Northern Illinois University

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Colloquium Archive


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


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 Hall, Room 315

John Greco (Saint Louis University)
“Epistemic Evaluation: A Virtue-Theoretic Approach”
November 16, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld Hall, Room 315


Spring 2007

Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University)
“Epistemic Objectivism, Epistemic Determinacy, and Rational Disagreement”
March 23, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld Hall, Room 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 Hall, Room 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 Hall, Room 315

Alan Sidelle (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Conventionalism and the Contingency of Conventions”
November 3, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld Hall, Room 315


Spring 2006

Ted Sider (Rutgers University)
“Ontological Realism”
March 3, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld Hall, Room 315

Daniel Crow (NIU), Rafalson Essay Prize Winner
Cartesian Freedom
April 7, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld Hall, Room 315

Francesco Orilia (University of Macereta, Italy)
“A Descriptivist Account of Indexicals”
April 21, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld Hall, Room 315


Fall 2005

Jonathan Kvanvig (University of Missouri-Columbia)
“Knowledge, Assertion, and Lotteries”
September 9, 3:00 p.m., Altgeld Hall, Room 315

Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Is Morality a Fiction?”
October 28, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld Hall, Room 315

Robert Pippin (University of Chicago)
“Hegel on the Subject of Deeds: The Inner-Outer Problem”
November 11, 3:30 p.m., Altgeld Hall, Room 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