MIT philosophy: events: colloquia fall 2012-spring 2013

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

For more information, please contact Brendan, Jack or Rebecca. For 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).

September 14:

'Objective and Subjective Oughts'

John MacFarlane, UC Berkeley

October 26:

'Perception vs. Conception: The Goldilocks Test'

Fred Dretske, Duke University

November 9:

Shamik Dasgupta, Princeton University

Thursday, November 29:

'Two Cornell Realisms -- Moral and Scientfic'

Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin Madison

March 1:

'Naturalism vs. the first-person perspective'

Hilary Kornblith, UMass Amherst

April 12:

'An Understandable Mistake'

Agnes Callard, University of Chicago

April 26:

title TBA

Seana Shiffrin, UCLA

May 10:

'Deflationism in Semantics and Metaphysics'

Amie Thomasson, University of Miami