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Fri Sep 7, 2007 5101 Tolman Hall — 11 am	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Steve Palmer (Psychology, UC Berkeley ) Aesthetics as Cognitive Science: Understanding Preferences for Color and Spatial Composition
Fri Sep 7, 2007 Seaborg Room, Faculty Club — 4 pm Continues through September 9	Models of Mind: A Conference in Honor of Tony Long
Fri Sep 7, 2007 60 Evans Hall — 4 pm	Logic Colloquium Martin Davis (Courant Institute, New York University) E. L. Post in 20th Century Logic
Wed Sep 12, 2007 Dennes Room — 6 pm	Working Group in HPLMS Kevin Scharp (Ohio State University ) Replacing Truth
Mon Sep 17, 2007 279 Dwinelle — 4 pm	History of Science and Technology Colloquium Everett Mendelsohn (History of Science, Harvard University) The Historian and the Clones
Thu Sep 20, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Michael Ayers (University of California, Berkeley) Spinoza, Platonism and Naturalism
Fri Sep 21, 2007 5101 Tolman Hall — 11:30 am	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Evan Heit (Cognitive Science, UC Merced ) ROC and Reasoning
Fri Sep 21, 2007 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Ralf Schindler (Math and Logic, Univ. of Münster) Forcing Axioms and Large Cardinals
Thu Sep 27, 2007 Faculty Lounge, 336 Boalt Hall — 4 pm	GALA Seminar Michael Moore (University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana) Causing, Aiding, and the Superfluity of Accomplice Liability
Wed Oct 3, 2007 Dennes Room — 6 pm	Working Group in HPLMS Marco Panza (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) The Double Role of Diagrams in Euclid's Plane Geometry
Fri Oct 5, 2007 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Richard Tieszen (San Jose State University) Intentionality, Intuition, and Proof in Mathematics
Mon Oct 8, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Townsend Visitor Hilary Putnam (Harvard University) Reflections on Realism
Tue Oct 9, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Townsend Visitor Hilary Putnam (Harvard University) Gödel, Chomsky and Human Nature
Wed Oct 10, 2007 150 Moses Hall — 2 pm Please sign up in Department office	Townsend Visitor Hilary Putnam (Harvard University) Office Hours (Until 4:00 p.m.)
Thu Oct 11, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Townsend Visitor Hilary Putnam (Harvard University) Set Theory and Modality
Fri Oct 12, 2007 Howison Library — 3:10 pm	Townsend Visitor Hilary Putnam (Harvard University) Open Discussion
Mon Oct 15, 2007 279 Dwinelle Hall — 4:20 pm	History of Science and Technology Colloquium Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania) Psychology in Mind: From the Mind-Body to the Physiology-Psychology Problem
Thu Oct 18, 2007 Faculty Lounge, 336 Boalt Hall — 4 pm	GALA Seminar Tamar Schapiro (Stanford University) The Nature of Inclination
Thu Oct 18, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Scott Soames (University of Southern California) Truth and Meaning — in Perspective
Fri Oct 19, 2007 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Jan Reimann (Mathematics, UC Berkeley) Never continuously random reals - an intriguing Π11 set
Thu Oct 25, 2007 Room 140, Boalt Hall — 4 pm	Kadish Lecture Robert Post (Law School, Yale University) Roe Rage: Democratic Constitutionalism and Backlash
Thu Nov 1, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Bernard Reginster (Brown University) Nietzsche's "New Happiness": On Longing, Boredom, and the Elusiveness of Fulfillment
Fri Nov 2, 2007 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Andrés Eduardo Caicedo (Mathematics, California Inst. of Technology) Some Results in Finite Combinatorics
Wed Nov 7, 2007 International House Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Way — 4:10 pm	Hitchcock Lectures John Heilbron (History of Science, UC Berkeley) Physics and History: Links Between Two Cultures
Wed Nov 7, 2007 234 Moses Hall — 6 pm	Working Group in HPLMS Kevin Kelly (Carnegie Mellon University) Truth-conduciveness Without Reliability: A Non-theological Explanation of Ockham's Razor
Thu Nov 8, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Doug Lavin (Harvard University) Must There Be Basic Action?
