
Fall 2016 Colloquium Schedule
Each colloquium will be held on Wednesday at 4:15 P.M.
All colloquia will take place at the Graduate Center in rooms 9204/9205 except as otherwise noted.
Sept. 7
Jonathan Adler Lecture
Stephen Schiffer (NYU)
“Knowledge by Testimony”
Sept. 14
Paul Horwich (NYU)
“Progress in Philosophy”
Sept. 21
Kate Ritchie (CUNY City College)
“Social Groups and Group Nouns”
Sept. 28
Nina Emery (Brown)
“Against Radical Quantum Ontologies (And Maybe Radical Ontologies in General)”
Oct. 5
Stephen Neale (CUNY Graduate Center)
“Beyond Natural and Non-natural Interpretation”
*No colloquium Oct. 12th (Graduate Center closed)*
Oct. 19
Michael Walsh Pelczar (National University of Singapore)
“Consciousness and Relativity”
Oct. 26
Michael Devitt (CUNY Graduate Center)
“Individual Biological Essentialism”
with comments by Peter Godfrey-Smith (CUNY Graduate Center)
Nov. 2
Una Stojnic (NYU)
“Content and Modality”
Nov. 9
Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr)
“Affective Wrongs”
Nov. 16
James Mahon (CUNY Lehman College)
“The Duty of Beneficence in Kant”
*No colloquium Nov. 23rd (Thanksgiving Holiday)*
Nov. 30
Marx Wartofsky Lecture
Lydia Goehr (Columbia)
“Black, White, and Gray: Thoughts about Monochromatic Formalism from Hegel to Modern Art”
Dec. 7
Alumni Day Lecture
Peter Langland-Hassan (Cincinnati)
“Attitude Monism”