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   Friday Afternoon

Philosophy Colloquia

The philosophy colloquium series, held weekly, year round including all summer, is one of the distinctive features of the Dalhousie Philosophy Department. It is an eagerly anticipated forum where faculty and students have the opportunity to develop and present work and to engage in lively philosophical exchange. Each colloquium is attended by all faculty and graduate students, as well as by interested faculty from other departments and universities. In the first hour, someone presents a paper, followed by questions and close discussion in the second hour. Faculty present work in progress, graduate students are encouraged to present sections of their theses and dissertations, and we often have visitors from other philosophy departments. 

The Colloquium has been held since ancient times (i.e., the late 1960s); but following is a list of presentations from recent years.

These seminars commence at 3:30pm and are most often held in Seminar Room 1130 of the Marion McCain Building (unless otherwise indicated).

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2010

March 12, 2010
John Barresi
Dalhousie University
"On Seeing Our Selves and Others as Persons" 

March 5, 2010
Francoise Baylis
Dalhousie University
"The self in situ: A realtional account of personal identity"  

February 26, 2010
No Talk due to Reading Week

February 19, 2010
Andrew Kernohan
Dalhousie University
"Global Distributive Justice and International Trade"  

February 12, 2010
Dr. Carolyn Ells
Associate Professor, Medicine, McGill University; Visiting Scholar, Bioethics, Dalhousie University
"Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Participation in Decision Making: Ethical Considerations for Professional-Client Practice"  

February 5, 2010
No Talk due to Munro Day Holiday

January 29, 2010
Adam Auch
Dalhousie University
"What Justifies Language Advice?"  

January 22, 2010
Robert Hughes- Job Candidate
University of California, Los Angeles
"Responsive Government."  

January 15, 2010
Kristi Olson- Job Candidate
Harvard University
"For the Hard-Working."  

January 8, 2010
Chike Jeffers - Job Candidate
Northwestern University
"Political Philosophy and the Concept of Cultural Oppression."                            

2009

 December 18, 2009 No Talk this week

December 11, 2009
Meredith Schwartz
Dalhousie University
"The Deferential Wife's Husband: Respect, esteem hierarchies and social policy."    
          NOTE: the Colloquirum will be held in Room 1007 of the Rowe Management Building     

December 4, 2009
Lisa Kretz
Dalhousie University
"From the Roots of Deep Ecology"

November 27, 2009
Marc Ramsay
Acadia University
"A Principled Approach to Wrongful Pregnancy Damage Awards"

November 20, 2009
Eli Diamond
Dalhousie University
"Aristotle on Why We Can't Deliberate about Goals"

 November 12 & 13, 2009  Austin & Hempel Lectures, Dalhousie University

November 6, 2009
Warren Heiti
Dalhousie University
"Spinoza and Ecological Integrity"

October 30, 2009
Michael Hymers
Dalhousie University
"Norms of Description and Empirical Propositions: Why There Is No Third Wittgenstein"

October 23, 2009
Peter Schotch
Dalhousie University
"Imperatives"

Oct. 16, 2009 No Talk  due to ARPA

October 9, 2009
Robert Figueroa
University of North Texas
"Environmental Identity, Restorative Justice, and Ethical Crisis"

October 2, 2009
Tom Vinci
Dalhousie University
"Prospectus for An Essay on Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories"

September 25, 2009   No Talk due to the visitin speaker - Dr. Joseph Mendola at Saint Mary's University.  "Realistic Desires and Well-Being                                                    

September 17-18, 2009  Austin & Hempel Lectures, Dalhousie University

September 11, 2009
Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell
University of Arizona and Dalhousie University respectively
"Emotion-driven Moral Judgement versus Cool-headed Moral Reasoning: A Darwinian Perspective"

September 4, 2009 - No Talk due to Labour Day weekend

August 28, 2009
David Braybrooke
Dalhousie University and the University of Texas at Austin
"Two Aspects of Utilitarianism: The Felicific Calculus and the Relation to Natural Law"

August 21, 2009
W.Ford Doolittle
Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University
"Tree of Life, Tree of Cells, LUCA and Other Questionable Entities"

August 14, 2009
Rebecca Mason
Northwestern University
"Hermeneutical Injustice as an Epistemology of Ignorance"

August 7, 2009
Kira Tomsons
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Social Connection and Responsibility: Re-situating Corporate Social Responsibility"

July 31, 2009
Greg Scherkoske
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Reasons of Integrity"

July 24, 2009
Victor Kumar
University of Arizona
"Moral Judgment and Moral Cognition"

July 17, 2009
Michael Watkins
Auburn University
"The Causal Theory of Properties"

July 10, 2009
Duncan MacIntosh
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Norm Mimicry, Morality and the Construction of Mackie Facts: Reflections on Joe Heath's Following the Rules"

July 3, 2009
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
"Is Physicalism Necessarily True:"

June 26, 2009
Jay Garfield
Smith College
"What is it Like to be a Bodhisattva? Moral Phenomenology in Uantideva's Bodhicaryavatara."

June 19, 2009
Peter Schotch
Inaugural Lecture by the new holder of the Munro Chair in Metaphysics, Philosophy Department - Scotiabank Auditorium - FASS Building

"The Dalhousie Department of Philosophy: My Part in its Triumph"

June 12, 2009
Colin Hirano
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Wittgenstein's Account of Necessity: Rules and Modality"

June 5, 2009
Lynette Reid
Dalhousie University
"Social solidarity and shared vulnerability: overcoming ethical egoism or eliding difference?"

May 29, 2009  No Talk due to annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association

May 22, 2009
Cameron Shelley
University of Waterloo
"Fairness in industrial design: Insights from the Taylor-Russell diagram"

May 15, 2009
John Cook
St. Francis Xavier University
"Mood, Force, and Derogatoriness"

May 8, 2009
Letitia Meynell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Object from Nowhere: Mischief-Making and Biomedical Imaging"

May 1, 2009
Marc Mercer
Saint Mary's University
"Anxiety According to Epicurus and Epictetus"

April 24, 2009
Darren Abramson
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Complexity and Mind"

April 17, 2009
Christina Behme
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Putting Descartes back into 'Cartesian Linguistics'"

April 10, 2009 No talk (Good Friday)

April 3, 2009
Trish Glazebrook
Philosophy and International Development Studies, Dalhousie University
"Some Like It Hot: Climate Change, Food Security and Women's Empowerment in Ghana"

March 27, 2009
Stephen Maitzen
Acadia University
"Why is there Anything"

March 20, 2009
Nathan Brett
Dalhousie University
"Humean Natural Kinds"

March 13, 2009
Marika Warren
Dalhousie University
"Look, Ma-No Hands!  Disability, Individual Responsibility, and Social Connection"

March 6, 2009
Peter Schotch
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"How to Make a Silk Purse From a pig's Ear.  Part II"

Feb. 27, 2009 No talk (Study Break)

Feb. 20, 2009
Carl Matheson
University of Manitoba
"Performance Means: Why can't Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata be performed on the piano?"

February 12-13, 2009  Austin & Hempel Lectures, Dalhousie University

Feb.6, 2009
Sandra Raponi
University of Toronto (Job Candidate)
"Is International Law Really Law?  The Problem of Enforcement."

Jan. 30, 2009
Christopher Tillman
Department of Philosophy, Indiana University
"What is a Tautology According to Wittgenstein's Tractatus?"

Jan. 23, 2009
Andrew Kernohan
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Egalitarian Justice, Economic Efficiency, and International Trade."

Jan. 16, 2009
Chris Kaposy
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Fetal Moral Standing"

Jan. 9, 2009
Sue Sherwin
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Relational Autonomy Globalized"

2008

Dec. 12, 2008
Jason Holt
Department of Philosophy, Acadia University
"Partworks"

Tues. Dec. 9, 2008
Alexis Shotwell
Department of Philosophy, Laurentian University
"Shaming whiteness: negative affect and racial formation"

Dec. 5, 2008
Alice MacLachlan
Department of Philosophy, York University
"Resentment, Injustice and Entitlement"

Nov. 28, 2008
Kirstin Borgerson
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Why Reading the Title Isn't Good Enough: An evaluation of the 4S approach to Evidence-based Medicine"

Nov. 21, 2008
Peter Schotch
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Copenhagen Semantic"

Nov. 14, 2008
Tom Vinci
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Kant's Appearances and Thing in Themselves: Two Aspects or Two Entities?"

Nov. 7, 2008
Todd Calder
Department of Philosophy, Saint Mary's University
"Shared Responsibility, Structural Injustice, and Restitution"

Oct. 31, 2008
Cameron Shelley
Philosophy Department, University of Waterloo
"Leading a Convincing Life: Integrity and Responsible Agency"

No talk on Oct. 24 due to ARPA.

Oct. 17, 2008
Richmond Campbell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Origin of Moral Reasons"

Oct. 3, 2008
Peter Schotch
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"What is Logic?"

Sep. 19, 2008
Greg Scherkoske
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Leading a Convincing Life: Integrity and Responsible Agency"

Sep. 12, 2008
Ami Harbin
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Sexual Disorientation and Imaginative Responsibility"

Sep. 5, 2008
Darren Abramson
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Am I a Finite State Automaton or a Turing Machine? A New Argument for
Constitutive Externalism"

Aug. 29, 2008 No Talk due to Labour Day weekend

Aug. 22, 2008
Alexis Shotwell
Department of Philosophy, Laurentian University
"What Maestra knew: The Inadequacy of the Knowing- how/Knowing-that Distinction"

Aug. 15, 2008
Victor Kumar
Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona
"Home Range Reliabilism"

Aug. 8, 2008
Darren Abramson and Joy Abramson
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
"Body Mass Index (BMI) and Health: A Degenerate Research Program"

Aug. 1, 2008
Karen Houle
Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph
"Deconstruction and Feminist Standpoint Theory on Strangeness"

July 25, 2008
David Braybrooke
Prof. Emeritus, Dalhousie University and the University of Texas at Austin
"Political Thought in Short Bursts: Extracts from
www.logicforpolitics.com With the Beginnings of Some General
Lessons and  a List of Some Simple Techniques"

Ju;y 18, 2008
Michael Watkins
Department of Philosophy, Auburn University
"Aesthetic Supervenience and Coincident Object"

July 11, 2008 No Talk due to meeting of the Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

July 4, 2008
Duncan MacIntosh
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Structure of Procrastination"

June 27, 2008
Greg Scherkoske
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Moral and Intellectual Virtues"

June 20, 2008
David White
Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary
"A Paradox of Hate Speech Laws"

June 13, 2008
Victor Kumar
Department of Philosophy, Arizona University
"In Support of Anti-Intellectualism"

June 6, 2008 No Talk due to annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association

May 30, 2008
Pamela Courtney-Hall
Department of Philosophy, University of PERI
"Rural Communities as ‘Colonies of Urban Civilization’: Ethics, Food Security, and the Importance of Agricultural Inquiry"

May 23, 2008 No Talk due to Politics of Forgetting Symposium at King's University

May 16, 2008
Robert Paul
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Perspectives on Climate Change"

May 9, 2008
Peter Schotch
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Preservationism and Paraconsistency: Two P's in a Pod?"

