September 7, 2012 at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145) September 14, 2012 at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145) September 25, 2012 (Tuesday) at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145) January 14, 2013 at 2:30 pm (Middlesex College, Room 204) January 17, 2013 at 3:00 pm (Middlesex College, Room 204) January 24, 2013 at 3:30 pm (Middlesex College 204) January 25, 2013 at 2:30 pm (Stevenson Hall 1145) January 28, 2013 (time and place TBA) January 29, 2013 at 2:30 pm (Stevenson Hall 1145) March 8, 2013 at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall 1145) March 22, 2013 at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall 1145) April 12, 2013 at 3:30 p.m. (Stevenson Hall 1145) Department of Philosophy
Colloquium Series 2012-2013
Fall Term
Carla Fehr
University of Waterloo
"Implicit Bias, Ignormance and the Effectiveness of Epistemic Communities"
Helen Fielding, Chair, Women's Studies and Feminist Research
and Department of Philosophy
Western University
"A Phenomenological Approach to Dwelling and Public Art"
Genoveva Marti
University of Barcelona
"Semantic Theory and Empirical Data"
September 26, 2012 (Wednesday) at 3:30 pm (Thames Hall, Rm. 3102)
F. Wunderlich
University of Mainz
"Hume's Dissolution of the Mind-Body Problem"
September 28, 2012 at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Dennis Klimchuk
Western University
"Equity and the Rule of Law"
October 18, 2012 (Thursday) at 3:30pm (Somerville House, Rm. 2316)
Calvin Normore
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Ockham, Time and Modality"
October 19, 2012 at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Marcia Baron
University of Indiana
"Reasonableness"
October 26, 2012 at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Malcolm Thorburn
Queen's University
"How Does the Rule of Law Ideal Constrain Our Conception of the State's Role in Criminal Justice"
November 9, 2012 at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Michelle Mason
University of Minnesota
"Cultivating Virtues, Conferring Benefits"
November 16, 2012 at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Janet Fodor
City University of New York
"A Minimalist psycholinguistics? Resolving the mis-fit between grammars and parsers"
November 23, 2012 at 3:30 pm (Stevenson Hall, Rm. 1145)
Karolina Huebner
University of Toronto
"Spinoza on Reason and Human Nature"Winter Term
Owen Maroney
Oxford University
"Limitations on the psi-epistemic account of quantum states"
January 15, 2013 at 2:30 pm (Stevenson Hall, Room 1145)
"What is the Physics of Information"
Edward Wilson-Ewing
Centre de Physique Theoretique de Luminy, Aix-Marseille Universite
"Perturbation in Loop Quantum Cosmology"
January 18, 2013 at 2:30 pm (Stevenson Hall 1145)
"From a Discrete Geometry of Space-Time to a Bouncing Universe"
Ward Struyve
"Towards a Novel Approach to semi-classical gravity"
Ward Struyve
"Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism: Lifting the veil of gauge"
Nazim Bouatta
University of Cambridge
"High Spin Gauge Theories and Interactions"
Nazim Bouatta
University of Cambridge
"Emergence and Reduction in Physics"
Jessica Gordon-Roth
"A New Substance Reading of Locke on Persons"
Mary A. Domski
University of New Mexico
"Newton's Mathematics and Empiricism"
Carl Craver
Washington University in St. Louis
"Are Amnesics Stuck in Time"
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