UIC Colloquia and Events

John Doris
Washington University in St. Louis
A Naural History of the Self
Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Carl Gillett
Northern Illinois University
Appreciating Expansive Mind-Brain Identities:
Materialism and the Rise of Cognitive Neuroscience
Monday, March 16th, 2009

Josef Stern
The University of Chicago
Metaphor and Minimalism
Monday, April 20th, 2008

Dorothy Grover
UIC Professor Emerita
On Describing the World
Monday, April 27th, 2008

Robert Cummins
University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign
Representational Specialization: The Synthetic A Priori Revisited
Monday, October 6th, 2008

Jeff Speaks
University of Notre Dame
Against the new Fregeanism
Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Barbara Montero
CUNY Graduate Center
Russellian Physicalism
Monday, November 24th, 2008

Yitzhak Melamed
Spinoza's Metaphysics of Thought
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Stephen Puryear
Leibniz on Colors, Shapes, and Motions
Thursday, January 17th, 2008

John Whipple
The Structure of Leibnizian Simple Substances
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Dilip Ninan
Personal Identity, Indeterminacy, and the First Person
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Matthew Strohl
False Pleasure in Plato's Philebus
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
(Talk will be at 2pm rather than 4pm)

Larry Shapiro
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Functionalism and Mental Boundaries
Monday, October 1st, 2007, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Robert Pasnau
University of Colorado
Modes and Accidents
Monday, October 22nd, 2007, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Chris Korsgaard
Harvard University
The Origin of the Good and Our Animal Nature
Monday, November 5th, 2007, 4:00 p.m., Humanities Institute Seminar Room

Jon Jarrett
University of Illinois at Chicago
An Information-Theoretic Approach to the Separability of Physical Systems
OR
The Romance of Entanglement: Bell's Theorem and Passion-at-a-Distance
Monday, February 19th, 2007, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

James Conant
University of Chicago
Some Varieties of Skepticism
Monday, March 5th, 2007, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Bernard Boxill
University of North Carolina
Irving Thalberg Memorial Lecture
DuBois and Douglass on Sympathy and Double Consciousness
Monday, October 16th, 2006, 4:00 p.m., location TBA

Lisa Shabel
Ohio State University
Kant on the foundations of Geometry
Monday, October 30th, 2006, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Steven Nadler
Unveristy of Wisconsin at Madison
Whatever is, is in God: Substance and Things in Spinoza
Monday, November 13th, 2006, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

James Conant
University of Chicago
Skepticism
Monday, April 3rd, 2006, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Michael Friedman
Stanford University
Descartes and Galileo: Copernicanism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Physics
Monday, April 10, 2006, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Arthur Fine
University of Washington
Structural Realism, Then and Now
Monday, September 19, 2005, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Richard Moran
Harvard University
Irving Thalberg Memorial Lecture
Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty
Monday, October 10th, 2005, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Margaret Atherton
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The Books are in the Study as Before: Berkeley on the Reality of Physical Objects
Monday, November 14th, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Spring 2005

Robert Pippin
University of Chicago
Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life
Monday, March 7, 2005, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Michael Kremer
University of Chicago
The Cardinal Problem of Philosophy
Monday, April 11, 2005, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Jaegwon Kim
Brown University
Normativity, the First-Person Perspective, and Understanding Actions
Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Fall 2004

Tyler Burge
UCLA
Perceptual Objectivity
Irving Thalberg Memorial Lecture
Monday, September 27, 2004, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Michael McPherson
President, Spencer Foundation
The University's Democratic Role
Monday, October 11, 2004, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Robert Fogelin
Dartmouth College
Wittgenstein on Rule-Following
Monday, October 25, 2004, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Conference
Political Theory and Cultural Pluralism: New Directions
Saturday, November 13, 9:30-5:00
UIC Institute for the Humanities, UIC
Stevenson Hall , Lower level

Spring 2004

Tom Ricketts
Northwestern University
Quantification, Sentences, and Truth-values
Monday, January 26, 4:00 p.m, 1430 University Hall

