PHILOSOPHY EVENTS
1997/98



General Colloquia
Colloquium on Ethics
Vagueness Reading Group

1996/97 Colloquium Schedule
Other events at NYU

 

General Colloquia

    Colloquia are on selected Fridays, 4-6 pm. All talks will be held in the Department Conference Room, Main Building, 100 Washington Square East, Room 503, except in the case of the events of October 24th (Louise Antony) and January 23rd (Philip Kitcher). Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call (212) 998-8320.

October 3, 1997:

Galen Strawson

October 24, 1997:

Louise Antony and a response from Gayatri Spivak
Chapel Hill and Columbia, respectively
To be held in the auditorium on the first floor of the King Juan Carlos Center, 82 Washington Square East

October 31, 1997:

Garrett Deckel
Princeton University
"The Moral Psychology of Autonomy"
(sponsored by the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs)

November 7, 1997:

Gordon Belot
Princeton

November 21, 1997:

Philip Pettit
Australian National University & Columbia University
"Re-working Sandel's Republicanism"
(sponsored by the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs)

December 12, 1997:

Allan Gibbard
Michigan

December 19, 1997:

Seana Schiffrin
UCLA
"The Moral Significance of Harm"
(sponsored by the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs)

January 23, 1998

Philip Kitcher and a response from Peter Galison
UCSD and Harvard, respectively

January 30, 1998:

Christopher Shields
Colorado, visiting at Cornell
"Substance and Life in Aristotle"

February 20, 1998:

Bob Stalnaker
MIT

March 6, 1998:

Paul Horwich
UCLondon

April 3, 1998:

Crispin Wright
Columbia

April 10, 1998:

John Campbell
Oxford


NYU Humanities Council: Colloquium on Ethics

    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, except where otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call (212) 998-8331.

September 12, 1997:

Jeremy Waldron
Columbia Law School

"Natural Duty Revisited"

November 14, 1997:
2 pm

Mala Kamm Memorial Lecture in Value Theory
Thomas Scanlon
Harvard University

Topic TBA

December 5, 1997:

Beatrice Longuenesse
Princeton University

"Point of View of Man or Knowledge of God: Practical Reason and Systematic Philosophy in Kant and Hegel"

February 13, 1998:

Simon Blackburn
UNC-Chapel Hill

"Ethical Relativism 2: The Last Word"

March 26, 1998:

Jennifer Whiting
Cornell University

Topic TBA

April 17, 1998:

Phillipe van Parijs
Univ. of Louvain & Yale Univ.

"Rawls & Machiavelli: The Dream Team?"

May 1, 1998:

Michelle Moody-Adams
Indiana University

"Justice Without Borders"


updated 2/15/98
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