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Fall 2008 Colloquium Series

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

September 26
"The Truth and Something But the Truth"
Stephen Yablo
MIT
October 17
"Noumenal Affection"
Des Hogan
Princeton
November 7
TBA
Victor Caston
Michigan
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"
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