THE TRUAX LECTURE SERIES AT HAMILTON COLLEGE PRESENTS:
REALISM AND ITS CRITICS
March 30- April 1, 2007
Friday, March 30, 200712:50 - 1:15 pm Welcome: Joe Urgo, Dean of Faculty
01:15 - 2:30 pm
Ruth Anna Putnam "Why Not Moral Realism?"
02:45 - 4:00 pm Russ Shafer-Landau "Three Objections to Moral Realism"
04:00 - 4:15 pm Refreshment Break
04:15 - 5:30 pm Simon Blackburn "Disentagling Realism and Minimalism"
05:45 - 6:30 pm Reception
06:30 - 7:30 pm Dinner
08:00 pm Plenary: Ruth Anna Putnam, Russ Shafer-Landau, Simon Blackburn
Saturday, March 31, 2007
08:00 - 09:00 am Breakfast
09:15 - 10:30 am Mary Kate McGowan "On Various Ways to Deny Metaphysical Realism"
10:45 - 12:00 pm Michael Lynch "The Truth in Realism, the Realism in Truth"
12:15 - 01:15 pm Lunch
01:30 - 02:45 pm Catherine Elgin "Making Things Real"
03:00 - 03:45 pm Hilary Putnam "Wittgenstein and Realism"
06:00 pm Dinner
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Plenary: Mary Kate McGowan, Michael Lynch, Catherine Elgin, Hilary Putnam
08:00 - 09:00 am Breakfast
09:15 - 10:45 am Plenary
All events, except as otherwise noted, will be held in the Filius Events Barn.
