Tenth-Anniversary Summer Seminar Reunion (2009)

In conjunction with the tenth-annual Colorado Summer Seminar for Philosophy, we will be holding a reunion for participants in previous seminars. All the speakers are former participants in the seminar, either as instructors or students.

Schedule

Friday, July 24^th

2:00 – 3:15 Eric Swanson (Univ. of Michigan)

“Counterpart Theory and Limit Assumptions”

3:45 – 5:00 Daniel Z. Korman (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

“Restricted Composition without Sharp Cut-Offs”

Saturday, July 25^th

9:00 – 10:15 David Robb (Davidson College)

“"Are Properties Dependent Beings?”

10:45 – 12:00 Christina Van Dyke (Calvin College)

“The End of (Human) Life as We Know It: Thomas Aquinas on Bodies, Persons, and Death”

LUNCH

1:45 – 3:00 Katherine F. King (London School of Economics)

“"Lucky Genes? An Argument against the Natural Lottery”

3:30 – 4:30 Bas van Fraassen (San Francisco State Univ./Princeton)

“Measurement Seen through Theory-Colored Glasses”

4:30 – 5:30 Isabelle Peschard (San Francisco State Univ.)

“Measurement Seen through the Experimenters’ Eyes”

All talks will be in MCOL W100, two buildings west of Hellems Hall. Click here for map.

If you are planning to attend from out of town, please let me know at pasnau@colorado.edu.