Colloquium Archive
Spring 2013
Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University)
“Could There Be an Explanation of Everything?"
March 29, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore)
"Desire's Explanations"
April 3, 5:15 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Lincoln Room
Peter de Marneffe (Arizona State University)
"Aesthetic Pleasure and Rationality"
April 5, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Laura Ruetsche (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
"Realism About What? A Quantum Theoretic Perspective"
April 19, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld 315
Griffin Klemick, NIU (Rafalson Essay Contest Colloquium)
"Truth We Can Aim At: Deflationism and Objective Norms of Assertion"
May 3, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, University Suite
Fall 2012
Gregory Landini (University of Iowa)
“Frege’s Turnstile: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong”
September 14, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Heritage Room
Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University)
“Epistemic Entitlement and Luck”
October 5, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Meghan Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)
“Against Time-Bias”
October 26, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Spring 2012
David Etlin (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
“Conditionals”
February 20, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Room 405
Daniel Korman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“Debunking Arguments Against Commonsense Realism”
March 2, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Illinois Room
David O'Connor (University of Notre Dame)
“Iconoclasm as Philosophy”
March 23, 3:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, University Suite
Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa)
“fMRI as Telepathy: Problems and Puzzles”
March 30, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Micah Smith, NIU (Rafalson Essay Contest Colloquium)
“Redundancy, Prosententialism, Actuality, Non-Redundancy”
April 27, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, University Suite
Fall 2011
John Heil (Washington University at St. Louis)
“Causing”
September 9, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore)
“Emotional Perception of Morality”
September 12, 4:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Room 405
Keith DeRose (Yale University)
“Counterexamples: The Case of Insensitivity Accounts of No-Knowledge”
October 21, 3:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, University Suite
Spring 2011
Helga Varden (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“Kant's Moral Philosophy and Its Non-Moral Preconditions”
January 28, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Katherine Brading (University of Notre Dame)
“Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?”
March 4, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
“Morality and Evolution”
April 8, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Dylan Black, NIU (Rafalson Essay Contest Colloquium)
“Assertion, Knowledge, and the Belief that One Knows”
April 15, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Fall 2010
Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University)
"Skepticism and the Deontic Structure of the Space of Reasons"
October 29, 3:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, University Suite
Summer 2010
Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore)
“Zarathustra's Metaethics”
June 8, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Illinois Room
Spring 2010
Michael Della Rocca (Yale University)
“Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza”
March 19, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Gillian Russell (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Indexicals and Barriers to Implication”
April 9, 3:30 p.m., Music Building, Room 173
Ben Rohrs, NIU (Rafalson Essay Contest Colloquium)
“An Old Problem for Pritchard's New Anti-Luck Epistemology”
April 23, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Fall 2009
Jeff Speaks (University of Notre Dame)
“Against the New Fregeanism”
September 11, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Heritage Room
Michael Jubien (University of Florida)
“Rethinking Modality”
October 30, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Heritage Room
Andy Egan (Rutgers University)
“Three Grades of Self-Involvement: Self-Locating Content in Thought and Language”
November 6, 3:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, University Suite
Spring 2009
Colin Klein (University of Illinois at Chicago)
“Phantom Limbs and the Imperative Account of Pain”
April 3, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Heritage Room
Luca Ferrero (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)
“Intending, Acting, and Doing”
April 17, 3:30 p.m., Swen Parson, Room #188
Bryan Chambliss, NIU (Rafalson Essay Contest Colloquium)
“Overcoming Explanatory Exclusion”
April 24, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Illinois Room
