Colloquia and ZENO Lectures 2008-2009
Announcements of the Colloquia of the Leiden Institute for Philosophy and the ZENO Lectures sponsored by the Leiden-Utrecht Research Institute ZENO.
Semester 1
September 25,
Thursday 16:00–18:00
ZENO Lecture Leiden
Michael Della Rocca (Yale)
‘Exploring Explanation and the Commitment to the Principle of Sufficient Reason’
October 9, Thursday 16:00-18:00
ZENO Lecture Utrecht
Axel Hutter (München)
‘The Metaphysics of Enlightenment: Kant and Hegel’
October 16, Thursday 16:00–18:00
Colloquium Leiden
Ciano Aydin (RU Nijmegen)
‘Peirce's Ethics of Ideals’
November 6, Thursday 16:00–18:00
ZENO Lecture Leiden
Christof Rapp (Humboldt, Berlin)
‘Aristotle on the Moral Psychology of Persuasion’
December 2, Tuesday 16:00-18:00
ZENO Lecture Utrecht
Michael Thompson (Pittsburgh)
‘You and I’
January 29, Thursday 16:00-18:00
ZENO Lecture Utrecht
Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)
‘Two Pictures of Justice’
Semester 2
February 12,
Thursday 16:00–18:00 (Lipsius 148)
ZENO Lecture Leiden
Stephen Darwall
(University of Michigan)
‘But It Would Be Wrong’
February 19,
Thursday 16:00–18:00 (Lipsius 148)
Colloquium Leiden
David Sobel
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
‘Subjectivism and Idealization’
March 5, Thursday 16:00–18:00 (Lipsius 148)
ZENO Lecture Leiden
Richard Kraut (Northwestern)
‘What is Intrinsic Value?’
March 19, Thursday 16:00–18:00 (Lipsius 148)
Colloquium Leiden
Janice Dowell (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Topic to be announced
April 9, Thursday 16:00–18:00
ZENO Lecture Leiden
Christia Mercer (Columbia University)
Leibniz and Spinoza on Epistemological Optimism’
April 27, Monday 16:00-18:00
ZENO Lecture Utrecht
Christine Korsgaard (Harvard)
‘The Activity of Reason’
May 7, Thursday 16:00–18:00
Colloquium Leiden
Speaker & meeting to be confirmed
May 28, Thursday 16:00–18:00 (Lipsius 148)
Colloquium Leiden
Theodore Scaltsas (Edinburgh)
I don't Believe what I Know - Republic V’