Past Event Category: Colloquia
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Dec 5Colloquium: Jake Monaghan (University of Southern California)
Disorder in the Urban Mosaic Abstract: The philosophy and policy of the city confronts two related questions. One concerns the urban ideal, or what the city ought to look like in social and spatial terms. Another related question concerns disorder. What is disorder? Is it real or stance-dependent? I’ll defend what I call the “urban …
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Nov 14Colloquium: Gabriel Shapiro (University of Michigan)
Helen C. White Room 4207
Aristotle’s Argument for Essentialism Aristotle is about as much of an essentialist as one can be. He not only endorses essentialism—the view that things have essential features—but he also makes essentialism a central and foundational tenet of his philosophical system, and he subjects essentialism itself to careful study by developing sophisticated theories of core essentialist …
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Oct 24Colloquium: Jill North (Rutgers University)
Helen C White Room 4207
Mathematical Representation in Physics: the Curious Case of the Complex Numbers We use mathematical objects and structures to formulate our physical theories and to represent physical reality. This gives rise to a host of philosophical questions surrounding the use of mathematics in physics, brought to the fore by a particular case. Physicists often remark that …
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Sep 5Colloquium: Steven Nadler (UW–Madison)
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
"Spinoza on the Unity of the Virtues"
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Oct 20