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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)

 

March 29, 2012
Department Colloquia, Richard Feldman (Rochester)

March 23, 2012

 

 

Buffalo Logic Colloquium, "Consequence, Commitment, and Paraphrase", John C.A. Keller (Niagara University)

 

March 22, 2012

 

Department Colloquia, "Negative Results", Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh HPS)

March 10-12, 2012

 

 

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)

 

March, 2012

 

"Video content, information and (ir)reality"

Werner Ceusters (UB School of Medicine; Ontology Research Group)


January 16, 2012

UB Research Ethics Seminar Series

Barry Smith "Ethics, Informatics and Obamacare"


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

 

January 19, 20, 21, 2011

 

"Solitude and Sociality" J. David Velleman  New York University

   

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

 

November 4, 2010

 

"The Recovery of the idea of a Material Value Ethics," Eugene Kelly. New York Institute of Technology

 

October 28, 2010

 

“Reviewing Priori Analytics, Book A: Gisela Striker’s New Translation and Commentary,” George Boger, Canisius College

 

October 22, 2010

“My Career and Publications, ” John Corcoran. University at Buffalo, SUNY

 

October 16, 17

2010

The Corcoran Colloquium: Celebrating 50 Years of Logic

 

October 15, 2010

“Another World: the Metaethics and Metametaethics of Reasons Fundamentalism”   Jamie Dreier. Brown University

 

October 7, 2010

 

“Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground,” Sally Haslanger. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

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
http:/icbo.buffalo.edu

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

The Philosophy of Science

Graduate Student Conference

Steven Halady and Russell Pryba, Organizers

Spring 2007 Departmental Colloquia
March 28, 2007

Why Only the State May Inflict Criminal Sanctions: On the Incoherence of Privately-Inflicted Criminal Sanctions

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

"War and Morality"

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
NEH Summer Seminar
Jorge Gracia, PhD (SUNY at Buffalo), Organizer

Spring 2006 Departmental Colloquia
April 22, 2006

American Philosophy in the 21st Century: Classic Foundations and Contemporary Solutions

Graduate Student Conference
Joseph Palencik and Russell Pryba, Organizers

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

"The Ethics of Identity"

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
Conference

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
Ronald de Sousa, University of Toronto, Keynote Speaker

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
Act"
Lecture Series

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