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Main Department Colloquium Series

2011-2012 Colloquium Schedule

Winter Quarter 2012

Friday, January 6, 2012
Professor Chris Pincock, University of Missouri
"Explanation and Difference-Making"
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Friday, January 13, 2012
Professor Alyssa Ney, University of Rochester
"Neo-positivist Metaphysics"
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Friday, January 20, 2012
Professor Douglas Kutach, Brown University
“The Asymmetry of Influence”
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m

Friday, January 27, 2012
Dr. Joel Velasco, California Institute of Technologies
"The Consequences of Tree-Thinking: A Phylogenetic Perspective on the Species Problem"
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 23-24, 2012
Philosophy/Linquistics joint workshop: "Something About Vagueness"
For more information please see schedules and details

Friday, March 2, 2012
Professor Antonia LoLordo, University of Virginia
"Three Problems in Locke's Substance-Mode Ontology"
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Friday, March 9, 2012
Professor David Christensen, Brown University
"Epistemic Modesty Defended"
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m. 

Spring Quarter 2012

Friday, March 30, 2012
Professor Robert Batterman, University of Pittsburgh
TBA
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Friday, April 13, 2012
Center for Ethics and Human Values Presents: Professor Macalester Bell, Columbia University
TBA
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Monday, April 23, 2012
Professor Jonathan Way, University of Southampton
TBA
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Friday, April 27, 2012
The Consilience Project Presents: Professor Thomas Nadelhoffer, Dickinson College
TBA
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Friday, May 11, 2012
Professor Jessica Wilson, University of Toronto
TBA
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Friday, May 18, 2012
The Consilience Project Presents: Professor Peter Langlan-Hassan, University of Cincinnati
TBA
347 University Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Archive of Past Department Talks