MIT philosophy: colloquia spring 2006

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, contact Adam Hosein (ahosein@mit.edu) or Ephraim Glick (ephraim@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).

February 17:

"Cognitivism about Instrumental Reason"

Kieran Setiya, University of Pittsburgh

March 3:

"The Human Rights of the Global Poor"

Thomas Pogge, Columbia University

March 17:

"Let me count the ways to tell a weasel: On extensional meanings and nature's clumps"

Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut

March 24:

"Europe's Problem, and Ours: Integration of Ethnic Minorities"

Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan

April 7:

"Logicism without logic"

Thomas Hofweber, UNC Chapel Hill

Wednesday May 3, 5-7pm, 32-141 (co-sponsored with literature and writing & humanistic studies):

"Mathematics and the Character of Tragedy"

Rebecca Goldstein, Trinity College

May 5:

"Why We Really May Be Immaterial Souls"

Peter Unger, NYU