Past Events
May 3. 2012 |
"Reply to David Oderberg: Relations and Structures in Ontology" Randy Dipert |
| April 10 -13, 2012 |
2012 George F. Hourani Lecture Series Michael A. Smith Princeton University Department of Philosophy, "A Constitutivist Theory of Reasons" "The Standard Story of Action", "Reasons for Desires", "Constitutivism, Reasons, and Rationality" |
April 19, 2012 |
Department Colloquia, "Bolzano's Logical Syntax", Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University)
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| March 29, 2012 | Department Colloquia, Richard Feldman (Rochester) |
March 23, 2012
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Buffalo Logic Colloquium, "Consequence, Commitment, and Paraphrase", John C.A. Keller (Niagara University)
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| March 22, 2012 |
Department Colloquia, "Negative Results", Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh HPS) |
| March 10-12, 2012 |
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| March 8, 2012 | "Skill and Knowinng How" Jason Stanley
(Rutgers) |
| March 7, 2012 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium, "The Two Turns of Bertrand Russell's Logic", Nikolay Milkov (University of Paderborn)
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| March, 2012 |
"Video content, information and (ir)reality" Werner Ceusters (UB School of Medicine; Ontology Research Group)
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| January 16, 2012 | UB Research Ethics Seminar Series Barry Smith "Ethics, Informatics and Obamacare"
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| Fall 2011 Events | 2011 Fall Events |
| September 15, 2011 | PHI Department Welcome Party |
| April 29, 2011 |
Department Colloquia: “Names as Predicates” Delia Graff Fara Princeton University |
| April 27, 2011 | Cognitive Science Colloquium - James Beebe
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| January 19, 20, 21, 2011 |
"Solitude and Sociality" J. David Velleman New York University
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| April 15, 2011 | “Moral Expertise” Julia Driver. Washington University, St. Louis |
| Spring 2011 | Institute of Jewish Thought David Blitzer Lecture Series |
| December 02, 2010 | Inaugural Paul Kurtz Lecture Series "A History of Violence" Steven Pinker Harvard University |
| November 19, 2010 | "Towards a Unified Theory of Rationality in Belief, Desire and Action," Peter Railton. University of Michigan
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| November 4, 2010 |
"The Recovery of the idea of a Material Value Ethics," Eugene Kelly. New York Institute of Technology
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| October 28, 2010 |
“Reviewing Priori Analytics, Book A: Gisela Striker’s New Translation and Commentary,” George Boger, Canisius College
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| October 22, 2010 | “My Career and Publications, ” John Corcoran. University at Buffalo, SUNY
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October 16, 17 2010 |
The Corcoran Colloquium: Celebrating 50 Years of Logic
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| October 15, 2010 | “Another World: the Metaethics and Metametaethics of Reasons Fundamentalism” Jamie Dreier. Brown University
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| October 7, 2010 |
“Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground,” Sally Haslanger. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| September 24, 2010 | “What Am I Doing?,” Benj Hellie University of Toronto |
April 15, 2010 |
"Agency, time, and sociality," Michael Bratman. Stanford University |
February 25, 2010 |
"Three Criteria for an Account of Associative Duties," Erin Taylor. Cornell University |
February 12, 2010 |
"Knowing (How)," Jason Stanley. Rutgers University |
January 28, 2010 |
"Doing Away With Harm," Ben Bradley. Syracuse University |
| October 16, 2010 |
The Corcoran Colloquium |
| October 8, 2010 | IX Capen Symposium Assimilation: The Social Intergration of Ethnic Migrants in Theory and Ideology |
2009-2010 Academic year |
Departmental Colloquia |
| Spring 2010 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| Fall/Spring 2009/2010 | Special Events |
| Fall 2009 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| Summer 2009 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| April 2009 | Conference: The Metaphysics of Lynne Rudder Baker |
| 2009 Events | Departmental Colloquia Fall |
2008-2009 Academic year |
Departmental Colloquia |
| Summer 2009 | ICBO: International Conference on Biomedical Ontology University at Buffalo, NY Tutorials and Classes on Biomedical Ontology: July 20-23, 2009 Conference: July 24-26, 2009 |
| September 24th - October 10th, 2008 | Hourani Lectures: Deep Control: Lectures on Free Will and Moral Responsibility |
| Summer 2008 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| Spring 2008 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| April 5, 2008 | Powers, Dispositions, and
Singular Causation Graduate Student Conference Adam Taylor and Steven Halady, Organizers |
| October 31, 2007 | How Physicians and Scientists Should
Respond to Controversy about the Ethics
of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Romanell Bioethics Lecture Speaker: Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D, Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Associate Director for Education of The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Organizers: Stephen E. Wear (School of Medicine) and Andrea Ott (Philosophy Department) |
| October 26-27, 2007 | Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Latin American and Latino Thought Conference Presented by the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy |
| October 13, 2007 | Reason, Intuition, Objects |
| September 20-22, 2007 | The Future of Naturalism |
| Fall 2007 | Departmental Colloquia |
| Fall 2007 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| Summer 2007 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| April 20-21, 2007 | Singularities of Latin American Philosophy Comparative Literature Department 15th Annual Spring Symposium Jorge Gracia, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Co-Organizer |
