Recent Events

Fri Nov 20, 2009 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Denis R. Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago) Lowness Properties and Cost Functions
Fri Nov 20, 2009 Goldberg Room, Boalt Law School — 12:10 pm	GALA Seminar Douglas Husak (Rutgers University) The De Minimis “Defense to Criminal Liability”
Thu Nov 19, 2009 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Gideon Rosen (Princeton University) Duress and the Limits of Responsibility
Fri Nov 13, 2009 Tolman 5101 — 11 am	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Rrandy O'Reilly (University of Colorado) From Spikes to Object Recognition and Beyond: Building an Embodied Brain
Mon Nov 9, 2009 Wheeler 110 — 5:10 pm	Lotfi A. Zadeh (UC Berkeley) What is Fuzzy Logic, and What are its Applications?
Fri Nov 6, 2009 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Martin Davis (New York University) Reflections on Hilbert’s 10th Problem with a New Conjecture
Fri Nov 6, 2009 Tolman 5101 — 11 am	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Andrew Shtulman (Occidental College) Developing an Understanding and Appreciation of Biological Evolution
Thu Nov 5, 2009 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	Philosophy Colloquium Ned Hall (Harvard University) In Praise of Causal Mechanisms
Sat Oct 24, 2009 Cordura Hall, CSLI, on the Stanford campus — 9:10 am All-day event	John Mumma, Victor Pambuccian, Michael Friedman, Michael Beeson, Dana Scott Symposium on Constructive Geometric Reasoning
Fri Oct 23, 2009 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Lara Buchak (UC Berkeley) Different Decision or Different Decision Theory?: Modeling Risk Aversion
Fri Oct 23, 2009 Tolman 5101 — 11 am	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Steven Sloman (Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University) Glushko Fellow in Cognitive Science Lecture “Causal Models and the Structure of Decisions II”
Wed Oct 21, 2009 Barrows Hall, Lipman Room, 8th floor — 4:10 pm	Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul Caroline Walker Bynum (Professor of Medieval European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Explaining Transformation: Material Miracles and Their Theorists in the Later Middle Ages
Mon Oct 19, 2009 Genetics and Plant Biology Bldg, Room 100 — 5:10 pm	Christos Papadimitriou, Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley) Logicomix
Wed Oct 14, 2009 234 Moses Hall — 6:10 pm	Working Group in HPLMS Adam Sennet (UC Davis) Propositional Structure and Unarticulated Constituents
Fri Oct 9, 2009 Howison Library — 4:10 pm NOTE: New date	Townsend Visitor Bas C. van Fraassen (San Francisco State University and Princeton University) Open Discussion
Fri Oct 9, 2009 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Nate Ackerman (University of Pennsylvania) Trees, Sheaves, and Definition by Recursion
Thu Oct 8, 2009 Howison Library — 4:10 pm NOTE: New date	Townsend Visitor Bas C. van Fraassen (San Francisco State University and Princeton University) The Self—Beyond the Illusions of Reason
Wed Oct 7, 2009 150 Moses Hall — 1 pm NOTE: New date	Townsend Visitor Bas C. van Fraassen (San Francisco State University and Princeton University) Office Hours (1:00–3:00 p.m.)
Thu Oct 1, 2009 Howison Library — 4:10 pm NOTE: New date	Townsend Visitor Bas C. van Fraassen (San Francisco State University and Princeton University) Will the Real Anti-Realist Please Stand Up?
Tue Sep 29, 2009 Howison Library — 4:10 pm NOTE: New date	Townsend Visitor Bas C. van Fraassen (San Francisco State University and Princeton University) Against Naturalism: a Parting of the Ways in Philosophy
Fri Sep 25, 2009 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Dana S. Scott (Carnegie Mellon University) Mixing Modality and Probability
Fri Sep 25, 2009 5101 Tolman — 11:10 am Irv Rock Memorial Lecture	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences James Pomerantz (Department of Psychology, Rice University and Department of Neuroscience, Baylor) Grouping and Emergent Features in Vision: An Approach to Basic Gestalts
Thu Sep 24, 2009 Howison Library — 4:10 pm	George Myro Memorial Lecture Mark Wilson (University of Pittsburgh) From the Bending of Beams to the Problem of Free Will
Thu Sep 17, 2009 234 Moses Hall (Dennes Room) — 4 pm NOTE: Non-standard day and time	Working Group in HPLMS Richard Boyd and Christopher Boyd (Cornell University and UC Berkeley) Natural kinds and ceteris paratis generalizations: In praise of hunches
Fri Sep 11, 2009 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Theodore A. Slaman (UC Berkeley) Degree Invariant Functions
Fri Sep 11, 2009 5101 Tolman — 11:10 am	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Yuko Munakata (University of Colorado Boulder ) Developing Cognitive Control
Fri Aug 28, 2009 60 Evans Hall — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley) Measuring the size of infinite collections of natural numbers: Was Cantor’s theory of infinite number inevitable?
Sun May 24, 2009 Howison Library, 305 Moses Hall — 9 am	Second Annual West Coast Plato Workshop: Plato’s Euthydemus
Sat May 23, 2009 Howison Library, 305 Moses Hall — 1 pm	Second Annual West Coast Plato Workshop: Plato’s Euthydemus
Sat May 16, 2009 Faculty Glade/The Faculty Club — 11 am	Philosophy Department Commencement
Wed May 13, 2009 234 Moses Hall — 6 pm	Working Group in HPLMS David Malament (UC Irvine) How Space Can Be (and Is) Finite
Sat May 9, 2009 Howison Library	Berkeley-London Philosophy Conference
Fri May 8, 2009 Howison Library	Berkeley-London Philosophy Conference
Tue May 5, 2009 7205 Dwinelle — 5 pm	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley) TBA
Fri May 1, 2009 60 Evans — 4:10 pm	Logic Colloquium Itay Neeman (University of California, Los Angeles) Forcing with Ultrafilters
Wed Apr 29, 2009 Dennes Room, 234 Moses Hall — 12 pm	Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind Branden Fitelson (UC Berkeley) TBA
Fri Apr 24, 2009 5101 Tolman Hall — 11 am	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Ken Kendler (Virginia Commonwealth University) TBA
Thu Apr 23, 2009 Toll Room, Alumni House — 4:10 pm	Tanner Lectures on Human Values Jeremy Waldron (New York University) Seminar Discussion
Thu Apr 23, 2009 Dennes Room, 234 Moses — 12:30 pm	Working Group in the Philosophy of Mind Ken Kendler, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics (Virginia Commonwealth University) Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry
Wed Apr 22, 2009 Toll Room, Alumni House — 4:10 pm	Tanner Lectures on Human Values Jeremy Waldron (New York University) Law, Status, and Self Control