2009-2010 Academic Year

• Oct. 2, Peter Vanderschraaf (UC Merced), "The Invisible Foole"
  Note: This colloquium will be held at 4:00pm in SH 1431
  
• Oct. 16, A. J. Julius (UC Los Angeles), "Wrongness, the fourth dimension"
  
• Nov. 6, Robert May (UC Davis), "From Inhalt to Bedeutung: The Road to Sense and Reference"
  
• Jan. 8, Josh Dever (The University of Texas at Austin), "TBA"
  
• May 14, James Woodward (California Institute of Technology), "TBA

2008-2009 Academic Year

• Oct. 17, Michael Gill (University of Arizona), "Moral Conflict and Moral Pluralism"
• Oct. 24, Jason Stanley (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), "Knowing (How)"
  
• Nov. 21, George Wilson (University of Southern California), "Love and Bullshit in Santa Rosa: On the Coen Brother's 'The Man Who Wasn't There'"
• Mar. 2, Seminar by Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr. (Harvard University), "Metaphysics and Normativity"
• Mar. 4, Seminar by Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr. (Harvard University), "Motivation and the Appeal of Expressivism"
• Mar. 6, Lecture by Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr. (Harvard University), "Reasons and Rationality" (Sponsored by the Steven Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fund), South Hall 1431
• May 1, Paul Boghossian (New York University), "Relativism: Old and New"
• May 15, Ned Block (New York University), "Ways of Perceiving"
• May 22, Sherrilyn Roush (University of California, Berkeley), "Optimism about the Pessimistic Induction"

• Oct. 5th, Jose Luis Bermudez (Washington University, St. Louis), "The Sense of 'I'"
• Oct. 29th, John Bigelow (Monash University), "Time is a Vector: A Defense of the Passage of Time"
• Nov. 30th, Murat Aydede (University of British Columbia), "What Feeling Pain is Not"
• March 7th, Allan Silverman (Ohio State University), "Divine Mind: Practical or Theoretical Reason? Or why does Aristotle, but not Plato, distinguish Phronesis from Theoria?"
• April 4th, Ted Sider (New York University), "Ontological Realism"
• May 9th, David Brink (University of California, San Diego), "Mill's Ambivalence about Rights"
• June 6th, Peter Vranas (University of Wisconsin - Madison), "New foundations for imperative logic II: Pure imperative inference"

2006-2007 Academic Year

• Sept. 29th, Brian Skyrms (University of California, Irvine), "Signals: Evolution, Learning and Convention"
• Nov. 3rd, Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California), "Excusing Legal Mistakes"
• Nov. 6th-17th, Series of Lectures by Hilary W. Putnam (Sponsored by the Steven Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fund)
  • Nov. 6th, 3:30-5:30pm, "Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics" (South Hall 1430)
  • Nov. 13th, 3:30-5:30pm, "The Goedel Theorem and Human Nature" (South Hall 1430)
  • Nov. 17th, 3:00-5:00pm, "Pragmatism and the Future of Philosophy" (UCSB MultiCultural Center)
• Jan. 24th, Saul Kripke (Distinguished Professor at CUNY Graduate Center), "The Road to Gödel"
  (This special event will begin at 5:00pm in HSSB 1174 and is sponsored by the The Steven Humphrey Excellence in Philosophy Fund and the UCSB Department of Philosophy.)
• Feb. 23rd, Adriana Silva Graca (University of Lisbon), "Why I couldn't Possibly Have Had Dinner With Michael Corleone"
• March 9th, Jonathan Adler (City University of New York, Brooklyn College), "Resisting the Force for Argument"
• March 16th, Terence Horgan (University of Arizona), "Mental Causation and the Agent-Exclusion Problem"
• April 11th, Maria Adamos (Georgia Southern University), "The Ancients, The Vulgar and Hume's Skepticism"
  (This special presentation will begin at 4:30pm in South Hall 5705.)
• April 13th, Richard Creath (Arizona State University), "The Gentle Strength of Tolerance: The Logical Syntax of Language and Carnap's Philosophic Program"
  (This event is sponsored by the Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; the Departments of History and Philosophy, and the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.)
• May 18th, Anthony Long (University of California, Berkeley), "Plotinus (Ennead 1.4) as a Critic of the Preceding Eudaimonist Tradition"
  (This special event will be held in HSSB 1173 at 4:00pm.)
• May 21st-25th, Alan Code (University of California, Berkeley), "Relationships Between Natural Philosophy and Aristotelian Metaphysics"
  Special Series of Lectures by Alan Code (sponsored by the Steven Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fund).

