Philosophy Department Events, 1989-1994

1989-90

David Velleman (University of Michigan): “Epistemic Freedom.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Jay Garfield (Hampshire College): “Waking up to Regularity: Skepticism as a Meta-Physics.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Martha Nussbaum (Brown University): “Transcending Humanity.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Jonathan Lear (Yale University): “Catharsis: Freud's Theory and Practice.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

1990-91

G.A. Cohen (All Souls, Oxford). Funded by the Lurcy Fund.

Peter Lipton “Truth or Consequences.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Dick Moran (Princeton University): “Self Consciousness and Character.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Daniel J. Velleman (Amherst College): “An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics: What's Math All About Anyway?” (Funded by the Mathematics and Philosophy Departments.)

Michael Dummett (New College, Oxford): “Origins and Prospects of Analytic Philosophy.” (Funded by the Lurcy Fund.) 

1991-92

Richard Sorabji (King's College London): “The Relation of Humans to Animals in Ancient and Modern Thought.” (Funded by the Amherst College and University of Massachusetts Philosophy Departments.)

Myles Burnyeat: “Plato on How not to Speak of What is Not.” (Funded by the Amherst College and University of Massachusetts Philosophy Departments.)

Noam Chomsky (MIT). Funded by the Corliss Lamont Fund.

Mathematics and Mind Conference: Funded by the Forry Fund in Philosophy and Science.

  • George Boolos: “The Advantages of Theft over Honest Toil”
  • Daniel Isaacson: “Mathematical Intuition and Objectivity”
  • Charles Parsons: “Intuition and Number”
  • Michael Hallett: “Hilbert and the Laws of Thought”
  • Wilfried Sieg: “Mechanical Procedures and Mathematical Experience”
  • W.W. Tait: “The Law of the Excluded Middle and the Axiom of Choice”
  • Michael Dummett: “What is Mathematics About?” 

1992-93

Thomas Pogge (Columbia University): “Rights and Consequences.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Margaret D. Wilson (Princeton): “Does Spinoza's God Have False Beliefs?” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Rogers Albritton (UCLA): Kennick Symposium Lecture: “Wittgenstein on the First Person.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Kendall Walton: Kennick Symposium Lecture: “Make Believe and Its Role in Pictorial Representation, Sports, and the Acquisition of Knowledge.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Richard Kraut: Kennick Symposium Lecture: “Aristotle’s Egalitarianism.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

1993-94

Warren Goldfarb (Harvard University): “Wittgenstein on Fixity of Meaning.” (Funded by the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

Max Cresswell: “What Every Philosophy Student Needs to Know About Possibility and Necessity.” (Funded by the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

Hilary Putnam (Harvard University): “Was Wittgenstein a Pragmatist?” Joseph Epstein Memorial Lecture. (Funded by the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

G.E.R. Lloyd: “The Evolution of Evolution: Greek Antiquity and the Origin of Species.” (Funded by the Lurcy Fund.)

Methodos Conference: Funded by the Forry Fund in Philosophy and Science.

  • A.A. Long: “Socrates in the Theatetus: Platonic Apologies and the Problem of Objectivity”
  • T.H. Irwin: “Common Sense and Socratic Method”
  • Ian Mueller: “Platonism and the Study of Nature”
  • Gail Fine: “On Plato's Refutation of Protagoras”
  • Gisela Striker: “Aristotle and the Uses of Logic”
  • Charlotte Witt: “Teleology in Aristotelian Science and Metaphysics”
  • Sarah Broadie: “The Beginning and End of Aristotelian Deliberation”
  • G.E.R. Lloyd: “Techniques and Dialectic: Method in Greek and Chinese Mathematics and Medicine”

Graham Parkes: “Much Ado About Nothing and Fascism: The Cases of Heidegger and the Kyoto School Thinkers.” (Funded by the Hamilton Fund and Religion and Philosophy Departments.)