Events
1.
Princeton:
Princeton University
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
4:30 p.m. Jonathan Haidt
"The Moral Psychology of Hypocrisy, Or,
Why Good Reasons Have So Little Power
to Cause Good Actions"
Professor, University of Virginia
Robertson Hall, Bowl 1
Thursday, November 30, 2006
4:30 p.m. Avishai Margalit
Topic: TBA
Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kerstetter Room, 301 Marx Hall
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
4:30 p.m. David E. Heyd
"Cultural Diversity and Biodiversity: A Tempting Analogy"
Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Robertson Hall, Bowl 2
Program in Classical Philosophy
ANNUAL CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM
December 2-3, 2006
101 McCormick Hall
"Problems in Platonic Moral Philosophy and
Psychology"
Saturday, December 2
1:30 - 3:45 pm Julia Annas, University of Arizona
"Virtue and Law in Plato"
Commentator: Zena Hitz,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
3:45 pm Coffee and Rolls - McCormick Hall,
Lobby
4:30 - 6:45 pm Carlos Steel, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven
“What depends on us? (Neo)platonic
interpretations of the
Stoic concept of eph ęmin”
Commentator: Steven Strange,
Emory University
7:00 pm Cocktails, followed by dinner at 8:00
pm at The Palmer House
9:30 pm Party at Christian Wildberg's house,
81 Alexander Street
Sunday, December 3
9:00 - 10:00 am Coffee and Rolls -Tower Room, 1879 Hall
10:00 - 12:15 pm Pavlos Kalligas, University of Athens
"Eiskrisis, or The Presence of Soul in the
Body: A Plotinian Conundrum"
Commentator: Myles Burnyeat,
Oxford University
Copies of the papers will be
available in early November at the following web address:
http://philosophy.princeton.edu/events/extmode,cat/cat_id,10/
On Saturday, there will be a dinner at The Palmer House,
located on the corner of Nassau Street and Bayard Lane. The
charge
is $40.00 per person for the dinner; the dinner is free of
charge to Princeton students. If you plan to attend, please
let Jill Ray of the Philosophy Department staff know:
(609-258-6161; e-mail
jfray@princeton.edu) Please advise if there are any
special dietary restrictions. All dinners must be paid for
in advance, no exceptions please.
Checks made payable to Princeton University, can be
sent to:
Jill Ray
212 1879 Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
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2.
Rutgers:
COLLOQUIUM SERIES
All talks are held at 4:30pm in the Seminar Room (128-129) of
Davison Hall on Douglass Campus. Call (732)932-9861 for more
information.
| September 14, 2006 |
Katalin Farkas
European University, Budapest
"What makes two situations subjectively indistinguishable?" |
| September 21, 2006 |
Tim Crane
University of London
"Aboutness and Non-existence" |
| September 26, 2006 |
Cian Dorr
University of Pittsburgh
"Rationality, Self-locating Belief, and Many-Worlds
Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics" |
| September 28, 2006 |
Jessica Moss
University of Pittsburgh
"Appearances and Calculations: Plato's Division of the Soul" |
| October 19, 2006 |
Seana Shiffrin
University of California, Los Angeles
"Promises, Conventionalism and Intimate Relationships" |
| October 26, 2006 |
Brian Weatherson
Cornell University
"The Bayesian and the Dogmatist" |
| November 30, 2006 |
Ishani Maitra
Syracuse University |
| February 8, 2007 |
Samuel Scheffler
University of California, Berkeley |
| February 15, 2007 |
Delia Graff Fara
Princeton University |
| April 12, 2007 |
Sigrún Svavarsdóttir
Ohio State University |
****Class of 1970 speaker - date to be decided
PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIA AT NY AREA DEPARTMENTS
Current Department Events
The Philosophy and
Religion Club will meet in DI-430 at 4:00 p.m. on November 16th for a
discussion of Hank Fandel's views on the uniqueness of the
individual perspective on the universe.
Also, the club activities for Spring
2007 will be discussed. Everyone, majors and non-majors
alike, is invited. Stop by, join us for some thoughtful
conversation, tasty snacks, and general good company.
FALL BRANTL LECTURE:
Speaker: Dr. Tatiana Patrone will speak on Does
Kant's Ethics Rest upon a Mistake?" Dr. Patrone is a new member of the Department of Philosophy &
Religion at Montclair State University.
Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. in University Hall 1010
There will be a reception afterwards.
Department Research Colloquium: Friday,
11/10/06 at 10:00 a.m. Dr. Eller spoke on "Unbelief in
America." in DI 430.
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