Philosophy Department Talks 2011-12
September 2011 Events
Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Morality
Elizabeth Harman (Princeton)
7 September 2012, 11:35 - 12:50
SSS 201
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
Current Work in Cognitive Science
Nicholas Shea (University of Oxford)
13 September 2011, 11:35 - 12:50
Kirtland Hall 207
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
Dick Popkin's (Truly Awful) Critique of Spinoza's Contribution to Biblical Scholarship
Edwin Curley, University of Michigan
16 September 2011, 3:30 - 5:20
LC 105
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy
Socrates' "Second Voyage" (Plato, Phaedo 99d-102a)'
David Sedley (University of Cambridge)
27 September 2011, 4 PM
LC 211
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Philosophy
October 2011 Events
Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Morality
Liane Young (Boston College)
5 October, 11:35 - 12:50
SSS 201
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
Simple and Complex Theories of Personal Identity
Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)
6 October 2011, 4 - 6 PM
LC 211
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Current Work in Cognitive Science
Nicholas Humphrey (London School of Economics)
11 October 2011, 11:35 - 12:50
Kirtland Hall 207
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
The Epistemic Argument for Hedonism
Neil Sinhababu (University of Singapore)
11 October 2011, 4 - 6 PM
WHC 208
Sponsored by the Working Group in Moral Philosophy
A workshop on Michael Bratman's "A Theory of Shared Agency"
14 - 15 October 2011
Yale Law and Philosophy Center
Descartes's Real Distinction and the Nature of Body
Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto)
14 October 2011
C 104, 3 - 5 PM
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy
Epistemology Formalized
Sarah Moss (University of Michigan)
20 October 2011, 4 - 6 PM
LC 211
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
November 2011 Events
Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Morality
Richard Holton (MIT)
2 November 2011, 11:35 - 12:50
SSS 201
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
Gender and Communication Styles
Reading Group
3 November 2011, 5 - 6:30 PM
C 104
Sponsored by Gender and Philosophy
Hobbes and Normative Egoism
Alex Worsnip (Yale)
4 November 2011, 2 PM
C 104
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy
Cognitive Science Conference on Self Regulation
4 & 5 November 2011
http://www.yale.edu/cogsci/SelfRegulation2011.html
Different Voices or Perfect Storm? Explaining the Dearth of Women in Philosophy
Louise Antony (U Mass, Amherst)
11 November 2011, 2 - 4 PM
C 104
Sponsored by Gender and Philosophy
Topic to be Announced
Rusty Jones (Harvard)
11 November 2011, 4 - 6 PM
LC104
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
The Paradox of Methods
Shelly Kagan (Yale)
15 November 2011, 3:30 - 5:30 PM
WLH 204
Sponsored by the Working Group in Moral Philosophy
Death and Gender
Reading Group
17 November 2011, 5 - 6:30 PM
LC 104
Sponsored by Gender and Philosophy
Topic to be Announced
Matthew Lindauer
18 November 2011, 3 PM
C 104
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy
Separation Revisited in the Timaeus: the Role of the Receptacle
Luca Pitteloud (University of Fribourg)
28 November 2011, 1:30 - 3:20 PM
LC 103
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
December 2011 Events
Is There an Existential Selection Effect?
