Eight Lectures in Philosophy and a Celebration
Philosophy Section
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: None
Web: http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/IAP99.html
Contact: Irving Singer, E39-351, 253-2649
What's So Bad About Circular Definitions?
Stephen Yablo
Tue Jan 12, 02-04:00pm, 37-212
Some Puzzles and Paradoxes for Decision Makers
Robert Stalnaker
Thu Jan 14, 02-04:00pm, 37-212
Games You're Sure to Lose: or Is Rational Decision-Making a Lost Cause?
Vann McGee
Tue Jan 19, 02-04:00pm, 37-212
What is the "Hard Problem" of Consciousness?
Alex Byrne
Thu Jan 21, 02-04:00pm, 37-212
A Problem in Ethics
Judith Thomson
Fri Jan 22, 02-04:00pm, 37-212
The Realities and Unrealities of Race
Sally Haslanger
Mon Jan 25, 02-04:00pm, 37-212
Is there a God? Session 1: The Argument from Design
Roger White
Wed Jan 27, 02-04:00pm, 37-212
Is there a God? Session 2: The Problem of Evil
Adam Elga
Thu Jan 28, 02-04:00pm, 37-212
A Symposium to Commemorate Frege's 150th Birthday
Ulrich Meyer, Coordinator
Speakers: Richard Cartwright, Michael Glanzberg, and Richard Heck
Fri Jan 29, 02-06:00pm, 37-212
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Events and Aspect
Fabio Pianesi /Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
Tue Jan 26, Thu Jan 28, 01-02:30pm, 56-180
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
In these two lectures, we will attempt to develop a theory of aspect within event semantics, focusing on the perfective/imperfective/progressive distinction and on the telic/atelic one. (Attendance at both lectures is preferred, but not required)
Contact: Fabio Pianesi, pianesi@irst.itc.it
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In Your Mouth (and Ear) Phonology
Professor Sharon Manuel Northeastern University
Mon, Wed, Jan 18, 20, 25, 27, 01-05:00pm, E39-335
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: See Description
This course will examine acoustic, production, and perceptual patterns of speech. The primary focus will be on consonant acoustics, with some exploration of coarticulation models, casual (normal!) speech phenomena, and perceptual recovery, with attention paid to how the above might affect more macroscopic phonological patterns. The course time will be divided between lecture-discussion and lab-tutorials. Students should have a basic command of articulatory phonetics, and phonological features, as well as familiarity with a number of relatively common phonological processes.
Contact: Cheryl Zoll, E39-215, 252-1472, czoll@mit.edu
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