MIT philosophy: events: colloquia spring 2008

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 Mahrad Almotahari, Damien Rochford, or Paolo Santorio. 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 8:

'The Origin of the Good and our Animal Nature' (handout)

Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University

February 22:

'A New Approach to Vagueness'

Kit Fine, New York University

Tuesday, March 11:

'Freedom of Occupational Choice' (paper)

G. A. Cohen, Oxford University

Monday, April 14:

'Metaphysical Dependence' (handout)

Gideon Rosen, Princeton University

April 25th:

this talk has been cancelled

Mark Crimmins, Stanford University