2005-2006 Academic Year

• Oct. 7th, Alan Nelson (University of California, Irvine), "Division and Distinction in Cartesian Extension"
• Nov. 18th, Elizabeth Harman (New York University), "The Mistake in "I'll Be Glad I Did It" Reasoning: The Significance of Future Desires"
• Jan. 20th, Peter Graham (University of California, Riverside), "Justification and Reliability"
• April 14th, Richard Fumerton (University of Iowa), "The Epistemic Role of Testimony: Internalist and Externalist Perspectives"
• May 5th, Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Logicism without Logic"
• May 12th, Sam Rickless (University of California, San Diego), "Berkeley's Argument for Idealism"
• June 12th, Ben Caplan (University of Manitoba), "Sets and Sandwiches"

2004-2005 Academic Year

• April 8th, Fiona Cowie (California Institute of Technology), "Linguistic Nativism: The State of the Evidence"
• April 22nd, Kent Bach (San Francisco State University), "Knowledge, Wine, and Taste"
• April 29th, Brad Inwood (University of Toronto), "Rich Man, Poor Man: The Problems of Letter 87 of Seneca"
• May 20th, Jeff King (University of Southern California), "Semantics for Monists"

Graduate Student Colloquia Series

2009-2010 Academic Year

• Nov. 13th - Dan Dolson, "On the Dilemma of Miracles and Laws of Nature" (3pm, SH 5617)

2008-2009 Academic Year

• Sept. 12th - Josh May, "Empirical Evidence against Psychological Egoism"
• Mar. 13th - Tim Lewis & Chris Noffsinger, "Why Natural Kinds Can't Be Intensions"
• Apr. 17th - Josh May "Practical Interests, Relevant Alternatives, and Knowledge Attributions: An Empirical Study"
• Apr. 24th - Luke Manning "Fictionalism about Fictional Entities"

2007-2008 Academic Year

• Oct. 19th - Jonny Way, "Defending the Wide-Scope Account of Instrumental Reason"
• Oct. 26th - Huiyuhl Yi, "Parfit's 'R'"
• Nov. 16th - Wally Siewert, "Internalism, Access and Justification"

2006-2007 Academic Year

• Oct. 20th - Josh May, "Altruism, Egoism and Negative-State Content"
• Oct. 27th - Carl Barnes, "Expressivism and Negation"
• Jan. 19th - Jonny Way, "Is the Instrumental Principle a Principle of Theoretical Reason?"
• Feb. 9th - Huiyuhl Yi, "Mitsis, Brueckner and Fischer on Death's Badness"
• June 1st - Jason Newman, "Frege Cases and Psychology"

Invited Speakers

• John Broome (Oxford University), "Responding to Reasons"
• Thomas Pink (Kings College, London), "Reason, Voluntariness and Moral Responsibility"
• Peter Railton (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "Rational Desire and Rationality in Desire"
• Joseph Raz (Columbia University Law School, Oxford University), "Reason, Reasons and Normativity"
• Connie Rosati (University of Arizona), "The Story of a Life"
• David Velleman (New York University), "Love and Nonexistence"
• R. Jay Wallace (University of California, Berkeley), "Reasons, Values, and Agent-Relativity"
• Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford University), "A Platonic Theory of Reasons for Action"

