Department of Philosophy Lectures and Colloquia
Upcoming Lectures and Colloquia
Dana Scott's November 12 colloquium talk has been cancelled due to Novemberfest.
Past Lectures and Colloquia
October 22, 2009
David MalamentDistinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine
On the Status of the "Geodesic Principle" in General Relativity
October 15, 2009
Yasuo DeguchiPhilosophy, Kyoto University
In Defense of Activity Realism
October 1, 2009
Edouard MacheryAssociate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Three neuroscientific objections against the massive modularity hypothesis
September 17, 2009
Efthymios AthanasiouHerbert Simon Fellow in Scientific Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
On Sharing the Benefits of Communication
April 16, 2009
Pure and Applied Logic LectureNigel Cutland (University of York)
Stochastic Navier-Stokes equations: ideas and results using nonstandard analysis
March 26, 2009
Harvey Friedman (Ohio State University)Concept Calculus
March 19, 2009
Dana ScottUniversity Professor, Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Scholar in Logic and the Methodology of Science, University of California, Berkeley
Higher-Order Modal Modeling
December 4, 2008
Jonathan Vogel (UCLA)The Luminosity of the Mental
October 2, 2008
Larry Temkin (Rutgers University)Why Care about Equality?
September 4, 2008
Jörg Siekmann (Informatik, Universität des Saarlands, Saarbrücken)Computer supported Mathematics with ΩMEGA
May 1, 2008
William Tait, Emeritus, University of ChicagoAnother Fall from Paradise: The Problem of the Infinite
April 28, 2008
Carl Posy, Hebrew University of JerusalemIntuition 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, UKThe Analysis of Rights
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Wolfgang Spohn, University of Konstanz, GermanyReversing 30 Years of Discussion: Why Causal Decision Theorists Should One-Box.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
John Bickle, University of CincinnatiThe Convergent Four Hypothesis About Sufficient Experimental Evidence in ‘Molecular and Cellular Cognition’...and Beyond
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Hartry Field, New York UniversityRevising Our Logic
March 24, 2008
Branden Fitelson, University of California at BerkeleyThe 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, CanadaLearning Bayes Nets based on Conditional Dependencies
April 5, 2007
Dana Scott, Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic (Emeritus), Carnegie Mellon UniversityThe Future of Proof
March 8, 2007
Hannes Leitgeb, University of BristolThe 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
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