Burmanföreläsningarna i filosofi har årligen getts av internationellt ledande filosofer sedan 1996. Föreläsningarna arrangeras av Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier vid Umeå universitet.
Burmanföreläsningarna i filosofi 2023
Professor David Enoch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tid: 15-17 maj 2023, kl. 13.15-15.00 Plats: Umeå universitet, Hörsal HUM.D.210 (Hörsal E)
Måndag 15 maj kl. 13.15-15.00, Hörsal HUM.D.210 (Hörsal E)
Lecture 2: Titel meddelas senare
Tisdag 16 maj kl. 13.15-15.00, Hörsal HUM.D.210 (Hörsal E)
Lecture 3: Title coming soon
Onsdag 17 maj kl. 13.15-15.00, Hörsal HUM.D.210 (Hörsal E)
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Tidigare Burmanföreläsningar
2022
Professor Elisabeth Camp, Rutgers University Perspectives, Frames, and the Coercion of Intimacy
Föreläsning 1: From Point of View to Perspective Föreläsning 2: Perspectival Framing With Pictures and Words Föreläsning 3: Frames, Nicknames, and the Coercion of Intimacy
2021
Jeff McMahan, Sekyra and White’s Professor i moralfilosofi vid Oxford University The Ethics of Creating, Saving, and Ending Lives Föreläsning 1: Abortion, Prenatal Injury, and What Matters in Alternative Possible Lives Föreläsning 2: The Population Ethics Asymmetry and the Permissibility of Procreation Föreläsning 3: Moral Reasons to Cause People to Exist
2019
Professor Ingrid Robeyns, Utrecht University Why worry about wealth? Föreläsning 1: What is limitarianism? Föreläsning 2: Arguments for economic limitarianism Föreläsning 3. Objections to economic limitarianism
2018
Prof. Jennifer Saul, University of Sheffield. Race, Manipulative Language, and Politics Lecture I: Dogwhistles, Political Manipulation and the Philosophy of Language Lecture II: Racial Figleaves, The Shifting Boundaries of the Permissible, and the Rise of Donald Trump Lecture III: 'Immigration' in the Brexit Campaign: Dogwhistle Terms in Complex Contexts
2017
Jenann Ismael, University of Arizona Determinism, Time, and Totality Lecture I: Determinism and the Causal Order Lecture II: Time and Transcendence Lecture III: Totality
2016
Karen Bennett, Cornell University. Making things Up Lecture 1: Building Lecture 2: Causing Lecture 3: Relative Fundamentality
2015
Elizabeth Anderson, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan. Pragmatism in Ethics: Why and How Lecture 1: Why Pragmatism? Lecture 2: How to Be a Pragmatist 1: Correcting Moral Biases Lecture 3: How to Be a Pragmatist 2: Experiments in Living
2014
Michael Smith, McCosh Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University What We Should Do and Why We Should Do It Lecture 1: "The Standard Story of Action" Lecture 2: "A Constitutivist Theory of Reasons" Lecture 3: "A Case Study: The Reasons of Love"
2013
David Chalmers, Australian National University and New York University Structuralism, space, and skepticism Lecture 1: Constructing the world Lecture 2: Three puzzles about spatial experience Lecture 3: The structuralist response to skepticism
2012
Stephen Finlay, University of Southern California Metaethics as a Confusion of Tongues Lecture 1: Metaethics: Why and How? Lecture 2: The Semantics of "Ought" Lecture 3: The Pragmatics of Normative Disagreement
2011
Dag Prawitz, Stockholm University Bevis, mening och sanning
2010
Tim Crane, University of Cambridge Problems of Being and Existence Lecture 1: Existence, Being and Being-so Lecture 2: Existence and Quantification Reconsidered Lecture 3: The Singularity of Singular Thought
Äldre föreläsningar
2009 Jerry Fodor, Rutgers University What Darwin Got Wrong Lecture 1: What kind of theory is the Theory of Natural Selection? Lecture 2: The problem about 'selection-for'
2008 Susanna Siegel, Harvard The Nature of Visual Experience Lecture 1: The varieties of perceptual intentionality Lecture 2: The contents of visual experience
2007 Alex Byrne, MIT How do we know our own minds? Lecture 1: Transparency and Self-Knowledge Lecture 2: Knowing that I am thinking
2006 Jonathan Dancy, University of Reading and University of Texas, Austin Lecture 1: Reasons and Rationality Lecture 2: Practical Reasoning and Inference
2005 Ned Block, New York University Consciousness and Neuroscience Lecture 1: The Epistemological Problem of the Neuroscience of Consciousness Lecture 2: How Empirical Evidence can be Relevant to the Mind-Body Problem
2004 John Broome, Oxford Reasoning
2003 Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund Värde och passande attityder
2002 Kevin Mulligan, Genève Lecture 1: Essence, Logic and Ontology Lecture 2: Foolishness and Cognitive Values
2001 Hubert Dreyfus, Berkeley Lecture 1: What is moral maturity? A Phenomenological Account Of The Development Of Ethical Expertise Lecture 2: The primacy of the phenomenological over logical analysis: A Merleau-Pontian Critique of Searle's Account of Action and Social Reality
2000 Herbert Hochberg, University of Texas, Austin Lecture 1: A Simple Refutation of Mindless Materialism Lecture 2: Universals, Particulars and the Logic of Predication
1999 Susan Haack, University of Miami The Science of Sociology and the Sociology of Science Lecture 1: Social Science as Semiotic. Lecture 2: Sociology of Science: The Sensible Program.
1998 Howard Sobel, University of Toronto Lecture 1: First causes: St. Thomas Aquinas's 'Second way'. Lecture 2: Ultimate reasons if not first causes: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz on 'the Ultimate Origination of Things'.
1997 Ian Jarvie, York University Science and the Open Society
1996 David Kaplan, UCLA What is Meaning: Notes toward a theory of Meaning as Use
Om Burmanföreläsningarna
Burmanföreläsningarna startade 1996 på initiativ av Inge-Bert Täljedal, då ordförande i kommunalfullmäktige i Umeå och senare rektor vid Umeå universitet. Föreläsningarna är döpta efter Erik Olof Burmans (1845–1929), Umeås "första professor i filosofi".
Burman föddes i Yttertavle utanför Umeå, gick gymnasiet i Umeå och blev professor i praktisk filosofi 1896–1910 vid Uppsala universitet. Numera är Burman mest känd som lärare till Axel Hägerström, som är känd bland annat för sin expressivistiska teori om moraliska omdömen.