2002-2003 Lecture Series
Peter
Carruthers – University of Maryland
Friday, October 4, 2002
New North 204 at 3:15PM
The
mind is a system of modules shaped by natural selection
Carruthers, a native
of the U.K., serves at the University of Maryland Philosophy Department
as Professor and Chair of the Department. Before
coming to College Park he was at the University of Sheffield (UK), where
he had a spell as Head of Department and was Director of the Hang Seng
Centre for Cognitive Studies. He continues to be connected with the
latter through his involvement in a large three-year interdisciplinary
research project on “Innateness and the Structure of the Mind”. Previously
he trained as a Wittgensteinian, and published a couple of monographs
on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. He has also published books
on epistemology, and on ethics.
His primary research
interests for most of the last decade or so have been in the philosophy
of psychology. He has worked especially on theories of consciousness
and on the role of natural language in human cognition. But he has also
published on such issues as: the nature and status of our folk psychology;
nativism and modularity; issues to do with evolutionary psychology and
cognitive architecture; theories of intentional content; and defense
of a notion of narrow content for psychological explanation.
Anthony
Appiah – Princeton University
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
New North 204
at 3:15PM
Immigrants and Refugees: Individualism and the Moral Status of
Strangers
Curriculum
Vitae
K. Anthony Appiah joined
the Princeton faculty in 2002. He was educated at Cambridge University
in England, where he took both B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy.
His dissertation explored the foundations of probabilistic semantics;
once revised, these arguments were published by Cambridge University
Press as Assertion and Conditionals. Out of that first monograph
grew a second book, For Truth in Semantics, which dealt with
Michael Dummett’s defenses of semantic anti-realism. Professor
Appiah has also published widely in African and African-American literary
and cultural studies. In 1992, Oxford University Press published In
My Father's House, which deals, in part, with the role of African
and African-American intellectuals in shaping contemporary African cultural
life.
His current interests
range over African and African-American intellectual history and literary
studies, ethics and philosophy of mind and language; and he has also
taught regularly about African traditional religions. But his major
current work has to do with the philosophical foundations of liberalism.
Christopher
J. Rowe – University of Durham
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
New North 204
at 5:15PM
Plato, Socrates, and Developmentalism
Announcement
Christopher Rowe, Professor of Greek, is author
of The Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics: a study in the development
of Aristotle's thought (CUP, 1971) and Plato (Harvester,
1984). He has written commentaries on Hesiod (Bristol Classical Press,
1978) and on four dialogues of Plato: Phaedrus (Aris &
Phillips, 1986), Phaedo (CUP, 1993), Statesman (Aris
& Phillips, 1995), and Symposium (Aris & Phillips,
1998).
He has edited Reading
the Statesman: Proceedings of the III. Symposium Platonicum (Academia
Verlag, Sankt Augustin, 1995) and was Joint Editor of, and contributor
to, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought
(CUP, 2000). He is joint editor (with Julia Annas) of Approaches
to Plato, Modern and Ancient (forthcoming 2002: Harvard University
Press for the Center for Hellenic Studies), and has completed a translation
of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to accompany a new commentary
by Sarah Broadie (also forthcoming 2002: Oxford University Press). He
is presently working on a monograph on Plato's Lysis with Terry
Penner, to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Professor Rowe is also
President of the Hellenic Society (1999-2002); interim Chair of the
Classical Association Journals Board (the Managing Board for Classical
Quarterly, Classical Review and Greece & Rome),
2000-2; Joint Editor of Phronesis (Leiden); a member of the
Editorial Board of the Academia Verlag series International Plato
Studies (Sankt Augustin); a member of the Consultative Committee
of M�thexis (Buenos Aires); and a member of the Editorial Board
of History of Political Thought (Exeter).
He has been a Junior
Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, and a Solmsen
Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Wisconsin-Madison.
He currently holds a Leverhulme Personal Research Professorship (1999-2004),
for which his chief project (due for delivery in 2004) is a major monograph
on Plato as a philosophical writer
Friday, November 8, 2002
New North 204 at 12:00PM
Lawlikeness and the Logical Structure
of Universal Generalizations.
Announcement
Alice Drewery
came to Reading in Autumn 1998 from the University of Edinburgh, where
she completed her PhD, entitled "Generics, Laws and Context"
and graduated in 1999. Previously, Drewery taught as a part-time tutor
at Edinburgh and at the University of Stirling as well as a term lecturing
logic at Somerville College, Oxford.
