Sage School Speakers

Schedule of Visiting Speakers

FALL 2009 - Spring 2010

September

17 (Thurs)

Discussion Club

4:30 - 6:30, Goldwin Smith 142
Samuel Rickless, University of California, San Diego
"Berkeley's Master Argument for Idealism"

 

18 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:30 - 5:30, Goldwin Smith 142
Dana Nelkin, University of California, San Diego
"Moral Responsibility and the Ought Implies Can Principle"

 

24 (Thurs)

Ancient Philosophy Series

4:30 - 6:30, Goldwin Smith 236
Ursula Coope, Oxford University
"Aristotle on Infinite"
Commentator: Scott O'Connor, Cornell University

25 (Fri)

Ancient Philosophy Series

3:30 - 5:30, Goldwin Smith 142
Ursula Coope, Oxford University
"Aquinas on determining one's desire for oneself"

October

2 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:30 - 5:30, Goldwin Smith 142
Jill North, Yale University
"The Structure of Classical Mechanics"

4 (Sun)

Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop

3:00 pm, Goldwin Smith 158
Kara Richardson, Syracuse University
""Descartes on the Causal Powers of Bodies without Substantial Forms."
Commentator: Shoshana Brassfield

 

 

21(Wed)

**POSTPONED**
New Date and Time TBA
Discussion Club

David Chalmers, Australian National University
"Revisability and Conceptual Change"

 

24 (Sat)

 

Annual Creighton Club Meeting

Hobart & William Smith College, Geneva, NY

Keynote Speaker: Ruth Millikan

 

30 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:30 - 5:30, Goldwin Smith 142
Richard Feldman, University of Rochester
"Evidentialism, Higher-Order Evidence, and Disagreements"

 

November

1 (Sun)

Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop

3:00 pm, Goldwin Smith 156
Melissa Zinkin, Binghamton University
""Kant's supersensible substratum of humanity"
Commentator: TBA

6 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:30 - 5:30, Goldwin Smith 142
Rob Rupert, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Do Groups Have Mental States?"

13 (Fri)

Graduate Student Visiting Philosopher Series

3:30 - 5:30, Goldwin Smith 144
Susan Sauve Meyer, University of Pennsylvania
Commentator: Flora Lee, Cornell University

18(Wed)

Discussion Club

4:30 - 6:30, Goldwin Smith G22
David Chalmers, Australian National University
"Revisability and Conceptual Change"

22 (Sun)

Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop

3:00 pm, Goldwin Smith 156
Hylarie Kochiras, University at Buffalo, SUNY

 

December

6 (Sun)

Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop

3:00 pm, Goldwin Smith 156
Jonathan Peeters, Ithaca College

 

January

31 (Sun)

Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop

3:00 pm, Goldwin Smith 156
Diane Williamson, LeMoyne College
Topic: Kant and the unconcious
Commentator: Corey McCall, Elmira College

February

No Scheduled Speakers

 

March

5 (Fri)

Discussion Club

Gideon Rosen, Princeton University

 

12 (Fri)

Graduate Student Visiting Philosopher Series

Adam Pautz, University of Texas

 

19 ( Fri)

Discussion Club

Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh

 

April

9 (Fri)

Discussion Club

Eleonore Stump, St. Louis University

 

15 - 16 (Thurs - Fri)

Ancient Philosophy Speaker Series

John Cooper, Princeton University

23 (Fri)

Graduate Student Visiting Philosopher Series

3:00 - 5:00, TBA
David Brink, University of California, San Diego

 

May

2 (Fri)

 

 

Previous Speakers and Events

Spring 2009

February

20 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:00 - 5:00, Rockefeller 105
Alex Klein, Cornell University

"On Hume on Space: Green's Attack, James's Empirical Response"

Commentator: Jonathan Vance

March

6 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:00 - 5:00, Rockefeller 105
Stephen Kearns, Cornell University

"I can't beleive it's not Agent Causation!"

