Department of Philosophy Colloquia

Upcoming Colloquia

The Spring 2008 Colloquia season has ended. Please check back in September for the Fall schedule.

Past Colloquia

May 1, 2008

William Tait, Emeritus, University of Chicago
Another Fall from Paradise: The Problem of the Infinite

April 28, 2008

Carl Posy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Intuition and Infinity: A Kantian Theme and Its Echo's in the Foundations of Mathematics

April 21, 2008

Leif Wenar, Visiting, Princeton University; University of Sheffield, UK
The Analysis of Rights

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Wolfgang Spohn, University of Konstanz, Germany
Reversing 30 Years of Discussion: Why Causal Decision Theorists Should One-Box.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

John Bickle, University of Cincinnati
The Convergent Four Hypothesis About Sufficient Experimental Evidence in ‘Molecular and Cellular Cognition’...and Beyond

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Hartry Field, New York University
Revising Our Logic

March 24, 2008

Branden Fitelson, University of California at Berkeley
The Wason Task(s) and The Paradox of Confirmation

March 20, 2008

Andy Norman, Carnegie Mellon University
"Reason in Theory vs Reason in Practice"
Session Two: What Derailed the Enlightenment Project? Epistemology’s Trojan Horse
4:30pm, Baker Hall A53
Reception at 4:00 outside lecture hall

February 7, 2008

Andy Norman, Carnegie Mellon University
"Reason in Theory vs Reason in Practice"
Session One: How (Not) to Play the Reason-Giving Game

May 3, 2007

Oliver Schulte, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Learning Bayes Nets based on Conditional Dependencies

April 5, 2007

Dana Scott, Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic (Emeritus), Carnegie Mellon University

The Future of Proof

March 8, 2007

Hannes Leitgeb, University of Bristol

The Logic of Conditional Beliefs

November 16, 2006

Stefan Kaufmann, Northwestern University

Independence in counterfactuals

October 30, 2006

Christian List, London School of Economics

Deliberation, Single-Peakedness, and the Possibility of Meaningful Democracy

September 28, 2006

Solomon Feferman, Stanford University

The “Logic” Question

April 27, 2006

Johan van Benthem, Stanford University and University of Amsterdam

March 23, 2006

Stephan Hartmann, London School of Economics

February 23, 2006

Tom Ricketts, University of Pittsburgh

November 10, 2005

Sahotra Sarkar, University of Texas at Austin

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