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Colloquium Series 2009–2010

Short biographies of the speakers

Unless otherwise indicated the talks take place on
Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in CME 343

Sep. 17:  Georg Theiner, University of Alberta: “Making sense of group cognition”

Sep. 24:  Katalin Bimbó, University of Alberta: “Hemi-distributivity and other weak distributivity principles”

Oct. 8:  Philip Buckley, McGill University: “Husserl on understanding other 'worlds'”

Oct. 22:  Ori Simchen, University of British Columbia: “Modal fact realism”

Friday Oct. 30:  Robyn Braun, University of Alberta: “Exploring the ethical limitations and potential of aesthetic experiences of food and eating in vegetarian cookbooks”

Nov. 5:  Ernest Sosa, Rutgers: “Armchair philosophy, with Moore and Wittgenstein”

Nov. 19:  Howard Nye, University of Alberta: “On what we all 'deep down' accept”

Nov. 26 at 12:30 pm:  Francis Remedios: “Fuller and Mirowski on the commercialization of scientific knowledge”. Exceptionally in Tory 2-58. In collaboration with the Program in Science, Technology and Society

Friday Nov. 27:  Noa Latham, University of Calgary: “Are fundamental laws necessary or contingent?”

Jan. 14:  Andrei Buleandra, University of Alberta: “Belief, truth, and prescriptivity”

Jan. 21:  Katalin Bimbó, University of Alberta: “Negation in the context of positive relevance logic”

Jan. 28:  Elizabeth Brake, University of Calgary: “'Minimal marriage': what political liberalism implies for marriage law”

Feb. 11:  Jennifer Welchman, University of Alberta: “Could Hume be the social progressive's moral theorist?”

Friday Feb. 26:  Mohan Matthen, University of Toronto: “The nature of sensory knowledge”

Mar. 4:  Christine Tappolet, Université de Montréal: “Personal autonomy, akrasia, and self-control”

Friday Mar. 12:  Rebecca Kukla, University of South Florida

Wednesday Mar. 17:  Emily Brady, University of Edinburgh. Exceptionally in NRE 1-003

Friday Mar. 26:  Allen Habib, University of Calgary

Apr. 8:  Adam Morton, University of Alberta: “Anguish, despair, acceptance” (Annual Public Lecture in Philosophy)

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