Colloquium Archive

Spring 2023 Series

Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Omri Boehm  (The New School)
Title "Kant and Spinoza on Prophecy, Enlightenment, and Revolution"
4:10-6:00 PM

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
Nilanjan Das  (University of Toronto)
Title "Śrīharsa on Two Paradoxes of Inquiry"
4:10-6:00 PM

Thursday, April 13th, 2023
Vida Yao  (Rice University)
Title "The Avoidance of Intimacy: A Reorientation in the Moral Philosophy of Love"
4:10-6:00 PM

Fall 2022 Series

Thursday, October 27th, 2022
Sherrilyn Roush  (University of California, Los Angeles)
Title "Naked Statistical Evidence and Verdictive Justice"
4:10-6:00 PM

Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Marko Malink  (New York University)
Title "The Metaphysical Basis of Aristotle's Logic"
4:10-6:00 PM

Spring 2022 Series

Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
Jonathan Gilmore  (CUNY Grad Center & Baruch College)
Title "Feelings Fit for Fictions and Imaginings"
4:10-6:00 PM
Zoom Link sent in advance

Thursday, March 10th, 2022
Quayshawn Spencer (University of Pennsylvania)
Title "A Metaphysical Mapping Problem for Race Theorists and Human Population Geneticists."
4:10-6:00 PM
Zoom Link sent in advance

Dewey Lectures
Monday, April 25- Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
Title:"Challenges to the Creation of an Egalitarian Society: Reflections on Moral Psychology from Rousseau to the Present."
4:10-6:00 PM
Location: 3rd Floor Library at the Italian Academy.

Fall 2021 Series

Thursday, November 4th, 2021
Souleymane Bachir Diagne  (Columbia University)
Title "Radical translation and mutuality. The Linguist, the Native, and the Extraterrestrial"
4:10-6:00 PM
Zoom Link sent in advance

Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
David Albert  (Columbia University)
Title "The Difference Between the Past and the Future Considered as a Mechanical Phenomenon of Nature."
4:10-6:00 PM
Zoom Link sent in advance

Spring 2021 Series

Thursday, February 11th, 2021
Melissa Fusco (Columbia University)
Title "Is Free Choice Cancellable?"


Abstract: "I argue that the time-honored `I don't know which'-riders on on Free Choice sentences, traditionally taken to confine the effect to the farther side of the semantics-pragmatics divide, are in fact sensitive to scope. Therefore, such sluices do not show cancellation on Free Choice antecedents in which disjunction scopes narrower than the modal.If successful, this argument clears the runway for a natural-language inspired logic---it would be a very revisionary one---which validates the inference pattern."
4:10-6:00PM, Zoom-Link sent in advance.

Thursday, February 25th, 2021
Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Columbia University)
Title "The Moral Danger of Political Factions: Mary Astell on Political Consent, Rebellion, and Civil War"
4:10-6:00PM, Zoom-Link sent in advance.

Thursday, April 1st, 2021
Karen Ng (Vanderbilt University)
Title "Humanism: A defense."
4:10-6:00PM, Zoom-Link sent in advance.

Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Francey Russell (Barnard College)
Title "Picturing the Mind: Methodology and Metapsychology in Freud"
4:10-6:00PM, Zoom-Link sent in advance.

Fall 2020 Series

Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Jenann Ismael (Columbia University)
Title "Time and the Visual Imagination"
4:10-6:00PM, Zoom-Link sent in advance.

Thursday, November 12th, 2020
Kris McDaniel  (University of Notre Dame)
Title "Kantian Ontological Pluralism without Transcendental Idealism"
4:10-6:00PM, ZOOM-Link sent in advance.

Thursday, December 10th, 2020
Paul Taylor  (Vanderbilt University)
Title "Which me will survive all these liberations?"
4:10-6:00PM, ZOOM-Link sent in advance.

Fall 2019 Series

Thursday, September 12th, 2019
Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth)
Title: "Can metaphysics explain?"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday, October 10th, 2019
Luvell E. Anderson (Syracuse)
Title: "Laughing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Comedic Imagination"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall 
Reception to follow

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Frances Egan (Rutgers)
Title: "The Structure of Perceptual Experience: A New Look at Adverbialism"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Spring 2019 Series

Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Serene Khader (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Title: "Decolonizing Universalism"
4:10 PM - 6 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday, April 18th, 2019
Jennifer Marusic (Brandeis)
Title: "Locke on Knowledge and the Grounds of Probability"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Fall 2018 Series

Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Laura Franklin-Hall (New York University)
Title: "The Animal Sexes as Queer Kinds"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall 
Reception to follow

Thursday, November 29th, 2018
Simona Aimar (UCL)
Title: "Technê as Productive Knowledge for Aristotle"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall 
Reception to follow

Spring 2018

Thursday, February 1, 2018
Sara Bernstein (Notre Dame)
Title:  Deviant Causal Chains and the Law
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy 716 Hall 
Reception to follow

