, 03

 

03F

Joshua Gert , Florida State University

Sensations and Circularity

Friday, November 14, 03

 

02X

Diana Raffman, Ohio State

Is Perceptual Indiscriminability Nontransitive? A Psychophysical Study

Wednesday, July 24, 2002

 

02X

Peter Milne, Edinburgh

Information and Confirmation

Wednesday August 7, 2002

 

02X

Jonathan Schaffer, U. Mass

From Contextualism to Contrastivism in Epistemology

Wednesday, August 21, 2002

 

02W

Nomy Arpaly, Rice

The Trouble With Autonomy

Jan. 25, 2002

 

02W

Jack Hanson, Dartmouth

A Case Study in Suspect Possibility Talk: Plantinga on God, Evil, and What's Possible

Feb. 15, 2002

 

02W

Michael Scanlan, Oregon State University

Russell's Problem with Denoting

Feb. 22, 2002

 

02W

Samuel Levey, Dartmouth

Soul Man

Mar. 01, 2002

 

02W

Dave Robb, Davidson

Three Roles for Properties

Mar. 07, 2002

 

02S

Will Dudley, Williams College

Freedom In and Through Hegel's Philosophy

Apr. 19, 2002

 

02S

Jamie Dreier, Brown University

Boundless Good

Wednesday, June 5, 02

 

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

 

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

 

01X

Rae Langton

What is objectification?

Friday, July 13, 2001

 

01X

Kathleen Wallace

Hume on Regulating Belief and  Moral Sentiment

Friday, July 27, 2001

 

01X

Eric Steinhart

Pythagoreanism

Friday, Aug 10, 2001

 

01X

Willis Doney, Dartmouth College

Objections and Replies within Meditation V

Wednesday, Aug 22, 2001

 

01W

Margaret Graver, Classics, Dartmouth College

Emotions and the Practical Syllogism: A Problem for the Stoic Theory

Wednesday, January 31, 2001

 

01W

Sam Levey, Dartmouth College

Leibniz to the Limit

Friday, February 16, 2001

 

01W

Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research

Recognition Without Ethics

Friday, March 2, 2001

 

01W

Roy Sorensen, Dartmouth College

Goethe's Colored Shadows

Wednesday, March 7, 2001

 

01S

Amy Allen, Dartmouth College

Discourse Ethics vs. Moral Skepticism:  The Foucault / Habermas Debate Reconsidered

Friday, May 18, 2001

 

01F

Gail Fine, Cornell University

Sextus and External World Skepticism

Friday, Sept. 28, 2001

 

01F

Christie Thomas, Dartmouth

Plato on the Nature of Life

Friday, Oct. 19, 2001

 

01F

Jon Ellis, UC-Berkeley

Color, Content, and Concept-Acquisition

Friday, Nov. 16, 2001

 

01F

Michael Dietrich, Dartmouth

Making Time:  Molecular Clocks and the Constitution of Statistical Objects

Wednesday, Dec. 05, 2001

 

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

 

00X

Peter Hylton, University of Illinois/Chicago (DC Visiting Scholar)

Reference, Ontological Relativity, and Realism

Friday, July 21, 00

 

00X

Willis Doney, Dartmouth College

Descartes' Triangle in a Square

Friday, August 4, 00

 

00X

Denis Walsh, University of Edinburgh

TBA

Friday, August 11, 00

 

00W

Amy Allen, Dartmouth College

Foucault and Arendt

Wednesday, January 19, 2000

 

00W

Earl Conee, University of Rochester

The Moral Value in Promises

Friday, February 25, 2000

 
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