Past Events
Philosophy Department Talks
Lectures held in Faculty Room on the second floor of Connecticut Hall unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2008
THE THEAETETUS IN THE CONTEXT OF PLATO'S LATER DIALOGUES
Charles Kahn
University of Pennsylvania
6 - 8 PM, Monday, December 8, 2008
WHC 208
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
HOW TO THINK ABOUT THINGS IN THEMSELVES
Anja Jauernig
Notre Dame
4 PM, Thursday, December 4, 2008.
LC 211
ALIEF IN ACTION (and REACTION)
Tamar Szabo Gendler
Yale
12-2 PM, Thursday, November 13, 2008
CT 104
Sponsored by the Working Group for Diversity in Philosophy.
EXPLAINING PRESUPPOSITION PROJECTION
Daniel Rothschild
Columbia, visiting at Yale
4 PM, Thursday, November 6, 2008.
LC 211
CARING AND THE WEAKNESS OF WILL
Gabriel Mendlow
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Law School, Lecturer, Philosophy
5:30 PM, Wednesday, October 29, 2008
C 104
Sponsored by the Working Group in Moral Philosophy
PHILOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY: THE GREEK AND ARABIC EVIDENCE FOR THE HERACLITUS FRAGMENT IN THEOPHRASTUS (DK 124)
Dimitri Gutas
Yale
6 - 8 PM, Monday, October 27, 2008
WHC 208
Sponsored by the Working Groups in Ancient and Arabic Philosophy.
BEYOND BELIEF: PRAGMATICS IN PORNOGRAPHY AND HATE SPEECH
Rae Langton
MIT
4 PM, Thursday, October 23, 2008.
Faculty Room, Connecticut Hall
SLURRING WORDS
Luvell Anderson
Graduate Student, Rutgers University
12 - 2 PM, Thursday, October 16, 2008
CT 104
Sponsored by the Working Group for Diversity in Philosophy.
Castle Lectures
THE RESURGENCE OF RELIGION: A Challenge to the Secular Self-Understanding of Modernity
Jurgan Habermas
October 6, 7 and 13, 2008
4 - 5:30 PM
Law School Auditorium
ARISTOTLE ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN RATIONAL AND NONRATIONAL DESIRE
Ursula Coope
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
4 PM, Thursday, September 18, 2008.
LC 211
Spring 2007 -2008
Discussion of, Racism and Love Ethics.
Jorge Garcia, Boston University
5:30 PM, September 17, 2007
104 Conn Hall
Sponsored by the Yale Society for Diversity in Philosophy
Inertial Deflections, Representations of Space, and the Conservation of Motion in Galileo’s Dialogue
David Miller, Yale University
5:45 – 7:45 PM, September 24, 2007
C 104
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale
Aristotle on Slavery
Adam Beresford, University of Mass., Boston
5:45 PM, September 25, 2007
C104
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
The Role of God in Cartesian Philosophy
John Cottingham, University of Reading
4 pm, October 4, 2007
C 104
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale.
FREGE WORKSHOP
The Composition of Thoughts
Richard Heck, Brown University
Robert May, University of California, Davis
The Essential Proposition: Frege on Identity Statements
Robert May, University of California, Davis
3 – 7 PM, October 6, 2007
LC 211
Topic to be Announced
Ursula Coope, Oxford
5:45 PM, October 9, 2007
C104
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
WITTGENSTEIN ON MEANING AND UNDERSTANDING: GRAMMATICAL AND LOGICAL NORMS
William Tait
Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
4 PM, October 18, 2007
WILLIAM JAMES AND HIS INFLUENCE
Conference in Honor of John E. Smith
October 19, 20, 2007
Yale Divinity School
INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN AND POWER
Castle Lectures
Robert Keohane
Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
“Designing Multilateral Institutions: Interests and Power”
October 29, 4 – 5:30 PM
Henry R. Luce Hall, Main Auditorium
“Design and Efficacy”
October 30, 4 – 5:30 PM
“The Legitimacy of Institutional Design”
November 5, 4 – 5:30 PM
Aristotle on Simultaneously Perceiving More Things Than One
Hendrik Lorenz, Princeton
5:45 PM, November 12, 2007
C104
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Locke on Substance
Justin Broackes, Brown University
5:45 – 7:45 PM, November 26, 2007
C 104
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale and the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Obligation
David Owens
Visiting, Yale University, University of Sheffield
4 PM, November 29, 2007
IMAGES IN THE ROUND
Michael Martin
University College, London
Mills Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
4 PM, December 7, 2007
Intensive Seminar on Rationality in Ancient Philosophy
A. A. Long
University of California, Berkeley
17 - 20 January2008
Sponsored by the Workinig Group in Ancient Philosophy
To be Announced
Michael Della Rocca
Yale University
7 February 2008
4 PM, 104 CT. Hall
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale
SOCRATES ON TRIAL: A DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE OF PLATO'S 'APOLOGY'
Steve Wexler
University of British Columbia
20 February 2008
6:30 PM, 317 LC
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy.
Religion and Representation in Hobbs
Bryan Garsten
Yale University
21 February 2008
4 PM, 104 CT. Hall
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale
PUZZLING OUT RUSSELL: THE CURIOSITY OF GEORGE IV.
Ian Proops
University of Michigan, visiting Yale University
6 March 2008
4 PM
MOST COUNTERFACTUALS ARE FALSE
Alan Hajek
Australian National University
4 pm, 27 March 2008
PLATONIC PLEASURES IN EPICURUS AND ABU BAKR al-RAZI
Peter Adamson
King's College London
11:30 AM, 11 April 2008
208 Whitney Humanities Center
Jointly sponsored by the Working Groups in Ancient Philosophy and Arabic Philosophy
INTENSIONALITY WORKSHOP
12 April 2008
Faculty Room, Connecticut Hall
Psychological Attitude Verbs: A Unified Account
Graeme Forbes
University of Colorado
10 AM
Intensional Verbs and the Nominalization Theory of Special Quantifiers
Friederike Moltmann
Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, Paris
11:45 AM
Intensionality and Logical Form
George Bealer
Yale University
3 PM
Content and Semantics
Mark Richard
Tufts University
4:45 PM
Sponsored by the Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy
RESPONSIBILITY AND MENTAL AGENCY
Pamela Hieronymi
UCLA
4 PM, May 1, 2008
