Speaker Series

For additional information, contact Professor Mark van Roojen:

E-mail: mvr1[at]earthlink.net
Telephone: (402) 472-2425

2024-2025

2023-2024

Renee Jorgensen, University of Michigan
Date: October 27, 2023, Philosophy Colloquia, LPH 124, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Seana Schiffrin, University of California, Los Angeles
Date: October 19, 2023, The Cedric Evans Memorial Lecture, Nebraska Union - Heritage Room, 4:15 to 6:00 p.m., Open to the Public

Seana Schiffrin, University of California, Los Angeles
Date: October 19, 2023, Philosophy Colloquia, LPH 124, 3:30pm to 5:30pm

2022-2023

  • Cian Dorr - Date: March 23, 2023

2021-2022

  • Shamik Dasgupta, University of California, Berkeley - Date: March 4, 2022 (rescheduled from February 18, 2022)
  • Anna Marmodoro, Durham University - Date: Postponed
  • Johann Frick, University of California, Berkeley - Date: April 4, 2022

2020-2021

  • Brie Gertler, University of Virginia - Date: April 16, 2021
  • Duncan Pritchard, University of California — Irvine - Dates: March 16, 2021 & March 26, 2021
  • Helen Beebee, University of Leeds, and Anne-Marie Mccallion, University of Manchester - Date: March 12, 2021

2019-2020

  • Brie Gertler, University of Virginia - Date: Postponed
  • Sally Haslanger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Dates: November 7-8, 2019

2018-2019

  • David Velleman, New York University - Date: March 8, 2019
  • Julia Jorati, Ohio State University - Date: November 30, 2018  
  • Brie Gertler, University of Virginia - Date: Postponed  

2017-2018

  • Elisabeth Camp, Rutgers University - Date: April 20, 2018
  • Charles Mills, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) - Dates: January 18-19, 2018
  • David Estlund, Brown University - Date: October 6, 2017

2016-2017

  • Alex Miller, University of Otago, New Zealand - Date: March 6, 2017
  • Lucy Allais, University of California San Diego - Date: February 24, 2017
  • Karen Bennett, Cornell University - Date: November 18, 2016
  • Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore - Date: November 11, 2016
  • Alex Rosenberg, Duke University - Date: October 7, 2016
  • Onora O'Neill, Emeritus at University of Cambridge - Date: CANCELLED

2015-2016

  • Susanna Siegel, Harvard University - Date: April 13, 2016
  • Nomy Arpaly, Brown University - Date: January 22, 2016
  • Robert Pasnau, CU Boulder - Date:  October 29-30, 2015
  • Barbara Herman, UCLA - Date: October 8-9, 2015
  • Alex Rosenberg, Duke University - Postponed, date to be determined

2014-2015

  • Louise Antony, University of Massachusetts - Date:  Friday, March 13, 2015
  • Lisa Downing, Ohio State University - Date:  November 14, 2014
  • Jason Stanley, Yale University - Date:  September 19, 2014

2013-2014

  • Stephen Schiffer - Dates:  Thursday, April 24; and Friday, April 25, 2014
  • Ralph Wedgwood - Date:  Friday, April 4, 2014
  • Jonathan Schaffer - Date:  Friday, November 8, 2013
  • Tamar Szabó Gendler - Dates:  Thursday, October 3; and Friday, October 4, 2013

2012-2013

  • Stewart Cohen - Date:  Friday, November 30, 2012, 3:30 p.m.  Place:  Oldfather 1007
  • Gideon Rosen - Date:  Friday, October 26, 2012, 3:30 p.m.  Place:  Oldfather 1007
  • Julia Driver - Date:  Friday, October 5, 2012, 3:30 p.m.  Place:  Oldfather Hall 1007

2011-2012

  • Sarah McGrath - Date:  Friday, April 13, 2012, 3:30 p.m.  Place:  Oldfather 1007
  • Allison Wylie - Date:  Thursday-Friday, March 15-16, 2012, 3:30 p.m.  Place:  Oldfather 1007
  • Niko Kolodny - Date:  Friday, November 18, 2011, 3:30 p.m.  Place:  Oldfather 1007
  • Ted Sider - Date:  Friday, October 21, 2011, 3:30 p.m.  Place:  Oldfather 1007
  • Pekka Vayrynen - Date:  Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 4:00 p.m.  Place:  Oldfather Hall 1007

