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Philosophy Department
Annual Philosophy Undergraduate Colloquium & Graduation Celebration
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn conjunction with our End of Year Celebration, the Philosophy Department will showcase the excellent academic work of students nominated by our faculty. Camille Charette, "Humanitarian Intervention, a Feminist Perspective" Andrew Bunn, "On Thomas Nagel's 'Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness' " This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome! […]
Imogen Dickie “Proper Names: Transition to the End Game”
Humanities 2, Room 259Abstract: I shall prove a principle which brings out the significance for accounts of aboutness and reference of the fact that justification is truth conducive; use this principle to develop an account of reference-fixing for proper names which presents an alternative to the tired menu of traditional causalisms, descriptivisms, and crosses between; and identify two […]
Casey O’Callaghan “The Multisensory Character of Perception”
Humanities 2, Room 259Abstract: My thesis is that perceptual awareness itself is richly multisensory. I argue for this conclusion on the grounds that certain forms of multisensory perceptual experience are incompatible with the claim that each aspect of a perceptual experience is associated with some specific sensory modality or another. First, I explicate what it is for some […]
CANCELLED: Jonathan Ellis: “Philosophy and the Public”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Works in Progress Talk by Jonathan Ellis has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for a date in January. Please stay tuned for more information. Jonathan Ellis Works in Progress: Philosophy and the Public At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The […]
Noa Latham: Meditation and Self-Control
Humanities 2, Room 259This paper seeks to analyze an under-discussed kind of self-control, namely the control of thoughts and sensations. I distinguish first-order control from second-order control and argue that their central forms are intentional concentration and intentional mindfulness respectively. These correspond to two forms of meditation, concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation, which have been regarded as central […]
Gayle Salamon: “Gender Essentialism and Eidetic Inquiry”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk revisits the essentialism debates within feminism, and reconsiders the impasse in which those debates landed. What understanding of "essence" was operative in those conversations about gender essentialism? And might there be a different way of thinking about the relation between essence and gender? I turn to singular and plural essences in Merleau-Ponty and […]
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong “Implicit Moral Attitudes”
Humanities 2, Room 259Most moral philosophers and psychologists focus on explicit moral beliefs that people give as answers to questions. However, much research in social psychology shows that implicit moral attitudes (unconscious beliefs or associations) also affect our thinking and behavior. This talk will report our new psychological and neuroscientific research on implicit moral attitudes (using a process […]
Paul Lee: “The Greeks had a word for it: thumos”
Stevenson Provost HousePaul Lee studied philosophy at St. Olaf College and received his divinity degree and PhD from Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, and UC Santa Cruz, where he founded the first organic garden on a university with Alan Chadwick in 1967. In 1976 alongside Paige Smith, he began the California Conservation Corps under Jerry […]
Jonathan Ellis: “Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light”
Humanities 1, Room 202At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. Jonathan Ellis Motivated […]
David Landy: “Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix to Hume’s Treatise”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn the Appendix to his Treatise, Hume famously expresses a deep dissatisfaction with the account of personal identity that he had earlier presented, but offers only the briefest description of what his concern is. Scholars working on this problem have presented a wide variety of suggestions of what Hume might be thinking. I will argue […]