Events Archive

April 11
4:00 pm, Old Main 329
Bryan Cwik, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University Beyond Tradeoffs: A New Framework For Thinking About Intellectual Property
April 25
4:00 pm, Old Main 329
Professor Lisa Downing, The Ohio State University Locke’s Choice between Materialism and Dualism
November 15
4:00 p.m., Old Main 329
Dr. Michael Kremer of the University of Chicago Acquaintance, Analysis, and Knowledge of Persons in Russell
April 19
4:00 pm, Old Main 417
Dr. Anna-Sara Malmgren of Stanford University Inference: Justification and Explanation
April 11
4:00 pm, Old Main 417
Filip Buyse of Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne The Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities in Galileo and Spinoza
October 26
4:00 pm, Old Main 325
Dr. Mark Timmons from the University of Arizona, Love of Honor, Emulation, and the Devilish Vices in Kant’s Ethics
November 1
7:00 pm, SCEN 403
Eric Reitan, Oklahoma State University “No Hell? Considering 10 Objections to Christian Universalism.”
November 2
4:00 pm, Old Main 417
Dr. Eric Reitan Oklahoma State University Dept. of Philosophy “A Deontological Theodicy? Swinburne’s Lapse and the Problem of Moral Evil.”
March 30
4:00 pm, Old Main 417
Dr. William Blattner "Heidegger, Taylor and the Ideal of Authenticity"
April 29
4:00 pm, Old Main 329
John Perry "Self Knowledge"
April 28
7:30 pm, Graduate Education Auditorium, Room 166
Kraemer Lecture presented by John Perry "Wretched Subterfuge: A defense of the compatibility of freedom and natural causation"
April 15
4:00 pm
Shannon Spaulding "Overextended Cognition"
February 21
7:30 pm
Rienk Vermij  "Christiaan Huygens and the Limits of the Mechanical Philosophy"
February 27
4:00 pm, AGRI 115
Michael Rea "The Case Against Analytic Theology:  An Outsider's Perspective"
March 9, 7 pm, Giffels Auditorium Jerry Fodor 2009 Kraemer Lecture: "What Darwin Got Wrong"
March 10, 3:30, Library 104 Jerry Fodor "Enough With the Norms Already"
April 17 Richard Feldman "Disagreements and Higher-Order Evidence"
April 23, Main 323 Calvin Normore "Animal Souls (Medievals, Moderns, and Then Some)"
Nov. 19
6:00 pm
William Ramsey

"From Mindless Representation to Representational Minds"
April 14
7:00 pm
Scott MacDonald

"Divine Presence [in Augustine]"
March 14
4:00 pm
Matthew Burch "'The Twinkling of an Eye':  Kierkegaard and Heidegger on Faith"
Oct. 19
4:00 pm
Fred Dretske

"What We See: The Texture of Conscious Experience"
March 2 
4:00 pm
Wayne Riggs "Doxastic Voluntarism and the Problem of Easy Credit"
April 27 Randall Havas TBA
September 29, 7:30 p.m., Giffels Auditorium Martha Nussbaum  "The Fixed Star: Religion and Equality in American Political Life" (2006-07 Kraemer Lecture)
September 30, time TBA Martha Nussbaum  TBA
October 27-28   South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy
November 3 Matthew McGrath TBA
March 2, 7:30 p.m., Giffels Auditorium Russ Shafer-Landau "In Defense of Gay Marriage"
March 3 Russ Shafer-Landau "Categorical Reasons"
April 28, 7:30 p.m., Giffels Auditorium Paul Woodruff "The Challenge of Democracy" (2006 Kraemer Lecture)
April 29, 10:30 a.m., (Room TBA) Paul Woodruff "Reasoning without Knowledge"
September 16 Jonathan Kvanvig "Coherentism and Justified Inconsistent Beliefs:  A Partial Solution"
November 10-13 (Radisson Hotel) Southwestern Philosophical Society Meeting TBA
February 11, 7:30 p.m., Ozark 25 Susan Wolf "The Meanings of Lives" (2005 Kraemer Lecture) 
February 12, 10:30 a.m.  Susan Wolf  "Moral Psychology and the Unity of Virtue"
February 25 Alvin Goldman  "Contextualism, Two-Tiered Reliabilism, and the Internalism/Externalism Dispute"
March 4 Ted Sider "Parthood"
September 10, Agri 115 Russell Goodman "James on the Nonconceptual"
September 22, 7:00 p.m. John Martin Fischer "The Frankfurt-Cases: The Moral of the Stories"
November 5 Christopher Hill "Ow! The Paradox of Pain"

The Kraemer Memorial Lecture brings a distinguished speaker in value theory to the campus each year. The Kraemer Lectures commemorate William S. Kraemer, who was Chair of the Department of Philosophy from 1953-1976. The first Kraemer Lecture was given in 1984 by Thomas Nagel.

Recent speakers have included:   

Susan Wolf, Paul Woodruff, Russell Goodman, Chris Hill, Jonathan Lear, Colin Allen, Hilary Kornblith, Jonathan Kvanvig, Kelly Jolley, Stewart Cohen, Lynne Rudder Baker, John Martin Fischer, Jaegwon Kim, Daniel Garber, John Haugeland, Charles Bolyard, Marleen Rozemond, Philip Clark, Bill Bechtel, Ken Aizawa, Peter Hylton, James Van Cleve, Christi Favor, Gordon Beavers, Andrew Eschelman, Harry Frankfurt, Simon Cushing, Jim Deitrick, Suzanne Antley, Jami Anderson, Jan Thomas, Daniel Dennett, William Lycan, David Chalmers, Leopold Stubenberg, Joseph Levine, Terry Horgan, Marilyn Adams, Robert Adams, Kathleen Akins, Linda Zagzebski, Edwin McCann, Calvin Normore, Deborah Brown, Ronald Endicott, Jami Anderson, Robert Kane, Gary Watson, Barry Loewer, Timothy O'Connor, Randy Clarke, Hubert. Dreyfus, Eleonore Stump, Joseph L. Cruz, Alvin Goldman, David Christiansen, Daniel Brudney, Reinaldo Elugardo, Patricia Churchland, Tyler Burge, Alvin Plantinga, Gilbert Harman, David Brink, Alan Nelson, Martin Hahn, Stephen Darwall, Richard Boyd, Michael Hand