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S P E A K E R S
2007-2008

August 24
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 
Josh Knobe "Folk Judgments of Causation"

September 5
Dey 412
3:00 p.m.

Noa Shein "Spinoza on Adequate Ideas in the Human Mind"

September 7
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.

Kathrin Koslicki "Structure"

September 8-9
Siena Hotel

Disability and Disadvantage Workshop Lead papers by 
Susannah Rose, Anita Silvers, Douglas MacLean, Christie Hartley and Rosalind MacDougall
September 28
Caldwell 105
3:00 p.m.
Stephen Darwall "Two Kinds of Recognition Respect for Persons"
October 2
Student Union Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Ethical Issues of Capital Punishment The Parr Center for Ethics sponsor a two-hour Public Discussion on the ethical issues of capital punishment.
October 26-
October 28
Chapel Hill Colloquium lead papers by 
Ted Sider, Gavin Lawrence, Nomy Arpaly, George Wilson and Vann McGee
November 16
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.

Roger White "Evidential Symmetry and Mushy Credence"
November 17
Murphey Hall 9:00 a.m.
Mid-Atlantic Regional Ethics Bowl The Parr Center for Ethics sponsor this day-long undergraduate competitive tournament.
January 25
Caldwell 105
3:00 p.m.
Don Marquis "Abortion and Human Nature"

February 8
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.

Larry Nolan "Cartesian Trialism on Trial:  The Conceptualist Account of Descartes's Human Being"

February 11
Caldwell 213
2:00 p.m.

Japa Pallikkathayil "Deriving Morality from Politics: Rethinking the Formula of Humanity"

February 15
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.

Matt Kotzen "Multiple Studies and Evidential Defeat"

February 18
Caldwell 213
2:00 p.m.

Agnes Callard "Two Ways to be Moved"
February 22
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m
Lara Buchak "Risk without Regret"
February 25
Caldwell 213
2:00 p.m.
Yitzhak Melamed "Spinoza's Metaphysics of Thought"
February 29 -
March 1
North Carolina and South Carolina Philosophical Association Joint Meeting Hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
March 7
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
 
Kit Fine "A New Approach to Vagueness"
March 28
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
Alan Code
"An Aristotelian Puzzle About Definition: Metaphysics Z 12"

March 29
Caldwell Hall
9:00 a.m.

2008 Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy Hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
April 4
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
Sven Arntzen "Intrinsic Value, Environmental Ethics and Landscape"
April 11
Caldwell 213
3:00 p.m.
Niko Kolodny "Ought: Between Objective and Subjective"

April 21
Caldwell 213
1:00 p.m.

Laurie Paul Nonreductionism

April 24
Bingham 217
1:00 p.m.

Mini-Conference in Early Modern Philosophy Papers by D. Kenneth Brown, Kurt Smith and Lisa Shapiro
April 25-27
Campus Y
Objectivity of Values Workshop
Participants include:Cheshire Calhoun, Ruth Chang, Noell Carroll, Tom Hill, Jerrold Levinson, Margaret Little, Peter Railton, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Tamar Shapiro, Michael Smith, Valerie Tiberius and Susan Wolf

The Speakers Series is made possible by the generosity of 
the Spray and Randleigh Foundations

See also the colloquia series at Duke University

Speakers for 1998-99, 1999-2000 , 2000-01, 2001-02, 2002-2003,2003-2004, and 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007.