May 2, 2008
Christina Behme
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Language Evolution: Something Old, Something New, Something Surprising"

April 25, 2008
Tom Vinci
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Robustness of Belief and the Argument from Religious Experience"

April 18, 2008
Mike Hymers
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"How Many Wittgensteins Does It Take?"

April 11, 2008 No talk due to Plenary Session of "Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections: Feminist Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice", presented by Aritha van Herk, at Mount Saint Vincent University.

April 3-4, 2008 Austin & Hempel Lectures, Dalhousie University.

March 28, 2008
Darren Abramson
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Computers and Evolution: A New Argument for Qualitative Externalism"

March 21, 2008 No talk (Good Friday)

March 14, 2008
Lynette Reid
Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University
"'Balancing' Harm and Benefit in Trials of Novel Invasive Technologies: Ethics, Politics, and Conceptual Clarity"

March 7, 2008
Tom Vinci
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Cartesian Externalism and the Brain in a Vat"

February 29, 2008 No talk (Study Break)

February 22, 2008
Rebecca Mason
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"No Means No: Pornography, Silencing, and Responsibility"

February 15, 2008
Peter Schotch
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Modal Logic and Cosmology: What's the Cold Dark Matter with You?"

February 8, 2008
Darren Abramson
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Two Sources for Turing"

February 1, 2008 No talk (Munro Day)

January 25, 2008
Letitia Meynell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"What's Wrong With This Picture? On Developing Norms for the Production and Publication of Scientific Images"

January 21, 2008
Jonathan Tsou
Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago
"Psychiatric Kinds, Looping Effects, and Stable Targets: Are Any Mental Disorders Natural Kinds?"

January 18, 2008
Lisa Kretz
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Ecofeminism, Relational Ethics, and the Problem of Radical Continuity"

January 11, 2008
Lorraine Code
Department of Philosophy, Mount Saint Vincent University
"'They treated him well': Fact, Fiction, and the Politics of Knowledge"

      2007Top

December 14, 2007
Robert Paul
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Time and Motion Studies of Zeno and Nagarjuna"

December 07, 2007
Mike Hymers
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Problem of Evil: No Solution from Science?"

November 30, 2007
Kristin Borgerson
Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
"The Ethics and Epistemology of Medical Evidence"

November 23, 2007
Robyn Bluhm
Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario
"Evidence-Based Medicine as a Philosophy of Medicine"

November 16, 2007
Sue Sherwin
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Whither Bioethics? From Relational Ethics to Public Ethics"

November 9, 2007
Sue Campbell
Department of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
"Remembering the future: Memory as a lens on the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission"

November 2, 2007
Hal Whitehead
Department of Biology, Dalhousie University
"The Rise and Fall of Cultures: Environmental Variation, the Evolution of Cultural Capacity, Cultural Conformism, and Societal Collapse"

October 26, 2007
No talk: Atlantic Region Philosophers Association meeting at SMU

October 19, 2007
David White
Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary
"Implications of Moral Evolution"

October 11 & 12, 2007-Austin & Hempel Lecture Series

September 28, 2007
Peter Schotch
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Heartbreak of Sorites: Based on a True Story"

September 21, 2007
Christina Behme
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
Helene Deacon
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University
"Domain Specific Language Acquisition Device and Empirical Evidence: A Couple Headed for Divorce?"

September 14, 2007
Darren Abramson
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"When Formal Systems Kill: Computer Ethics and Formal Methods"

September 7, 2007
Troy Jollimore
Department of Philosophy, California State University, Chico
"Love's Blindness"

August 31, 2007
James Lindemann Nelson
Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University
"Memory, Estrangement and Mansfield Park"

August 24, 2007
Greg Scherkoske
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University 
"Integrity as an Epistemic Virtue"

August 17, 2007
David Braybrooke, Prof. Emeritus
Dalhousie University and the University of Texas at Austin
"State-to-State: Transmission of Human Rights"

August 10, 2007
Duncan MacIntosh
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Morality and Practical Rationalty: Part II"

August 3, 2007
A lecture will not be given this week

July 27, 2007
Michael Watkins
Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama
"Why Reduce"

July 20, 2007
Raymond Martin
Department of Philosophy, Union College, New York
What Really Matters?"

July 12-15, 2007
Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Halifax, NS
Vist URL at: http://myweb.dal.ca/vinci/ACSEMP_2007.htm

July 6, 2007
Tressie A. Dutchyn
CIHR Strategic Training Fellowship in Psychosocial Oncology
InterDisciplinary PhD Programme, Dalhousie University
"A partnership in like-minded thinking - generating hopefulness in persons with cancer"

June 29, 2007
Dr. Duncan MacIntosh
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie Unviersity 
"Morality and Practical Rationality"


June 22, 2007
Dr. Greg Scherkoske
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Integrity and Self-Trust"

June 15, 2007
Dr. Sylvia Burrow
University College of Cape Breton
"Protecting One's Commitments: Inegrity, Self-Confidence, and Self-Defence."

June 8, 2007
Dr. Ardis Anderson, University of Lethbridge
Rights Reloaded"

June 2, 2007
NO PAPER - CPA May 28-31, 2007-University of Saskatchewan.

May 25, 2007
Dr. Letitia Meynell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie Unviersity
"Parsing Pictures: On analyzing Pictures in Science"

May 17 & 18, 2007-Austin & Hempel Lecture Series

May 11, 2007
Dr. Robert Figueroa
Colgate University/North Text University
"The Environmental Identitiy Response: An Environmental Justice Perspective on Identity Conundrums"
NOTE:
 This is a VIDEO CONFERENCE which will be held in the Computer Science Bldg, 6050 University Avenue, Room 233-"D-Drive Lab". 
DIRECTIONS: Go to the elevator, go up to the 2nd Floor, when the door opens, you are looking into the "D-Drive Lab", entrance is just to the left. 

May 4, 2007
Anthony Kola-Olusanya and Patricia Glazebrook
OISE/ University of Toronto and Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University (respectively).
"Oil and Conflict in the Niger Delta: A Case Study in Environmental Justice"

April 27, 2007
Michael (Mike) Hymers
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"No one Speaks A Private Language"

April 20, 2007
John Schellenberg
Department of Philosophy/Religious Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University
"Rationality and Religion Reconciled, or How To Solve The Problem Of Faith and Reason"

April 13, 2007
Thomas (Tom) Vinci
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Descartes and Contemporary Epistemology"

April 6, 2007, Good Friday, No Talk

March 30, 2007
Susan Sherwin
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Ethics as a Shell Game in an Era of Global Threats"

March 23, 2007
Daniel M. Hausman
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Preferences"

March 16, 2007
Richmond Campbell
Department of Philsoophy, Dalhousie University
"Moral Justification"

March 9, 2007
Sue Campbell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Inside the Frame of the Past"

March 2, 2007
John Cook
Department of Philosophy, St. Francis Xavier University
"A Davidsonian Approach to Kripke's Puzzle"

February 23, 2007
STUDY BREAK - No paper

February 16, 2007
Nathan Brett
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Disrespect of the Law: A look at Philosophical Anarchism"

February 9, 2007
Dr. Evan Simpson, presenting at SMU hence our department has cancelled it's regular friday talk.

February  2, 2007
MUNROE DAY - DALHOUSIE CLOSED

January 26, 2007
Daniel Weinstock
University of Montreal
"The Ethics of dual Citizenship"

January 19, 2007
John H. Spencer
Department of Philosophy
Science Communication Unit
Department of Physics
University of Liverpool, UK
"Platonic Realism and the Laws of Physics"

January 12, 2007
Christine Overall
Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University and
Philosophy Department, Queen's University
"Conjoined Twins, Embodied Personhood, and Surgical Separation"

January 5, 2007
David White
University of Calgary
"What, exactly, is wrong with moral arbitrariness?"

   2006

December 8, 2006
Michael Hymers
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
" Wittgenstein Reads Kripke"

December 1, 2006
Patricia Glazebrook
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Why Ecofeminism? An International Perspective"

November 24, 2006
Francoise Baylis and Andrew Fenton
Department of Bioethics & Philosophy and Department of Philosophy
Dalhousie University
"Chimera Research and Stem Cell Therapies for Human Neurodegenerative Disorders"

November 17, 2006
Robert A Paul
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Spacetime Ontology: Kant, Einstein and Nagarjuna"

November 10, 2006
Darren Abramson
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Creative Computers and Turing's Responses to Two Objections"

November 3, 2006
Susan Dodds
Professor in Philosophy
School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages
University of Wollongong, Australia
"Legitimacy in Public Policy?: Deliberative Democracy, Ethical Disagreement and Bioethics"

NO TALK ON OCTOBER 27, 2006 DUE TO ARPA & CSWIP
(ARPA & CSWIP details are herebelow).

October 27-28, 2006
(ARPA) Atlantic Region Philosophers Association 
Hosts: UNB (Fredericton) and STU
Conference Theme: “Philosophy Now and Then”
Keynote speaker: Bernard Boxill

October 27-29, 2006
Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Conference (CSWIP)
Host: Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Conference Theme: “Security, Trust and Conflict”
Plenary Speaker: Trudy Govier, Lethbridge

October 13, 2006
Richmond Campbell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Content of Moral Judgment"

September 29, 2006
Peter Schotch
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"What exactly is epistemic logic? And what can we do to get involved?"

September 22, 2006
Gillman Payette
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Logical Pluralism?"

September 15, 2006
Tom Vinci
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Chapter 2: The Argument Structure of Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories"

September 08, 2006
Christina Behme and Dr. Helene Deacon
Department of Philosophy and Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University
"Language Learning in Infancy: Does the Empirical Evidence Support a Chomskian LAD?"

August 25, 2006
Robert Stainton
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario
"The Varieties and Plausibility og Primary Sentences."

August 18, 2006
Ray Martin and John Baressi
Department of Philosophy, University of Mayland, Dept. of Psychology, Dalhousie University
"The Rise and Fall of soul and Self in Western Thought: What Happend and What it Means."

