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FEBRUARY 2010

Thursday, February 4
Brandeis University Philosophy Department
Colloquium Series
Sharon Hewitt
“Are People Better Than Pigs?”

Friday, February 5
Tufts University Center for Cognitive Studies
Kirk Daffner
“Distinguishing Successful from Average Cognitive Aging: How Curious”

Tuesday, February 9
Boston Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy (at Boston College)
Juan Carlos Flores
“Philosophy as Desire: Thomas Aquinas and Henry of Ghent on Classical Wisdom”

Thursday, February 11
Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
Lecture Series
David Korn
“Financial Conflicts of Interest in Academic Medicine: Whence They Came,
Where They Went, Why They Vex Us So”


Wednesday, February 17
Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion
Lecture Series: “Narrative Meaning—Narrative Wisdom”
Galen Strawson
“‘We Live Beyond Any Tale That We Happen to Enact’ (V. S. Pritchett)”

Thursday, February 18
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Colloquium Series
Mark Wilson
“How ‘Wave Front’ Found its Truth-Value”

Friday, February 19
Boston College Bradley Lecture
Matthew Maguire
“Charles Péguy and the Crisis of Modern Humanism”

Friday, February 19
M.I.T. Philosophy Department
Colloquium Series
Hartry Field
“Is There a Problem about Revising Logic?”


MARCH 2010

Thursday, March 4
Brandeis University Philosophy Department
Colloquium Series
Christopher Hill

Thursday, March 4
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Colloquium Series
Kendall Walton

Thursday, March 4
Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
Lecture Series
Thomas Stossel
“Money In Medicine: Sin or Salvation?”

Friday, March 5
Boston University Philosophy Department
Friday Colloquium Series
Ofra Magidor

Friday, March 19–Saturday, March 20
Boston College Philosophy Department
Eleventh Annual Boston College Graduate Philosophy Conference
“Power”

Friday, March 19
M.I.T. Philosophy Department
Colloquium Series
Brian Weatherson

Thursday, March 25
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
Don Garrett
“Hume’s Sense of Probability”

Friday, March 26
Boston College Department of Political Science
Fortin Roundtable
Thomas Hibbs and Frederick Lawrence


APRIL 2010

Thursday, April 1
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Colloquium Series
David Sussman

Friday, April 2
Boston University Philosophy Department
Friday Colloquium Series
Don Garrett

Monday, April 5
Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
Lecture Series
Robert Reich
“Everyday Corruption: How Intensifying Market Competition Leads to
Abuses of Public Trust, and What Should Be Done”


Thursday, April 8
Brandeis University Philosophy Department
Colloquium Series
Frances Kamm

Friday, April 9
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
Andrew Janiak
“Kant on Logical and Real Meaning”

Friday, April 9
M.I.T. Philosophy Department
Colloquium Series
Daniel Rothschild

Saturday, April 10
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
Andrew Janiak
“Substance and Action in Descartes and Newton”

Thursday, April 15–Saturday, April 17
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
Boston Colloquium Jubilee
“Philosophy and History of Science: Then and Now”

Friday, April 16
Boston College Department of Political Science
Wayne Ambler

Friday, April 16
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Harvard Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
Marleen Rozemond

Thursday, April 22
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Harvard Review of Philosophy Annual Lecture
John McDowell

Thursday, April 22
Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
Lecture Series
Simon Johnson
“Wall Street and Washington”

Friday, April 23
M.I.T. Philosophy Department
Colloquium Series
Marc Lange

Thursday, April 29 and Friday, April 30
Harvard University Philosophy Department
Whitehead Lectures
Kit Fine
“Counterfactuals and the Frame Problem”

Thursday, April 29–Sunday, May 2
Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (at M.I.T.)
Conference: “Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies”

Friday, April 30
M.I.T. Philosophy Department
Colloquium Series
Anil Gupta


MAY 2010

Friday, May 7
Boston University Philosophy Department
Friday Colloquium Series
Sally Haslanger


LINKS

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Boston College Philosophy Department

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science

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

M.I.T. Philosophy Department

Tufts University Center for Cognitive Studies

Tufts University Philosophy Department



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