At Reading Drewery
teaches metaphysics, epistemology (including the "Meaning, Truth
and Justification" component of the course which includes some
philosophy of language), early modern philosophy, logic, and the philosophy
of Wittgenstein.
Sean
Kelly – Princeton University
Friday,
November 15, 2002
New
North 204 at 3:15PM
Time and Experience
Sean D. Kelly (M.S.,
Brown, in Cognitive Science, 1989; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1998) joined the
Princeton Philosophy Department in 1999, after teaching at Stanford.
His main area of research is in the philosophy of mind, with a special
focus on perception. Related interests include phenomenology (especially
Merleau-Ponty), as well as some of the relevant areas of philosophy
of language and cognitive neuroscience.
He is currently working on a longer project concerning the relation between perception and demonstrative thought. He also has more general interests in philosophy and the humanities, and has taught a variety of courses aimed at exploring philosophical issues as they arise in literature and art.
Practical Reality
Symposium
Schedule
Jonathan
Dancy – University of Reading
Friday, November 22, 2002
New North 204
at 9:00AM
Precis of Practical Reality
Professor Dancy is the
author of An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Moral
Reasons, Berkeley: An Introduction, and Practical Reality,
as well as articles on many philosophical subjects. He is the editor
of Perceptual Knowledge and Reading Parfit, and co-editor of
A Companion to Epistemology. He is currently working on a book
on particularism in ethics
He has two main projects
at the moment, which are linked in various ways. The first is to write
a full-scale book on particularism in ethics. The second project, which
he is currently working on, attempts to understand the nature of reasons
for action.
Michael
Smith - Australian National University
Friday, November 22, 2002
New North 204 at 9:30AM
Curriculum
Vitae
Michael Smith, Head
of the philosophy program and professor at the Australian National University,
is the author of The Moral
Problem and editor of Meta-Ethics, in addition to the
forthcoming Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics
and Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations.
A graduate of Monash and Oxford Universities,
Smith's primary research interests include ethics, moral psychology,
philosophy of mind, political philosophy and philosophy of law.
Wayne
Davis - Georgetown University
Friday, November 22, 2002
New North 204
at 11:15AM
Reasons and Psychological Causes
Curriculum Vitae
Wayne A. Davis, Professor
of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department, received his B.A.
from Michigan in 1973, and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1977.
His research interests
are centered in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology,
and logic, and are focused mainly on the nature of mental states (particularly
belief, desire, and thought) and the concept of meaning. Prof. Davis
has taught at UCLA (1976), Rice (1977), Washington University (1978),
and Georgetown
(1979-Present).
He has been Department Chair since 1990, and Faculty Senate President
since 2000. He served as
Executive Faculty Chair, and was a member of the Council of Deans, from
1994 to 1997. Professor Davis is the author of An
Introduction to Logic (Prentice-Hall, 1986), Implicature (Cambridge, 1998), Meaning, Expression, and Thought (Cambridge 2002), plus articles
on logic, philosophy of science, philosophical psychology, and philosophy
of language in Philosophical Review, Mind, American Philosophical Quarterly,
Linguistics and Philosophy and other journals. He is a member of the
editorial board of Philosophical Studies and Philosophical Inquiry.
He is completing Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference
for Oxford, and then plans to finish Belief,
Desire, and Thought.
Stephen Darwall — The University
of Michigan
Friday, November
22, 2002
New North 204 at 2:00PM
Desires, Reasons, and Causes
Curriculum Vitae
Stephen Darwall, John
Dewey Collegiate Professor in the Philosophy department at The University
of Michigan, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from
Yale University in 1968 and earned his Ph. D. at University of Pittsburgh
in 1972. His research interests include the foundations and history
of ethics, moral psychology and moral theory of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Darwall is the author of Impartial Reason, The British Moralists
and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740, Welfare and Rational Care, and Philosophical
Ethics.
An associate editor
of Ethics and co-editor of Philosophers' Imprint, Darwall
is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science. His current
work focuses on the importance of the second-person standpoint in ethics
as well as on a history of ethical philosophy from the 17th century
to the present.
