University of Pennsylvania 
Department of Philosophy

Colloquium Series
Spring 2008


Unless otherwise noted, all talks will be on Fridays at 3p.m. in 402 Logan HallLogan Hall is located on the 36th Street Walkway between Walnut St. (to the North) and Spruce St.  For further information, the Department of Philosophy can be reached at (215) 898-8563.


Colin Allen
Indiana University

How to Reason without Words: Inference as Categorization

January 17th, 12-1:30

at IRCS (3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A)

(brown-bag workshop sponsored by PPE)


Verity Harte
Yale University

Republic X and the Role of the Audience in Art
February 8



8th Biennial Seybert Lectures

Tim Crane
University College, London
February 19: What We Think About

February 20: Non-Existent Objects of Thought

February 21: Transcendent Objects of Thought


All 3 lectures will be held at 4:00 p.m. in 255 Huntsman Hall.




Gideon Yaffe
University of Southern California

Beyond the Brave Officer: Reid on the Unity of the Mind

and Locke's Theory of Personal Identity

February 29

 



Adrienne Martin
University of Pennsylvania

Owning Up and Lowering Down: The Power of Apology
March 7




Philippe Van Parijs
University of Louvain / Harvard

Linguistic Justice and the Territorial Imperative

April 4




Susan Schneider
University of Pennsylvania

Thinking the Same Thing
April 11




Susan Lederer
Yale University

Henry Beecher's ‘Bombshell’: Research Ethics and Omissions circa 1966

Monday April 21st, 3:30 p.m.

337 Logan Hall

(co-sponsored with History and Sociology of Science)




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