18 January (Wednesday)
NC State
Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie-Mellon): "Multi-Agent Decision Making and Other Settings for Relaxing Bayesian Theory"
4:15 p.m. Monteith Research Center 246(Centennial Campus)
27 January (Friday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Candace Vogler (University of Chicago): "Modern Moral Philosophy Again: Isolating the Promulgation Problem"
3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
3 February (Friday)
Duke
Sally Haslanger (MIT): "What Good are our Intuitions? Philosophical Analysis and Social Kinds"
3:30 p.m.West Duke 202
10 February (Friday)
NC State
James Van Cleve (University of Southern California): "Rates of Passage"
3:00 p.m. Winston Hall 122
17 February (Friday)
Duke
Jared Diamond (UCLA): "What Is Science? Is History A Science?"
3:30 p.m. East Duke, Nelson Music Room
17 February - 19 February (Friday - Sunday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Participants include Kim Sterelny, Steve Stich, David Pizarro, and Laurie Santos.
9:00 a.m. Saturday - Noon Sunday, Caldwell Hall 105
24 February (Friday)
NC State
Kadri Vihvelin (Universtiy of Southern California): "Free Will Demystified: A Dispositional Analysis"
3:00 p.m. Winston Hall 122
24 February (Friday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago): "Practical Reason in the Face of Cultural Devastation"
3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
3 March (Friday)
Duke
Tom Hurka (University of Toronto): "The Consequences of War"
3:30 p.m. West Duke 202
7 March (Tuesday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Tommie Shelby (Harvard): "Race, Class, and Shame: Du Bois on Black Solidarity"
7:00 p.m. Hyde Hall
16 March (Thursday)
NC State
Julia Driver (Dartmouth): "Luck and Fortune in Moral Evaluation"
4:00 p.m. Winston Hall 122
17 March (Friday)
Duke
David Papineau (Kings College London): "Are There Any Sciences Apart From Physics?"
3:30 p.m. West Duke 105
20 March (Monday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
David Papineau (Kings College London): "Troubles with Zombies"
1:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
24 March (Friday)
Duke
Carla Fehr (Iowa State): "A Social View of Scientific Objectivity: How Do We Get There From Here?"
3:30 p.m. West Duke 202
30 March (Thursday)
NC State
Timothy Hinton (NC State): "Autonomy and the Priority of the Good"
4:00 p.m. Winston Hall 122
31 March (Friday)
Duke
Roy Sorensen (Dartmouth): "Touching Shadows"
3:30 p.m. West Duke 202
31 March - 2 April (Friday - Sunday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Workshop on Epistemic Normativity
Lead papers by Paul Boghossian, Allan Gibbard, Paul Horwich, Christopher Peacocke, David Sosa
5:00 p.m. Friday - Noon Sunday, Caldwell Hall 105
6 April (Thursday)
NC State
Gerald Gaus (Tulane): "The Demands of Impartiality and the Evolution of Morality"
4:00 p.m. Winston Hall 122
6 April (Thursday)
Duke
Daniel Dennett (Tufts): "Darwin, Meaning and Truth"
5:00 p.m., Levine Science Research Center, Love Auditorium
7 April (Friday)
Duke
William Bechtel (University of California at San Diego): "Mechanism and Biological Explanation"
3:30 p.m. West Duke 202
7-9 April (Friday - Sunday)
UNC - Greensboro
Symposium: Philosophical Issues in International Law
Papers by Larry May, Kristen Hessler, Terry Nardin, Steven Ratner, and John Tasioulas
8:00 p.m. Friday - noon Sunday, Dogwood Room, Elliot University Center
20 April (Thursday)
NC State
Don Garrett (New York University): "The First Virtuous Motive of Justice: Hume’s 'Circle Argument' Squared"
4:00 Winston Hall 122
21 April (Friday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Tamar Gendler (Cornell): "A Plea for Reassurance: On the Psychological Basis of Philosophical Intuition"
3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
28-30 April (Friday - Sunday)
Duke
Fifth Annual Conference on Recent work in Biology and Philosophy: "Emotions as Norm Enforcers" Speakers will include Paul Griffiths, Cristina Bicchieri, Ronnie de Sousa, Sarah Brosnan, and Jessie Prinz.
