Tim Button, research fellow at St. John’s College (Cambridge), will present “Carnap’s Influence on Putnam’s Internal Realism” on Friday, April 13 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Learning Center, Room 180. Button’s lecture will be based on material from his forthcoming book, The Limits of Realism. For more information, visit www.miami.edu/phi or call 305-284-4757.

The Department of Philosophy will host “Smithian Constructivism,” a lecture by Jack Russell Weinstein, professor of philosophy and director of the Institute for Philosophy in Public Life at the University of North Dakota, on Tuesday, April 17 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Whitten University Center, Room 237.

Weinstein is the author of three books: On Adam Smith (2001) and On Alasdair MacIntyre (2003) from the Wadsworth Philosophers Series, and Adam Smith’s Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, forthcoming from Yale University Press. He has edited several special journal issues, including a symposium on Adam Smith’s philosophy of education in The Adam Smith Review, and has published articles and reviews in a wide range of journals.

Dedicated to engaging the general public in philosophy, Weinstein is host of “Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life,” a live call-in radio show with listeners in all 50 states and in more than 100 countries.

For more information on the lecture, visit www.miami.edu/phi or call 305-284-4757.

Elizabeth Anderson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, will present “Democracy, Public Policy, & Lay Assessments of Scientific Testimony” on Friday, March 30 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Memorial Building, Room 110.

Anderson earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987 and previously taught at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (Harvard UP, 1993), The Imperative of Integration (Princeton UP, 2010), and over 60 articles in journals of philosophy, law, and economics. She has written extensively on issues of equality, race, and antidiscrimination law, the ethical limitations of the market, the interaction of facts and values in social science research, and the intersection of democratic theory and social epistemology. She is currently working on a history of egalitarianism. Her research focuses on the philosophy of logic and language. For more information, visit www.miami.edu/phi or call 305 284-4757.

Colin McGinn, professor of philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences, will present “The Science of Philosophy” on Thursday, March 29 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the University Center, Room 241.

McGinn joined the UM philosophy department in 2006, having taught previously at the University of London, University of Oxford, and Rutgers University. He was the recipient of the John Locke Prize at Oxford University in 1973. His research interests are in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of body, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of physics, philosophy of film and literature, ethics, metaphilosophy, philosophy of sport, and Wittgenstein. He is the author of 20 books, including Mental Content (Blackwell, 1989), The Problem of Consciousness (Blackwell, 1991), The Character of Mind (Oxford 1997), Ethics, Evil and Fiction (Oxford 1997), The Mysterious Flame (Basic Books, 1999), Logical Properties (Oxford 2000), Consciousness and Its Objects (Oxford, 2004), Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning (Harvard, 2004), and Shakespeare’s Philosophy (Harper, 2006). For more information, visit www.miami.edu/phi or call 305 284-4757.

The Department of Philosophy presents Gillian Russell, associate professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Russell is the author of Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defense of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction (OUP, 2008) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language (with Delia Graff Fara) and New Waves in Philosophical Logic (with Greg Restall). Her research focuses on the philosophy of logic and language. Her talk, “Indexicals and Barriers to Implication,” will be held on Thursday, March 22, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in room 233 of the University Center. For more information, visit www.miami.edu/phi or call 305 284-4757.