David Manley (University of Michigan)
1 December 2011. 4 - 6 PM
LC 211
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
When Fiction Leaks into Reality: A Qualification of the Feminist Argument Against Violent Pornography
Sara Protasi (Yale)
2 December 2011, 4 - 5:30 PM
C 104
Sponsored by Gender and Philosophy
Aristotle and the Eleatic One
Tim Clarke (Yale)
5 December 2011, 12 - 2 PM
LC 104
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy
Topic to be Announced
Timothy Yenter (Yale)
13 December, 12 - 2 PM
C 104
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy
Legal Theory Workshop
Tamar Schapiro (Stanford University)
15 December 2011, 4:15
Yale Law School Faculty Lounge
Sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshop
January 2012 Events
Current Work in Cognitive Science
Robin Clark (University of Pennsylvania)
10 January 2012, 11:35 - 12:50
Kirtland Hall 207
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Morality
Emile Bruneau (MIT)
11 January 2012, 11:35 - 12:50
SSS 201
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
Vagueness, Tolerance, and Contradiction
David Ripley (Post Doc, University of Melbourne, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
17 January 2011, 5:30 - 7:30
Ph 310
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Counterstereotypical and Uncanny Exemplars: Moving Beyond the Mere Maximization of Smartness
Heidi Lockwood (Southern CT State University)
Comments, Eric Mandelbaum
20 January 2012, 4 PM
C104
Sponsored by Gender and Philosophy
Fallibibilism and the Limits of Closure
Wesley Holliday (Stanford University)
24 January 2010, 5:30 - 7:30
Place to be Announced
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
The Good, the Will, The Good Will
Sonny Elizondo (Yale)
27 January, 2012, 2 - 4 PM
C 104
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy
The Impossibility of Skepticism
Daniel Greco (MIT)
31 January, 2012, 5:30 - 7:30
Place to be Announced
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
February 2012 Events
Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Morality
Melanie Killen (University of Maryland)
1 February 2012, 11:35 - 12:50
SSS 201
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
Why Permissivism is True and What it Tells us About Irrelevant Influences on Belief
Mirian Schoenfield (MIT)
2 February 2012, 4 - 6
Place to be Announced
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Simone de Beauvoir's Relevance for Contemporary Philosophy
Nancy Bauer (Tufts)
3 February 2012, 4 - 6
C 104
Sponsored by Gender and Philosophy
What a Revenge-Free Theory of the Liar Paradox can and can't look like
Andrew Bacon (Jr. Research Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford)
6 February 2012, 5:30 - 7:30
LC 317
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Current Work in Cognitive Science
Kai von Fintel, MIT
7 February, 2012, 11:35 - 12:50
Kirtland Hall 207
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
Kant and Hegel on the Moral Self
Beatrice Longuenesse (NYU)
9 February 2012, 4 - 6
LC 211
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Can Newtonian Gravitation Explain Inertial Motion
James Weatherall (University of California, Irvine)
13 February 2012, 5:30 - 7:30
LC 317
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Question-Directed States of Mind
Jane Friedman (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Oxford)
16 February 2012, 4 - 6
LC 211
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Topic to be Announced
Elliot Paul (Columbia)
24 February 2012
Place to be announced
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy
March 2012 Events
Current Work in Cognitive Science
Susan Carey, Harvard University
20 March 2012, 11:35 - 12:50
Kartland Hall 207
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
Lilnguistic Aspects of the Gender Gap
Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell)
22 March, 4 - 6 PM
C104
Sponsored by Gender and Philosophy
Understanding the Amphiboly: Kant's Critique of Leibniz
Brandon Look (Kentucky)
23 March 2012
Place to be announced
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Philosophy
April 2012 Events
Current Work in Cognitive Science
Dorothy Cheney (University of Pennsylvania)
3 April 2012, 11:35 - 12:50
Kirtland Hall 207
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Morality
Jamil Zaki (Harvard)
4 April 2012, 11:25 - 12:50
SSS 201
Sponsored by Yale Cognitive Science
Topic to be Announced
Ned Hall (Harvard)
5 April 2012, 4 - 6 PM
LC 211
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Ethics, Gender, and Philosophy
Lisa Rivera (U. Mass Boston)
6 April 2012, 4 - 6 PM
C 104
Sponsored by Gender and Philosophy
Token-Reflexivity
Ori Simchen (UBC)
19 April 2012, 4 - 6 PM
LC 211
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Topic to be Announced
Casper Hare, MIT
26 April 2012, 4 PM
LC 211
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
Yale-UConn Graduate Philosophy Conference 2012
Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
Stephen Darwall (Yale)
27, 28 April 2012
Place to be announced
