FALL
- 28 Sept
Charles Travis (King’s College, London)
“The Place of Visual Experience in Frege’s Philosophy of Mind”
5 Oct
Kristin Boyce (Chicago)
“Philosophy and Literature Reconsidered”
19 Oct
Ben McMyler (Chicago)
“Three Models of Epistemic Dependence”
26 Oct
Ed Witherspoon (Colgate)
“The Truth of Skepticism: Themes in Cavell and Wittgenstein”
2 Nov
Warren Goldfarb (Harvard)
“Wittgenstein against Logicism”
9 Nov, Friday
Tom Lockhart (Chicago)
“What Kind of a Foudationalist was Frege?”
16 Nov, Friday
Vincent Descombes (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
“ Paradigms of Necessity”
30 Nov, Friday
Zed Adams (Chicago)
“Ethical Objectivity”
WINTER
- 11 Jan, Friday
Nat Hansen (Chicago)
“Three Debunking Arguments”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 102
18 Jan, Friday
Thomas Land (Chicago)
“Kant’s Spontaneity Thesis”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 102
25 Jan, Friday
Matthias Haase (Basel Universitaet)
“Social Practices and the Metaphysics of Language”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 102
1 Feb, Friday
Nancy Bauer (Tufts)
“What is to be done with Austin?”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 102
7 Feb, Thursday
Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins)
“Pragmatism, Expressivism and Minimalism”
4:30-7:30, Room TBA
15 Feb, Friday
Peter Murray (Chicago)
“Philosophical Exorcisms, Second Nature and McDowell”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 102
22 Feb, Friday
Piergiorgio Donatelli (Universita’ La Sapienza di Roma)
“Concepts of Nature”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 102
29 Feb, Friday
Jon Ellis (UC Santa Cruz)
“Phenomenal Character and Philosophical Introspection”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 102
7 Mar, Friday
Gary Ebbs (Indiana)
“Carnap and Quine on Truth by Convention”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 102
14 Mar, Friday
Silver Bronzo (Chicago, Graduate Student)
“Context, Compositionality and Nonsense in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 102
19 Mar, Wednesday
Michael Luntley (Warwick, UK)
Title TBA
1:00-4:00, Room TBA
SPRING
- 3 April, Thursday
Alva Noe (Berkeley)
“Presence in Pictures”
4:30-7:30, Cobb 102
4 April, Friday
Aidan Gray (Chicago, graduate student)
“The Predicate View of Names”
1:30-3:30, Cobb 115
11 April, Friday
Hans Schneider
“Wittgenstein’s Conception of Ethics:
Absolute Value and the Ineffable”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 115
18 April, Friday
Julia Tanney (University of Kent)
“Conceptual Analysis, Theory Construction and
Conceptual Elucidation in the Philosophy of Mind”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 115
25 April, Friday
Sandra Laugier (University of Picardie Jules Verne)
“Wittgenstein, Cavell on the Importance of Importance”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 115
2 May, Friday
Jocelyn Benoist (Universite’ Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)
“Husserl and Wittgenstein on Intention and Fulfillment”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 115
9 May, Friday
Richard Strier (Chicago)
“On Cavell on Shakespeare”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 115
16 May, Friday
Jennifer Ryan Lockhart (Chicago, gradute student)
“Nonsense and Common Sense”
How to Read Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 115
[Ed Minar, originally scheduled for this date, will give his talk in the Fall]
23 May, Friday
Joshua Schwartz (Chciago, Graduate Student)
“The Nature of the Variable”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 115
[Thomas Ricketts, originally scheduled for this date, will give his talk in the Fall]
30 May, Friday
Reshef Agam-Segal (Oxford)
“Limits and Limitedness”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 115
6 June
Arata Hamawaki (Auburn)
“Scenes of Instruction in Wittgenstein and Cavell”
1:30-4:30, Cobb 115