Department of Philosophy
Memorial University
WINTER
COLLOQUIUM, 2006, revised schedule
“MIND”
All lectures will take place
on Tuesday or Thursday, 2.00-3:30 in C2033. (For further information email - jbradley@mun.ca or ring the Department at
737-8336)
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Tuesday, Jan 17: |
David Thompson, A Brief History of Mind |
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Tuesday, Jan 24: |
Suma Rajiva, Leibniz's Theory of Mind: A Problem of Self-Possession |
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Tuesday, Jan 31: |
James Bradley, Mind as Order in Speculative Metaphysics: Beyond ‘Philosophies of Mind’ & ‘Cog. Sci.’ |
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Tuesday, Feb. 7: |
Bernie Wills, Pascal, Cusanus, Pico and the Dyadic Nature of Mind |
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Tuesday, Feb 14: |
Ed Brown & Manrique Montero (Computer Science) Limitations on Mind as Computation |
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THURSDAY, Feb 16: |
Peter Trnka, Minding the Gap: Social Distinction, Struggle, Personhood |
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Tuesday, Feb. 28: |
Walter Okshevsky, The Philosophy of the Subject vs. Communicative Intersubjectivity |
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THURSDAY, MARCH 2: |
Gregory MacIsaac (Carleton & Ecole Practiques des Hautes Etudes), Sensation and Thought in Plato, Plotinus and Proclus |
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THURSDAY, MARCH 9: |
David Scott (University of Victoria), Cartesian Subjectivity Reconsidered |
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Tuesday, March 14: |
Darren Hynes, The Anthropocentric Character of Modern Thought, Or, Why Isn't the Mind-Body Problem Ancient? |
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Tuesday, March 21: |
Arthur Sullivan, Individualism vs. Externalism about Mental Content |
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THURSDAY, MARCH 23: |
Bill McKim (Psychology), There is No Free Will—Live With It |
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Tuesday, March 28: |
Natalie Oman, Judgment and the Sensus Communis |
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Tuesday, April 4: |
Seamus O'Neill, Porphyry’s Nous Mysticism and Augustine’s Confessions |