August 11, 2006
Letitia Meynell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Power and Promise of Developmental Systems Theory"

August 4, 2006
Catherine Hundley
Department of Philosophy, Univesity of Windsor
"Disclosure, Silence and the Epistemic Value of Listening"

July 28, 2006
Michael Watkins
Department of Philosophy, Auburn University
"A Posteriori Primitivism"

July 21, 2006                                                                                                        Duncan MacIntosh
Department of Philosophy,Dalhousie University
"The Logical Structure of Instrumental Desire"

July 14, 2006
No Talk

July 07, 2006
3rd Annual Atlantic Canadian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
(ACSEMP)
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University & Unviersity of King's College, Halifax, NS.
ACSEMP-July 7-9, 2006

June 30, 2006
Sue Campbell
Department of Philosophy,Dalhousie University
"Performing Countermemory"

June 23, 2006
Julia Watt
Department of Philosophy,University of Western Ontario
"Contested Identities: Cultural Diversity and Population Genomics"

June 16, 2006
Khadija Coxon
Department of Philosophy, Queen's University
"On the Dubious Moral Status of Pity"

June 9, 2006
Gillman Payette
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Notes from the Preservationist Underground: On Preserving"

June 2, 2006
NO PAPER  - CPA May 29-June 1, 2006 York University, Toronto, ON

May 26, 2006
David Anderson
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Quine and the Minimal Principle of Contradiction"

May 19, 2006
Stephen Maitzen
Department of Philosophy, Acadia University
"Ordinary Morality Implies Atheism"

May 12, 2006
Michael Hymers
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Wittgenstein on the Essence of Language"

May 05, 2006
Vaughan Black
Department of Law, Dalhousie University
"Counterfactual Inquires in Law about Decision and Causation"

April 28, 2006
Devin Ens
Department of Philosophy,  Dalhousie University
"Character and Emotional Responsibility"

April 21, 2006
Monique Lanoix
Department of Philosophy,  Dalhousie University
"The Citizen in Question"

April 14, Good Friday (NO TALK)

April 07, 2006
Robert Paul
Department of Philosophy,  Dalhousie University
"Schopenhauer from a Buddhist point of view"

March  24, 2006
Liam Dempsey
Department of Philosophy,  Dalhousie University
"There and Back Again: Thinking Matter from Hobbes to Searle"

March 17, 2006
Adam Morton
Department of Philosophy,  University of Alberta
"How to invent an - epistemic - virtue"

March 10, 2006
Greg Scherkoske
Department of Philosophy,  Dalhousie University
"Integrity and Moral Danger"           

March 3, 2006
Christine Overall
Department of Philosophy,  Queen's University
"Sex Segregation Revisited"                

February 24, 2006
READING WEEK BREAK - NO COLLOQUIA

February 17, 2006
Louis Groarke
Department of Philosophy,  St. Francis Xavier University
"Understanding and Misunderstanding Aristotle: A Very New (Very Old) Theory of Induction"                

February 10, 2006
Stephen Maitzen
Department of Philosophy,  Acadia  University
"How Not to Argue from Science to Skepticism"                                                                                

(Thursday) January 26, 2006
James Brown
Department of Philosophy,Univesity of Toronto
"The Community of Science(R)" (about the commercilisation of drug  research)                                                                                                 Venue:    Kenneth Rowe Building, Room 1028.                                                         

January 20, 2006
Slobodan Perovic
Department of Philosophy,Saint Mary'sUniversity
"Examining the Prospects for a Comprehensive Relational Account of Nature: The Case of Physical and Biological Systems"

January 13, 2006
Darren Abramson
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Turing Meets the Matrix: Cognition, Subcognition, and the Wachowski Test"

January 6, 2006
David White
Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary
"Seven Lies about the Subjectivity of Morality"

   2005 Top

December 16, 2005
Andrew Fenton
Department of Comparative Religion/Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Revising Our Recipe for Chimpanzee Knowledge-We Need A Tad More Yang and a Tad Less Yin"

December 9, 2005
Mike Hymers
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"From Contingent Conventions to Transcendental Norms? Wittgenstein's On Certainty"

November 25, 2005
Peter Schotch
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Ethics as a Formal Science, II---Are Those Your
Preferences, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?"

November 18, 2005
Mike Hymers
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"From Transcendental Grounds to Contingent Norms: Wittgenstein on Meaning, Morality, and Method"

November 11, 2005
REMEMBERANCE DAY - NO COLLOQUIM

November 4, 2005
Andrew Graham
Acadia University, NS
"Wittgenstein and Kripke on the Standard Metre"

Oct 28-29, 2005 ARPA Conference, @ Memorial University of NewFoundland, NF.

October 20-21, 2005 Austin & Hempel Lectures, Dalhousie University.

October 14, 2005
Susan Sherwin
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Relational Existence and Termination: Abortion and End of Life Decision-Making"

October 7, 2005
Tom Vinci
Department of Philosophy Dalhousie University
"Intuition, Representation and Transcendental Idealism in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason"

Sept 30-Oct 2, 2005 : CSWIP Conference

September 23, 2005
Richmond Campbell
Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy Dalhousie University
"What is Moral Judgment?"

September 16, 2005
Peter K Schotch
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Ethics as a Formal Science 1"

September 9, 2005
David Braybrooke
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
Department of Philosophy and Government, University of Texas at Austin
"Two Ventures in Philosophical Journalism: 1) Disarming 'Liberal' as a Term of Abuse 
2) Logical Failures of the Bush Administration"

August 26, 2005
Chase Caudle
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Unexamined World is Worth Knowing"

August 19, 2005
Julia Watt
Western University
"Desire, Judgment, and the Downfall of Humean Morality"

August 12, 2005
Victor Kumar
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Naturalism and Normativity: Moral Realism without Intrinsic Value"

August 5, 2005
Duncan MacIntosh
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"On the Mutual Limitation of Needs as Bases of Moral Entitlements:
A Solution to Braybrooke's Problem"

July 29, 2005
Michael Watkins and James Shelley
Auburn University and Dalhousie University
"Response Dependence and Aesthetic Value"
 
July 22, 2005
Meredith Schwartz
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Feeling Good: The Role of Emotion in Naturalized Epistomology"

July 15, 2005
Robert Wood
Department of Philosophy, St. Mary's University
"Discrimination in International Development: An Economic Perspective"
 
June 24, 2005
Françoise Baylis
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Changing Faces: Ethics, Identity, and Facial Transplantation"
 
June 17, 2005
Edrie Sobstyl
Douglas College, New Westminster, BC
"The Almost Sad Fate of Feminist Empiricism"
 
June 10, 2005
Christina Behme
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Phaedrus: Is Plato Author of His Own Demise?"
 
June 03, 2005
Liam Dempsey
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Written in the Flesh: Isaac Newton on the Mind-Body Union"
 
May 20, 2005
Nathan Brett
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Liberalism and Freedom of Expression: The Moral Foundations of Butler and Keegstra"
 
May 13, 2005
Sue Sherwin and Meredith Schwartz
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Ethical Reflections on Genetic Enhancement in Sports"
 
May 06, 2005
Raymond Martin
Union College
"Historical Studies, Objectivity, and the Politics of Inclusion"
 
April 29, 2005
Sylvia Burrow
Cape Breton University
"Empathy and Moral Imagination"
 
April 22, 2005
Peter Schotch
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"David Braybrooke on the Track of PPE"
 
April 15, 2005
Greg Scherkoske
Cambridge University
"Trust and Respect"
 
April 08, 2005
Peter Heron
University of Ottawa
"'Another Sort of Intelligibility' - The Phenomenology of Feeling and Heidegger's Impasse"
 
March 18, 2005
Sue Campbell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Our Faithfulness to the Past: Reconstructing Memory Value"
 
March 11, 2005
Gary Foster
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Rawls and Ricouer on Justice: Reconciling the Right With the Good"
 
January 28, 2005
Giovanna Columbetti
York University
"Are There Positive and Negative Emotions? Steps Toward a Multidimensional Notion of Valence"
 
January 21, 2005 
Darren Abramson
Indiana University
"Growing Minds, Computability, and the Potentially Infinite"
 
January 14, 2005
Liam Dempsey
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Prospects for a Genuine Artificial Intelligence"

January 07, 2005
Hal Whitehead
Department of Biology, Dalhousie University
"Colossal Convergence: Genes on Culture's Leash"
and
Richmond Campbell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"What Sperm Whales Tell Us About Free Will"

 

                Top

December 03, 2004
Nathan Brett
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Equality and Privatization in Education"

November 26, 2004
Gary Foster
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Romantic Love is No Cure for Anxiety: Re-thinking Sartre's Concrete Relations With Others."

November 19, 2004
Steven Burns
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Life of Pi and the Existence of Tigers"

November 12, 2004
Tom Vinci
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Braybrooke and the Formal Structure of Moral Justification."
 
November 05, 2004
NO SEMINAR
 
October 29, 2004
Robert Alan Paul
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Experimental metaphysics and the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics."
 
October 15 & 22, 2004
NO SEMINAR
 
October 08, 2004
Tony Cunningham
Department of Philosophy, St. John's University, Minnesota
"The Eye of Anger's Storm: Wrath and Forgiveness"
 
October 01, 2004
Meredith Schwartz
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Relational Responsibility and Health Care"
 
September 24, 2004
Letitia Meynell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Why Feynman Diagrams Represent"
 
September 17, 2004
Richmond Campbell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Problem of Moral Judgment"
 
September 10, 2004
David Braybrooke
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University and University of Texas at Austin
"Evil in the perspective of analytical political Philosophy."
 
September 03, 2004
NO SEMINAR
 
August 27, 2004
Michael Hymers
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Moral Claims and Epistemic Contexts"
 
August 20, 2004
Ryan Tanner
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"The Search for Rational Constraints Against Unchosen
Immoral Values: No, It's Not Futile, Really."
 
August 13, 2004
Julia Watt
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Autonomy, Authenticity and Narrative Authority in Bioethics"
 
August 6, 2004
Thane Plantikow and Jason Scott Robert
Department of Philosophy,  Dalhousie University
"Intentional misdiagnosis and psychiatric nosology:
Can psychiatry keep the nosological Ship of Neurath from sinking?"
 