3:00 p.m. Friday - 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nelson Music Room in West Duke Building (Friday) and second floor of East Campus Union Building (Saturday & Sunday)
5 May - 6 May (Friday - Saturday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Philosophy, Politics and Economics Workshop
The workshop will be on Eric Mack's book manuscript on rights theory. Invited participants include Eric Mack, Loren Lomasky, Fred Miller, Chris Morris, David Schmidtz, and Will Wilkenson.
2:00 p.m. Friday - 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Location TBA
25 August (Friday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Tamar Schapiro (Stanford University): "Kantian Rigorism and Mitigating Circumstances"
3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
14 September (Thursday)
NC State
Katie McShane (NC State University): "Is Awe a Valuing Attitude?"
3:00 p.m. Winston Hall 122
20 September (Wednesday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
The Challenge of Ethics in Sports
Panel discussion with Joe Ehrmann, William Friday, Richard Baddour, Rosalind Fuse-Hall, Kathleen K. Smith, Jan Boxill
7:30 p.m. Fetzer Gym 109
22 September (Friday)
Duke
John M. Fischer (University of California, Riverside): "Epicureanism about Death and Immortality"
3:30 p.m. Carr Building 243
25 September (Monday)
UNC - Chapel
Hill John Broome (Oxford University): "Ought"
1:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
28 September (Thursday)
NC State
Douglas M. Jesseph (NC State University): "Truth in Fiction: Origins and Consequences of Leibniz's Doctrine of the Fictional Infinitesimal"
3:00 p.m. Winston Hall 122
5 October (Thursday)
NC State
Sean McKeever (Davidson College): "States and Reasons"
4:00 p.m. Winston Hall 122
6-8 October (Friday-Sunday)
UNC - Chapel
Hill 40th Annual Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy Lead papers by Hilary Putnam, Patricia Kitcher, Amelie Rorty, Daniel C. Dennett, and Barry Loewer
6:00 p.m. Friday - 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Murphey Hall
$100 registration fee
13 October (Friday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Thomas Hofweber (UNC - Chapel Hill): "Abandoning the Ideal of Deductive Logic"
3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
19 October (Thursday)
NC State
Catherine Driscoll (NC State University): "Massive Modularity and the Prospects of Evolutionary Psychology"
3:00 p.m. Winston Hall122
27 October (Friday)
UNC - Chapel
Hill Andy Egan (University of Michigan): "Why Ethics is All About Me"
3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
27 October (Friday)
Duke
Evan Thompson (University of Toronto): "Look Again: Phenomenology and Mental Imagery" 3:30 p.m. Carr Building 243
31 October (Tuesday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Alan Hajek (Australian National University): "Philosophical Heuristics: Displaying Pieces of the Philosopher's Toolkit for Fun and Profit"
3:30 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
31 October - 1 November (Tuesday-Wednesday)
Duke
Barry Smith (State University of New York at Buffalo) Hock Plaza Auditorium
3 November (Friday)
NC State
Cliff Joslyn (Los Alamos National Laboratory): "Measuring Semantic Space: Order Theory for Knowledge Discovery and Integration"
4:00 p.m. Winston Hall 114
3 November (Friday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Mitchell Green (University of Virginia): "How Do Speech Acts Express Psychological States?"
3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
3-5 November (Friday-Sunday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Lead papers by Mitch Green, Colin Allen, Dorit Bar-On, Simon Blackburn, and John Kulvicki
$125 registration fee
8 November (Wednesday)
NC State
Richard Kraut (Northwestern University): "Politics and Good: Reflexions on Rawls"
4:15 p.m. Winston Hall 122
10 November (Friday)
Duke
Michael Silberstein (Elizabethtown College): "Nondualism Yes, Identity No: Interrogating Causal Closure and Physicalism" 3:30 p.m. Carr Building 243
10 November (Friday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Ken Brown (University of California - Irving): "Strict Compositionalism in Locke's Theory of Ideas"
3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
13 November (Monday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Jesse Prinz (UNC - Chapel Hill): "Sentimental Values"
1:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
17 November (Friday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Peter Hanks (UNC - Chapel Hill): "The Varieties of Content"
3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213
30 November (Thursday)
NC State
Ronald P. Endicott (NC State University): "Total Nomic Roles, Embodied Cognition, and the Demise of the Functionalist Paradigm"
3:00 p.m. Winston Hall 122
1 December (Friday)
UNC - Chapel Hill
Lynne Rudder Baker (University of Massachusetts - Amherst): "A Metaphysics of Ordinary Things, and Why We Need It"
3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213