Mar
28
Thu
Rutgers Philosophy Dept. Colloquia @ Seminar Room, Gateway Transit Building, 5th flr
Mar 28 @ 3:00 pm

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
Apr
6
Sat
Rutgers-Columbia Undergraduate Philosophy Conference @ Rutgers Philosophy Dept
Apr 6 all-day
Rutgers-Columbia Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Saturday, April 06, 2019, 09:30am – 06:00pm
TBA
Location Rutgers Philosophy Department, 106 Somerset St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Apr
7
Sun
Meeting 60: Free Will and Determinism @ Justine's apartment
Apr 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Philosophy-in-Manhattan
Sunday, April 7 at 2:00 PM

CUNY philosophy PhD candidate Liam Ryan will lead. What do we mean by the term “free will”? What is it? How does it work? Do we have it? The term is o…

Price: 14.00 USD

Meeting 60: Free Will and Determinism

Sunday, Apr 7, 2019, 2:00 PM

Justine’s apartment
47 East 88th Street New York, NY

15 Members Went

CUNY philosophy PhD candidate Liam Ryan will lead. What do we mean by the term “free will”? What is it? How does it work? Do we have it? The term is often thought to designate a notion of control over one’s actions. This week, we will discuss what exactly constitutes control over one’s actions, and whether or not we have said control. Answering the…

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Apr
11
Thu
Rutgers Philosophy Dept. Colloquia @ Seminar Room, Gateway Transit Building, 5th flr
Apr 11 @ 3:00 pm

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
What is morality? (Introduction to Ethics series) @ Justine's apartment
Apr 11 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Philosophy-in-Manhattan
Thursday, April 11 at 6:30 PM

Justine Borer, adjunct philosophy professor at John Jay College, will lead this meeting. By looking at some ethical dilemmas involving disabled and si…

Price: 18.00 USD

What is morality? (Introduction to Ethics series)

Thursday, Apr 11, 2019, 6:30 PM

Justine’s apartment
47 East 88th Street New York, NY

6 Members Went

Justine Borer, adjunct philosophy professor at John Jay College, will lead this meeting. By looking at some ethical dilemmas involving disabled and sick children, we’ll examine some of the basic assumptions and arguments underlying the study of ethics. The optional reading is Chapter 1 in “The Elements of Moral Philosophy,” 8th edition, by James Ra…

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Apr
18
Thu
Rutgers Philosophy Dept. Colloquia @ Seminar Room, Gateway Transit Building, 5th flr
Apr 18 @ 3:00 pm

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
Apr
25
Thu
Lepore Semantics Workshop @ Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center
Apr 25 – Apr 27 all-day
Lepore Semantics Workshop
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Location Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center, 178 Ryders Ln, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
May
2
Thu
Cultural Relativism (Introduction to Ethics series) @ Justine's apartment
May 2 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Philosophy-in-Manhattan
Thursday, May 2 at 6:30 PM

Justine Borer, adjunct philosophy professor at John Jay College, will lead this meeting. Using the ancient clash between the Callatians (who ate their…

Price: 18.00 USD

Cultural Relativism (Introduction to Ethics series)

Thursday, May 2, 2019, 6:30 PM

Justine’s apartment
47 East 88th Street New York, NY

11 Members Went

Justine Borer, adjunct philosophy professor at John Jay College, will lead this meeting. Using the ancient clash between the Callatians (who ate their dead, and couldn’t imagine cremating their dead) and the Greeks (who cremated their dead, and couldn’t imagine eating their dead) as a jumping off point, we’ll examine the extent to which culture imp…

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May
3
Fri
Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2019 @ Hyatt Regency, Conference rm. BC
May 3 – May 4 all-day

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.

May
5
Sun
Meeting 61: Kierkegaard @ Justine's apartment
May 5 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Philosophy-in-Manhattan
Sunday, May 5 at 2:00 PM

CUNY philosophy PhD candidate Liam Ryan will lead. ‘What is truth but to live for an idea?…It is a question of discovering a truth which is truth fo…

Price: 14.00 USD

Meeting 61: Kierkegaard

Sunday, May 5, 2019, 2:00 PM

Justine’s apartment
47 East 88th Street New York, NY

14 Members Went

CUNY philosophy PhD candidate Liam Ryan will lead. ‘What is truth but to live for an idea?…It is a question of discovering a truth which is truth for me, of finding the idea for which I am willing to live and die.’ Arguably the most romantic of philosophers, the Dane Søren Kierkegaard combined theology, psychology, ethics, and heartbreaking life …

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