Past Events

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Department Colloquium
November 13, 2014
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EST
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Emerson 305
In Person
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
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4:00AM - 6:00PM EST
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Emerson 305
In Person
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
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4:30PM - 5:30PM EDT
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Logic Center, Room 408, 2 Arrow Street
In Person
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
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Emerson 305
In Person
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
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7:00PM - 9:00PM EDT
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Sever Hall 113
In Person
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
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9:00AM - 4:30PM EDT
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Robbins Library, Emerson 211, Harvard University
In Person
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
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Emerson 305
In Person
Christopher Shields (Notre Dame) "Fractured Goodness: an Academic Dispute" Reception in Robbins Library following the lecture

MBB Distinguished Lecture
Oct 1, 2014
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5:00PM EDT
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Northwest Building, Room B-103
In Person
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
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5:00PM EDT
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Northwest Building, Room B-103
In Person
Professor Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich) "The Neurobiology of Human Altruism" post-talk commentary by Professor Joshua Greene (Harvard)

Department Colloquium
September 25, 2014
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Emerson 305
In Person
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.