Previous Colloquia
Below is a list of lectures held previously.
Please see our schedule of upcoming lectures if you would like information about those.
| 15 April 2013 | Paul GuyerBrown University5:30-7:00 p.m., Pembroke Hall 305. Reception to follow. Cosponsored by the Humanities Initiative, Department of Philosophy, and the Cogut Center for the Humanities. | Understanding Ourselves: Philosophy and the HumanitiesThe Jonathan Nelson Professorship in the Humanities Inaugural Address |
| 13 April 2013 | Gabriel Richardson LearUniversity of Chicago10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Crystal Room (Alumnae Hall). Breakfast available at 9:30. | Aristotle on Happiness, Tragedy, and the Complete LifeEthical Inquiry Series |
| 12 April 2013 | Gabriel Richardson LearUniversity of Chicago4:00-6:00 p.m., Crystal Room (Alumnae Hall). Reception to follow. | Plato on Pretending to Live WellEthical Inquiry Series |
| 5 April 2013 | Stephen YabloMassachusetts Institute of Technology | Implication and Evidence |
| 19 March 2013 | Martha NussbaumUniversity of Chicago5:00-7:00 p.m., Salomon 001. Sponsored by The Humanities Initiative, Philosophy Department, The Cogut Center, The Program for Ethical Inquiry, and the Political Philosophy Workshop. | Religious Pluralism and Socratic Self-Examination: Countering Cultures of Fear |
| 28 February 2013 | Daniel GilbertHarvard University4:00-6:00 p.m., List 120. Reception to follow at Faculty Club. | Happiness: What Your Mother Didn't Tell YouEthical Inquiry Series |
| 16 February 2013 | Michael PuettProfessor of Chinese History, Harvard University10:00AM, Petteruti Lounge, Robert Center, 75 Waterman St. Breakfast available on-site at 9:30AM. |
Disjunctions, Substitutions, and Artifice: Why Ritual MattersEthical Inquiry series |
| 15 February 2013 | Michael PuettProfessor of Chinese History, Harvard University4:00PM, Petteruti Lounge, Robert Center, 75 Waterman St. Reception to follow on-site. |
Ritual and Human FlourishingEthical Inquiry series |
| 25 January 2013 | Rachel BarneyUniversity of Toronto | Moral Motivation and Virtue as Craft |
| 7 December 2012 | David CharlesOriel College, Oxford4:00-6:00 p.m., Smith-Buonanno Hall Room 106 | Practical TruthInaugural Mark L. Shapiro Lectures in Philosophy |
| 5 December 2012 | David CharlesOriel College, Oxford5:30-7:30 p.m., Smith-Buonanno Hall Room 106 | Practical KnowledgeInaugural Mark L. Shapiro Lectures in Philosophy |
| 30 November 2012 | Elliot SoberUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison | Two Cornell Realisms -- Moral and Scientific |
| 10 November 2012 | 7th Annual Shapiro Graduate Student Conference in PhilosophyBegins at 9:40 a.m. Keynote talk at 4:30 by Dana Nelkin, Professor of Philosophy, UC San Diego. | |
| 9 November 2012 | 7th Annual Shapiro Graduate Student Conference in PhilosophyBegins at 3 p.m. | |
| 2 November 2012 | Julia MarkovitsMassachusetts Institute of Technology | Kantian Internalism |
| 19 October 2012 | Alexander NehamasPrinceton Universitynoon - 2 p.m., Pembroke Hall 202 | Only a Promise of HappinessMellon Workshop on Aesthetics and Morality |
| 12 October 2012 | Timothy Costelloe The College of William and Mary10 a.m.- noon, Pembroke Hall 202 | Title TBAMellon Workshop on Aesthetics and Morality |
| 10 October 2012 | Paul GuyerBrown University4-6 p.m., Salomon 203 | Monism and Pluralism in the History of AestheticsMellon Workshop on Aesthetics and Morality |
| 21 September 2012 | Jonathan SchafferRutgers University | Monistic Structural Realism |
| 7 September 2012 | Robbie WilliamsUniversity of Leeds | Decision Making Under Indeterminacy |
| 20 April 2012 | Crispin WrightNew York University and the University of Aberdeen | Alethic Relativism and Faultless Disagreement |
| 23 March 2012 | Hilary KornblithUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst | The Myth of Epistemic Agency |
| 16 March 2012 | Ofra MagidorOxford University | The Myth of the De Se |
| 12 November 2011 | 6th Annual Shapiro Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy | |
| 11 November 2011 | 6th Annual Shapiro Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy | |
| 6 November 2011 | The Unity of Consciousness and Sensory IntegrationSmith-Buonanno Hall, beginning at 10:00am Co-sponsored by the Network Centre for Research on the Senses |
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| 5 November 2011 | The Unity of Consciousness and Sensory IntegrationSmith-Buonanno Hall, beginning at 9:15am Co-sponsored by the Network Centre for Research on the Senses |
