Philosophy at Berkeley
Department of Philosophy
314 Moses Hall #2390
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2390
Phone: 510-642-2722
Fax: 510-642-4164
phildept@berkeley.edu
News
John Perry to teach at Berkeley
The distinguished philosopher John Perry, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford, will be a Visiting Professor at Berkeley in Spring 2015. He will teach Philosophy 4 and a graduate seminar.
Alex Kerr wins New Directions Fellowship
Our first New Directions Fellow is Alex Kerr. Kerr will use the fellowship to take coursework in psychophysics and vision science, and will be mentored by cognitive scientist Stephen Palmer. He is hoping that his studies will help him explain why we intuitively treat shape inversion differently from color inversion, and whether we should.
Department featured in California Magazine article
Our undergraduate major has been featured in an article in the online edition of California Magazine: Philosophy’s Popularity Soars: Devotees Find It’s More Than ‘An Interesting Path to Poverty’.
Events this week
Mon Apr 21, 2014370 Dwinelle Hall — 3:10 pm |
Geoffrey Pullum (University of Edinburgh) Linguistics Department Colloquium: The Lexicography of Insult and the Philosophy of Slurs |
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 220 Stephens Hall — 5 pm |
Susan James (Birkbeck) Spinoza, the Body, and the Art of Living |
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Fri Apr 25, 2014 Toll Room, Alumni House — 4 pm |
Evan Thompson (University of British Columbia) Buddhism and Cognitive Science: How Can the Dialogue Move Forward? |