Christian Loew will give a talk entitled, "Why We Cannot Control the Past."

Gary Varner, of Texas A&M Philosophy, will give a lecture entitled “Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition." For advance readings and final details, please visit the "more information" link below. For those who are interested, an optional preparatory session will be … Read more

Paul Boghossian is Silver professor of philosophy at New York University. His research interests include epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is also Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy.

Pamela Hieronymi is spending the 2011-2012 academic year at Stanford, as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.  Her main research interests include ethics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, moral responsibility and free will.

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"Counterfactuals, Our Place in the Cosmos, and All That."

Imogen Dickie is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Her current research interests include reference, acquaintance, and perception. Title: Reference is Justificatory Focus - the Case of Proper Names. Abstract: I will show how the claim that justification … Read more

Fundamental Physical Ontologies and the Constraint of Empirical Coherence Abstract: Several authors (Healey 2002, Maudlin 2007) have argued for an empirical coherence constraint on fundamental physical theories - theories must include among their ontologies the types of entities that constitute … Read more