Upcoming and Recent Events



The Socratic Society is the University of Arkansas undergraduate philosophy club, though talks are open to all. For upcoming talks, contact Richard Lee .

Department Colloquia are held at 3:30 in MAIN 329 unless otherwise noted
 

Spring 2009:

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)"

Fall 2008:

Nov. 19
6:00 pm
 William Ramsey

 "From Mindless Representation to Representational Minds"


Spring 2008:

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"
 

Fall 2007:  

Oct. 19
4:00 pm		 Fred Dretske

 "What We See: The Texture of Conscious Experience"


Spring 2007:

March 2
4:00 pm		 Wayne Riggs "Doxastic Voluntarism and the Problem of Easy Credit"
April 27 Randall Havas TBA
   

Fall 2006:

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

 

Spring 2006:

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"
 

 Fall 2005:

September 16 Jonathan Kvanvig "Coherentism and Justified Inconsistent Beliefs:  A Partial Solution"
November 10-13 (Radisson Hotel) Southwestern Philosophical Society Meeting TBA


Spring 2005:

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"

Fall 2004:

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