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Philosophy Events at Cornell University

2006 - 2007

PLEASE NOTE:
Dates and times of talks are subject to change,
and titles will be announced as they become available.


September 2006

Friday, September 8, 4.30 pm, Goldwin Smith G22

Christopher Shields
Oxford University
Substance and Relative in Aristotle's Metaphysics

Friday, September 15, 4.30 pm, Goldwin Smith G22

Ishani Maitra
Syracuse University
Limits of Free Speech: Racist Hate Speech and the Question of Coverage

Friday, September 29, 4.30pm, Goldwin Smith G22

Ralph Wedgwood
Oxford University
Conceptual Analysis and the Causal Theory of Reference: Two Dead Ends in Moral Semantics


October 2006

Thursday, October 12, 8.00 pm, Goldwin Smith G22

Dominic Scott
Cambridge University
Poetic Inspiration in Plato's Symposium

Friday, October 13, 2:00 pm, Uris Hall 262

Seana Shiffrin
UCLA
Promising, Intimate Relationships and Conventionalism


November 2006

Friday, November 3, 4.30 pm, Goldwin Smith G22

David Christensen
University of Vermont
Does Murphy's Law Apply In Epistemology? Self-Doubt and Rational Ideals
Commentator: Nico Silins

Friday, November 17, 4.30pm, Goldwin Smith G22

Tim Bloser
Cornell University
TBA


March 2007

Friday, March 30, 4.30pm, Goldwin Smith, Room G22

Allen Wood
Stanford University
"Kant and the Right to Lie"


April 2007

Friday, April 13, 4.30pm, Goldwin Smith, Room G22

Nicholas Wolterstorff
Yale University
"Would You Stomp on a Picture of Your Mother?  Would You Kiss an Icon
? "

Wednesday, April 18, 4.30pm, Goldwin Smith, Room 124

Gabor Betegh
Cornell University
'The boy and the man and the less prominent sense of the priority of
actuality in substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta 8.

Friday, April 27, 4.30pm, room TBA

Samuel Scheffler
UC - Berkeley
"Morality and Reasonable Partiality"


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cu-philosophy@cornell.edu

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