Fall 2019
Tuesday, October 8th: Greg Brown (University of Chicago)
“Actions Are Not Intentional in Virtue of Any Extra Feature”
The paper should be read in advance and is available here.
Time: 3:30-5:20; Location: Cobb 302
Tuesday, October 15th: Gilad Nir (Leipzig University)
“Philosophical Riddles and Ethical Transformation”
The paper should be read in advance and is available here.
Time: 3:30-5:20; Location: Cobb 302
Tuesday, October 22nd: Devin Gouvêa (University of Chicago)
“Essentially Dynamic Concepts and the Case of Homology”
The paper should be read in advance and is available here.
Time: 3:30-5:20 pm; Location: Cobb 302
Tuesday, November 5th: Ginger Schultheis (University of Chicago)
“Variably Strict Conditionals are Informationally Strict”
Time: 3:30-5:20; Location: Cobb 302
Tuesday, November 19th: *READING GROUP*
Roush (2015) “The Rationality of Science in Relation to its History”
The paper is available here.
Time: 3:30-5:20; Location: Cobb 302
Winter 2020
Tuesday, January 14th: Eamon Duede (University of Chicago)
“Deep Neural Networks and the Philosophy of Science”
The paper should be read in advance and is available here.
Time: 3:00-4:50; Location: WB 130
Tuesday, January 28th: Malte Willer and Chris Kennedy (University of Chicago)
“Expressing Experience: Not necessarily ‘stoned’, but ‘beautiful’”
Time: 3:00-4:50; Location: WB 130
Tuesday, February 4th: Hannah McKeown (University of Chicago)
“A Priority and Mathematical Induction in Lady Mary Shepherd”
The paper should be read in advance and is available here.
Time: 3:00-4:50; Location: Classics 110
*Please note the unusual location*
Tuesday, February 11th: Rory Hanlon (University of Chicago)
“Aristotle’s Criticism of Platonic Bipartition and Tripartition”
The paper should be read in advance and is available here.
Time: 3:00-4:50; Location: WB 130
Tuesday, February 25th: Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M)
“Realism in Mathematics: The Case of the Hyperreals”
co-authored with Henry Towsner (UPenn)
The paper is available here, but reading it in advance is optional.
Time: 3:00-4:50; Location: WB 130
Tuesday, March 10th: Melina Garibović (University of Chicago)
“Perception and Other Minds”
Time: 3:00-4:50; Location: WB 130
Spring 2020
Tuesday, April 21st: Sam Segal (University of Chicago)
“Dogmatism and the Value of Knowledge”
Handout available here.
Time: 3:30-5:20; Location: Zoom TBA
Tuesday, May 5th: Michael Kremer (University of Chicago)
“Margaret MacDonald and Gilbert Ryle: A Lost Philosophical Friendship”
Time: 3:30-5:20; Location: Zoom TBA
An abstract for the talk can be found here.
Tuesday, May 19th: Sarale Ben-Asher (University of Chicago)
“Finding Meno’s Paradox”
The paper should be read in advance and is available here.
Time: 3:30-5:20; Location: Zoom TBA
Tuesday, May 26th: Lisa Landoe Hedrick (University of Chicago)
“Placing Nature: Spatial Metaphor in Thinking about Nature and the Nature of Thinking”
The paper should be read in advance and is available here.
Time: 3:30-5:20; Location: Zoom TBA
Departmental Colloquium Co-Hosted by TPW — CANCELLED
Friday, June 5th: Ginger Schultheis (University of Chicago)
“Counterfactuals and Chance”
Time: 3:00-5:00; Location: Zoom TBA