General Colloquia Brown Bag Lunch Series The Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture The First NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy Other Events at NYU 2003/2004 Colloquium Schedule 2002/2003 Colloquium Schedule 2001/2002 Colloquium Schedule 2000/2001 Colloquium Schedule 1999/2000 Colloquium Schedule 1998/1999 Colloquium Schedule 1997/1998 Colloquium Schedule 1996/1997 Colloquium Schedule Philosophy colloquia at other New York area departments

General Colloquia

Colloquia are 4-6 pm on selected Fridays, unless otherwise indicated. All talks will be held in the Department Conference Room, Silver Center (previously Main Building), 100 Washington Square East, Room 503, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call the department at (212) 998-8320.

October 1, 2004:		Professor Kieran Setiya University of Pittsburgh Topic: "Hume on Practical Reasons"
October 29, 2004:		Professor Robert Stalnaker MIT Topic: "On what there isn't (but might have been)"
November 12, 2004:		Professor Shelly Kagan Yale University Topic: "Do I make a difference? The teeny tiny individual and the big bad world."
February 11, 2005:		Professor Roger Scruton Birkbeck College Topic: "Aesthetics -- is there such a thing?"
February 18, 2005:		Professor Scott Sturgeon Birkbeck College Topic: "Apriorism about Modality"
April 1, 2005:		Professor Dan Sperber CNRS and Institut Jean Nicod, Paris Topic: "Reconceptualizing the Social"
April 15, 2005:		Professor Timothy Williamson Oxford University Topic: "Contextualism, Subject-Sensitive Invariantism, and Knowledge of Knowledge"
May 3, 2005:		Professor Paul Franks University of Toronto Topic: "Kant's Dirty Laundry: Intellectual Intuition, Geometry, and the Challenge of Naturalism" Please Note: This talk is on a Tuesday.

Brown Bag Lunch Series

Talks are on selected Fridays in the Department Conference Room. Light refreshments will be served.

September 24, 2004:		Aviv Hoffman St. Andrews Topic: "Necessity: Thinking Outside the Box" 1:00 - 2:00 PM
March 5, 2005:		Professor Patrick Greenough St. Andrews Topic: "Phenomenal Continua" 1:15 - 2:15 PM

The Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture

Noam Chomsky
Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
"Simple Truths, Hard Problems: Some Thoughts on Terror, Justice, and Self-Defense"

Monday, November 15, 2004
7:30 PM
Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, Kimmel Center
Reception to Follow

For a recording of the lecture click here.

The First NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy

"Self Consciousness and Personal Identity in Modern Philosophy"
December 3-5, 2004

Philosophy colloquia at other New York area departments

• City University of New York, Graduate School
• Columbia University
• The New School, Graduate Faculty
• Princeton University
• Rutgers University