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Special Events

Special Events




Spring 2010

University Scholar's Lecture: William E. Mann. (University of Vermont).  Wednesday, February 10, 4:00PM, Memorial Lounge.

Donald Brown Memorial Lecture: Alan Wertheimer. (University of Vermont). Thursday, February 25, 4:00PM, Memorial Lounge

John Dewey Memorial Lecture: Ted Sider. (New York University). Thursday, March 25, 4:00 P.M., Memorial Lounge.

Departmental Colloquium:: Ted Sider. (New York University). Friday, March 26, 4:00 P.M., Memorial Lounge.

Departmental Colloquium: Ram Neta. (University of North Carolina). Friday, April 23, 4:00PM, Room 109, 70 S. Williams St.

Departmental Colloquium:  Sharon Street. (New York University).  Friday, April 30, 4:00PM, Room 109, 70 S. Williams St.


Fall 2009

Departmental Colloquium: Amie Thomasson. (University of Miami). Friday, September 11 (POSTPONED) 

Departmental Colloquium: Richard Bett. (Johns Hopkins Univerisity). Friday, September 18, 4:00PM, 109, 70 S. Williams St.

Donald Brown Memorial Lecture, arranged by the Political Science Department: Alan Ryan. (University of Oxford and Princeton University). Tuesday, September 29 (POSTPONED)

Departmental Colloquium: Trenton Merricks. (University of Virginia). Friday, October 23, 4:00 PM, 109, 70 S, Williams St.


Spring 2009

Departmental Colloquium: Tamar Gendler. (Yale University).  Friday, March 6, 4:00PM, Room 109, 70 S. Williams St.

Departmental Colloquium: Connie Rosati.(University of Arizona). Friday, March 20, 4:00PM, Room 109, 70 S. Williams St.

Departmental Colloquium:  Randall Harp (University of Vermont).  Friday, April 3, 4:00PM, Room 109, 70 S. Williams St.


Fall 2008

Departmental Colloquium: Achille Varzi. (Columbia University). Friday, September 12, 4:00PM, 109, 70 S. Williams St.

John Dewey Memorial Lecture: Philip Kitcher. (Columbia University). Thursday, October 23, 4:00 P.M., Memorial Lounge.

Departmental Colloquium: Philip Kitcher. (Columbia Univerisity). Friday, October 24, 4:00PM, 109, 70 S. Williams St.

Departmental Colloquium: David Manley (USC). Friday, November 7, 4:00 PM, 109, 70 S, Williams St.


Spring 2008 


Departmental Colloquium: Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University).  Friday, April 11, 2007, 4:00PM, 109, 70 S. Williams St.

Donald R. Brown Memorial Lecture: Susan Wolf (University of North Carolina). "Meaningfulness: A Third Dimension of the Good Life.  Friday, April  4, 2007, 4:00 PM, 413 Waterman.

Departmental Colloquium: Jessica Wilson  (University of Toronto). Thursday, April 24, 5:00 P.M., 109 70 South Williams.


Fall 2007 


Donald R. Brown Memorial Lecture: Anthony Appiah (Princeton University). Wednesday, September 5.

Departmental Colloquium: Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin). Friday, October 12, 4:00 P.M., 109 70 South Williams.


John Dewey Memorial Lecture: Frank Jackson (Australian National University and Princeton University). 

 

Departmental Colloquium: Susanna Siegel (Harvard University) "Do Experiences Have Contents?" Friday, October 19, 4:00 P.M., 109 70 South Williams.

John Dewey Memorial Lecture: Gideon Rosen (Princeton University).  Friday, November 9, 4:00 P.M., Memorial Lounge.


Spring 2007


Donald R. Brown Memorial Lecture: Charles Larmore (Brown University), Title TBA. Wednesday, March 28 at 3:30 in the Dewey Lounge.

Departmental Colloquium:  Michael Della Rocca (Yale University), Title TBA. Friday, April 13th.

John Dewey Memorial Lecture: Stephen Yablo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Friday, March 30 at 4:00 P.M., 427 Waterman.

Departmental Colloquium: Stephen Yablo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Thursday, March 29 at 5:00 P.M., location TBA.

Departmental Colloquium: Jason Stanley (Rutgers University), " Knowledge and Certainty". Friday, March 23 at 4:00 P.M., 109 70 South Williams..

