Recent Events

Tue Jul 8, 2008
Conference-through July 11, 2008
Collective Intentionality VI: Social Change
Sat May 17, 2008
Faculty Glade/The Faculty Club — 11 am
Philosophy Department Commencement
Mon May 5, 2008
Howison Library — 4:10 pm
Philosophy Colloquium
Sarah Moss (MIT)
On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals
Fri May 2, 2008
60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm
Logic Colloquium
M. C. Stanley (Mathematics, San Jose State University)
Outer Model Satisfiability
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
Wed Apr 23, 2008
234 Moses Hall — 6 pm
Working Group in HPLMS
Stephan Hartmann (Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University)
Fri Apr 18, 2008
60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm
Logic Colloquium
John MacFarlane (UC Berkeley)
Ifs and Oughts
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
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?
Mon Apr 14, 2008
5101 Tolman Hall — 12:30 pm
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Robert Rafal (Bangor University, Wales)
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
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
Wed Apr 9, 2008
234 Moses Hall — 6 pm
Working Group in HPLMS
Mario Gomez-Torrente (UNAM)
Rereading Tarski on Logical Consequence
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
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
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Tarski on Categoricity and Completeness: An Unpublished Lecture from 1940
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
Thu Apr 3, 2008
Howison Library — 4:10 pm
Philosophy Colloquium
Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin )
Kant and the Problem of Purposiveness
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
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 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?
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
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)"
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
Fri Mar 14, 2008
60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm
Logic Colloquium
Matthias Aschenbrenner (Mathematics, UCLA)
Uniform Degree Bounds for Groebner Bases
Fri Mar 14, 2008
5101 Tolman Hall — 12:30 pm
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Thomas Naselaris (UC Berkeley)
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
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?
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
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
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
Fri Mar 7, 2008
60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm
Alfred Tarski Lectures
Yiannis N. Moschovakis (UCLA)
The Axiomatic Derivation of Absolute Lower Bounds
Fri Mar 7, 2008
5101 Tolman Hall — 11 am
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Jennifer Hudin
The Neurophilosophy of Social Decisions
Wed Mar 5, 2008
2040 Valley Life Sciences — 8:10 pm
Sather Lecture
Helene P. Foley
Democratizing Greek Tragedy
Wed Mar 5, 2008
4:10 pm
Alfred Tarski Lectures
Yiannis N. Moschovakis (UCLA)
English as a Programming Language
Mon Mar 3, 2008
60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm
Alfred Tarski Lectures
Yiannis N. Moschovakis (UCLA)
Algorithms and Implementations
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?
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
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
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”