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| 3 November 2011 | Agustín RayoMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyHeld at 6pm, in 119 Gerard House | The Grandfather Paradox and Other EnigmasPhilosophy Department Undergraduate Group Lecture |
| 21 October 2011 | Ned HallHarvard University | Physical and Metaphysical Modality |
| 14 October 2011 | Mark SchroederUniversity of Southern California | Is Semantics Formal? |
| 16 September 2011 | Susan WolfUniversity of North Carolina | Good-for-nothings |
| 22 April 2011 | Gideon RosenPrinceton University | Title TBA |
| 15 April 2011 | Adrian CussinsNational University of Columbia | Title TBA |
| 7 April 2011 | Alex ByrneMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyTime: 6.30pm. Location TBA. | Skepticism about the Internal WorldSponsored by the Departmental Undergraduate Group |
| 18 March 2011 | Scott SoamesUniversity of Southern California | Title TBA |
| 13 March 2011 | Mark Shapiro ConferenceLocation: Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting St. | The Epistemology of Inference |
| 12 March 2011 | Mark Shapiro ConferenceLocation: Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting St. | The Epistemology of Inference |
| 11 February 2011 | Tom KellyPrinceton University | Following the Argument Where It Leads |
| 3 December 2010 | Scott SturgeonWadham College, Oxford University4pm | Title TBABlackwell-Brown Lecture |
| 1 December 2010 | Scott SturgeonWadham College, Oxford University4pm | Title TBABlackwell-Brown Lecture |
| 29 November 2010 | Scott SturgeonWadham College, Oxford University4pm | Title TBABlackwell-Brown Lecture |
| 19 November 2010 | John MacFarlaneUniversity of California at Berkeley | Title TBA |
| 22 October 2010 | Tamar Szabo GendlerYale University | Giving Notice: Attention, Perception and Bias |
| 15 October 2010 | Marian DavidUniversity of Notre Dame | Trustworthy BelieversKeith Lehrer 50th Anniversary Lecture |
| 24 September 2010 | Derk PereboomCornell University | Nonreductive Physicalism and Mental Compositional Properties |
| 17 September 2010 | Kieran SetiyaUniversity of Pittsburgh | Knowing Right From Wrong |
| 23 April 2010 | Andy EganRutgers University | Why Ethics is All About Me |
| 16 April 2010 | Ned BlockNew York UniversityPlease note that this lecture is at 4pm | Perception: Rich or Sparse?Josiah Royce Lectures |
| 14 April 2010 | Ned BlockNew York UniversityPlease note that this lecture is at 4pm | Attention and ConsciousnessJosiah Royce Lectures |
| 9 April 2010 | Ned BlockNew York UniversityPlease note that this lecture is at 4pm | Attention and Mental PaintJosiah Royce Lectures |
| 11 March 2010 | Daniel DevereuxUniversity of VirginiaNote that this lecture is at 7.30pm | Aristotle on the Form and Definition of a Human BeingBACAP Lecture |
| 26 February 2010 | Sharon StreetNew York University | Title TBA |
| 19 February 2010 | Anthony AppiahPrinceton University | The Life of Honor |
| 5 February 2010 | Matti EklundCornell University | Carnap's Meta-ontology |
| 4 December 2009 | Jason StanleyRutgers University | Ryle on Knowing How |
| 16 October 2009 | Ralph WedgwoodOxford University | Instrumental Rationality |
| 9 October 2009 | James JoyceUniversity of Michigan | Do Imprecise Beliefs Make Sense? The Challenge of Probabilistic Dilation |
| 18 September 2009 | Karen BennettCornell University | Putting Things Together |
| 1 May 2009 | Philip PettitPrinceton University | From Respect to Morality—and Law2009 Blackwell-Brown Lectures |
| 30 April 2009 | Philip PettitPrinceton University | From Commitment to Respect2009 Blackwell-Brown Lectures |
| 29 April 2009 | Philip PettitPrinceton University | From Communication to Commitment2009 Blackwell-Brown Lectures |
| 17 April 2009 | Crispin WrightNew York University | Title TBA |
| 3 April 2009 | Lisa DowningOhio State University | Locke contra Cartesian Ontology |
| 13 March 2009 | Roger WhiteMassachusetts Institute of Technology | Title TBA |
| 27 February 2009 | Samuel SchefflerNew York University | The Normativity of Tradition |
| 26 February 2009 | Sharon StreetNew York University | Title TBA |
| 20 February 2009 | Alvin GoldmanRutgers University | Toward a Synthesis of Reliabilism and Evidentialism |
| 4 December 2008 | Dimitri El MurrParis-Sorbonne University | Title TBA |
| 14 November 2008 | Robert HowellSouthern Methodist University | Necessitation, Deduction, and Consciousness |
| 31 October 2008 | Wolfgang MannColumbia University | Title TBA |
| 3 October 2008 | Stephen DarwallYale University | Title TBA |
| 26 September 2008 | Mark WilsonUniversity of Pittsburgh | From the Bending of Beams to the Problem of Free Will |
| 12 September 2008 | Augstín RayoMassachusetts Institute of Technology | An Account of Possibility |