Thu Nov 8, 2007 Faculty Lounge, 336 Boalt Hall — 4:10 pm	GALA Seminar John Noonan (Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)
Thu Nov 8, 2007 International House Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Way — 4:10 pm	Hitchcock Lectures John Heilbron (History of Science, UC Berkeley) Physics and History: Links Between Two Cultures
Fri Nov 9, 2007 5101 Tolman Hall — 11 am	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Sherri Roush (UC Berkeley) What is Reasoning Good For?
Tue Nov 13, 2007 7205 Dwinelle — 5 pm	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy David Ebrey (UC Berkeley) Socrates on why we must seek ethical knowledge
Wed Nov 14, 2007 Toll Room, Alumni House — 4:10 pm	Howison Lectures in Philosophy Fred Dretske (Duke University) What We See
Thu Nov 15, 2007 150 Moses Hall — 2 pm Sign up in Philosophy Dept Office	Fred Dretske (Duke University) Office Hours (Until 4:00 p.m.)
Thu Nov 15, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Fred Dretske (Duke University) Skepticism and Self-Knowledge
Fri Nov 16, 2007 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Eric Pacuit (Stanford University Computer Science) An Overview of Logic in Game Theory
Fri Nov 16, 2007 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Eric Pacuit (Computer Science, Stanford University) An Overview of Logic in Game Theory
Mon Nov 19, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Kenny Easwaran (UC Berkeley) Probabilistic Proofs and Transferability
Tue Nov 20, 2007 7205 Dwinelle — 5 pm	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin) Monism and Dualism in the Platonic Tradition, from Plato to Plotinus
Mon Nov 26, 2007 5101 Tolman Hall — 4:10 pm	Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind Mike Martin (UCL) "I Only Have Eyes for You: Joint Attention and Cooperative Activity"
Wed Nov 28, 2007 Dennes Room — 6 pm First in a series of three talks.	Working Group in HPLMS Terrence Fine (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University) Must Probability be Numerical? Part I: Introducing and Expanding Upon the Question
Thu Nov 29, 2007 Faculty Lounge, 336 Boalt Hall — 4 pm	GALA Seminar Daniel Markovits (Yale University) Toleration and Politics
Thu Nov 29, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Scott Sturgeon (Oxford University) Shifting Thick Confidence
Fri Nov 30, 2007 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Solomon Feferman (Stanford University) Will-o'-the-Wisp?: In Pursuit of a Foundation for Unrestricted Category Theory
Mon Dec 3, 2007 5101 Tolman Hall — 2 pm	Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind Townsend Working Group meeting
Mon Dec 3, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium James Genone (UC Berkeley) Perceptual Experience and Error
Thu Dec 6, 2007 Howison LIbrary — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Joel Yurdin (UC Berkeley) Aristotelian Imagination and the Explanation of Behavior
Wed Dec 12, 2007 Howison library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Mike Titelbaum (UC Berkeley) Unlearning What You Have Learned
Thu Dec 13, 2007 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Agnes Callard (UC Berkeley) Two Ways to Be Moved
Thu Jan 17, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Joseph Carens (University of Toronto) Democracy and Irregular Migration
Thu Jan 24, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Niko Kolodny (UC Berkeley) Which Relationships?
