UVa Philosophy Department Colloquium Calendar 2005–2006

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Fall 2005
Date Speaker Topic Time and Location
October 7
Friday 		Georges Rey
University of Maryland 		Representing Nothing: Perceptual Inexistents in Cognitive Science 3:30
Minor Hall 225
October 8–9
Saturday and Sunday 		Various Southeast Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy Rotunda
October 13
Thursday 		Russell Hardin
NYU 		The Weakness of Constitutions 3:30–5:00
Minor Hall 125
October 14
Friday 		Russell Hardin
NYU 		Workshop: Justice as Unintended Consequence 10:00–Noon
Cabell 226
October 21
Friday 		Terence Irwin
Cornell University 		Is Moral Motivation Impossible? 3:30
311 New Cabell Hall
November 2
Wednesday 		Hent de Vries
The Johns Hopkins University 		The Miracle of Miracles: Emmanuel Levinas on Sociality and the State, Violence, and Money 5:30
Clark Hall 107
November 11
Friday 		Justin Weinberg
College of William and Mary 		Agents of Distributive Justice 3:30
Cabell Hall 226
November 17
Thursday 		Jeremy Waldron
Columbia University 		The Principle of Proximity: An Alternative to Nationalism 3:30
Minor 125
November 18
Friday 		Jeremy Waldron
Columbia University 		Workshop on the jurisprudence of terrorism 10:00 a.m.
Cabell 226
November 18
Friday 		James Doyle
University of Bristol 		(First of three in a series on Plato’s Gorgias)
Saying and Showing: The First Eight Lines 		3:30
225 Minor Hall
November 30
Wednesday 		Eric Mack
Tulane University 		Hayek on Justice and the Order of Actions 3:30
Cabell Hall 424
December 1
Thursday 		James Doyle
University of Bristol 		(Second of three in a series on Plato’s Gorgias)
Polus: Desire, Power and the Good 		6:00
Cabell 521a
December 2
Friday 		Kendall Walton
University of Michigan 		Empathizing with People, Characters, and Music 3:30–5:00, Newcomb Hall Kaleidoscope Center
December 7
Wednesday 		James Doyle
University of Bristol 		(Third of three in a series on Plato’s Gorgias)
Callicles 		3:30
Cabell 521a

Spring 2006
Date Speaker Topic Time and Location
February 9
Thursday 		Heidi Hurd
Philosophy and Law, University of Illinois		 Why Liberals Should Hate Hate Crime Legislation
(Forum for Contemporary Thought) 		3:30–5:00
Small Special Collections Library Auditorium
February 10
Friday 		Heidi Hurd
Philosophy and Law, University of Illinois		 Promises Schmomises
(Forum for Contemporary Thought) 		10:00 a.m.
Cabell 226
February 23
Thursday 		Fred Miller
Bowling Green State University 		Aristotelian Statecraft and Modern Politics
(PPL Program and philosophy department) 		2:00–3:30
Newcomb Hall Kaleidoscope Room
February 27
Monday 		Thomas Pogge
Columbia University 		World Poverty: Explanations and Responsibilities
(Forum for Contemporary Thought) 		3:30–5:00
Special Collections Auditorium
February 28
Tuesday 		Thomas Pogge
Columbia University 		Testing Our Drugs on the Poor Abroad
(Forum for Contemporary Thought) 		10:00–noon
Cabell 226
March 15
Wednesday 		Dan Kaufman
University of Colorado 		Incorruptibility and Corporeal Substances in Descartes (department colloquia series) 3:30 p.m.
521a Cabell Hall
March 17
Friday 		Mary Louise Gill
Brown University 		The Problem of Aristotelian Substances
(Philosophy Club) 		3:30 p.m.
Kaleidoscope Room, Newcomb Hall
April 1–2
Saturday, Sunday		 Various The Atlantic Coast Pragmatist Conference
(Pragmatism Archive and the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy) 		Schedule
Minor Hall 225
April 14
Friday 		Alison Simmons
Harvard University 		Sensations in the Malebranchean Mind
(Philosophy Club) 		4:00 p.m.
Jefferson Hall (West Range, Hotel C)
Alan Ryan
Warden, New College, Oxford 		TBA TBA