Event Archive

Fri Aug 31, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Seana Shiffrin (UCLA) TBA
Fri Aug 31, 2018 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5:15 PM	Logic Colloquium Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley) Neologicist Foundations: Inconsistent Abstraction Principles and Part-Whole
Fri Sep 7, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Jennifer Rothman (Loyola Law School) “The Black Hole of the First Amendment,” an excerpt from “The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World”
Fri Sep 14, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Henry Brady (UC Berkeley) TBA
Fri Sep 14, 2018 4:10–5:15 PM	Logic Colloquium Thomas Scanlon (UC Berkeley) Elimination and consistency checking for difference equations (even though the theory is undecidable!)
Fri Sep 21, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–2 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Heather Whitney, Esq. (NYU) TBA
Thu Sep 27, 2018 301 Moses, 4–6 PM	Undergraduate Reception/Berkeley Connect Study Break
Fri Sep 28, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Ilya Somin (George Mason University) TBA
Fri Sep 28, 2018 4:10–5:15 PM	Logic Colloquium Pierre Simon (UC Berkeley) On geometric homogeneous structures
Fri Oct 5, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Robert Post (Yale University) “Right to be Forgotten”
Thu Oct 11, 2018 Great Hall, Bancroft Hotel, 4–5:45 PM	Howison Lectures in Philosophy Joseph Raz (Columbia University) Identity and Social Bonds
Fri Oct 12, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Sigal Ben-Porath (University of Pennsylvania) TBA
Fri Oct 12, 2018 4:10–5:15 PM	Logic Colloquium Pavel Pudlak (Czech Academy of Sciences) Combinatorial principles from proof complexity
Tue Oct 16, 2018 301 Moses, 12:30–1:30 PM	Work in Progress Talk John Campbell (UC Berkeley) Making It the Hard Way
Wed Oct 17, 2018 234 Moses Hall, 6:10–7:30 PM	Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland, College Park) Strategic reasoning: From beliefs about mistakes to mistaken beliefs
Fri Oct 19, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Leslie Kendrick (University of Virginia) TBA
Fri Oct 19, 2018 1229 Dwinelle, Linguistics Seminar Room, Floor A, 5–7 PM	Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Kirk R. Sanders (University of Illinois) Why was Socrates charged with “introducing religious innovations”?
Mon Oct 22, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Ideas of Identity and their Normative Status: Part One
Tue Oct 23, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Ideas of Identity and their Normative Status: Part Two
Wed Oct 24, 2018 302 Moses, 3–5 PM	Townsend Visitor Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Office Hours
Thu Oct 25, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Townsend Visitor Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Learning from Psychopaths
Fri Oct 26, 2018 12–3 PM	Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Fri Oct 26, 2018 4:10–5:15 PM	Logic Colloquium Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki) On an extension of a theorem of Zermelo
Sat Oct 27, 2018–Sun Oct 28, 2018 Dwinelle 370	Conference California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics Conference (CUSP)
Wed Oct 31, 2018 301 Moses, 12–1 PM	Work in Progress Talk Mike Martin Embedded Information
Thu Nov 1, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Ian Phillips (University of Birmingham) What’s Wrong with Worldly Discrimination Theory?
Fri Nov 2, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Berkeley) TBA
Thu Nov 8, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh) Free Speech and the Embodied Self
Fri Nov 9, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Tim Wu (Columbia Law School) TBA
Fri Nov 9, 2018 4:10–5:15 PM	Logic Colloquium Mark Colyvan (University of Sydney) If 13 were not prime: Mathematics and counterpossibles
Thu Nov 15, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Erica Klempner (UC Berkeley) Aesthetic Belief, Firsthand Experience, and Uncancelable Conversational Implicature
Fri Nov 16, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM	Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Susan Brison (Dartmouth College) TBA
Thu Nov 29, 2018 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Adam Bradley (UC Berkeley) The Feeling of Bodily Ownership
Fri Nov 30, 2018 4:10–5:15 PM	Ryan Williams (MIT, visiting UC Berkeley (Fall 2018)) Thinking Algorithmically About Impossibility
Mon Dec 3, 2018 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Jackson Kernion (UC Berkeley) The Strange Experience Argument for Modest Conceptual Functionalism
Thu Dec 6, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium Rachel Rudolph (UC Berkeley) Moral Language and Moral Metaphysics
Thu Dec 13, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Graduate Research Colloquium James Walsh (UC Berkeley) Absolute Generality and Mathematical Freedom
Fri Jan 25, 2019 60 Evans, 4:10–5:15 PM	Logic Colloquium Theodore A. Slaman (UC Berkeley) Algorithmic and Metric Aspects of Randomness and Approximation
Thu Feb 7, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Clinton Tolley (UCSD) Idealism, Utopia, and Technology: Rethinking the Completion of Kant’s Critical System
Fri Feb 8, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5:15 PM	Logic Colloquium Szymon Toruńczyk (University of Warsaw) Some applications of model theory in computer science
Wed Feb 13, 2019 Alumni House, 4–6 PM	Howison Lectures in Philosophy Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts
Thu Feb 14, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM	Philosophy Colloquium Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) Moral Progress
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