Event Category: Department Talks
Department Talks
Polanyi Lecture: Janet Browne (Harvard)
Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fed Ex Global 301 Pittsboro Street , Chapel Hill , NCJoin us on Tuesday, March 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the Mandela Auditorium of FedEx Global Center for the Michael Polanyi Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Natural Science in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Janet Browne (Harvard), … Read more
Speaker Series: Nina Emery (Brown University)
The inaugural 2017 Balter Distinguished Lecture will welcome Nina Emery to present a paper as part of our annual Speaker Series. Title: Laws and their instances Abstract: I present an argument for the view that laws ground their instances. I … Read more
Speaker Series: Hartry Field (NYU)
213 Caldwell Hall“Epistemology from an Evaluativist Perspective” Abstract: I’ll articulate a kind of “evaluativist” (“non-descriptivist”?) view of epistemology, and contrast it with both normative realist views and reliabilist views. Much of the focus will be on how this metaphilosophical perspective can affect ground-level … Read more
Speaker Series: Michael Pelczar (University of Singapore)
"Phenomenalism Redux" Abstract: Everyone knows about the mind-body problem. Less well-known is the fact that philosophers originally took it to be a problem about the nature of body, rather than a problem about the nature of mind. This paper returns … Read more
Hettleman Lecture: Matt Kotzen
Toy Lounge, Dey HallMatt Kotzen will present, “Evidence in Law and Philosophy”.