Past colloquia
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2002-2003
Frank Jackson, Australian National University, Narrow Content and Representationalism 29.11.2002
Jason Stanley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, The Case for Contextualism in Epistemology 13.2.2003
Jennifer Saul, University of Sheffield, Pornography, Speech acts, and Context, 27.2.2003
Ian Proops, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, The Concept of Substance in Wittgenstein's Tractatus 8.5.2003
James Conant, University of Chicago, Varieties of Scepticism 22.5.2003
2003-2004
Stathis Psillos, University of Athens, Scientific Realism and the Base-Rate Fallacy 12.9.2003
Simon Blackburn, University of Cambridge, Fictionalism 16.10.2003
John Perry, Stanford University, Return of the Zombies 20.11.2003
Emma Borg, University of Reading, The role of mind-reading in understanding language 27.11.2003
Ted Sider, Rutgers University, Vague, so untrue 16.12.2003
Darragh Byrne, University of Birmingham, The Contents of Phenomenal Concepts 5.2.2004
Jocelyn Benoist, Varieties of Semantic Objectivism: objects, propositions, states of affairs 19.2.2004
Martina Reuter, Helsinki University, Appearance, truth and limitations: Merleau-Ponty on the history of philosophy 4.3.2004
Margaret Gilbert, University of Connecticut, Shared Values, Social Unity, and Liberty 18.3.2004
Jennifer Hornsby, University of London, Birkbeck, Linguistic action and the knowledge of speakers 1.4.2004
Bob Myers, York University, Practical reason and desire 13.4.2004
Pascal Engel, Sorbonne, How belief aims at truth 22.4.2004
Susan Hurley, University of Warwick, Rational agency, cooperation, and mindreading
13.5.2004
Paisley Livingston, Lignan, Hong Kong, What is a Text? 18.5.2004
2004-2005
James Ladyman, University of Bristol, Common Sense, Induction and Constructive
Empiricism 16.9.2004
Brian McGuinness, Oxford University, Wittgenstein: Philosophy or Literature? 1.10.2004
Nicos Stavropoulos, Oxford University, Principles, Laws and Hypothesis 7.10.2004
Fred Feldman, University of Massachusetts, Moore's open question argument 30.11.2004
Jesse Prinz, University of North Carolina, The Perceptual Basis of Concepts 16.12.2004
Joseph Raz, University of Oxford, The Myth of Instrumental Rationality, 31.3.2005
David Pears, University of Oxford, The Development of Wittgenstein’s Ideas about the Pronoun ’I’, 2.05.2005
Ned Block, New York University, The Epistemological Problem of the Philosophy of the Neuroscience of Consciousness, 10.5.2005
François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod, Situation-Relativity, 20.5.2005
2005-2006
Andrew Williams, University of Reading, Living as Equals: Right or Responsibility,
20.10.2005
Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam & Stanford University, Epistemic Logic
and Epistemology: the state of their affairs, 27.10.2005
Sara Heinämaa, University of Helsinki, Naturalistic, personalistic, and phenomenological: three attitudes towards the body, 17.11.2005
Camilla Serck-Hanssen, Oslo University, Kant on Succession, 24.11.2005
Alan Weir, Queen's University, Belfast, Radical Interpretations of Quine?, 26.01.2005
Roger Crisp, University of Oxford, Hedonism Reconsidered, 16.03.2006
Michael McKinsey, Wayne State University, Externalism and Privileged Access are
Inconsistent, 30.03.2006
Michael Devitt, CUNY, The Graduate Center, Resurrecting Biological Essentialism,
11.04.2006
Tim Lewens, University of Cambridge, Darwinism, Mayr, and Population Thinking,
8.05.2006.
Paul Boghossian, New York University, What is Relativism?, 30.05.2006.
2006-2007
Bill Brewer, University of Warwick, Perception and its Objects, 05.10.2006
Genoveva Marti, University of Barcelona, The Directness of Reference and Thought,
18.10.2006
Patrick Greenough, University of St Andrews, How to be a Reliabilist, 07.12.2006
Denis McManus, University of Southampton, The Unity of Language and the Generality of Logic in the Early Work of Wittgenstein, 8.2.2007.
