Up Coming Seminars
2007/2008 Semester 1

Staff Seminars

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Past Seminars

• Tuesday, December 11, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  Foundations of Islamic Metaphysics (Part 7) Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali on Time, Space, and the limits of the “Estimative Imagination”
  Edward Moad
  
• Wednesday, December 5, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  Do We Owe Religion Respect?
  Robert Nola
  
  
• Tuesday, December 4, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  From Reality to Truth: The Case of Electrons and Electron Theory
  Robert Nola
  
  
• Tuesday, November 20, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  When Hobbes is an Optimist: Politics among the Malevolent
  
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  Loren Lomasky
  
  
• Tuesday, November 13, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  Thomas Aquinas and Intellectual Appetition
  Scott R. Paine
  
  
• Tuesday, November 6, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  In Search of Mathematical Truth
  Chong Chi Tat
  
  
• Tuesday, October 30, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  What is a proof? Towards a General Theory of Soundness in Justification
  Karuvannur P Mohanan
  
  
• Thursday, October 18, 4:00 - 6:00pm
  Terrorism, Morality and the Question of Justification
  Tony Coady
  
  
• Tuesday, October 16, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  Reason (‘Heart+Mind’) in Islamic Thought
  Karim Douglas Crow
  
  
• Tuesday, October 9, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  Natural Rights to Welfare
  
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  Siegfried Van Duffel
  
  
• Tuesday, September 18, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  Form, Principle, Pattern, or Coherence? Li 理 in Chinese Philosophy
  
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  Brook Ziporyn
  
  
• Tuesday, September 11, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  The Deluded Mind as World and Truth: Epistemological Implications of Tiantai Doctrine and Praxis in the Works of Jingxi Zhanran (711-782)
  
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  Brook Ziporyn
  
  
• Tuesday, August 28, 2:00 - 4:00pm
  The Inscrutable Probability Thesis in Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism
  Lee Wang Yen
  
  
• Thursday, August 16, 3:00 - 5:30pm
  Living Chinese Philosophy
  
  
• Tuesday, August 14, 2-4pm
  Causation in Plato's Sophist
  Fiona Leigh
  
  
• Tuesday, August 7, 2-4pm
  The Theism of Ramalingam
  T. R. Raghunath
  
  
• Tuesday, July 31, 2-4
  Emptying the Soul in Nietzsche and Zhuangzi
  David Jones
  
  
• Monday, May 28, 2-4
  Dharmakirti on Relation: An Evaluation
  Raghunath Ghosh
  
  
• Monday, April 30, 2-4
  'Home Alone' : Cognitive Solipsism in the Early-Modern Era
  Stephen Gaukroger
  
  
• Friday, April 13, 2 - 4
  Individualism and liberalism: outline of an alternative theory from classical Indian sources
  Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
  
  
• Tuesday, April 10, 4 - 6
  The Self
  Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
  
  
• Tuesday, April 3, 4-6
  Significant Differences between al-Ghazali and Hume on Causation
  Edward R Moad
  
  
• Tuesday, March 13, 4-6
  Testimonial warrant and the incoherence of local reductionism
  Axel Gelfert
  

• Tuesday, Febuary 27, 4-6
  Terrorism, Story-Telling and Existential Communication
  Brian Mooney
  
  
• Tuesday, Febuary 13, 4-6
  Putting The Brakes On Vehicle Externalism: Two Economic Examples
  Dan Fitzpatrick
  
  
• Tuesday, February 6, 4-6
  What was the Renaissance in Europe? A Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
  Arun Bala
  
  
• Tuesday, January 30, 4-6
  Two Models of Causation in Modern Medicine
  Keekok Lee
  
  
• Tuesday, January 23, 4-6
  “Experiments in living”: Mill, liberty, and genetic engineering
  Justine Burley
  
  
• Tuesday, January 16, 4-6
  Animal and Human Communication: Bridging the Gap
  Mitchell Green
  (Moderator: Michael Pelzar)
  
  
• Wednesday, January 10, 4-6
  Thomas Huxley and Epiphenomenalism
  John Greenwood