THE BOSTON-AREA
PHILOSOPHY CALENDAR
SPRING 2012

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JANUARY 2012

Thursday, January 19
Boston College Department of Political Science
Distinguished Lecture Series in Middle Eastern Studies
Joy Samad
“John Locke and Muslim Liberalism”

Friday, January 20
Boston University Ethics Reading Group
Daniel Halliday
Title TBA

Wednesday, January 25
Kant in Boston Reading Group
On Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View

Thursday, January 26
Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion
Charles Mathewes
“On Being a Mediocre Believer in an Age of Extremities”


Thursday, January 26
Tufts University Philosophy Department
Derrick Darby
“How Not to Attack Luck Egalitarianism”

FEBRUARY 2012

Wednesday, February 1
Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion
Peter Gordon
“Jürgen Habermas and the Social Significance of Religion”

Thursday, February 9
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Gideon Yaffe
“Intending to Aid”

Monday, February 13
Boston University Ethics Reading Group
David Enoch
Title TBA

Wednesday, February 15
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Philip Welch
“Exploring the Frontiers of Incompleteness,” workshop 7

Friday, February 17
M.I.T. Philosophy Department
Hannah Ginsborg
Title TBA

Friday, February 17
Neuphi
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Title TBA

Thursday, February 23
Harvard University Philosophy Department
William James Lecture
Ned Block
Title TBA

Friday, February 24
Boston University Philosophy Department Friday Colloquium Series
Cynthia Freeland
Title TBA

Friday, February 24
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Anja Jauernig
Title TBA

Wednesday, February 29
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Stevo Todorcevic
“Exploring the Frontiers of Incompleteness,” workshop 8

Wednesday, February 29
Kant in Boston Reading Group
On Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View


MARCH 2012

Thursday, March 1
Harvard University Philosophy Department
William James Lecture
Ned Block
Title TBA

Wednesday, March 7
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Philosophy and Law Speaker Series
Mark Greenberg
“Beyond the Standard Picture”

Thursday, March 8
Harvard University Philosophy Department
William James Lecture
Ned Block
Title TBA

Friday, March 9
M.I.T. Philosophy Department
Jamie Dreier
Title TBA

Friday, March 9
Tufts University Philosophy Department
Tamar Schapiro
Title TBA

Friday, March 16
Brandeis University Philosophy Department
Selim Berker
Title TBA

Tuesday, March 20
Harvard University Philosophy Department
William James Lecture
Ned Block
Title TBA

Wednesday, March 21
Harvard University Philosophy Department
James Cummings
“Exploring the Frontiers of Incompleteness,” workshop 9

Thursday, March 22
Neuphi
Ruth Garrett Millikan
Title TBA

Thursday, March 22
Clark University Philosophy Department
Christopher Tollefsen
“Torture and Enhanced Interrogation: Revisiting the Debate”

Friday, March 23
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
The Robert S. Cohen Forum
“Fifty Years since Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Friday, March 23
Boston University Ethics Reading Group
Hallie Liberto
Title TBA

Friday, March 23
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Jean-Luc Solère
Title TBA

Friday, March 23
M.I.T. Philosophy Department
Elisabeth Camp
Title TBA

Wednesday, March 28
Harvard University Philosophy Department
John Steel
“Exploring the Frontiers of Incompleteness,” workshop 10

Wednesday, March 28
Kant in Boston Reading Group
Robert Louden
“Foucault’s Kant”

Friday, March 30
Boston University Philosophy Department Friday Colloquium Series
Amélie Rorty
Title TBA


APRIL 2012

Wednesday, April 4
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Menachem Magidor
“Exploring the Frontiers of Incompleteness,” workshop 10

Thursday, April 5
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Philosophy and Law Speaker Series
Sophia Moreau
Title TBA

Thursday, April 12
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Frederick Neuhouser
“Rousseau’s Critique of Social Inequality”

Friday, April 13
Boston University Ethics Reading Group
Hille Paakkunainen
Title TBA

Friday, April 13
M.I.T. Philosophy Department
Ted Sider
Title TBA

Saturday, April 14
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Casey Perrin and Brandon Look
Title TBA

Tuesday, April 17
Clark University Philosophy Department
John Sanbonmatsu
“The Omnivore's Distraction: Locavorism, Capitalism, and the Politics of Killing Animals”

Wednesday, April 18
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Tony Martin
“Exploring the Frontiers of Incompleteness,” workshop 12

Wednesday, April 18–Friday, April 20
Salem State College Philosophy Department
38th Conference on Value Inquiry
“Free Will, Responsibility, and Science”

Thursday, April 19
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Agnes Callard
“Aristotelian Moralism”

Friday, April 20
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
“How Can the History and Philosophy of Science Contribute to U.S. Science Teaching?”

Friday, April 20
Boston University Philosophy Department Friday Colloquium Series
Kris McDaniel
Title TBA

Friday, April 20
Neuphi
Susan Carey
Title TBA

Friday, April 20
Brandeis University Philosophy Department
Sharon Street
Title TBA

Wednesday, April 25
Kant in Boston Reading Group
Topic TBA

Thursday, April 26
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Whitehead Lecture
Anil Gupta
“The Relationship of Experience to Judgment” (1)

Friday, April 27
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
“Are Men and Women Like Different Species? Critical Perspectives and Sex-Difference Research”

Friday, April 27
Boston University Ethics Reading Group
David Velleman
Title TBA

Friday, April 27
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Whitehead Lecture
Anil Gupta
“The Relationship of Experience to Judgment” (2)

Friday, February 17
M.I.T. Philosophy Department
Maria Lasonen Aarnio
Title TBA

Saturday, April 28
Brandeis University Philosophy Department
Brandeis Philosophy Department Spring Conference
“Intentions and Belief”


MAY 2012

Thursday, May 3
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
The Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy
“Scientific Assessments and Environmental Policy”

Friday, May 18–Sunday, May 20
Harvard University Philosophy Department
New England Conference in Early Modern Philosophy



LINKS

Boston-Area Philosophy Mailing List

Boston College Philosophy Department

Boston College Department of Political Science

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science

Boston University Ethics Reading Group

Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion

Boston University Philosophy Department

Brandeis University Philosophy Department

Clark University Philosophy Department

Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics

Harvard University Philosophy Department

Kant in Boston Reading Group

M.I.T. Philosophy Department

Neuphi

Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area

Tufts University Center for Cognitive Studies

Tufts University Philosophy Department



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