Unless otherwise noted, events take place in Woodburn 121, from 4-6pm
Fall Semester 2015
September 11
“The Relational View of Singular Thought”
Imogen Dickie, University of Toronto
September 25
Clark Lecture
IMU Federal Room, 4-6pm, reception following
“Sensory Character as a Mental Activity”
Susanna Schellenberg, Rutgers
October 8-10
2015 Conference: Social Epistemology of Religious Belief
Program details
October 19
“Learning to Signal”
Brian Skryms, UC Irvine
November 13
Cognitive Science Colloquium
Georgian Room, IMU 4-6pm
Julie-Jean Nelson Rudd Lecture on Animal Rights
“Kant and Moral Responsibility for Animals” (flyer)
Helga Varden, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
November 17
The Poynter Center, 618 E. Third Street, 4-5:30pm
“The Richard Rufus Project: Rediscovering a 13th Century Philosopher”
Rega Wood
Spring Semester 2016
January 22
“Logical Vice”
Gillian Russell, UNC Chapel Hill
February 5
“On the Distinction Between a Better Moral Theory and a Theory of a Better Morality”
Geoffrey Sayer-McCord, UNC Chapel Hill
February 12
“In Defense of Practical Reasons for Belief”
Stephanie Leary, Rutgers
February 15
“Akratic Action under the Guise of the Good”
Eugene Chislenko, UC Berkeley
February 19
“The Indispensability of Human Dignity”
Ariel Zylberman, Simon Fraser University
February 22
“Samuel Pufendorf on Esteem: From the State of Nature to Civil Society”
Andreas Blanks, University of Paderborn, Germany
February 26
“Feeling the Way to Truth: Early Modern Women’s Writings and What They Teach Us about Descartes’ Meditations”
Christia Mercer, Columbia University
March 25
“Perspectives, Understanding, and Epistemic Aptness”
Elisabeth Camp, Rutgers
April 8
“Challenges to the Creation of an Egalitarian Society: The Long View of Human History”
“Early Nervous Systems and the Evolution of Experience”
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
April 11
Cognitive Science Colloquium
“There is no Doxa of Forms: Plato’s Beliefs Revisited”
Jessica Moss, NYU
April 15
Peter Godfrey-Smith, CUNY
April 22
Nelson Fellows Symposium
3-7pm Georgian Room, IMU (Reception following)
“Kant’s Regulative Metaphysics of God”
Noam Hoffer
“Accurate Representation and the Value of Understanding”
Tim Perrine
May 2
“Understanding Computational Models of Mind” (Abstract)
Frances Egan, Rutgers
May 12-14
Conference: Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics
Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union (schedule)
May 25-27
Conference: Clinical Psychanalysis & Analytic Philosophy [CFP]
Keynote speakers
Edward Harcourt, Oxford
Jonathan Lear, Chicago
Juliet Mitchell, UCL and Cambridge
August 28
Federal Room, Indiana Memorial Union, reception following
“Feeling and Inclination: Rationalizing the Animal Within”
Janelle DeWitt, Halls Post-doctoral Fellow, IU
The College of Arts