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Late Renaissance-Early Modern Philosophy Workshop
March 1, 2015
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2:00PM - 6:00PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson 211, Harvard University
In Person
Schedule: 2:00 – 3:15: Thomas Leinkauf (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Leibniz Forschungsstelle, Münster) “The concept of ‘vinculum’ and the problem of ‘contact’ and activity between two kinds of being: material and immaterial, finite and infinite...

Philosophy Alumni Event: Eric Kaplan

February 28, 2015
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EST
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Emerson 210
In Person
Eric Kaplan, Harvard alumnus and current producer and writer for The Big Bang Theory, will share how his love of philosophy influenced his career path. There will be an hour-long Q&A session with Mr. Kaplan following his presentation.

Department Colloquium
February 26, 2015
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EST
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Emerson 305
In Person
Stephen Darwall (Yale) "Commanding Reasons and 'Commands of Reason': Kant on Moral Obligation" Reception in Robbins Library following the lecture Sponsored by the M&P Workshop

Harvard Logic Seminar
February 23, 2015
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4:30PM - 5:30PM EST
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Logic Center, Room 420, 2 Arrow Street
In Person
Will Boney (University of Illinois at Chicago) "Tameness in Abstract Elementary Classes" Tameness is a locality property of Galois types in AECs. Since its isolation by Grossberg and VanDieren 10 years ago, it has been used to prove new results (upward...

Philosophy and Literature Reading Group
February 10, 2015
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6:00PM - 8:00PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson 211
In Person
The first Spring term meeting of the Philosophy and LIterature Reading Group will be held on Tuesday, February 10, from 6:00-8:00 PM in Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211. We will be discussing chapter 4 ("Work" pp. 136-167) of Hannah Arendt's The Human...

Emerson Hall Poetry Night
February 5, 2015
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7:30PM - 10:00PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson 211
In Person
You are cordially invited to the post-winter-break session of the Emerson Hall Poetry Night, on Thursday, February 5 at 7:30 PM. As always, it will be in our beloved Robbins Library, on the second floor of Emerson Hall. As before: come to read or just to...

Lunch in the Library
February 4, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson 211
In Person
We want to welcome back our undergraduate concentrators, graduate students, department visitors, and faculty with lunch in Robbins Library on Wednesday, February 4 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM. Come and enjoy delicious food and informal conversation with members...

History of Philosophy Work-in-Progress Group: Colin Chamberlain (Temple)
January 30, 2015
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2:00PM - 4:00PM EST
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Tanner Room, Emerson 3rd Floor
In Person
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Colin Chamberlain (Temple University) will give a talk for the History of Philosophy Work-in-Progress Group on Friday, January 30 at 2PM in the Tanner Room. Chamberlain is a recent graduate of the Department of Philosophy...

Special Lecture by Hugh Woodin
December 4, 2014
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2:00PM - 4:00PM EST
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Science Center Hall C
In Person
W. Hugh Woodin (Harvard) "Must the Continuum Hypothesis Have an Answer?" This public lecture is an extra session of the History of Science seminar-course "It's Only a Hypothesis" Please note the change in room: the lecture will be held in Science Center...

Emerson Hall Poetry Night
Dec 3, 2014
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7:30PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson 211
In Person
Please join us for our regular reminder-and-celebration-of-our-humanity at the Emerson Hall Poetry Night! If you're a newcomer, the basic idea is this: people sign up for ten-minute slots during which they can read their own poetry or any other poetry...

Department Colloquium
November 20, 2014
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EST
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Emerson 305
In Person
Karl Schafer (Pittsburgh) "Practical Cognition and Knowledge of Things-in-Themselves" Reception in Robbins Library following the lecture

Harvard Logic Colloquium
November 19, 2014
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4:30PM - 5:30PM EST
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Logic Center, Room 420, 2 Arrow Street
In Person
Maryanthe Malliaris (University of Chicago) "Comparing the complexity of unstable theories" In 1967 Keisler posed the problem of Keisler’s order, a suggested program for comparing the complexity of classes of mathematical structures using an asymptotic...