Event Archive

Fri Aug 26, 2016 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Martin Otto (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt) Back & Forth Between Malleable Finite Models
Fri Sep 2, 2016 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–1 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Beyond the mapping metaphor: the role of words in human cognition
Fri Sep 2, 2016 141 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Jennifer Morton (City College of New York) Can Education Undermine Representation
Fri Sep 9, 2016 141 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) The New Governance: Hierarchies, Markets, and Networks
Fri Sep 9, 2016 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, 1–3 PM	Professors John Searle & Loïc Waquant (UC Berkeley) Inaugural Event for The John Searle Center for Social Ontology
Fri Sep 9, 2016 Dwinelle 7205, 4–6 PM	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy David Blank (UCLA) What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba? Varro on the Kinship of Things and of Words
Fri Sep 9, 2016 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Sam Buss (UC San Diego) Frege Proofs, Extended Frege Proofs, and Total NP Search Problems
Fri Sep 16, 2016 141 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Clarissa Hayward (Washington University) Motivated Ignorance and Disruptive Politics
Mon Sep 19, 2016 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Robert Pippin (University of Chicago) Hegel on the Political Significance of Collective Self-Deceit
Tue Sep 20, 2016 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Robert Pippin (University of Chicago) Hegel on Life as a Logical Concept
Wed Sep 21, 2016 302 Moses, 3–5 PM	Townsend Visitor Robert Pippin Office Hours
Thu Sep 22, 2016 180 Tan Hall, 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Robert Pippin (University of Chicago) The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness
Fri Sep 23, 2016 141 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Sophia Moreau (University of Toronto) Equality and Discrimination
Fri Sep 23, 2016 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Robert Pippin (University of Chicago) Q&A Session
Fri Sep 23, 2016 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Andreas Blass (University of Michigan) TBA
Thu Sep 29, 2016 301 Moses, 12:30–2:30 PM	Work in Progress lunch
Thu Sep 29, 2016 301 Moses, 4–6 PM	Undergraduate reception/study break
Fri Sep 30, 2016 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–1 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Amanda Woodward (University of Chicago) TBA
Fri Sep 30, 2016 141 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Sarah Song (UC Berkeley) Why Does the State Have the Right to Control Immigration?
Wed Oct 5, 2016 308A Doe, 5–7 PM	Classics Colloquium Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago) The Platonic-Aristotelian Idea That Reason Should Rule the Psyche — and its Psychoanalytic Fate
Thu Oct 6, 2016 301 Moses, 12:30–2:30 PM	Work in Progress lunch
Fri Oct 7, 2016 141 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Susanna Siegel (Harvard University) The Epistemology of Social Normality
Fri Oct 7, 2016 60 Evans Hall, 4–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Dag Westerståhl (Stockholm University) A Carnapian approach to the meaning of logical constants: the case of modal logic
Thu Oct 13, 2016 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Susanna Siegel (Harvard University) Salience Norms
Fri Oct 14, 2016 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–1 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Rebecca Spencer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Developmental and aging-related changes in sleep’s role in cognition
Fri Oct 14, 2016 TBA, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Tim (Thomas M.) Scanlon (Harvard University) Rethinking Contractualism
Mon Oct 17, 2016 7205 Dwinelle Hall, 4–6 PM	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Robert Wardy (University of Cambridge) Do nothing ‘til you hear from me: “wu wei”
Tue Oct 18, 2016 225 Dwinelle, 6–8 PM	'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Alyssa Ney (UC Davis) Finding the World in the Wave-Function
Thu Oct 20, 2016 Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 4–6 PM	Galen Strawson (University of Texas, Austin) Panpsychic Physicalism
Fri Oct 21, 2016 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–1 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley) Deep Robotic Learning
Fri Oct 21, 2016 141 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Alex Voorhoeve (London School of Economics ) May a Government Mandate More Extensive Health Insurance Than Citizens Want?
