UVa Philosophy Department Colloquium Calendar 2011–2012

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Fall 2011
Date Speaker Topic Time and Location
October 14
Friday 		Jamie Ferreira
University of Virginia 		The Postulate of God, Evil, and the Highest Good: A Reappraisal of Kant's 'Pure practical rational belief' 4:00
114 Cocke Hall
October 26
Wednesday 		John Martin Fischer
University of California, Riverside 		Responsibility and Autonomy 4:00
114 Cocke Hall
November 9
Wednesday 		William Hasselberger
University of Virginia 		Agency, Autonomy, and Social Intelligibility 4:00
114 Cocke Hall
November 18
Friday 		Laura Ekstrom
William and Mary 		Luck and Human Agency 4:00
114 Cocke Hall
November 30
Wednesday 		Stewart Braun
University of Virginia 		Educational Opportunity: Is There an Alternative to the Equality and Adequacy Standards? 4:00
114 Cocke Hall
December 2
Friday 		Ashley Kennedy
University of Virginia 		Realism through Idealization: Explanatory Models in Science 4:00
114 Cocke Hall

Spring 2012
Date Speaker Topic Time and Location
January 27
Friday 		Dennis Proffitt
University of Virginia 		Research Colloquium on Embodied Cognition
(group discussion of a recent paper by Alvin Goldman) 		4:00
102 Clark Hall
February 3
Friday 		Trenton Merricks
University of Virginia 		Modal Validity and Logical Validity 4:00
114 Cocke Hall
February 24
Friday 		Dan Devereux
University of Virginia 		Aristotle on the Just Distribution of Political Power 4:00
114 Cocke Hall
March 23
Friday 		Sam Duncan
University of Virginia 		Kant and the Problem of Selfless Evil 4:00
114 Cocke Hall
March 30-31
Friday-Saturday 		Proto Language Workshop
(schedule) 		per schedule
Cocke Hall
April 18
Wednesday 		A. D. Carpenter
The University of York 		Aiming at Happiness, Aiming at the Good in Plato 4:30
114 Cocke Hall
April 20
Friday 		L. A. Paul
University of North Carolina 		The Phenomenology of Temporal Asymmetry 4:00
114 Cocke Hall
April 27
Friday 		Sam Nicholson
University of Virginia 		Deliberation, Self-Knowledge, and Evidence Recalcitrant Beliefs 4:00
114 Cocke Hall