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40TH CHAPEL HILL COLLOQUIUM IN PHILOSOPHY  

O c t o b e r   6- 8,   2 0 0 6

Program

Friday, October 6


6-7:30 pm

Registration


Murphey Hall

 

7:30 pm

Indispensability Arguments in Philosophy of Mathematics

Hilary Putnam
Harvard University

Commentator: Gideon Rosen, Princeton University

Moderator: Ruth Barcan Marcus, Yale University

116 Murphey Hall

 

9:30 pm

Social Hour

James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, John Lindsay Morehead III Lounge

 

Saturday, October 7


9:30 am

Contructivism, Facts, and Moral Justification

Samuel Freeman
University of Pennsylvania

Commentator: Andrews Reath, University of California, Riverside

Moderator: Heather Gert , University of North Carolina at Greensboro

116 Murphey Hall

 

2:00 pm

The Unity of Kant's Thinker

Patricia Kitcher
Columbia University

Commentator: Houston Smit, University of Arizona

Moderator: Sukjae Lee, Ohio State University

116 Murphey Hall

6:30 pm

 

The Claire Miller Lecture in Philosophy

The Excellent Adventure of Hubert, Yorick and Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Tufts University

Moderator: Fred Dretske, Duke University

116 Murphey Hall

 

8:00 pm

Dinner and Party: hosted by the Sayre-McCords

 

Sunday, October 8


10:00 am

 

Laws And Natural Properties

Barry Loewer
Rutgers University

Commentator: Ned Hall, Harvard University

Moderator: John Carroll, North Carolina State University

116 Murphey Hall

 

 

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Ms. Claire Miller 
Department of Philosophy 
CB 3125 Caldwell Hall
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125

 

The Department of Philosophy is very grateful to Mrs. Charles Boyd, the Office of the Provost, Ommegang Brewery, Philosophy, Inc. for their financial assistance.

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