General Colloquia The Mala Kamm Memorial Lecture New York University Ethics Colloquium Public Lectures Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture in Philosophy 1999/2000 Colloquium Schedule 1998/1999 Colloquium Schedule 1997/1998 Colloquium Schedule 1996/1997 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 the department at (212) 998-8320.

September 15, 2000:		Richard Foley NYU, Department of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Topic: "The Foundational Role of Epistemology in a General Theory of Rationality"
November 3, 2000:		Susanna Siegel Harvard University, Department of Philosophy Topic: "Object-Seeing and the Mental"
November 17, 2000:		David Lewis Princeton University, Department of Philosophy Topic: "Things Qua Truthmakers"
December 1, 2000:		Keith DeRose Yale University, Department of Philosophy Topic: "Elusive Skepticism"
March 23, 2001:		Wolfgang Kuenne University of Hamburg Topic: "Is Truth Really Disquotation?"
April 20, 2001:		Karen Bennett Princeton University Topic: "Why the Exclusion Problem Won't Go Away"

The Mala Kamm Memorial Lecture in Value Theory

Martha Nussbaum
The University of Chicago Law School
Title: "Duties of Justice, Duties of Material Aid: Cicero's Problematic Legacy"

October 6, 2000
Room 207, Main Building, 100 Washington Square East
2:00 - 4:00 PM

New York University Ethics Colloquium Public Lectures

David Sussman
Princeton University
Title: "Natural Perversions: Kant on the Origins of Vice"
Topic: Kant's Ethics

Friday, October 13, 2000
Room 216, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Reception to follow


Seanna Shiffrin
UCLA
Title: "Equality and Accommodation"

Monday, December 4, 2000
Faculty Library, third floor, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Reception to follow


Arthur Ripstein
University of Toronto
Title: "Justice and Responsibility"

Friday, December 8, 2000
Room 208, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Reception to follow


Heda Segvic
University of Pittsburgh, Center for Human Values at Princeton University
Title: "No One Errs Willingly: The Meaning of Socratic Intellectualism"

Friday, January 26, 2001
Room 503, Main Building
100 Washington Square East
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Reception to follow


Jules Coleman
Yale, Philosophy and Law
Title: "The Conventionality of Law"

Friday, February 23, 2001
Room 216
Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Reception to follow


Samuel Freeman
University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy and Law
Title: "Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is not a Liberal View"

Friday, March 2, 2001
Room 216
Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Reception to follow


Michael Otsuka
University College London
Title: "The Problem of Intergenerational Sovereignity: On Jefferson's Proposal that Laws Should Lapse After 19 Years"

Friday, April 6, 2001
Room 216
Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Reception to follow

Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture in Philosophy

Bernard Williams
The University of California, Berkeley and All Souls College at Oxford University
Title: "Philosophy, Scientism, and the Need for History"

November 13, 2000
Reception: Heights Alumni Lounge
Waverly Building, 24 Waverly Place
7:00 PM

Lecture: Jurow Lecture Hall
Main Building, 100 Washington Square East
8:00 PM

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