UVa Philosophy Department Colloquium Calendar 2007–2008

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Fall 2007
Date Speaker Topic Time and Location
August 17
Friday 		John Haldane
University of St. Andrews, Scotland 		Causal and explanatory pluralism 3:30–5:00
Cocke Hall 115
September 28
Friday 		Alan Nelson
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 		Leibniz and Some Paradoxes of Analysis (Philosophy Club) 4:00
114 Cocke Hall, Gibson Room
November 9
Friday 		Andrew Janiak
Duke University 		Nonsense and Things in Themselves (Philosophy Department) 4:00
114 Cocke Hall, Gibson Room

Spring 2008
Date Speaker Topic Time and Location
January 18
Friday 		Michael Della Rocca
Yale University 		PSR (Philosophy Club) 4:00
114 Cocke Hall, Gibson Room
January 25
Friday 		Barbara Herman
UCLA 		When Should a Kantian Argue that "The Ends Justify the Means"? (Philosophy Club) 4:00
114 Cocke Hall, Gibson Room
February 7
Thursday 		Deirdre McCloskey
University of Illinois at Chicago 		Hobbes, Rawls, Nussbaum, Buchanan and All Seven of the Virtues (Program in Political Philosophy, Politics and Law [PPL]) 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Newcomb Hall 388
February 15
Friday 		Walter Ott
Virginia Tech 		Causation, Intentionality, and the Case for Occasionalism (Philosophy Department) 4:00
114 Cocke Hall, Gibson Room
February 28
Thursday 		Jerry Gaus
University of Arizona 		Mill On Liberty and the Principle of Neutrality (PPL) 3:00–5:00 p.m.
114 Cocke Hall, Gibson Room
February 29
Friday 		Lucan Gregory
University of Virginia 		The Looking Glass: Authority, Legitimacy and the Problem of Content-Independence (Philosophy Department) 4:00
114 Cocke Hall, Gibson Room
March 19
Wednesday 		Douglas Den Uyl
Bellarmine College and Liberty Fund 		Discussion of Den Uyl's paper "Liberalism in Retreat," which can found on the PPL Web site (PPL) 3:00–5:00 p.m.
114 Cocke Hall, Gibson Room
April 7
Monday 		Robert Audi
Univ. of Notre Dame		 Discussion of Audi's paper "Intuition, Inference, and Rational Disagreement in Ethics," which can found on the PPL Web site (PPL) 3:00–5:00 p.m.
114 Cocke Hall, Gibson Room
April 11
Friday 		Peter van Inwagen
Univ. of Notre Dame		 Impotence and Collateral Damage: One Charge in Van Fraassen's Indictment of Analytical Metaphysics (Philosophy Club) CANCELLED, due to cancelled flight
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April 23
Wednesday 		David Copp
University of Florida		 Discussion of Copp's paper "Rawls’s Burdens of Judgment" (PPL) 3:00–5:00 p.m.
114 Cocke Hall, Gibson Room