Event Archive
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Thu Dec 13, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium James Walsh (UC Berkeley) Absolute Generality and Mathematical Freedom |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Thu Feb 14, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) Moral Progress |
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Wed Feb 20, 2019 301 Moses, 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley) TBA |
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Thu Feb 21, 2019 301 Moses, 4–6 PM |
Undergraduate Reception/Berkeley Connect Study Break |
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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 |
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Thu Feb 28, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Luvell Anderson (Syracuse University) Diversifying Syllabi: Some Considerations |
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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 |
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Thu Mar 7, 2019 370 Dwinelle Hall, 12–2 PM |
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Why Read Descartes’ Meditations? |
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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 |
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Fri Mar 15, 2019 7205 Dwinelle, 5–7 PM |
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Ben Morison (Princeton University) Practical and Theoretical Reasoning in Aristotle |
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Thu Mar 21, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers) Semantics for Language as a Public Object |
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Fri Mar 22, 2019 7205 Dwinelle, 5–7 PM |
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College) Plato on Soul-Body Unity |
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Wed Apr 3, 2019 301 Moses, 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Niko Kolodny (UC Berkeley) TBA |
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Thu Apr 4, 2019 Howison Library, 4 PM |
George Myro Memorial Lecture Karen Bennett (Rutgers University) Building and Causing Revisited |
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Fri Apr 5, 2019–Sat Apr 6, 2019 201 Moses Hall, 9:30 AM–4:50 PM |
Conference Wittgenstein in the 21st Century |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Fri Apr 12, 2019 370 Dwinelle, 5–7 PM |
Classics Colloquium Mark Schiefsky (Harvard University) Confronting Chance: Models of Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus |
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Mon Apr 15, 2019 202 Barrows Hall, 4:10 PM |
Kadish Lecture Evan Fox-Decent (McGill University) Jurisprudential Reflections on Cosmopolitan Law |
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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 |
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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 |
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Fri Apr 19, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5:15 PM |
Logic Colloquium Martin Davis (Courant Institute, NYU) Encounters with infinity |
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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 |
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Wed Apr 24, 2019 4 LeConte Hall, 4–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Thomas Hales (University of Pittsburgh) Formalizing mathematics |
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Thu Apr 25, 2019 301 Moses, 11:30 AM–12:30 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Kristin Primus (UC Berkeley) TBA |
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Thu Apr 25, 2019 315 Wheeler Hall, 5–7 PM |
Timothy Campbell (Cornell University) Ringrose Lecture: Tragic Power, Comic Self |
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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 |
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Fri Apr 26, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Thomas Hales (University of Pittsburgh) Integrating with Logic |
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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 |
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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 |
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Thu May 2, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Sarah Moss (University of Michigan) Full Belief and Loose Speech |
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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 |
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Sat May 4, 2019 9 AM–5:30 PM |
Conference Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Conference |
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Wed May 8, 2019 301 Moses, 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Kirsten Pickering (UC Berkeley) The Epistemic Challenge Meets the Value Problem |
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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 |
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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’ |
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Sat May 18, 2019 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Department Graduation |
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Fri Sep 6, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Brandon Terry (Harvard University) |
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Fri Sep 6, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Antonio Montalban (UC Berkeley) Transfinite Ramsey Theorem |
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Thu Sep 12, 2019 Howison Philosophy Library, 4–6 PM |
George Myro Memorial Lecture Ned Hall (Harvard) Respectful Deflationism |
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Fri Sep 13, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia University) |
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Thu Sep 19, 2019 234 Moses Hall, 12:30–2 PM |
Meaning Sciences Club Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford) Ad-nominal epistemic adverbs without hidden structure |
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Thu Sep 19, 2019 301 Moses Hall, 4–6 PM |
Undergraduate Reception / Berkeley Connect Study Break |
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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 |
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Fri Sep 20, 2019 Toll Room, Alumni House, 10 AM–7 PM |
Conference Buddhist Philosophy: The State of the Field |
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Fri Sep 20, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Julie Suk (CUNY Graduate Center) |
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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 |
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Fri Sep 27, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Paula Moya (Stanford) |
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Wed Oct 2, 2019 Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, 12–1 PM |
Alva Noë (UC Berkeley) Berkeley Book Chat: Infinite Baseball |
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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 |
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Fri Oct 4, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Kathryn Abrams (Berkeley) |
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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 |
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Thu Oct 10, 2019 370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30–7:30 PM |
Sather Lecture Josiah Ober (Stanford) Lecture 4. Cleisthenes’ Wager: Democratic Rationality |
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Fri Oct 11, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Taeku Lee (Berkeley) |
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Thu Oct 17, 2019 370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30–7:30 PM |
Sather Lecture Josiah Ober (Stanford) Lecture 5. Melos’ Prospects: Rational Domination |
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Fri Oct 18, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Rachel Kranton (Duke University) |
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Fri Oct 18, 2019 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–6 PM |
Logic Colloquium Sebastian Eterovic (Visiting Assistant Prof. of Mathematics) Categoricity of Shimura Varieties |
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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 |
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Tue Oct 22, 2019 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Mark Johnston (Princeton) The Manifest, Lecture 2: A Plea for Expanses |
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Wed Oct 23, 2019 148 Moses, 2–4 PM |
Townsend Visitor Mark Johnston (Princeton) Office Hours |
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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 |
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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 |
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Fri Oct 25, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Francis Fukuyama |
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Fri Oct 25, 2019 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Mark Johnston (Princeton) Open Discussion |
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Thu Oct 31, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Russell Ahmed-Buehler (UC Berkeley) A Logical Account of Confirmation |
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Fri Nov 1, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia) |
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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? |
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Fri Nov 8, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Desmond Jagmohan (Berkeley) |
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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 |
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Thu Nov 14, 2019 Howison Library, Moses Hall, 5–7 PM |
Matthew MacKenzie (Colorado State University) Dual-Aspect Reflexivism in Buddhist Philosophy of Mind |
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Fri Nov 15, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Lisa Garcia Bedolla |
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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) |
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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 |
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Fri Nov 22, 2019 141 Boalt, 12–2 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Will Kymlicka (Queen's University) |
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Thu Dec 5, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Alex Kerr (UC Berkeley) Feeling a beat |
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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 |