Event Archive

Wed Feb 20, 2019 301 Moses, 12–1 PM	Work in Progress Talk Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley) TBA
Thu Feb 21, 2019 301 Moses, 4–6 PM	Undergraduate Reception/Berkeley Connect Study Break
Wed Feb 27, 2019 234 Moses Hall, 6–7:30 PM	Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University) Superplurals, Groups, and Paradox
Thu Feb 28, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Luvell Anderson (Syracuse University) Diversifying Syllabi: Some Considerations
Wed Mar 6, 2019 470 Stephens, 6–7:30 PM	Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna) How Geometry Became Structural
Thu Mar 7, 2019 370 Dwinelle Hall, 12–2 PM	Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Why Read Descartes’ Meditations?
Thu Mar 7, 2019 140 Moot Court Room, Boalt Hall, 4–6 PM	Kadish Lecture Tommie Shelby (Harvard University) The Uses and Abuses of Incarceration: Dehumanization, Slavery, and Profit
Fri Mar 15, 2019 7205 Dwinelle, 5–7 PM	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Ben Morison (Princeton University) Practical and Theoretical Reasoning in Aristotle
Thu Mar 21, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers) Semantics for Language as a Public Object
Fri Mar 22, 2019 7205 Dwinelle, 5–7 PM	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College) Plato on Soul-Body Unity
Wed Apr 3, 2019 301 Moses, 12–1 PM	Work in Progress Talk Niko Kolodny (UC Berkeley) TBA
Thu Apr 4, 2019 Howison Library, 4 PM	George Myro Memorial Lecture Karen Bennett (Rutgers University) Building and Causing Revisited
Fri Apr 5, 2019–Sat Apr 6, 2019 201 Moses Hall, 9:30 AM–4:50 PM	Conference Wittgenstein in the 21st Century
Fri Apr 5, 2019 297 Simon Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University of London) Civil Liberty and Fundamental Rights: A Neo-Roman Approach
Mon Apr 8, 2019 Law School Room 141, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Susan James (Birkbeck University of London) Living in the Light of Our Knowledge: Spinoza on Fortitude
Tue Apr 9, 2019 Toll Room, Alumni House, 4:10–6:15 PM	Tanner Lectures on Human Values Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto) Rules for Wrongdoers
Wed Apr 10, 2019 Toll Room, Alumni House, 4:10–6:15 PM	Tanner Lectures on Human Values Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto) Combatants and Civilians
Thu Apr 11, 2019 Toll Room, Alumni House, 4:10–6:15 PM	Tanner Lectures on Human Values Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto) Seminar and Discussion with Commentators
Fri Apr 12, 2019 370 Dwinelle, 5–7 PM	Classics Colloquium Mark Schiefsky (Harvard University) Confronting Chance: Models of Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus
Mon Apr 15, 2019 202 Barrows Hall, 4:10 PM	Kadish Lecture Evan Fox-Decent (McGill University) Jurisprudential Reflections on Cosmopolitan Law
Tue Apr 16, 2019 7205 Dwinelle, 5–6:30 PM	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Fiona Leigh (University College London) Knowing Me, Knowing You: Self-Knowledge, Authority, and Dialogue in Early Plato
Fri Apr 19, 2019 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3:15 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Adom Getachew (University of Chicago) Rethinking International Responsibility
Fri Apr 19, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5:15 PM	Logic Colloquium Martin Davis (Courant Institute, NYU) Encounters with infinity
Mon Apr 22, 2019 4 LeConte Hall, 4–5 PM	Alfred Tarski Lectures Thomas Hales (University of Pittsburgh) A formal proof of the Kepler conjecture
Wed Apr 24, 2019 4 LeConte Hall, 4–5 PM	Alfred Tarski Lectures Thomas Hales (University of Pittsburgh) Formalizing mathematics
Thu Apr 25, 2019 301 Moses, 11:30 AM–12:30 PM	Work in Progress Talk Kristin Primus (UC Berkeley) TBA
Thu Apr 25, 2019 315 Wheeler Hall, 5–7 PM	Timothy Campbell (Cornell University) Ringrose Lecture: Tragic Power, Comic Self
Fri Apr 26, 2019 202 Barrows Hall, 12–3:15 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Jeanne Morefield (University of Birmingham) Global Justice and the Imperial ‘We’: Edward Said on Exilic Subjectivity
