Florian Fischer (Bonn University), “Powerful Persistence”
Dodd Hall - Room 399ABSTRACT: I will argue that we need to consider the ‘change-makers’ if we want to provide a comprehensive theory of persistence. The classical theories of persistence, endurantism and perdurantism in all their flavours, are content with avoiding the looming contradiction in the context of Leibniz’s Law. They do not account for how change is brought...
The USC-UCLA Graduate Philosophy Conference
The University of Southern California, Mudd Hall of Philosophy, Room 101The USC-UCLA Graduate Philosophy Conference, featuring David Chalmers (New York University).Saturday, March 17th at the University of Southern California, in the Mudd Hall of Philosophy, Room 101.For more information, please see the attached schedule, or click here and here.Conference Schedule (Saturday March 17).pdf
Legal Theory Workshop: Lewis A. Kornhauser (New York University)
UCLA School of Law, Room 1314March 22, 2018 Lewis A. Kornhauser, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law UCLA School of Law, Room 1314 5:00 pm
Colloquium: Rodrigo Guerizoli (UFRJ)
Dodd Hall, Room 399HOW HUMAN BEINGS GRASP NATURE: JOHN BURIDAN ON KNOWING SUBSTANCES Rodrigo Guerizoli (Universidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro) Wednesday, April 4 at 5:00 pm Dodd Hall - Room 399 Light refreshments will be served.
The Early Modern Philosophy Conference (Day 1)
Dodd Hall (Room 399)FRIDAY, APRIL 6 (DAY ONE)DODD HALL - ROOM 3993:30 – 5:15 PM: Stephen Zylstra (Toronto), Spinoza, Emanation and Formal Causation5:15 – 6:15 PM: Reception
The Early Modern Philosophy Conference (Day 3)
Dodd Hall (Room 399)SUNDAY, APRIL 8 (DAY THREE)DODD HALL - ROOM 3999:30 – 11:15 AM: Janelle DeWitt (Indiana), Feeling and Inclination: Rationalizing the Animal Within11:15 – 1:00 PM: Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh), The Category of Substance
The Early Modern Philosophy Conference (Day 2)
Dodd Hall (Room 399)SATURDAY, APRIL 7 (DAY TWO)DODD HALL - ROOM 3999:30 – 11:15 AM: Karen Detlefsen (Penn), Du Châtelet's Changing Views on Virtue and Vice11:15 – 1:00 PM: Karolina Hübner (Toronto), Spinoza on Inference1:00 – 2:00 PM: Lunch2:00 – 3:45 PM: Ed McCann (USC), Conventionalism and Its Discontents: Locke’s Nominally RealEssences of Substances3:45 – 5:30 PM: Peter...
Legal Theory Workshop: Thomas Scanlon (Harvard University, emeritus)
UCLA School of Law, Room 1314April 12, 2018 Thomas Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus, Harvard University UCLA School of Law, Room 1314 5:00 pm
Colloquium: Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern University)
UCLA School of Law, Room 1430The Cognitive Roots of Adjectival MeaningMichael Glanzberg (Northwestern University)Friday, April 13th at 3:30 pmUCLA School of Law, Room 1430ABSTRACT:In this paper, I illustrate a way that work in cognitivepsychology can fruitfully interact withtruth-conditional semantics. A widely held view takes the meanings of gradableadjectives to be measure functions, which map objects to degrees on a scale.Scales...
The Minorities and Philosophy Workshop
Dodd Hall - Room 399The Southern California Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Workshop10:30 - 11:15 amInstructor Diversity in Student EvaluationsSherri Lynn Conklin (UCSB) and Juliana Lima (UCSB)11:15 - 12:00 pmInclusive PedagogyKim Johnston (UCLA)12:00 - 01:00 pmLUNCH01:00 - 01:45 pmThe Canon and its HistoryMilo Crimi (UCLA)01:45 - 2:30 pmDisability, Bad Examples and Exclusions in the AcademyEsther Nikbin (UCLA) and Ally Peabody...