January 2007

12 January (Friday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Karen Bennett (Princeton): "Why I am Not a Dualist"

3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

18 January (Thursday)

NC State

Daniel Garber (Princeton): "What Happens after Pascal’s Wager: Living Faith and Rational Belief"

4:00 p.m. Withers Hall 344

19 January (Friday)

Tad Brennan (Northwestern): "The Spirited Part of the Soul and Its Object"

3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

22 January (Monday)

Ethics of Stem Cell Research

7:30 p.m. F.P. Graham Student Union

26 January (Friday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA): "Two Kinds of Agency"

3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

26 January (Friday)

NC State

Mihai Ganea (University of Illinois at Chicago): "Predicative Arithmetic"

2:30 p.m. Withers Hall 344

February 2007

1 February (Thursday)

NC State

Connie Sue Rosati (University of Arizona and National Humanities Center): "Objectivism and Relational Good"

**postponed due to weather until March 1**

2 February (Friday)

NC State

Roy Cook (Villanova University): "Hume's Big Brother: Counting Concepts and the Bad Company Objection"

2:30 p.m. Withers Hall 344

2 February (Friday)

Duke

Andreas Niederberger (Northwestern University): "On The Normative Justification Of Democracy In Times Of Globalization"

3:30 p.m. West Duke Building 105

8 February (Thursday)

NC State

Johannes Hafner (University of Vienna): "Realism, Reference, and the Axiom of Choice"

4:00 p.m. Withers Hall 344

9 February (Friday)

Duke

Gürol Irzik (Bogaziçi University): "Carnap, Popper, and Kuhn on the Rationality of Science: A Revisionist Account"

3:30 p.m. West Duke Building 105

16 February (Friday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Maggie Little (Georgetown): "Deontic Pluralism: Morality from the Inside (and) Out"

3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

16 February (Friday)

Duke

Philip Pettit (Princeton): "Rationality and Reason: The Case of Group Agents"

3:30 p.m. West Duke Building 105

**canceled**

20 February (Tuesday)

NC State

Stephen Stich (Rutgers): "Philosophy, Intuition, and Culture"

4:30 p.m. Withers Hall 120

20-21 February (Tuesday-Wednesday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Daniel Gilbert (Harvard): "Stumbing on Happiness"
7:30 p.m. Murphey Hall 116

23 February (Friday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

David Estlund (Brown University): "Democractic Authority: A Philosophical Framework"

3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

26 February (Monday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Ryan Preston (New York University): "Civic Trust and the Problem of Self-Defense"
1:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

March 2007

1 March (Thursday)

NC State

Connie Sue Rosati (University of Arizona and National Humanities Center): "Objectivism and Relational Good"

4:00 p.m. Withers Hall 344

1 March (Thursday)

Duke

Alex Rosenberg (Duke University): "Is Darwinism the Only Game in Town?"

5:30 p.m. Richard White Lecture Hall

2-3 March (Friday-Saturday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Workshop on Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning

Lead papers by Christopher Hitchcock, L.A. Paul, Jonathan Schaffer and Mathias Frisch

4:00 p.m. Friday - 8:30 p.m. Saturday Caldwell Hall 213

**registration required**

6 March (Tuesday)

Duke

Alex Rosenberg (Duke University): "Nature or Nurture, Darwinism is Still the Only Game in Town"

5:30 p.m. Richard White Lecture Hall

8 March (Thursday)

Duke

Alex Rosenberg (Duke University): "Naturalism's Nice Nihilism"

5:30 p.m. Richard White Lecture Hall

19 March (Monday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Marc Lange (UNC - Chapel Hill): "Laws and Meta-laws of Nature"

1:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

20 March (Tuesday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Fatou Bensouda (International Criminal Court): "International Criminal Court"

7:30 p.m. 111 Carroll Hall

22 March (Thursday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

John Bickle (University of Cincinnati): "An Alternative to Intertheoretic and Functional Reduction"

1:00 p.m. Peabody Hall 203

23 March (Friday)

UNC - Chapel Hill
Sally Haslanger (MIT): "'But Mom, crop-tops are cute!' Social knowledge, Social structure, and Ideology Critique"
3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

23 March (Friday)

NC State
John Bickle (University of Cincinnati): "Ruthless Reductionism and Social Cognition"
4:30 p.m. Withers Hall 140

23-24 March (Friday-Saturday)

Duke

Do Historians and Philosophers of Science have Anything to Say to Each Other?

