Humanities Division Philosophy-Internal

Faculty Meeting

18 Mar 2010 21:30:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

David Finkelstein: Wittgenstein Workshop

19 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Cobb 106
Friday, March 19, 2010, 1:30 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: Cobb 106
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): David Finkelstein (The University of Chicago)
Title: "THE TRUTH IN TRANSPARENCY"
Contact Name: Silver Bronzo
Contact E-mail: bronzo@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Background Reading is now available on the WW website.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humnaities.uchicago.edu…

Winter Quarter Ends

20 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago

APA - Pacific Division

31 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT

San Francisco, CA
Wednesday, March 31 – Sunday, April 4, 2010

Scroll down on provided APA link for more information.

Building/Room: Westin St. Francis
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Conference Title: American Philosophical Assocciation
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.apaonline.org…

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (AGARP)

31 Mar 2010 21:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Nick Houlahan
Contact E-mail: nick@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Reception for Prospective Graduate Students

01 Apr 2010 21:30:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Undergraduate Philosophy Club

01 Apr 2010 23:30:00 GMT

Reynolds Club South lounge
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 6:30 – 8pm

Building/Room: S. Lounge, Reynolds Club
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Brian Hillman and Wally Hilke
Contact E-mail: bghillman@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ugphilclub.wordpress.com

Ian Storey, Modern Philosophy Workshop

02 Apr 2010 15:30:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Friday, April 2, 2010, 10:30am – 12:20pm

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Ian Storey (University of Chicago, Political Science)
Title: forthcoming
Contact Name: Dasha Polzik
Contact E-mail: polzik@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Jason Bridges: Wittgenstein Workshop

02 Apr 2010 18:30:00 GMT

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Friday, April 2, 2010, 1:30 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: Cobb 106
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Jason Bridges (University of Chicago)
Title: “Wittgenstein against Contextualism”
Contact Name: Silver Bronzo
Contact E-mail: bronzo@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humnaities.uchicago.edu…

Coffee Hour

02 Apr 2010 21:30:00 GMT

Anscombe Lounge
Friday, April 2, 2010, 4:30 – 5:30pm

"neither coffee nor an hour"

Building/Room: Anscombe Lounge
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Graduate Students
Open to the Public: No
Contact Name: Jacob Swenson
Contact E-mail: jswenson@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: open to graduate students, faculty, and staff
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Tracy Strong, Modern Philosophy and Political Theory Workshops

05 Apr 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Pick 506
Monday, April 5, 2010, 12 – 1:30pm

please note unusual location and time

All papers will be posted on this website a week in advance of the presentation, and members of the workshop will be notified via email. Papers will not be read during the workshop. To be added to the email list, please contact Dasha Polzik (polzik at uchicago dot edu).

Building/Room: Pick 506
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Other Sponsor(s): Poltical Theory Workshop and Modern Philosophy Workshop
Presenter(s): Tracy Strong (University of California San Diego)
Title: “Rousseau: politics, language, and music"
Contact Name: Dasha Polzik
Contact E-mail: polzik@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Discussant: Greg Freeman
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Matthew Adler, Law and Philosophy Workshop

05 Apr 2010 21:00:00 GMT

Law School
Monday, April 5, 2010, 4 – 6pm

Note to prospective students: This workshop/seminar (called Workshop in the Law School and Seminar elsewhere, in keeping with what it is and what those terms mean in different places) enrolls around 10 students, by permission of the instructors. Applications are due by September 20. See website for details.

Building/Room: Law School
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Law School
Presenter(s): Matthew Adler, Law, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Well-Being and Equity: A Framework for Policy Analysis"
Contact Name: Lorrie Wehrs
Contact E-mail: lorrie_ragland@law.uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The purpose of the workshop will be to reflect about the varieties of utilitarianism that have been influential in law and the philosophical criticisms of them. We hope to emerge with a better understanding of both the utilitarian proposals and their rivals. All meetings are Monday 4 to 6 PM. Sessions led by non-Chicago speakers are followed by a working dinner. Two students each time will attend the dinners, at our expense, and all faculty attendees are welcome to join any dinner, at their own expense
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.law.uchicago.edu…

Nathan Rothschild: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (AGARP)

07 Apr 2010 21:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 4:30 – 6pm

For papers that are not distributed in advance, the workshop typically consists of a 45-minute presentation, followed by a 45-minute question-and-answer session. For precirculated papers, the presentation is abbreviated in order to leave more time for discussion.

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Nathan Rothschild (University of Chicago, Philosophy)
Title: “Thumos as the Pursuit of One’s Own”
Contact Name: Nick Houlahan
Contact E-mail: nick@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Faculty Meeting with Dean John Boyer

08 Apr 2010 21:30:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Celebration of Bill Wimsatt's Scholarship Conference

09 Apr 2010 06:00:00 GMT

TBA
Friday, April 9 – Saturday, April 10, 2010

Building/Room: TBA
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Conference Title: Celebration of Bill Wimsatt's Scholarship Conference
Presenter(s): TBA
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Ryan Long: Practical Philosophy Workshop

09 Apr 2010 15:30:00 GMT

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Friday, April 9, 2010, 10:30am – 12:30pm

Building/Room: tba
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Ryan Long (Chicago, Graduate Student)
Contact Name: Mark Hopwood
Contact E-mail: mhopwood@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This workshop is a forum for those interested in ethics, conceived broadly to include normative moral philosophy, meta-ethics, action theory, moral psychology, political philosophy, and the theory of practical reason. Our activities are divided between graduate student presentations of dissertation chapters, the hosting of outside speakers, and faculty presentations of their own work in progress. We hope, over time, to build a campus-wide community of scholars who are interested in the following pair of questions as well as their relationship to one another: What is it to act? What is it to act well?
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Ed Dain: Wittgenstein Workshop

