Colloquium on Ethics
Seminar on Language and Mind
PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
1996/97
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General Colloquia Colloquium on Ethics Seminar on Language and Mind |
Colloquia are on selected Fridays, 4-6 pm, and will be held in the Department Conference Room, Main Building, 100 Washington Square East, Room 503. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call (212) 998-8320.
October 25, 1996: |
Frances Egan Rutgers University "The Pragmatic Theory of Mental Content" | |
November 8, 1996: |
Martin Davies Birkbeck College, University of London "Sub-Personal Requirements of Thoughts" | |
November 22, 1996: |
Kent Back San Francisco State University "The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction: What It Is and Why It Matters" | |
January 31, 1997: |
Jack Copeland University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand "On Machines that Compute More than Turing Machines" | |
March 14, 1997: |
Mark Crimmins University of Michigan "Hesperus and Phosphorus: Grounding Semantics in Aesthetics" | |
April 4, 1997: |
Elizabeth Fricker Oxford University "Explaining First Person Authority: Special Access or Artefact of Grammar?" | |
May 2, 1997: |
Tyler Burge University of California at Los Angeles (TBA) |
Colloquiua are on selected Fridays, 4-6 pm, and will be held in the Department Conference Room, Main Building, 100 Washington Square East, Room 503. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call (212) 998-8331.
September 27, 1996: |
Jefferson McMahan University of Illinois "Wrongful Life" | |
October 18, 1996: |
N. Ann Davis University of Colorado "Moral Dilemmas and Interpretation" | |
November 15, 1996: |
Richard Arneson University of California, San Diego Yale University "Responsibility and Justice" | |
December 6, 1996: |
Deborah Satz | |
February 21, 1997: |
Michael Otsuka University of California, Los Angeles "Lockean Equality" | |
March 7, 1997: |
David Heyd Hebrew University Princeton University "When Practical Reason Plays Dice: Ethics & Lotteries" | |
April 14, 1997: |
Sissela Bok Harvard University Dan Brock Brown University Sylvia Law New York University Panel: "The Moral Problem of Physician Assisted Suicide" (held in Room 703, Main Building) |
The seminar on Language and Mind will be conducted this Spring by Ned Block and Thomas Nagel and will meet Tuesdays from 4 to 7 PM. Papers for discussion will be available one week in advance and will be distributed at the preceding seminar. They can also be picked up at the Department of Philosophy, Main Building Room 503, 100 Washington Square East and that is where you can find the first paper. Many of the papers will also be available on the web at http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/consciousness/. Inquiries should be addressed to Debbie Bula in the Department of Philosophy: 998-8320, bula@is.nyu.edu. The Seminar will meet in Meyer 771, 6 Washington Place.
Please refer to the web page for the seminar for the schedule of speakers.
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updated 2/15/97 philo.web@nyu.edu |