MIT philosophy: colloquia fall 2004

Unless otherwise indicated, all talks are on Fridays at 3:30 pm in room 32-155.

For more information, contact Lauren Ashwell (lashwell@mit.edu), Heather Logue (logue@mit.edu), or Chris Robichaud (cjrobi@mit.edu). (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).

September 24:

"Epistemicism and Semantic Plasticity"

John Hawthorne, Rutgers University

October 8:

"What Reference Has to Tell Us About Meaning"

Stephen Schiffer, New York University

Tuesday October 19 at 4pm in 4-231; co-sponsored with Women's Studies:

"The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender"

Linda Alcoff, Syracuse University

October 29:

"Mental Quotation - a cure for the mind-body problem"

Katalin Balog, Yale University

November 5:

"Linguistic Meanings as (Monadic, Second-Order) Concept-Instructions" note-this paper is background for the talk

Paul Pietroski, University of Maryland

November 19:

"Is there hope for a theory of objective aesthetic value?"

Peter Railton, University of Michigan