July 30, 2004
Michael Watkins
Department of Philosophy, Auburn University
"Intentionality and the Inverted Spectrum"
 
July 23, 2004
Liam Dempsey
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Master of the Phantasm: Toward a Newtonian Philosophy of Psychology"
 
July 16, 2004
Lisa Kretz
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Anorexia Nervosa: Conceptualizing the Ethical Issues"
 
July 09, 2004
NO SEMINAR
 
July 02, 2004
NO SEMINAR
 
June 25, 2004
Thane Plantikow
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University,
"Disability Theory and the Psychiatric Subject"
 
June 18, 2004
Piers Stephens
Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool
"Consumerism, Conformity, Kerosene, and Culture:
Freedom and Nature in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451"
 
June 11, 2004
Nathan Brett and Katie Paxman
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University,
"Reason and Hume's Passions"
 
June 04, 2004
Susan Sherwin and Victoria Seavilleklein
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University,
"Buyer Beware -- Choosing the Sex of Your Baby"
 
May 28, 2004
NO SEMINAR
 
May 21, 2004
Christina Behme
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University,
"Why is artificial intelligence struggling with natural language?"
 
May 14, 2004
Patricia (Trish) Glazebrook
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"Aristotle and Quantum Mechanics"
 
May 07, 2004
NO SEMINAR
 
April 30, 2004
Gillman Payette, Dalhousie University
"Completeness without arithmetic"
 
April 23, 2004
Itay Shani, University of Western Ontario
"Computation and Intentionality: A Recipe for Epistemic Impasse"
 
April 16, 2004
Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
"Chomsky and the Poverty of Evidence"
 
April 2, 2004
Patricia Glazebrook, Dalhousie University
"Is Achilles Still Running?"
 
March 26, 2004
Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
"Breaking the Darwinian Social Contract: What Are Moral Reasons For?"
 
March 19, 2004
Graeme Nicholson, University of Toronto
"Heidegger, Kant and Pure Reason"
 
March 12, 2004
Reinoldo Elugardo,  University of Oklahoma
"Fodor on Compositionality and the Argument from Inexplicit"
 
March 5, 2004
Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University
"Determining Health Care Needs after the Human Genome Project:  Reflections on Genetic Tests for Breast Cancer"
 
February 20, 2004
SCHEDULED:Itay Shani, University of Western Ontario
Naturalized Content and intrinsic intentionality: A recipe for epistemic impasse.  
POSTPONED due to record-breaking snowstorm.
 
February 13, 2004
John Thorpe, University of Western Ontario
Aristotle's Worst Idea
 
January 30, 2004
Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University
"Paraconsistent logic: a Canadian view"
 
January 23, 2004
Liam Dempsey, Dalhousie University
"Three Arguments for Consciousness-Body Dualism"
 
January 16, 2004
Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
"Sellars and the Myth of the Given, Mark III"
 
January 9, 2004
Shawn Warren, Dalhousie University
"Phenomental Intersubjectivity: I Feel Your Pain"

 

   2003 Top

December 12, 2003
Mark Mercer, Saint Mary's University
"Beliving Wishfully"
 
December 5, 2003
Sam Scott, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
"Empty Names and Non-Referring Concepts"
 
November 27, 2003
Dan Ryder, Indian University, Bloomington
"Intentionality and the Brain: Aristotle's Missing Mechanism"
 
November 21, 2003
Trish Glazebrook, Dalhousie University
Mark Mercer, St. Mary's University
Katie Paxman, Dalhousie University
John Schellenberg, Mount St. Vincent
Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University
What is Philosophy?
 
November 7, 2003
Steven Burns, Dalhousie University
"Getting It: On Jokes and Art"
 
October 31, 2003
Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
"Revisability and Contextual Apriority"
 
October 10, 2003
Terry March, Dalhousie University
"Successful Transition- from Professor of Philosophy to Philosophical Counselor"
 
September 26, 2003
Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University
"Bedtime for Bolzano: 100 years of Russell's Theory of Descriptions"
 
September 19, 2003
James Anderson, Dalhousie University
"Ethics and Science of Randomized Controlled Trials: Assay Sensitivity and the Duhem-Quine Thesis"
 

September 5, 2003
Victoria Seaville Klein, Dalhousie University
A Deliberative Solution to Embryo esearch Regulation

August 22, 2003
Khadija Coxon, Dalhousie University
Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and Virtue

August 15, 2003
Jordy Koffman, Dalhousie University
Justice in Plato's Phaedrus

August 1, 2003
Adrian Neer, Dalhousie University
Social Contract Arguments and Global Justice

July 25, 2003
Kira Tomsons, Dalhousie University
Oppression and Expression: Hate Speech, Pornography, and Canadian Law

July 18, 2003
Sue Campbell, Dalhousie University
Models of Mind and Memory Activities

July 11, 2003
Duncan MacIntosh, Dalhousie University
The Impossibility of Humean-Random Worlds: A Solution to the Problem of Induction

July 4, 2003
Liam Dempsey, University of Western Ontario
Qualia and the Brain: Seeking a Tonic for the Epiphenomic

June 27, 2003
David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University and University of Texas at Austin
Where Does the Moral Force of the Concept of Needs Reside and When?

June 30, 2003
Barry Allen, McMaster University
The Ubiquitous Artifact: On Coherence Beautiful and Ugly

June 13, 2003
Barry Allen, McMaster University
Why Call it Knowledge? Artifacts Against Epistemology

June 6, 2003
Peter Alward, University of Lethbridge
Excluding Tropes

May 23, 2003
Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
Liberty and Harm: Is Marijuana Prohibition constitutional

May 16, 2003
Susan Sherwin and Françoise Baylis, Dalhousie University
The Feminist Health Care Ethics Consultant as Architect and Advocate

May 9, 2003
Sheldon Wein, Saint Mary's University
Does Legal Positivism Need a *Hart Transplant?
*That's 'Hart' not 'Heart'.

April 25, 2003
Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University
Wittgenstein and Metalogic

April 11, 2003
Eric Juengst, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
'Altering' the Human Species? Misplaced Essentialism in Science Policy

April 4, 2003
Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
The Truth about the Past: Hacking's Paradox Paradoctored

March 28, 2003
Wes Cragg, Schulich School of Business and Department of Philosophy, York University
Human Rights, Globalization, and the Modern Shareholder-Owned Corporation

March 21, 2003
Mason Cash, Dalhousie University
Metaphor, Socialization, and On-Line Community: Obstacles to Dialogue about Computer Hacking

March 14, 2003
Samantha Brennan, University of Western Ontario
The Common Structure of Thresholds for Rights and Thresholds for Options

March 7, 2003
Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
Natural Teleology: How it Could be True

February 28, 2003
Richmond Campbell and Jason Robert, Dalhousie University
The Structures of Evolution by Natural Selection

February 14, 2003
Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
Vinci on Rozemond on Descartes on Mind-Body Interaction

January 31, 2003
Mark Mercer, Saint Mary's University
Metaphor and Sentence Meaning

January 24, 2003
Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Modal Logic but Were Afraid I'd Tell You

January 17, 2003
Sue Sherwin, Dalhousie University
The Importance of Ontology for Feminist Policy-Making in the Realm of Reproductive Technologies

January 10, 2003
Paul Viminitz, University of Lethbridge
Games in Centrifugal Tension: a Conjecture about the Nash Equilibrium Proof, the Deer Hunter, and the Contrition and Collaboration Paradoxes

 

   2002 Top

December 13, 2002
Kira Tomsons, Dalhousie University
Understanding Moral Responsibility in the Context of Oppression

December 6, 2002
Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University
Adventures in Non-Classical Logic, Part 4: Three-Valued Logic

November 29, 2002
Richmond Campbell and Jenna Woodrow, Dalhousie University
Why is Moore's Open Question Open? Naturalizing Moral Epistemology

November 22, 2002
Jason Kawall, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Reverence for Life as a Viable Environmental Virtue

November 15, 2002
Christopher Olsen, University of Toronto
The Real Trouble(s) with Cognitive Science

November 8, 2002
Trish Glazebrook, Dalhousie University
Why Read Heidegger on Science?

November 1, 2002
Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
The Derring-Do of the Witter-Glitter Man

October 25, 2002
Tara Nicholson, Simon Fraser University
A Logical Generalization of the Prisoner's Dilemma

October 11, 2002
Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
Moral Epistemology

October 4, 2002
Jason Scott Robert, Dalhousie University
Robustness and Psychiatric Classification

September 13, 2002
Robert Martin, Dalhousie University
"Me and Jennifer Went to the Mall": A Defense of Bad English, Sort of

September 6, 2002
David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University and University of Texas at Austin
What Use Does Ethics Have for the Concept of Truth?

August 23, 2002
Lisa Minuk, Dalhousie University
The Old and the Dutiful: Negotiating Duties of Care for the Frail and Demented Elderly

August 16, 2002
Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
Definitions, Diaries, and Private Languages

August 9, 2002
Bill Seager, University of Toronto
Zombies, Physicalism, and Some Epistemological Niceties

August 2, 2002
Heidi Tiedke, University of Maryland
Continuing Our Life Trajectories: What Really Matters in Survival

July 26, 2002
Rockney Jacobsen, Wilfred Laurier University
Experiencing the Because: Rules and Illusions in the Philosophical Investigations

July 19, 2002
Peter Alward, University of Lethbridge
Fregecide

July 12, 2002

David Braybrooke, University of Texas at Austin and Dalhousie University
Reverence: Two Examples from Japan and One from Kant

July 5, 2002 Mark Mercer, Saint Mary's University
Varieties of Epicureanism

June 28, 2002 Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
What Am I? A Kripkean's Take on Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem

June 21, 2002 Duncan MacIntosh, Dalhousie University
The Unfissionables

June 14, 2002 Pete Bahr, Dalhousie University
Regulism, Interpretation and Idiolects: Davidson on Rule-Following

June 7, 2002 Michael Watkins, Auburn University
Turtles All the Way Down: A Simple Theory of Normal Conditions

May 31, 2002 Jennifer McRobert, Dalhousie University and University of Lethbridge
Shepherd's Two Senses of Necessary Connection

May 17, 2002 Murat Bac, Dalhousie University
Knowing That One Knows

May 10, 2002 Anthony Cunningham, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota
The Virtues of Modesty

April 19,2002 James McGilvray, McGill University
Science and Common Sense

April 12, 2002 Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality
(An Austin and Hempel Lecture)

April 5, 2002 Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
What is a Material Inference? Brandom on Sharing Concepts

  March 1, 2002 Roopen Majithi, Mount Allison University
Love and Virtue in Aristotle's Ethics

February 15, 2002 Sue Sherwin, Dalhousie University
Personalizing the Political: Negotiating Feminist, Medical, Scientific, and Commercial Discourses
Surrounding Breast Cancer

February 8, 2002 Mason Cash, Dalhousie University
Naturalizing Intentionality by Naturalizing Normativity