Commentator: Patrick Mayer

13 (Fri)

Graduate Student Visiting Philosopher Series

3:00 - 5:00, Goldwin Smith 124
Matt Weiner, Texas Tech University

 

27 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:00 - 5:00, Rockefeller 105
Alison Simmons, Harvard

"Marking the Mental: The Unconscious from Leibniz to Freud"

Commentator: Harold Hodes

 

April

2 (Thurs)

Graduate Student Visiting Philosopher Series

3:00 - 5:00, Stimson G01
Steven Wall, University of Connecticut

3 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:00 - 5:00, Rockefeller 105
Andrew McGonigal, Cornell University

 "Aesthetic Duties"

Commentator: Zach Abrahams

 

10 (Fri)

Graduate Student Visiting Philosopher Series

3:00 - 5:30 pm, Rockefeller 105
Sam Levey, Dartmouth College

"Leibniz’s Analysis of Galileo’s Paradox"

Commentator: Stephen Mahaffey

17 (Fri)

 

Discussion Club

3:00 - 5:00, Rockefeller 105
Earl Conee , Rochester University

"Self Support"

Commentator: Roald Nashi

24 (Fri)

The Kretzmann Lecture for Undergraduates

3:00 - 5:00, Rockefeller 105
Mark Kingwell, Trinity College, University of Toronto

"Philosophy as/and/of Art"

 

May

1 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:00 - 5:00, Rockefeller 105
Elizabeth Anderson, Michigan University

"Democracy and Racial Integration"

Commentator: Meena Krishnamurthy

2 (Sat)

Mellon Metaphysics Workshop

10:00 - 6:00, Goldwin Smith 142
Speakers Include:

Karen Bennett, Cornell University
Andre Gallois, Syracuse University
Kris McDaniel, Syracuse University
Alyssa Ney, University of Rochester
Brad Weslake, University of Rochester

 

7 (Thurs)

Discussion Club

3:00 - 5:00, Goldwin Smith 142
Sarah-Jane Leslie, Princeton University

"Generics, Semantics, and Semantic Cognition"

co-sponsored by the Cognitive Science Program

 

8 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:00 - 5:00, Rockefeller 105
Mark Johnston, Princeton University

"I-thought and the Illusion of the Self"

9 (Sat)

Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop:
A Berkley Bonanza

10:00 - 6:30, Goldwin Smith 158
For complete agenda see UNYEMW website

Georges Dicker, SUNY Brockport
“'An Idea Can Be Like Nothing But An Idea'—Another Try"
Commentator: Wade Robison

Alex Klein, Cornell University
"In Defense of Berkeley's Empiricism"
Commentator: P.D. Magnus

Margaret Atherton, University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee
"Berkeley's Cartesian Mind"
Commentator: Melissa Frankel

 

28-30 (Thurs-Sat)

Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy

Scott MacDonald, organizer

 

Fall 2008

September

12 (Fri)

 

Discussion Club

3:00 pm, 142 Goldwin Smith Hall

David Velleman, New York University
"Constitutivism"

26 (Fri)

 

Cognitive Science Colloquium

3:30pm, Uris Hall room 205

Derk Pereboom

October

3 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:00 pm, Mallott 253

Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame
"Content and Natural Selection"

Commentator: Richard Boyd

5 (Sun)

Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop

3:00 pm, 156 Goldwin Smith Hall

Stefanie Rocknack, Hartwick College

"Naturalistic, Pre-Theoretical Belief in Book I of Hume's Treatise."

Commentator: Alex Klein, Cornell University

 

9 (Thurs)

Discussion Club

John Martin Fischer, University of California, Riverside

Commentator: Sean Stapelton

10-11 (Fri-Sat)

 

Ancient Philosophy Conference:
Platonic Epistemology and Metaphysics

Featuring Papers on Plato's "Meno," "Phaedrus," "Republic," and "Philebus"

Tad Brennan and Charles Brittain, Organizers

click here for agenda and list of speakers

 

18 (Sat)

 

Annual Creighton Club Meeting

Hobart & William Smith College, Geneva, NY

Keynote Speaker: Arthur Fine

 

24 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:00 pm, Goldwin Smith 142

Wylie Breckenridge, Cornell University

Commentator: David Liebesman

31 – Nov 1 (Fri-Sat)

Conference

The Legacy of Kant II: Kant between the World Wars

Legacy of Kant website

Peter Gilgen, and Peter Hohendahl, organizers
Andrew Chignell, Philosophy Department Contact

November

14 (Fri)

Graduate Student Visiting Philosopher Series

3:00 - 5:30 pm, GS 142

Iakovos Vasiliou, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

 

 

16 (Sun)

Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop

3:00 pm, Goldwin Smith 156

Peter Dear, Cornell University

"Early Modern Conceptions of Reason"

Commentator: Kara Richardson, Syracuse University

21 (Fri)

Discussion Club

3:00 pm, Goldwin Smith 142

Christy Mag Uidhir, Cornell University

Commentator: Colin McLear

December

7 (Sun)

Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop

3:00 pm, Goldwin Smith 156

Sukjae Lee, Ohio State (visiting Cornell)

"Berkeley on the Activity of Spirits"

Commentator: Melissa Frankel, Syracuse University