Thu Jan 24, 2008 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Japa Pallikkathayil (Harvard University) Deriving Morality from Politics: Rethinking the Formula of Humanity
Mon Jan 28, 2008 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Sarah Paul (Stanford University) How We Know What We're Doing: Intention, Belief, and Knowledge Without Observation
Thu Jan 31, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory A.J. Julius (UCLA) A Lonelier Contractualism
Thu Jan 31, 2008 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Lara Buchak (Princeton University) Risk and Rationality
Fri Feb 1, 2008 7321 Dwinelle — 10 am	Stephen Menn (McGill) Why Aristotle Has No Theory of Lyric Poetry
Fri Feb 1, 2008 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Theodore Slaman (Mathematics, UC Berkeley) Effective Randomness and Continuous Measures
Mon Feb 4, 2008 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Seth Yalcin (MIT) Believing it is Possible
Mon Feb 4, 2008 5101 Tolman Hall — 5:30 pm	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences John Serences (UC Irvine) Population codes, Attention, and Perceptual Coherence
Thu Feb 7, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Susan Wolf (UNC Chapel Hill) Moral Obligation and Social Commands
Thu Feb 7, 2008 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Anna-Sara Malmgren (NYU) Intuitions by Inference
Fri Feb 8, 2008 5101 Tolman Hall — 12:30 pm	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Robert Remez (Columbia) The Perceptual Organization of Speech, or How the cocktail party problem became the problem of cocktails for two
Mon Feb 11, 2008 5101 Tolman Hall — 4 pm Reading Group	Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind Fodor, "The Mind Doesn't Work That Way," Chs 4-5
Tue Feb 12, 2008 7205 Dwinelle — 5 pm	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Pierre Destree (Université de Louvain) Aristotle on the Pleasures of Tragedy
Wed Feb 13, 2008 2050 Valley Life Sciences — 8:10 pm	Sather Lecture Helene P. Foley (Columbia University) Greek Tragedy Finds an American Audience
Thu Feb 14, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory David Lieberman (UC Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt)) Jeremy Bentham's Constitutional Code* and the Politics of Information*
Fri Feb 15, 2008 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Gregori Mints (Stanford University) Solving Equations in Monadic Logic
Mon Feb 18, 2008 5101 Tolman Hall — 4 pm	Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind Leah Krubitzer (UC Davis) TBA
Wed Feb 20, 2008 2040 Valley Life Sciences — 8:10 pm	Sather Lecture Helene P. Foley (Columbia University) Medea as American Other
Thu Feb 21, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Richard Fallon (Harvard Law School) The Core of an Uneasy Case For* Judicial Review*
Fri Feb 22, 2008 5101 Tolman Hall — 12:30 pm	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Mick Rugg (UC Irvine) Episodic Memory Encoding and Retrieval: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
Wed Feb 27, 2008 2040 Valley Life Sciences — 8:10 pm	Sather Lecture Helene P. Foley (Columbia University) Reinventing the Hero: American Oedipus
Thu Feb 28, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Sarah Song (UC Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt)) Three Models of Civic Solidarity
Thu Feb 28, 2008 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto) Can Matter Think? The Mind-Body Problem in the Clarke-Collins Correspondence
Fri Feb 29, 2008 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Ulrich Kohlenbach (Technische Universität Darmstadt ) Logical Proof Interpretations as a Tool for “Hard Analysis”
Sat Mar 1, 2008 Dennes Room, Moses Hall — 11 am Workshop	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Ursula Coope (Oxford University) Aristotle's Concept of the Soul
Sun Mar 2, 2008 Dennes Room, Moses Hall — 11 am Workshop	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Ursula Coope (Oxford University) Aristotle's Concept of the Soul
Mon Mar 3, 2008 3112 Tolman Hall — 4 pm	Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind Leah Krubitzer (Center for Neuroscience and the Department of Psychology, UC Davis) How does Evolution Build a Complex Brain?
Mon Mar 3, 2008 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Alfred Tarski Lectures Yiannis N. Moschovakis (UCLA) Algorithms and Implementations
Wed Mar 5, 2008 4:10 pm	Alfred Tarski Lectures Yiannis N. Moschovakis (UCLA) English as a Programming Language
Wed Mar 5, 2008 2040 Valley Life Sciences — 8:10 pm	Sather Lecture Helene P. Foley Democratizing Greek Tragedy
Fri Mar 7, 2008 5101 Tolman Hall — 11 am	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Jennifer Hudin The Neurophilosophy of Social Decisions
Fri Mar 7, 2008 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Alfred Tarski Lectures Yiannis N. Moschovakis (UCLA) The Axiomatic Derivation of Absolute Lower Bounds
Tue Mar 11, 2008 341 Dwinelle Hall — 5 pm	John Taber (University of New Mexico) The Doctrine of the Eternality of Language in Indian Philosophy
Wed Mar 12, 2008 234 Moses Hall — 6 pm	Working Group in HPLMS Ian Proops (University of Michigan) Puzzling out Russell: The Curiosity of George IV
Wed Mar 12, 2008 2040 Valley Life Sciences — 8:10 pm	Sather Lecture Helene P. Foley (Columbia University) Splitting the Virginal Psyche: American Electra and her Sisters
Thu Mar 13, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Shelly Kagan (Yale University) Do I make a difference?