Fall 2008
James Conant (University of Chicago)
“Cartesian and Kantian Skepticism”
October 3, 3:30 p.m., Campus Life Building, Room #100
Gregory Landini (University of Iowa)
“Russell and the Ontological Argument”
October 17, 4:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Illinois Room
Michael Rea (University of Notre Dame)
“The Case Against Analytic Theology: An Outsider's Perspective”
November 14, 3:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, University Suite
Alicia Finch (Northern Illinois University)
“What is Free Will? The Many Senses of the Term 'Free'”
November 21, 3:00 p.m., DuSable Hall, Room #268
Sponsored by the Philosophy Department's Undergraduate Student Advisory Committee
Spring 2008
David Solomon (University of Notre Dame)
“Elizabeth Anscombe's 'Modern Moral Philosophy' and Virtue Ethics”
April 11, 3:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, University Suite
Peter Wenz (University of Illinois at Springfield)
“Animal Rights in Social Context”
April 27, 6:00 p.m., Wirtz Auditorium
Blake Roeber, NIU (Rafalson Essay Contest Colloquium)
“Causation, Causal Dependence, and Counterfactual Transitivity”
May 2, 4:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Illinois Room
Fall 2007
Carolina Sartorio (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Moral Inertia”
September 14, 3:30 p.m., Campus Life Building, Room 100
Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri-Columbia)
“Two Bayesian Challenges for Epistemic Pragmatism”
October 12, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
John Greco (Saint Louis University)
“Epistemic Evaluation: A Virtue-Theoretic Approach”
November 16, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld 315
Spring 2007
Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University)
“Epistemic Objectivism, Epistemic Determinacy, and Rational Disagreement”
March 23, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld 315
Blake Roeber, NIU (Rafalson Essay Contest Colloquium)
“Does the Theist Have an Epistemic Advantage over the Atheist? Descartes and Plantinga on Theism, Atheism, and Skepticism”
April 27, 3:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, University Suite
Fall 2006
Larry May (Washington University)
“Humanitarian Intervention: A Critique”
September 15, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Mylan Engel (Northern Illinois University)
“Moral Individualism and Its Implications”
October 13, 4:00 p.m., DuSable Hall, Room 474
Victor Caston (University of Michigan)
“How to Receive Form without the Matter: Aristotle on Perception”
October 20, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld 315
Alan Sidelle (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Conventionalism and the Contingency of Conventions”
November 3, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Spring 2006
Ted Sider (Rutgers University)
“Ontological Realism”
March 3, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld 315
Daniel Crow (NIU), Rafalson Essay Prize Winner
“Cartesian Freedom”
April 7, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld 315
Francesco Orilia (University of Macereta, Italy)
“A Descriptivist Account of Indexicals”
April 21, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Fall 2005
Jonathan Kvanvig (University of Missouri-Columbia)
“Knowledge, Assertion, and Lotteries”
September 9, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld 315
Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Is Morality a Fiction?”
October 28, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Robert Pippin (University of Chicago)
“Hegel on the Subject of Deeds: The Inner-Outer Problem”
November 11, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld 315
Spring 2005
Jennifer Lackey (NIU)
“Learning from Words”
January 21, 3:00 p.m., DuSable Hall, Room 440
Harold Brown (NIU)
“On the Epistemology of Theory-Dependent Evidence”
February 25, 3:00 p.m., DuSable Hall, Room 440
Brandon Warmke (NIU), Rafalson Essay Prize Winner
“Problems with Situationism and First-Person Deliberation”
April 1, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Room 305
Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)
“Why Moral Theory Needs Lots of Help from the Social Sciences”
April 8, 3:00 p.m., TBA
Tina Chanter (DePaul University)
“Abjection: Film and the Constitutive Nature of Difference”
April 22, 3:30 p.m., DuSable Hall, Room 140
Fall 2004
Jaegwon Kim (Brown University)
“Agency and Self-Knowledge”
September 17, 3:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Heritage Room
Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College)
“Minds, Bodies, and God: Thoughts on the Nature and Scope of Intentional Explanations”
September 24, 3:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Room 305
Baron Reed (NIU)
“The Long Road to Skepticism”
October 1, 3:30 p.m., DuSable 256
David Schweickart (Loyola University Chicago)
"In What We May Hope: Historical Materialism and the Question of Socialism”
October 8, 3:30 p.m., DuSable Hall, Room 176
Tomis Kapitan (NIU)
"Can Terrorism Be Justified?"
November 12, 3:30 p.m., DuSable 459