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Yale College Academic Calendar Yale Graduate School Academic Calendar Important Dates for Graduate Program Applicants Graduate Student Conference Crises of our Republics: Hannah Arendt at One Hundred PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT TALKS 2007-2008 Lectures held in Faculty Room on the second floor of Connecticut Hall unless otherwise noted. 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 PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT TALKS 2006-2007 MAKING WAR ON TERRORISTS – REFLECTIONS ON HARMING THE INNOCENT Thomas Pogge Professor of Political Science, Columbia University Professorial Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, ANU Professor II, University of Oslo 4 PM, September 7, 2006 DIVINE ACTION IN THE WORLD Alvin Plantinga 4 PM, September 13, 2006 FAIRNESS IN TRADE Mathias Risse Associate Professor of Public Policy and Philosophy Harvard University 4 PM, October 6, 2006 PLATO ON POETIC INSPIRATION Dominic Scott University of Cambridge 4:30 PM, October 16 407 Phelps Hall Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Philosophy Graduate Student Conference October 20, 21, 2006 Faculty Room, Connecticut Hall A Platonic Account of Well-Being Jyl Gentzler Amherst College 1:30 p.m., October 26 208 Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.) Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Is Moral Truth the Aim of Moral Inquiry? Catherine Wilson, CUNY 4 PM, November 2, 2006 LC 317 “The Five Modes of Agrippa” in Sextus Empiricus, “Outlines of Pyrrhonism,” Book I, sections 165-169. Ben Morrison, Princeton University 1:30 pm, November 3 208 Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.) Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy THE HOLY GRAIL OF NATURAL LOGIC: FROM THE DICTUM DE OMNI ET NULLO TO THE SYNTAX OF DIRECTIONAL ENTAILINGNESS Peter Ludlow, The University of Michigan 4 PM, Thursday, November 9, 2006 Sponsored by the Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy A DIALECTIC OF MORALITY: NORMATIVE AND EMPIRICAL ASPECTS OF A THEORY OF GLOBAL JUSTICE Rainer Forst Johann Wolfgang Goethe University 4 PM, 1 December 2006 LEIBNIZ ON CAUSATION Dan Garber 4 PM, Thursday, December 7, 2006 104 Connecticut Hall Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale. AUTHORITY AND SECOND-PERSONAL REASONS FOR ACTING Sephen Darwall University of Michigan 4 PM, Friday, January 19, 2007. CAUSES, EXPLANATIONS, AND ARISTOTLE’S FOUR AITAI Nathanael Stein Oxford 4 PM, Thursday, January 25, 2007 KNOWLEDGE IN PLATO’S CHARMIDES Dominic Bailey Oxford 4 PM, Thursday, February 1, 2007 LC 317 ARISTOTLE, ZENO AND THE MEASURE OF MOTION Barbara Sattler University of Illinois 4 PM, Thursday, February 8, 2007. MENTAL CAUSES IN PLATO’S ‘PHAEDO’ Matt Evans New York University Thursday, February 15, 12:00 PM 208 Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy CONTEXT DEPENDENCE AND PROPOSITIONAL STRUCTURE IN EXISTENTIALS Itamar Francez Stanford University 4 PM, Thursday, February 15, 2007. NOMINAL SYMMETRY: LOCKE ON MIND AND BODY Han-Kyul Kim 2 PM, Friday, February 16, 2007 104 Conn. Hall Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale. SUBJECTIVE MEANING AND SUBJECTIVE ASSERTION Tamina Stephenson MIT 4 PM, Thursday, February 22, 2007 LC 317 CONTINUOUS CREATION Ken Winkler 6 PM, Wednesday, March 7, 2007 104 Connecticut Hall Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale. ‘DIFFERENT’, ‘SAME’, ‘LIKE’, AND THE SEMANTICS OF QUALITATIVE COMPARISON Peter Alrenga University of California, Santa Cruz 4 PM, Thursday, March 8, 2007 NEWTON AND KANT ON ABSOLUTE SPACE: FROM THEOLOGY TO TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY Michael Friedman, Stanford 4 PM, March 29, 2007 TO BE ANNOUNCED Martha Bolton 4 PM, Thursday, April 5, 2007 104 Connecticut Hall Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale. Empiricism in Avicenna and its Roots in Greek Philosophy Dimitri Gutas Noon, Thursday, April 6, 2007 Mediterranea Café, 140 Orange Street (corner of Chapel and Orange Streets).Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy. Great Kinds and False Statement in Plato’s Sophist Mary Louise Gill, Brown University 4 PM, Thursday, April 12, 2007 104 Conn. Hall Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy. Terminological Disputes and Philosophical Progress David Chalmers 4:30 PM, Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Faculty Room, Connecticut Hall The Priority of Actuality in Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta 8 Professor Gabor Beteigh, Central European University, Budapest. 2 – 4 PM, Friday, April 20, 2007, 104 Conn. Hall Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy. PSR Michael Della Rocca 4 PM, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 104 Connecticut Hall Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale. The Cartesian Circle and the Foundations of Knowledge John Carriero (UCLA) 4pm, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 LC 104 Sponsored by the Society of Early Modern Philosophy at Yale. Certainty and Doubt: Metaphysical and Practical Elliot S. Paul 6pm, Wednesday, May 09, 2007 CT 104 Sponsored by the Society of Early Modern Philosophy at Yale. NEW ENGLAND COLLOQUIUM INI EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY June 5, 6, 2007 Next: Links and Resources