January 18, 2002 Philip Rose, Dalhousie University
Liberalism and Environmental Justice

January 11, 2002 Andrew Kernohan, Dalhousie University
Despising the Despicable

 

   2001  Top

December 14, 2001 Liam Dempsey, University of Western Ontario
Reduction Without Explanation? Qualia-Body Identity and the Explanatory Gap

December 7, 2001 Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
Private Life: Biotechnology and the Public/Private Divide

November 23, 2001 Chris MacDonald, Departments of Philosophy and Bioethics, Dalhousie University
Proxy Contractarianism: Parsing the Assumption of Mutual Disinterest

November 16, 2001 Kira Tomsons, Dalhousie University
Iris Young and Oppression: Identifying and Limiting Group-Claims to Oppression

November 2, 2001 Sue Campbell, Dalhousie University
Emotion, Memory and Political Identification

October 26, 2001 Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
Going Around the Vienna Circle: Wittgenstein and Verification

October 12, 2001 Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge
Approximate Truth in Context

October 5, 2001 Jenna Woodrow, Dalhousie University
Justifying Consensus: An Evolutionary Social Epistemology

September 14, 2001 Sheldon Wein, Dalhousie University
Law's Province

August 24, 2001 Carolyn Ells, Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University
Shifting the Autonomy Debate to Theory as Ideology

August 17, 2001 John Barresi, Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University
(Co-authored with Ray Martin, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland)
Self-Concern from Priestley to Hazlitt

August 10, 2001 Sandy Bannikoff, Dalhousie University
The Tractarian Solution to the Problem of Universals

August 3, 2001 Carl Matheson, University of Manitoba
What the Reader's Brain Tells the Reader's Heart

July 27, 2001 David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University and University of Texas at Austin
A Progressive Approach to the Problem of Global Moral Responsibility

July 20, 2001 Peter Alward, University of Lethbridge
Between the Lines of Age: Reflections on the Metaphysics of Words

July 13, 2001 Michael Watkins, Auburn University
Seeing Red: The Metaphysics of Colour without the Physics

June 29, 2001 Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
Metaphor and Number

June 22, 2001 Antonia LoLordo, University of Virginia
Descartes and Gassendi on the Relationship between Mind and Body

June 15, 2001 Christine Koggel, Bryn Mawr College
Problems in Practice with Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom

June 8, 2001 Andrew Brook, Carleton University
Kant, Awareness and Self-reference

June 1, 2001 Dave Boutilier, University of Western Ontario
The A Priori Constitutive Element in Theories of Spacetime

May 18, 2001 Wilfred Cude Attrition Statistics: Forerunners of Academic Change

May 11, 2001 Mark Mercer, Saint Mary's University
To Love Justice for Its Own Sake

May 4, 2001 Jason Robert and Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
Aristotle and Modern Genetics

April 27, 2001 Daryn Lehoux, History of Science and Technology Programme, University of King's College
Metaphor and Number

April 20, 2001 Phil Rose, Dalhousie University
Questioning Biotechnology: Moral Considerability and the Autonomy of Nature

April 6, 2001 Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
Treating Like Cases Differently

March 23, 2001 Mason Cash, Dalhousie University
When Is a Process Representational?

March 16, 2001 Samantha Brennan, University of Western Ontario
Moral Gaps, Individual Rights, and Obligations to Aid: The Two-Threshold Thesis

March 9, 2001 Dr. Gerald Cohen, All Souls College, Oxford University
Freedom and Money
(An Austin and Hempel Lecture sponsored by the Department of Philosophy in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University and with Contemporary Studies, University of King's College)

March 2, 2001 Marc Ereshefsky, University of Calgary
Species Begone? The Future of Biological Classification
AND
Making Normal People
(Presented in cooperation with the Evolution Studies Group of Dalhousie University)

February 9, 2001 Kira Tomsons, Dalhousie University
Multiculturalism and Liberalism: A Problem with Neutrality

January 19, 2001 Sue Sherwin, Dalhousie University
Moral Perception and Global Visions

January 12, 2001 Steven Burns, Dalhousie University
Something from Nothing: Peter Winch on Philosophy and Religion

January 5, 2001 Mark Mercer, Saint Mary's University
Suffering, Sorrow, and the Gift of Free Will
   2000     Top

December 15, 2000 Philip Rose, Dalhousie University
Kant: Autonomy, Spontaneity and Radical Construction

December 8, 2000 Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
The Argument Structure of Quine's 'Epistemology Naturalized'

December 1, 2000 Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
Sexual Assault Legislation and Implied Consent

November 24, 2000 Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
Putnam, Rorty and the Difficulty of Renouncing All Theory

November 10, 2000 Françoise Baylis, Departments of Philosophy & Bioethics, Dalhousie University
Human Cloning: Three Mistakes and An Alternative

November 3, 2000 William Ruddick, New York University
Death, Doctors, and Umpires
(Supported by the Century of Enlightenment Fund)

October 27, 2000 Mason Cash, Dalhousie University
Intentionality in Practice: Looking for 'Life' in All the Wrong Places

October 6, 2000 Charles Weijer, Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University
Protecting Communities in Biomedical Research

September 29, 2000 Jason Robert, Dalhousie University
Disputes Over the Nature of Synthetic Biology

September 22, 2000 Christy Simpson, Dalhousie University
From Hope Work to False Hope - Some Deeper Issues to Consider

September 15, 2000 Carol Hay, Dalhousie University
MacIntosh on the Structure of Morality: What To Do When Rational Preferences Conflict

September 8, 2000 Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
Wittgenstein, Pessimism and Politics

August 25, 2000 Amanda Coen, Dalhousie University
Why Quine's Epistemology Sinks his Boat of Scientific Knowledge

August 18, 2000 Scott Edgar, Dalhousie University
From Theory to Therapy: Michael Williams on Scepticism and Objectivity

August 11, 2000 Michael Watkins, Auburn University
Direct Knowledge and the Fourth Dogma of Empiricism: The Case for Pollyannism

August 4, 2000 Sue Campbell, Dalhousie University
Dependence in Client-Therapist Relationships: A Relational Reading of O'Connor and Mills

July 28, 2000 David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University / University of Texas (Austin)
How Democratic Deliberation Can Deal with the Political Absurd

July 21, 2000 Chris Viger, Dalhousie University
Representations and Symbols: Some Thoughts on the Atomism/Holism Debate

July 14, 2000 Ray Martin, University of Maryland
Fragmentation and the Future of Theory: The Case of Self and Personal Identity

July 7, 2000 Carmel Forde, Dalhousie University
Perspectives on the ontogeny of the ecological self

June 30, 2000 Michael Watkins, Auburn University
Re-reading Thomson: Why the Abortion Debate Remains Uninteresting

June 23, 2000 Stephen Maitzen, Acadia University and Garnett Wilson, Dalhousie University
Newcomb's Hidden Regress

June 16, 2000 Phil Rose, Dalhousie University
Whitehead and the Metaphysics of the Self

June 9, 2000 Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories as a Transcendental Exposition (Part II)
June 2, 2000 Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories as a Transcendental Exposition (Part I)

May 19, 2000 Sheldon Wein, Saint Mary's University
Uniting Radicals: Dealing with Utility

May 12 , 2000 Liam Dempsey, University of Western Ontario
Mind-Body Identity Theory: Tonic for the Epiphenomic

May 5, 2000 Chris MacDonald, Dalhousie University
Moral Constraints, Public Goods, and Humean Social Conventions

April 7, 2000 Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
Moral Epistemology Naturalized: Two Interpretations, Two False Dichotomies

March 31, 2000 Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
Stroud, Naturalized Epistemology and Skepticism

March 24, 2000 Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
The Dignity of a Rule: Wittgenstein, Mathematical Norms and Truth

March 17, 2000 Carolyn Ells, Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University
Foucault, Feminism, and Informed Choice

March 10, 2000 Samantha Brennan, University of Western Ontario
Relational Selves and Thresholds for Rights

February 25, 2000 Joe Mintoff, Bowling Green State University
Is Rational and Voluntary Constraint Possible?

February 18, 2000 Margaret Walker, Fordham University
Resentment and Assurance
(An Austin and Hempel Lecture)

February 11, 2000 John McMurtry, University of Guelph
Title Unavailable

January 28, 2000 Peter March, Saint Mary's University
Doing without Appearances

January 14, 2000 Peter Apostoli, University of Toronto
The Square of Penumbral Opposition: Aristotelian Modes of Predication in Naive Set Theory

January 7, 2000 Liam Dempsey, University of Western Ontario
Newton's Philosophy of Mind: A Newtonian Resolution of the Mind-Body Problem(s)?

 

   1999     Top

December 10, 1999 John Hubert, Dalhousie University
Kant and the Normative Status of Emotion

December 3, 1999 Philip Rose, Dalhousie University
Holism, Liberal Humanism and Environmental Ethics, or, Whitehead? Isn't he the guy who wrote that thing with Russell?

November 26, 1999 Rob Stainton, Carleton University
The Meaning of Sentences

November 19, 1999 Andrews Reynolds, University College of Cape Breton
Is the Pragmatist Committed to Anti-Realism about the Past?

November 12, 1999 Malcolm Murray, University of Prince Edward Island
How to Blackmail a Contrarian

November 5, 1999 Chris Viger, Dalhousie University
Locking on to Asymmetric Dependence

October 29, 1999 Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
Track-Record Arguments and Epistemic Circularity

October 22, 1999 Christy Simpson, Dalhousie University
Hope, Health and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

October 8, 1999 Mark Mercer, Saint Mary's University
In Defence of Weak Psychological Egoism

October 1, 1999 David Guetter, Mount Saint Vincent University
Celestial Circles in the Timaeus

September 17, 1999 Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
The Social Contract, Its Feminist Critique, and Naturalized Moral Epistemology

September 10, 1999 Sue Sherwin, Dalhousie University
Feminist Reflections on the Role of Theories in a Global Bioethics

August 27, 1999 Colin Johnston, Dalhousie University
What's Wrong with Kripke on Private Language?

