Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop

David Sedley, Emeritus Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge will speak to the Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop on "Xenocrates and the Invention of Platonism"

Lucy Allais, Henry E. Allison Endowed Chair in the History of Philosophy (UC San Diego) will present a talk entitled "Kant's Racism" to the History of Philosophy Workshop at Harvard University on April 17, 2017 from 4-5:30 in Robbins Library (Emerson 211)...

This workshop aims to investigate the rise and implications of seemingly teleological laws and principles of nature from the 17th century to the modern day. It is a familiar story that natural teleology played an important role in Ancient and Medieval...

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...

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...

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...

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...