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Below are philosophy talks, colloquia, and conferences in the greater Los Angeles area; events in Claremont are highlighted in light blue.
For a complete list of local events, see the Pomona College calendar and the very thorough (and now sleeker) Claremont Colleges calendar.

Wednesday, January 11 » 3 p.m.

Charles Griswald, Boston University
"Forgiveness"

UCR » Humanities & Social Sciences Building 1500

Friday, January 13 » 3 p.m.

Richard Mendelsohn, City University of New York
"Propositions and the Scope Distinction"

UCI » SST 777 (GPACS Conference room)

Wednesday & Thursday, January 19–20 » 3 p.m.

Philosophy Distinguished Visitor Series

Kwong-loi Shun, University of Toronto
"What is Confucianism?"
"'Wholeness' and 'Purity' in Confucian Thought"

UCR » (Wed) Bourns, Marlan & Rosemary Hall A265
(Thu) Engineering 2 205-206

Friday, January 20 » 3 p.m.

Marschak Colloquium

Patrick Suppes, Stanford University
"A Theory of Rational Choice Based on Habits and Associations rather than Preferences"

UCLA » Dodd Hall 146

Tuesday, January 24 » 4:15 p.m.

Suzanne Obdrzalek, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
"Living in Doubt: Carneades' Pithanon Reconsidered"

This is a job talk for CMC's ancient position.

CMC » Roberts South 105

Wednesday, January 25 » 2:30

Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado
"Saving Amina: Global Justice for Women & Intercultural Dialogue"

Cal State LA » Fine Arts Building 244

Friday, January 27 » 1:30 p.m.

Irene Liu, Assistant Professor, LeMoyne College
"Epicurus on the Need for Truth"

This is a job talk for CMC's ancient position.

CMC » Roberts South 105

Tuesday, January 31 » 4:15 p.m.

Christopher Mirus, Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Albany
Aristotle on Beauty and Goodness in Nature Tuesday (PhD Notre Dame 2004)

This is a job talk for CMC's ancient position.

CMC » Roberts South 105

Thursday February 2 » 4:15 p.m.

Mark Collier, University of Minnesota, Morris
"Why History Matters: The Case of Hume and Cognitive Science"

Pomona » Pearsons 202

Friday and Saturday, February 10 & 11

FregeFest

Featuring Kevin Klement (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Teri Merrick (Azusa Pacific University), and Crispin Wright (University of St. Andrews)

UCI » SST 777 (GPACS Conference room)

Saturday, February 11 » 3 p.m.

UCLA/USC Graduate Student Conference

Keynote Address

John Perry, Stanford University
TBA

UCLA » Dodd Hall

Friday, February 17 » 3 p.m.

Scott MacDonald, Cornell University
"TBA"

UCLA » Dodd Hall 146

Friday, February 17 » TBA

Jeeloo Liu, Cal State Fullerton
TBA

Cal State LA » TBA

Thursday, February 23 » 4:15

Marc Ereshevsky, University of Calgary
"Defining 'Health' and 'Disease'"

Pitzer » Broad Hall 210

February 24 & 25

NORMATIVITY & UNIVERSALITY FROM A KANTIAN PERSPECTIVE

Allen Wood, Barbara Herman, Hanna Ginsborg, Tyler Burge, Charles Parsons

UCR » Humanities & Social Sciences Building 1500

 

Wednesday March 1 » 4 p.m.

Hart Lecture Series: American Science

John Searle, University of California Berkeley
"Cognitive Science as Applied Philosophy"

Pomona » Rose Hills Theatre

Thursday, March 2 » TBA

David Kaplan, UCLA
TBA

Cal State LA » TBA

Friday, March 3 » 3:30 p.m.

Suzanne Bobzien, Yale University
TBA

UCLA » Dodd Hall 146

Friday, March 10 » 3 p.m.

Alan Richardson, University of British Columbia
TBA

UCI » SST 777 (GPACS Conference room)

March 17–18

35th Annual Philosophy Symposium

"Women, Philosophy, and Intellectual Activism: Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, and Judith Butler"

Margaret Simons (Southern Illinois University), Debra Bergoffen (George Mason University), Annika Thiem (UC Berkeley), and Richard Bernstein (New School for Social Research)

Cal State Fullerton » TBA

Thursday, April 13 » TBA

Ned Block, NYU
TBA

Cal State LA » TBA

Friday, April 14 » 3 p.m.

Wayne Aitkin, Cal State San Marcos
TBA

UCI » SST 777 (GPACS Conference room)

Friday, April 14 » 3 p.m.

Ned Block, New York University
TBA

UCLA » Dodd Hall 146

Thursday, April 27 » 4:15 p.m.

Charles Siewart, UC Riverside
"Who's Afraid of Phenomenological Disputes?"

Pomona » Pearsons 202

Friday, April 28 » TBA

Henry Mendell, Cal State LA
TBA

Cal State LA » TBA

Friday, April 28 » 3 p.m.

Thomas Hofweber, University of North Carolina
TBA

UCI » SST 777 (GPACS Conference room)

Friday, April 28 » 3 p.m.

Daniel Warren, UC Berkeley
TBA

UCLA » Dodd Hall 146

Friday, May 5 » 3 p.m.

Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University
TBA

UCLA » Dodd Hall 146

Friday, May 26 » TBA

Ricardo Gomez, Cal State LA
TBA

Cal State LA » TBA

Friday, May 26 » 3 p.m.

Arthur Fine, University of Washington
TBA

UCI » SST 777 (GPACS Conference room)

Wednesday, August 30 » 4:15 p.m.

Louis Loeb, University of Michigan
"Psychology, Epistemology, and Scepticism in Hume's Argument about Induction"

Scripps » Edwards Humanities Building 203

 

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