Ralph Wedgwood, Oxford University, The Normativity of the Intentional, 22.3.2007.
Katalin Farkas, Central European University, Budapest, Knowledge and Discrimination, 12.4.2007.
Michael Bishop, Northern Illinois University, The Virtues of Epistemological
Minimalism, 17.4.2007.
Panos Dimas, Oslo University, Teachers of Virtue, 24.5.2007.
Barry Smith, Birkbeck College, Relativism, Meaning and Truth, 7.6.2007.
2007-2008
Hillel Steiner, Manchester University, A Famous Conflict, 13.9.2007.
Pekka Väyrynen, University of California, Explaining Exceptions in Ethics, 27.9.2007.
Stefano Predelli (University of Nottingham) & Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean-Nicod), Relativizing Kaplan: The Metasemantic Case for Relativist Semantics, 11.10.2007.
Michael Zimmerman (University of North Carolina), Partiality and Intrinsic Value,
11.12.2007.
Christel Fricke, Oslo University, How to learn to be a moral person. On Adam Smith’s Moral Theory, 21.2.207.
Samir Okasha, University of Bristol, Where Evolution and Rational Choice Part Ways,
6.3.2007.
Stephen Finlay, University of Southern California, What 'Ought' Probably Means,
27.03.2008.
Jussi Haukioja, University of Turku, Intuitions, Experiments and Externalism 17.04.2008
Helen Steward, University of Leeds, Fresh Starts, 15.05.2008.
Ben Bradley, University of Syracuse, A Defense of Hedonism, 29.05.2008.
Autumn 2008
Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh, Two Conceptions of Subjective Experience, 23.09.2008.
Susanna Siegel, Harvard University, Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification, 25.09.2008.
Thomas Nagel, New York University, Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament, 23.10.2008.
Christopher Gauker, University of Cincinnati, Perception as the Representation of Perceptual Similarity, 30.10.2008.
Matti Eklund, Cornell University, Language Pluralism in Metaontology and Metaethics, 06.11.2008.
Krister Bykvist, Oxford University, Objective versus Subjective Moral Oughts, 04.12.2008.
Pauliina Remes, Uppsala University, Censorship in Plato's Republic, 18.12.2008. Spring 2009
Asbjörn Steglich-Petersen, Århus University, How to be a Teleologist about Epistemic Reasons, 20090212 Tim Crane, UCL, A Paradox of Thought, 20090219 Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, University of Barcelona, Pretending to Refer, 20090312 Albert Casullo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Knowledge of Modality, 20090319
Katherine Hawley, University of St Andrews, Testimony and Knowing How, 20090326
Tom Hurka, University of Toronto, Underivative Duty: Prichard on Moral Obligation, 20090421
Helen Beebee, University of Birmingham, Agent Probabilities and Free Will, 20090507
Christopher Peacocke, Columbia University, Subjects and Consciousness, 20090514
Mike Otsuka, University College London, Personal Identity and the Significance of Becoming, 20090526
Autumn 2009 Hallvard Lillehammer, Cambridge University, Methods of Ethica and the Descent of Man, 20090903
Katerina Ierodiakonou, Athens & LSE,The Notion of Enargeia
in Hellnistic
Philosophy, 20090924
Tim Kenyon, University of Waterloo, Default Acceptance of Testimony, 20091001
Thomas Cristiano, University of Arizona, Arguments for
a Human Right to
Democracy, 20091013
Paula Casal, University of Barcelona and University of Reading, Apethics: Moral Reflections on the Great Apes, 20091105
Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California, Two Roles for Propositions: Cause for Divorce? 20091113
Diana Raffman, University of Toronto, Tolerance and the Competent Use of Vague Words, 20091119
Stewart Cohen, University of Arizona, Bootstrapping and Defeasible Reasoning, 20091217
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