Commentators

• Joshua Gert (Florida State University)Niko Kolodny (University of California, Berkeley)
• Ulrike Heuer (University of Leeds)
• Pamela Hieronymi (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Nadeem Hussain (Stanford University)
• Niko Kolodny (University of California, Berkeley)
• Douglas Lavin (Harvard University)
• Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California)
• Pekka Väyrynen (University of California, Davis)

The Third Steven Humphrey Excellence in Philosophy Conference:
Advances in the Theory of Meaning
February 17-20, 2006

[See the Photo Gallery]

Invited Speakers

• Delia Graff (Princeton University), "Descriptions with Adverbs of Quantification”
• Kit Fine (New York University), "Kripke's Puzzle About Belief”
• David Kaplan (University of California, Los Angeles), "Acquaintance and Comprehension”
• Saul Kripke (City University of New York Graduate Center),"The First Person”
• Ian Rumfitt (University of London, Birkbeck College), "Meaning, and Disagreement Over Logical Laws”
• Scott Soames (University of Southern California), "The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary Aposteriori”
• Robert Stalnaker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Conditional Propositions and Conditional Assertions”
• Timothy Williamson (Oxford University), "Indicative versus Subjunctive Conditionals, Congruential versus Non-Hyperintensional Contexts”
• Stephen Yablo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Semantic Arithmetic”

Commentators

• Erin Eaker (University of Western Ontario)
• Michael McGlone (State University of New York, Buffalo)
• Michael Glanzberg (University of California, Davis)
• Stavroula Glezakos (Wake Forest University)
• Paul Hovda (Reed College)
• Michael Rescorla (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Teresa Robertson (University of Kansas)
• Isidora Stojanovic (Jean Nicod Institute)

[See the Photo Gallery]

Invited Speakers

• Keynote Speaker: Sir Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), "The Most Important Issues in the Philosophy of Science"
• Jeremy Butterfield (University of Oxford), "Relationalism and the Rigid Body: Counting Possibilities in Classical Mechanics”
• Arthur Fine (University of Washington), "Philosophical Attachments to Science”
• Michael Friedman (Stanford University), "Incommensurability”
• Clark Glymour (Carnegie Mellon University), "TBA”
• Adolf Grunbaum (University of Pittsburgh), "Why is There Something, Rather Than Nothing? An Ill-Conceived Question Whose Theistic Answer Fails”
• Larry Sklar (University of Michigan), "How Theories Work”
• Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin), "Evolutionary Theory and the Reality of Macro Probabilities”
• Paul Teller (University of California, Davis), "De-idealizing Truth”

Commentators

• Tony Anderson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Branden Fitelson (University of California, Berkeley)
• Geoffrey Hellman (University of Minnesota)
• Steven Humphrey (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Michael Rescorla (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Alex Rosenberg (Duke University)
• Sheldon Smith (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Paul Teller (University of California, Davis)

[See the Photo Gallery]

Invited Speakers

• Tyler Burge (University of California, Los Angeles), "Perceptual Anti-Individualism"
• John Campbell (University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College), "Manipulating Color"
• David Chalmers (University of Arizona), "Perception and the Fall from Eden"
• Jerry Fodor (Rutgers University), "Revenge of the Given"
• Alva Noe (University of California, Berkeley), "Experience Without the Head"
• Christopher Peacocke (New York University), "Mental Action and Mental Concepts"
• Steven Pinker (Harvard University), "So How Does the Mind Work?"
• James Pryor (Princeton University), "An Epistemic Theory of Acquaintance"
• Sydney Shoemaker (Cornell University), "The Way Things Appear"

Commentators

• Katalin Balog (Yale University)
• Kevin Falvey (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Benj Hellie (Cornell University)
• Sean Kelly (Princeton University)
• Michael Rescorla (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
• Daniel Stoljar (The Australian National University)
• Aaron Zimmerman (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Fall 2006 Faculty and Graduate Student Party @ Voula Tsouna's House [See the Photo Gallery]