09 Apr 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Cobb 102
Friday, April 9, 2010, 1:30 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: Cobb 102
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Ed Dain, Chicago
Title: “Projection and Pretense in Ethics”
Contact Name: Silver Bronzo
Contact E-mail: bronzo@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humnaities.uchicago.edu…

Coffee Hour

09 Apr 2010 21:30:00 GMT

Anscombe Lounge
Friday, April 9, 2010, 4:30 – 5:30pm

"neither coffee nor an hour"

Building/Room: Anscombe Lounge
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Graduate Students
Open to the Public: No
Contact Name: Jacob Swenson
Contact E-mail: jswenson@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: open to graduate students, faculty, and staff
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Rafeeq Hasan: Political Theory Workshop

12 Apr 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Pick 506
Monday, April 12, 2010, 12 – 2pm

Members of the workshop email list will receive the paper as a file
attachment later this week. Others who would like a copy should
contact Robin Bates (rdbates@uchicago.edu).

Building/Room: Pick 506
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Other Sponsor(s): Political Science
Presenter(s): Rafeeq Hasan (Philosophy)
Title: "Rousseau's Two Concepts of Obligation"
Contact Name: Lindsay Knight
Contact E-mail: lindsayk@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ptw.uchicago.edu…

MAPH Prospective Student Reception

12 Apr 2010 17:15:00 GMT

Anscombe Lounge
Stuart 216
Monday, April 12, 2010, 12:15 – 2:15pm

Building/Room: Stuart 216
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Other Sponsor(s): MAPH
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Chicago style deep-dish pizza will be served.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Alastair Norcross, Law and Philosophy Workshop

12 Apr 2010 21:00:00 GMT

Law School
Monday, April 12, 2010, 4 – 6pm

Note to prospective students: This workshop/seminar (called Workshop in the Law School and Seminar elsewhere, in keeping with what it is and what those terms mean in different places) enrolls around 10 students, by permission of the instructors. Applications are due by September 20. See website for details.

Building/Room: Law School
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Law School
Presenter(s): Alastair Norcross, Philosophy, University of Colorado
Contact Name: Lorrie Wehrs
Contact E-mail: lorrie_ragland@law.uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The purpose of the workshop will be to reflect about the varieties of utilitarianism that have been influential in law and the philosophical criticisms of them. We hope to emerge with a better understanding of both the utilitarian proposals and their rivals. All meetings are Monday 4 to 6 PM. Sessions led by non-Chicago speakers are followed by a working dinner. Two students each time will attend the dinners, at our expense, and all faculty attendees are welcome to join any dinner, at their own expense
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.law.uchicago.edu…

Brad Inwood: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (AGARP)

14 Apr 2010 21:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 4:30 – 6pm

For papers that are not distributed in advance, the workshop typically consists of a 45-minute presentation, followed by a 45-minute question-and-answer session. For precirculated papers, the presentation is abbreviated in order to leave more time for discussion.

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Title: “Walking and talking: reflections on divisions of the soul in Stoicism”
Contact Name: Nick Houlahan
Contact E-mail: nick@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Faculty Meeting with Dean Martha Roth

15 Apr 2010 21:30:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Niko Kolodny:Practical Philosophy Workshop

16 Apr 2010 15:30:00 GMT

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Friday, April 16, 2010, 10:30am – 12:30pm

Building/Room: tba
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Niko Kolodny (Berkeley)
Contact Name: Mark Hopwood
Contact E-mail: mhopwood@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This workshop is a forum for those interested in ethics, conceived broadly to include normative moral philosophy, meta-ethics, action theory, moral psychology, political philosophy, and the theory of practical reason. Our activities are divided between graduate student presentations of dissertation chapters, the hosting of outside speakers, and faculty presentations of their own work in progress. We hope, over time, to build a campus-wide community of scholars who are interested in the following pair of questions as well as their relationship to one another: What is it to act? What is it to act well?
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Arata Hamawaki: Wittgenstein Workshop

16 Apr 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Cobb 102
Friday, April 16, 2010, 1:30 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: Cobb 102
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Arata Hamawaki (Auburn University)
Title: “Self-Constitution”
Contact Name: Silver Bronzo
Contact E-mail: bronzo@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humnaities.uchicago.edu…

Coffee Hour

16 Apr 2010 21:30:00 GMT

Anscombe Lounge
Friday, April 16, 2010, 4:30 – 5:30pm

"neither coffee nor an hour"

Building/Room: Anscombe Lounge
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Graduate Students
Open to the Public: No
Contact Name: Jacob Swenson
Contact E-mail: jswenson@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: open to graduate students, faculty, and staff
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

4th Annual University of Chicago Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

17 Apr 2010 15:00:00 GMT

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Saturday, April 17, 2010, 10am – 3pm

The Undergraduate Philosophy Group at the University of Chicago is accepting essay submissions for its annual undergraduate philosophy conference. All papers of philosophical interest are welcome. Submissions are due Saturday, March 20th at midnight.

Submitted papers will undergo blind review by a student committee. Three papers will be accepted; they will be presented and discussed in hour-long sessions.
All submissions should contain 4000 words or less. Please include as a separate document a cover page with your name, email address, phone number, affiliation (university/college, major, and year,) title, and (optionally) an abstract of no more than 200 words.
The body of the paper should have no identifying information whatsoever.
Papers should be sent to Professor Jason Bridges at bridges@uchicago.edu; the paper and cover page should be attached as separate documents. “Philosophy Conference Submission” should be in the subject line.

Questions? E-mail ugphilclubboard@lists.uchicago.edu.

Building/Room: TBA
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Conference Title: 4th Annual University of Chicago Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Contact Name: Wally Hilke
Contact E-mail: ugphilclubboard@lists.uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.