Fri Oct 21, 2016 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Erich Grädel (RWTH Aachen University) Back and Forth Between Team Semantics, Games, and Tarski Semantics
Wed Oct 26, 2016 Dennes Room, 6–8 PM	Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen) Neuro-representationalism, neo-Kantianism and transcendental idealism
Thu Oct 27, 2016 301 Moses, 12:30–2:30 PM	Work in Progress lunch
Fri Oct 28, 2016 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–1 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Justin Wood (University of Southern California) Building newborn minds in virtual worlds
Fri Oct 28, 2016 141 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Richard Tuck (Harvard University) TBA
Wed Nov 2, 2016 234 Moses Hall, 6–8 PM	Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Bernhard Nickel (Harvard University) Predicativism and the Semantic Argument
Thu Nov 3, 2016 234 Moses Hall, 4:30–6:30 PM	Meaning Sciences Club David Plunkett (Dartmouth College) Metalinguistic Negotiation
Fri Nov 4, 2016 141 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Alex Kirshner (Duke University) Non-Ideal Democratic Authority–The Case of Undemocratic Elections
Fri Nov 4, 2016 TBA, 4–6 PM	Conference Conceptuality and Nonconceptuality in Buddhist Thought
Fri Nov 4, 2016 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Mai Gehrke (Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7) TBA
Sat Nov 5, 2016 TBA, 9–11 AM	Conference Conceptuality and Nonconceptuality in Buddhist Thought
Sun Nov 6, 2016 TBA, 9–11 AM	Conference Conceptuality and Nonconceptuality in Buddhist Thought
Thu Nov 10, 2016 301 Moses, 12:30–2:30 PM	Work in Progress lunch
Tue Nov 15, 2016 225 Dwinelle, 6–7:30 PM	'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Geoffrey Lee (UC Berkeley) Finding Meaning in a Disoriented World
Wed Nov 16, 2016 234 Moses Hall, 6–8 PM	Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki) Squeezing arguments and strong logics
Thu Nov 17, 2016 301 Moses, 12:30–2:30 PM	Work in Progress lunch
Fri Nov 18, 2016 141 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Niko Kolodny (UC Berkeley) TBA
Fri Nov 18, 2016 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM	Logic Colloquium Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz) TBA
Tue Nov 29, 2016 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Austin Andrews Transparency and Immediacy in Visual Experience
Wed Nov 30, 2016 Dennes Room, 6–7:30 PM	'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Bradford Skow (MIT) Are Shapes Intrinsic?
Thu Dec 1, 2016 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Bradford Skow (MIT) Levels of Reasons Why
Fri Dec 2, 2016 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–1 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Amitai Shenhav (Brown University) The costs of choice and the value of control
Fri Dec 2, 2016 132 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Kenneth A. Taylor (Stanford University) Species of Entitlement
Fri Dec 2, 2016 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Jeremiah Carey Akrasia and the Diversity of Motivation: A New Defense of Tripartition
Tue Dec 6, 2016 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Quinn Gibson Self-deception in and out of Illness: Are some subjects responsible for their delusions?
Wed Dec 7, 2016 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Justin Vlasits Aristotle on the Hunt for Essence
Thu Dec 8, 2016 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Jim Hutchinson Frege’s Philosophy of Language
Tue Dec 13, 2016 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Julian Jonker Directed Duties and Moral Repair
Wed Dec 14, 2016 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Richard Lawrence Who are the persons, and how many are the numbers?
Thu Dec 15, 2016 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Dylan Murray Do Intuitions (about Manipulation) Support Incompatibilism?
Tue Jan 24, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 6–7:30 PM	'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Umrao Sethi (UC Berkeley) Two Grounds for Sensible Qualities
Fri Jan 27, 2017 202 Barrows Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Jerry Gaus (The University of Arizona) Self-organizing Moral Systems: Beyond Social Contract Theory
Fri Jan 27, 2017 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5:10 PM	Logic Colloquium Ilijas Farah (York University) Model theory of operator algebras
Fri Feb 3, 2017 202 Barrows Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Kate A. Manne (Cornell University) TBA
Wed Feb 8, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 6–7:30 PM	Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Kevin T. Kelly and Konstantin Genin (Carnegie Mellon University) An Epistemic Justification of Ockham’s Razor in Statistical Inductive Inference
Thu Feb 9, 2017 Alumni House, 8:30–10 PM	Classics Colloquium M.M. McCabe (King's College London) Sather Lecture: No word in vain: Reading Plato’s dialogues (again)
Fri Feb 10, 2017 202 Barrows Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Marion Fourcade (UC Berkeley) The Fly and the Cookie: on the Moral Economy of 21st Century Capitalism
Fri Feb 10, 2017 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5:10 PM	Logic Colloquium Clifton Ealy (Western Illinois University) Residue field domination in real closed valued fields
Thu Feb 16, 2017 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Debra Satz (Stanford University) Problems with Privatization
Thu Feb 16, 2017 370 Dwinelle Hall, 6–7 PM	Classics Colloquium M.M. McCabe (King's College London) Sather Lecture: The wandering ‘we’
