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CSMN Colloquium

The CSMN Colloquium is the CSMN’s central forum for discussion of topics within the centre’s broad remit. The seminar encompasses all three sub-projects. The aim of the colloquium - apart from doing good philosophy in general - is to encourage philosophical discussion between the members of different sub-projects, with a view to strengthening the connections between the various research interests of the group.

The meetings are open to everyone with a relevant background and interest in the subjects discussed. For spring semester 2012, meetings will normally take place on Thursday afternoon (14:15-16), but are not held in those weeks when CSMN special events are scheduled. We meet in the seminar room of our new location, Room 652, Georg Morgenstierne Bldg (earlier PO-building - here) .

The seminar commitee consists at present of Monica Roland (monica.roland@ifikk.uio.no), Nick Allott (n.e.allott@csmn.uio.no) and Anders Nes (anders.nes@csmn.uio.no). Please get in touch if you have questions about the seminar or wish to be added to the mailing list.

Programme, Spring 2012 (under construction!)

  • Thurs. Jan 12:  Sarah Paul (University of Wisconsin - Madison): “The Conclusion of Practical Reasoning:  The Shadow between Idea and Act.”
  • Thurs. Feb 2:  Anders Nes (CSMN): "On Communal Moral Internalism - and Communal Ice Hockey Internalism."
  • Thurs. Feb 9:  Michael Devitt (CUNY Graduate Center): “Methodology and the Nature of Knowing How”
  • Thurs. Feb 16: Anders Strand (IFIKK/CSMN/PSBio): TBA
  • Thurs. Feb 23: Lucian Zagan (CSMN visitor/ ILLC, University of Amsterdam): "Who's Afraid of the Heap? A Pragmatic Approach to the Sorites Paradox"
  • Thurs. March 1: Torfinn Huvenes (Arché): TBA
  • Thurs March 15: Andreas Stokke (CSMN): Knowledge, safety, and presuppositions
  • Thurs. March 22: Thomas Hodgson (CSMN visitor/ Arché): TBA
  • Thurs. March 29: Astrid Nome (ILOS/CSMN): TBA
  • Thurs. April 12: Siri Leknes (Centre for the Study of Human Cognition/Dep. of Psychology, Univ. of Oslo): TBA
  • Thurs. April 26: Ben Caplan (Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University): TBA
  • Thurs. May 10: Reidar Maliks (Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, UiO): TBA 
  • Thurs. May 24:  Janice Dowell (University of Nebraska - Lincoln): TBA 
  • Thurs. May 31: Christel Fricke (CSMN): TBA
  • Thurs. June 7: Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado/CSMN) & Theresa Tobin (Marquette/CSMN): “Moral Justification as the View from Nowhere: The Early Rawls.”

 

 

Past meetings

Autumn 2011

  • Wed. September 14: Allison Hall (UCL): 'Free' enrichment and the nature of pragmatic constraints. Abstract
  • Wed. September 21: Anouch Bourmayan (Institut Jean-Nicod): From incorporation to pragmatic enrichment: shifting the perspective on implicit indefinite objects. Abstract
  • Monday September 26: Tom Stoneham (University of York): Hallucinations, dreams and phenomenal character. Abstract
  • Wed. October 12: Sebastian Watzl (Harvard): Perceptual Guidance.  Abstract
  • Wed. October 19: Thomas Hodgson (St.Andrews/Arche): Propositions, structure, & representation. Abstract
  • Wed. November 23: Monica Roland (IFIKK/CSMN): Rationality and the Concept of a Person. Abstract
  • Wed. November 30: Francisco Pons (Psychology, UiO): Is Jean Piaget still among us?
  • NB! Fri. December 9, 12:15-14:00: Hrafn Asgeirsson (University of Southern California): Vagueness, Necessity, and Instrumental Value: A Reply to Endicott.   Abstract

 

Spring 2011:

  • Wed. February 16: Tomasz Zuradzki (Jagiellonian University/CSMN): How much should we care about future people? 
  • Wed. March 16: Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Context dependence and implicit arguments. Down-load abstract here.
  • Wed. April 13: Ingrid Lossius Falkum (CSMN): Metonomy in Context and Communication. Down-load abstract here.
  • Wed. April 27: Herlinde Pauer-Studer (University of Vienna): Self-Constitution and Bad Action. Down-load abstract here
  • Wed. May 4: Neil Smith (University College, London): Modularity, Modality, Memory & Mind. Evidence from a polyglot savant.  Down-load abstract here.
  • Wed. May 11: Ondřej Švec (Univerzita Hradec Králové): What exactly does 'naturalization of consciousness' mean?    Abstract.
  • Wed. May 18: Anne Meylan (Geneva): Solving the problem of doxastic responsibility. Why restricted reason-responsiveness is of no help. Down-load abstract here.
  • Wed. May 25: Kaja Borthen (NTNU): How do we interpret ‘we’? On the fluidity and vagueness of the 1st person plural.

