Colloquium Schedule 2008-2009

This schedule will be updated as more speakers confirm.
All talks are held in the Tanner Library (CTIHB 459), and begin at 3:00PM, unless otherwise noted.

Gregory Frost-Arnold from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, will kick off our colloquium series on September 19th, 2008, with a talk titled "From the Pessimistic Induction to Semantic Anti-Realism".

Ben Crowe from the University of Utah's Department of Philosophy will speak on Friday, September 26, 2008.

Gavin Lawrence from UCLA, Gary Watson from University of California Riverside, and Nicholas White from the University of Utah, will be speaking on the topic of Weakness of Will, Thursday, October 30th, beginning at 5:00PM.

Robert Rupert from the University of Colorado, Boulder, will speak on Friday, November 14th, 2008.

Elijah Millgram from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah will speak on "Millian Meta-ethics," Friday, November 21st, 2008.

Jonathan Wolff from University College London will speak on Friday, January 16th, 2009.

Steve Angle from Wesleyan University will speak on February 6th, 2009.

The Philosophy Department is co-sponsoring, "The Evolution of Human Aggression: Lessons for Today's Conflicts," the 3rd Annual Barbara L. and Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy Forum, February 25th through the 27th, 2009. For more details click here.

Helga Varden, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and in the Gender and Women's Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will speak on March 6th, 2009. Her talk is titled, ""Family Law and Systemic Justice: A Kantian Critique of the Care Tradition". Below is an abstract of her talk.

"Contemporary liberal theories of justice have been rightly criticized not only for their neglect of care relations, but also for their inability to capture the inherent asymmetry, dependency, and particularity constitutive of relations of care. Over the last three decades, the care tradition has been central to identifying these problems in liberal theories. Nevertheless, in this paper I argue that the care tradition actually reproduces the same problems in their own accounts of care. The reason is, I suggest, that much liberal theory and the care tradition agree on the voluntarist assumption that good interactions only require virtuous individuals. I argue that when we, with Kant, give up this voluntarist presumption, we not only realize that just care is prior to virtuous care in a sense not appreciated by either account, but we also obtain the tools needed for addressing issues of systemic injustice."

The Moral Psychology Research Group will meet at the University of Utah, March 19th through the 21st. Check back for more details.

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong from Dartmouth College will speak on Monday, March 23rd, 2009.

Kai Wehmeier, from UC Irvine will speak on Friday, April 24th, 2009. His talk is titled
"Subjunctivity and Cross-World Predication."