PHILOSOPHY LECTURE SERIES

2009-10 Lectures

Fall 2009

9/16/2009
Mark Schroeder: Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California.
Ttile: Stakes, Withholding, and the Subject-Sensitivity of 'Knows'

Abstract: Several philosophers have recently suggested that practical considerations can affect knowledge - that whether you know something can be affected by what is at stake for you. To some ears, this sounds like a radical thesis. The aim of this paper is to try to show that it is not so radical, and to show how naturally it falls out of the relationship between knowledge, rationality, and reasons to withhold belief.

Areas of Interest: Metaethics, Practical Rationality, Normative Ethics

10/28/2009
Nellie Wieland: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at CSU Long Beach

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Linguistics, Feminist Philosophy

Spring 2010

2/24/2010
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.

4/14/2010

Tiffany Teeman
-Graduate Student at UCLA.
-Areas of interest: moral responsibility, feminist philosophy, and political philosophy.

Past Lectures:

2008-9 Lectures

9/17/08 – Jeff Yoshimi – University of California, Merced

Title: Naturalizing Transcendental Laws

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

2/25/09 – Aaron James –University of California, Irvine
Co-sponsored with the Center for Ethics and Values
Title: The Significance of Distribution
Location: Whitsett Room

3/11/09 – Sean Kelsey –University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Socrates on Thrasymachus on Justice
Location: Whitsett Room

Older 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, 2005

Prof. 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"