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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