Department Events
Past Events
Colloquium Lecture: Sally Sedgwick (BU)
Mar 26, 2021
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3:00PM EDT
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Zoom Webinar
Virtual
This talk follows the read-ahead model; the format consists of a brief 20-minute lecture followed by a 60-minute Q&A session. All attendees must register in advance to gain entry. Registered attendees will receive a link to access Prof. Sedgwick’s paper...
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Colloquium Lecture: Nico Orlandi (UC-Santa Cruz)
February 26, 2021
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3:00PM - 4:30PM EST
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Zoom Webinar
Virtual
This talk follows the read-ahead model; the format consists of a brief 20-minute lecture followed by a 60-minute Q&A session. All attendees must register in advance to gain entry. Registered attendees will receive a copy of Prof. Orlandi’s paper via email...
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Colloquium Lecture: Sinan Dogramaci (UT-Austin)
November 13, 2020
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3:00PM - 4:30PM EST
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Zoom Webinar
Virtual
This talk follows the read-ahead model; the format consists of a brief 20 minute lecture followed by a 60 minute Q&A session. All attendees must register in advance to gain entry. Registered attendees will receive a copy of Prof. Dogramaci’s paper via...
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Harvard University Minorities and Philosophy Colloquium Lecture: Vanessa Wills (George Washington University)
November 6, 2020
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3:00PM - 4:30PM EST
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Zoom Webinar
Virtual
This talk follows the read-ahead model; the format consists of a brief 20 minute lecture followed by a 60 minute Q&A session. All attendees must register in advance to gain entry. Registered attendees will receive a copy of Prof. Wills’ paper via email...
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Harvard Review of Philosophy Annual Lecture: L. A. Paul (Yale)
October 2, 2020
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3:00PM - 4:30PM EDT
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Online via. Zoom Video Conferencing
Virtual
Please note: This lecture will follow a read-ahead format. It is expected that participants come having read the paper in advance. Prof. Paul will provide a short summary of the paper, and then we will launch directly into the Q&A period. Abstract: A...
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Colloquium Lecture: Julia Markovits (Cornell), "The Partial Relativism of Praise and Blame"
March 6, 2020
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST
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Emerson Hall 305
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Robert Iliffe (Oxford) (co-sponsored with the Harvard Early Modern History Workshop)
March 3, 2020
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5:00PM - 7:00PM EST
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TBD
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Workshop on the Philosophy of Emilié du Châtelet
February 22, 2020
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8:30AM - 5:00PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
In Person
9:30 – 10:00: Coffee and Welcome 10:00 – 11:30: Ruth Hagengruber (author) and Katherine Brading (commentator) 11:45 – 12:15: Clara Carus (author) and Andrew Janiak (commentator) 12:15 – 1:15: Catered lunch in the Philosopher’s Lounge* 1:30 – 3:00: Marius...
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Harvard Logic Colloquium: Richard A. Shore (Cornell), Infinite Ray Theorums: Complexity and Reverse Mathematics: Theorums of Hyperarithmetic Analysis
February 5, 2020
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4:30PM - 5:30PM EST
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Logic Center, Room 420, 2 Arrow Street
In Person
Harvard Logic Colloquium: Richard A. Shore (Cornell), Infinite Ray Theorums: Complexity and Reverse Mathematics: Theorums of Hyperarithmetic Analysis
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A Night of Philosophy and Ideas
January 31, 2020
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6:00PM - 11:00PM EST
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William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Harvard University
In Person
nightofphilosophyandideas.info Originally from France, a night of philosophy and ideas is a marathon of philosophical debate, performances, readings, and music happening overnight. Boston’s first Night of Philosophy & Ideas at Harvard University will...
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Harvard Logic Colloquium: George E. Smith (Tufts U.), Theory-Mediated Measurement of Interlinked Constants Evidence of a Different Kind?
November 20, 2019
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4:30PM - 5:30PM EST
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Logic Center, Room 420, 2 Arrow Street
In Person
Harvard Logic Colloquium: George E. Smith (Tufts U.), Theory-Mediated Measurement of Interlinked Constants Evidence of a Different Kind? In his landmark paper of 1900 in which he derived his law of blackbody radiation from Boltzmann’s theory of entropy...
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Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop: Richard Arthur (McMaster University), Leibniz's Metaphysics of Change: Vague States and Physical Continuity
November 15, 2019
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3:00PM - 4:30PM EST
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
In Person
For more details about this and other History of Philosophy Workshop events please click here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop
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Philosophy Concentration Declaration Deadline
Nov 14, 2019
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12:00AM EST
In Person
If you're interested in declaring a concentration, please sign up for an advising meeting with a member of the DUS office. You can sign up here for meetings with any one of us. We also encourage you to talk to our Philosophy Concentration Fellows. They've...
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Harvard Logic Colloquium: Matthew Foreman (UC Irvine), When is time forward isomorphic to time backward?
November 13, 2019
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4:30PM - 5:30PM EST
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Logic Center, Room 420, 2 Arrow Street
In Person
Harvard Logic Colloquium: Matthew Foreman (UC Irvine), When is time forward isomorphic to time backward?
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Colloquium Lecture: Charles Mills (CUNY), Doing Injustice to "Justice": How Rawls Went Wrong
November 1, 2019
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Emerson Hall 305
In Person
Charles Mills (CUNY), Doing Injustice to "Justice": How Rawls Went Wrong.
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Colloquium Lecture: Martin Lin (Rutgers), Leibniz on the Grounds of Possibility
October 25, 2019
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Emerson Hall 305
In Person
Martin Lin (Rutgers) - Leibniz on the Grounds of Possibility
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Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop: Vili Lähteenmäki (University of Helsinki), Cartesian Self-Relations
October 11, 2019
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3:00PM - 4:30PM EDT
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
In Person
For more details about this and other History of Philosophy Workshop events please click here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop
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Harvard Logic Colloquium: Justin Moore (Cornell), What makes the continuum Aleph-2
October 9, 2019
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4:30PM - 5:30PM EDT
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Logic Center, Room 420, 2 Arrow Street
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Harvard Logic Colloquium: Justin Moore (Cornell), What makes the continuum Aleph-2
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Colloquium Lecture: James Owen Weatherall (UC-Irvine)
September 20, 2019
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Emerson Hall 305
In Person
James Owen Weatherall (UC-Irvine) - Infinite Space in Modern Cosmology
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