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S P E A K E R S
2006-2007

August 25
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 
Tamar Schapiro "Kantian Rigorism and
Mitigating Circumstances."

September 20 Fetzer 109 7:30 p.m.

The Challenge of Ethics in Sports Panel discussion with Joe Ehrmann, William Friday, Richard Baddour, Rosalind Fuse-Hall, Kathleen K. Smith, Jan Boxill
September 25
Caldwell 213
1:00 p.m.
 
John Broome "Ought"
September 29- October 1
Hyde Hall
Philosophy, Film, and Fiction Workshop Lead workshop participants include Macalester Bell, Larry Blum, Maria DiBattista, Frances Ferguson, Chris Grau, Nick Halpern, Rae Langton, Doug MacLean, Toril Moi, Dick Moran, Fred Neuhouser, David Paletz, Gilberto Perez, David Reeve, Judy Smith, George Toles, George Wilson and Susan Wolf
October 6-
October 8
Chapel Hill Colloquium lead papers by 
Hilary Putnam, Patricia Kitcher, Amelie Rorty, Daniel C. Dennett, Barry Loewer
October 13
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 
Thomas Hofweber "Abandoning the Ideal of Deductive Logic"
October 27
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 
Andy Egan
"Why Ethics is All About Me"
October 31
Caldwell 213
3:30 p.m.
 
Alan Hajek "Philosophical Heuristics: Displaying pieces of the philosopher's toolkit for fun and profit"
November 3
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 
Mitchell Green "How Do Speech Acts Express Psychological States?"
November 3-5
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 
Expression Workshop Lead papers by Mitchell Green, John Kulvicki, Colin Allen, Grant Goodrich, Andrew McAnich, Dorit Bar-On and Simon Blackburn
November 10
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 

Ken Brown

"Strict compositionalism in Locke's Theory of Ideas" 
November 13
Caldwell 213
1:00 p.m.
 

Jesse Prinz

"Sentimental Values" 
November 17
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 

Peter Hanks

"The Varieties of Content"
December 1
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 

Lynne Rudder Baker

"A Metaphysics of Ordinary Things, and Why We Need It" 
January 12
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 

Karen Bennett

"Why I am Not a Dualist" 
January 19
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 

Tad Brennan

"The Spirited Part of the Soul and its Object" 
January 22
Student Union
7:30 p.m.
 

Ethics of Stem Cell Research

The Parr Center for Ethics, StemGroup, and Student Congress will sponsor a two-hour Public Discussion on the ethics of embryonic stem cell research.  
January 26
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 

Pamela Hieronymi

"Two Kinds of Agency

February 16 Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.

Maggie Little

"Deontic Pluralism: Morality from the Inside (and) Out" 
February 20-21
Murphy 116
7:30 p.m.

Daniel Gilbert

"Stumbing on Happiness" 

February 23 Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.

David Estlund

"Democractic Authority: A Philosophical Framework" 

February 26 Caldwell 213
1:00 p.m.

Ryan Preston

"Civic Trust and the Problem of Self-Defense" 

March 2-3
Caldwell Hall
.

Workshop on Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning

Lead papers by Christopher Hitchcock, L.A. Paul, Jonathan Schaffer and Mathias Frisch
March 9-12
Hyde Hall
Philosophy, Film, and Fiction Workshop
Lead workshop participants include Macalester Bell, Larry Blum, Maria DiBattista, Frances Ferguson, Chris Grau, Nick Halpern, Rae Langton, Doug MacLean, Toril Moi, Dick Moran, Fred Neuhouser, David Paletz, Gilberto Perez, David Reeve, Judy Smith, George Toles, George Wilson and Susan Wolf
March 19
Caldwell 213
1:00 p.m.

Marc Lange

"Laws and Meta-laws of Nature" 
March 20
Carroll Hall 111
7:30 p.m.

Fatou Bensouda

"International Criminal Court" 
March 22
Peabody 203
1:00 p.m.
 
John Bickle "An Alternative to Intertheoretic and Functional Reduction"
March 23
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 
Sally Haslanger "But Mom, crop-tops are cute! Social Knowledge, Social Structure, and Ideology Critique" 
March 28
New West 219
1:00 p.m.
 
Kurt Smith "Divisibility and Cartesian Extension" 
April 9
Caldwell 213
1:00 p.m.
 
Michael Ruse "Is Darwinism an Exhausted Paradigm?" 
April 10
Hanes Art Center
7:00 p.m.
 
Michael Ruse "The Evolution-Creation Controversy: A Very American Story" 
April 13-15
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 
Bargaining and Justice Lead papers by J. McKenzie Alexander, Cristina Bicchieri, Ken Binmore, Brian Skyrms, Paul Weirich
April 27
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 
Marga Reimer "Jonah Cases: What they reveal about the nature of reference" 
May 3
Caldwell 213
1:00 p.m.
 
Sukjae Lee "Substantial Independence: Leibniz's Criticism of Occasionalism as Spinozism" 

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