Speakers and Workshops 2010-2011
January 27-28, 2011
Kline Visiting Speaker: Sally Haslanger, MIT
Social Construction and Social Critique: Debunking Myths
February 18, 2011
Ashton Sperry (In-House Colloquium), Realistic Standards of Rationality in the Centipede Game
February 25th, 2011
Clancy Martin, University of Missouri-Kansas City
March 11th, 2011
Benjamin Visiting Speaker: Robert Batterman, University of Pittsburgh
March 11-12, 2011
Missouri Philosophers of Science (MOPS) Workshop, Life Sciences Center
March 18, 2011
As part of next week's LSSP symposium ETHICS AND THE BRAIN, we will have two brief talks to the Philosophy Department on Friday, March 18th, in Life Sciences Center 572
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Patricia Churchland (UCSD), "Self control and responsibility"
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Jesse Prinz (CUNY), "Values as cultural artifacts"
April 8, 2011
Philip Robbins (In-House Colloquium), Commonsense thinking about minds and morals
April 15-16, 2011
Kline Workshop on Kantian Ethics
April 28-29, 2011
Kline Visiting Speaker: John Horty, University of Maryland-College Park
September 24-25, 2010
Director: Peter Vallentyne
Compensation and Enforcement Rights
October 1, 2010
Roy Sorensen, Washington University at St. Louis
Veridical Idealizations
October 8, 2010
André Ariew (In-House Colloquium), Causation and Natural Selection
October 22, 2010
Gualtiero Piccinini, University of Missouri-St. Louis
October 29, 2010
Brian Montgomery (In-House Colloquium), What is Epistemic Normativity?
November 12, 2010
Kevin Zollman, Carnegie Mellon University
November 19, 2010
Xiaofei Liu (In-House Colloquium), Does Moral Responsibility Require a Choice
Speakers and Workshops 2009-2010
Activities | Past Activities
Memorial service for Scott Davey
Friday, September 4, 2009, 3:30 pm, A. P. Green Memorial Chapel
September 11-12, 2009
Kline Workshop on Causation, Time, and Choice
September 18, 2009
Kline Visiting Speaker: Scott Soames, University of Southern California, "Propositions"
October 8, 2009
Life Science and Society Speaker: Robert Pennock, Michigan State University,
"Beyond Darwin: Explorations in Digital Evolution"
October 20, 2009
Colloquium Speaker: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen, "Whom Can I Blame?"
October 30, 2009
Kline Visiting Speaker: Brian McLaughlin, Rutgers University, "Identity, Explanation, and Consciousness"
November 6, 2009
Colloquium Speaker: Berit Brogaard, University of Missouri-St. Louis
January 29, 2010
Colloquium Speaker: Gillian Russell, Washington University in St. Louis, "Indexicals, Context-Sensitivity and Implication Barriers"
February 12, 2010
Colloquium Speaker: Richard Feldman, University of Rochester
February 26, 2010
Kline Visiting Speaker: Michael Weisberg, University of Pennsylvania
April 22, 2010
Colloquium Speaker: Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University
April 23-24, 2010
Kline Workshop on Experimental Philosophy
April 30, 2010
Colloquium Speaker: Sarah Buss, University of Michigan
Speakers and Workshops 2008-2009
September 5, 2008
Colloquium Speaker: Fred Adams, University of Delaware, "Towards Closure on Closure"
September 19, 2008
Colloquium Speaker: Michael Strevens, New York University, "Ceteris Paribus Hedges: Causal Voodoo That Works"
September 19-20, 2008
MOPS (Missouri Philosophy of Science) Workshop
October 3-4, 2008
Kline workshop on Collective Intentionality
December 5, 2008
Kline Visiting Speaker: James van Cleve, University of Southern California, "Rates of Passage"
December 12, 2008
Colloquium Speaker: Cristina Bicchieri, University of Pennsylvania, "Behaving as Expected: Public Information and Fairness Norms"
January 28, 2009
Colloquium Speaker: Douglas Patterson, Kansas State University, "Inconsistency Theories of Semantic Paradox"
February 5, 2009
Colloquium Speaker: Brad Hooker, University of Reading, "Promises and Fairness"
February 26, 2009
Colloquium Speaker: Christopher Pincock, Purdue University, "Abstract Representations and Confirmation"
March 13, 2009
Colloquium Speaker: Michael Ruse, Florida State University, "Was there a Darwinian Revolution?"
April 3, 2009
Colloquium Speaker: Marc Fleurbaey, Université Paris Descartes, "Responsibility Out of Respect"
April 6, 2009
Ancient Studies Speaker: Elizabeth Asmis, University of Chicago, "Retouching the Ancestors: Myth in Cicero's Conception of the Roman Republic"
April 17, 2009
Kline Visiting Speaker: Peter Spirtes, Carnegie Mellon University, "The Science of Causal Inference"
May 1, 2009
Colloquium Speaker: Julia Driver, Washington University in St. Louis, "Defending Objective Consequentialism"
Speakers and Workshops 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, Uiversity 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
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
Speakers and Workshops 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?”
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
March 6, 2007
Robert Koon, University of Texas at Austin, “Our A Priori Knowledge of Causation: A New Argument”
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, “Is Michael Otsuka’s Conception of Robust Self-Ownership too Robust for a Left-Libertarian”
April 13-14, 2007
Kline Workshop, Intrinsic Value and Other Matters