Friday
Colloquia Archive
2005/2006
Sharon Lloyd, Professor of
Philosophy, University of Southern California
Common Good and Self-Interest in Hobbes's Law
of Nature
Jeffrey McMahan, Professor
of Philosophy, Rutgers University
War, Terrorism and the "War on Terror"
Julia Driver, Professor of
Philosophy, Dartmouth College
Attributions of Causation and Moral Responsibility
Tian Yu Cao, Associate Professor
of Philosophy, Boston University
Structural Realism and Theoretical Physics Today
Peter Goldie, The Samuel Hall
Chair in Philosophy, and Head of Philosophy,
University of Manchester (UK)
Empathy in Our Engagement with Fictional Characters
Simon Keller, Assistant Professor
of Philosophy, Boston University
Do We Want an Ethics of Loyalty? Some Lessons
from Royce
Alan White, John Findlay Visiting
Professor, Boston University; and Mark Hopkins
Professor of Philosophy, Willams College
Can Philosophy be Systematic, and Ought it to
Be?
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2003/2004
Susan Okin, Stanford University
Multiculturalism and Feminism: No Simple Question,
No Simple Answers
P.J. Ivanhoe, John Findlay
Visiting Professor, Boston University
The Value of Spontaneity
Manfred Kuehn, Philipps-Universität
Marburg
Kant's Virtues Reconsidered
Eckart Förster, Johns
Hopkins University
The Significance of §§ 76 and 77 of
the Critique of Judgment for the Development
of Post-Kantian Philosophy
Günter Zöller, University
of Munich
Of Empty Thoughts and Blind Intuitions: Kant's
Answer to McDowell
Susan Neiman, Director, Einstein
Forum (Berlin)
Chapter 4: Evil in Modern Thought
Henry Allison, Boston University
Kant and Two Dogmas of Rationalism
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2002/2003
P.J. Ivanhoe, University of
Michigan
Literature and Ethics in the Chinese Confucian
Tradition
Stephen Mulhall, John Findlay
Visiting Professor, Oxford University
Ethics in the Light of Wittgenstein
Reviel Netz, Stanford University
The Aesthetics of Mathematics
Vincent Hendricks, Roskilde
University-Denmark
Active Agents
Hugh Baxter, Boston University
School of Law
Habermas and Rawls: Discourse Theory and Political
Liberalism
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2001/2002
Jonathan Lear, University of
Chicago
Self-Disrupting Mind, Self-Disrupting Emotions
Mary Coleman, Harvard University
Motivation, Action, and the Self
Mathias Risse, Yale University
Rawls on Responsibility and Primary Goods
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2000/2001
Karen Neander, Johns Hopkins
Why Function? The Role of Function in Typing
Traits
Marina Oshana, Bowling Green
State University
The Misguided Marriage of Responsibility and
Autonomy
David Copp, Bowling Green State
University
Realist-Expressivism: A Neglected Option for
Moral Realism
Alisa Bokulich, University
of Notre Dame
Rethinking Thought Experiments
Peter Schwartz, Florida International
University
Functions in Molecular Biology
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1999/2000
G.R.F. Ferrari, University
of California at Berkeley
City and Soul in Plato's Republic
Susan Haack, University of
Miami
Science, Literature, and the "Literature
of Science"
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1998/1999
David Wiggins, Oxford University
Consequentialism and the Right and the Good
Jorge Garcia, Rutgers University
The Virtues in Moral Theory
Paul Woodruff, University of
Texas, Austin
Singing the Unsung Virtues: Reverence and Good
Judgment
Adrian Cussins, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Nonconceptual Content, Frames of Reference, Trails
of Information, and Singular Thought
Gregory Fried, Boston University
On Heidegger's Polemos and Politics: A Critique
of Communitarian and Postmodernist Readings
Thomas Pogge, Columbia University
Human Flourishing and Justice
Alexander Rosenberg, University
of Georgia
Limits to Biological Knowledge
A. John Simmons, University
of Virginia
Justification and Legitimacy
David Wong, Brandeis University
Pluralistic Relativism
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1997/1998
David Lyons, Boston University
How Should We Understand Utilitarianism?
