The Department’s colloquium series typically meets on Thursdays in the Seminar Room at Gateway Transit Building, 106 Somerset Street, 5th Floor at 3:00 p.m. Please see the Department Calendar for scheduled speakers and more details.
- 01/31 Department Colloquium-Prof. Brian Epstein (Tufts)
- 02/07 Inclusive Pedagogy by Prof. Zoë Johnson-King (NYU)
- 02/28 Climate Lecture-Prof. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University)
- 03/14 Mesthene Lecture-Prof. Lara Buchak (UC Berkeley)
- 03/28 Break It Down Lecture-Prof. Paul Pietroski, “Human Languages: What are They?”
- 04/11 Class of 1970s Lecture: Prof. Gideon Rosen (Princeton) Alexander Teleconf. Lecture Hall, 4:30-7:30 pm
- 04/18 Break It Down Lecture-Prof. Larry Temkin, “Population Ethics: Forty Years On”
- 04/25 – 04/27 Semantics Workshop (Lepore)
- 04/27 Rutgers Day 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
- 05/03 Epistemology Conference
- 05/04 Epistemology Conference
- 07/21 – 07/26 Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy
The Department’s colloquium series typically meets on Thursdays in the Seminar Room at Gateway Transit Building, 106 Somerset Street, 5th Floor at 3:00 p.m. Please see the Department Calendar for scheduled speakers and more details.
- 01/31 Department Colloquium-Prof. Brian Epstein (Tufts)
- 02/07 Inclusive Pedagogy by Prof. Zoë Johnson-King (NYU)
- 02/28 Climate Lecture-Prof. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University)
- 03/14 Mesthene Lecture-Prof. Lara Buchak (UC Berkeley)
- 03/28 Break It Down Lecture-Prof. Paul Pietroski, “Human Languages: What are They?”
- 04/11 Class of 1970s Lecture: Prof. Gideon Rosen (Princeton) Alexander Teleconf. Lecture Hall, 4:30-7:30 pm
- 04/18 Break It Down Lecture-Prof. Larry Temkin, “Population Ethics: Forty Years On”
- 04/25 – 04/27 Semantics Workshop (Lepore)
- 04/27 Rutgers Day 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
- 05/03 Epistemology Conference
- 05/04 Epistemology Conference
- 07/21 – 07/26 Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy
The REC is a pre-read conference. The papers will be made available on April 15.
Friday, May 3, 2019
1:30 – 3:15 pm
Alex Byrne (MIT)
Chair: TBD
Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:30 pm
Susanna Rinard (Harvard)
Chair: TBD
Dinner
7:30 – 9:15 pm
Jonathan Kvanvig (Washington University St Louis)
Chair: TBD
Reception 9:30 – 11:00 PM
Saturday, May 4, 2019
9:30 – 11:15 am
Anil Gupta (University of Pittsburgh)
Chair: TBD
Coffee Break
11:45 – 1:30 pm Winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize
TBD
Chair: TBD
Lunch
2:45 – 4:30 pm
Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (University of Helsinki)
Chair: TBD
Discussants
Heather Battaly (University of Connecticut)
John Bengson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Annalisa Coliva (University of California Irvine)
Thomas Kelly (Princeton)
Participants
Chris Copan, Andy Egan, Megan Feeney, Peter Klein, Matthew McGrath, Susanna Schellenberg, Ernie Sosa
The REC is a pre-read conference, so papers are to be read in advance. There is no registration fee for the conference, but please notify Megan Feeney, the conference manager, if you plan to attend by sending an email to rutgersepistemologyconference@gmail.com. If you wish to participate in the meals, please send a check made out to “Rutgers University” to Megan Feeney by April 15 ($80 if you are a faculty member or a postdoc; $60 if you are a graduate student or an undergraduate): Megan Feeney; Rutgers Epistemology Conference; 106 Somerset St, 5th Floor; New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
Thursday, May 16th
9:00-9:30 am | Breakfast (Provided) |
9:30-9:45 am | Opening Remarks, James Swenson, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs |
9:45-10:45 am | Session 1 – Tom Bever, “Foundational cognitive science themes that Jerry explored” |
10:45-11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am – Noon | Session 2 – Rochel Gelman, “Innate learning and beyond: The case of number” |
Noon – 2:30 pm | Lunch (Not provided, see below for options) |
2:30-3:30 pm | Session 3 – Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, “What Jerry and I got right about what Darwin got wrong” |
3:30-3:45 pm | Coffee Break |
3:45-4:45 pm | Session 4 – David Rosenthal, “Fodor’s Representationalism” |
4:45-5:45 pm | Session 5 – Terry Horgan, “Morphological content and chromatic illumination in belief fixation” |
6:00 pm | Dinner Reception Open to All (6th Floor WEST Wing of the Academic Building) |
Friday, May 17th
9:00-9:15 am | Breakfast (Provided) |
9:15-10:15 am | Session 6 – Louise Antony, “Not psychological, but not brutely causal either” |
10:15-10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30-11:30 am | Session 7 – Kevan Edwards, “Fodor* on concepts, Frege’s Problem, and the division of explanatory labor” |
11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Session 8 – Eric Margolis, “Understanding concept nativism” |
12:30-3:00 pm | Lunch (Not provided, see below for options) |
3:00-4:00 pm | Session 9 – Susan Schneider, “Conscious machines? A sober-minded approach” |
4:00-4:15 pm | Coffee Break |
4:15-5:15 pm | Session 10 – Georges Rey, “Fodor’s mis-guided Quineanism” |
5:15-6:15 pm | Session 11 – Randy Gallistel, “It’s numbers all the way down” |
6:15-6:30 pm | Closing Remarks |
Space is limited, so if you plan to attend, please click here to RSVP.
