UCR Philosophy Department Colloquia

The UCR Philosophy Colloquium Series for the 2009 –2010 school year will include the following speakers. (For colloquia from the 2008–2009 school year, click here.) Please check back for further details as the dates approach, or visit our department calendar.

Fall Quarter:

On October 21^st, from 4–6pm, Marcus Willaschek gave a colloquium talk titled, “Non-Relativist Contextualism About Free Will.”

Winter Quarter:

On January 13^th, 2010, from 3–5pm, Professor Robert B. Pippin (University of Chicago) delivered the second lecture in our annual Bernd Magnus Lecture series. The lecture is titled, “Nietzsche on Self-Deception.”
On February 10^th, 2010, from 3–5pm, Robert Brandom will be giving a colloquium talk in HMNSS 1500. The talk is titled, “How Analytic Philosophy has Failed Cognitive Science.” [Canceled due to snowstorms in Pittsburgh.]
On February 24^th, 2010, from 3–5pm, David Boonin gave a colloquium talk titled, “Harm-Based Solutions to the Non-Identity Problem.”

Spring Quarter:

On April 14^th, 2010, from 3–5pm, Gary Gutting will be giving a colloquium talk (in HMNSS 1500) titled, “Thinking the Impossible: Reflections on French Philosophy since 1960.”
On April 21^st, 2010, from 3–5pm, Derrick Darby will be giving a colloquium talk (in HMNSS 1500) titled, “Egalitarianism and Racial Inequality.”