All lectures are open to the public and take place in New North 204 unless otherwise noted. Lectures typically run for one hour with a 45 minute discussion period following. Light refreshments are served. If you have questions, please contact the department at (202) 687-7487. Click here for directions to the main campus. Click here for a map of local hotels. Archived Lecture Series are available here.

2009-2010 Schedule of Speakers

November 20, 2009, 3:15pm: Michael Williams, Johns Hopkins University, "Inferentialism and Ontology"

2008-2009 Schedule of Speakers

September 19, 3:15pm: Eleonore Stump, St. Louis University, "Modes of Knowing: Autism, Fiction, and Second-person Perspectives"
October 17, 3:15pm: Mark Wrathall, University of California, Riverside, "Heidegger, Language, and the House of Being"
December 5, 3:15pm: Tyler Burge, UCLA, "Perceptual Objectivity"
February 20, 3:15pm: Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina, "Meaningfulness: a third dimension of the good life"
March 20, 3:15pm: Derk Pereboom, Cornell University, Title: "A Source Incompatibilist Account of Free Will"
April 21, 3:15 pm: David Chalmers, Australian National University, "From the Aufbau to the Canberra Plan."
May 7, 3:15pm: Stewart Cohen, Arizona State University, Title: "Bootstrapping and Defeasible Reasoning"

2007-2008 Schedule of Speakers

2006-2007 Schedule of Speakers