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Events
Philosophy Club
The
Philosophy Club
holds its weekly meetings each Monday at 7p.m. in
the atrium (lounge) on the 2nd floor of Major Williams
Hall.
Fall
2007 Colloquia
Tentative
time for all colloquia is 4 p.m.
Clark Glymour
"When Is a Brain Like the Planet?"
Friday, September 21 at 4 p.m.
Location: Major Williams 434
Walter
Ott
"Causation, Intentionality, and the Case for
Occasionalism
Friday,
October 12
Brian
Epstein
"The
Internal and the External
in
Linguistic Explanation"
Friday November 16
Location: 434 Major Williams
(Please note change of date; updated 10/18/07)
Davis Baird (South Carolina) (philosophy
of technology)
"Engineering Reality"
Friday November 30
Location: 3100 TORG
(Co-Sponsored
by STS)
Fall
Virginia Tech Graduate Philosophy Conference
The
Virginia Tech Graduate Philosophy Conference will
be held Friday, November 2nd in TORG 2150 and on Saturday,
November 3rd in TORG 1020. It is open to the public,
with no cost to attend. Both days will conclude with
receptions, detailed on the schedule,
to which all attendees are welcome.
Spring
2008 Colloquia
Dan
Devereux (UVa)
"Virtue, Happiness and the Political
Art in Plato's Euthydemus and Gorgias"
Friday February 8
Jesse Prinz (UNC Chapel Hill)
Date TBA
Spring
2008 Conference
The
Virginia Tech Philosophy Department will be hosting
the Meaning
and Modern Empiricism Conference,
April 11-13, 2008. For
further information, click here.
Recent conferences:
The
Virginia Tech Philosophy Department hosted the second
Annual Atlantic Coast Pragmatist Meeting
on March 31-April 2. (Click
here for schedule.)
Regional
Working Conference on Wittgenstein at Virginia Tech,
April 12-15, 2007. (Click here for schedule.)
Contact: James C. Klagge at jklagge (at) vt
(dot) edu.
The
Graduate Philosophy Conference at Virginia
Tech was held November 3-4, 2006. Click
here for the full schedule. Keynote Speaker: Brian
Leiter, University of Texas at Austin, “Why
Tolerate Religion?”
Scientific
Images: Learning From Pictures, April 21-23 2006.
(Schedule
and abstracts.)
First
Symposium on Philosophy, History,and Methodology of
E.R.R.O.R*(*Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, Objectivity
& Rationality: Induction, Statistics, Modelling),
June 1-5, 2006.
Conference website: http://www.error06.econ.vt.edu/
Interdisciplinary Symposium:The Mind Project:
Intersections of Philosophy, Human Science, &
Humanities in the Journal, Mind, 1876-1920,
December 2-4, 2005. (www.mse.vt.edu/faculty/staley/MIND/MINDconfweb.htm)
The
2005 Virginia Tech Graduate Student Philosophy Conference,
October 28-29, 2005. ( HTML )
The Virginia Tech Graduate Student Philosophy Conference,
November 12-13, 2004. (
HTML )
Peirce-pectives, April 23-25, 2004. ( HTML
)
Leibniz and His Contemporaries, June 23-July 18, 2003.
(
HTML )
The Metaethics of Moral Status, April 4-6, 2003. (
PDF | Word )
Galileo in Blacksburg, March 14-16, 2003. ( HTML )
Recent colloquia:
Spring
2007 Colloquia
Friday,
April 6, 2007
Doug
Jesseph (NC State)
North Carolina State University
“Hobbes
on History as a Source of Knowledge”
Friday,
October 13
John
Carroll, NC State (Philosophy of Science)
"Nailed to Hume's Cross?"
Friday,
November 10
Jeffrey Brand-Ballard (GWU)
"Are Judges Morally Obligated to Apply
the Law?"
Friday,
December 1
Mitchell
Green (UVa)
"How speech acts express psychological states"
Colloquia,
Spring 2006.
(See PDF
for details)
Colloquia, Fall 2005 (see PDF
for details)
Colloquia, Spring 2005 (see PDF
for details)
Colloquia,
Fall 2004 ( see HTML
l Word
for details)
Colloquia, Spring 2003 ( HTML )
Philosophy Club, Fall 2002 ( HTML )
Colloquia, Spring 2002 ( HTML )
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