Featured speakers include: Peter Dear, Hasok Chang, Jan Golinski, Mimi Kim, and Andrew Janiak

Times & locations TBA

April 2007

6-8 April (Friday-Sunday)

Duke

Chance in Evolution

Speakers will include: Richard Lewontin, Roberta Millstein, John Beatty, Robert Brandon, and Steve Wang

Times & locations TBA

**registration required**

9 April (Monday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Michael Ruse (Florida State University): "Is Darwinism an Exhausted Paradigm?"

1:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

April 10 (Tuesday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Michael Ruse (Florida State University):"The Evolution-Creation Controversy: A Very American Story"
7:00 p.m. Hanes Art Center

12 April (Thursday)

NC State
Owen Flanagan (Duke): "The Bodhisattva's Brain: Neuroscience, Virtue, and Happiness"
4:30 p.m. Withers Hall 120

**canceled**

13 April (Friday)

Duke

Lynn Joy (University of Notre Dame): "Hume's Newtonianism of the Mind"

3:30 p.m. West Duke Building 105

13-15 April (Friday-Sunday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Bargaining and Justice

Lead papers by J. McKenzie Alexander, Cristina Bicchieri, Ken Binmore, Brian Skyrms, Paul Weirich

4:00 p.m. Friday - 4:45 p.m. Saturday, Caldwell Hall 213

**registration required**

27 April (Friday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Marga Reimer (University of Arizona): "Jonah Cases: What They Reveal about the Nature of Reference"

3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

August 2007

24 August (Friday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Joshua Knobe (University of North Carolina): "Folk Judgments of Causation"

3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

September 2007

6 September (Thursday)

NC State

Jesse Prinz (UNC - Chapel Hill): "The Neural Basis of Consciousness"

4:00 p.m. Withers Hall 344

7 September (Friday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Kathrin Koslicki (University of Colorado): "Structure"

3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

7 September (Friday)

Duke

Paul Teller (University of California - Davis): "Learning to Live with Voluntarism"

3:30 p.m. West Duke Building 202

8-9 September (Saturday-Sunday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Disability and Disadvantage Workshop

Lead papers by Susannah Rose, Anita Silvers, Douglas MacLean, Christie Hartley, and Rosalind MacDougall

Siena Hotel

**registration required; $100 registration fee**

25 September (Tuesday)

NC State

Heather Gert (UNC - Greensboro): "Wittgenstein's Ruling Family"

4:00 p.m. Withers Hall 344

28 September (Friday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Stephen Darwall (University of Michigan): "Two Kinds of Recognition Respect for Persons"

3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213

October 2007

4 October (Thursday)

NC State

Jeffrey L. Kasser (NC State): "Doubt and Disagreement"

4:00 p.m. Withers Hall 344

5 October (Friday)

Duke

Eric Brown (Washington University): "Socrates the Stoic?"

3:30 p.m. West Duke Building 202

16 October (Tuesday)

Duke

Lawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins): "The Transmutation of chymistry into chemistry: The Academie Royale des Sciences and the Demise of Chrysopoeia"

4:00 p.m. East Duke Building 204b

19 October (Friday)

NC State

William Lycan (UNC - Chapel Hill): "More Layers of Perceptual Content"

4:00 p.m. Withers Hall 140

26-28 October (Friday - Sunday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill Colloquium

Lead Papers by Ted Sider, Gavin Lawrence, Nomy Arpaly, George Wilson, and Vann McGee

**registration required, $130 registration fee**

29 October (Monday)

Duke

Simon Blackburn (Cambridge University): "How are We to Think About Human Nature?"

5:00 p.m. Levine Science Research Center, Love Auditorium

30 October (Tuesday)

Duke

Mauro Maldonato
(Università  degli Studi della Basilicata): "Embodied Mind and Knowledge Prolegomena for a Neurophenomenology Theory"

12:00 John Hope Franklin Center 240

November 2007

1 November (Thursday)

NC State

Meghan Griffith (Davidson College): "How to Go Agent-Causal"

4:00 p.m. Withers Hall 344

8 November (Thursday)

Duke

Frans B.M. de Waal (Emory University): "Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We are the Way We Are"
4:00 p.m. BioScience 111

13 November (Tuesday)

Duke

Richard Lewontin: (Harvard University): "Human Nature: Bad Biology and Bad Social Theory"
5:00 p.m. Levine Science Research Center, Love Auditorium

15 November (Thursday)

NC State

Alan Carter (University of Glasgow): "A Plurality of Values"

4:00 p.m. Withers Hall 344

16 November (Friday)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Roger White (MIT): "Evidential Symmetry and Mushy Credence"

3:00 p.m. Caldwell Hall 213