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2008 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley) Tarski on Categoricity and Completeness: An Unpublished Lecture from 1940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”