The 50th Annual Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy will be held Friday October 21 – Sunday October 23, 2016.

The Colloquium registration fee is free for UNC Philosophy graduate students, however you MUST register in order to attend.

Papers at the 2016 Chapel Hill Colloquium will be given by:

Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame)
Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh)
Stephen Darwall (Yale)
Eli Hirsch (Brandeis)
Amie Thomasson (Miami)

Program:

Friday, October 21

“50 Years of Analytic Philosophy,” Douglas Long (UNC, emeritus)
Paper: “Conceptual Ethics and the Work of Metaphysics”, Amie Thomasson (Miami)
Commentator: Ted Sider (Rutgers)

Reception at The Ackland Museum

Saturday, Oct. 22

“50 Years of the History of Philosophy,” Don Garrett (NYU)
Paper: “Understanding the Object/Property Structure in Terms of Negation”, Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh)
Commentator: Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins)

“50 Years of Moral Philosophy,” Simon Blackburn (UNC)
Paper: “What Are Moral Reasons?”, Stephen Darwall (Yale),
Commentator: Julia Markovits (Cornell)

Claire Miller Lecture: “The First-Person and Beyond”, Eli Hirsch (Brandeis)

50th Chapel Hill Colloquium Banquet at The Carolina Inn

Remarks: “50 Years of the Chapel Hill Colloquium,”  William Lycan (UNC, emeritus)

Sunday, Oct. 23

“50 Years of Philosophy of Science,” John Roberts (UNC)
Paper: “Models from Geometry to Logic”, Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame)
Commentator: Richard Zach (Calgary)