 

Autumn 2010:

  • Wed. August 25: Stephen J. Morse (Pennsylvania): Lost in Translation? - neuroscience, law and ethics. Seminar Room 12, P.A. Munch Building. Download abstract here.
  • Wed. September 29: Rachel Severson (Washington/CSMN): The Intrinsic Value of Animals and Robots: On the Development of Moral Conceptions of Non-Human Others. Download abstract here.
  • Wed. October 6: María Alejandra Carrasco (PUC Santiago/CSMN): Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments: A Challenge to Relativism.  Down-load abstract here.
  • Wed. October 20: Vivienne Brown (Open University/CSMN): Rational Cooperation in the Prisoners' Dilemma Game.  Down-load abstract here.
  • Wed. November 3: Christel Fricke (CSMN/UiO): What We Cannot Do to Each Other – On Forgiveness and Moral Vulnerability. Down-load abstract here.
  • Wed. November 10: Arild Pedersen (UiO): The Philosophy of "The Philosophy of Philosophy". Down-load abstract here.
  • Wed. November 24: Anders Strand (CSMN/UiO): Difference-Making and Causal Realism. Down-load abstract here.
  • Wed. December 1: Einar Duenger Bøhn (Etikkprogrammet/UiO): "On Moral Ontology." Down-load abstract here.

 

Spring 2010:

  • Wed. January 20: Georg Kjøll (CSMN): "The normativity of meaning from a Language of Thought perspective"
  • Wed. February 3: Lars Bo Gundersen (Aarhus): "On an alleged counteresample to the Tracking Theory"
  • Wed. February 24th: Timothy Wharton (University College London): "Pragmatics and non-linguistic communication"
  • Wed. March 3rd: Thomas Hodgson (St.Andrews/Arche): "Structured propositions & shared content"
  • Tuesday April 6th, 12:15 to 14:00, Room 389 (PAM): James D. Konow (Loyola Marymount University/CSMN visitor). "Is fairness in the eye of the beholder?"
  • Wed. May 12th: Jorid Moen (UiO/CSMN affiliate): "Child and adolescent psychiatry between neuroscience and the family perspective." 
  • Wed. May 19th:  Endre Begby (CSMN): "Semantic Minimalism and the 'Miracle of Communication'." NOTE CHANGE: Seminar room 2, P.A. Munch, 14:14- 16:00.
  • Wed. May 26th: Thiago Galery (UCL). "Descriptive Indexicality and Object Representation."   www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/linguistics/publications/wpl/09papers/galery
  • Wed. June 2nd: Marius Dumitru (Oxford). "Arguments For the Phenomenology of Thought."
  • Monday June 21th: Allison Jaggar (Colorado)/Theresa Tobin (Marquette). 10:15 - 12:00 Seminar room 4, P.A.Munchs hus: "Dis-locating Moral Authority: Justifying Moral Claims in a Diverse and Unequal World.

 

Autumn 2009:

  • Wed. October 7:  Anders Nes (CSMN), "Acting for Admittedly Bad Reasons."
  • Wed. October 14: Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan University), "How to Understand Intentionality as a Social and/or Biological Phenomenon."
  • Wed. October 21: Timothy Chan (CSMN), "Identifying with One's Beliefs" 
  • Wed. October 28: Helen Steward (Leeds/CSMN), "Top-Down Causation."
  • Wed. November 4: Edmund Henden (CSMN), "Libertarian Deliberations."
  • Wed. November 11: Endre Begby (CSMN), "Concepts and Abilities in Anti-Individualism."
  • Wed. November 18: Uri Leibowitz (Cornell College), "The Particularism-Generalism Debate."
  • Wed. November 25: Jerome Wakefield (New York University), "Do Unconscious Mental States Exist? Consciousness, Intentionality, and the Connection Principle: Where Freud and Searle went wrong and how to make it right.”
  • Wed. December 2: Jakob Elster (UiO Ethics Programme/CSMN), "Where in the world are all the norms?  Assessing CSMN's research programme." 
  • Wed. December 9: No meetingWed. December 16: Tim Bayne (Oxford), "The structure of agentive experience".

