Past Events

327 results

327 results

Department Colloquium

November 13, 2014
|
4:00PM - 6:00PM EST
|
Emerson 305
James Doyle (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) "Do tyrants do what they want? Gorgias 466a4-468e5" ***Attendees are asked to read the text of Plato's Gorgias prior to the lecture.*** Reception in Robbins Library following the lecture Sponsored by...

Department Colloquium

November 6, 2014
|
4:00AM - 6:00PM EST
|
Emerson 305
Sarah Buss (Michigan) "Reason as a Practical Capacity" Reception in Robbins Library following the lecture Sponsored by the M&P Workshop

Harvard Logic Colloquium

October 29, 2014
|
4:30PM - 5:30PM EDT
|
Logic Center, Room 408, 2 Arrow Street
Joan Bagaria (Universitat de Barcelona) "Reflection phenomena in the set-theoretic universe" The phenomenon of reflection occurs at different layers of the set-theoretic universe V, and strengthened forms of reflection associated to each layer give rise...

Department Colloquium

October 23, 2014
|
4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
|
Emerson 305
Patricia Kitcher (Columbia) "Kant, Norms, and Nature" Sponsored by the M&E Workshop

The Origin of the Work of Art: Thinking With/Against Heidegger

October 15, 2014
|
7:00PM - 9:00PM EDT
|
Sever Hall 113
Join Gregory Fried, Peter E. Gordon, and Sean D. Kelly for an evening conversation about Martin Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art." Gregory Fried (Department of Philosophy, Suffolk University) Peter E. Gordon (Department of History, Harvard...

Islamic-Arabic Philosophy Workshop

October 4, 2014
|
9:00AM - 4:30PM EDT
|
Robbins Library, Emerson 211, Harvard University
Schedule: 9:00 – 9:30: Coffee and Pastries 9:30 – 10:45: Jon McGinnis (Missouri – St. Louis) “Mind the Gap: Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space and Its Reception” 11:00 – 12:15: Kara Richardson (Syracuse) "Avicenna on Determinism and...

Department Colloquium

October 2, 2014
|
4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
|
Emerson 305
Christopher Shields (Notre Dame) "Fractured Goodness: an Academic Dispute" Reception in Robbins Library following the lecture

MBB Distinguished Lecture

Oct 1, 2014
|
5:00PM EDT
|
Northwest Building, Room B-103
Professor Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich) "Neuroeconomics as a Unifying Approach Towards Understanding the Human Mind and Individual Behavior" post-talk commentary by Drazen Prelec (MIT)

MBB Distinguished Lecture

Sep 30, 2014
|
5:00PM EDT
|
Northwest Building, Room B-103
Professor Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich) "The Neurobiology of Human Altruism" post-talk commentary by Professor Joshua Greene (Harvard)

Department Colloquium

September 25, 2014
|
4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
|
Emerson 305
Jack Spencer (MIT) "Able to Do the Impossible" A version of Professor Spencer's paper is available at the link above. Sponsored by the M&E Workshop Reception in Robbins Library to follow.