Department of Philosophy - University of Missouri-Columbia

  Colloquia Series 2007-2008

September 21-22, 2007
Kline Workshop on Issues in Philosophy of Biology

October 12, 2007
Colloquium Speaker: Robert Rupert
, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Extended Cognition and the Extended Mind”

October 26, 2007
Colloquium Speaker: Anna Alexandrova
, University of Missouri, St. Louis
“Making Models Count”

November 8-9, 2007
Kline Visiting Speaker:
Kent Bach, San Francisco State University

January 25, 2008
Colloquium Speaker: John Greco
, St. Louis University

March 6, 2008
Visiting Speaker: Martha Gibson
, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“I'm the Decider”

March 7, 2008
Kline Visiting Speaker: Dennis Stampe
, University of Wisconsin-Madison

March 14, 2008
Colloquium Speaker: Douglas Kutach
, Brown University
“Causation Solved”

April 4 , 2008
Symposium on the work of W.V.O. Quine and Roger Gibson.
The participants will include Roger Gibson (Washington University, St. Louis), Ernest LePore (Rutgers University), James Higginbotham (University of Southern California) and Alex Orenstein (City University of New York—Graduate Center).

April 11-12, 2008
Kline workshop on Ruth Millikan's Philosophy of Mind and Language

April 25-26, 2008
Conference: Realistic Standards for Decisions

May 1-2, 2008
Kline Visiting Speaker: James Joyce
, University of Michigan

  Colloquia Series 2006-2007

September 29-30, 2006
Kline Workshop

“Internalism and Non-Cognitivism in Ethics and Epistemology”

October 6, 2006
Michael Zimmerman
, UNC-Greensboro
“On the Fulfillment of Moral Obligation”

October 13, 2006
David Hull
, Northwestern U,
“Variation: Pleasant or Odious?”
in 12 Middlebush Hall

October 20, 2006
George Gale
, U. of Missouri-Kansas City
“The Great Dying on the Vine”

October 27, 2006
Christopher H. Wellman
, Washington University,
“Immigration and Freedom of Association”

November 3, 2006
John M. Fischer
, U of California-Riverside
“Responsibility and Free Will”

November 10, 2006
Reina Hayaki
, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Truth in All Possible Worlds?”

February 2, 2007
Carl Craver
, Wash. U.
“When Mechanistic Models Explain: The Hodgkin and Huxley Model of the Action Potential”

February 9, 2007
Preparation job talk: Jon Treise
, U. of Missouri (ABD)
“Intellectual Property”

February 23, 2007
Frank Hindriks
, University of Groningen
TBA (on collective agency)

March 6, 2007
Robert Koon
, University of Texas at Austin
“Our A Priori Knowledge of Causation: A New Argument”
Room TBA: Talk is at 2pm.

March 2, 2007
Ernie Lepore
, Rutgers U.
“Signs and Expressions”

March 9, 2007
Matt McGrath
, U. of Missouri
“The normative roles of knowledge”

March 16, 2007
Eric Roark

[paper to be presented at Pacific APA]: “Is Michael Otsuka’s Conception of Robust Self-Ownership too Robust for a Left-Libertarian”
[Commentator: Eric Heidenreich; Chair: Alan Tomhave]

April 13-14, 2007
Kline Workshop
Intrinsic Value and Other Matters

September 21-22, 2007
Kline Workshop on
Issues in Philosophy of Biology

October 12, 2007
Robert Rupert
, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Extended Cognition and the Extended Mind”

Philosophy Colloquia at other Missouri institutions

St. Louis University
Washington U.