Recent Events

Sun May 24, 2009
Howison Library, 305 Moses Hall — 9 am
Second Annual West Coast Plato Workshop: Plato’s Euthydemus
Sat May 23, 2009
Howison Library, 305 Moses Hall — 1 pm
Second Annual West Coast Plato Workshop: Plato’s Euthydemus
Sat May 16, 2009
Faculty Glade/The Faculty Club — 11 am
Philosophy Department Commencement
Wed May 13, 2009
234 Moses Hall — 6 pm
Working Group in HPLMS
David Malament (UC Irvine)
How Space Can Be (and Is) Finite
Sat May 9, 2009
Howison Library
Berkeley-London Philosophy Conference
Fri May 8, 2009
Howison Library
Berkeley-London Philosophy Conference
Tue May 5, 2009
7205 Dwinelle — 5 pm
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley)
TBA
Fri May 1, 2009
60 Evans — 4:10 pm
Logic Colloquium
Itay Neeman (University of California, Los Angeles)
Forcing with Ultrafilters
Wed Apr 29, 2009
Dennes Room, 234 Moses Hall — 12 pm
Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind
Branden Fitelson (UC Berkeley)
TBA
Fri Apr 24, 2009
5101 Tolman Hall — 11 am
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Ken Kendler (Virginia Commonwealth University)
TBA
Thu Apr 23, 2009
Toll Room, Alumni House — 4:10 pm
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Jeremy Waldron (New York University)
Seminar Discussion
Thu Apr 23, 2009
Dennes Room, 234 Moses — 12:30 pm
Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind
Ken Kendler, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry
Wed Apr 22, 2009
Toll Room, Alumni House — 4:10 pm
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Jeremy Waldron (New York University)
Law, Status, and Self Control
Tue Apr 21, 2009
Toll Room, Alumni House — 4:10 pm
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Jeremy Waldron (New York University)
Dignity and Rank
Fri Apr 17, 2009
5101 Tolman Hall — 11 am
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Matthew Walker (UC Berkeley)
Sleeping as a process of thinking
Thu Apr 16, 2009
TBA — 4:10 pm
Kadish Lecture
Nicola Lacey (LSE)
Psychologising Jekyll, Demonising Hyde: The Strange Case of Criminal Responsibility.
Wed Apr 15, 2009
234 Moses Hall — 6 pm
Working Group in HPLMS
Isabelle Peschard (San Francisco State University)
Data-model or artifact?: on the role of relevant parameters in constructing models of phenomena
Wed Apr 15, 2009
Dennes Room, 234 Moses Hall — 12 pm
Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind
Frederic Theunissen (Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley)
TBA
Fri Apr 10, 2009
60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm
Alfred Tarski Lectures
Anand Pillay (University of Leeds, University of Illinois)
Compact Spaces, Definability, and Measures in Model Theory
Wed Apr 8, 2009
TBA — 4:10 pm
Alfred Tarski Lectures
Anand Pillay (University of Leeds, University of Illinois)
Compact Spaces, Definability, and Measures in Model Theory
Tue Apr 7, 2009
201 Moses — 4 pm
Conal Condren (New South Wales)
Lucianic Humour in Philosophy: Hobbes, His Critics and a Paradox of Contextualisation
Mon Apr 6, 2009
60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm
Alfred Tarski Lectures
Anand Pillay (University of Leeds, University of Illinois)
Compact Spaces, Definability, and Measures in Model Theory
Fri Apr 3, 2009
60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm
Logic Colloquium
Jonathan Kirby (University of Oxford)
Complex Exponentiation and Zilber’s Pseudo-exponentiation
Fri Apr 3, 2009
5101 Tolman Hall — 11 am
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Bob Rehder (New York University)
A Generative Model of Conceptual Representation
Thu Apr 2, 2009
Howison Library — 4:10 pm
George Myro Memorial Lecture
Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
The Essential Contextual
Fri Mar 20, 2009
5101 Tolman Hall — 11 am
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Jack Nitschke (University of Wisconsin)
The expectant brain and anxiety disorders
Thu Mar 19, 2009
Howison Library — 4:10 pm
Philosophy Colloquium
Gavin Lawrence (UCLA)
Acquiring Character: Aristotle on Becoming a Grown Up
Wed Mar 18, 2009
234 Moses Hall — 6 pm
Working Group in HPLMS
Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
Experimental semantics (or what would Kripke have said if he were Asian?)
Wed Mar 18, 2009
Dennes Room, 234 Moses Hall — 12 pm
Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind
Frederick Eberhardt (Washington University, St. Louis)
TBA
Tue Mar 17, 2009
7205 Dwinelle — 5 pm
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Voula Tsouna (UCSB)
Epicurean Preconceptions
Tue Mar 17, 2009
4229 Dwinelle — 4 pm
Jacqueline Lichtenstein (Sorbonne)
La querelle contre ‘les gens de métier’: les mutations du discours sur l’art au XVIIIème siècle
Mon Mar 16, 2009
5101 Tolman Hall — 11 am
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Edward Vogel (University of Oregon)
Individual differences in resisting attentional capture
Thu Mar 12, 2009
Howison Library — 4:10 pm
Philosophy Colloquium
John Perry (Stanford University)
Freedom and the Consequence Argument
Thu Mar 12, 2009
150 Moses Hall — 2 pm
John Perry (Stanford)
Office Hours
Wed Mar 11, 2009
Toll Room, Alumni House — 4:10 pm
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
John Perry (Stanford University)
Thinking and Talking About the Self
Mon Mar 9, 2009
Berkeley Art Museum Theater, 2621 Durant Ave. — 4 pm
Astra Taylor
Discussion about philosophy and film
Fri Mar 6, 2009
60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm
Logic Colloquium
Branden Fitelson (UC Berkeley)
The Wason Task(s) and the Paradox of Confirmation
Thu Mar 5, 2009
Howison Library — 4:10 pm
Philosophy Colloquium
Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago)
Irony and Identity
Wed Mar 4, 2009
234 Moses Hall — 6 pm
Working Group in HPLMS
Bas van Fraasen (San Francisco State)
Tue Mar 3, 2009
7205 Dwinelle — 5 pm
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Jessica Gelber (Berkeley)
What’s the Point of Teleological Explanation?