Upcoming Events
- February 22, 4:30pm, "Kant's History of Ethics" Allen Wood, Ruth Norman Halls Professor of Philosophy (Indiana), IMU Walnut Room
- March 1, 4-6pm, "Making the "Hard" Problem of Moral Normativity Easier" Stephen Darwall (Yale)
- March 18-22, Julia Annas (Arizona), Distinguish Visitor, times and dates in this period TBA
- March 25, 4-6pm, "Classical Continua without Points" Geoffrey Hellman (Minnesota), Joint HPS-Philosophy Colloquium
- April 5, 4-6pm Sharon Mason (Indiana), Brand Fellowship Lecture
- April 12, 4-6pm Marija Jankovic (Indiana) & Michael Rings (Indiana), Nelson Fellowship Symposium
- April 19, George Nahknikian Memorial, times TBA
- May 9-11, Conference for the Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy
Archived Events
Events Calendar 2012-2013
- Sep 21 Ernest Sosa (Rutgers)
Bo and Lynn Clark Lecture
4-6 p.m.
- Sep 28-29 Sixth Annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop
Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University, Bloomington. - Oct 10 Michael Koss, IU Philosophy Department
Finding a Place for the Philosophy of Math
4 p.m. Wylie 111 - Oct 12 Kai Hauser, Technische Universitat, Berlin
Perception and Ideal Objects
11 a.m. Chemistry 001 - Oct 16 Chris Mortensen, University of Adelaide
Inconsistent Geometry and M. C. Escher
11 a.m. Kirkwood 312
- Oct 19 Three Puzzles about Spatial Experience
4-6 p.m 120 Woodburn Hall - Oct 20-21 Aristotelian Logic and Metaphysics
- Nov 2 Colin Allen (Indiana University)
Fall 2012 Nelson Lecture - Meerkats, Monkeys, and Information
Sponsored by the Philosophy Department at Indiana University with support from the Nelson fund.
4-6 p.m. University Club (downstairs) in the IMU - Nov 30 David Sussman Department of Philosophy University of Illinois, Urbana
Lecture – “Is Agent-Regret Rational?“
4-6 p.m. - Jan 14 The Philosophical Society
Spring 2013 Callout Meeting
7 p.m. Persimmon Room, IMU
Events Calendar 2011-2012
- Oct 10 Katalin Bimbo, University of Alberta Philosophy (and former IU grad student):
"On the decidability of implicational ticket entailment"
5:30 p.m. Lindley Hall 101
(This talk is also a seminar in the School of Informatics and Computing's
Theory Seminar.) - Oct 12 Graham Priest, University of Melbourne and CUNY
Logic Group Colloquium
"Kripke's New Paradox of Thought"
4-6 p.m. Chemistry 001 - Oct 14 William Demopolous: "Carnap's Thesis"
Joint Phil/HPS Colloquium
4-5:30 p.m. Ballantine Hall 204 - Oct 19 Michael Koss (IU Philosophy Department)
"The coherence of the incoherence"
4:00 p.m. in Chemistry 001 - Oct 21 Margaret Gilbert: "Dark duties: on the practical import of commands to do evil"
Philosophy Colloquium
4-6 p.m. 121 Woodburn - Nov 2 Joan Weiner, IU Philosophy Department
Why Benacerraf's Puzzle Rests on a Mistake
4 p.m. Chemistry 001 - Nov 4 Mark Rowlands: "Can Animals be Moral?" (download flyer)
Nelson Lecture
4-6 p.m. 120 Woodburn
- Nov 8 Ray Jackendoff: "The Cognitive Structure of Baseball"
Patten Lecture
7:30-9 p.m. Rawles Hall 100
- Nov 9 Kai Wehmeier, University of California, Irvine, Department of
Logic and Philosophy of Science
The First-Order Logic of the Tractatus (joint work with Brian Rogers)
4-6 p.m. Chemistry 001
- Nov 10 Ray Jackendoff Discussion: "Language Evolution"
Discussion of language evolution
12-1 p.m. 22 Sycamore Hall
- Nov 10 Ray Jackendoff: "Language, Meaning, and Rational Thought"
Patten Lecture
7:30-9 p.m. Rawles Hall 100 - Nov 18 Ted Sider, Cornell University: “The Metaphysics of Fundamentality”
Philosophy Colloquium
4:00-6:00 p.m. 121 Woodburn
- Dec 2 Tyler Burge TBA
Bo & Lynn Clark Lecture
4:00-6:00 p.m. IMU University Club
Reception to Follow - Dec 9 Carrie Swanson: "Gareth Matthews on Kooky Objects and the Masker Paradox"
Halls Postdoc Fellowship Lecture
3:30-5:30 p.m. 121 Woodburn - January 13, Emily Fletcher, University of Toronto: "Hedonism and the Choice of Lives in Plato's Philebus"
4:00-6:00 p.m. 121 Woodburn - January 20, David Bronstein, Boston University: "A Puzzle in Aristotle's Theory of Definition"
1:30-3:30 p.m. 121 Woodburn - January 23, Pieter Hasper, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Munich: "'Knowledge is of Universals': The Proof-Theoretical Context of Aristotle's Thesis"