Fall 2006

Departmental Colloquium: Cheshire Calhoun (Colby College), "Hope Matters". Thursday September 14, 4:45 P.M., 109 70 South Williams.

John Dewey Memorial Lecture: Cheshire Calhoun (Colby College), "Losing One's Self". Friday, September 15,  4.30 P.M. Location:  325 Old Mill in  John Dewey Lounge.

Departmental Colloquium: David Barnett (University of Colorado, Boulder), "Rationality and Vagueness". Friday, October 13,  4.30 P.M., 109 70 South Williams.

Departmental Colloquium: Seana Shiffrin (University of California, Los Angeles), "Promising, Conventionalism, and Personal Relationships". Monday, October 16,   4.30 P.M. 427 Waterman
Departmental Colloquium: Adam Elga (Princeton University), Title TBA.Wednesday, November 1,  4.30 P.M., 109 70 South Williams.

Departmental Colloquium: Roger White (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Title TBA. Monday, November 13,  4.30 P.M., 109 70 South Williams.


Summer 2006

UVM-Dartmouth Philosophy Symposium: Speakers: Louis deRosset (University of Vermont): "Possible Worlds for Modal Primitivists", Respondent: Jeffrey Ketland: (Edinburgh): John Kulvicki (Dartmouth): "Introspective availablity: Twins, inversions, and knowing what it's like",   Respondent: Adam Wager, (University of Vermont). Monday, August 21, 3:00 P.M., Carson 60 (attached to Baker/Berry Library), Dartmouth.


Spring 2006

Donald R. Brown Memorial Lecture:  Michael Smith (Princeton);  "Religious vs secular accounts of the meaning of life"; Friday, March 10, 4:00 PM, 427 Waterman.

Departmental Colloquium: James Pryor (NYU); Title TBA; Friday, April 7, 4:00 P.M., Philosophy Dept. Seminar Room, 70 S. Williams St.

Departmental Colloquium: Karen Bennett (Princeton); "Why I am not a dualist", Monday, April 24, at 4.00 P.M., Memorial Lounge, Waterman.


Fall 2005

Departmental Colloquium: Robert Stalnaker (MIT); "On What there isn't (but might have been)", Friday, October 7,
4:30 P.M., Philosophy Dept. Seminar Room, 70 S. Williams St.

John Dewey Memorial Lecture: David Albert (Columbia); "The Fundamental Structure of the World", Friday, November 4, 4:30 P.M., 427 Waterman.

Departmental Colloquium: George Bealer (Yale); "Epistemic Possibility, Metaphysical Possibility and the A Priori", Monday, December 5, 4:45 P.M., Philosophy Dept. Seminar Room, 70 S. Williams St.

Summer 2005

UVM-Dartmouth Philosophy Symposium: Speakers: Derk Pereboom (UVM), "Defending Hard Incompatibilism",  Sam Levey (Dartmouth), Commentator: Bernard Gert (Dartmouth) , "Free Will, Volitional Disabilities, and Kinds of Acts, David Christensen (UVM), Commenetator; Friday, June 10, 2:00 - 6:00 P.M.,  427 Waterman Building.

Fall 2004

John Dewey Memorial Lecture: Derek Parfit (All Souls College, Oxford University ); "Rationality and Reasons," Friday, October 1, 4.30 P.M.,  Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building

Zeltzerman Lecture: Peter Singer (Princeton University); "Ethics and the Sanctity of Human Life," Thursday, October 7, 5:00 P.M., Ira Allen Chapel.

Departmental Colloquium: Peter Singer (Princeton Univesity); Friday, October 8, 9:00 A.M., Philosophy Dept. Seminar Room, 70 S. Williams St. 

Departmental Colloquium: Jonathan Vogel (Amherst College); "Subjunctivitis," Friday, November 5, 4:30 P.M., Philosophy Dept. Seminar Room, 70 S. Williams St.

Spring 2004

Donald R. Brown Memorial Lecture: Thomas Pogge (Columbia University); "Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation," Thursday, Feb. 5. 4.30 P.M., John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill.

Departmental Colloquium: Alex  Byrne (MIT); "Transparency and Self-Knowledge,"  Friday, March 5, 4:30 P.M., Philosophy Dept. Seminar Room, 70 S. Williams St.

Departmental Colloquium: John Doris (Univeristy of California, Santa Cruz); Wednesday, May 26, 4:30 P.M., Waterman 427A.


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