Rutgers Department’s colloquium series typically meets on Thursdays in the Seminar Room at Gateway Transit Building, 106 Somerset Street, 5th Floor at 3:00 p.m. Please see the Department Calendar for scheduled speakers and more details.
Fall 2019
- 10/17 Break It Down Lecture, Prof. Martha Bolton, “A Look at Mary Shepherd’s Philosophy”
- 10/18 Holly Smith book launch, Alexander Teleconf. Lecture Hall 8:45 am-5:30 pm
- 10/24 Philosophy of Probability Conference (Loewer) 3:00-5:00 pm
- 10/25 Philosophy of Probability Conference (Loewer) 9:00 am-5:30 pm
- 10/26 Philosophy of Probability Conference (Loewer) 9:00 am-3:00 pm
- 10/28, 10/30, 11/01 Annual Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy: Jeff McMahan (Oxford) 4:30-6:30 pm, Archibald S. Alexander Library, 169 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ *Reception to follow each lecture*
- 11/21 Justin Clarke-Doane (Columbia) TBA
- 12/05 End of Year Reception 5:30-8:00 pm, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton St, New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers Philosophy Department’s colloquium series typically meets on Thursdays in the Seminar Room at Gateway Transit Building, 106 Somerset Street, 5th Floor at 3:00 p.m. Please see the Department Calendar for scheduled speakers and more details.
- 10/18 Holly Smith book launch, location TBD (Guerrero)
- 10/18 Workshop on Meaning (Pietroski)
- 10/19 Workshop on Meaning (Pietroski)
- 10/24 Philosophy of Probability Conference (Loewer) 3:00-5:00 pm
- 10/25 Philosophy of Probability Conference (Loewer) 9:00 am-5:30 pm
- 10/26 Philosophy of Probability Conference (Loewer) 9:00 am-3:00 pm
- 10/28, 10/30, 11/01 Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy: Jeff McMahan (Oxford) 4:30-7:00 pm, Archibald S. Alexander Library, 169 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ
- 12/05 End of Year Reception 5:30-8:00 pm, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton St, New Brunswick, NJ
Ian Hacking wrote that probability is a Janus-faced concept with one face looking toward the world and the other toward the mind. The face looking toward the world is central to laws and explanations in physics (especially quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics) and the special sciences. The face looking toward the mind is central to epistemology and decision theory. This conference concerns both aspects and especially their relation to each other. What is probability that it possesses both aspects? This three-day conference will focus on answering this and related questions.
There is no registration fee and attendance is open to all; however, RSVP is required. Please RSVP here before Oct 15, if you plan to attend. All are welcome!
General information is available here.
Conference Organizers
Barry Loewer (Rutgers)
Denise Dykstra (Rutgers)
Invited Participants
David Albert (Columbia)
Valia Allori (NIU)
Katie Elliott (UCLA)
Ned Hall (Harvard)
Carl Hoefer (Barcelona)
Jenann Ismael (Columbia)
Christopher Meacham (Amherst)
Wayne Myrvold (Western)
Richard Pettigrew (Bristol)
Jack Spencer (MIT)
Schedule Overview
(A detailed schedule is available here.)
Thursday, October 24
- 3:00 – 6:00: Metaphysics of Objective Probability: Ned Hall (Harvard); Jenann Ismael (Columbia).
Friday, October 25
- 9:00 – 9:50: Breakfast in the philosophy department
- 9:50 – 10:00: Welcome & Introductory Remarks (Barry Loewer)
- 10:00 – 1:00: Chance: Katie Elliott (UCLA); Christopher Meacham (Amherst).
- 1:00 – 2:30: Lunch
- 2:30 – 5:30: Probabilities in the Special Sciences: Carl Hoefer (Barcelona); Wayne Myrvold (Western Ontario).
Saturday, October 26
- 9:00 – 10:00: Breakfast in the philosophy department
- 10:00 – 1:00: Chance-Credence Principles: Richard Pettigrew (Bristol); Jack Spencer (MIT).
- 1:00 – 2:30: Lunch
- 2:30 – 5:30: Typicality and the Statistical Postulate: David Albert (Columbia); Valia Allori (NIU).
Please contact the conference organizers (LawsAndChanceProject@gmail.com) if you have any questions.