August 20, 1999 Dr. Diana Tietjens Meyers, University of Connecticut
Decentralizing Autonomy: Five Faces of Selfhood
(This talk was supported by the Century of Enlightenment Fund)

August 6, 1999 Michael Watkins, Auburn University
Cognitive Complexity and Epistemic Simplicity: Directly Perceiving Causal Events

July 30, 1999 David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University / University of Texas (Austin)
The Route through Locke and Hume's Property to Universal Natural Laws

July 23, 1999 Chris Viger, Dalhousie University
Embodied Content: An Alternative to Mentalese

July 16, 1999 Stephen Maitzen, Acadia University
Abortion in the Original Position

July 9, 1999 William Seager, University of Toronto
Generalized Epiphenomenalism

July 2, 1999 Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
Ebb's Participant Perspective on Self-Knowledge

June 25, 1999 Sue Campbell, Dalhousie University
A singular and representative life: Personal memory and oppressive harms

June 18, 1999 Liam Dempsey, University of Western Ontario
Why the 'hard problem of consciousness' runs so deep

June 11, 1999 Rockney Jacobsen, Wilfred Laurier University
Truth and Sensibility

May 28, 1999 Sue Sherwin, Dalhousie University
Revisiting Belmont Through a Feminist Lens

May 21, 1999 Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
The Supreme Court's Two Views of 'Consent': Reflections on Ewanchuk

May 7, 1999 Steven Burns, Dalhousie University
Metaphysics, Music and Death: Nietzsche on Wagner

April 23, 1999 Tom Vinci and David Wolfe, Dalhousie University
The Argument against Foundationalism in Sellars's 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind'

April 16, 1999 Dr. Nicholas Maxwell, University of London
Is the Universe Comprehensible?
(Jointly sponsored by the Philosophy Department, Dalhousie University and The Contemporary Studies Programme, University of King's College)

April 9, 1999 Dr. Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Evil
(An Austin and Hempel Lecture in cooperation with the Women's Studies programme of Dalhousie University)

March 26, 1999 Brendan Neufeld, Dalhousie University
What's Fishy in Salmon's Semantics of Belief?

March 19, 1999 Melinda Hogan, Dalhousie University
Cut the PIE Any Way You Like, Meanings Still Ain't in the Head

March 12, 1999 Michael Hymers, Dalhousie University
Metaphor, Mathematics and Abstract Objects

March 5, 1999 Carolyn McLeod, Dalhousie University
Where Things Can Go Wrong: Self-Trust and Interpersonal Trust

February 12, 1999 John Hubert, Dalhousie University
Should We Be Teaching Professional Ethics the Kantian Way?

February 5, 1999 Steve Maitzen, Dalhousie University
2 + 2 = 4??? A discussion of Barnes, Bloor and Henry on the social construction of mathematics

January 29, 1999 Steve Maitzen, Dalhousie University
Anselm's Antinomy

January 22, 1999 Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
Moral Judgment: Challenging the Cognitive/Noncognitive Dichotomy

January 15, 1999 Carolyn McLeod, Dalhousie University
Attitudes of Self-Trust and Self-Distrust Surrounding Marriage

January 8, 1999 Jennifer McRobert, Acadia University
Kant on Mathematical Construction and Quantity of Matter

       1998     Top

    December 11, 1998
    Françoise Baylis, Department of Philosophy & Faculty of Medicine,
    Dalhousie University
    IRB's: Protecting the Well-being of Subject-participants with Mental Disorders That May Affect Decision-making Capacity (A response to a Draft Report by the presidentially appointed National Bioethics Advisory Committee)

    December 4, 1998
    Duncan MacIntosh, Dalhousie University
    Moral Paradox and Moral Facts

    November 27, 1998
    Tim Christie, University of Ottawa
    Medical Futility and Shared Decision-Making

    November 20, 1998
    John Barresi, Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University
    On Becoming a Person

    November 13, 1998
    Brendan Neufeld, Dalhousie University
    On Murdering: Donnellan's Referential-Attributive Distinction

    November 6, 1998
    Dr. Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut
    Abilities
    (An Austin and Hempel Lecture)

    October 30, 1998
    Kevin de Laplante, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University College of Cape Breton
    Certainty and Domain-Independence in the Sciences of Complexity

    October 23, 1998
    Dr. Brian Barry, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
    A Theory of Group Rights
    (An Austin and Hempel Lecture in cooperation with the Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University)

    October 9, 1998
    Carl Simpson, Waterloo, Ontario
    Invisible Pictures: Virtual Reality and Representation

    October 2, 1998
    Peter March, Saint Mary's University
    Mind as Relation

    September 25, 1998
    Paul Boghossian, New York University
    Reasons and the A Priori
    (An Austin and Hempel Lecture)

    September 18, 1998
    Ray Martin, University of Maryland
    History and Objectivity: The View from Everywhere

    September 11, 1998
    Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University
    There is a Method in Her Metaphors: Exploring the Ethics in Ethics Metaphors

    August 24, 1998 (Monday)
    Bernard Linsky, University of Alberta
    Placing Abstract Objects in Naturalism

    August 14, 1998
    Bryan Thomas, Dalhousie University
    The Rawlsian Conception of Persons: Are Persons in Rawls Persons at All?

    August 7, 1998
    Carl Matheson, University of Manitoba
    Literary Rationality

    July 31, 1998
    David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University / University of Texas (Austin)
    The Sad Career of Bentham's Master Idea

    July 24, 1998
    Bob Martin, Dalhousie University
    Nominalist Metaethics

    July 10, 1998
    Duncan MacIntosh, Dalhousie University
    The Prudence Problem: How to Frame it; Solution Strategies

    June 12, 1998
    Elizabeth Haigh, Department of History, Saint Mary's University
    The Mechanist-Vitalist Debate in Eighteenth-Century Physiology

    June 5, 1998
    Lynette Reid, Dalhousie University
    Chronic Pain: Reason, Attitude, and Action

    May 22, 1998
    Christy Simpson, Dalhousie University
    Children & Developing Competency Skills

    May 15, 1998
    Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
    Humean Bodies: Causation and the Idea of External Objects

    May 8, 1998
    Françoise Baylis, Office of Bioethics Education and Research, Faculty of Medicine and Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
    Dissenting with the Dissent: Winnipeg Child Services (Northwest Area) v. G. (D.F.)

    May 1, 1998
    Melinda Hogan, Dalhousie University
    Externalism and Self-Knowledge

    April 24, 1998
    Nancy Salay, Dalhousie University
    Reconciling Science and Intentions: What a Perfectly Respectable AND Explanatory Theory of Meaning Might Look Like

    March 20, 1998
    Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
    Why Contemporary Analytic Philosophy is Probably Incoherent

    March 13, 1998
    Stephen Maitzen, Dalhousie University
    A Semantic Attack on Divine-Command Metaethics

    February 20, 1998
    Lynette Reid, Dalhousie University
    Meaning & Truth in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

    February 13, 1998
    John Barresi, Departments of Psychology and Philosophy, Dalhousie University
    On Earth as it is in Heaven: Trinitarian Influences on Locke's Account of Personal Identity

    January 30, 1998
    Bill Matheson, Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University
    The Conscious Body: In Search of a Useful Theory

    January 23, 1998
    Andrew Kernohan, Adjunct Professor, Dalhousie University
    Individual Acts & Accumulative Consequences

    January 16, 1998
    Sue Campbell, Dalhousie University
    Dominant Identities and Settled Expectations

    January 9, 1998
    Jennifer McRobert, Department of Philosophy, Acadia University
    Anne Conway's Vitalism and her Critique of Descartes

     

       1997     Top

    December 5, 1997
    Carmel Forde, Dalhousie University
    Bodies of Knowledge: The Phenomenon of Blindsight

    November 28, 1997
    Glenn Griener, University of Alberta
    "Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong", Reflections on the Goals of Professional Ethics Education

    November 21, 1997
    Russ Weninger, Dalhousie University
    Heraclitus: Not a Deviant, Just Misunderstood

    November 7, 1997
    Dennis Klimchuk, University of Western Ontario
    Public Necessity in Private Law

    October 31, 1997
    Carolyn McLeod, Dalhousie University
    Addiction Treatment Policy Informed by a Feminist Theory of Self-Trust

    October 24, 1997
    Anna Frammartino, University of Toronto
    Two Footnotes on Unity in Kant's First Critique

    October 17, 1997
    Robert Martin, Dalhousie University
    Mice Among the Pigeons: De/Re(Con)Textualizing Meta-Hegemonic Identities

    October 3, 1997
    Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
    Is Sexism Irrational? A Paradox for Feminist Contractarianism

    September 19, 1997
    Sara Ellenbogen, University of Toronto
    Wittgenstein's Account of Truth: A Novel Perspective on the Semantic Realist/Antirealist Debate

    September 5, 1997
    Sharon Kaye, Dalhousie University
    Fourteenth-Century Logic & The Politics of Similarity

    August 22, 1997
    Margaret Cameron, Dalhousie University
    Imagining the Impossible

    August 15, 1997
    William Seager, University of Toronto
    The Reality of Now

    August 8, 1997
    David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University & University of Texas at Austin
    Three Short Pieces: Needs, Interests, and the Common Good Revised

    August 1, 1997
    Raymond Martin, University of Maryland
    The Unholy Alliance Between Science and Theology: A Case Study: The Secular Quest for the Historical Jesus

    July 25, 1997
    Adwoa Buehene, Dalhousie University
    Show Me the Money: Making Room for Holistic Medicine

    July 18, 1997
    Anthony Skelton, Dalhousie University
    The Moral Problem: Can Moral Judgements Be Simultaneously Objective and Practical?

    July 11, 1997
    Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University (Co-authored with Françoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie)
    Reframing Research Involving Humans

    June 27, 1997
    Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge
    Two Envelopes: The Right Answer

    June 20, 1997
    Rick DeVidi, University of King's College
    Frege and the Politics of Logic

    June 13, 1997
    Stuart Silvers, Clemson University, South Carolina
    Naturally Free Agents and Conscious Effort

    June 6, 1997
    Peter Alward, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Correspondence via the Backdoor and Other Stories

    May 23, 1997
    Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
    Epistemology Naturalized & Normative

    May 16, 1997
    Sue Campbell, Dalhousie University
    Philosophy and the Protection of the Personal

    May 9, 1997
    Shelley Kagan, Yale University
    Equality and Desert
    (An Austin and Hempel Lecture)

    May 2, 1997
    Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
    The Realism Question

    April 25, 1997
    Bob Martin, Dalhousie University
    Grue Glue

    ????
    Don Robinson, Mathematics/Science, Technology and Society, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, N.B.
    Economic Descriptions of Science

    March 21, 1997
    Carmel Forde, Dalhousie University
    "Heterology" or The Difference The Other Makes

    March 14, 1997
    Raymond Martin, University of Maryland
    Locke's Psychology of Personal Identity

    March 7, 1997
    Joe Mintoff, University of Newcastle
    Rational Cooperation, Intention and reconsideration

    Thursday, March 6, 1997
    Kathleen Okruhlik, University of Western Ontario
    The Life and Death of the Cartesian Subject

    January 31, 1997
    Sheldon Wein, Saint Mary's University
    Hume's (lack of) Argument for the Entrepreneurial Welfare State

    January 24, 1997
    Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
    Multiculturalism and Liberal Equality

    January 17, 1997
    Christy Simpson, Dalhousie University
    The Role of Values in Breast Cancer Research

    January 10, 1997
    Kathryn Morgan, University of Toronto
    Revisiting Frankenstein: Gender, Bio-technology, and the Creation of Human Artifacts

     

       1996     Top

    December 6, 1996
    Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
    Is There a Logic of Statistical Inference?

