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Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (John Campbell, Berkeley)

John Campbell, the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, has main research interests in the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and the philosophy of psychology. He is currently working on the question of whether consciousness, and in particular sensory awareness, plays any key role in our knowledge of our surroundings.

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Mark Schroeder, Southern California)

Mark Schroeder (Southern California) works on areas of philosophy in some way connected to metaethics. He is interested in the ways in which rationality, reasons, value, and other “evaluative’” or “normative” categories are related to the mundane, physical world in which we live, in which things are round, red, or left of one another. For example, are there really facts about what is rational or not, to go along with the facts about what is round or not?