University of Wisconsin-Madison Philosophy Department

News & Events

Fall 2007 Colloquium Series

Colloquia are held at 3:30 pm in room 4281 H.C. White Hall, unless otherwise noted.

September 21: "Revising Our Logic"; Hartry Field; NYU
October 5: "Should Spinoza Have Published His Philosophy?"; Daniel Garber; Princeton University; Julius Weinberg Lecture (co-sponsored with the Institute for Research in the Humanities)
October 11-14: Atrocities Conference
October 26: "How to disagree about how to disagree."; Adam Elga; Princeton University
November 2: "Locke and Berkely on Real Knowledge."; Margaret Atherton; University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
November 9: "Knowledge and Reasons."; Matt McGrath; University of Missouri - Columbia
November 16: A. J. Julius; NYU and UCLA

Spring 2008 Colloquium Series

February 22, 3:30pm, 4281 H.C. White: "Physical Possibility"; Stephen Leeds; University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 29, 4281 H.C. White: “New Foundations for Imperative Logic II: Pure Imperative Inference”; Peter Vranas; University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 7, 4281 H.C. White: "Poesis without Metaphor"; Elizabeth Camp; University of Pennsylvania
April 4, 4281 H.C. White: Title TBA; Mike Tomasello; Max Planck Institute; Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Psychology and the Cognitive Science Program
April 11, 3:30pm, 4281 H.C. White: "Free Will: New Directions for an Ancient Problem"; Robert Kane; University of Texas at Austin
May 8, 360 Science: "Aristotle on Responsibility for one's Character"; Pierre Destrée; Catholic University of Louvain
May 8, 3:00pm, Lowell Conference Center: Title TBA; Josh Tenenbaum; MIT; Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Psychology and the Cognitive Science Program

"Responding to Atrocities" Conference

October 11 - 13, 2007
Red Gym Auditorium
Organized by Claudia Card

Cosponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, The Center for Humanities, the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of Philosophy

Speakers include Berel Lang, Richard Bernstein, John Kekes, Laurence Thomas, Robin Schott, and Margaret Walker Schedule and titles to be posted later.

Formal Epistemology Workshop

May 14-18, 2008

The annual Formal Epistemology Workshops bring together faculty and graduate students from several disciplines (including philosophers, psychologists, statisticians, logicians, and computer scientists) who apply mathematical methods in epistemology. In addition to contributed papers with commentators and invited papers, the workshops feature tutorials aimed primarily at graduate students. Previous workshops have been held at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Texas at Austin, and Carnegie Mellon University.

Undergraduate Scholarship Winners

The Department is very pleased to recognize the following three of
our undergraduate majors, who have been awarded scholarships by the
College of Letters and Science:

Robert Evan Kirchner and Jessie Kavneet Grewal received the Ralph B.
Abrams Scholarship, and Thea Kalise Enos received the Jane Goddard
Scholarship

Temkin Prize

The Department is pleased to award the Temkin Prize each year for the outstanding undergraduate essay in ethics or value theory. Entries should not exceed 2500 words and should be double spaced. Papers should be submitted to Ms. Christy Horstmeyer in the Philosophy Department office by the third Friday of April. This year the prize will be roughly $900.

Past Recipient: William Waller, "The Rashness of Repugnance"