2010-2011

  • Sarah Buss - Friday, April 29, 2011, 3:30 p.m., Oldfather Hall 1007, Colloquium on her paper, "The Value of Humanity."
  • Amie Thomasson - Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:30 p.m., Oldfather Hall 1007, Colloquium on her paper, "Easy Ontology and Serious Commitment."
  • Alex Orenstein - Friday, November 5, 2010, 3:30 p.m., Oldfather Hall 1007, Colloquium on his paper, "The Old Logic, the New Logic, and a Newer Logic."
  • Ruth Millikan - Friday, October 22, 2010, 3:30 p.m., Oldfather Hall 1007, Colloquium on her paper, "Utterly Direct Reference."
  • Ruth Millikan - Thursday, October 21, 2010, 4:00 p.m., Burnett Hall, Room 118, Cedric Evans Memorial Lecture "Learning and Understanding Language without Thoughts or Thoughts (or, indeed, of Language)."

2009-2010

  • Jim Pryor - April 23, 2010
  • Tim Maudlin - March 26, 2010
  • Karsten Stueber - March 4, 2010
  • Stephen Stich - October 29, 2009, 3:45 p.m. Evans Lecture October 30, 2009, 4:00 p.m. Evans Lecture Abstract
  • Kieran Setiya - September 18, 2009, 3:30 p.m.

2008-2009

  • Nicholas L. Sturgeon - March 27, 2009
  • Alison Simmons - March 6, 2009
  • Warren Goldfarb - November 21, 2008, 3:30p.m.
  • Tyler Burge, Midwest Epistemology Workshop Keynote Lecture - October 17, 2008
  • Elliott Sober - September 19, 2008, 10:30 a.m. Evans Lecture September 19, 2008, 3:30 p.m.

2007-2008

  • Kit Fine - April 25, 2008
  • David Copp - April 11, 2008
  • Terry Horgan - February 8, 2008
  • Mark Schroeder - January 18, 2008
  • Kent Bach - November 12, 2007
  • Frank Jackson - November 1, Evans Lecture and November 2, 2007

2006-2007

  • Tony Brueckner - March 1-3, 2007
  • Carolina Sartorio - December 1, 2006
  • Gisela Striker - November 3, 2006
  • Robert Johnson - October 13, 2006
  • Matt McGrath - September 8, 2006

2005-2006

  • Jamie Dreier - May 5, 2006
  • Michael Tooley - February 23 and February 24, 2006, Evans Lecture
  • Mark Richard - November 18, 2005
  • Sydney Shoemaker - October 28, 2005

2004-2005

  • John Perry - April 21, 2005 and April 22, 2005, Evans Lecture
  • John Hawthorne - April 7-10, 2005
  • Luc Brisson, "Nature and Plotinus: What it Is and How It Works" - November 17, 2004, 229 Andrews Hall, 12:30 p.m.

2003-2004

  • Stephen Darwall - February 27, 2004
  • Robert Stalnaker - October 31, 2003
  • John Searle - October 9 and October 10, 2003, Evans Lecture

2002-2003

  • Frances Kamm "Failures of Just War Theory: Terrorism, Harm and Justice" - April 18, 2003
  • Stephen Yablo "Illusions of Possibility" - November 22, 2002
  • Julia Annas - November 7 and November 8, 2002, Evans Lecture
  • Timothy Williamson "Knowledge, Context, and the Subject's Point of View" - October 14, 2002

2001-2002

  • Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - April 12, 2002
  • David Chalmers - November 2, 2001
  • Hilary Putnam - September 20 through September 21, 2001 Evans Lecture

2000-2001

  • Penelope Maddy - April 6, 2001
  • Alvin Goldman - March 8-9, 2001 Evans Lecture
  • Colin McGinn - October 6, 2000 at Central States Philosophical Association Meeting.
  • Philip Pettit - September 8, 2000