Department of Philosophy


2011 Marjorie Grene Lecture:

The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the
Creativity of Natural Selection

David Depew

Friday, 9 September 2011
4 PM, Torgersen 3100


Fall Department Colloquia

  • “What is it that the Blameworthy are Worthy Of?”
    Angela Smith

    Friday, 23 September 2011
    3 PM, Torgersen 1060


  • “Direct Inference and the New Riddle of Induction”
    John Roberts

    Friday, 11 November 2011
    4 PM, Torgersen 1060


2012 Burian-McNabb Lecture, STS



  • “Methods of Experimentation in Snake Venom Research”

    Jutta Schickore

    Friday, 6 April 2012
    2:30 PM, Torgersen 1060



Spring Department Colloquia

  • “ Composition, Mereological Essentialism, and Modal Parts”

    Meg Wallace

    Friday, 13 April 2012
    3 PM, Torgersen 1060

  • “Are There Lockean Real Essences?”

    Jan-Erik Jones

    Friday, 20 April 2012
    3 PM, Torgersen 1060

  • “Understanding Accountability”

    Jada Strabbing

    Friday, 27 April 2012
    3 PM, Torgersen 1060




Past Speakers, Distinguished Lecture Series

Don Howard

  • Einstein as a Philosopher of Science

Patricia Kitcher

  • Kant on Rational Cognition and Moral Agency

Cosma Shalizi

  • Dynamics of Bayesian Updating with Dependent Data and Misspecified Models

William G. Lycan

  • Resuscitating Cartesian Dualism

Jeffrey Bub

  • Quantum Games: Einstein and Bohr Meet Alice and Bob