Fri Apr 26, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4–5 PM	Alfred Tarski Lectures Thomas Hales (University of Pittsburgh) Integrating with Logic
Wed May 1, 2019 Newton Room, 730 Sutardja Dai Hall, 4–5 PM	Center for Human-Compatible AI Interdisciplinary Insights Seminar Wes Holliday (UC Berkeley) New Barriers to Strategic Voting
Wed May 1, 2019 Dennes Room 234 Moses, 6–7:30 PM	Jamie Tappenden (University of Michigan) Frege, Carl Snell and Romanticism; Fruitful Concepts and the ‘Organic/Mechanical’ Distinction
Thu May 2, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Sarah Moss (University of Michigan) Full Belief and Loose Speech
Fri May 3, 2019 202 Barrows Hall, 12–3:15 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Evan Fox-Decent Jurisprudential Reflections on Cosmopolitan Law
Sat May 4, 2019 9 AM–5:30 PM	Conference Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Conference
Wed May 8, 2019 301 Moses, 12–1 PM	Work in Progress Talk Kirsten Pickering (UC Berkeley) The Epistemic Challenge Meets the Value Problem
Fri May 10, 2019–Sat May 11, 2019 Howison Library and 234 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley, 10:30 AM–5 PM	Conference Berkeley-London Graduate Conference 2019
Wed May 15, 2019 1229 Dwinelle Hall, 3–4:30 PM	Meaning Sciences Club Polly Jacobson (Brown University, Linguistics) Direct Compositionality and Variable Free Semantics: The Case of ‘MaxElide’
Sat May 18, 2019 4–6 PM	Philosophy Department Graduation
Fri Sep 6, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Brandon Terry (Harvard University)
Fri Sep 6, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Antonio Montalban (UC Berkeley) Transfinite Ramsey Theorem
Thu Sep 12, 2019 Howison Philosophy Library, 4–6 PM	George Myro Memorial Lecture Ned Hall (Harvard) Respectful Deflationism
Fri Sep 13, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia University)
Thu Sep 19, 2019 234 Moses Hall, 12:30–2 PM	Meaning Sciences Club Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford) Ad-nominal epistemic adverbs without hidden structure
Thu Sep 19, 2019 301 Moses Hall, 4–6 PM	Undergraduate Reception / Berkeley Connect Study Break
Thu Sep 19, 2019 Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, 7–9 PM	Sather Lecture Josiah Ober (Stanford) Lecture 1. Gyges’ Choice: Rationality and Visibility
Fri Sep 20, 2019 Toll Room, Alumni House, 10 AM–7 PM	Conference Buddhist Philosophy: The State of the Field
Fri Sep 20, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Julie Suk (CUNY Graduate Center)
Thu Sep 26, 2019 370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30–7:30 PM	Sather Lecture Josiah Ober (Stanford) Lecture 2. Glaucon’s Dilemma: Origins of Social Order
Fri Sep 27, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Paula Moya (Stanford)
Wed Oct 2, 2019 Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, 12–1 PM	Alva Noë (UC Berkeley) Berkeley Book Chat: Infinite Baseball
Thu Oct 3, 2019 370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30–7:30 PM	Sather Lecture Josiah Ober (Stanford) Lecture 3. Deioces’ Ultimatum: How to Choose a King
Fri Oct 4, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Kathryn Abrams (Berkeley)
Fri Oct 4, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Gabriel Goldberg (NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley) Comparison principles and very large cardinals
Thu Oct 10, 2019 370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30–7:30 PM	Sather Lecture Josiah Ober (Stanford) Lecture 4. Cleisthenes’ Wager: Democratic Rationality
Fri Oct 11, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Taeku Lee (Berkeley)
Thu Oct 17, 2019 370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30–7:30 PM	Sather Lecture Josiah Ober (Stanford) Lecture 5. Melos’ Prospects: Rational Domination
Fri Oct 18, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Rachel Kranton (Duke University)
Fri Oct 18, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Sebastian Eterovic (Visiting Assistant Prof. of Mathematics) Categoricity of Shimura Varieties
Mon Oct 21, 2019 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Mark Johnston (Princeton) The Manifest, Lecture 1: A Hundred or so Theses on Perception