Tue Feb 21, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 6:30–8 PM	'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Jonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego) Ecumenicism, Comparability, and Color, Or: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
Wed Feb 22, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 6–7:30 PM	Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Sean Walsh (LPS, UC Irvine) Interpreting Categorical Grammar in Church’s Intensional Logic
Thu Feb 23, 2017 370 Dwinelle Hall, 6–7 PM	Classics Colloquium M.M. McCabe (King's College London) Sather Lecture: Parsing vision
Fri Feb 24, 2017 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–12:30 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Peter Godfrey-Smith (CUNY and University of Sydney) Subjectivity and Learning
Fri Feb 24, 2017 202 Barrows Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Jennifer A. Doudna (UC Berkeley) Genome Engineering: What It Is and How It Changes the Future
Fri Feb 24, 2017 Howison Library, 2–5 PM	Conference Conference in honor of Bert Dreyfus
Fri Feb 24, 2017 60 Evans Hall, 4–5:10 PM	Logic Colloquium Sean Walsh (LPS, UC Irvine) Realizability Semantics for Quantified Modal Logic
Fri Feb 24, 2017 Dwinelle 7205, 5–7 PM	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Tad Brennan (Cornell University ) The Immortality Argument in Republic X
Fri Feb 24, 2017 301 Moses, 5–7 PM	Reception for Bert Dreyfus
Thu Mar 2, 2017 370 Dwinelle Hall, 6–7 PM	Classics Colloquium M.M. McCabe (King's College London) Sather Lecture: Rereading Glaucon’s challenge: Plato’s distinctions in goodness
Fri Mar 3, 2017 202 Barrows Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Julia Nefsky (University of Toronto ) Consumer Choice and Collective Impact
Tue Mar 7, 2017 1–2 PM	WIP lunch
Wed Mar 8, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 10 AM–12 PM	Thorvald Gran (University of Oslo) How Speech Acting Organizes
Thu Mar 9, 2017 301 Moses, 4–6 PM	Undergraduate reception/ study break
Thu Mar 9, 2017 370 Dwinelle Hall, 6–7 PM	Classics Colloquium M.M. McCabe (King's College London) Sather Lecture: Plato’s lexicon of logos
Fri Mar 10, 2017 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–12:30 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Tim Brady (University of California, San Diego) The nature of visual working memory: objects, scenes, and the role of semantic knowledge
Fri Mar 10, 2017 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5:10 PM	Logic Colloquium Caroline Terry (University of Maryland, College Park) Structure and enumeration theorems for hereditary properties of ℒ-structures
Fri Mar 10, 2017 Dwinelle 7205, 5–7 PM	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Verity Harte (Yale University) Plato’s Butcher: Realism and Platonic Classification
Fri Mar 10, 2017 301 Moses Hall, 5–7 PM	'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Farid Masrour (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Relationalism About Spatial Experience
Sat Mar 11, 2017–Sun Mar 12, 2017 Howison Library, 9 AM–5:50 PM	Conference Perception and Probability Workshop
Wed Mar 15, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 10 AM–12 PM	Anna Hennessey (U.C. Berkeley) Social Ontology and the Transformation of Religious Objects During Birth as a Rite of Passage
Thu Mar 16, 2017 370 Dwinelle Hall, 6–7 PM	Classics Colloquium M.M. McCabe (King's College London) Sather Lecture: Giving and taking an account: Plato on the language of conversation
Fri Mar 17, 2017 4–7 PM	Conference Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus
Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:30 AM–6 PM	Conference Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus
Tue Mar 21, 2017 1–2 PM	WIP lunch
Wed Mar 22, 2017 470 Stephens Hall, 6–7:30 PM	Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Jeremy Gray (The Open University) Theory choice: Felix Klein and Galois theory
Fri Mar 24, 2017 The Howard Room, Faculty Club, 8:30 AM–2:30 PM	Conference Annual Pre-Spring Break Symposium: Language, Thought and Social Identity
Fri Mar 24, 2017 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–12:30 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University) Formats for Thinking
Fri Mar 24, 2017 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–12:30 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University) Formats for thinking
Fri Mar 24, 2017 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5:10 PM	Logic Colloquium Françoise Point (FNRS-FRS (UMons)) On expansions of (ℤ, +, 0)
Tue Apr 4, 2017 1–2 PM	WIP lunch
Tue Apr 4, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 6–7:30 PM	'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Peter Epstein (UC Berkeley) A Priori Concepts in Euclidean Proof
Wed Apr 5, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 10 AM–12 PM	Maria Katchaturian (UC Berkeley) Medieval Approaches to Language Translation
Fri Apr 7, 2017 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–12:30 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Felipe de Brigard (Duke University) Counterfactual thinking and comparative similarity
Mon Apr 10, 2017 4–5:20 PM	Alfred Tarski Lectures Lou van den Dries (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) TBA
Wed Apr 12, 2017 Toll Room, Alumni House, 5:10–7 PM	Howison Lectures in Philosophy Gisela Striker (Harvard University) Cicero’s De Officiis – Stoic Ethics for Non-Stoics
Thu Apr 13, 2017 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Jessica Moss (New York University) Is Plato’s Epistemology about Knowledge?
