General Colloquia NYU Humanities Council Ethics Colloquium The Mala Kamm Memorial Lecture Ethics Colloquium Public Lecture Bioethics Series Vagueness Reading Group 1998/99 Colloquium Schedule 1997/98 Colloquium Schedule 1996/97 Colloquium Schedule Other events at NYU Philosophy colloquia at other New York area departments

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, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call Daniel Nester at (212) 998-8320.

September 10, 1999:		Ned Hall MIT, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy "The surprise examination paradox" [PDF]
September 24, 1999:		Tamar Schapiro Harvard Society of Fellows "Three Conceptions of Action in Moral Theory"
October 1, 1999:		Alison Simmons Harvard Philosophy Department "Changing the Cartesian Mind: Leibniz on Sensation, Representation and Consciousness" [PDF]
October 22, 1999:		Anthony Appiah Harvard Philosophy and Afro-American Studies Departments "Interpretation and Identity"
March 3, 2000:		Stephen Neale Rutgers University Philosophy Department Topic: TBA
March 24, 2000:		Michael Thau UCLA Philosophy Department Topic: TBA

NYU Humanities Council Ethics Colloquium

Peter Singer
DeCamp Professor of Bio-Ethics
Princeton University
Topic: "Brain Death and the Sanctity of Life Ethic"

Commentators:

Katherine Henry, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology, NYU School of Medicine
William Ruddick, Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, NYU


Moderator:
Frances Kamm
Professor of Philosophy, Law and Medicine, NYU

Wednesday, July 21st, 4:30 -- 7:00
Alumni B Hall
NYU School of Medicine
550 1st Av. (just north of 30th St.)

All Welcome. Reception to Follow.

The Mala Kamm Memorial Lecture

Judith Jarvis Thomson
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
" Reasons for Action"

Thursday, March 9, 2000
210 Vanderbilt Hall at 40 Washington Square South
7:00 PM

Ethics Colloquium Public Lecture

Robert Nozick
Harvard University
" The Geneology of Ethics"

Thursday, April 13, 2000
210 Vanderbilt Hall at 40 Washington Square South
7:00 PM

Bioethics Series

Moderated by:
Frances Kamm
Professor of Philosophy, Law and Medicine, NYU

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