Philosophy Department Events, 2008-2009

Michael Smith
Michael Smith (Princeton University): “Beyond Belief and Desire, or: How To Be Orthonomous.” (Part of the Philosophy and Science of Weakness of the Will Lecture Series; funded by the Forry and Micken Fund in Philosophy and Science.) [Photographs]
Matthew Silverstein
Matthew Silverstein (Amherst College): “Normativity from Agency: Can we locate the foundations of ethics in the philosophy of action?” [Photographs]
Michael Bratman
Michael Bratman (Stanford University): “When and Why is it Rational To Resist Temptation?” (Part of the Philosophy and Science of Weakness of the Will Lecture Series; funded by the Forry and Micken Fund in Philosophy and Science.) [Photographs and Audio]
Chandra Sekhar Sripada
Chandra Sekhar Sripada (University of Michigan): “Weakness of the Will and the Divided Mind.” (Part of the Philosophy and Science of Weakness of the Will Lecture Series; funded by the Forry and Micken Fund in Philosophy and Science.) [Photographs and Audio]
Timothy Williamson
Timothy Williamson (Oxford University): “Probability and Danger.” (The Amherst Lecture in Philosophy, funded in part by the Forry and Micken Fund in Philosophy and Science.) [Photographs]
Richard Holton
Richard Holton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): “Willing, Wanting, Waiting.” (Part of the Philosophy and Science of Weakness of the Will Lecture Series; funded by the Forry and Micken Fund in Philosophy and Science.) [Photographs and Audio]