Fri Apr 14, 2017 202 Barrows Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Rainer Forst (Goethe Universität) The Justification of Basic Rights: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach
Fri Apr 14, 2017 234 Moses, 12:30–2 PM	Meaning Sciences Club Cian Dorr (New York University) Conditionals, Closeness, and Probability
Fri Apr 14, 2017 4–5:20 PM	Alfred Tarski Lectures Lou van den Dries (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) TBA
Mon Apr 17, 2017 7205 Dwinelle Hall, 5–7 PM	Classics Colloquium Allan Silverman (Ohio State University) Nous, the Demiurge, and the Good
Tue Apr 18, 2017 1–2 PM	WIP lunch
Tue Apr 18, 2017 Alumni House, 4–6 PM	Tanner Lectures on Human Values Seana Shiffrin (UCLA) Democratic Law
Tue Apr 18, 2017 234 Moses, 6–7:30 PM	'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Adam Bradley (UC Berkeley) Bodily Sensations and Sensible Qualities
Wed Apr 19, 2017 Toll Room, Alumni House, 4–6 PM	Tanner Lectures on Human Values Seana Shiffrin (UCLA) Common and Constitutional Law: A Democratic Legal Perspective
Thu Apr 20, 2017 Toll Room, Alumni House, 4–6 PM	Tanner Lectures on Human Values Seana Shiffrin (UCLA) Seminar and Discussion with the commentators
Fri Apr 21, 2017 5101 Tolman Hall, 11 AM–12:30 PM	Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Emily Martin (New York University) Objectivity and Trained Judgment: Toward an ethnography of experimental psychology
Fri Apr 21, 2017 202 Barrows Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Lea Ypi (London School of Economics) Legitimacy, dictatorship and utopia: a Marxist perspective on political obligation
Sat Apr 22, 2017 Howison Library, 10 AM–12 PM	Cal Day talks and panel discussion
Wed Apr 26, 2017 301 Moses Hall, 12–1 PM	Seth Yalcin Placement AMA
Thu Apr 27, 2017 Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall, 4–6 PM	Kadish Lecture Joshua Cohen Central Park: A Design for Democracy
Tue May 2, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 6–7:30 PM	'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Alex Kerr (UC Berkeley) Feeling the Beat
Wed May 3, 2017 Howison Library, 12–2 PM	New Crop Event Sally Haslanger (MIT) New Crop Seminar on “Culture and Critique”
Thu May 4, 2017 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	New Crop Event Sally Haslanger (MIT) New Crop Awards Ceremony
Fri May 5, 2017	Conference The 13th Annual Berkeley-London Philosophy Conference
Fri May 5, 2017 141 McCone Hall from 9 AM to 2 PM; 3 LeConte Hall from 2 PM to 5 PM, 9 AM–5:30 PM	Logic at UC Berkeley
Fri May 5, 2017 141 McCone Hall, 9–9:30 AM	Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley) A brief history of the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science (Logic at UC Berkeley conference)
Fri May 5, 2017 141 McCone Hall, 9:30–10:45 AM	John Steel (UC Berkeley) Absolutely ordinal definable sets (Logic at UC Berkeley conference)
Fri May 5, 2017 141 McCone Hall, 11 AM–12:15 PM	Ehud Hrushovski (Hebrew University, Oxford University) Reflections on model theory and foundations (Logic at UC Berkeley conference)
Fri May 5, 2017 3 LeConte Hall, 2:15–3:30 PM	Denis Hirschfelt (University of Chicago) Computability Theory (Logic at UC Berkeley conference)
Fri May 5, 2017 3 LeConte Hall, 3:45–5 PM	Michael Rathjen (Leeds University) On relating type theories to (intuitionistic) set theories (Logic at UC Berkeley conference)
Sat May 6, 2017	Conference The 13th Annual Berkeley-London Philosophy Conference
Sat May 6, 2017 105 North Gate Hall, 9:30 AM–5:30 PM	Logic at UC Berkeley
Sat May 6, 2017 105 North Gate Hall, 9:30–10:45 AM	Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University) Modularity of Mathematics (Logic at UC Berkeley conference)
Sat May 6, 2017 105 North Gate Hall, 11 AM–12:15 PM	Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) The Intertwining Influences of Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics in the Development of Formal Semantics and Pragmatics (Logic at UC Berkeley conference)
Sat May 6, 2017 105 North Gate Hall, 2:15–3:30 PM	Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam, Stanford, and Tsinghua) Modal logic, on the cusp of philosophy and mathematics (Logic at UC Berkeley conference)
Sat May 6, 2017 105 North Gate Hall, 3:45–5 PM	Ronald Fagin (IBM Almaden Research Center) Applying logic to practice in computer science (Logic at UC Berkeley conference)
Sat May 13, 2017 Faculty Glade, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Department Graduation