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Philosophy of Mind

The Quest for Heaven is Local: How Spiritual Experience is Shaped by Social Life

Tanya Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor, Anthropology Department, Stanford University

Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul

November 12, 2013 — 4:10 PM
Anna Head Alumni Hall — 2537 Haste Street

Proof, Truth, Hands, and Mind

Ian Hacking, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Philosophy and the History of Scientific Concepts, College de France

Howison Lectures in Philosophy

October 27, 2010 — 4:10 PM
Berkeley City Club, Ballroom — 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley

Thinking and Talking About the Self

John Perry, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

Howison Lectures in Philosophy

March 11, 2009 — 4:10 PM
University of California, Berkeley — Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley Campus.

Explorations of the Mind-Intuition: The Marvels and the Flaws

Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University

Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures

February 5, 2007 — 4:10 PM
International House Auditorium — 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley

Explorations of the Mind-Happiness

Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University

Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures

February 6, 2007 — 4:10 PM
International House Auditorium — 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley

What We See

Fred Dretske, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, Stanford University

Howison Lectures in Philosophy

September 14, 2007 — 4:10 PM
Toll Room, Alumni House — UC Berkeley Campus

Intention in Action

John McDowell, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh

Howison Lectures in Philosophy

April 25, 2006 — 4:10 PM
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus

Being No One: Consciousness, the Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective

Thomas Metzinger, Chair and Professor, Department of Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul

October 12, 2004 — 4:10 PM
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus

Language and Mind Revisited – The Biolinguistic Turn

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures

March 19, 2002
Zellerbach Auditorium — UC Berkeley Campus

Language and Mind Revisited – Language and the Rest of the World

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures

March 20, 2002
Zellerbach Auditorium — UC Berkeley Campus

Metaphors of Causation

George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture

March 8, 1995
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus

Naturalism and Dualism in the Study of Language and Mind

Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Howison Lectures in Philosophy

April 5, 1994
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus

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Barbara Weinstock Lectures on the Morals of Trade

Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in the Social Sciences

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