Events for Fall 2012 & Spring 2013
SPRING 2013
January 31
Doug MacLean (UNC-Chapel Hill). Title: Ethics and the Distribution of Risk
3:30 pm
Baker Center for Public Policy
February 1
Susan Wolf (UNC-Chapel Hill). Title: Two Concepts of Rule Utilitarianism
3:45 pm
HSS 71
March 1
Jay Wallace (UC-Berkeley). Title: The Fugitive Thought: Expressivism About Reasons
3:30 pm
1210 McClung Tower
March 8
Derk Pereboom (Cornell). Title: Free will skepticism, blame, and obligation
3:30 pm
1210 McClung Tower
March 15
Ish Haji (Calgary). Title: Semicompatibilism’s Scope
3:30 pm
1210 McClung Tower
April 12
Dana Nelkin (UCSD). Title: Psychopaths, Incorrigible Racists, and Kinds of Responsibility
3:30 pm
1210 McClung Tower
April 19
Eric Brown (Washington U., St. Louis). Title: Eudaimonia in Plato's Republic
3:30 pm
Location: 1210 McClung Tower
April 26-28
Spring Symposium: Social Norms
Barbara Herman, UCLA. Title: TBA
Brad Hooker, Univ. of Reading. Title: TBA
Thomas E. Hill, UNC Chapel Hill. Title: TBA
Henry Richardson, Georgetown University, Title: TBA
Adam Cureton, Tennessee. Title: TBA
FALL 2012
September 5
Kwame Appiah (Princeton). Title: “Life of Honor.” [Humanities Center Inaugural Lecture]
3:30 pm
McClung Museum Auditorium
September 12
Ernie Sosa (Rutgers). Title: “Judgment and Agency.”
3:30
1210 McClung Tower
September 28
Dan Kaufman (Colorado). Title: “The Real Distinction and the Real Distinction Argument [in Descartes]”
3:30 pm
1210 McClung Tower
October 5
Wayne Riggs (Oklahoma). Title: “What an Epistemology of Actual Human Beings Would Look Like.”
3:30 pm
1210 McClung Tower
November 16 & 17
Tim Scanlon (Harvard). Title: “Ideas of the Good in Moral and Political Philosophy.”
Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA). Title: “The Intuitive Problem of Free Will and Moral Responsibility.”
[Both are Keynotes for Tennessee Value and Agency Conference]
Times: TBA
1210 McClung Tower
November 28
John Greco (St. Louis University). Title: "Testimonial Knowledge and the Flow of Information."
3:30 pm
1210 McClung Tower
For past events, see: Spring 2012 | Fall 2011 | Spring 2011 | Fall 2010 | Spring 2010 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2009
The Department of Philosophy at The University of Tennessee regularly sponsors visiting speakers, symposia, workshops and conferences. For a list of philosophers who have visited the Department in association with one or another of these undertakings in recent years, click here.