Organized by: Alan Richardson
Colloquia will be on Fridays from 4-6 pm in BUCH A103 unless noted otherwise. There will be a 45-60 minute presentation, followed by a brief break, then a question and answer period. UBC Philosophy Colloquia are always free and open to the public.
Spring 2018
January 26, 2018
Jeremy Howick (Oxford University): Why it can be Ethical to Use Placebos In Clinical Practice
February 9, 2018
Janette Dinishak (University of California, Santa Cruz): Autism, Aspect-Blindness, and Aspect-Perception
February 16, 2018
Eric Hochstein (University of Victoria): When Pluralisms Collide
March 16, 2018
Anita Ho (University of British Columbia): Epistemic Humility in Medicine
March 23, 2018
David Wong (Duke University): Soup, Harmony, and Disagreement.
April 6, 2018
Jacob Stegenga (University of Cambridge): Bayesian Mechanista
Organized by: Ori Simchen
Colloquia will be on Fridays from 4-6 pm in BUCH A103 unless noted otherwise. There will be a 45-60 minute presentation, followed by a brief break, then a question and answer period. UBC Philosophy Colloquia are always free and open to the public
Fall 2017
October 20, 2017
Kelin Emmett (University of British Columbia): Refusing to Will the Means
November 3, 2017
Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh): Self- Predication, Other Predication, Generality and Action
November 24, 2017
Lydia Patton (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University): How to Train Your Model: Practical Reasoning in Science
December 1, 2017 – postponed
Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Social Movements And Cultural Change