MIT philosophy: events: colloquia fall 2011-spring 2012

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 Sophie Horowitz. 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).

October 14:

Moral Reasoning

Gilbert Harman, Princeton University

November 4:

Phenomenal Consciousness Overflows Cognitive Access

Ned Block, NYU

December 2:

Is there an existential selection effect?

David Manley, University of Michigan

February 17:

Meaning, Understanding and Normativity

Hannah Ginsborg, University of California Berkeley

March 9:

Quasi-Realism and the Problem of Unexplained Coincidence

Jamie Dreier, Brown University

March 23:

Working to Conversational Rule: Deniability and Pedantry in Antagonistic Contexts

Elisabeth Camp, University of Pennsylvania

April 13:

Against parthood

Ted Sider, Cornell University

April 27:

Is evidence about one’s own doxastic states inert?

Maria Lasonen Aarnio, University of Michigan