MIT philosophy: events: colloquia spring 2009

Unless otherwise indicated, all talks are on fridays at 3:30 pm in room 32-d461 (directions to 32-d461 and the department).

For more information, please contact Tom Doughtery, Nina Emery or Elisa Mai. For more information about talks co-sponsored with Women's Studies, contact womens-studies@mit.edu.

Some colloquium papers will be available on this page in (viewable in adobe acrobat reader).

February 6:

"The Illusion of Higher-Order Vagueness"

Crispin Wright, NYU & St. Andrews

February 13:

"The Probative Value of Old Evidence" (slides)

James Joyce, Michigan

February 27:

"Indeterminate Survival"

Robert Williams, Leeds

March 13:

"On Truth At"

Jeffrey King, Rutgers

April 3:

Sarah Buss, Michigan

April 17:

"In Defense of Future Tuesday Indifference:
Ideally Coherent Eccentrics and the Contingency of What Matters"

Sharon Street, NYU

April 24:

"Disagreement, Question-Begging and Epistemic Self-Criticism"

David Christensen, Brown