Thu Mar 13, 2008 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	George Myro Memorial Lecture Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University) An "i" for an i: singular terms, uniqueness, and reference
Fri Mar 14, 2008 5101 Tolman Hall — 12:30 pm	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Thomas Naselaris (UC Berkeley)
Fri Mar 14, 2008 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Matthias Aschenbrenner (Mathematics, UCLA) Uniform Degree Bounds for Groebner Bases
Mon Mar 17, 2008 5101 Tolman — 4 pm	Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind Mohan Matthen (University of Toronto) Evolution, Coordination, and Cognitive Kinds
Tue Mar 18, 2008 7205 Dwinelle — 5 pm	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Jan Szaif (UC Davis) "Truth and Conflicting Appearances as a Theme in Presocratic and Sophistic Philosophy (a Sketch)"
Wed Mar 19, 2008 60 Evans Hall — 8:10 pm	Sather Lecture Helene P. Foley (Columbia University) Making Total Theater in America: Choreography and Music
Thu Mar 20, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Barbara Fried (Stanford University) Is There a Coherent Alternative to Welfarism for Regulating Risky Conduct?
Mon Mar 31, 2008 Tolman Hall, G75 — 10 am	William Banks (Editor, Consciousness and Cognition) Does Consciousness Cause Behavior? Or even know what's happening?
Thu Apr 3, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley) Hobbes on Equality
Thu Apr 3, 2008 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin ) Kant and the Problem of Purposiveness
Fri Apr 4, 2008 5101 Tolman Hall — 12:30 pm	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Barry Schwartz (Swarthmore College) The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less
Fri Apr 4, 2008 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley) Tarski on Categoricity and Completeness: An Unpublished Lecture from 1940
Tue Apr 8, 2008 Toll Room, Alumni House — 4:10 pm	Tanner Lectures on Human Values Annabelle Patterson (Yale University) How We Do Things with Abstract Nouns: Bacon, Locke, Williams
Wed Apr 9, 2008 Toll Room, Alumni House — 4:10 pm	Tanner Lectures on Human Values Annabelle Patterson (Yale University) American Keywords: Marriage, Success, and Democracy
Wed Apr 9, 2008 234 Moses Hall — 6 pm	Working Group in HPLMS Mario Gomez-Torrente (UNAM) Rereading Tarski on Logical Consequence
Thu Apr 10, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Phillipe Van Parijs (Catholic University of Louvain) Linguistic Diversity as Curse and as By-Product
Thu Apr 10, 2008 Toll Room, Alumni House — 4:10 pm	Tanner Lectures on Human Values Annabel Patterson (Yale University) Seminar and Discussion with Commentators
Mon Apr 14, 2008 5101 Tolman Hall — 12:30 pm	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Robert Rafal (Bangor University, Wales)
Mon Apr 14, 2008 5101 Tolman Hall — 4 pm	Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind Sherri Roush (UC Berkeley) What is Reasoning Good For?
Thu Apr 17, 2008 Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall — 1 pm	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Liam Murphy (NYU) Concepts in Practical Philosophy
Fri Apr 18, 2008 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium John MacFarlane (UC Berkeley) Ifs and Oughts
Wed Apr 23, 2008 234 Moses Hall — 6 pm	Working Group in HPLMS Stephan Hartmann (Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University)
Mon Apr 28, 2008 3112 Tolman Hall — 4:10 pm	Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind Terrence Deacon (UC Berkeley, Anthropology) The Emergent Dynamics of Global Brain Function and the Evolution and Production of Language
Fri May 2, 2008 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium M. C. Stanley (Mathematics, San Jose State University) Outer Model Satisfiability
Mon May 5, 2008 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Sarah Moss (MIT) On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals
Sat May 17, 2008 Faculty Glade/The Faculty Club — 11 am	Philosophy Department Commencement
Tue Jul 8, 2008 Conference-through July 11, 2008	Collective Intentionality VI: Social Change