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38TH CHAPEL HILL COLLOQUIUM IN PHILOSOPHY  

O c t o b e r   1 - 3,   2 0 0 4

Program

Friday, October 1


6-7:30 pm

Registration

 

7:30 pm

Category Troubles: Some Relief for Feminist Theory

Marilyn Frye
Michigan State University

Commentator:

Marion Smiley
Brandeis University

Moderator:

Georgia Warnke
University of California, Riverside

 

9:30 pm

Social Hour

 

Saturday, October 2


9:30 am

Spinoza and the Metaphysics of Skepticism

Michael Della Rocca
Yale University

Commentator:

Edwin Curley
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Moderator:

Alan Nelson
University of California, Irvine

 

2:00 pm

Non-Catastrophic Presupposition Failure

Stephen Yablo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Commentator:
Anne Bezuidenhout
University of South Carolina

Moderator:

Alfred MacKay
Oberlin College

6:30 pm

"Only in the Presence of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living," Plato, Symposium 211d

Alexander Nehamas
Princeton University

Moderator:

Michael Ferejohn
Duke University

 

8:00 pm

Dinner and Party

 

Sunday, October 3


10:00 am

 

Mathematical Existence

Penelope Maddy
University of California, Irvine

Commentator:

John Burgess
Princeton University

Moderator:

John Carroll
North Carolina State University

 

 

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Ms. Claire Miller 
Department of Philosophy 
CB 3125 Caldwell Hall
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125

 

The Department of Philosophy is very grateful to Mrs. Charles Boyd, Philosophy, Inc. and the Office of the Provost for their financial assistance.

 

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