Myles Burnyeat, Cambridge University
The Past in the Present: Plato as Educator of
Nineteenth-Century Britain
James Griffin, Oxford University
Virtue Ethics
Steven Horst, Wesleyan University
Naturalism and Its Discontents
David Pears, Oxford University,
Emeritus
Saying and Doing: The Pragmatic Aspect of Wittgenstein's
Treatment of "I"
Catherine Elgin, MIT
Take It from Me: the Epistemological Status of
Testimony
Linda Zagzebski, Loyola Marymount
College
What Is Knowledge?
Diana Raffman, Ohio State University
The Long and Short of Perceptual Memory: A New
Argument for Qualia
Shaun Gallagher, Canisus College,
Buffalo, NY
The Molyneux Question and Some New Principles
of Perception
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1996/1997
Christopher Ricks
The Pursuit of
Metaphor
Michael Janssen, Boston University
The Trouton-Noble Experiment: Making a Better
Case for Special Relativity
Malcolm Shofield, Cambridge
University
Equality and Hierarchy in Aristotle's Social
and Political Thought
Julia Annas, University of
Arizona
Ethics Without Politics in Plato's Republic
William Desmond, University
of Louvain (Belgium)
Freedom Beyond Autonomy
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1995/1996
Palle Yourgrau, Brandeis University
Time, Existence and Quantification
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1994/1995
Stanley Rosen, Boston University
Are We Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on? A Critique
of Reductionism
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1993/1994
Glenn Loury, Boston University
Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory
'Political Correctness' and Related Phenomena
Victor Kestenbaum, Boston University
At the Intersection of Reality and Imagination:
Notes on John Dewey and Wallace Stevens
Ed Casey, State University
of New York at Stony Brook
On Place and Space: A Philosophical History
Cornelia Klinger, Institut
fur die Wissensschaften vom Menschen
The Idea and Outlook of a Feminist Approach to
Philosophy
Edwin Delattre, Boston University
Pushing Against the Age
Nancy Murphy, Fuller Theological
Seminary
Postmodern Non-Relativism: Imre Lakatos and Alasdair
MacIntyre
Alfredo Ferrarin, University
of Pisa
Kant's Productive Imagination and its Alleged
Antecedents
Allen Speight, Boston University
The Role of Tragedy in Hegel's Philosophy of
Action
Ronna Burger, Tulane University
The Argument and the Action of Aristotle's Nicomachean
Ethics
Kenneth Schaffner, George Washington
University
Case-Based Reasoning in Bioethics and a Theory
of Human Good
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1991/1992
Robert Pippin, University of
California/ San Diego
Hegel, Ethical Reasons, Kantian Rejoinders
Karsten Harries, Yale University
Beauty, Language, and Re-Presentation
Rémi Brague, Université Sorbonne,
Paris
Aristotle's God: What is He 'Doing'?
David Roochnik, Boston University
Stanley Fish and the Old Quarrel between Rhetoric
and Philosophy
Harvey Cormier, University of Texas/ Austin
Cornel West and the Politics of Pragmatism
Glenn Loury, Boston University
Thinking about Affirmative Action
Frank Snowden, Howard University,
Emeritus of Classics
Misconceptions about African Blacks in the Ancient
Mediterranean World: Implications for Education
Martin Kusch, University of
Toronto
The Genealogy of Philosophical Facts-- a Foucauldian
History of 'Psychologism'
Sahortra Sarkar, Boston University
What is 'Genetic'?
Loren Lomasky, Bowling Green
State University
On Ethics
Christopher Ricks, Boston University
Austin's Swink: J.L. Austin and Allusion
Drew Hyland, Trinity College
On Heidegger's interpretation of Plato
Anthony Appiah, Harvard University
On philosophy and literature
Evan Thompson, University of
Toronto
On cognitive science
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