Recent Events
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Fri May 26, 2017–Sat May 27, 2017 Howison LIbrary, 9:15 AM–5:15 PM |
Conference Grounding Sensible Qualities |
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Wed May 24, 2017 Alumni House, 1:30–3:30 PM |
Memorial event for Hubert Dreyfus |
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Sat May 13, 2017 Faculty Glade, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Department Graduation |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Sat May 6, 2017 105 North Gate Hall, 9:30 AM–5:30 PM |
Logic at UC Berkeley |
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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) |
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Sat May 6, 2017 |
Conference The 13th Annual Berkeley-London Philosophy Conference |
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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) |
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Fri May 5, 2017 3 LeConte Hall, 2:15–3:30 PM |
Denis Hirschfelt (University of Chicago) Computability Theory (Logic at UC Berkeley conference) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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Fri May 5, 2017 |
Conference The 13th Annual Berkeley-London Philosophy Conference |
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Thu May 4, 2017 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
New Crop Event Sally Haslanger (MIT) New Crop Awards Ceremony |
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Wed May 3, 2017 Howison Library, 12–2 PM |
New Crop Event Sally Haslanger (MIT) New Crop Seminar on “Culture and Critique” |
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Tue May 2, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 6–7:30 PM |
'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Alex Kerr (UC Berkeley) Feeling the Beat |
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Thu Apr 27, 2017 Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall, 4–6 PM |
Kadish Lecture Joshua Cohen Central Park: A Design for Democracy |
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Wed Apr 26, 2017 301 Moses Hall, 12–1 PM |
Seth Yalcin Placement AMA |
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Sat Apr 22, 2017 Howison Library, 10 AM–12 PM |
Cal Day talks and panel discussion |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Tue Apr 18, 2017 234 Moses, 6–7:30 PM |
'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Adam Bradley (UC Berkeley) Bodily Sensations and Sensible Qualities |
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Tue Apr 18, 2017 Alumni House, 4–6 PM |
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Seana Shiffrin (UCLA) Democratic Law |
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Tue Apr 18, 2017 1–2 PM |
WIP lunch |
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Mon Apr 17, 2017 7205 Dwinelle Hall, 5–7 PM |
Classics Colloquium Allan Silverman (Ohio State University) Nous, the Demiurge, and the Good |
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Fri Apr 14, 2017 4–5:20 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Lou van den Dries (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) TBA |
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Fri Apr 14, 2017 234 Moses, 12:30–2 PM |
Meaning Sciences Club Cian Dorr (New York University) Conditionals, Closeness, and Probability |
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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 |
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Thu Apr 13, 2017 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Jessica Moss (New York University) Is Plato’s Epistemology about Knowledge? |
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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 |
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Mon Apr 10, 2017 4–5:20 PM |
Alfred Tarski Lectures Lou van den Dries (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) TBA |
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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 |
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Wed Apr 5, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 10 AM–12 PM |
Maria Katchaturian (UC Berkeley) Medieval Approaches to Language Translation |
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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 |
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Tue Apr 4, 2017 1–2 PM |
WIP lunch |
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Fri Mar 24, 2017 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Françoise Point (FNRS-FRS (UMons)) On expansions of (ℤ, +, 0) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Tue Mar 21, 2017 1–2 PM |
WIP lunch |
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Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:30 AM–6 PM |
Conference Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus |
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Fri Mar 17, 2017 4–7 PM |
Conference Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sat Mar 11, 2017–Sun Mar 12, 2017 Howison Library, 9 AM–5:50 PM |
Conference Perception and Probability Workshop |
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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 |
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Fri Mar 10, 2017 301 Moses Hall, 5–7 PM |
'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Farid Masrour (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Relationalism About Spatial Experience |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Thu Mar 9, 2017 301 Moses, 4–6 PM |
Undergraduate reception/ study break |
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Wed Mar 8, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 10 AM–12 PM |
Thorvald Gran (University of Oslo) How Speech Acting Organizes |
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Tue Mar 7, 2017 1–2 PM |
WIP lunch |
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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 |
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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 |
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Fri Feb 24, 2017 Dwinelle 7205, 5–7 PM |
Working Group in Ancient Philosophy Tad Brennan (Cornell University ) The Immortality Argument in Republic X |
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Fri Feb 24, 2017 301 Moses, 5–7 PM |
Reception for Bert Dreyfus |
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Fri Feb 24, 2017 60 Evans Hall, 4–5:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Sean Walsh (LPS, UC Irvine) Realizability Semantics for Quantified Modal Logic |
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Fri Feb 24, 2017 Howison Library, 2–5 PM |
Conference Conference in honor of Bert Dreyfus |
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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 |
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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 |
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Thu Feb 23, 2017 370 Dwinelle Hall, 6–7 PM |
Classics Colloquium M.M. McCabe (King's College London) Sather Lecture: Parsing vision |
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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 |
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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 |
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Thu Feb 16, 2017 370 Dwinelle Hall, 6–7 PM |
Classics Colloquium M.M. McCabe (King's College London) Sather Lecture: The wandering ‘we’ |
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Thu Feb 16, 2017 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Debra Satz (Stanford University) Problems with Privatization |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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Fri Feb 3, 2017 202 Barrows Hall, 12–3 PM |
Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory Kate A. Manne (Cornell University) TBA |
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Fri Jan 27, 2017 60 Evans Hall, 4:10–5:10 PM |
Logic Colloquium Ilijas Farah (York University) Model theory of operator algebras |
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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 |
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Tue Jan 24, 2017 234 Moses Hall, 6–7:30 PM |
'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Umrao Sethi (UC Berkeley) Two Grounds for Sensible Qualities |
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Thu Dec 15, 2016 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Dylan Murray Do Intuitions (about Manipulation) Support Incompatibilism? |
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Wed Dec 14, 2016 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Richard Lawrence Who are the persons, and how many are the numbers? |
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Tue Dec 13, 2016 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Julian Jonker Directed Duties and Moral Repair |
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Thu Dec 8, 2016 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Jim Hutchinson Frege’s Philosophy of Language |
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Wed Dec 7, 2016 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Justin Vlasits Aristotle on the Hunt for Essence |
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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? |
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Fri Dec 2, 2016 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Jeremiah Carey Akrasia and the Diversity of Motivation: A New Defense of Tripartition |
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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 |
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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 |
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Thu Dec 1, 2016 Howison Library, 4–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Bradford Skow (MIT) Levels of Reasons Why |
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Wed Nov 30, 2016 Dennes Room, 6–7:30 PM |
'Grounding Sensible Qualities' Workshop Bradford Skow (MIT) Are Shapes Intrinsic? |
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Tue Nov 29, 2016 4–6 PM |
Graduate Research Colloquium Austin Andrews Transparency and Immediacy in Visual Experience |