Tue Oct 22, 2019 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Mark Johnston (Princeton) The Manifest, Lecture 2: A Plea for Expanses
Wed Oct 23, 2019 148 Moses, 2–4 PM	Townsend Visitor Mark Johnston (Princeton) Office Hours
Thu Oct 24, 2019 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Mark Johnston (Princeton) The Manifest, Lecture 3: Color, Pain and Hallucination Revisited
Thu Oct 24, 2019 370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30–7:30 PM	Sather Lecture Josiah Ober (Stanford) Lecture 6. Agamemnon’s Cluelessness: Reason and Eudaimonia
Fri Oct 25, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Francis Fukuyama
Fri Oct 25, 2019 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Mark Johnston (Princeton) Open Discussion
Thu Oct 31, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Russell Ahmed-Buehler (UC Berkeley) A Logical Account of Confirmation
Fri Nov 1, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia)
Thu Nov 7, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Agnes Callard (University of Chicago) Is there such a thing as being good or bad at philosophy?
Fri Nov 8, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Desmond Jagmohan (Berkeley)
Thu Nov 14, 2019 234 Moses Hall, 12:30–2 PM	Meaning Sciences Club Virginia Dawson (UC Berkeley) Disjunction is not Boolean: novel evidence from Tiwa
Thu Nov 14, 2019 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 5–7 PM	Matthew MacKenzie (Colorado State University) Dual-Aspect Reflexivism in Buddhist Philosophy of Mind
Fri Nov 15, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Lisa Garcia Bedolla
Fri Nov 15, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5:15 PM	Logic Colloquium Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M University) Realism in Mathematics: The Case of the Hyperreals (joint work with Henry Towsner)
Thu Nov 21, 2019 Alumni Room, Toll House, 4:10–6 PM	Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul Jane Taylor (University of the Western Cape) On Uncertainty: Wittgenstein: Habits of Thought and Thoughts of Habit
Fri Nov 22, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Will Kymlicka (Queen's University)
Thu Dec 5, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Alex Kerr (UC Berkeley) Feeling a beat
Fri Dec 6, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5 PM	Logic Colloquium Dana Bartosova (University of Florida) Questions about phase spaces of minimal Boolean flows
Thu Dec 12, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Omar Fakhri (UC Berkeley) Past Moral Disagreement
Thu Jan 23, 2020 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Daniela Dover The Conversational Self
Fri Jan 24, 2020 12:15–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Gina Schouten (Harvard Philosophy)
Thu Jan 30, 2020 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Jacob Rosen Reading Aristotle on the Infinite
Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:15–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law)
Fri Jan 31, 2020 7205 Dwinelle Hall, 4–6 PM	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Wolfgang-Rainer Mann (Columbia University) On First Principles in the Timaeus and Metaphysics Lambda
Mon Feb 3, 2020 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Zina Ward Explaining Individual Differences
Thu Feb 6, 2020 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Johann Frick Dilemmas, Luck, and the Two Faces of Morality
Fri Feb 7, 2020 12:15–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Aziz Rana (Cornell Law)
Fri Feb 7, 2020 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Erik Walsberg (UC Irvine) First order expansions of (R,<,+)
Mon Feb 10, 2020 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4:10–6:10 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Jed Lewinsohn Terms of Service: Two Conceptions of Exchange
Thu Feb 13, 2020 4–6 PM	Kadish Lecture Anthony Duff
Thu Feb 13, 2020 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Tamar Lando The Content of Indexical Belief
Fri Feb 14, 2020 12:15–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Isabelle Ferreras (Harvard Labor & Worklife Program)