MIT philosophy: colloquia spring 2007

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 Ekaterina Vavova (vavova@mit.edu) or Valentina Urbanek (vmu@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 16:

"Towards an Analytic Pragmatism"

Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh

March 2:

"Morality and Reasonable Partiality"

Sam Scheffler, UC Berkeley

March 16:

"Lying, Misleading and Accidental Falsehood: The Role of What is Said"

Jennifer Saul, University of Sheffield

April 13:

"Language and Dialetheism"

Graham Priest, University of Melbourne

April 20:

"Gender-The Future"

Catharine MacKinnon, The University of Michigan Law School
note: this talk will be held from 2:30-4:30pm in 32-D461

May 4:

"Assertion, Information, and Commitment"

John MacFarlane, UC Berkeley