Jay Wallace — University of
California at Berkeley
Friday, November
22, 2002
New North 204 at 3:45PM
Explanation, Deliberations, and Reasons
Jay Wallace was an undergraduate at Williams College,
where he received the B.A. degree in 1979. He did his graduate work
at the University of Oxford (B.Phil. 1983) and at Princeton University
(Ph.D. 1988). He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of
Pennsylvania, and the Humboldt-Universit�t zu Berlin, and has held visiting
positions at the Universit�t Bielefeld and in the Research School of
Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Wallace is the
author of Responsibility and Moral Sentiments and the editor
of Reason, Emotion and Will (The International Research Library of
Philosophy).
His research interests
extend to all areas of moral philosophy and the history of ethics. He
is the author of Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments and of numerous
articles in moral philosophy, and edited the collection Reason, Emotion
and Will.
Ted Kisiel - Northern Illinois University
Monday, November
25, 2002
New North 204 at 5:30PM
Ted
Kisiel is one of the foremost US Heidegger scholars. He is also at this
time deeply involved with the work of Hannah Arendt and with problems
regarding the edition of Heidegger's Gesamptausgabe.
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
New North 204 at 2:30PM
Mass Hysteria:
The Uterus as Public Theater
Biography and Curriculum Vitae
This lecture
is part of the Bioethics Works in Progress Series
Friday, March 21, 2003
New North 204 at 3:15PM
The Meaning of Life and the Measure of Civilizations
Barry Smith, Ph.D., is the Julian Park Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buffalo. After studying at Oxford University, Smith received his doctorate from the University of Manchester, England. He has worked at the University of Sheffield, the University of Manchester, and the International Academy of Philosophy (Liechtenstein). In November 2001, he was recipient of the prestigious $2 million Wolfgang Paul Award from Germany’s Humboldt Foundation.
His areas of concentration include Metaphysics, the History of Austro-German Philosophy, Formal Ontology, Applied Ontology and Medical Ontology.
Aryeh
Kosman – Haverford College
Friday, March 28, 2003
New North 204
at 3:15PM
On the Uses of Ousia: Aristotle's Ontology in Metaphysics Delta
Curriculum Vitae
Aryeh Kosman is currently
the John Whitehead Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at Haverford
College.
His main areas of interest
include happiness, virtue, comparative literature, and social responsibility.
He is currently teaching courses in Aristotle, Early Modern European
Philosophy, Philosophy of Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy.
Elizabeth
Anderson – University of Michigan
Friday,
April 4, 2003
New North 204 at 3:15PM
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Solved
Curriculum Vitae
Elizabeth Anderson is
a Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, and occasional Adjunct
Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D.
from Harvard University.
Her research has focused
on democratic theory, equality in political philosophy and American
law, the ethical limits of markets, theories of value and rational choice
(alternatives to consequentialism and economic theories of rational
choice), the philosophy of John Stuart Mill, and feminist epistemology
and philosophy of science.
Susan
Dwyer – University of Maryland at Baltimore
Friday,
April 25, 2003
New North 204 at 3:15PM
Moral Development and Moral Responsibility
Curriculum
Vitae
Susan Dwyer is an associate
professor and the graduate program director at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County Philosophy Department. She is also an affiliate associate
professor of women’s studies and the director of the masters
program in applied and professional ethics at the university. She received
her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Her main areas of interest
include ethical theory, applied ethics, philosophy and public policy,
and feminist theory.
Friday May 9, 2003
New North 204 at 3:15PM
An Ethical Framework for Definining the Ancillary Clinical-Care Responsibilities
of Medical Researchers
Biography and Curriculum Vitae
Henry S. Richardson earned graduate degrees in law and in public policy at Harvard before getting his Ph.D. there (under John Rawls) in 1986.� Dr. Richardson has held research fellowships sponsored by Georgetown University, the Program in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
He has published articles on the history of ethics and practical reasoning (Aristotle, Plato, Hegel, Sidgwick, and Dewey) and in ethical theory, political philosophy, and the theory of practical reasoning.� Dr. Richardson�s initial work concerned the nature of individual reasoning. In ethical theory, Dr. Richardson has aimed to expound and defend a type of ethical theory that is focused on the rightness and wrongness of actions, but is neither deontological nor consequentialist. He also has interests in the nature of autonomous actions, considered as a proper subset of all actions.� In political theory apart from the nature of democratic deliberation, Dr. Richardson�s work has been mainly as an editor and expositor.
Dr. Richardson is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health for 2002-2003. His newest book, Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy (Oxford University Press), was published in August 2002.
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