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SU Events Prior to 2004

Speakers:  Fall 2003-Spring 2004

September 19
Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University,  "The Moral Psychology of Identity Politics"

September 26
Jessica Wilson, University of Michigan, "Tropes, Determination, and the Characterizing Tie"

October 17
Geoff Sayre-McCord, University of North Carolina,  "Rational Agency"

October 24
Alastair Norcross, Rice University, "Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases"

November 7
Peter van Inwagen, Notre Dame, "Properties"

November 14
Sandra Bartky, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Intimidation"

March 5
Paul Boghossian, New York University

April 16
Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh

Speakers: Fall 2002-Spring 2003

September 20
Thomas Hofweber, University of Michigan, "Inexpressible Properties"

October 4
Barbara Herman, UCLA, "The Will and its Objects: The Place of Value in Kant's Theory of Rational Action"

October 18
Susanna Siegel, Harvard University, "Are Kind Properties Represented in Perception?"

October 25
John Perry, Stanford University, "Compatibilist Options"

November 15
Benj Hellie, Cornell University, "A New Look for Sense Data"

November 22
Brendan Gillon, McGill University, "The semantics of reciprocal pronouns in English and French"

February 7
Bonnie Steinbock, SUNY Albany, "Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos"

March 7
John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh, "Dummett on Truth-Conditions and Meaning"

March 21
Don Garrett, UNC Chapel Hill, "Spinoza's Naturalistic Theory of Mind and Imagination"

April 4
Greg Currie, Nottingham University, "The Evolution of the Artistic Mind and the Relativity of Aesthetic Reason"

Speakers: Fall 2001-Spring 2002

September 21
Michelle Moody-Adams, Cornell University, "Academic Freedom, Pluralism and Moral Education"

September 28
Richard Fumerton, University of Iowa,  "Achieving Epistemic Ascent"

October 3
Peter Ludlow, SUNY Stony Brook, "Natural Logic and the Holy Grail"

October 19
Tyler Burge, UCLA (co-sponsored by the Creighton Club), "Five Theses on De Re States and Attitudes"

October 26
Karen Neander, Johns Hopkins University, "Constraints on Content"

November 2
Pablo deGrieff, SUNY Buffalo (Postponed)

November 16
David Kaplan, UCLA, "The Meaning of 'Ouch' and 'Oops'"

November 30
John Greco, Fordham University, "Virtue in Epistemology"

December 7
Eric Hiddleston, Syracuse University, "Capabilties, Mechanisms and Probability-Lowering Causes"

January 18
Daniel Nolan, Syracuse University, "Why Is It Bad to be Ad Hoc?"

February 1
Patricia Marino, U.C. Irvine, "A New Kind of Victory for Truth as Correspondence"

February 15
Ishani Maitra, MIT, " Who's Responsible for Understanding?"

February 22
André Gallois, Keele University, "Consciousness, Attitudes and the Will"

February 27
Robin Jeshion, USC/University of Arizona  Descriptive Descriptive Names

March 5
Chris Hill, University of Arkansas  Three Theories of Truth

March 22
David Velleman, University of Michigan  Motivation by Ideal

April 5
Harold Hodes, Cornell University   On the Sense and Reference of a Logical Constant

April 12
Hartry Field, NYU  No Fact of the Matter

May 2
John Norton, Pittsburgh (sponsored by Physics) Einstein and the Canon of Mathematical Simplicity

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