    November 29, 1996
    Stephen Maitzen, Dalhousie University
    The Knower Paradox and Epistemic Closure

    November 22, 1996
    Nebojsa Kujundzic, University College of Cape Breton
    Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Identity

    November 15, 1996
    Dr. Virginia Held, Distinguished Professor, City University of New York
    Liberalism and the Ethics of Care
    (An Austin and Hempel Lecture in cooperation with the Women's Studies programme of Dalhousie University)

    November 1, 1996
    Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University
    A Relational Approach to Autonomy in Health Care

    October 25, 1996
    Steven Burns, Dalhousie University
    Jealousy, Envy and Alice

    October 11, 1996
    Melinda Hogan, Dalhousie University
    Warding Off the Supernatural: Recipes for Explaining Meaning

    October 4, 1996
    John Barresi, Paper by John Barresi, Dalhousie University, and Ray Martin and Alesandro Giovanelli, University of Maryland
    Fission Examples in the 18th Century Personal Identity Debate

    September 27, 1996
    Daylian Cain, Dalhousie University
    Minimize harms, Kill Them All (A Dissolution of the Deterrence Dilemma)

    September 20, 1996
    Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
    Morals by Majority: Copp's Answer to Moral Skepticism

    August 23, 1996
    Jennifer McRobert and Rick DeVidi, Acadia University / King's College
    Kant, Naturalism and Brain Water

    August 16, 1996
    Michael Watkins, Auburn University
    Nomic Pluralism: Supervenience Without Emergence

    August 9, 1996
    Antonio Lolordo, Dalhousie University
    Contextualist Epistemology and Skepticism

    August 2, 1996
    Jim McGilvray, McGill University
    Chomskanian Properties

    July 26, 1996
    Carl Matheson, (Co-authored with Evan Kirchoff), University of Manitoba
    Chaos and Literature

    July 19, 1996
    Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Phylogenetic Inertia
    (An Austin and Hempel Lecture in cooperation with the Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University)

    July 12, 1996
    Paul McCulloch, Dalhousie University
    A Rejection of Two Arguments Regarding Determinism

    July 5, 1996
    Bill Seager, University of Toronto
    Meeting the Elephant: Consciousness & Objective Reality

    June 28, 1996
    Marc Ramsay, University of Western Ontario
    Is Cultural Membership a Primary Good?

    June 21, 1996
    Dennis Klimchuk, Dalhousie University
    Action and Peril

    June 14, 1996
    Dr. Selmer Bringsjord, Departments of Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science, and Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Computationalism is Dead: Now What?

    June 7, 1996
    Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
    The Epilogue to Cartesian Truth

    May 24, 1996
    Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University
    Reloading the Canon: Teaching Philosophy in a Feminist Age

    May 17, 1996
    Travis Hreno, Dalhousie University
    The Principle of Charity: Fact or Fiction

    May 10, 1996
    William Seager, University of Toronto
    Introspection and the Elementary Acts of Mind

    May 3, 1996
    Carolyn McLeod, Dalhousie University
    Maternal Substance Abuse: A Woman's Moral Responsibilities during Pregnancy

    April 26, 1996
    Brigitte Sassen, University of Prince Edward Island
    'Determinability' -- Kant and 'Things Outside of Us'

    April 19, 1996
    Nancy Salay, Dalhousie University
    On Fodor & the Non-Reducibility of Content

    April 12, 1996
    John Schellenberg, Mount Saint Vincent University
    Stalemate and Strategy: Rethinking the Evidential Argument from Evil

    March 29, 1996
    Michael Milde, University of Western Ontario
    How Not to Argue for Property Rights in a Social Contract Theory

    March 22, 1996
    Rich Campbell, Dalhousie University
    Feminist Contractarianism: Promise or Paradox?

    March 15, 1996
    Dr. Dennis Klimchuk, Dalhousie Law School
    Foresight and Risk

    March 8, 1996
    Steve Maitzen, Dalhousie University
    'Ought' From 'Is' Once And For All: Moral Conclusions From Non-Moral Premises

    March 1, 1996
    Dr. Marilyn Frye, Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University
    Postmodern Performatives: Revisiting Austin
    (An Austin and Hempel Lecture in cooperation with the Women's Studies programme of Dalhousie University)

    February 16, 1996
    Katherine Hill, University College of Cape Breton
    Hamilton and Bolzano on the Foundations of the Real Numbers

    February 9, 1996
    Dr. Msosa Mwale, Temple University, Pennsylvania
    On the Last Word

    January 19, 1996
    Dr. Jan Zwicky, University of New Brunswick
    Plato's Phaedrus: Philosophy as Dialogue with the Dead

    January 12, 1996
    Sheldon Wein, Saint Mary's University
    Seeking Sex with the Wild and Uncultivated: Hume on the Origin of Injustice

    January 5, 1996
    David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University and University of Texas
    Just What Rules are Moral Ones? How to Distinguish the Great Morals from the Small

     

       1995     Top

    December 8, 1995
    Dr. Dennis Klimchuk, Dalhousie Law School
    Caution, Belief, Interests and Responsibility

    December 1, 1995
    Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
    Mercy vs. Autonomy in Euthanasia

    November 24, 1995
    Duncan MacIntosh, Dalhousie University
    Fission is Death, and Persons Don't Come in Degrees

    November 17, 1995
    Gordon McOuat, University of King's College
    Species, Rules, and Meaning

    November 10, 1995
    Melinda Hogan, Dalhousie University
    Introspective Misidentification: An I For An I (Co-authored with Ray Martin)

    November 3, 1995
    Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
    Descartes' General Theory of Existential Inference

    October 27, 1995
    Duncan MacIntosh, Dalhousie University
    Prudence and the Reasons of Rational Persons

    October 20, 1995
    Hilary Putnam, Harvard University
    Wittgenstein & Philosophy of Mathematics
    (An Austin and Hempel Lecture)

    October 6, 1995
    Dr. Stephen Toulmin, University of Southern California
    The Primacy of Practice

    September 29, 1995
    Peter K. Schotch, Dalhousie University
    Skepticism & Epistemic Logic

    September 22, 1995
    Steve Maitzen, Dalhousie University
    The Instability of Moral Skepticism

    September 15, 1995
    Duncan MacIntosh, Dalhousie University
    Moral Paradox and the Mutuability of the Good

    August 25, 1995
    Jocelyne Couture, Université du Québec à Montréal
    Intrinsic Desires

    August 11, 1995
    David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University / University of Texas at Austin
    Conceptual Conflict as Lyotard Sees It

    August 4, 1995
    Paul McCulloch, Dalhousie University
    The Mote and the Beam: Wittgenstein's 'Seeing-As' Expanded

    July 28, 1995
    Michael Watkins, Auburn University
    Do Animals See Color? Some Thoughts About Animals, the Color Blind, and Far Away Places

    July 21, 1995
    Prof. Raymond Martin, University of Maryland
    Meaning and History: Why Humanistic Historical Interpretations Are Not Scientific Theories, Not Even Proto-Scientific Theories

    July 14, 1995
    David Jennex, University of Waterloo
    Some Issues in Environmental Issues

    OR
    Carl Matheson, University of Manitoba
    Biff vs. the Beatniks: Kitcher's Advancement of Science

    July 7, 1995
    Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge
    Another Defense of Backwards Causation

    June 23, 1995
    Professor Stephen Boos, University of King's College
    Overcoming Epistemology: The Dispute between Rorty and Taylor

    June 16, 1995
    Robert McCauley, Emory University
    Explanatory Pluralism and the Co-evolution of Theories in Science

    June 9, 1995
    Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
    Descartes' Theory of the Sense Experience of Primary and Secondary Qualities

    May 26, 1995
    Sue Campbell, Dalhousie University
    Women/Memory/Persons

    May 19, 1995
    Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
    The Defense of Necessity: Justification or Excuse

    May 12, 1995
    Carmel Forde, York University
    Topological Spaces

    May 5, 1995
    Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University
    Feminist Approaches to Autonomy in Health Care

    April 28, 1995
    Andrew Kernohan, Adjunct Professor, Dalhousie University
    The Meta-ethics of Liberalism

    April 21, 1995
    Marc Ramsay, Dalhousie University
    Transplants, Trolleys and Mafiosos in the Moral Theory of J. J. Thomson

    April 7, 1995
    Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
    Can Feminist Epistemology Be Naturalized? Part II: Fact-Value Holism

    March 31, 1995
    Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
    Can Feminist Epistemology Be Naturalized? Part I: Quine, Skepticism, and Feminist Empiricism

    March 17, 1995
    Peninah Brickman, Dalhousie University
    Promising (Sexual) Love

    March 10, 1995
    Rainer Friedrich, Dalhousie University
    Deconstruction and its Deconstruction

    February 17, 1995
    Richard DeVidi, University of Western Ontario
    Two Interpretations of Frege on Indexicals

    February 10, 1995
    Jane Arscott, Political Science and Philosophy Departments, Dalhousie University
    Liberalism, Feminism and Electoral Representation: What's a Feminist Theorist to Do?