Thursday, April 12, 2018
Ishani Maitra (University of Michigan)
Title: "Lying and deception: A happy marriage"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM. 716 Philosophy Hall 
Reception to follow

Fall 2017 Series

Thursday, October 5th, 2017
James Kreines (Claremont McKenna College)

Title: "Natural Teleology and Metaphysics: Uncovering Strengths in the Competing Arguments of Kant and Hegel"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall 
Reception to follow

Thursday, October 19th, 2017
Josh Knobe  (Yale University)
Title: "Norms and Normality"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall 
Reception to follow

Thursday, November 16, 2017
Andrew Arlig (Brooklyn College)
Title: "On the Priority of the Part"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall 
Reception to follow

Thursday, December 7, 2017
Hanna Pickard (Princeton)
Title: "Addiction and the Self"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall 
Reception to follow

Fall 2016 Series

Thursday, October 13, 2016
Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame)
"Personal Volatility"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, October 27, 2016
Richard Heck  (Brown)
"Gödel, Schmidt, and Intuition"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, November 17, 2016
Uriah Kriegel (Jean Nicod)
"Belief-that and Belief-in: Which Reductive Analysis?"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, December 1, 2016
Desmond Hogan (Princeton)
"Kant's Other Idealist Arguments"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Spring 2016 Series

Thursday, April 7, 2016
Gillian Russell (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Could there be no logic"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, April 14, 2016
Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley)
"In Good Company? On Hume's Principle and the assignment of numbers to infinite concepts"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Fall 2015 Series

Thursday, September 24, 2015
Ursula Coope (Oxford University)
"Aristotle on Productive Understanding and Completeness"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, October 1, 2015
Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University)
"'Resistance to the Perpetual Danger of Relapse': On Moral Progress and Social Change"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, October 29, 2015
Declan Smithies (Ohio State University)
"The Irrationality of Epistemic Akrasia"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, November 19, 2015
Mark Wilson (Pittsburgh University)
"Pragmatics' Place at the Table: The View from Science"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Spring 2015 Series

Thursday, February 19, 2015
Gabriel Richardson Lear (University of Chicago)
"Plato on Beauty, Appearance, and the Splendor of Virtue"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, March 26, 2015
Selim Berker (Harvard University)
"The Unity of Grounding"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow
 

Fall 2014 Series

Thursday, October 16, 2014
Lara Buchak (UC Berkeley)
"Risk and Rationality"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, October 30, 2014
Bernard Reginster (Brown University)
"Ressentiment, Power, and Values"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, November 20, 2014
Jason Stanley (Yale University)
"Propaganda and Liberal Democracy"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Spring 2014 Series

Thursday, February 27, 2014
L.A. Paul (University of North Carolina)
"Transformative Experience"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, March 13, 2014
Julia Markovits (Massachusetts  Institute of Technology)
"On What It Is To Matter"
4:10 PM - 6:00 Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, March 27, 2014
Calvin Normore (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Now and Then"
4:10 PM - 6:00 Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, April 03, 2014
Andy Egan (Rutgers University)
"Three Grades Of Self-Invovement"
4:10 PM-6:00PM Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Fall 2013 Series

Thursday, October 31, 2013
Michael Rescorla (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Is Computation Formal?"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Thursday, November 21, 2013
Peter Godfrey-Smith (City University New York)
"What Do Generalizations of the Lewis Signaling Model Tell Us About Information and Meaning?"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Philosophy Hall 716
Reception to follow

Spring 2013 Series

Thursday, January 31, 2013
Michelle Kosch (Cornell University)
"Independence and Agency in Fichte's Ethics"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 202 Hamilton Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday, March 7, 2013
Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona)
"What Entanglement Might Be Telling Us: Quantum Mechanics, Individuation, and Space-Time"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 202 Hamilton Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday, May 2, 2013
A. J. Julius  (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Thoughts That Count"
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall

Fall 2012 Series

Thursday, October 18, 2012
Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto)
"The Mind Has a Basic Need to Represent Things Outside Itself"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday, November 8, 2012
Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers University)
"The Action of the Whole"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday, November 15,2012
Johan Van Benthem  (Stanford University)
"Logic in Games"
4:10PM - 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow  

Thursday, November 29, 2012
Daniel Morgan (University of Pittsburgh)
"Film, Perspective, and Fantasy: Camera Movements and the Problem of Point of View"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Spring 2012 Series

Thursday, March 8, 2012
Kathrin Koslicki (University of Colorado, Boulder)
"The Roles of Form within the Compound"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday, April 12, 2012
Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)
"Cambridge Pragmatism: Peirce and Ramsey"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Anil Gupta (University of Pittsburgh)
"Experience and Judgment"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Fall 2011 Series

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Gilbert Harman (Princeton University)
"Moral Relativism"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
John McDowell (University of Pittsburgh)
"Sellers and Wittgenstein on the Inner"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall

Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Sean Kelly (Harvard University)
"Heidegger, Kant, and the Content of Perception"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Thomas Scanlon (Harvard University)
"Individual Good and Non-Personal Reasons"
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 413 Kent Hall

Spring 2011 Series

Thursday, February 24, 2011
Tamar Gendler (Yale University)
"Giving Notice: Attention, Perception and Bias"
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday, March 3, 2011
Barbara Herman (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Imperfect Duties, Gratitude, and the Ethics of Possession"
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday, April 7, 2010
Brad Skow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Fall 2010 Series

Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Michael Rosen (Harvard University)
"Marxism, Justice, and Morality"
In Memory and Appreciation of the Late Professor G.A. Cohen
Please see:
Michael Rosen: Jerry Cohen – an Appreciation
and
John E. Roemer: “Jerry Cohen’s Why not socialism? Some thoughts.


Thursday, October 14, 2010
Bernard Reginster (Brown)
"Shame, Exposure, and Social Power"
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow



Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Kieran Setiya (University of Pittsburgh)
"Knowing Right From Wrong"
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow


Thursday, December 2, 2010
David Hills (Stanford University)
"Making Things Up and Acting Things Out"
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Spring 2010 Series

Thursday January 28th, 2010
Gideon Rosen (Princeton)
"Modal Metaphysics and Moral Realism"
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday February 11, 2010
Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
"Rationality in Belief and Desire: A Unified Account"
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday March 4, 2010
Nico Silins (Cornell)
"Introspection and Inference"
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday March 25, 2010
Candace Vogler (University of Chicago)                                                                                                                                             
"You Owe It to Yourself"
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Fall 2009 Series

Thursday September 24th, 2009
Cora Diamond  (University of Virginia)
"The Problem of Impiety"
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Thursday November 12th, 2009
Tim Maudlin  (Rutgers) 
"New Foundations for Physical Geometry: How to Temporalize Space"
4:10 PM- 6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to follow

Spring 2009 Series

Thursday April 16, 2009
Wolfgang Carl (University of Gottingen)
"Frege and I-Thoughts"
4:10 PM-6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to Follow

Thursday April 23, 2009
Alison Simmons (Harvard University)
"Cartesian Consciousness Revisited"
4:10 PM-6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to Follow

Fall 2008 Series

Thursday September 18, 2008
Frank Jackson (Princeton)
"Meaning, Information, Logical Spaces"
4:10 PM-6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to Follow

Tuesday September 30, 2008
Pierre Jacob (Institut des Sciences Cognitives)
"Mirroring, Imagining and Concept-Possession"
4:10 PM-6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to Follow

Thursday October 9, 2008
Nomy Arpaly (Brown)
"Open-Mindedness"
4:10 PM-6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to Follow

Thursday October 23, 2008
Thomas Kelly (Princeton)
"Confidence and Belief Revision"
4:10 PM-6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to Follow

Tuesday November 18, 2008
Quentin Skinner (Cambridge)
"Freedom as the Absence of Arbitrary Power"
4:10 PM-6:00 PM, Room 716 Philosophy Hall
Reception to Follow

Spring 2008 Series

Merleau-Ponty Conference
6-7 March 2008
Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Broadway & 117th St.

Thursday, 6 March,2008
HUBERT DREYFUS (UC-Berkeley)
"Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on the Prepredicative Character of What Is First of All Given"
4:00P.M

SEAN KELLY (Harvard)
"The Normative Nature of Perceptual Experience"
6:00 P.M.

Friday, 7 March

10:00 A.M. KOMARINE ROMDENH-ROMLUC (Nottingham)
"The Tacit Cogito"
Lunch
2:00 P.M. ESPEN HAMMER (Oslo/Penn)
"Merleau-Ponty and Literature"

4:00 P.M. PHILIP WATTS (Columbia)
"Merleau-Ponty in and out of Film Theory"


Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Lionel McPherson (Tufts University)
"Values Integrity"

Fall 2007 Series

Tuesday, November 29, 2007
Allen Wood (Stanford University)
"Two Types of Ethical Theory"

Spring 2007 Series

Thursday, March 1, 2007
Zoltan Gendler Szabo (Yale)
"The Determination of Meaning"

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Catherine Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center)
"The Moral Fact Delusion"

Friday, March 30, 2007
Michael Friedman (Stanford)
"Carnap and Quine: Twentieth-Century Echoes of Kant and Hume"

Fall 2006 Series

Thursday, September 21, 2006
Gerald Cohen (Oxford University, visiting Columbia University fall 2006)
"Justice Versus Construtivism"

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Hilary Putnam (Harvard)
"Scientific Realism and Philosophy of Mathematics"

Thursday, October 19, 2006
Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
"The Epistemology of Democracy"

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Michael Della Rocca (Yale University)
"Spinoza and the Metaphysics of Skepticism"

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Calvin Normore (UCLA, visiting Princeton University)
"Bodies"

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Robert Solomon (The University of Texas at Austin)
"Emotional Experience"