4-6 p.m. 102 Fine Arts - January 27, Samuel Baker, Princeton University: "Ergon and Virtue in Plato and Aristotle"
4-6 p.m. 121 Woodburn - January 31, Carrie Swanson, Indiana University: "Self-Refutation in Plato's Euthydemus"
7-9 p.m. 121 Woodburn - February 24, Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University: "Epistemic Agency"
4-6 p.m. 121 Woodburn - March 2, Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin: "Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny"
4-6 p.m. 121 Woodburn - March 23, Gilbert Harman, Princeton University: "Intrinsically Self-Reflexive Mental States"
1:30-3:30 p.m. 340 Ballantine - March 30, Sarah Broadie, University of St Andrews: "Perspectives on Aristotle from Bernard Williams"
4-6 p.m. 121 Woodburn - April 20, Jim Conant, University of Chicago, "Wittgenstein and Aesthetics"
10 a.m. - 12 p.m., Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU
Co-sponsored by the Center for Theoretical Study in the Humanities, the Institute of German Studies, and the Philosophy Department. - April 20, Michael Jubien, University of Florida: "Looking Back on Logic"
1:30-3:30 p.m. 121 Woodburn - April 27, Harry Frankfurt, Princeton University: "Volitional Rationality and the Necessities of Love"
4-6 p.m. 121 Woodburn
Events Calendar 2010-2011
(All events are departmental colloquia unless otherwise noted.)
- Sep 10 Barry Stroud
Annual Bo and Lynn Clark Memorial Lecture
Seeing What Is So
3:00 Indiana Memorial Union University Club
Reception to Follow
- Sep 13 Rega Wood
Henry Bracton on the Science of Jurisprudence
4:00 Swain 221
- Sep 29 Gary Ebbs
IU Logic Group Seminar
How to formulate the schematic conception of logical truth
4:00 PM BH 144
- Oct 6 John McDowell
Distinguished Visitor Lecture
Perception as a Cognitive Capacity
7:30-9:30 Wylie 005 - Oct 27 Peter Lasersohn
IU Logic Group Seminar
Two Types of Perspectival Meaning and the Development of Allocentric Assessment
4:00 Ballantine 144 - Oct. 29 Martha Bolton
Berkeley's Language of Vision
4:00 WH 121
- Nov. 5 Achille Varzi
On Doing Ontology without Metaphysics
4:00 WH 121
- Nov 12 Timothy Williamson
Improbable Knowing
4:00 WH 121
- Jan 12 Kirk Ludwig
IU Logic Group Seminar
De Re Necessities
4:00 Chem 001 - Jan 25 Nancy Fraser
Patten Lecture
Nature, Labor, Money: Flashpoints of Capitalist Crisis in the 21st Century
7:30 Rawles 100 - Jan 27 Nancy Fraser
Patten Lecture
Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Grammars of Struggle in Capitalist Crisis
7:30 Rawles 100
- Feb 25 David Hyder
Joint HPS/Philosophy Lecture
Kant on Time and Quantity
4:00 Ballantine 003
- Mar 4 Roger Crisp
A Third Method of Ethics
4:00 Woodburn 121 - April 8 Chad Gonnerman
Nelson Dissertation Fellowship Lecture
Messy Minds: A Problem for the Psychological Turn in Conceptual Analysis
4:00 Bridgewater Lounge, Neal Marshall Center
Reception to follow
Events Calendar 2009-2010
(All events are departmental colloquia unless otherwise noted.)
- Sep 18 Rega Wood
What Price the Horror of the Vacuum? Interstitial Vacua and Aristotelian Science
Title/Location TBA - Sep 21 Jeremy Horder
Philosophy and Morality in the Courtroom: Defenses in Criminal Law
4:00 Law School 335
- Sep 23 Jeremy Horder
Branigin Lecture
Law Commissions, Experts and Law Reform: The Case of Homicide
7:00 Law School Moot Court Room
- Sep 25 John Martin Fischer
Annual Bo Clark Lecture
Indeterminism and Control: The Problem of Luck
4:00 Woodburn 121 - Oct 9 Robin Hendry
First Annual Joint Phil-HPS Lecture
The Metaphysics of Chemistry
4:00 Woodburn 121 - Oct 16 Jeff McMahan
When is it Permissible to Kill Civilians in War?
4:00 Woodburn 121 - Oct 30 Allan Gibbard
Meaning as a Normative Concept
4:00 WH121 - Nov 13 Robert Adams
Existence
4:00 PM WH120 - Jan 22 Keith DeRose
Timid Skepticism
4:00 WH121
- Feb 5 Susan Haack
Just Say "No" to Logical Negativism
4:00 WH121
- Mar 5 Christine Korsgaard
Reflections on the Evolution of Morality
4:00 WH121
- Mar 26 Kyla Ebels Duggan
Dealing with the Past: Responsibility, History, and Salience
4:00 WH121