Robert Gooding-Williams
Northwestern University
Aesthetics and Receptivity: Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell and Astaire
Monday, February 16, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Anja Jauernig
University of Notre Dame
Kant on Space
Monday, March 15, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

The Midwest Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy
March 20–21, 2004
Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago
Stevenson Hall, Lower Level

Carla Bagnoli
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Of Two Minds
Monday, April 5, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Aristotle's Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics: the Fifth Conference in Ancient Philosophy
sponsored by the Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Philosophy
April 16-17, 2004

Simon Evnine
University of Miami
Reflection, Personal Identity and Epistemic Change
Monday, April 19, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Fall 2003

Bob Brandom
University of Pittsburgh
Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution: The Structure of Desire and Recognition.
Monday, October 27, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Paul Teller
University of California at Davis
De-Idealizing Truth
Monday, November 17, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Spring 2003

Charlotte Brown
Illinois Wesleyan
The Humean Responsible Agent
Monday, February 3, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Richard Heck
Harvard University
What Is Compositionality?
Monday, February 17, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Timothy Bays
University of Notre Dame
Two Arguments Against Realism
Monday, April 7, 4:00, 1430 University Hall

Fred Dretske
Duke University
The Case Against Closure
Monday, September 16, 4:00 p.m., 1450 University Hall

Fred Neuhauser
Cornell University
Rousseau and the Problem of Self-Love (Amour propre)
Monday, November 4, 4:00 p.m., 1450 University Hall

David Copp
Bowling Green State University
International Justice, A Global State, and the Basic Needs
Monday, November 11, 4:00 p.m., 1450 University Hall

Russell Goodman
University of New Mexico
Wittgensein, James, and Pragmatism
Monday, February 11, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Kim Sterelny
Victoria University & Australian National University
Evolutionary Biology and Folk Psychology
Monday, March 11, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Steven Nadler
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Spinoza on Eternity and Immortality
Monday, April 8, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Patrick Delaere and Theo van Willigemburg
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Binding Oneself: Autonomously and Non-Autonomously
Monday, September 17, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Harry Frankfurt
Princeton University
Some Mysteries of Love
The Irving Thalberg Memorial Lecture
Monday, September 24, 4:00 p.m, 329 Chicago Circle Center

David Velleman
University of Michigan
Motivation by Ideal
Monday, October 15, 4:00 p.m, 1430 University Hall

Jonathan Lear
University of Chicago
Plato and the Unconscious
Monday, October 29, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

J. D. Trout
Loyola University
Self-Serving Beliefs and Self-Binding Solutions
Monday, November 12, 4:00 p.m., 1430 University Hall

Paul Griffiths
University of Illinois at Chicago
An Augustinian Analysis of Kant on Lying
Monday, January 22, 4:00 p.m.

Ted Cohen
University of Chicago
If I were someone else . . . Fragmentary Thoughts about Understanding One Another
Monday, January 29, 4:00 p.m.

John Haugeland
University of Chicago
Two Dogmas of Rationalism
Monday, March 19, 4:00 p.m.

John Perry
Stanford University
Speaking of Santa Clause
Monday, March 26, 4:00 p.m.

Marcia Baron
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title to be announced
Monday, April 16, 3:00 p.m.

Charles Parsons
Harvard University
Realism and the Debate on Impredicativity 1917-1944
August 14, 3:00 p.m.

Ike Balbus
University of Illinois at Chicago
Political Science Department
The ButlerDidn't Do It: Why "Gender Identity"
Survives its "Deconstruction" by Judith Butler
September 6, 3:00 p.m

Stanley Fish
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dean, Liberal Arts and Sciences
From the Inside Out: The Marriage of Antinominianism
and Monism in Milton's Thought and Work
September 11, 4:00 p.m.

Gary Ebbs
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title to be Announced
October 16, 4:00 pm.

The 2000-2001 Irving Thalberg Lecture
Richard Wollheim
University of California at Berkeley
Emotions and Their Kinds
Monday, October 19, 4:00 p.m.