| April 14, 2007 |
Graduate Student Conference Steven Halady and Russell Pryba, Organizers |
| Spring 2007 | Departmental Colloquia |
| March 28, 2007 |
Lecture and Discussion by Alon Harel, Hebrew University, Law Visiting Fellow at University of Toronto Centre of Ethics Kenneth Ehrenberg, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo) and the Theory Working Group of The Baldy Center for Law and Policy, Organizers |
| March 9, 2007 | American Pragmatism and Environmental Ethics Lecture by Dr. Bryan Norton, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech Bryan Norton Kenneth Shockley, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizer |
| Fall 2006 | Departmental Colloquia |
| Fall 2006 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| Fall 2006 |
Hourani Lecture Series Jefferson McMahan, Rutgers University Philosophy Department and Princeton University Center for Human Values |
| October 28, 2006 | The Philosophy of Biology Conference Barry Smith, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizer |
| September 28 - October 19, 2006 | Ontology, Bioinformatics and the Life Sciences Lecture Series Barry Smith, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizer |
| June 11-30, 2006 | Negotaiting Identities in Art, Literature, and Philosophy: Cuban Americans and American Culture |
| Spring 2006 | Departmental Colloquia |
| April 22, 2006 | American Philosophy in the 21st Century: Classic Foundations and Contemporary Solutions Graduate Student Conference |
| April 8-9, 2006 | The Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe Conference Randall Dipert, David Hershenov and Barry Smith, Organizers |
| April 7, 2006 | Metaphysics Without Apology Graduate Student Conference Kristl Laux, Andrew Spear, Amanda Hicks, Organizers |
| April 1, 2006 | Western New York Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Alex Placito and Kenneth Shockley, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizers |
| Fall 2005 | Departmental Colloquia |
| Fall 2005 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| Fall 2005 | Politics and Its Virtues Lecture Series Newton Garver, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizer |
| October 28, 2005 | Bio-Ontologies: Gene Ontology Conference Barry Smith, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizer |
| October 27, 2005 | NCOR Inaugural Event Conference Barry Smith, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizer |
| October 14, 2005 | Ontology and Cancer Bioinformatics Workshop Barry Smith, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizer |
| Spring 2005 | Departmental Colloquia |
| Summer 2005 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| June 6-30, 2005 | Latin American Philosophy: The Appropriation of European Ideas in Latin America NEH Summer Institute Jorge Gracia, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizer |
| March 5, 2005 | Continental Philosophy: Examining the Margins Graduate Student Conference Patrick Heelan, PhD (Georgetown), Keynote Speaker |
| Fall 2004 | Departmental Colloquia |
| Fall 2004 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| Fall 2004 |
Hourani Lecture Series K. Anthony Appiah, Princeton University, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, in residence in the department during the weeks of September 27th, 2004 and October 18th, 2004 |
| November 13 & 14, 2004 | The Metaphysics of Medicine Speakers: Alfsonso Gomez-Lobo, Christopher Boorse, Randolph Nesse, Olivier Bodenreider, John Martin Fischer, Jeff McMahan |
| Summer 2004 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| Spring 2004 | Departmental Colloquia |
| Spring 2004 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| April 24, 2004 | UB Graduate Philosophy Intradepartmental Conference |
| Spring 2004 | "Jesus and Jefferson: Violence in the Context of Religion and Politics" Lecture Series Newton Garver, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizer |
| April 2 & 3, 2004 | "Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture" Conference Presented by the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy |
| April 1, 2004 | "Aesthetic Theory: Origins, Trends and New Directions" Graduate Student Conference: Ted Cohen, University of Chicago, Keynote Speaker |
| March 6, 2004 | "State of the Discipline: Interdisciplinary Movements in Philosophy" Graduate Student Conference |
| Fall 2003 | Departmental Colloquia |
| Fall 2003 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| Spring 2003 | Departmental Colloquia |
| Spring 2003 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| April 12-15, 2003 | "The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality" Conference Hernando de Soto (Lima) and John Searle (Berkeley) |
| April 12, 2003 | "The Philosophy of John Searle" GPA Graduate Workshop John Searle (Berkeley), Keynote Speaker |
| April 9, 2003 | "Is Ignorance Bliss? The Matrix from a Philosophical Perspective" Lecture and Discussion James Lawler (SUNY Buffalo), Organizer |
| Fall 2002 | Departmental Colloquia |
| Fall 2002 | Buffalo Logic Colloquium |
| Fall 2002 | "Clarity as an End in Itself: Ten Lectures on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy as a Moral Newton Garver, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizer |
| October 25-26, 2002 | "C.S. Peirce and the Art of Icons" Conference Presented by the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy |
| October 19, 2002 | "Recent Thoughts about the Liar" Conference Presented by the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy |
| Sept. 18, 19, 25 and 26, 2002 | "Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law" Hourani Lecture Series Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago) |
| Spring 2002 | Department Colloquia |
| April 27, 2002 | 12th Annual WNY and Sountern Ontario Undergraduate Philosophy Conference |
| April 19-20, 2002 | "Uses and Abuses of the Classics, Interpretation in Philosophy" The IV Samuel P. Capen Symposium in Philosophy |
| April 4, 2002 | "Success, Satisfaction, and Truth in the Logic of Speech Acts" Presented by the Buffalo Logic Colloquium |