    January 27, 1995
    Marc Ramsay, Dalhousie University
    Doling Out the Goods: What's Wrong with Distributive Justice

    January 20, 1995
    Wayne Fenske, Dalhousie University
    Moral Twin-Earth: The New Open Question Argument

    January 13, 1995
    Robert Martin, Dalhousie University
    Revisiting St. Petersburg

     

       1994     Top

    December 16, 1994 Bruce Archibald, Dalhousie University Law School
    The Drunkenness Defense

    December 9, 1994 Andrew Kernohan, Dalhousie University
    Liberalism and Enculturation

    November 4, 1994 Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge
    Putting Things Together

    October 28, 1994 Peter K. Schotch, Dalhousie University
    Why You Are Here Now

    October 21, 1994 Jody Graham, Saint Mary's University
    The Intellect's Burden: Geometrical Inferences in Descartes' Theory of Vision

    September 23, 1994 Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University
    It Starts Here

    September 16, 1994 Melinda Hogan, Dalhousie University
    How to Make a Causal Theory of Representation Work: Object, Content and the Problem of Misrepresentation

    September 2, 1994

    David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University and University of Texas at Austin
    For Interpretation: Against Utter Confusion; Post-Modernism within Limits

    August 26, 1994
    Jason Holt, Dalhousie University
    A Comprehensivist Theory of Art

    August 19, 1994 Michael Watkins, Auburn University
    The Morning After: Colors and Physicalism's False Promises

    August 12, 1994 Susan Wake, Saint Mary's University
    Aquinas' Casual Likeness Principle and its Treatment by Some 17th Century Philosophers

    July 29, 1994 Ray Martin, University of Maryland
    Empathy, Sympathy and Identification

    July 22, 1994 William Seager, University of Toronto
    Conscious Thoughts

    July 15, 1994 Terry Tomkow, Dalhousie University
    The Dissolution of Meaning

    June 3, 1994 Dan Shea, Dalhousie University
    Socializing Epistemology

    May 27, 1994 Brad Abernethy, University of Toronto
    Searle on Content: The Challenge from Burge's 'Arthritis' Argument

    May 6, 1994 Raymond Martin and John Barresi, University of Maryland and Dalhousie University
    William Hazlitt on the Future of the Self

    April 29, 1994 Peter Schotch, Chris Campbell & Nancy Salay, Dalhousie University
    Formalizing Philosophical Logic

    April 22, 1994 Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
    Taking Rights Too Seriously

    April 15, 1994 Wayne Fenske, Dalhousie University
    Moral Realism: The Argument from Explanation: Part II

    April 8, 1994 Wayne Fenske, Dalhousie University
    Moral Realism: The Argument from Explanation: Part I

    March 11, 1994 Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University
    Theory vs. Practice in Ethics: A Case-Study of a Feminist Approach to Justice in Health Care

    March 4, 1994 Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
    Is the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories Analogous to the Transcendental Exposition of the Concepts of Space and Time?

    January 28, 1994 Duncan MacIntosh, Dalhousie University
    Categorically Rational Preferences and the Structure of Morality

    January 21, 1994 Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
    Statistical versus Bayesian Resolutions of the Raven Paradox and What It All Means

    January 14, 1994 Msosa Mwale, University of Malawi and Dalhousie University
    Narrative Identities

       

                    Top

      December 17, 1993 Carl Matheson ,University of Manitoba
      When Hell is Full the Dead Shall Walk the Earth: An Archaeology of the Horror Film

      December 3, 1993 Susan Campbell, Dalhousie University
      Autobiography and the Conditions of Personhood

      November 19, 1993 Michael Watkins, Dalhousie University
      Partial Realism and Colors: What to do about that Embarrassing Residual Normativity

      November 12, 1993 Robert M. Martin, Dalhousie University
      Time Travel Again

      October 29, 1993 Dr. Duncan MacIntosh, Dalhousie University
      Rationality Vs. Resemblance in Diachronic Personal Identity

      October 22, 1993 Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University
      The Ethical Significance of Metaphors

      October 8, 1993 Susan Wake, Saint Mary's University
      Locke on Resemblance: An Aristotelian/Scholastic Hangover

      September 17, 1993 Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
      In Defense of Feminist Empiricism

      August 27, 1993 Jan Sutherland, Dalhousie University
      Externalism and Epistemic Habit

      August 20, 1993 Jean Ballargeon, University of Toronto
      Two Views of the Priority of Liberty

      August 13, 1993

      Peter Railton, University of Michigan
      Some Conceptions of Normativity in Ethics

      August 6, 1993 Ronald Giere, University of Minnesota
      Visual Models and Scientific Judgment
      (An Austin and Hempel Lecture)

      July 30, 1993 Carl Matheson, University of Manitoba
      Meta-Theory Ladenness: Why Historicism Won't Help (Co-Authored with Rhonda Martens)

      July 23, 1993 Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge
      How to Express a Rule

      July 16, 1993 Andrew Latus, Dalhousie University
      Knowledge, Luck and Externalism

      June 25, 1993 Samantha Brennan, University of Western Ontario
      Paternalism (or when can we override a rights claim on the
      basis of what is at stake for the right bearer?)

      June 11, 1993 Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University
      Action Theory and the Dalhousie Project

      May 21, 1993 David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University & University of Texas at Austin
      David Hume: Natural Law Theorist and Moral Realist

      May 14, 1993 Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
      Can Biology Make Ethics Objective?

      May 7, 1993 Kadri Vihvelin, Dalhousie University
      Causation

      April 30, 1993 Wayne Fenske, Dalhousie University
      Hume and Penelhum on Personal Identity

      April 2, 1993 Roland Puccetti, Dalhousie University
      Nagel's Fractionated Persons

      March 19, 1993 Ray Martin, University of Maryland
      Fission Rejuvenation (This lecture was supported by the 'Enlightenment Fund'
      of the Faculty of Graduate Studies)

      March 12, 1993 Sue Campbell, Dalhousie University
      Love and Its Objects: Roxanne's Choice

      March 5, 1993 Duncan MacIntosh, Dalhousie University
      God, Counterfactuals and the Big Bang

      February 12, 1993 Elizabeth Spelman, Smith College
      Slavery and Tragedy
      (An Austin and Hempel Lecture in cooperation with the Women's Studies Programme of Dalhousie University)

      January 29, 1993 Christopher Byrne, St. Francis Xavier University
      What's Wrong with Rights?

      January 22, 1993 Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
      Descartes' Causal Principle and the Proof of God's Existence

      January 15, 1993 David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University & University of Texas at Austin
      Changes of Rules, Issue Circumscription, and Issue-Processing
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      December 11, 1992 Andrew Kernohan, University of Toronto
      Negative Liberty and the Manipulation of Choice

      November 27, 1992 Peter K. Schotch, Dalhousie University
      Political Economy Is Not Equal To Economics: Reflections on Social Choice

      November 20, 1992 Wayne Fenske, Dalhousie University
      The Amoralist?

      November 13, 1992 Tom VInci, Dalhousie University
      The Two Cogitos

      November 6, 1992 Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University
      Justice and Health Care: A Feminist Perspective

      October 23, 1992 Greg Scott, Saint Mary's University
      Is Tarski's T-Schema Aristotelian? (Why We Should Give Up the T-Schema)

      October 16, 1992 Kadri Vihvelin, Dalhousie University
      Stop Me Before I Kill Again

      October 9, 1992 David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University & University of Texas at Austin
      Moral Rigidity

      October 2, 1992

      Dr. Will Kymlicka, University of Ottawa
      Two Models of Pluralism and Tolerance
      (An Austin and Hempel Lecture)

      September 25, 1992 Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
      Gibbard's Theory of Normative Judgment

      September 18, 1992 Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University
      An Introduction to the Dalhousie Project

      September 4, 1992 Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
      Hume on Abstract Ideas

      August 7, 1992 Rhonda Martens, Dalhousie University
      Metaphor and Language Use

      July 31, 1992 Edwin Mares, Dalhousie University / University of Victoria
      Events and Obligations

      July 24, 1992 Jill LeBlanc, McMaster University
      Aquinas' Third Way

      July 10, 1992 Susan Dimock, York University
      Calling All Knaves; Hume on Moral Motivation

      June 26, 1992 Richard Doyle, with Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University
      Max Cresswell Is Wrong

      June 19, 1992 Roland Puccetti, Dalhousie University
      Science and Physicalism

      June 12, 1992 Bill Seager, University of Toronto
      Verification, Skepticism, and Consciousness

      June 3, 1992 Ludwig Nagl, University of Vienna
      The Habermas-Derrida Controversy

      May 15, 1992 Patrick Rysiew, Dalhousie University
      What is the Natural Ontological Attitude?

      May 1, 1992 Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University
      Medicalization and New Reproductive Technologies

      April 10, 1992 Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University
      Why Is There Analytic Epistemology?

      April 3, 1992 Fred Wilson, University of Toronto
      A Philosopher's View of a Canadian Social Charter

      March 27, 1992 A faculty-student discussion
      The Philosophy Department From The Consumers' Point-Of-View

      March 21, 1992 (Saturday) Kathleen Akins, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      and Embedded Computation Group Xerox-PARC, Palo Alto
      What it is like to be Boring and Myopic

      March 20, 1992 Dr. Helen Longino, Rice University
      Essential Tensions: Feminist Philosophical & Social Studies of Science
      (An Austin and Hempel Lecture)

      March 13, 1992 Wayne Fenske, with Peter Schotch and Edwin Mares, Dalhousie University
      Moral Philosophy - Satanic Semantics

      March 6, 1992 Sue Campbell, University of Toronto
      The Rationality of Fear in Leviathan

      February 28, 1992
      Jill LeBlanc, McMaster University
      Metaphor and Ineffability

      February 14, 1992 Peter Schotch and Edwin Mares, Dalhousie University
      Copenhagen Semantics: A Scroll from the 9th Dimension?

      January 31, 1992 Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
      Is Darwin's Theory Circular?

      January 24, 1992 Edwin Mares, Dalhousie University
      Laws and Counterfactuals

       

         1991     Top

      December 6, 1991 Jean Harvey, Dalhousie University
      Among Consenting Adults? Humor as Social Act

      November 15, 1991 Mora Campbell, University of Waterloo
      Rhythms, Artificial Realities and the Possibility of an Environmental Ethics

      November 8, 1991 Andrew Kernohan, University of Toronto
      Human Rights & Collective Harms

      November 1, 1991 Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University
      Paraconsistency and the Logic of Rules

      October 25, 1991 Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University
      Can Morality Be Empirically Confirmed?

      October 11, 1991 David Jennex, University of Waterloo
      Dworkin and the Role of Judicial Discretion

      October 3, 1991 Iris Young, Pittsburg,
      "Gender as Seriality: Thinking of Women as a Collectivity"

      October 4, 1991 Iris Young, Pittsburg,
      "How Gender Upsets Paradigms of Justice"

      September 27, 1991 Wayne Fenske, Dalhousie University
      Agent-Centered-Restrictions

      September 13, 1991 Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University
      Feminism and Bioethics

      August 23, 1991 Judy Pelham, University of Toronto
      Title Not Available

      August 16, 1991 Jack MacIntosh, University of Calgary
      Adverbs, Identity, and Multiple Personalities

      August 9, 1991 Richard Miller, Cornell University
      Reaason, Truth, and Rightness

      August 8, 1991 (Thursday) Richard Miller, Cornell University
      Justice and Social Freedom

      August 2, 1991 Bill Seager, University of Toronto
      Fodor's Theory of Content: Or A Cow by Any Other Name...