 

Spring 2009:

  • Wed. January 21: On T. Scanlon: Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame, Chap. 1. Harvard University Press (2008) (Jakob)
  • Wed. Jan 28: On A. Hattiangadi, "Is Meaning Normative?", Mind & Language, Vol. 21 No. 2, April 2006, pp. 220–240 (Anders)
  • Wed. Feb 11: Herman Cappelen (Arché and CSMN), "Against Assertion"
  • Wed. Feb 18: Daniele Sgaravatti (Arché), "The Aim and Function of Belief"
  • Wed. Feb 25: On B. Weatherson, "Norms of Assertion and Expressivism", paper presented at the Workshop on Ethics and Epistemology, September 2006, University of Missouri (Timothy)
  • Wed. March 18: Guy Kahane (Oxford), "The Neuroscience of Moral Intuitions."
  • Wed. March 25: Julian Fink (Oxford), "Is Rationality Normative."
  • Wed. April 15: Rekha Nath (CAPPE/University of Melbourne), "What is Wrong with Global Inequality?"
  • Wed. April 22: John Collins (University of East Anglia), "Invariance as the Mark of the Psychological Reality of Language." Abstract
  • Wed. May 6: Barry C. Smith (Birkbeck College and Institute of Philosophy, London): "Relativism and Taste Predicates."
  • Wed. May 13: Vivienne Brown (Open University): "Moral Responsibility and the Dialectics of the Counterfactual Intervener."
  • Wed. May 20: Einar Bøhn (University of Massachusets, Amherst and CSMN): "The Logic of Identity."
  • Wed. May 27: Peter Railton (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): "Affect as Evaluation:  The Role of Emotion in Cognition and Action".
  • Wed. June 3: Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto): "Intention and Commitment."Wed. June 10: Holly Andersen (University of Pittburgh): "The Internalization of Conscious Agency"
  • Wed. June 17:Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah): "Choosing Well: Value Pluralism and Patterns of Choice."

 

Autumn 2008:

  • Wed. September 24: On Allan Gibbard, "Normative and Recognitional Concepts" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2002 (Anders)
  • Wed. October 8: On Peter Railton, "Subject-ive or Objective", Ratio, Special issue: Brad Hooker (ed.) Truth in Ethics, 1995 (Eline)
  • Wed. October 15: On John Broome, "Does Rationality consist in Responding Correctly to Reasons?" Journal of Moral Philosophy 2007: 4, p. 349-374 (Olav)
  • Wed. October 22: On Tyler Burge, "Intellectual Norms and Foundations of Mind", Journal of Philosophy 1986 (Chiara) 
  • Wed. November 5: On David Velleman: "The Guise of the Good", Nous 1992, 26(1): 3-26 (Anders)
  • Wed. November 12:On R. Berwick & N. Chomsky: "The Biolinguistic Programme: The Current State of its Evolution and Development" (Jan Terje)
  • Wed. November 19: On Paul Boghossian, 'Is Meaning Normative?' (Carsten) 
  • Wed. November 26: On J David Velleman, "The Possibility of Practical Reason", Ethics 106 (1996), 694-726 (Timothy)
  • Wed. December 3: Paul Grice: Aspects of Reason Ch, 1, p, 2-25 (Nick)
  • Tue. December 9: Ole Koksvik (ANU): Intuition, Belief and Disposition to Believe 
  • Wed. December 17: Øystein Linnebo (Bristol): Meta-Ontological Minimalism

 

Spring 2008:

  • Wed. January 30: Olav Gjelsvik (CSMN): Darwin og filosofi
  • Wed. February 13: Christel Fricke (CSMN): Moral Norms between Facts and Conventions
  • Wed. February 20: Torfinn Huvenes (CSMN): Contextualism, Relativism and Disagreement about Taste
  • Wed. February 27: Carsten Hansen (CSMN) leads discussion on Jennifer Hornsby’s paper Semantic Knowledge and Practical Knowledge
  • Wed. March 5: Candace Vogler (UCLA): meeting cancelled Tue. March 11: Herman Cappelen (Arche, CSMN)
  • Wed. March 19: No meeting; Easter holiday
  • Wed. March 26: Mike Martin (UCL): What's in a Look?
  • Wed. April 2: Edmund Henden (CSMN): What is Self-Control?
  • Mon. April 7: Hans Petter Graver (fac. of law, UiO): Metaforenes plass i juridisk overbevisning (in Norwegian)
  • Wed. April 16: Lars Bo Gundersen (Univ. of Aarhus): Disjunctivism, Contextualism and the Sceptic Aporia
  • Wed. April 23: Robert Sinclair (CUNY): Why Quine is not an Externalist
  • Wed. April 30: Martin Palecek (Univ. of Hradec Kralove): Identity - a Treacherous Concept
  • Wed. May 14: Anders Nes (Oxford; CSMN): Perceptual Content and Concepts - Two Marks of Concept Possession not Met
  • Wed. May 21: Adrian Haddock (Stirling): Basic Knowledge of Bodily Action
  • Wed. June 4: Endre Begby (Pittsburgh /Claremont McKenna): Cognition and Communication: New Foundations for Contextualism 
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