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2008

February, Robert May, "The Essential Proposition: Frege on Identity Statements," Logic Seminar, Stanford University

February 6, Aldo Antonelli, "Logicism, Quantifiers, and Abstraction," University of California, Davis

March 6, Paul Teller, "Some Dirty Little Secrets about Truth," Washington University, St. Louis

March 13, James Griesemer, "What Simon Should Have Said (About Dynamical Boundaries)," The Edges and Boundaries of Biological Objects Workshop, University of Utah

March 15, Roberta Millstein, "Thinking about the Concept of 'Population' in Evolutionary Biology," The Edges and Boundaries of Biological Objects Workshop, University of Utah

March 18, Jan Szaif, "Parmenides on Truth versus Appearance," Ancient Philosophy Working Group, University of California, Berkeley

March 28, James Griesemer, "Tracking, Abstracting and Colligating Work Make Scientific Facts that can Travel," Workshop on Making Small Facts Travel: Labels, Packages, and Vehicles, London School of Economics and Political Science

April 3, Paul Teller, "Some Dirty Little Secrets about Truth," The Ohio State University

April 4, Paul Teller, "Fiction, Fictionalization, and Truth in Science," The Ohio State University

April 11, James Griesemer, "Neo-Heraclitus: Objectivity, Judgment and a Problem of Locality in Biodiversity Research," Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and the Fishbein Center for History of Science, University of Chicago

April 11, Paul Teller, "Reductionism, Emergence, and Truth," Conference on Modeling and Simulation, University of Ilberg, Netherlands

April, Robert May, "The Composition of Thought," (presentation of work co-authored with Richard Heck), Stanford Cognitive Lunch, Stanford University

April 18, Cody Gilmore, "An Argument Against Plenitude," Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association

May 2, Adam Sennet, "Conditionals, Biconditionals, and Embedding," University of Nottingham

May 2-4, Robert May, "The Composition of Thought," (presentation of work co-authored with Richard Heck), Semantics and Philosophy in Europe

May 14, Adam Sennet, "Unarticulated Constituents and Unarticulated Structure," Arché, University of St. Andrews

May 16, Adam Sennet, "Conditionals, Biconditionals, and Embedding," University of Leeds

May 16, Aldo Antonelli, "Abstraction Principles in First-Order Arithmetic," Logic Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

May 25, Jan Szaif, "False Judgment as Other-Judging (allodoxia) in Plato's Theaetetus," West Coast Plato Workshop, University of California, Davis

May, Robert May, "The Essential Proposition: Frege on Identity Statements," Institute for Philosophy, University of Jena

June 6, Paul Teller, "Some Dirty Little Secrets about Truth," Philosophy of Science Retreat, University of California, San Diego

June 7, Jan Szaif, "Intrinsische Güter: Überlegungen in Ausgang von der antiken Ethik" ("Intrinsic Goods: Ancient and Modern Approaches"), University of Erlangen

June, Roberta Millstein, "How Many Chances Become One Chance." Presented at the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST) at the Université Paris 1, Paris, France

July, Gerald Dworkin, Conference on Death and Dying, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain

September 19-22, Jan Szaif, "The Concept of Education through Science in Antiquity," "Bildung durch Wissenschaft" Conference, Munich, Germany

September 19, Aldo Antonelli, "First-Order Arithemtic," University of Florence, Florence, Italy

October 3, Adam Sennet, "Unarticulated Constituents and Hidden Structure," University of Toronto

October 15, Elaine Landry, "Reconstructing Hilbert to Construct Category-Theoretic Algebraic Structuralism," University of California, Berkeley

October 31, James Griesemer, Rice University

November 6-9, James Griesemer, Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh

November 6-9, Roberta Millstein, "(Mis)nterpreting Mathematical Models of Drift: Drift as a Physical Process" (with Michael R. Dietrich and Robert A. Skipper), Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh

November 6-9, Paul Teller, "Signal, Noise and Information in Imperfect Knowledge," Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh

December 5, Adam Sennet, University of California, Los Angeles

December 6-7, Jan Szaif, Comments on Stephen Menn, "Aristotle on the Many Senses of Being," Princeton Colloquium

2009

January, Gerald Dworkin, Conference for the retirement of Jerry Cohen, Oxford

February 13-15, Jan Szaif, "Plato's Definition of Propositional Falsehood in the Sophist: How Does it Build upon the Analysis of Non-Being in Sophist 254-259?," XIV. Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

March 20, James Griesemer, University of Pittsburgh

March, Gerald Dworkin, Lectures on Paternalism, Juan Carlos III University, Madrid

April, Roberta Millstein, University of Cincinnati

April, Robert May, "Author Meets Critics," De Lingua Belief (with Robert Fiengo), Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association

April, Paul Teller, "True or True Enough: Is the Traditional Idealization of Truth an Idealization?" Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association

May 14, Jan Szaif, "The Significance of the 'Third Way' in Parmenides' Poem," Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)

May 24, Jan Szaif, Comments on C. Swanson, "Self-Refutation in the Euthydemus," Berkeley

June 6-11, James Griesemer, Cohn Institute Conference on Lamarck, Jerusalem/Tel-Aviv, Israel

July 12-17, James Griesemer, ISHPSSB, Brisbane, Australia

July 12-17, Roberta Millstein, ISHPSSB, Brisbane, Australia


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