colloquia

CANCELLED—2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Rainer Forst, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Tuesday March 21, 2023, 3:00 pm - Thursday March 23, 2023, 5:00 pm

Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), winner of the 2012 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, works mainly on political theory, pragmatism, tolerance, and political and social justice. He is considered one of the world’s most eminent authorities on the subject of toleration. This year’s Simon Lectures occur under the general title “The Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence.”

Colloquium (Cian Dorr, NYU)

Cian Dorr is Professor of Philosophy at New York University, having taught previously at Oxford University and the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of interest include metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of physics. This talk will be based upon joint work with Jake Nebel and Jake Zuehl. Talk … Read More

Colloquium (Gordon Belot)

Gordon Belot is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, having previously taught at Princeton University, New York University, and the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of a number of articles concerning the philosophy of space and time and other topics in philosophy of physics. The talk … Read More

Colloquium (David Sedley, Cambridge)

Professor Sedley’s research is in 1st century BC philosophy and Plato’s Phaedo. His publications include Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity, 2007 (Berkeley) and The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus, 2004 (Oxford).

Colloquium (Lisa Shapiro, Simon Fraser University)

Professor Shapiro’s research interests include early modern philosophy, feminism and philosophy, and philosophy of mind (especially perception and emotions). She co-authored the volume Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy with our department’s Professor Martin Pickavé.