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General Colloquia in the Philosophy Department
Colloquia are on selected Fridays from 4:00-6:00pm in the Department Conference Room, Silver Center (previously Main Building), 100 Washington Square East, Room 503, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call the department at (212) 998-8320.

September 15: Gabriel Richardson Lear (U Chicago), "Plato on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Doing One Thing"
October 6: Stephen Finlay (USC), "Oughts and Ends"
October 20: Robert Pasnau (Colorado)
November 3: David Sosa (U Texas)
November 10-11: Issues in Modern Philosophy Conference
November 13: Harry Frankfurt (Princeton), Graduate School Frumkes Lecture
November 17: Hilary Greaves (Rutgers)
February 23: George Bealer (Yale)
March 9: Rae Langton (MIT)
March 30: Connie Rosati (Arizona)
April 13: Thomas Hofweber (UNC)
April 20: Jeremy Waldron (NYU law)

Sept. 6 Ian Hunt (Flinders University)
"How Egalitarian is Rawls's Theory of Justice?"

Sept. 13 Matthew Moore (Brooklyn College)
"Mathematical Realism, Abductively"
See the abstract for this paper

Sept. 20 Béatrice Longuenesse (New York University)
"Self-Consciousness and Consciousness of One's Own Body. Variations on a Kantian Theme"

Sept. 27 Barry Loewer (Rutgers University)
"Laws and Natural Properties"
See the abstract for this paper

Oct. 4
Joseph Raz (Oxford University, Columbia University)
"Reflections on Normativity: Practical and Epistemic"
Download the paper on which this talk is based. [.pdf, 544 KB].

Oct. 11
Jim Pryor (New York University)
"Transmission"
Download an outline of this presentation in PDF format.

Oct. 18 Michael Smith (Princeton University)
"The Explanatory Role of Being Rational"

Oct. 25 Bradley Armour-Garb (SUNY Albany)
"Assertion, Negation, and Denial"

Nov. 1 Tamar Gendler (Yale University)
"Imagination"

Nov. 8 Lawrence Blum (U. Mass., Boston)
"Racial Inequality"

Nov. 15 FRED PURNELL MEMORIAL LECTURE
Ernan McMullin (Notre Dame University)
"Galileo's Challenge to Aristotle's Natural Philosophy"

Nov. 29 WARTOFSKY LECTURE
TBA

Dec. 6 DEAN KOLITCH LECTURE
Arnold Koslow (CUNY Graduate Center)
"A Tale of Two Schemata: Tarskian Finitary Truths and Ramseyan Belief States"

Dec. 13 Symposium: David Rosenthal's Consciousness and Mind (Oxford 2005)
Speakers:
Ned Block (New York University)
Galen Strawson (CUNY Graduate Center, University of Reading)
Respondent:
David Rosenthal (CUNY Graduate Center)