PHILOSOPHY LECTURE SERIES
2008-9 Lectures
9/17/08 – Jeff Yoshimi – University of California, Merced
Title: Naturalizing Transcendental Laws
Location: UN105
Time: 4-6PM
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, phenomenology (especially Husserl) and neural networks
11/12/08 –
Speaker: Margaret Gilbert, Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
Co-sponsored with the Center for Ethics and Values
Title: Three Dogmas about Promising
Location: Whitsett Room, Sierra Hall 451
Time: 4-6PM
Research Interests: Philosophy of social science; philosophical social theory; related areas of: ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, action theory, epistemology; philosophical aspects of the theory of rational choice
2/25/09 – Aaron James –University of California, Irvine
Co-sponsored with the Center for Ethics and Values
Title: TBA
Location: Whitsett Room
Time: 4-6PM
Research interests: rationalism and the foundations of moral and practical judgment and Rawls's "constructive" method, its neglected realist and interpretive aspects, and its application to social structures within and across major domestic institutions (such as international trade).
4/22/09 – Sean Kelsey –University of California, Los Angeles
Title: TBA
Location: Whitsett Room
Time: 4-6PM
Research interests: Aristotle's definition of nature, recollection and causation in the Phaedo, and Aristotle’s Physics.
Future events
Fall 2009
Mark Schroeder
-Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California.
-Areas of Interest: Metaethics, Practical Rationality, Normative Ethics
Nellie Wieland
-Assistant Professor of Philosophy at CSU Long Beach -Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Linguistics, Feminist Philosophy
Spring 2010
Jill Buroker
-Professor of Philosophy at CSU San Bernardino -Areas of Interest: Kant, Descartes, seventeenth and eighteenth-century logic and history of science, and the theory of knowledge.
Tiffany Teeman
-Graduate Student at UCLA.
-Areas of interest: moral responsibility, feminist philosophy, and political philosophy.
Possibly: Robert Audi
-Professor of Philosophy and David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame.
-Areas of interest: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Epistemology, Religious Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Action.
Past Lectures:
Date: 4/9/08
4PM-6PM
Talia Bettcher
Associate Professor of Philosophy
California State University, Los Angeles
Title: Berkeley on Divine Foreknowledge
3/5/08
4PM-6PM
Deborah Brown
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Queensland
Title: Descartes’ Ontology of Everyday Life
Date: November 28th
Time: 4-6pm
Location: SH371
Gunnar Björnsson , Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Göteborg University.
Title: In Defence of a Contextualist Theory of Indicative Conditionals
11/7/07
4PM-6PM
Seana Shiffrin
Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Promising, Intimate Relationships, and Conventionalism"
10/3/07
4PM-6PM
Philip Nickel, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of California, Irvine
Title: Trust, Staking, and Expectations
Wendesday, Dec. 6th, 2006
Prof. Sven Bernecker; Department of Philosophy, UC Irvine
"Keeping Track of the Gettier Problem"
Wednesday, Nov. 29th, 2006
Prof. David Manley; USC
"Safety, Content, A Priority"
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005
Prof. Amy Kind, Claremont McKenna College
"Panexperientialism"
Friday, October 14th, 2005Prof. George Wilson, USC
"Transparency and Twist in the Narrative Fiction Film"
Wednesday, Sept. 28th, 2005
Prof. Sheldon Smith; Department of Philosophy, UCLA
"Notions of Cause in Classical Mechanics and Their Relations to the Laws of Classical Mechanics"
Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
Professor Sandy Shapshay; University of Indiana at Bloomington
"Does Schopenhauer Solve the Problem of Tragedy?"
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Professor Sandra Harding; Graduate School of Education and Information Studies UCLA
"A World of Sciences: Issues for the Philosophy of Science"
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Professor Brie Gertler; Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia
"The Narrow Self"