past colloquia

Pamela Hieronymi, UCLA
"Responsibility and Mental Agency"

Helen Longino, Stanford

Dale Jamieson, NYU
"Progressive Consequentialism"

Thomas Pogge, Yale - Keynote speaker for Global Justice Conference - April 17-18, 2009 - Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities

Gareth Matthews, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
“Why Plato Lost Interest in the Socratic Method”

James Nickel, Arizona State University
"Challenging the Indivisibility of Human Rights."

Peter Gildenhuys, PhD University of Pittsburgh"Altruism without Group Selection"

Angela Potochnik, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University
“Evolution and Contextual Explanation”

John Manchak, PhD University of CA, Irvine
"Can We Know the Structure of Our Universe?"

Sorin Bangu, Cambridge University, HPS. Teaching Associate"Probabilistic Indispensability"

Sherri Roush, UC Berkeley
"Optimism about the Pessimistic Induction"

Quentin Smith, Western Michigan
"Different Ways in which Time Can Begin"

Thomas Schmidt,
Goethe University, Frankfort, Germany
"Religion in the Post-Secular Society: Habermas on religious beliefs and their secular translation."

Robert Reich, Stanford University
"Ethics, Public Policy, and Philanthropy"

Dr. Steven Miles, MD, Department of Medicine and Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
"Medical Complicity with Torture: Getting out of Abu-Ghraib"

Norman Dahl, University of Minnesota
"Contemplation and Eudainomia in the Nicomachean Ethics"

Mauricio Suarez, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

Cara Nine, University College, Cork, Ireland
"Democracy, Self-Determination, and Territory"

John Fischer, University of California, Riverside
"The Truth about Tracing"

Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University
"The Origin of the Good and Our Animal Nature"

Liam Murphy, New York University
"Promise, Practice, Trust"

Gabor Boros, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
"The Concept of Love in the 17th Century"

Stephanie Ross, University of Missouri, St. Louis"Aesthetic Qualities and the Prospects for Aesthetic Realism"

Walker Ames Lecture: Nancy Cartwright, University of California, San Diego, and the London School of Economics
"Evidence-Based Policy: So, What's Evidence?"

Michael Della Rocca, Yale University
"Violations of the Principle of Sufficient reason in the Leibniz and in Spinoza"

Carole J. Lee, Mount Holyoke College
"Applied Cognitive Psychology and the 'Strong Replacement' of Epistemology by Normative Psychology"

Bharath Vallabha, Harvard University
"Agency, Folk Psychology and Functionalism"

Robert Briscoe, Loyola University, New Orleans
"The Perceptual Priority of Depth"

Kevan Edwards, University of Kansas
"Theories of Concepts: New Approaches, Old Mistakes"

Graham McFee, The Chelsea School, University of Brighton
Professor and Adjunct Professor at CSU, Fullerton
"Explanation in the Republic of Art: some consideration for an Institutional Account of Art"

Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
"A Justificationist View of Disagreement's Epistemic Significance"

Cheshire Calhoun (Presented by the Program on Values in Society)
Colby College, Chair, Philosophy
"Hope Matters"

Aaron James, University of California, Irvine
"When International Intellectual 'Piracy' is Fair"

Dale Jamieson (Presented by the Program on Values in Society), NYU
“What’s Wrong with Climate Change” - (Keynote address for the Ethics and Climate Change Conference)

Henry Shue (Presented by the Program on Values in Society), Oxford University
"Can Fighting Terrorism Justify Torture?"

Leora Batnitzky (Presented by the Jewish Political Thought Seminar Series), Princeton University
"From Politics to Law: Modern Jewish Thought and the Invention of Jewish Law"

Joy James, Williams College
"Political Literacy and Voice" - A discussion of post-Katrina policing issues and a reflection on radical independent presses and publications.

Carl Craver, Washington University
"When Mechanistic Models Explain: The Hodgkin And Huxley Model of Action Potential"

Laura Franklin-Hall, Columbia University
"Plato's Joints"

William Harms, Seattle Central Community College
"Primitive Content, Translation, and the Emergence of Complex Intentionality"

Joel Velasco, University of Wisconsin
"The Prior Probabilities of Phylogenetic Trees"

Miriam Solomon, Temple University
"New Epistemological Paradigms in Clinical Medicine"

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