Recent Events
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Sat May 18, 2019 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Department Graduation |
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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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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 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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Sat May 4, 2019 9 AM–5:30 PM |
Conference Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Conference |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thu Apr 25, 2019 315 Wheeler Hall, 5–7 PM |
Timothy Campbell (Cornell University) Ringrose Lecture: Tragic Power, Comic Self |
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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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Wed Apr 24, 2019 4 LeConte Hall, 4–5 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Thomas Hales (University of Pittsburgh) Formalizing mathematics |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thu Apr 4, 2019 Howison Library, 4 PM |
George Myro Memorial Lecture Karen Bennett (Rutgers University) Building and Causing Revisited |
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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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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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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 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 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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Thu Mar 7, 2019 370 Dwinelle Hall, 12–2 PM |
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Why Read Descartes’ Meditations? |
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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 Feb 28, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Luvell Anderson (Syracuse University) Diversifying Syllabi: Some Considerations |
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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 21, 2019 301 Moses, 4–6 PM |
Undergraduate Reception/Berkeley Connect Study Break |
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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 14, 2019 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) Moral Progress |
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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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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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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 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 Dec 13, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium James Walsh (UC Berkeley) Absolute Generality and Mathematical Freedom |
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Thu Dec 6, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Rachel Rudolph (UC Berkeley) Moral Language and Moral Metaphysics |
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Mon Dec 3, 2018 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Jackson Kernion (UC Berkeley) The Strange Experience Argument for Modest Conceptual Functionalism |
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Fri Nov 30, 2018 4:10–5:15 PM |
Ryan Williams (MIT, visiting UC Berkeley (Fall 2018)) Thinking Algorithmically About Impossibility |
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Thu Nov 29, 2018 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Adam Bradley (UC Berkeley) The Feeling of Bodily Ownership |
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Fri Nov 16, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Susan Brison (Dartmouth College) TBA |
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Thu Nov 15, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Erica Klempner (UC Berkeley) Aesthetic Belief, Firsthand Experience, and Uncancelable Conversational Implicature |
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Fri Nov 9, 2018 4:10–5:15 PM |
Logic Colloquium Mark Colyvan (University of Sydney) If 13 were not prime: Mathematics and counterpossibles |
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Fri Nov 9, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Tim Wu (Columbia Law School) TBA |
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Thu Nov 8, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh) Free Speech and the Embodied Self |
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Fri Nov 2, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Berkeley) TBA |
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Thu Nov 1, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Ian Phillips (University of Birmingham) What’s Wrong with Worldly Discrimination Theory? |
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Wed Oct 31, 2018 301 Moses, 12–1 PM |
Work in Progress Talk Mike Martin Embedded Information |
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Sat Oct 27, 2018–Sun Oct 28, 2018 Dwinelle 370 |
Conference California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics Conference (CUSP) |
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Fri Oct 26, 2018 4:10–5:15 PM |
Logic Colloquium Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki) On an extension of a theorem of Zermelo |
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Fri Oct 26, 2018 12–3 PM |
Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory |
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Thu Oct 25, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Learning from Psychopaths |
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Wed Oct 24, 2018 302 Moses, 3–5 PM |
Townsend Visitor Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Office Hours |
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Tue Oct 23, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Ideas of Identity and their Normative Status: Part Two |
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Mon Oct 22, 2018 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Townsend Visitor Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Ideas of Identity and their Normative Status: Part One |
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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”? |
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Fri Oct 19, 2018 141 Boalt Hall, 12–3 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Leslie Kendrick (University of Virginia) TBA |
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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 |